People who go on and on about how "crazy" Barack Obama supporters are have never seen footage of these nutjobs. You might be inclined to lump Chris Matthews in the same category, but probably for different reasons.

Wait, so it was a sign of affection? Not some terrorist hand signal? And it's also known as dap????? I don't know where we'd be without cable news.
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The senseless blubbering, the misplaced anger, the confusion, the over- and under-reliance on polling data, the twin evils of tiptoeing around racial topics and treating them with no care or nuance or sense of history, all of the things present in this clip between Pat Buchanan and Chris Matthews represent everything that's been horribly wrong about the cable news coverage of Hillary Clinton v. Barack Obama. The irony is clear — two well-off, educated, elite, white men, from their vantage points in air-conditioned, big-city studios, are arguing passionately about the motivations of poor, uneducated whites in West Virginia and blacks in Philadelphia.

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Chris Matthews, never a big fan of the HRC, shudders at the thought that she would actually deign to mention "white blue collar" voters and play the ugly race card, then proceeds to accuse Clinton of being the "Al Sharpton of white people." Cable news hosts are losing their minds this election season. I'm not sure who would be more offended by this characterization, HRC or Rev. Al. Probably Rev. Al.

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Hillary Clinton has threatened to boycott MSNBC after Chris Matthews made a series of inappropriate comments and another reporter said that her daughter was being "pimped out" for votes. But Barack Obama became the target of the news network's latest gaffe, when someone flashed a photo of Osama Bin Laden during a story about Obama. Haven't news directors been over the Obama/Osama issue with their employees by now?

Without naming names, NBC News announced Tuesday that it has reprimanded the employee responsible for the mixup, which took place as Matthews was previewing a story on the controversy over Obama's use of another politician's words. A picture of bin Laden briefly flashed on the screen with the headline "Words About Words."

"This mistake was inexcusable," MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said.

Barack Obama's camp said the apology was "noted" but had no other comment. [EUR]