Martin Finucane of the Boston Globe notes an interesting little tidbit:

It was one of the more memorable quotes of the US Senate race last winter — Attorney General Martha Coakley defending her campaign tactics to the Globe by saying, “As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?''

Coakley's response, it turns out, caught the attention of President Obama, and not in a good way.

Newsweek scribe Jonathan Alter, in his new book, “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,'' writes that when Obama aide David Axelrod told the president that Coakley had said those words, Obama reached out and grabbed his shirt.

“No! No! You're making that up! That can't be right! Tell me she didn't say that!'' the president said, tossing in a few obscenities, according to Alter's account, in which he calls Coakley's line “one of the great gaffes in modern American politics.''

Obviously, this is a somewhat ironic criticism coming from a President who has repeatedly mispronounced the home ballpark of his beloved White Sox and who drew a total blank when asked recently to name his favorite White Sox player.

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