Chris Matthews Attacks Michele Bachmann as 'Zombie-Like' and 'Moonie-Like' for Defending Free Enterprise on BBC

Newsbusters.org:

MSNBC host Chris Matthews cannot understand how conservatives could think that free enterprise is somehow American, and that being anti-free enterprise seems anti-American. On Tuesday night's Hardball, Matthews boosted a new effort by Democrats like David Brock and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend to organize their own independent-expenditure campaign to beat Republicans. Matthews brought on Townsend, who couldn't even win a race for governor of a blue state (Maryland) to explain how she would make the Democrats victorious. Matthews aired BBC video of Rep. Michele Bachmann (clearly borrowed from the Think Progress blog, since you can see the "Pro" of their logo), and attacked her as like a zombie, a Moonie, and a Manchurian Candidate:

MATTHEWS: Look at her eye contact. I asked her when we had her on election night if she's under hypnosis. She doesn't answer the question. She looks straight ahead in that kind of zombie-like manner, like she's waiting for somebody to flash a card, like in "Manchurian Candidate." I mean, I don't know what her state is. She apparently just got blown away running for leadership, so the members of the House on the Republican side --

TOWNSEND: Well, they know.

MATTHEWS: -- know who she is.

TOWNSEND: They know that she`s a problem.

MATTHEWS: But this kind of bizarro behavior, where you come on, Moonie-like, if you will, and just stare into the camera and recite this -- the question was, Do you think the president`s anti-American?

TOWNSEND: No, no, no.

MATTHEWS: Yes or no? No, she talked about, what, equity shares and - -

TOWNSEND: It`s totally strange. And the fact is, she`s wrong about what`s going -- what we need to America. We need a strong health care system, which every other industrialized country has. And if you do polls, as you know, Chris, of the American people, they want health care. In fact, they wished it were stronger.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/11/24/chris-matthews-attacks-michele-bachmann-zombie-and-moonie-defending-free#ixzz16EBH1hDu

Disrespecting a sitting congresswoman because of her party affiliation, when you're part of a network that caters to an ideological base it's what you do.