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Chris Matthews confuses Tim Scott and Jaime Harrison in week’s MOST awkward TV moment
BPR ^ | February 29, 2020 | | Vivek Saxena

Posted on 02/29/2020 7:18:38 AM PST by conservative98

Longtime MSNBC host Chris Matthews may want to start polishing up his resume, because on Friday he committed his third major faux pas in less than seven days by mistaking one black man for another. In the oft-used words of the president: “Not good.”

He specifically mistook Sen. Lindsey Graham’s primary challenger, a South Carolina Democrat by the name of Jaime Harrison, for Republican Sen. Tim Scott.

As he was speaking on a panel that included Harrison, a clip appeared on the screen of Scott standing by Graham. After one of his fellow panelists made some remarks about Sen. Bernie Sanders’ polling performance in California, Matthews committed his third faux pas.

“Jaime, I see you standing next to the guy you’re going to beat right there, maybe, maybe, maybe, Lindsey Graham,” he said to Harrison.

*facepalm*

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It took several seconds of Matthews’ fellow panelists telling him the guy standing by Graham was Scott for him to finally realize his error.

“Oh, I’m sorry. Big mistake. Mistaken identity, sir. Sorry,” he finally said.

Big mistake indeed. As of Saturday morning, the “big mistake” had gone “bigly” viral,

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To: conservative98

The do look similar.


21 posted on 02/29/2020 9:39:02 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: conservative98

Yawn


22 posted on 02/29/2020 9:49:54 AM PST by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)
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To: jazminerose

If you have not noticed ...
Not one Democrat has ever spoken out even one ‘How dare you!’ when a freethinking American uses the term,
‘Democratic plantation!’


23 posted on 02/29/2020 10:58:12 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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