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Almost every edition of MSNBC’s Hardball offers a spit-take moment courtesy of host Chris Matthews, but it instead was a guest on Tuesday as openly gay former Democratic Congressman Barney Frank (Mass.) smeared late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by quipping that on the issue of flag burnings, Scalia wasn’t really supportive that right as much as he was for “fag burning.”
Frank’s horrid joke was made while he was supposed to be discussing President-elect Donald Trump’s tweet about burnings of the American flag that’s sent the media into a tailspin and he did initially when he jumped in to claim Trump’s tweeting with sinister motives.