(h/t Think Progress for the video)

Tuesday morning on Morning Joe, CNBC host Donny Deutsch had a few choice words to describe Rush Limbaugh, including "megalomaniac" and a "scary, distasteful human being." He didn't stop there, though. He had another word in mind and let's just say, it wasn't pretty:

Then, a few minutes later, Scarborough and Deutsch discussed Limbaugh's potential part-ownership an NFL team and the comments that led to his departure from ESPN. During the conversation, the audio cut out while Deutsch was talking and Scarborough said, semi-laughing, "...bleeped that out again. Why did you have to do that? Why?" Donny later explained, "I called Rush Limbaugh a feminine hygiene product that starts with a D and sounds like my last name. It was bleeped you can't say that on TV." At the end of the program Mika Brzezinski claimed, "I learned that you can't do a show with Donny without him saying something perverted." Read on...

John Amato has forbidden me from using the "D word" to describe the likes of Limbaugh and Beck for years -- all for the better, no doubt. Should Deutsch have used the word on air? Probably not. Was he right? We report, you decide...

You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player!

DOWNLOADS: (73)

PLAYS: (296)

While asking Republican strategist Alex Johnson why the birther movement is not being disavowed by the Republican party strongly enough, he decided it was a good time to insert President Obama's middle name into the conversation, and then pretend like it was an accident. If these people want to be taken seriously and not as not trying to spread fear about the President as "the other" or a foreigner, they need to stop pulling crap like this. At least he immediately got called out for it on the show.

His back-tracking was pretty comical to watch. After doing exactly what he claimed the party should not be doing, which is trying to instill fear about President Obama, he tried to claim that it's only the fringe of the party doing it with this birther movement. Riiiggghhtt. As the Democratic strategist Julian Epstein pointed out, this is not coming from the fringe elements of the party and it is the Republican members of Congress who are stoking these coals.

You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player!

DOWNLOADS: (1621)

PLAYS: (2123)

So which is it Chris Matthews? Are you for the rule of law or do you think it's okay to torture prisoners and violate our international treaties? You cannot call out a guest on your show one day for embracing Cheney's rhetoric and then turn around and embrace it yourself the next without rightfully being called either a complete hypocrite, or just psychotic. Matthews is a master of giving all of us a reason to never take him seriously when he does things like this. The man just has no filter.

He had on the ACLU's Anthony Romero in the previous segment and if anyone thinks him talking over Walsh in the clip I posted was bad he was worse with Romero. If Matthews just wants to hear himself talk I don't know why he bothers with guests at all.

DOWNLOAD (89)

PLAY (234)

From Morning Joe April 8, 2009. Mark Sanford is confronted for his political posturing by Donny Deutsch. From Sam Stein over at the HuffPo:

Largely lost in the debate over the politics of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's flirtation with rejecting $700 million in stimulus funds for his state has been discussion of the human cost that such a rejection entails.

On Wednesday morning, Donny Deutsch brought the issue to the forefront, confronting Sanford during a segment on MSNBC's Morning Joe with the reality that a large portion of that money would be destined to help schoolchildren.

"Governor... it is going to go to education," declared Deutsch. "Once again, if my kid is in a class, and now instead of 30 kids there are 60 kids, this money is going directly to education. So tell me why it is not better for me as a citizen of South Carolina and for my children to get this money."

Sanford, who contends that the stimulus money should be geared towards closing the state's deficit and has warned that any other use would create additional government bureaucracy, held his ground.

As Think Progress noted, Gov. Sanford touted his decision which would result in firing teachers "reform".

DEUTSCH: Ideology is all great, but let’s pretend I’m a dad and I’m living in South Carolina. A lot of that money is earmarked for education. If you don’t take that money because of your point of view and my kid — there are less teachers, the tuition for the state schools go up, and education is really affected — this is not just in theory, this is reality. What do you say to me as a dad that I’m worried about my kid in a state that has very poor education records?

SANFORD: Yeah, but here’s the bottom line. What this tug of war is really about is reform within South Carolina. … It’s only in these kind of economic times that you can make the changes that are essential, frankly, to South Carolina being more competitive. So our view is, no, we could make some changes that created the dollars that could then be allocated to education and other things.

Donny Deutsch was on Hardball this afternoon to give his views on the presidential candidates Christmas ads and he summer Huckabee's ad up simply as:

"I'm Donny Deutsch and I'm getting frightened over here."

Download | play Download | play

That's pretty strong criticism coming from one of the top advertising minds in the country. Deutsch also goes on to say that there are no mistakes in advertising and that floating cross falls within that golden rule.

I'm sure a lot of Huckabee supporters out there will give Deutsch a big "bahhuckbug!" over his assessment.