Chris Matthews: Obama Is 'the Perfect Father, the Perfect Husband, the Perfect American

MSNBC's Chris Matthews apparently knows no shame when gushing over President Obama. And while the president has been known to send a "thrill" up Matthews' leg, the host of "Hardball" took it to another level on Tuesday, calling Obama "the perfect father, the perfect husband, the perfect American."

"Based upon the rhetoric, you’d think the president was a radical lefty and not the center-left politician he actually is based on the record, but then do people care on the right about reality?" Matthews asked.

He posed that question to his two extremely liberal guests, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson. Then Matthews went on this unbelievable rant, professing his love for the "perfect" Obama who has "never done anything wrong":

"I want to start with Congressman Ellison. You’ve been victim yourself of some of this crapola, but this crazy yahoo talk, do you think the people who push this stuff, this malarkey over and over again the guy’s somehow -- this guy’s done everything right. He’s raised his family right. He’s fought his way all the way to the top of the Harvard Law Review, in a blind test becomes head of the Review, the top editor there."

"Everything he’s done is clean as a whistle. He’s never not only broken any law, he’s never done anything wrong. He’s the perfect father, the perfect husband, the perfect American. And all they do is trash the guy. And it’s impossible for me to believe they would have said the same thing about a Walter Mondale or a Jimmy Carter or a Bill Clinton. There’s an ethnic piece to this. It’s very hard to nail it down because they always cover it in ideology. But I’ve never heard anybody in this country call its opponent regularly anti-American or non-American."

And can you believe people actually accuse MSNBC of not adhering to any kind of professional standards?

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