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Rothman: MSNBC?s Most Embarrassing Mockery of Romney?s Russia Warnings | Mediaite
“I don’t know what decade this guy’s living in,”... “Is he trying to play Ronald Reagan here, or what?” - MSNBC host Chris Matthews said with a sigh on March 28, 2012.
“I personally am worried about what it says to the Russian people,” Matthews added to a chorus of sagely nods.
“This is Mitt Romney’s severely conservative problem,” University of Georgia professor Cynthia Tucker opined on-the-air. “It made Romney look dumb. He’s not a dumb man, but he said something that was clearly dumb.”
Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein agreed that Romney’s statement was evidence of an “antiquated worldview.” He fretted further about how Romney, should he become president, would enter the office having severely complicated America’s bilateral relations with Moscow given his carelessly provocative statement.
Appearing on
Andrea Mitchell Reports in April of that year, Romney surrogate and former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was confronted by the MSNBC anchor. Calling Romney’s comments “a throwback to the Cold War,” Mitchell insisted that “we work with Russia all the time.” “Hardly an ally but certainly not an adversary,” she declared.
