While this doesn’t quite fit our typical mold for Comedy Friday, this video is intense, yet hilarious.

Radio show host Kevin James went on Hardball yesterday and Chris Matthews (who I am not a huge fan of) baited him brilliantly to reveal his ignorance of… apparently… all history beyond the words “Nazi” and “Hitler.”

If you watch nothing else, fast forward to around 4 minutes. But, honestly, it gets better the second and third times you watch it all the way through to really pinpoint the moments Matthews turns the rhetorical knife to fillet him amid the shouting. I don’t think I need to say anymore. Have a look:

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We’ve sent a message to the world that the United States is not like the terrorists. What we are is a nation that upholds values and standards of behavior and treatment of all people no matter how evil or bad they are.

That was John McCain speaking on December 15th, 2005. McCain just met with President Bush and got the President to support McCain’s call for a law banning torture. It was a huge win for McCain’s anti-torture stance and for the country’s image on the world stage.

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