He needs a little chin music

Can someone please tell me why Chris Matthews still has a job? I've never much cared for him and his hardball persona. His routine of talking over people, not letting them finish their statements, and general rudeness is the ultimate expression of an overblown ego. Invite a guest, ask them a question, and then shout them down as they try to answer. Beyond feeding his own desire for notoriety, what, exactly, is the purpose of his show?

But his normal jibberish pales in comparison to the string of hate speech, beltway confessionals and, well, right wing fellatio that he's been up to of late. If you haven't been keeping up, here's the things I have read about:

• His profoundly homophobic exchange with Don Imus regarding Brokeback Mountain
• Some type of racist tripe regarding the Latino population
• His embarrassing confession to an obviously bored/uncomfortable George Bush regarding excessive drinking and possibly womanizing
• An interview with Tom Delay where he actually asked (courtesy of TPM Daily Muck):

"Okay I've got to ask you a cosmic question, you're Tom Delay. You're not in this business for the money. You live modestly. You commute back and forth from Washington to Houston, Texas. Why? What drives you every day?"

Hardball, indeed.

Don't the people at NBC watch their own shows? I don't know what the ratings are, but even if they were through the roof, someone should have a little decency and replace him with someone with a shred of humanity and humility. I'm thinking maybe Jonah Goldberg.