Nobody messes with Tingles’ man.
Via Mediaite:
On Monday, MSNBC host Chris Matthews slammed Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker’s appearance on Meet the Press this past weekend where Matthews accused Booker of engaging in “sabotage.” Matthews implied that Booker had dealt a major blow to the Obama campaign’s attacks on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s tenure with the private equity firm Bain Capital. But what is perhaps most shocking about Booker’s appearance is just how quickly the assaults on Bain have come apart when one prominent voice too many departs from the preferred line of attack. With the Bain issue on life support, the Obama campaign may find itself having to break out its strongest attacks against Romney far earlier than it would have preferred.
. . . Such heresy cannot go unpunished. Enter, Matthews. Surprisingly, however, Matthew’s went after both Booker and Meet the Press on his program on Monday:
The news there was probably the President’s deft handling of that sabotage, intended or not, by Cory Booker the other day on Meet the Press. I’ve never seen — I have to tell you, in my years of covering politics, I’ve never seen anything like what we saw on Meet the Press the other day. We should call it, ‘mess the press’ or ‘meet the mess.’ This mishigas never stops.
Matthews went on to reiterate his description of Booker’s appearance on Meet the Press as “sabotage.” He called it a “betrayal,” a “trashing” of the Obama campaign’s central thrust for the summer and wondered if a Romney surrogate would have said anything different. Matthew’s admonition of Booker went on and on; he just could not understate precisely how damaging Booker’s attack on the Obama campaign’s messaging was.