White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe recently protested that “you can manipulate the statistics in any way you want” when he was confronted with some tax rate figures he disliked. Apparently, Chris Matthews took note.

Matthews rehashed the Birtherism issue during a segment on Hardball about “Obama Derangement Syndrome,” and he put a melodramatic spin on a statistic about the percentage of Americans who believe President Obama was not born in America.

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