<div style="float: right"><object width="240" height="194"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=GdSUkUaGqG&c1=0x21A1AC&... name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=GdSUkUaGqG&c1=0x21A1AC&... allowfullscreen="true" width="240" height="194"></embed></object></div>Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's "Hardball," backpedaled from the James Bond movie-like death sequence he depicted for Rush Limbaugh that he made on the MSNBC airwaves on Tuesday morning. As Newsbusters' <a href="/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2009/10/13/matthews-someones-going-jam-co2-pellet-rushs-head-hes-going-explod">Mark Finkelstein</a> first noted, Matthews imagined a cinematic death for the radio talk show host: <blockquote><p>"Rush Limbaugh is looking more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come. Not yet. But we'll be there to watch. I think he's Mr. Big, I think Yaphet Kotto. Are you watching, Rush?" </p></blockquote><p>Fast forward to Wednesday night and Matthews offered the following clarification during the "Sideshow" segment on the October 14 "Hardball" [MP3 audio <a href="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/10/2009-10-14-MSNBC-HB... target="_blank">available here</a>]:
Yaphet Kotto
By Mark Finkelstein | October 13, 2009 | 11:02 AM EDT
What some guys won't say to get attention . . .
Analogizing Rush Limbaugh to a James Bond villain, Chris Matthews today fantasized: "at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp."
Hosting MSNBC's 10 AM hour today, Matthews made his remark while chatting with Politico's Jonathan Martin and Anne Kornblut of WaPo.