“a devastatingly cutting remark .... in a grade-school kind of way.”
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You have to consider the lack of intelligence of the audience he is appealing to.
Exactly I know people who watch MSNBC, they don't want to step outside of the moron trifecta of Matthews, Olberman and Maddow. They just don't want to see any other view point and would prefer to believe everyone sees the world as they do.