<p><em>See more in the <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2016/04/28/matthews-compar…; target="_blank">cross-post</a> on the NewsBusters blog.</em></p>
<p>Fresh off accusing Ted Cruz of being a political bigamist, MSNBC’s<em> Hardball </em>host Chris Matthews stated Thursday night that Cruz has put on a <strong>“Baghdad Bob performance this week”</strong> for failing to concede the Republican presidential nomination to Donald Trump while also displaying<strong> “political narcissism” </strong>in responding to former Speaker John Boehner’s Lucifer analogy.</p>
<p>Leading into Matthews linking Cruz to an infamous Saddam Hussein spokesman, former RNC chair Michael Steele lectured viewers that the campaign <strong>“was over for awhile now in many respects because Trump was able to establish momentum that no one else could break.”</strong></p>