Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball, has a long, long history of misogynist crap, and this week is no different. Republicans are up in arms over President Obama including $200 million in funding for family planning in his economic stimulus package, even though everyone knows that this will save the government a large sum of money (besides providing innumerable benefits for women's health). And Chris Matthews is laying down all of the false talking points on family planning with typical glee.

Because providing women with access to contraceptives and family planning if they so choose is obviously like.... Red Communist China!

I don’t know. It sounds a little like China. […] I think everybody should have family planning and everybody believes in birth control as a right. I’m for — abortion is a right and all that. It’s all right. But why should the federal government have a policy of reducing the number of births?

Good evening, I'm Chris Matthews. Leading off tonight: Leave the kids out of this! Barack Obama gets Democrats in Congress to drop contraception from his big stimulus bill. It turns out the idea of getting people to have fewer children didn't sell as national policy. Maybe people don't like Washington, which has done such a bang-up job regulating the sharpies on Wall Street, to decide it's now time to regulate the number of kids people might be in the mood for.