No-nonsense Dem strategist makes light work of CNN journalist who scolded him for saying 'preachy females' have ruined his party

Renowned Democrat strategist James Carville strongly defended himself when a CNN anchor challenged his assertion earlier this year that 'preachy females' are ruining the party.

Carville, 79, told a reporter in March that such women have become authoritarian by telling people how to live their lives, branding their overall message 'too feminine.'

CNN anchor Sara Snider said he'd gotten 'lambasted' for the comment and asked him if the Democrat convention that featured 'strong females' like Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton had led him to get any further backlash. 

Carville bluntly stated: 'I don't care.'

He went on to add that he sees himself as a 'provocateur' trying to get peoples' attention to help solve the Democrats problems, especially with white male voters. 

'How do I do that? Do I tell Maureen Dowd of The New York Times that a close analysis of the regression group indicates that we had insufficient support among American males? No one is going to remember that,' Carville said. 

'So if I say something like, "Our culture has too many preachy females in it," you know what? Everybody remembers it. And the thing about me, I don't care,' he added.

Having made light work of Snider's question, he went on to say some nice things about Harris' campaign. 

'I think that the vice president's campaign was listening to what people like me were saying, that the party's messaging needed to have a little more male language and male contrast and examples,' Carville said. 

He said that the choice of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as a running mate was a sign that he had been heard. 

'That's one of the things that I'm really about, that in this convention, I think we're getting it.' 

Carville - the man credited with masterminding Bill Clinton's 1992 election victory - made noise when he spoke to Dowd in March 2024, when Joe Biden was still running.  

Despite his overall approval of the incumbent president, Carville said that he suspected there to be too many 'preachy females' in the party.

He added, mockingly: '"Don't drink beer. Don't watch football. Don't eat hamburgers. This is not good for you." The message is too feminine.'

Carville appeared to be taking a shot at the 'The Squad,' a group of Democratic members who are seen as being on the left side of the party. 

Members include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib. 

On top of that, he also complained that 'woke stuff is killing us' and that the left was talking in a language that Americans did not understand. 

In one anecdote, he spoke of his time teaching at Louisiana State University, and heard how one of his students had got into the school of her dreams to work on an advanced degree. 

Wanting to toast her, he recalled to the outlet: 'I get a $25 champagne and four plastic flutes, and I said to the students: 'All right. You are not going to get out of James Carville's class unless you know how to properly open a bottle of champagne.

'Here's what you're going to do. You don't pop it like you see in the movies or you're going to poke somebody's eye out.  

'You take the foil off. Now you're going to take a dishcloth, and you're going to execute the classic counterclockwise movement. 

'The bottle is going to go one way; the cork is going to go the other way. You just ease it out, and the sound that you are looking for is the sigh of a satisfied woman.'

Carville added: 'The next Tuesday, the dean comes into my office and he said: 'I'm closing the door. We need to have a talk. A female student had complained about the sighing line.' 

He told the outlet that he wanted to tell the dean, 'Her boyfriend has never heard that sound,' but responded 'I'll endeavor to do better.'