If you’re a Democratic president and even MSNBC can’t swallow your talking points, you know you’ve got a problem. The normally Obama-friendly Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman harshly criticized President Obama’s first Oval Office speech for lacking specifics and relying on detached rhetoric to address the Gulf crisis.
Hell freezes as Olbermann, Matthews rip Obama’s Oval Office speech [video]
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