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MSNBC's Chris Matthews Just Went Ballistic On The RNC Chairman For Playing The 'Ethnic Card' With Obama
Things got awkward on the "Morning Joe" set this morning, with liberal host Chris Matthews launching into a fiery rant at Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus.
Matthews charged Republicans with injecting race into the campaign against President Barack Obama, criticizing Mitt Romney's birth certificate joke from Friday and his welfare ads that many have debunked as misleading.
"It is an embarrassment to your party to play that card," Matthews said of Romney's joke, drawing an awkward, dismissive laugh from Priebus. "This stuff about getting rid of the work requirement for welfare is dishonest — everyone's pointed out it's dishonest.
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