Debate: Matthews “Was Cheerful But A Bit Too Casual For The Setting”

Alessandra Stanley sums up Chris Matthews‘ performance:
“It was a formal, sober exchange in a grandiose setting, and Mr. Matthews, in a blue shirt and green tie, was cheerful but a bit too casual for the setting, his diction a little slurry and his syntax a bit loose. He asked a question about some candidates’ support for national identity cards and appeared to not fully understand their positions. He would have been perhaps been better suited to the Democratic debate on a college campus in South Carolina.”