As I watched MSNBC Hardball last night, I was treated to another one of those silly "interviews" that Chris Matthews does - where he brings a person on the show to wildly speculate about a political opponent's motives and mindset.

As Matthews fawned over The Actor's Studio host James Lipton, he let slip a few bizarre and, frankly, scary comments.

The two were "analyzing" video clips of the Tuesday Presidential Debate.  Lipton said Americans were being asked to choose between a president and a boss (a meme that has been parroted throughout the leftist echo chamber over the last 24 hours).  Lipton said Romney is positioning himself as a "job creator," and then uttered this stupidity:

“Job creator is a euphemism for profit creator, and creating profit often involves firing people."

Lipton's comment betrays a fundamentally misunderstanding of business.  If a business is firing people it's because either it is struggling to survive or it has found efficiencies. Keeping too many employees on the payroll will lead to failure - and the firing of EVERY employee.

But Matthews takes the cake for absurdity.  After showing a clip of Mitt Romney telling the President not to interrupt him and he'll "get his chance," Matthews accuses Romney of not understanding the US Constitution.

Oh! And being a racist.  Of course.

Matthews said Romney "looks down on the President" for reasons that Matthews won't go into - suggesing it's because Obama is black.

He went on:

"I don’t think he understands the Constitution of the United States.  He’s the President of the United States. You don’t say, ‘you’ll get your chance.’”

That was the 193rd Amendment, right?  "The people shall make no utterance against their King President." 

Lipton piled on the absurdity pile:

"If Mitt Romney were the president and Barack Obama were the challenger, and these roles were reversed, and Obama treated Romney – the president in this construct – the way he was treated, you would have heard an outcry from coast to coast and you would never, ever hear the end of it.  It is rude. It’s inexcusable. I think it’s a very, very sad day when the presidency, which has been under fire since Nixon — and particular this president — can be treated this way by someone who is an American citizen.”

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