The Unbearable “Issues” of Chris Matthews

Chris Matthews should be fired.

Digby rightly excoriates the excitable, unhinged TV talker, who really has become little more than an embarrassment for MSNBC. With the exception of the excellent Keith Olbermann, that’s really saying something for that network. In a reality-based world, Matthews would have been tossed out of the studio years ago for on-air antics that ranged from the merely puerile to the downright disturbing. As many have pointed out, this isn’t a normal hetero or homosexual thing; I don’t think actual sexual desire figures into it at all. This is something deeper, and much weirder. Sara Robinson of Orcinus has a very good take on the right-wing cult of “masculinity” and the need of people like Matthews for a big ol’ GOP “Daddy” figure to take care of them.