The Political Fish

At what point does MSNBC (shameless as they are) get embarrassed by continuing to trot out Chris “Tingles up my leg” Matthews to offer up political analysis…and believe me, I use the term analysis very loosely in this sense. What makes it worse, is they continue to trot him out live…and in front of a camera. The only thing MSNBC has working in their favor is the fact that nobody really watches their channel, because well…they are all nuts. But I digress.

In the aftermath of the State of the Union address, Matthews apparently “forgot he was black” speaking of President Obama, and continued on with that theme for entirely too long. Apparently the rest of the country has become color blind, except for the leftists that can’t seem to stop bringing it up.  Just watch the video…it actually will do the soul some good to see Tingles Matthews embarrass himself…AGAIN.

Politico’s Micheal Calderone put together a list of some of the reactions that came flying out of the blogosphere and internet. Quite comical really.

Still, that single line quickly bounced around Twitter and the blogosphere, along with widespread criticism of Matthews on the left, on the right and in between.

“The tingle appears to be back for Chris Matthews,” wrote Noel Sheppard on NewsBusters. The headline on Wonkette read: “Chris Matthews Has an Apology on the Way.” And on ThinkProgress: “Matthews’ comment seems to imply that a man who is too ‘black’ still can’t become ‘a leader of this country.’”

The Matthews comment was met immediately on Twitter with both confusion and contempt, and later “Chris Matthews” became a top trending topic.

The New Republic’s Michael Crowley wrote: “Huh?” with The Huffington Post’s Jason Linkins asking, “W to the F?”

Meanwhile, The American Prospect’s Adam Serwer offered a terse response to the Matthews line: “F— You.” The Washington Independent’s Spencer Ackerman wrote that the MSNBC host should “get off the air.” And from the The Joshua Blog: “He needs to be gone from @MSNBC for good. Enough already

I guess the left isn’t quite as color blind as they purport themselves to be.  Tingles was only able to forget he was black for an hour. Must not have been using that negro dialect right Harry Reid?

Michelle Malkin gives us a great line.

Who says such a thing? And they call Tea Party folks RAAAAAACISTS? Is there a more race-obsessed motor-mouth on TV than Chris Matthews?

Nope.

What does America’s Most Trusted Newsman have to say about all of this?? Jon Stewart, go ahead and weigh in sir!

Perfect.

Always good to switch on over to Americas very first Communist news network to see what sort of audacious stupidity would flow out of the mouths of their exceptional trio of primetime pundits.

Their always insightful *sarc* brand of analysis came in handy tonight following President Obamas speech to the West Point cadets about his Afghan strategy and the impending troop surge.

Chris “Tingles” Matthews had a particularly interesting gem tonight, where he referred to the United States Military Academy at West Point, as the “Enemy Camp”. Perhaps nothing more than a poor choice of words, or maybe his real belief, I am waiting for the day when GE, NBC and the heads of these companies will come crashing down on the head of this moron for his blatant stupidity. Check the video below.

From Newsbusters, here is the transcript.

However, Matthews also said he saw a lot of skepticism among some of the older audience members at West Point, which he called “the enemy camp” and “a strange venue.” (emphasis added)

“It seems like in this case, there isn’t a lot of excitement,” Matthews said. “I watched the cadets, they were young kids – men and women who were committed to serving their country professionally it must be said, as officers. And, I didn’t see much excitement. But among the older people there, I saw, if not resentment, skepticism. I didn’t see a lot of warmth in that crowd out there. The president chose to address tonight and I thought it was interesting. He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his case. I mean, that’s where Paul Wolfowitz used to write speeches for, back in the old Bush days. That’s where he went to rabble rouse the “we’re going to democratize the world” campaign back in ‘02. So, I thought it was a strange venue.”

This guy is a class act.