Reince Priebus: Sometimes you just have to tell Chris Matthews to go jump in a lake

On Hannity’s radio show today, Reince Preibus said that someone from MSNBC has been trying to call him all day and he suspects that they want to tuck their head between their legs and apologize. But regarding the Chris Matthews interaction from this morning, Reince said this:

The deal with Chris Matthews though is when you get in that moment, in kind of a group setting and so it’s not a one on one – but when someone wants to take the flag and their intent is ‘hey listen, I’m now going to take the flag and I’m now going to play the role of being the biggest jerk in the room”, you know at that point you just tell the guy to go take a jump in the lake. Because obviously he’s just trying to build his ratings on a show that isn’t very well viewed…

There’s more in the clip below.


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