Chris Matthews wasn’t quite so effusive as when he called President Barack Obama a “perfect American,” but he was surprisingly enthusiastic about Condoleezza Rice’s speech to the Republican convention. But was the praise just a Trojan horse?
Matthews is slobbering all over Condi, which is something. But he's asking if her speech was "rejoinder to narrowness & birtherism" in GOP.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) August 30, 2012
As NBC’s “bad cop” Andrea Mitchell interviewed Rice face-to-face on the floor of the RNC, “good cop” Matthews begged to cut in via remote.
Chris Matthews just asked Andrea Mitchell to ask Condi Rice if her speech was intended as a retort to the GOP's birtherism #NotMakingThisUp
— Sean Geary Higgins (@SeanGHiggins) August 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/adamsbaldwin/status/241012483333185536
Chris Matthews interrupts Andrea Mitchell and tells her to ask Condi about birtherism. #NOTAJOKE
— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 30, 2012
Chris Matthews brings up birtherism to Condi Rice. Ugh.
— ✟ Right Scoop ✟ (@trscoop) August 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/TabithaHale/status/241012810727960577
Dude I bust out laughing! RT @Crudotastic: He just screams over Andrea Mitchell to ask a question about Birtherism. I'm laughing. So. Hard
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) August 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/241013218737258497
https://twitter.com/DanFosterNRO/status/241012734269997056
Rice rewarded Matthews by taking his question seriously.
Condi: The birther movement is an extreme, & there are extremes on both sides. We're not an America that's riven by race, tho it is a factor
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) August 30, 2012
Condi nicely smacked down Mitchell's birther question saying it's a fringe thing.
— TLC (@TracyLConnors) August 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/TabithaHale/status/241013153016737792
God bless you Condi Rice for remaining calm in the face of an epic amount MSNBC stupidity and race-baiting.
— big tuna (@keder) August 30, 2012
Condi is a pro.
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) August 30, 2012
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