Dim Bulb: Chris Matthews

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Who: MSNBC host Chris Matthews

What: Matthews suggested that a move to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for obstructing an investigation in Operation Fast and Furious is motivated by racism. “I don’t want to start too much forest fire here, but it is my instinct: Is this ethnic? It smells like it to me.”

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