Chris Matthews: Mitt Romney 'Wouldn't Be A Woody Allen Fan' (VIDEO)

Chris Matthews anchored MSNBC's analysis following the NBC/Facebook Republican primary debate Sunday morning. MSNBC hosts Ed Schultz and Lawrence O'Donnell joined Matthews, and roasted GOP candidate Mitt Romney for what they referred to as the candidate's obvious moments of discomfort.

Matthews, who has harshly criticized Romney in the past, said that Romney repeatedly "[attacked] up" during the debate by "ignoring" his opponents and launching attacks on President Obama. Following a clip of Romney, Matthews harped on what he called Romney's "school teacher manner."

Matthews asked, "Do you notice the constriction in the personality of Romney? When anybody interrupts him, he has this school teacher manner of a proctor...This guy is very uncomfortable with surprise, with novelty. He wouldn't be a Woody Allen fan, this guy. He wouldn't be looking for the surprising thing in life," Matthews said.

O'Donnell agreed and said that his campaign team has been well aware of Romney's reaction to surprising questions, ever since his testy interview with Fox News host Bret Baier. "Then you saw him go out and try to rectify by this going on other Fox News interview shows," O'Donnell said.

O'Donnell offered a different metaphor to describe Romney's behavior. "It's like he's the chairman of the board, and some new board member, who's not even supposed to speak in this meeting, just said something about the stock price that made everyone uncomfortable," O'Donnell said.

"Speak through your direct reports, young man!" Matthews said, playing along with O'Donnell's analysis.

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Comments

[reggiemalmiller]

10:03 AM on 01/22/2012

You are right Chris, Mitt would not be a Woody Allen fan. Wasn't Allen the one who said America should live under a dictator or words to that effect? I could be wrong. Did he not marry his own daughter? Good choice Chris

[ConservativeChampion]

11:31 PM on 01/10/2012

Amazing. More comments on the HP on this thread than viewers of the show.

[jperez6002]

12:21 PM on 01/10/2012

So these little people just sit around all day in their sandbox with no ideas of their own and insult people and they get paid for it ? Damn my ferret wants that job.!!!

[Rita Wood Devins]

03:49 AM on 01/10/2012

I bet both of his viewers Loved it!

[jokamachi]

04:50 PM on 01/09/2012

Ha ha ha.... Chris Matthews is the best. He drives the haters crazy.

[johnne523]

03:07 PM on 01/09/2012

Matthews, Schultz and O'Donnell. The 3 stooges.

[Iamrebelriser]

03:42 PM on 01/09/2012

As if you would know enough to be describing any of them, since your source of misinformation is FOX & Limbaugh. Mathews wouldn't have his shows if he were a stooge, but obviousdly you don't know the difference between ABC, NBC and FOX.

[iamwomanofcolor]

04:30 PM on 01/09/2012

only a stooge would know another stooge...

[nanreh]

02:13 PM on 01/09/2012

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[Holypat777]

12:41 PM on 01/09/2012

Pfffff! Mitt Romney! Around here we call him "Glove!"

[MarieNat]

12:11 PM on 01/09/2012

It's called a sense of entitlement.

[RightRealDeal]

11:18 AM on 01/09/2012

A fan of Woody Allen? Is he still with Soon-yi?

[Southernthinker]

11:11 AM on 01/09/2012

They're right. Romney is so stiff even his jabs appear pointless. He’s like a peevish little spotted kiwi (note his distracting head movements), a hapless revisionist (as are the others); at least Paul’s snippiness is entertaining.

[Rastaman1967]

10:53 AM on 01/09/2012

MSNBC bosses has finally developed som Ba$$S when it comes to commenting on the Republicans. The Fox model works, less the lies.

[littlepuffycloud]

10:33 AM on 01/09/2012

Mitt's not human enough or good enough and doggone it, people just don't like him.

[JustaSlob]

11:00 AM on 01/09/2012

"cheers"

[MarieNat]

12:11 PM on 01/09/2012

Yup. That pretty much sums it up.

[ComedyFan]

10:27 AM on 01/09/2012

I agree with Chris but think it's rich for him to comment on how someone reacts to being interrupted when he himself is always interrupting his guests. : )

[Willie Qwit]

09:16 AM on 01/09/2012

Something significant has happened at MS-NBC over the course of the last few years. They've really taken off the gloves. When Bush and Cheney were lying to the country and ramping up for the Iraq war not much was said in opposition, even on MS-NBC. But now they're calling out the disingenuous conservatives every day. Frankly I welcome it.

[Iamrebelriser]

03:48 PM on 01/09/2012

The networks were all tied up so they couldn't wiggle one way or the other during the Bush years, almost like a police state. I noticed this to a bit of a smaller extent during old man Daddy Bush's years in office. Yes, it is refreshing when media can tell more of the truth.

[Willie Qwit]

04:37 PM on 01/09/2012

You're right about the elder Bush. We had the first Gulf War when Iraq invaded Kuwait. American soldiers fought and died while the rich and privileged from Kuwait fled to European countries and partied in expensive night clubs. But I'm off topic a bit. Anyway, that war was to "liberate Kuwait" but in fact was necessary to protect vital U.S. oil interests. Even the liberals understood the need to do that. Regardless, the press stuck to the party line and talked more about liberating Kuwait than oil.

[bradley ross]

05:55 PM on 01/09/2012

I welcome it, but it feels too late on their part. This should have been going on with this kind of intensity when Bush was in office.