Matthews: Obama’s NCAA Picks ‘Close to Brilliant’

Would you call getting a 53 on a test “close to brilliant?”

If you’re Chris Matthews, and you’re reporting about Barack Obama you would, for on Monday’s “Hardball,” the MSNBC host bragged about his president being “close to brilliant,” “amazing,” “incredibly on target,” and “unbelievable” with his NCAA college basketball tournament picks.

Yet, when you dig into the numbers, out of all the entrants into espn.com’s Tournament Challenge 2009, Obama currently ranks 2,167,290, which makes his relative score compared to others 53.20 percent.

/must be all the leg tingling