Of course, it was OK for sweet loving liberal Matthews to fantasize on-air about killing Rush Limbaugh…

(NewsBusters) — Chris Matthews, on Monday’s Hardball, used the attempt on Gabrielle Giffords’ life, to not only portray America as some sort of gun crazed country, but also to blame the likes of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann for political violence as he blurted:

“Sarah Palin using gun play language. What is she talking about crosshairs and reloading . . . and Bachmann out there with her kind of talk. I mean it seems like the way people talk now has, has gotten more ballistic . . . Why are guns talked about so much, especially on the right? Why?”