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Mediaite reports: Chris Matthews announced his resignation from MSNBC Monday night after more than two decades at the network. The MSNBC mainstay made the stunning at the start of Monday’s night edition of Hardball, a show that has for years been a staple of the network’s politics programming. It also became a headache for MSNBC brass in recent weeks as …

Deadline reports: Hardball host Chris Matthews apologized for a remark he made during Saturday’s Nevada caucus coverage in which he compared the inability of establishment Democrats to stop Bernie Sanders to France’s futile hopes against Germany’s invasion in 1940. At the top of his show on Monday, Matthews said, “Senator Sanders, I’m sorry for comparing anything from that tragic era, …

Newsweek reports: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is facing calls to resign after he compared Bernie Sanders’ victory in the Nevada caucus to the Nazi invasion of France. As the results came in and Sanders took an early lead on Saturday night, Hardball host Matthews claimed Republicans would release opposition research on Sanders that would “kill him” if he became the Democratic …

Last night Family Research Council hater Travis Weber appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball, where he flailed and failed to answer when host Chris Matthews repeatedly asked him which bathroom trans activist Jennifer Boylan should use. Media Matters has the transcript: CHRIS MATTHEWS (HOST): Travis, tell Jenny what bathroom she should use. TRAVIS WEBER: Well — MATTHEWS: Which one should she use? …

Last night MSNBC host Chris Matthews called out Log Cabin head R. Clarke Cooper for supporting a party that opposes LGBT rights. Cooper wasn’t having it and points out that his group fought to have anti-gay language removed from the 2012 platform during the Republican Convention. That attempt actually made the platform worse, according to one Log Cabin member.

Watch RNC chairman Reince Preibus squirm as MSNBC host Chris Matthews launches an epic rant denouncing the GOP for “playing the race card” and claiming that Obama wants to turn America into “another Europe.” Classic. The best bits are at the beginning and the end.

Enjoy!

The last time activists confronted MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews about hosting hate group leader Tony Perkins, he dismissed their concerns as “censorship.” That spawned triumphant blog posts and tweets from anti-gay leaders, who crowed that Matthews “gets it.” They won’t do the same after viewing this encounter.

NOTE: The clip below has been replaced with a longer version that merits watching again if you’ve already seen the shorter one. Clip description: At a book signing in Framingham, Massachusetts, Faithful America members confront Chris Matthews about his consistently inviting Tony Perkins, President of the hate-group Family Research Council, on his show. Matthews responds by falsely claiming that Perkins …

Socarides, who is now with the Media Matters affiliate Equality Matters, says that today’s move “will definitely help Obama with gay groups.” Understatement.

Last night Chris Matthews went to town on Tea Party Express founder Sal Russo over Crazy Eyes’ claim that the Founding Fathers ended slavery. Matthews has a new name for Bachmann: “Balloon Head.” Watch this.

Media Matters founder David Brock claims that the perpetrators of three recent attacks on public figures were all dedicated viewers of Glenn Beck.

“I’ll confess that I left my purse at home.” Starts at 3:15.

Chris Matthews calls out LCR head R. Clark Cooper for being a gay Republican, what with their pesky anti-gay platform. Cooper: “Something, something, work from the inside, something something.”

Whoa.