Wow! MSNBC’S Chris Matthews Slams Romney Acceptance Speech as ‘Jingoistic,’ ‘Anti-Science,' ‘Know-Nothing,’ and 'Piggish'

MSNBC's Chris Matthews didn't even wait for the balloons and the confetti to stop falling before laying into Mitt Romney. Moments after the former Massachusetts governor finished his Thursday night speech at the Republican National Convention, Matthews slammed the supposedly "very dark, very jingoistic, very anti-scientific, and, really, Know-Nothing" elements of the address.

The left-wing host concluded that "on science, on war and peace...I personally think this was a bad address for the American people." Matthews later went on a tear on how Romney was apparently "narrow-minded...small and insular and piggish can you be...to say, we don't care about the planet we live on, which is getting hotter."

The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman agreed with Matthews, and added that "the, sort of, anti-science sentiment that you just mentioned...is a big theme in the Republican Party of today - the faith-based Republican Party, which often seems to put science in a category next to evil.".