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Chris Matthews has yet to condemn Democratic Wisconsin State Representative Gordon Hintz for yelling “You’re f–ing dead!” at Republican State Representative Michelle Litjens during a legislative session on Friday, but the Hardball host did find the time, on Tuesday’s show, to slam Speaker of the House John Boehner for engaging in “Glenn Beck talk” about guns.

Matthews, initially teasing a guest for using the word “lethal” in a discussion about recent poll numbers on the Wisconsin budget battle, chided: “In the media world, I think we all agreed…after the horror in Arizona that we weren’t gonna…use ballistic terms.” The MSNBC host then segued into a clip of Boehner making a gun reference, after which he railed: “What is this Glenn Beck talk?…That’s how Glenn talks. ‘I’m gonna put a gun to your head’ and all this!” This led Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman to tag in: “Well when John Boehner back slides, he really back slides.”

However, according to Newbusters’ own Noel Sheppard, Matthews, Fineman and most mainstream media outlets, other than Fox News, have been largely silent about the Hintz threat.

To review, a Democrat man cursing at a Republican woman “You’re f–ing dead” isn’t worth mentioning in Matthews’ mind, but if you dare make a political metaphor referring to weapons (something Matthews himself has done) that’s objectionable.

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Geoffrey Dickens is the Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here