Here are some amusing exchanges from MSNBC’s post debate coverage. First up, comparing the Dems to bad house pets:

MITCHELL: I mean, the politeness of this debate really tells you a lot about what the Democrats think they need to do. They want desperately to defeat the Republicans. They think they have got a great opportunity. And they just don’t want to bloody each other up in front—in the primary… (CROSSTALK) MATTHEWS: They want to prove they’re house-trained.MITCHELL: Yes, exactly.SCARBOROUGH: But, you know, I think it is good, though. (LAUGHTER) MITCHELL: You might say that. (CROSSTALK) SCARBOROUGH: I think it’s good to have people…MATTHEWS: No, I think they have to prove they’re house-trained.They don’t want to soil the carpet when they get the White House again.

And then the panel forgot they weren’t on Imus…

MATTHEWS: The cosmetics tonight are very important. First of all, her pearls, Grace Kelly, dynamite. (LAUGHTER) MATTHEWS: The pearls were great. FINEMAN: No, let’s calm down. MATTHEWS: No, I’m sorry. SCARBOROUGH: He we go, the Philadelphia…(CROSSTALK) MATTHEWS: The pearls were great.SCARBOROUGH: You know what? You just lost a lot of people.MATTHEWS: I thought Michelle Obama—I thought, whatever you say about Obama, his wife looked perfect—perfect for the occasion. MITCHELL: I don’t do fashion.MATTHEWS: The perfect looking wife. She had the pearls as well, another Grace Kelly, well turned out, very dignified—not dignified—attractive, classy, as we used to say, like Frank Sinatra, classy.(LAUGHTER) MATTHEWS: You know, I thought those things were important. SCARBOROUGH: You’re all Philadelphia, Chris Matthews, all Philadelphia.MATTHEWS: No. I’m sorry. Those things are important. You guys are ignoring it.Some people were, by the way, just watching tonight. They stopped listening a half-hour in. (CROSSTALK) MATTHEWS: And they noticed how pretty she is, Michelle, and they said, I like the fact he has got this pretty wife. He’s happily married. I like that.They like the fact that Hillary was demure, ladylike in her appearance. (CROSSTALK) MITCHELL: … about two brilliant lawyers, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.(CROSSTALK) MITCHELL: Excuse me.(LAUGHTER) MATTHEWS: Can I talk about…SCARBOROUGH: Good-looking chicks.MITCHELL: Yale and Harvard.MATTHEWS: You guys jumped around for a week about poor, what’s his name, John Edwards’ haircut. You know, cosmetics are a part of this game. MITCHELL: That wasn’t cosmetics. MATTHEWS: What was that?MITCHELL: That was authenticity.OLBERMANN: Expense reports. MATTHEWS: OK, expense… (LAUGHTER) (CROSSTALK) OLBERMANN: … expense reports. (CROSSTALK) OLBERMANN: And thank you for not introducing Governor Granholm into this particular part of the equation on the—on the…MATTHEWS: David Broder made that mistake.OLBERMANN: … on the public scale. But it’s a valid point. And I think we note it because we have a front-runner woman candidate for the first time. But what—as Chris said, we have picked apart the appearance of the male candidates, too. Why—what is the difference? What—what is the—why is it invalid suddenly—Is it political correctness? — to raise the issue about a woman candidate and appearance and style and tone? MITCHELL: No. I am semi-joking, but I don’t think that we about the cut of their suits or their jewelry. Tone, yes. Substance, yes, on all…(CROSSTALK) MATTHEWS: … with these guys. (LAUGHTER) MATTHEWS: You know, they don’t wear a lot of jewelry, to be honest with you. FINEMAN: I second Andrea on this. I do. I’m allowed. Don’t—don’t look at me like that. (CROSSTALK) MATTHEWS: The first pander of the evening was committed on this panel, the first full pander.(CROSSTALK) FINEMAN: It won’t be the last, I can assure you. (LAUGHTER)

And how about Hillary as Ronald Reagan?

BOB SHRUM, NBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, the way you know that Hillary Clinton was a clear winner—and I don’t want to put Pat in an uncomfortable position—is, her press release post-debate features him comparing her to Ronald Reagan. She came across as anti-war on Iraq. She came across as presidential. She was honest about her failure on health care before and said she was committed to universal health care, did it persuasively. Her answer on terrorism was superb. And she wound up with pretty powerful populist appeal. I thought—you know, they stopped attacking Keith. And they—they didn’t attack Obama either in the debate or in the spin room afterwards. That has hurt them in the past. I think tonight’s debate helped her considerably. OLBERMANN: Well, Pat? (LAUGHTER) PAT BUCHANAN, NBC POLITICAL ANALYST: I am going to have to answer to a lot of conservatives for that comparison with Reagan.But I thought she was crisp.(LAUGHTER) BUCHANAN: I thought she was crisp. I thought she was sharp. I thought she was presidential.

Here’s the multi-millionaire panel worrying about the less fortunate…in their industry:

MATTHEWS: You have to be taught the visceral realities of life. You can’t just read them like Adelaide Stephenson, blah, blah, blah. You’ve got to read it.I wonder if it would have been nice tonight if somebody talked about what it meant to make 40 a year and not be able get health insurance with it, and to be basically freelance. In our business, we know so many people who…

Hmmm. MSNBC is paying me so much, but these other guys so little… how in the world can we fix this?