Matthews unhinged: Ryan worse than Quayle, Eagleton, Time-AOL merger

Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball, seems to be losing it over Mitt Romney’s pick of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.

This week, Matthews showed and endorsed a pro-Medicare ad showing a figure that looks like Ryan pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair to a cliff and dumping her out to her death. Matthews called it “the ad I have to like the most in this campaign,” adding, “Here is a party that believes this stuff. Incentivize the rich. Screw the poor, and screw older people who don’t have much to defend themselves with. It is true. It’s not just party rhetoric. It is true.”