He’s too stoopid, or so said NBC News Washington Bureau chief Mark Whitaker to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Wednesday:

WHITAKER: I don’t think one of the least intellectually curious presidents we’ve had is going…is going to spend his retirement writing books or probably even reading books. However, look…

MATTHEWS: This is why they hate us, Mark. This is why–this is why they hate us.

The media have done what they see as their jobs, and President Bush is leaving office an unpopular President succeeded by je ne sais quoi, but Whitaker’s venom continues to make him appear the incurious dunderhead he wishes to potray the President to be. I’d say that these buffoons don’t get it, but it appears Chris Matthews is beginning to do so.

Perhaps we did not purchase the bill of goods, but 68,588,471 American voters, most still alive and voting only once, were sold the campaign schtick – hopeCHANGEhope – and now they’re learning about it from Karl Rove. On their home turf, NBC’s Today program, Karl Rove reviews their messiah’s national security & foreign policy team and tells them this:

The team represents, to a substantial degree, continuity.

Ouch. Continuity = More of the Same. (Gates, btw, is not a Republican.)

(There’s more beyond the vid.)

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