See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
In the late hours of Wednesday night after the Republican debate, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was in his element as he whined about the 2016 GOP candidates being “very ideological tonight” and targeted the Cuban-American heritage of Senators Marco Rubio (Fl.) and Ted Cruz (Tex.) for thinking that “they still are fighting a Cold War” and “treat[ing] Obama like he’s Castro.”
As for the latter and more inflammatory remarks, it started when Matthews wondered aloud to Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post that whenever he hears Cruz or Rubio speak, he “swear[s] they are still fighting a Cold War” and “[t]hey speak about apocalyptic terms” by “us[ing] terms like existential.”