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The Tingle Returns? Chris Matthews Compares Obama’s Second Inaugural to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

Jan. 21, 2013 1:45pm Mytheos Holt

Chris Matthews’ outsized love of President Barack Obama needs no rehearsal, and yet the MSNBC host seems to find new ways to escalate his depiction of that love on an almost daily basis. Naturally enough, Obama’s Second Inaugural address was the occasion for one such escalation. After watching Obama’s speech, Matthews gushed:

“Reminds you of another second inaugural: Lincoln’s. So much of Lincoln in that speech, from the Gettysburg address to the second inaugural itself. I thought what was interesting was an attempt to draw a balance – of course, he’s a man of the progressive side – but he tried to draw a balance there between a government ruled by an elite and then a government ruled by a mob both being a problem. Then he talked about the government that we want, which is infrastructure, regulation, education, all the good things, and then recognized that government can’t solve all the problems.”

As National Review observed:

Hey, credit where credit’s due. The president did refer to “blood drawn by the lash and blood drawn by the sword”; his remarks were concise, much like the Gettysburg address; and this was a 2nd Inaugural…just like Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural. Lincolnian, indeed.

Watch Matthews’ exclamation below:

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denkat56
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:23pm
Hey Chris where you been rehab, detox. Long time no hear. Was the tingle in the other leg, or all in your head. It’s a shame that you guys at MSNBC, have lost touch with reality. I think in my opinion that your still a jerk, and needs to be muzzled.

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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:38pm
  He hasn’t gotten his first paycheck yet with all the deductions or he’s so rich it doesn’t make any difference to him……….or he’d pay extra for the tingle……again…………
  
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:49pm
  Lincoln brought the nation together — Obama promotes class warfare. In his second inaugural address, Lincoln decried men “wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces.” But Obama supports wringing food, housing, medical care and education for some from the sweat of the faces of others.
  
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- jbast01
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:56pm
  Amen!!!!
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:14pm
  I can honestly say, bama is NO LINCOLN……….so stop the comparison.
  
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- cbrown
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:59pm
  Charles Krauthammer calls It an ‘Amazing’ speech!
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:21pm
  CBROWN
  
  Something akin to many prominent media conservatives …. Charles Krauthammer is straddling the left/right fence.
  
  Krauthammer on inaugural address: It was an ode to big government declaring the end of Reaganism
  January 21st, 2013
  
  Krauthammer says Obama’s inaugural address was nothing more than an ode to big government, a declaration of the end of Reaganism. He said Obama declared that the main entitlements weren’t going anywhere, that he would implement climate change and green energy and that immigrant rights, gay rights, and gun control needed to be expanded. Yet there was no mention of overcoming our actual problems regarding deficits and debts. Nothing. He says Obama is basically saying the era of big government is back.
  
  Video:
  http://www.therightscoop.com/krauthammer-on-inaugural-address-it-was-an-ode-to-big-government-declaring-the-end-of-reaganism/
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:23pm
  Reminder:
  
  CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I give the president credit for sincerity of this. There’s not a lot of political advantage in this as there is in a lot of other stuff he’s pushing. He didn’t have a plan to do this. This was not what he campaigned on last year, it wasn’t on his agenda. It was, I think, a genuine response to the massacre in Newtown which, I think, moved him.
  January 16, 2013
  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/01/16/krauthammer_obamas_gun_proposals_are_useless_and_wont_go_anywhere.html
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 5:20pm
  Tingles is a lunatic and needs to be put in a straight jacket. Obama’s first inaugural address was empty rhetoric filled with lies that never happened. Why the he*l should anyone belive what Obama said this time around?
  http://www.isthatbaloney.com/11-broken-promises-lies-from-obamas-first-inaugural-address-in-2009/
  
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- cbrown
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:07pm
  @CathyvanDyke
  
  You are right, that is why I put word amazing in quotes.
  
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- dwilco77
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:44pm
  I think someone must have kicked Chrissy in his undecended tetes, and that why his legs are tingling.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:19pm
Poor Chrissy. You know Chrissy, if Bathhouse Barry aint giving reach arounds to the Dems in the congress, he aint going to give you one either. No matter how many love letters you write or drooling late night tongue lickings you give to the soles of his shoes.

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- BIG_G
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:36pm
  What type of drugs is this guy on? This clown is a mental case.
  
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- garyg1
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 5:34pm
  That’s not where he gives the tongue locks.
  
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Uechi
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:17pm
Hey Chrissy the sissy bite the big one you absolute horror of a human being.

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SSN637
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:16pm
Dear Chris,
You’ve had that Oboner for more than 4 years – time to consult a medical specialist.

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- Honestybefore truth
  Posted on January 22, 2013 at 4:50pm
  That’s funny! But might I add, that by the new standards of mental health being tossed around for gun ownership, Chrissy’s delusions will qualify as justification to remove any weapons he may own and prohibit him from purchasing same ever again. Comparable to the Gettysburg Address…………………. Pa LEASE! (with an exaggerated eye roll!!!)
  
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Advection
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:16pm
Will FOX be displaying obama’s “other ball” tonight?

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Polarized America
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:15pm
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…Lincoln got shot but Mathews ended up with brain damage ….strange ?

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Advection
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:14pm
Yeah, except Lincoln used bigger words and was speaking abut something important.

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- barber2
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:36pm
  Lincoln wrote the words himself and did not use a teleprompter. Lincoln was a genuine man; not a political cardboard cut out manufactured and perpetuated by a Media Machine who parrots words and agendas created by the ideology Man Behind the Curtain . Lincoln tried to unite the country rather than divide America with race and class baiting rhetoric. Lincoln was targeted and smeared by the media in his day; Obama is excused, enabled, and pumped up by today’s Far Left MSM .
  
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- john vincent
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:22pm
  adv-
  barb-
  
  good calls
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 7:24pm
  Obama: ‘I’m a Pretty Darned Good Politician’
  Wednesday, April 16, 2008
  I’m a pretty darn good politician. And I can give a pretty good speech and I can connect and inspire the American people in ways that I think will become apparent.
  http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/16/obama-im-a-pretty-darned-good-politician/
  
  Liz Cheney on Obama: A Gift for Reading the TelePrompter Is Not the Same as Leadership
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE7XaOUsGMo
  
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Hotconchick
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:13pm
That’s almost as good as Matthews saying “We have to move the country forward in an American Progressive way?”

I think he meant to say Anti-American. This guy needs to go way but then again- the more he speaks the more irrelevant he becomes.

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seeker9
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:10pm
Chis is in love, and Sharton is ready to put BHO on Mt. Rushmore. What a network, that msnbc! Waste of time.

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geo01
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:09pm
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But a comment is indeed earned here . . .
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but just one word.
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SICK
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pdw
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:07pm
Does this mean that he is going to give our liberties he has removed by law? Does that mean like Lincoln he is going to work with our complete government and find peace? Lincoln worked to keep this country united even when he was not in favor of what was taking place. But he never sought to destroy the economy nor use hate to divide this nation. Lincoln served his country not himself or his party. He believed in God and even saw his own death but still went to the theater as it was expected of him. He never condemned this country and when the war was over he and Grant wanted a peaceful end to that terrible war. He allowed those southern soldiers return home with their belongings and guns. If Lincoln had not be killed this would have been a much different country right after that war. But those same southern Yankee haters ended up with a lot harder time than would have taken place if he had lived. But I still believe that hate would have still been stronger if they had not murdered Lincoln. When he was killed the object of their hatred was dead.

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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:18pm
  pdw
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:07pm
  Lincoln worked to keep this country united even when he was not in favor of what was taking place.
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  Lincoln was a complete fraud:
  
  —————————-
  “Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit.”
  -Abraham Lincoln, House of Representatives, January 12, 1848
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:37pm
  KID: Huh ?
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:16pm
  barber2
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:37pm
  
  KID: Huh ?
  ============================
  
  You heard me:
  
  ——————-
  “Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.” ———>Confederate States of America
  
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nesmond
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:06pm
All his fawning over this messiah will not save him in the end. He is an old white man, and therefore must be eliminated. Chris doesn’t even have the hope of Heaven. Right now is all he has.

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bannedfromCNN
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:03pm
Chris,

We must have been listening to different speeches. All I heard was left-wing rhetoric, socialist platitudes and lies from Soetoro.

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- jwpowers41
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:00pm
  Obama has actually done some good we now know what a bunch of out and out racists the blacks
  in this country are. This is good to know when the fighting starts…..
  
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1SFG
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:02pm
I’m hoping this country decends into anarchy. That way all these ******** will have to resort to cannibalism, and this fat moonabt is on the menu!

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:01pm
Miss Chrissy Matthews needs to stop wearing his vibrating ben-wa balls when he speaks of 0bama. He gets just too giddy.

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:18pm
  I don’t know about the ben-wa balls, but I’m pretty sure he’s wearing Depends.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:26pm
  I think the dude could benefit from some serious shock treatment! Perhaps a full blown Labotomy!
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:35pm
  They made Chrissy wear a cup and no lil blue pills all week. Down boy.
  
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scrubbos
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:00pm
Is there any doubt that Matthews would like to be “alone” with Obama?

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- blanco5
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:04pm
  But who would be the “pitcher” and who would be “catcher?”
  
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700P
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:59pm
Confirming Matthews was either old enough to be at Gettysburg or more likely believes in previous lives….betting he was some type of tick species or carrion?

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Berfie
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:59pm
Does this mean a Civil War down the road ?

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Exidor
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:58pm
Little early to be drinking isn’t it Chrissy?

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mrunner
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:57pm
He is so silly with his little man crush. I wonder if Obama has done the Clinton cigar thing to him?

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The-Monk
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:57pm
Only when Lincoln used the word “score” he meant 20 years.

With Obama score means “Choom”….

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:10pm
  Hi MONK, LOL
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:41pm
  With Clinton, it meant trolling for trailer trash!
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:56pm
Matthews is insane, he has a man-crush on Obama.

Understand clearly, to compare a communist traitor and radical such as Obama who wants to forge bonds of captivity and enslave us all to the whims of the government with Lincoln is unconscionable.
Matthews again shows he is as out of touch with reality as is Obama.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 2:04pm
  SNOW, Miss Chrissy has far more than a man crush
  
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- ConstitunalAmerican
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 4:28pm
  Your right Snow and a video on this page said Pres Obama was talking again about taking on more climate change. So none of what we’ve endured for the past 4 years will change or ease up. Its going to continue on and on. More insanity, more fast speed shouting liberals who think they know what’s best for everyone else.
  I’m counting on Congress to stand tall, firm, and together, against the continuing divisive uncivility from these liberal loud mouths that we’ll have to endure for the next 4 years.
  
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RANGER1965
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:56pm
It’s good to know that Mathews is consistently a liberal government tool.

I often wonder if in the quiet hours of the night, even liberal journalists have a moment of quiet shame at having sold the last vestiges of their integrity and honor to this little tyrant they have made?

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huey6367
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:55pm
Matthews needs to take the batteries out of that tingle thing. It’s making him crazy. Lincoln-esque? I think not. But then again, Matthews may have been present for the Gettysburg address.

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gyro
Posted on January 21, 2013 at 1:53pm
this is below conenting on

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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on January 21, 2013 at 3:07pm
  No conent.
  
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