In the midst of his bilious remarks against the Republicans after Bobby Jindal spoke last night, Chris Matthews earned the Joe Biden Kwik-E-Mart Prize for insensitivity to Indian-Americans. He suggested the Republicans are so lacking credibility on fiscal discipline they had to “outsource” the speech to the son of Punjabi immigrants. Real slick, Chris:

They had to outsource the response tonight, the Republican Party. They had to outsource to someone who had nothing to do with Congress because the Republicans in Congress had nothing to do with the programs he was talking about tonight or the record he referred to.

Matthews has been hammering on how the Republicans have no leg of fiscal restraint to stand on, and conservatives are quick to agree. But no one should try to assign blame for over-spending in Washington without filling a bucket of blame for the press corps. A year ago, ABC warned of Bush ”slashes” in Medicare when he tried to reduce the growth of Medicare from 7.2 percent to 5 percent.

Let’s not even get started on how they can find victims for any failure to vacuum our wallets. Start with Greg’s incredible chimp story.