MSNBC host Chris Matthews’s feelings seem to have been hurt when President Obama slammed the cable-news cycle during his State of the Union address, calling the comment “unfair” because networks — “our network especially — shared his hope.”
Moments after Obama wrapped up his Tuesday night address, Matthews interrupted the network’s burgeoning lovefest to fire off a quick criticism of the president.
“I think he made a mistake tonight about cable television,” he said. “I think there are a lot of people — at our network especially — who have hoped, and, in fact, share his hope, with regard to the end racial division and the need for continuing that hope — for that aspiration. And not at all benefited from it. And also about bipartisanship . . . “
“And so I don’t think it’s fair to say that everybody benefits from division,” Matthews continued. “I think he’s made a mistake on that. And I don’t think he watches much cable television, to be honest with you.”
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