Poor Chris Matthews. Poor, poor Chris Matthews.
The MSNBC host is bitterly clinging to the results of a new poll that show President Obama’s approval numbers roaring back to life.
Of course, Matthews attributes The One’s sinking fortunes to “all the crazy stuff of the summer.” You know, crazy stuff like “the tea parties, the birthers, the nutbags out there.”
Unfortunately, guests Charlie Cook of the Cook Political Report and John Harris of the Politico weren’t so eager to agree with Matthews assessment of the situation. It was their unenviable task to tell Matthews that the pole he cited was an outlier and inconsistent with all the other polls.
For the first time in recent memory, Matthews was almost stunned into silence. Which would have almost made his show watchable.
Source: NewsBuster.org
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I thought I felt my leg tingling – but that was an “outlier” as well!
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Matthew’s was speechless because the tingle up his leg stopped.
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Matthews is a mental midget with a mighty grip on his Obama blow-up doll. He will have to patch it now that it popped.
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oh chris i predict the next tingle you get is in 2012 when sarah beats the crap outa barack insane obama and that tingle will be up your left arm R.I.P
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Seriously? At what point did he “not want to hear” that the polls might be wrong? He asked and then reaffirmed with his other guest whether these polls should be trusted. Of course the tape cuts out right then – because as the comment section makes clear, the right can’t handle too much information at once.
You’ll also notice that no counterdata was presented. There were no polls shown that Obama’s numbers WEREN’T roaring back to life at this time. Just the right’s wishing and hoping and praying.