| blah blah blah If you had done your reporting over at C-SPAN, you would have checked that I said the exact same thing in 2004 after I heard his address up in Boston," Matthews said. "[T]he thrill was real. In fact, Ronald Reagan, I've been reading a lot about him, I've been working on a book about him, every time he came to the House chamber, you would feel a thrill up your spine. I do have physical reactions when people are talking about my country." "I'm an untraditional person but I have traditional values and I love the country and I said so," he said. "Perhaps I shouldn't have said so because I've given a lot of jackasses the chance to talk about it. So, I hope you feel satisfied that you raised the most obvious question that is raised by every horse's ass right winger that I ever bump into." |