“Are you hypnotized tonight? Has somebody hypnotized you? Because no matter what I ask you, you give the same answer. Are you hypnotized? Has someone put you under a trance tonight?

(…)

Every question I put to her was almost irrelevant to this sort of a thing she was talking, this moronically looking directly at the camera and repeating over and over again the same words.”

Chris Matthews Asks Michele Bachmann, ‘Are You Hypnotized?’ 

NYTimes

A totally clueless Chris Matthews, who somehow doesn’t know the rudimentary facts involving the Shirley Sherrod story, acts as though Howard Dean and Salon’s Joan Walsh are the dunces here. Listen, at one point Matthews mutters something like, after Dean brings up Drudge, “you go look at Drudge if those are your sources.” 

This all happened during the 5pm version of Hardball and was never truly cleared up, though they had Joan Walsh back, for the 7pm show. 

For more on Matthew’s insanity go to tpc and mediaite 

Also, the 5pm version has been washed from MSNBC’s website according to the above sources.

“I’d love to know how many people actually watched MSNBC when he said that, because EVERYONE is taking it out of context. I have watched Matthews for more than a decade and not only does he not have a racist bone in his body, I have seen him tear up on civil rights issues while talking about MLK and the Kennedys. He only meant that we have come so far in this country in such a short year that we don’t see color anymore; we just see this articulate, intelligent man fighting for our rights.”

kateopolis, weighing in on the Chris Matthews “I forgot he was black tonight” quote. (via ericmortensen)