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Nantucket's own Chris Matthews goes negative on Barack Obama for vacationing on Martha's Vineyard

November 04, 2009 5:25 pm ET - by Jamison Foser

Here's Chris Matthews, badgering White House press secretary Robert Gibbs moments ago, about whether Barack Obama has gone Washington:

You don't see any problem with the imagery of hanging around with all the fund-raisers, doing all the stuff that seems like a typical Clinton Democrat, just typical of the way things were before he got in? ... He even went to Martha's Vineyard this summer [on vacation].

And here's Chris Matthews, outside his multimillion dollar Nantucket vacation home.  

I'm sure there's probably some sort of Martha's Vineyard/Nantucket rivalry I don't know about, but it looks pretty silly for Chris Matthews, who "jaunt[s]" to his "new digs on the dunes as often as possible," to pursue this particular line of questioning.

Oh what the heck.  Here's another:

Previously: Chris Matthews, sunglasses-wearing elite?

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