According to Gail Shister, Barack Obama will be the first guest on Chris Matthews’s Hardball College Tour today, from West Chester College.

Shister’s snark is superb:

Back to Obama Boy, er, Matthews…so what if he called Obama’s March 17 speech on race “worthy of Abraham Lincoln?” Who cares if he “felt this thrill going up my leg” during Obama’s Feb. 12 primary victory address in Wisconsin?

Matthews — dubbed “Rain Man” by Brian Williams in a Christmas staff video — is just reporting the facts, m’am.

The leg thrill “was an honest reaction to the speech,” he says. “I have no regrets. I report what happens. I report my reactions to speeches. I react emotionally and intellectually.

“People are allowed to criticize me. I want to be honest. I give an honest report of what I experience. It’s a fuller report than others have given.”

Does he think that others react in that manner to a Barry Obama speech? Don’t project something that disgusting, Chris.

This is an open thread.