Once again Chris Matthews mentions a character from the Pulitzer prize-winning novel Advise And Consent on Hardball. A couple weeks ago it was Fred Ackerman.
After showing a clip of South Carolina Senator Graham listing off ideas on how to make Russian President Putin feel some world reaction to the crisis in Crimea Mathews said “the senator was channeling Seab Cooley the old southern rascal, anti-communist from the Advise and Consent series”.
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I always thought Senator Sam Ervin Jr., N.C., chairman of the Watergate hearings, was the embodiment of Seab Cooley. Sleepy, wiley, courtly.