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Maddow, Buchanan, and Smerconish on David Gregory's show
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Buchanan: Well look, ub, ub, Rachel said there was humility, real humility here; let me read you his direct quote according to Dana Millbank. He's telling the congressional guys, "This is the moment the world is waiting for. I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions". I mean, upon what meat has this our Ceasar fed? He is sounding like America's hot dog, really, out there, he's in Berlin ...
Maddow: Pat, Pat, the issue here is that this quote has been disproved today. That quote has been contradicted by multiple other sources talking to Time magazine, talking to other reporters, explaining what he, that he did not say that at all
Gregory: Let me break in, let me break in with what the, Smerc you're comin', with what the actual comment is. The actual quate is, a Politico reporter reported on this, this is what Obama reportedly said according to Politico [quotation appears on-screen]: "It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, it's not about me at all. Its about America. I have just become a symbol." Smerc.
Smerconish: Alright. Nobody was in the room from a journalistic standpoint when that statement was offered, but, the New York Times, I'm amazed nobody has brought this up so far, June 4, 2008, a direct quote from Senator Obama: "I love when I'm shaking hands on a rope line, and I see a little old white lady and a big burly black guy, and latino girls, and all their hands are entwined and they're feeding on each other as much as on me, it's like I'm just the excuse". In other words, he said it before, in the proper context. It's a feel-good statement about the country and what he represents. So we don't have to debate what he said behind closed doors, because we have him on the record, and giving him the benefit of the doubt, he said the same thing yesterday that he told the times on this day.
Maddow: ... which I would argue is a symbol of humility and not hubris. But people wanna run with the hubris line, I think for prejudiced reasons.
Buchanana: But why, the rea.. well, alright, the, is, is Dana Milbank doing this for prejudiced reasons, c'mon!
Maddow: I'm not accusing him of being racist, I'm saying (over Buchanan) no listen, Pat, Pat, why, how could you at...
Buchanan: ... you're going into the motivations of anybody that's, that's critical of Obama when he's in a rough patch, to which he's responding with angry ads which show these attacks are working!
Maddlow: Whether or not they're working, I think we have a responsibility to talk about whether they're deserved, Pat. And I think when Pat Buch..., when John McCain doesn't speak to Pat Buchanan as being presumptuous when he calls himself "President McCain", but Barack Obama speaks to you as presumptuous for doing something much less damning, that says more about you than it does about the candidates.
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