<p><em>See more in the <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/03/23/irony-matth…; target="_blank">cross-post</a> on the NewsBusters blog.</em></p>
<p>Lacking any self-awareness, MSNBC’s <em>Hardball </em>host Chris Matthews opened Thursday’s show by blurting out the word<strong> “loser” </strong>then lambasted Republicans and President Trump as<strong> “barbarians” </strong>running Washington. </p>
<p>If that name-calling wasn’t enough, Matthews later diagnosed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) contrived by a<strong> “gang of Obama-litionists”</strong> as having suffered<strong> “political euthanasia” </strong>and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (Calif.) as a dog for informing Trump Wednesday about intelligence collected against his team.</p>