Reply #8: I was only half listening

[LooseWilly]

... but I got the impression that that idiot was trying to say that the tea party thing was some sort of "popular" outrage that the Republicans were "trying to get in front of"... a framing that it would've been hard for Matthews to attack, though he did look like he was on the verge of rolling his eyes.
The earlier clips where he was pointing out that Warren is a hypocrite was more surprising to me... that he let that Politico goof, Mike Allen, get away with apologizing for Warren's being a blatantly lying hypocrite piece of pious shit...