In what seems to becoming a trend, MSNBC's partisan hosts are going on the trail in Iowa not to observe the Republican presidential candidates, but to question them as if they were a campaign embed or a reporter without bias.
A week after MSNBC's Ed Schultz followed rising candidate Rick Santorum in Iowa for a few days, Chris Matthews caught Newt Gingrich off guard in Iowa yesterday, asking him about PAC money among other topics. If you recall, last year Matthews said Gingrich "looks like a car bomber" and had the audacity to say the former Speaker has made politics "nastier and more feral."
And those are just two examples from a library-sized archive of Matthews' vitriolic rhetoric when it comes to Gingrich.
After Matthews played the clip of his confrontation with the candidate on Sunday he yucked it up with Howard Fineman and Eugene Robinson, his guests on Monday's broadcast of "Hardball." Matthews, of course, made a reference to the Koch brothers donating money to Republican causes.
This wasn't Chris Matthews' only campaign event in the last few days. The other day Matthews confronted Mitt Romney after a stump speech to ask him if he can say "let them eat cake" in French. The candidate declined.
Earlier, Romney likened Obama to Marie Antoinette for going on a lavish vacation while the American economy is hurting.
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