Just once, I would love to see a guest respond to Chris Matthews' crazed burbling by asking, "Are you off your nut, man?"

Someone should tell him that you don't have to treat the insane rantings of your most insane guests as if they were rationally held opinions:

MATTHEWS:  Do you think—we have some tough customers on this show, Pat Buchanan, as you know, he‘s a pretty tough customer on the cultural values front.  And we had Tony Perkins, who‘s a Christian conservative activist, the other day, a leader, I should say.  Both raising the question, maybe it‘s a hobgoblin, it‘s being raised now in the this context, should we have—should gay people serve in Congress?  These guys raised this issue.  And do you think that is a fair issue to raise, to broad brush people who have that orientation, given these events?

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MATTHEWS:  So you believe a gay member of Congress can serve with the same kind of sexual restraint expected of a heterosexual member?

Next he'll ask, "The Weekly World News says that the Bat Boy has admitted that he is the source of the Foley IMs.  Your thoughts?"*

(*Of course, this is nonsense.  The Bat Boy endorsed Al Gore in 2001, and therefore cannot be the Republican source of the Foley IMs.)