“Well, sitting there in the press conference today with President Obama, you could almost hear sort of the classical music in the background,” cooed Fineman. ”It was a stately thing, and a mature discussion.”
“I get you,” echoed Matthews. “This is an Oxford don, he’s so well-turned, he comes in there elegantly, look how he comes in there, presenting himself elegantly, presenting himself on a very high-level tone.....against this menagerie that's biting at his heels."
Fineman, "Yeah, those people that you cited, Boehner, Gingrich and Palin, are not playing the same ballgame that Barack Obama is."
Matthews: "I shouldn't call them the three stooges. They're a lot smarter than that. They know what they're doing. The stooges are the people who buy their act.
Fineman, nodding: "Sure they do."Chris Matthews is an opinion guy; that's his right. Is Fineman supposed to be just an opinion guy? But do they have any idea how positively sycophantic they sound? It's repulsive to most objective observers, and especially so to those of us who are not objective.
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