I found these two statements of Chris Matthews pretty comical (and idiotic).

Good evening. I‘m Chris Matthews. Welcome to HARDBALL. Like a nasty pair of New York cab drivers, the president of Columbia University traded barbs today and insults with the president of Iran. This afternoon in Manhattan, trying to cover his tracks for inviting him in the first place, the university president trashed his guest on every front before giving him a chance to even speak. He committed the outrage, I think, of actually winning sympathy for the demagogue he invited to his campus. The diminutive head of state he referred to as petty. It was the American host who came across, I‘m afraid, as petty. Anyway, not a great day for America, the land of the free, that looked today like it was afraid to hear what it didn‘t like hearing. Looked today like the bully big shot first-world country picking on the little guy it had invited into the lion‘s den.Ahmadinejad will dine out for the rest of his life on this day in Gotham. He will have what he needs most, the moral indignation of a people who spent years being exploited by the shah, who the U.S. CIA placed on his peacock throne.

And…

MATTHEWS: Thank you, David Shuster. Pat Buchanan‘s an MSNBC political analyst and David Weprin is a New York City councilman.Pat, if you just watched that report, which is always accurate from David, you‘d get a sense that this guy was a horse‘s ass who came to see us. And fair enough. But you wouldn‘t (ph) have missed the portrait that we got from the president of Columbia today. I don‘t know about you, but I haven‘t heard a longer speech since the League of Women Voters used to hold presidential campaign debates. That guy went on for an hour.