If television is the nation's mirror, then no two TV characters reflect the intensifying "two Americas" gap better than Chris Matthews and Jimmy McNulty. A recent New York Times Magazine profile of Matthews describes a name-dropping dilettante floating between television studios and cocktail parties. The [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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First, a confession, I am a poor middle-aged black woman who is currently unemployed who kinda likes ‘Tweety’. When I hear Matthews identifying with working-class white guys and talking about working as a Capital Hill cop I hear yearning for authenticity more than anything else. It seems to me he and some of the other “talking heads ” particularly those who have moved from the working-class and the poor to the owning or professional classes forget about not being able afford to go to the dentist and are yearning for ....what I am not sure.
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