“Ass,” in a context of referring to anything other than a donkey, is one of the words banned from daytime TV by the FCC. Now, we’re no prudes, but how many more times is Matthews going to swear on live TV before he gets it? Or, rather, until his bosses get it!

Related: Chris Matthews’ Curse Ruffles the Peacock’s Feathers

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NEW: Does Chris Matthews want his executive producer fired because of his mistake? 

Original report, June 19, 7:35 p.m.:

“We’re all reacting here… putting on shit,” Chris Matthews just yelled after coming back from a commercial break before realizing that he’d gone live on the air. The verbal slip-up occurred during the second live airing of his MSNBC “Hardball” program today, and it’s believed the “shit” he referenced was a pre-packaged interview with the now-independent NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg by NBC lead anchor Brian Williams.

“I apologize for that,” Matthews said in a solemn voice after the Williams report aired. ”I shouldn’t have used that word on the air.”

The gaffe comes on the same day that Matthews was booed during his questioning of Hillary Clinton at a labor forum in DC. It also comes only weeks after some have begun speculating whether the diabetic talker is drinking too heavily in his private life.

Earlier: Chris Matthews’ Secret Death Scare; Chris Matthews: Drunk As a Skunk?

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The actor’s charming qualities, exhibited at the Falls Chruch High School on Friday, were seemingly quick to wear off:

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House Minority Leader John Boehner swears and cries. And he likes a good tan, too.

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At least one elderly presidential candidate is getting cranky pretty early in the game.

FOX News is reporting that “anger burst forth memorably and loudly” yesterday when Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) accused Sen. John McCain of being “too busy running for president” to help run the Senate. McCain reportedly responded by using “the f-word toward Cornyn,” but it wasn’t clear “if the f-word was a verb or a gerund.”

(It’s also unclear at this point whether the f-word is just another Republican term of endearment. You know, like shooting your hunting partner in the face.)

The exact statement, a WaPo blogger reports: “Fuck you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room!”

Oh boy, we can’t wait to see what words ole Grandpa McCain will be shouting by the time this thing is over!

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