Chris Matthews: Cheney Candidacy Reminds me of Aliens Putting Child In Rocket to Save Species

Movie Mad Matthews: Dick Cheney Packed Liz Into 'Missile' to 'Continue the 'Life Form' in Wyoming (NewsBusters)

During an angry rant over the announcement that Liz Cheney will be running for the United States senate in 2014, Chris Matthews offered up one of his typically bizarre movie reference to explain the development: "[Liz and Dick Cheney] remind me of Superman in a movie as played by Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint. Packing their little kid into a little missile to send him off to America or somewhere." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]

Matthews spewed, "They packed her into this little missile and their sending her off to Wyoming to continue the life form." The Hardball anchor was so enraged that he compared the Cheneys unfavorably to the scandal-scarred Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer, fuming, "But they didn't have a war, with all the casualties of that war on their conscience."