Chris Matthews tired of being asked if he still feels ‘thrill up his leg’

posted at 5:51 pm on May 26, 2012 by Howard Portnoy

Greetings! Another “jackass” here taking an opportunity to remind readers of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews’s unfortunate (for him) decision in 2008 to announce that a speech by then-candidate Barack Obama sent a “thrill up” his “leg.”

I wouldn’t be bothering except that Matthews recently told another TB audience, “Perhaps I shouldn’t have said so because I’ve given a lot of jackasses the chance to talk about it.”

The occasion, Mediabistro reports, was a panel discussion on a cable station in Boston that included CNN’s John King, Univision’s Maria Salenas, and the Hardball host. The moderator was C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, who had the temerity to ask Matthews whether the thrill is gone.

Matthews’s visible annoyance is evident in this video clip from the program. In it, he admits to having made the same idiotic comment in 2004 (two’s a charm?), predicting as well that Obama would become “the first African-American president,” which Matthews self-indulgently insists “makes me look a little sharper.” If he says so!

He goes on to scold Scully: “I hope that you feel satisfied that you’ve used the most obvious question that is raised by every horse’s ass right-winger I ever bump into.”

On this point, I can actually sympathize with Matthews. If I had a nickel for every time someone made a joke about me that riffed on my surname—and those who have include a few fellow journalists I hold in high regard—I would be a wealthy man. The difference is that I had no role in the literary stylings of Philip Roth, while Matthews’s thrill is 100% his.

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