The Glorious Atomicflea wrote:
They were debating healthcare on the Chris Matthews Show, and Rather was saying Obama's inability to push healthcare through would affect his reelection. Then he said that the GOP would say that he was "nice" and "articulate", but that he "couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down traffic."
It seems like he was doing both, but he should have been saavy enough to pick another fruit, for chrissakes.
It seemed pretty clear to me that the watermelon statement was an example of what he imagined the GOP would say about Obama. The shocking thing isn't that he made a statement like that, but that he did it so poorly. Usually, folks on the left succeed in inserting language like that into the public discourse and getting people to believe it's actually what conservatives are saying or thinking. This is hardly the first time some pundit has "predicted" what conservatives would say. Usually, it's repeated over and over in liberal circles until everyone just assumes that it is what the conservatives are saying. Apparently, he just did it wrong...