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Chris Matthews, sunglasses-wearing elite?

September 26, 2008 7:35 pm ET by Jamison Foser

Here's MSNBC's Chris Matthews, moments ago, suggesting Barack Obama is "elite" in part because Obama was wearing sunglasses:

Can Barack Obama, a man of elite education if not elite background, break into the middle class and talk regular?  Can he talk to regular people in their kitchens tonight, in their living rooms?

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Everybody thinks Barack is too cool.  In other words, there he is with the shades, getting on the plane.  A little bit too elegant, a little bit too proud of his own bearing.  Is that a problem, that he's just too cool for words.  In other words, elite.

And here's MSNBC's Chris Matthews, sitting beside the pool outside his Nantucket vacation home, wearing sunglasses:

Chris Matthews Nantucket Pool Sunglasses

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    • Author by johnie2xs (September 26, 2008 8:00 pm ET)
         

      I love MSNBC, and for the most part I like Matthews.  I admit that I like Keith, Rachel, and Chuck Todd better, but none the less Chris is held in high esteem by me. HOWEVER, as my father used to say to me, "Son, better to keep your mouth shut and thought stupid, than to open your mouth and prove it".  Evidently Chris could use this sage advice.

      This is what happens when your alligator(mouth), overloads your Hummingbird (ass).

       Constipation of the brain with diarrhea of the mouth.  Also applicable.

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    • Author by richard (September 26, 2008 8:45 pm ET)
         
      Chris Matthews is a buffoon!   He askes the dumbest asinine questions, and makes dumb statements ala Sara Palin.   Here he sits on his fat ass in his house in Nantucket and has the gall to imply Barack Obama is elitist...because he wears sunglasses...sunglasses are now somehow elistist?  Matthews is beyond stupid!   What a pathetic creature Matthews is!, and why anyone listens to what he says is beyond me.   This guy is anti-democrat and will do anything to tear down strong Democratic candidates...look what he did to Hillary ....he's done it in the past and will continue to do it........ why he doesn't work at fox propaganda network boggles my mind......  Democrats need to turn their backs on Matthews..... he's no friend !
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    • Author by galewatts118 (September 26, 2008 10:11 pm ET)
         

      So, was the sun out?

      Matthews is such a fool and takes himself much too seriously.

       

       

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    • Author by csikorski12904 (September 26, 2008 10:26 pm ET)
         

      Did you all watch Chris tonight?  He is often tongue in cheek with his comments about Barack.  He is merely mocking what the Repubs will say.  What's wrong with a strong, young, healthy and hip president? I think that's what Chris may have been asking.

       

      Obama 08 

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    • Author by Lotuslife (September 27, 2008 1:10 am ET)
         

      Last time I checked with my eye doctor, sunglasses were recommended for EVERYONE to prevent cataracts, which are increasingly common due to changes in the environment.  Wearing sunglasses means being responsible for your health, period!

      I am curious about the thinking that makes Obama "too cool" when he wears sunglasses, but makes it OK when Todd Palin is referred to as "First Dude".  A double standard here???

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    • Author by BobSF_941173053 (September 27, 2008 2:04 am ET)
         

      Chris Matthews could look cool in sunglasses, too... if he lost 40 pounds.

       

       

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    • Author by nikkihodgesevents6200 (September 27, 2008 4:08 am ET)
         
      McCain ALWAYS wears sunglasses.....what should we call the man with 7 homes and 13 cars that wears sunglasses? The MOST ELITE? EXTREME ELITISM?
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    • Author by joetom25827 (September 27, 2008 8:42 am ET)
         
      Too cool because he wears sunglasses? What about the suit? Should he wear jeans and a t-shirt? Come on! Eye doctors recommend wearing sunglasses when you're out in the sun -- something I always do. Why can't Chris get over Obama's appearance? He seems obsessed with it.
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    • Author by edmatheson6553 (September 27, 2008 10:16 am ET)
         
        Blubber-mouth Matthews is in love with the sound of his own voice
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    • Author by mrapricot6834 (September 27, 2008 10:20 am ET)
         
      Look, Chris does this. He's being deliberatively provocative; he often plays the devil's advocate - he often engages his mouth before his brain is in gear -- but his intent is 1. To appear a little too clever by half and 2. stimulate contentious debate.
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      • Author by carlileb5935 (September 28, 2008 5:15 am ET)
           
        Yes but he always traffics in stupid cliches that regularly impugn Democrats, coincidentally. When was the last time he called a repub an 'elitist?'
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    • Author by Chalmers18976 (September 27, 2008 10:57 am ET)
         

      I never knew it was elite to protect your eyes.  I wear sunglasses all of the time on the advicee of my eye doctor.  If Chris Matthews wants to get macular degeneration - and other eye diseases - that's his business.  He shouldn't criticize Barack for not feeling the same way.

      Chris Matthews appears to be bipolar.  I hope he isn't, but he sure acts like it. 

       

       

       

       

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    • Author by b1rd678351 (September 27, 2008 11:54 am ET)
         
      I can go on mullets.com and find a hundred pictures of guys with sunglasses... so Obama isn't really an elitist he's a redneck!
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    • Author by Kay P Tempe AZ (September 27, 2008 12:13 pm ET)
         
          What a hoot!  If you live in the SW you know sunglasses actually are worn to protect your eyes - from the SUN!  But then, if you look at McCain and his squinty eyes - maybe FlyBoys don't wear sunglasses unless they are in the cockpit - or wherever it is they go
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    • Author by ToddlerJ (September 27, 2008 1:28 pm ET)
         

      BO was also carrying his own clothes!  Seems like an "elitilst" would be using a personal assistant to do such ordinary things.

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    • Author by lorrie74959 (September 27, 2008 1:58 pm ET)
         
      I used to respect Chris Matthews, but somewhere along the way you turned into another stupid media clone. I have lost all respect for your ability to give an honest assessment of current events. Your bias is showing!
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    • Author by rob2007 (September 27, 2008 8:55 pm ET)
         
      Matthews sounds like a jealous racist.
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    • Author by j238 (September 28, 2008 9:29 am ET)
         

      Obama can't relate to regular people...

      Obama can't relate to regular people...

      Obama can't relate to regular people...

      Hey Chris, PLEASE FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO SAY.  This is getting boring.

       

       

       

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    • Author by michejones3648 (September 29, 2008 4:53 am ET)
         
      "Everybody" does not think Barack is "too elegant, a little bit too proud of his own bearing." The men and women on Chicago's south side don't. Those of us who were raised by single mothers and made it through college don't.

      Obama is not proud. He has DIGNITY. I think Matthews--like McCain, like the Clintons, like Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright--is mistaken in many of his personal observations about Obama.

      The problem is not that Obama thinks more of himself than he ought to. The problem is that they all think LESS of him than they ought to. At the root of all the elitist talk is the unfortunate belief that Barack and Michelle Obama don't deserve to be where they are.

      I will give Matthews and the rest the benefit of the doubt and assume this comes as news to them.
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