has been praised for its handling of the turmoil in Egypt. But on policy, the president has been criticized on both the right and the left, his critics ranging 
his Twitter feed to it over the last 24 hours, if it involved anybody but Palin?
That said, Fox's response could've been classier (Hat tip: Declaring after the State of the Union address yesterday that President Obama is “post-racial, by all appearances,” MSNBC host Chris Matthews went on to state bizarrely that he completely forgot the president was black while watching the speech, which is a racially insensitive back (black?) handed compliment if there ever was one.
“You know, he’s gone a long way to become a leader of this country and passed so much history in just a year or two. I mean, it’s something we don’t even think about,” Matthews said. “I was watching, I said, ‘Wait a minute, he’s an African-American guy in front of a bunch of other white people.’ And here he is. President of the United States, and we’ve completely forgotten that tonight. Completely forgotten it. I think it was in the scope of his discussion. It was so broad-ranging, so in tune with so many problems, of aspects, and aspects of American life that you don’t think terms of the old tribalism, the old ethnicity.”
He added, “Maybe I shouldn’t talk about it.”
It’s not exactly Matthews’ first racially insensitive/nonsensical remark about Obama, to be sure:
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