Outrageous Statement of the Day

On Wednesday's Hardball Chris Matthews compared former Speaker of the House and possible presidential candidate Newt Gingrich to a terrorist as he screeched "He looks like a car bomber" and even described him in demonic terms, adding: "He's got that crazy Mephistophelian grin of his. He looks like he loves torturing." After all of MSNBC's ranting that conservative rhetoric caused the Tuscon shootings, it didn't take long for Chris to get back into the mode of vile ad hominem attacks and the politics of personal destruction.