Chris Matthews was talking up the birther thing tonight as if it just started yesterday, arguing that birthers are nothing more than petty racists. He brought Trump into the conversation, of course, noting that Trump was now suggesting that Obama wasn’t smart enough to get into Harvard and must’ve had help. Trying to make the same racism point, he interjects that “You’d never say that about a white person!”. Yet 12 minutes before he made that statement, he and Clarence Page were just joking that George W. Bush was the one who shouldn’t have gotten into Harvard because he was stupid. Note George W. Bush is in fact a white person:







(h/t: Ace)