I saw that last night and I was amazed, but Matthews is almost schizophrenic in his statements from night to night.  One night he saying something like this, but the next night he's assailing the Dems for wanting to cut off funding and reinforcing right-wing talking points.  

I've come to the conclusion that he is heavily medicated, as made evident by his multiple 'fucks' and 'shits' he's let fly in the past few months.  

He'll go easy on Coulter, he always does.

Bush and his entire neocon and conservative agendas are at war with the regular guy,

Only in the sense that wolves are 'at war' with the caribou.

It's predation; in a war you get to fight back.

I don't know why the hell I like Chris Matthews.  Maybe because he irritates me on so many levels.

First off, stylistically.  How did this guy ever get a job as a talker?  His diction is positively slapdash.  If listening to Olberman is like watching a gymnast dance the tango on a tightrope, listening to Matthews is like watching a drunk attempt the can-can on ice.  

Second, attitude.  Or posturing, or whatever.  Matthews presents himself as an everyman, with a gut appreciation of how the average voter thinks.  He's not as transparently phony as The Man Who Is Looking Out For You, at least.

Still, he seems to take unabashed pleasure in the combat of politics, and I do appreciate an hour-long, Paris-Hilton-free show.  And he has begun to call bullshit on Republican talking points, albeit in a tentative, uneven way.  It will be interesting to see his next go-round with Coulter.  On past form, I think he's a little scared of her.

-- TP  

I've got an idea.  Let's send both Libby and Matthews to fight in Iraq.  Wasn't he a war supporter, too?

Matthews can come up with hilarious stuff every once in awhile, and this was one of those times.