Chris Matthews I Forgot Obama Was Black

MSNBC's Chris Matthews is taking heat on the Web for exclaiming after President Obama's State of the Union address, "I forgot he was black tonight for an hour ... I said, 'Wait a minute, he's an African-American guy in front of a bunch of other white people ... '"

Matthews was abruptly cut off by the Republican response to the State of the Union, which kept other pundits from responding. Watch a clip of Matthews here.