Awkward! Chris Matthews 'Forgot' Obama Was Black

By PopEater Staff Posted Jan 28th 2010 10:30AM

Chris Matthews was in forgetful mood last night following the State of the Union, with the MSNBC host giving TV viewers one of the oddest ruminations on President Barack Obama's speech: "I forgot he was black tonight for an hour."

While trying to express his deep feeling on "who he was tonight," referring to Obama, Matthews launched into some cringeworthy material.

"He is post-racial, by all appearances. I forgot he was black tonight for an hour," he said. "I was watching. I said, wait a minute, he's an African-American guy in front of a bunch of other white people. And here he is president of the United States and we've completely forgotten that tonight -- completely forgotten it."

"Maybe I shouldn't talk about it, but I am" he added. "I thought it was profound that way, and I think in terms of the seduction tonight, I don't think he did anything tonight out of love of Republicans."

The gaffe, during a live segment, was not prompted by his co-hosts Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann. Matthews famously said he "felt this thrill going up my leg" during a 2008 speech by Obama, but lately he's been critical. In November he questioned Obama as "too darn intellectual, too much the egghead" and also went negative on the prez for vacationing in Martha's Vineyard.

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Friday 29 January

By bob

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Nobama is a zebra,he LOOKS Ballck but had a white mother!!

Sunday 31 January

By bongo

This man is awful. I can't stand his voice; it's grating. Watching that Rachel he/she thing on at night is even more frightening. She actually was criticizing Republicans because a Rep. congressman said that Pres. O was going to triple the deficit in ten years. She took out the numbers to show that he was totally wrong. It was only going to double in ten years. Well duh! Stupid man. Then she berated him for getting his facts wrong. She did not even raise an eyebrow about the deficit doubling, only that the Republican had the nerve to say something about it. Not one word of censure for O, nope- just more Republican bashing. Can you just imagine what she would have been like if GW had blown the Guantanamo/health care/ terror trial/ reading the foreign terrorist the Miranda statement, etc. She would have been absolutely orgasmic with hatred and self-important sputtering. Why is this thing allowed to speak on television? She needs to go away and take her other stupid one-sided liberal friends Olberman and Matthews with her. Shame on all of them for not calling Obama to task, They think they are reporters; they are nothing more than liberal shills. Do the country a favor and shut up.

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