After tonight’s nightmare set of RNC speeches, someone apparently decided that the best way to top off the night would be to have Chris Matthews sit down with Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che and Colin Jost to talk about about black people. Welcome to our modern hell.

This election cycle, Donald Trump is a conservative, which means he’s against abortion. But Trump today took the conversation in a new direction: Punishing the women who have them.

It’s always a pleasure to hear candidates talk shit about each other—all the more so when they don’t know everyone can hear them. This is true even when the conversation is only mildly rude, as it was between Hillary Clinton and Chris Matthews during a commercial break Monday, audio of which was obtained by the Washington Post.

Kathleen Matthews, a former Marriott executive who is probably best known as the wife of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, is running for Congress in Maryland’s 8th District. As it turns out, guests on Hardball, Chris Matthews’ political talk show, have been quite generous to Kathleen Matthews’ campaign.

"If you figure we humans reach full-size at age 18, I'd say China is about five and growing fast." Chris Matthews, your endearingly racist Philadelphia uncle, took a vacation to the Orient and returned wiser: "I get the idea that the Chinese consumer likes getting their hamburgers from McDonald's."

Consensus regarding last night's premiere of The Newsroom seemed to be that the only thing worse than the episode was the Will McAvoy as Christ figure trailer than preceded it. The second season debut appeared to elicit a collective groan from everyone on Twitter except a certain subset of journalists. Which ones? The ones who just happen to be paid by HBO.

During Hardball today, Chris Matthews was doing his "talk to the crowd" shtick outside the VP debate in Danville, Kentucky, when he was rudely interrupted by a Romney supporter shouting "communist" over a conversation Matthews was having with someone else about the state of health care in America.

Many in the left-leaning media were extremely unhappy with Obama's performance during last night's presidential debate, but none made it clearer than MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who wailed like a Truth Siren at the president's feckless, listless first round.

Here's MSNBC's Chris Matthews yelling at Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus over the Romney campaign's recent dabbling in birther jokes and welfare ads. Chris Matthews is kind of a blowhard moron but I'd watch anyone yell at Reince Priebus, basically.

James R. Matthews, the Republican commissioner of Pennsylvania's Montgomery County and brother to sputtering blowhard Chris Matthews, was arrested this morning on perjury charges. Yes, Chris Matthews' brother is a Republican politician.

In your wispy Wednesday media column: Jared Kushner's latest scheme, Michele Norris's replacement, the gradual death of print continues, Harper's Bazaar revamps, and Chris Matthews make a funny.

In your hazy Thursday media column: Patch struggles with internet tendencies, Wall Street loves News Corp, Chris Matthews is banned from HBO, "new media residuals" sucks, and the AP warns reporters about the Twitter.

In your brash Wednesday media column: Chris Matthews' wacky idea of "influential journalists," Alex Kuczynski strips, AOL's momentary earnings lapse, Adam Moss's reading list, crazy UK libel laws, and Newsweek's subtle Bin Laden cover.

HBO just ordered a pilot from Social Network writer and West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin for a behind-the-scenes drama about cable news. Sorkin shadowed MNSBC's Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as research. Half the action will take place on Twitter.

Look: MSNBC's Chris Matthews is not a birther, okay? That said... he still wants to know why Barack Obama hasn't shown whatever super-secret copy of his birth certificate. Where is it, Obama? But again: Chris Matthews is not a birther.

It sure is fun to make fat jokes about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a.k.a. Governor Sandwiches. We're only saying it because it's true, okay? But Fox News' Neil Cavuto disagrees! According to him, it's racist to make such jokes.

Newt Gingrich, who is still pretending to consider a presidential run, is laying down primary ground rules: No Republican debates moderated by Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann again! Not that there was a first time, necessarily. But still!

Here's a clip of Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) on MSNBC last night, explaining how Republicans will cut vague "discretionary spending" to achieve magical savings. Chris Matthews is like "What will you cut? WHAT WILL YOU CUT?" The poor man's apoplectic!

Chris Matthews played a little hardball with Chelsea Handler last night on The Tonight Show when he made a jab at Chelsea's comprehension skills. Need a little ice for that burn?

Today at Gawker.TV, Jon Stewart has strong words for the extremists threatening South Park, Senator Scott Brown responds to that SNL sketch, and The Marriage Ref thinks it's just fine to duck tape you wife's mouth shut, and more!