Playing Hardball in a straitjacket

Chris Matthews, on people who endorse Sen. Clinton for president:

[A]ren't you appalled at the willingness of these people to become castratos in the eunuch chorus here or whatever they are?

So...willingness to openly support Hillary Clinton's candidacy is, to Chris Matthews, a form of castration.

Yeah, I don't know either.

But Matthews has some kind of serious gender issues. Remember the time he held court on how manly and sexy Fred Thompson smells?

Can you smell the English leather on this guy, the Aqua Velva, the sort of mature man’s shaving cream, or whatever, you know, after he shaved? Do you smell that sort of — a little bit of cigar smoke?

To say nothing of the time, right after "Mission Accomplished" day, when Matthews and G. Gordon Liddy held court on how now all women would want to vote for bush because in his flight suit he appeared to have an enormous package. (To be fair, that time Liddy did most of the talking, but Matthews sat there nodding and did not, as any well-adjusted person would, say "um, ew.")

Glenn Greenwald, as always, put it well:

What can even be said about that? And nobody really seems to find this odd or disturbing or objectionable at all — that night after night, one of the featured “journalists” of a major news network goes on television and, with some of our most prestigious journalists assembled with him, speaks admiringly about the smells and arousing masculinity and the “daddy” qualities of various political officials, and that this metric is, more or less, the full extent of his political analysis.

Oh, but he does so much more, Glenn. He compares female politicians to Nurse Ratched and calls people who endorse her "eunuchs."

Get this man some help. Or at least stop letting him on TV every day.