What an inappropriate thing for MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to say of Obama’s State of the Union address. He made it worse by adding that Obama’s address was so ‘in tune with American life that you don’t think in terms of the old tribalism, the old ethnicity’. Tribalism? Matthews seemed to momentarily realise he was digging a hole, when he admitted that his angle is ’so hard to even talk about, maybe I shouldn’t even talk about it but I am’.

I wonder if fans of US comedy shows were, like me, reminded by this of someone else?