Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Dear Chris Matthews

GOOD GOD STOP COMPARING THE BUSHES TO THE ROMANOVS.

Nothing, I repeat, nothing about that comparison makes any sense whatsoever.

Rachel Maddow is the only bright spot about MSNBC's political coverage. I have been half-listening to the inauguration hullabaloo and so far Chris Matthews has made the above idiotic statement three times, posed a barely comprehensible question to Doris Kearns Goodwin which I think had something to do with Lincoln and contained more "uhs" and "ahs" than words which one would find in the OED, told a rambling story about a cobbler and the Chief Justice both being in the same room and how that's somehow indicative of the anti-monarchical quality of American political life, and Keith Olbermann has called Obama a raisin.

This is going to be a long, long day.

2 comments:

Jordan Clark said...

A California Raisin? Is that racist?

Benjamin Estes said...

It seemed like it was a horrendously stupid gaffe, not blatant racism. They were commenting on how far away from the stage NBC's set up was and Olbermann said that at that distance Obama looked like "a little raisin."

Awkward silence ensued.