MSNBC’s Chris Matthews delighted in the revelation from Sally Quinn in her new book, Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir, that she put hexes on people who later died. Interviewing Quinn, the former wife of the late Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, and now a blogger on religion for the newspaper, Matthews cackled: “What I liked is the hexes of course. How can I not like the fact you knocked off some people just by wishing them evil?”
Matthews on the Friday, September 29 Hardball:
“Sally Quinn has always been one of the most frightening people in Washington. Glamorous, yes, I’ll give you that -- but when you wrote for the Washington Post, when you went after people like Steve Martindale or what’s-his-name, Hamilton Jordan -- they died. You wrote these huge -- I used to read them on the bus, these gigantic takeout pieces in the Washington Post -- when your husband was running the paper, which is a hugely successful paper -- the Washington Post, it crackled with excitement.
“And now you write a book where you say, ‘If you think I was scary as a reporter, I can put a hex on you.’ Talk about the spiritual power of wishing someone to die. How’s that work? This is a book you got to read because it’s the only book I've read about D.C. and the spiritual power that comes alive with a really smart person with strong focus...
“But the parts I liked to read -- I got them in galley form -- what I liked is the hexes of course. How can I not like the fact you knocked off some people just by wishing them evil?”
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