VIDEO: Priebus calls MSNBC 'Obama surrogate'

TAMPA, Fla. — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus hurled insults at MSNBC on Monday, calling Chris Matthews, one of the network’s hosts, “the biggest jerk in the room.”

“This is the Barack Obama surrogate of 2012,” Priebus said of the television network at the Tampa Convention Center, site of the Republican National Convention. “This is what they are all about: They are going to be about division; they are going to be about distraction.”