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Has Chris Matthews lost his mind?

When a network news anchor loses his mind, going so far as to call his own producer a “whore,” what is the first thing a company would likely do? Intervention, expulsion, even rehab?

Despite ever increasing indications that Chris Matthews has gone stark raving mad, MSNBC has not only kept him on the air but continues to promote the man who got that infamous “thrill going up [his] leg…seriously.”

While one could write a master’s thesis on the evolution of Matthews’ derangement, in the wake of the “Hardball” host’s attempt to pin blame on Anthony Weiner’s wife for playing a part in “Weinergate,” The Daily Caller felt it was high time to take a stroll down crazy lane.

“He goes a thousand miles an hour and just picks things out of thin air,” one former guest told TheDC, recalling how the show provided 10 issues they were going to discuss, only to have Matthews rarely reference any of the prepared topics.

“Every commercial break he would shout, ’What do you want to talk about! What do you want to talk about! What do you want to talk about!’” the guest added.

One young conservative female guest who appeared several times on Matthews’ show told TheDC that bizarre comments toward women were part of his off air banter as well.

“During one appearance, during the commercial break, Matthews informed me he loves it when women wear baby doll dresses,” she said. “It’s his favorite thing to see women wear.”

Matthews was not always the emotional liberal that America now sees each afternoon at 5:00 p.m. EST. Back during the Clinton era, he was centrist enough to guest host for Rush Limbaugh. Nearly two decades later Matthews hoped for the popular mid-day host’s death .

It was Fox News Channel President Roger Ailes, ironically enough, who gave Matthews his first television job in 1994 with “Politics with Chris Matthews” on America’s Talking Network. Seventeen years later Matthews derided Ailes as “ pathetic .”

His emotional rants have become commonplace on “Hardball,” and made his show must-watch TV for the likes of Mediate, NewsBusters, Real Clear Politics and even The Daily Caller — all waiting with bated breath for Matthews to inevitably say something “insane.”

When asked by TheDC why he watches so religiously, Ian Schwartz, Real Clear Politics video editor, did not mince words.

“‘Hardball’ is a reminder that I am sane,” said Schwartz. “Chris Matthews is more of a gaffe machine than Joe Biden and the ignorance of his sexism and bigotry makes the show entertaining to watch.

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And sharing some unknown facts from a recent NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll of Republican primary voters. Chris Matthews wondered whether candidates like Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman would be hurt by their Mormonism with Republican voters, yet O’Donnell revealed some candidates are hurt even more by a different characteristic.

O’Donnell suggested that according to this poll, “among Republicans, they’re more uncomfortable with a Fox commentator than they are a Mormon.” That means, according to O’Donnell, candidates like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum , need to be more worried about their connection to Fox News upsetting Republicans, than Romney and O’Donnell need to worry about their religion. Michelle Cottle also suggested Mormonism will not be as big of a deal this time around, since having two Mormons in the race makes it “less exotic.”

This poll seems to be the same one that Chuck Todd referenced earlier in the week , and that strangely puts a lot of focus on asking Republican primary voters about Fox News. Although maybe the poll doesn’t take into account the simple fact that regardless of religion or Fox affiliation, voters simply think Romney and Huntsman are better candidates than Gingrich and Santorum?

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More of the same. Liberal pipe dreams. Gingrich imploded and Santorum has been ho hum since the get go. Bachman is on Fox alot and she’s doing very well and only just announced. O’Donnel is making conclusions from inadequate information, she may as well say since they both are males Republicans are uncomfortable with them, or because they are both white, or both have money, or, or, or… How ’bout they both are polling low because they aren’t seen as likely to win the top spot in the nomination?