Posted on 10/04/2012 7:34:23 PM PDT by markomalley
On Thursday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown performed a postmortem on Wednesday night’s presidential debate which most political observers agreed President Barack Obama lost. Matthews was confused how, “objectively,” a man with such “scope,” “relevance,” and an “I.Q. in the hundred and whatever range” lost the debate. Brown said that he thought Obama was concerned that if he took on Mitt Romney, the public may have perceived him as “taking advantage of a lesser.”
Matthews asked Brown if there was hope for the president to not cede too much ground to Romney because, in his estimation, Obama had a stronger command of the facts even though he lost on style.
“It’s very, very difficult to get people in the world observing politicians ever come to the substance,” said Brown. “They always go for style. They are always influenced by performances. And I believe that Mr. Obama took a licking last night. The public knows that. And now to suggest that the facts support what his position was supposed to be, I don’t think carries.”
Matthews agreed and said, “objectively,” that President Obama should not have lost the debate because he has such a command of style as well as substance. Matthews also noted that Obama has an I.Q. “in in the hundred and whatever range.”
I do look up to him in so many ways. And when I’m with him, I do say to myself – and I do this really objectively, I think – I listen to him after he’s briefed on something and I think, ‘this guy ought to be president.’ He has the command of the issues. He has scope. He has relevance. He can talk to you as a regular person in common English, as well as the wonk talk. He’s got an I.Q. that must be in the hundred and whatever range – way up there. And yet last night he was tongue-tied. He let the other guy own the room.
“What do you think was on his mind,” Matthews asked Brown.
Brown said that Obama was too conscious of being perceived as “arrogant” and, if he had taken Romney to task, the president may have been “perceive as taking advantage of a lesser.”
Watch the clip below via MSNBC:
Thanks. That's the best laugh I've had in quite a while. :)
If Matthews ever gives birth to a child it will be interesting to see if it looks like Obama.
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“More evidence that Tingles is insane.”
NO KIDDING!
Perhaps he will show his transcripts so we can see how intelligent he is. He looked like a brainwashed idiot last night and so did Mathews.
Pray for America
What an arrogant POS. And that isn’t even a Photoshop.
What dingbats like Matthews don't realize is that the much simpler explanation is likely to be the correct one: Obama never brought any of these things up because he doesn't have a clue about them. He can't count to 47, he has no idea how Paul Ryan voted on any issue of substance in Congress, and wouldn't know the difference between a billion and a trillion if you gave him a month to figure it out.
Ok then remind me why I care what Chris Mathews thinks??????
hilarious! i hope SNL picks this up and does their thing with it... they wouldn’t have to do much... this exchange can stand as is...
zero got the stuffing beat out of him because he was afraid to make mitt look bad...? OOO K
I don’t care how smart Obama is.”
I’ve always found it interesting that some people think just because someone has a high IQ that they are smart. Watched Jeopardy recently. Three high IQ people in their 30’s competing who knew a lot of weird stuff. But two questions none of them could answer - What month does the Electoral College meet and in what month does the 2012 Session of the Supreme Court begin. There was also a category whose answers were about people involved in the original Constitution and only one was answered correctly. Sad state of affairs.
A presidential debate is not a college debate...it’s a must win. One doesn’t let the other guy win for whatever reason.
Matthews’ and Brown’s ‘spin’ puts Linda Blair’s head spin in “The Exorcist” to shame.
“Ok then remind me why I care what Chris Mathews thinks??????”
Chris Mathews thinks? That is news to me!
He reminds me of the guy that says “I tried to think but nothing happened.”
“Ok then remind me why I care what Chris Mathews thinks??????”
Chris Mathews thinks? That is news to me!
He reminds me of the guy that says “I tried to think but nothing happened.”
ummmmmmmmmm..........i have never seen any evidence that the obamantion even has an IQ. all those records are sealed.
personally, i don’t think he has one. i know totus is smarter then him.
where does sissy mathews get his information that barry is smart and has an IQ?
blessings, bobo
This is going to get funnier by the day.
Obama is average. He has gotten where he is because he ‘used’ his blackness. Along the way he has had many people covering for him. The media helped make him president. When he is left to his own devices, no pre-written speeches and no media to cover for him, it is obvious that he is on the lower scale of average.
When you add in the fact that he believes his own bs, and theirs, it makes him especially vulnerable up against someone who knows what they are talking about. He falls apart. I don’t expect it to get any better. Now he is pissed which will make him erratic.
I got the impression that O had memorized certain responses and lead lines. That was his “homework.”
When Romney failed to let a point go, and good for him I might add, he would default to one of those lines. Often not even in the context of what was being discussed at the time.
I agree with you, I don’t think he knew what was being discussed most of the evening.
No TOTUS, no adoring cheering crowd, no media shield...bad night for O.
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