Chris Matthews: "I'm Getting One Of Those Thrills" About Sotomayor (VIDEO)

Chris Matthews feels similarly about Sonia Sotomayor during her confirmation hearings as he did about Barack Obama during his Presidential campaign. Specifically, the thrill is back.

"Well, I'm getting one of those thrills I get about America," Matthews said Monday on MSNBC during coverage of Sotomayor's confirmation hearings. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't say this, and I'm getting it again. When she talked about sitting at that table and not being a genius like Barack Obama, not being one of those people that can walk into a college scholarship, who had to sweat for it..."

Matthews was responsible for one of the more quotable lines from 2008 election coverage when, following Obama's speech following the Potomac Primary in February, the MSNBC anchor announced, "I felt this thrill going up my leg."

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[gbrooks]

Matthews, you buffoon, would you please shaddap?

[Stilts9]

Please, let's remember that Chris Mathews was an Iraq War cheerleader.

He's not a journalist.

Mathews would have interrupted Lincoln at Gettysburg.

[GirlOutWest]

I thought he was against the Iraq War. I've heard him say it many times.

[randman2009]

So Matthews is making jokes about his own absurdly biased statements? His journalistic integrity is so bad even he is openly mocking it.

[BCLance]

Chris Mathews does not sell himself as a journalist, he is a commentator.

[Didactic Curveball]

Many people do not understand the nuance; hence, those that believe the cr@pola that airs on Faux Noise.

[Realitylost]

After all the crap he got the last time he used that line? How can anyone that dense be a prime time anchor. I am surprised he remembers to breathe.

[timetorevolt]

he loves the attention.­.good or bad..

[BCLance]

He's not a news anchor, he is a moderator and commentator.

[Georgiapundit]

hahahaha..­.Chris Matthews is a man of ambiguity.

[Grulg]

Chris, chris, chris-restrain thyself.

[gop4obama]

Chris' comments are appreciated, but let's not forget that Barack Obama's path to success was paved with more than a few obstacles.

Absent father.
Mother who worked long hours to pay the bills.
Uncertain future as a young man in Hawaii.
Sought education in New York and lived literally on his own, forging ahead on his own. He had no one to pave his way for him.

Barack is self made, much like Justice Sotomayor.

[Sportsbabe]

Trudat: lest we let them forget.

[baddadd49]

self made bwhahahahaha he was handed everything he has, he was an affirmative action hire who couldnt do it on his own,self made bwahahahahahahaha, well they say there is one born every minute.

[SAdelmann]

Are you serious? You can't be. You are a complete tool.

[chameleon59]

Ah, the white loser sonata. If it weren't for affirmative action, I woulda been a contendah!

[Jesusland]

He was raised by his rich banker grandma and sent to the best private school in Hawaii. Raised by a single mom my @$$.

[elefante]

The media helped, if only just a little.

[Greenman7]

Yes he saw her in that beautiful blue dress and it instantly reminded him of that blue pill he needs to take from time to time.

[Didactic Curveball]

Lame.

[wndrwrthg]

It's scary to think mathews can vote.

[Mr Hand]

Matthews is definitely one of the most dysfunctional human beings on television.

[Didactic Curveball]

I'm sure he aspires to be just like Glenn Beck.

[beyondthepale9779]

Chris long ago gave up on the idea he was a neutral arbiter of facts.

[desertdweller]

Especially if those facts involved HRC.

[pledge16]

The scariest thing is what would happen if he winds up in a room with obama and sotomayer is their enough secret service to protect them?

[Lucky123]

Yes. Good thing we have those "fair and balanced" arbiters over at Fox.

And Rush.

And Ann Coulter.

And...now my head hurts.

[BCLance]

Chris Matthews has never been a neutral "arbiter" of facts. He has never been an anchor or a reporter, he has always been a commentator. That's not something he hides.

[primus4]

Pat Buchanan get those thrills up his leg when Sarah Palin speaks, he just keeps his comments to himself.

[billbee]

Yeah, somewhere up there....

[MacTheBlogger]

Yikes. Come on Chris, just a little self respect.

That was as bad as the day Palin resigned, and the Fox pundits were falling all over themselves predicting her inevitable GOP nomination in 2012.

Good gawd, "journalism" continues to decay. For those of us who prefer to hear both sides of a story, it's getting tougher & tougher to find objectivity.

[Ponderus]

Oh, poor Diddums, him can't find "objectivity". If him finds it, I hope him posts his discovery here so we can all move toward it with haste. "Objectivity", like sense, is so very rare, but when you try to find everything view, opinion, notion, idea, reporting, and on and on, emanating from one source, you might be pursuing an impossible dream.

[raul415]

Chris "the spitter" Mathews can shove his tingle. This guy still acts as though he's never met intelligent highly educated people of color. As for women, he seems barely able to accord them do respect. It's as if he just walked off the set of Mad Men. And I don't mean that in a good way.

I did however love the statement that the judge made in her opening remarks. Turning the "issue" of compassion on the GOP with her statements of experiencing compassion toward victims of crime.

Brilliant!!!!!

I can only hope Chris Mathews runs for something loses and shuts the hell up.

[BBC9nch]

I don't get that impression of Mathews at all, I think he "gets it" , what it's like being a minority in this country that we all love. Maybe he likes rooting for the underdog every now and then.

[truegreen]

Thrills.'' But tonight he played the race card himself.

[ThinkDeeper1]

Chris gets a thrill every time Norah O'Donnel laughs or when he sees Erin Burnett. It's just a common sensory experience by Chris.

I mean, you all should have known when he named his show "Hardball". Duh!!