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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTweety baffles in Cartagena! Obama rescues Chris Matthews
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/awkward-obama-excuses-chris-matthews-during-panel-with-latin-american-presidents/With the Summit of the Americas underway, President Obama was among three presidents of the Americas today to participate in a panel on energy and the economy, among other things, along with Colombias President Juan Manuel Santos, and Brazils President Dilma Rousseff. Moderating this panel is Americas own Chris Matthews, whose idiosyncrasies, if somewhat confusing to a portion of Americans, was completely baffling for the Latin American presidents. After a particularly contentious question at President Rousseff, President Obama had to step in and explain: this is what happens, he tells the audience, when American journalists are unleashed on Latin America.
Matthews asked President Obama how he felt about industrialization in Latin America, except in doing so, essentially managed to accuse Brazil of trying to pull a fast one on America and sink our economy. Brazil isnt exactly Venezuela or Cuba, but most journalists in Latin America arent as forward as Matthews (well, most American journalists arent as forward as Matthews) and the style of the question is not one most Latin American journalists would ever use, particularly in the presence of three presidents. Perhaps because of this, President Obama felt he needed to cut the tension with a joke, and he did, lamenting, this is what happens when commentators from the United States leave the country, a joke essentially meaning, this is what I have to deal with. The joke cut the tension in the room, and left President Obama wide open for a favorable answer to Brazil.
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Tweety baffles in Cartagena! Obama rescues Chris Matthews (Original Post)
flamingdem
Apr 2012
OP
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)1. What grace. Romney isn't capable of such. nt
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)3. Exactly. Romney es muy
peligroso!
He's so awkward, the opposite of diplomatic
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)2. Matthews' question was in English
But it still needs to be translated into English.
Rex
(65,616 posts)4. How Tweety finds work baffles.
Much less the strange things that come out of his mouth.
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)5. He is trying too hard to be witty and focused....big fail