Chris Matthews: ‘A Lot of Midwestern Cities Have’ Only ‘a Blockbuster and a Diner’

Derp! Chris Matthews Thinks Blockbuster Video Stores Are Still Around (NewsBusters)

In some ways, the gaffetastic Chris Matthews is the Joe Biden of cable news. Tonight on his Hardball program, the liberal pundit seemed to suggest that Blockbuster video stores are a fairly ubiquitous thing in suburban and small-town America, even in "hollowed-out" cities going through hard economic times. In point of fact, Blockbuster Video closed up shop entirely in January of 2014, felled by the ease and convenience of cable TV video-on-demand and video-streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime.