You and your crazy "anti-government" talk, what were you thinking?

So Dumbo the Stupid, clown prince of MSNBC, calls our concern for runaway Government spending and no accountability a "clown show" but the seven people watching in their big shoes and jumbo bowties didn't pay to watch the circus?

Now that's entertainment folks.

Oh, and he also said talk radio hosts are gonna "pay for it" if there's violence, presumably in any form.

Two things on this: First, who paid for it when Ken Gladney got his ass kicked by an SEIU thug and when William Rice's finger got bitten off? And second, since when does one person's speech that inadvertently leads to violent behavior from another constitute an actionable offense? Memo to Matthews, it doesn't.

If what Rush, Levin, Hannity and the rest are doing on talk radio constitutes that amorphous "clear and present danger" the Supreme Court has decided is the test for what is protected under the first amendment, then we've reached a point where political speech that disagrees with the President is no longer sacrosant in our society. In fact, the test is one of "immenence", speech that is likely to incite violence almost while it's being said. So I suppose that if someone listening to Rush on the parkway gets so riled up that he aims his car for the first hippie he sees on the sidewalk and mows him down, perhaps Rush could be arrested for incitement. But even then, both the road rage and Rush's words would have to be analyzed in terms of whether a reasonable person would have been incited to violence.

Isn't Matthews a lawyer? Good God these buffoons really do make the rest of us look bad.

Now, I suppose Matthews could be talking about a whole new kind of payback not involving the civil litigation process. But I'd want to hear from him exactly who will be doing the paying back.

Anyway, only a half dozen people heard this nimrod actually say this on MSNBC, so I'm not too worried about it.