MSNBC host attacks George Washington

MSNBC host Chris Matthews described George Washington as an “elite” and a slaveowner in order to strengthen his criticism of Mitt Romney for campaigning on his successful business record.

“Let me try the class warfare the other way,” Matthews said, prefacing an argument that Romney is engaging in class warfare when he argues that “‘you benefit from having a guy as successful as me’ — that was his word, ‘successful.'”