So lame.

Via Mediaite:

Amid a discussion about Washington’s effort to reach a budget deal, the Morning Joe panel took a bit of a tangent turning to the topic of vitriol and attacks in politics. The panelists quickly found itself at odds with each other, not seeing eye to eye on whether the nastiness on the political scene has gotten worse. […]

So, he noted, “Barack Obama does not know the level of vitriol that Bill Clinton experienced…that was a fault line.”

Remnick argued that Clinton was attacked on a moral level, whereas with Obama, in some cases, “there is a racial undertone that never goes away.”