MSNBC's Matthews Slashes Ted Cruz: "Sinister," Like "Joe McCarthy"

On the September 23 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews excoriated conservative Texas Senator Ted Cruz: “I want to say a word about this Ted Cruz guy. Not since Joe McCarthy have we seen a senator with such sinister self-assuredness. The Senator from Texas knows who and what he hates. He hates everything about President Obama. His goal is to exterminate the entire Obama record, reject everyone Obama nominates for office....Cruz wants to kill the Affordable Care Act, which was legitimately enacted into law. He wants to bring the American government to a halt, renege on the national debt in order to get it removed. This is how he wants to be known. This is a brand he wants to establish for himself, even if it tears the government apart.”