If the shoe fits.
Via Washington Whispers:
Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus Thursday unleashed a sharp attack on liberal TV critic Chris Matthews, calling the MSNBC Hardball host “bizarre,” “unhinged,” and “hysterical” for charging the GOP with playing the race card.
Appearing on America’s Radio News Network with hosts John McCaslin and Chris Salcedo, Priebus said that when challenged by Matthews over race earlier this week, he tried to avoid a fight, though he did call Matthews a “jerk.”
Recalling the episode, Priebus said, “my reaction was, as it was happening was, OK Chris Matthews is just trying to make a scene for his own brand and his own show and I had a choice to make, I could get in the ditch with him or I could call it as I saw it and move on.”
Priebus added, “sometimes you have a choice to make. Do you want to get into the ditch and have that food fight right then and there and draw you into the narrative? And as a party chairman during the week of the convention I just don’t think that’s the right place for the party chairman to be in the narrative on a useless altercation with a guy who’s got about 10 viewers on his show.”