If you haven't seen this awesome clip from Tuesday night's State of the Union address by now, just go and watch:
It's short, but here's the even shorter version: Republicans jeer Obama, and Obama smacks 'em right back a thousand times harder with a hilarious snap that even
he couldn't help chuckling at.
So what was conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks' reaction? Why, it was the president who engaged in unsportsmanlike behavior:
BROOKS: And for all the talk at the end about the Philadelphia speech, the revealing moment when the Republicans applauded when he said he wasn't going to run again and he said—I forget the exact words—but like I beat you guys twice.
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN: Won twice.
DAVID BROOKS: That was basketball court trash talk and that's also who he is. So the bipartisanship that's part of him but the trash talk, that's also part.
And what was the Republican mockery of Obama? Polite banter under the auspices of Marquess of Queensberry rules? Try a little harder, dude. "Basketball court trash talk" is code that's even more obvious than the kind you can crack with a decoder ring from a box of Kix.