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Here’s how Chris Matthews teased a segment with Zack Wamp, a Republican critic of Dick Cheney who’s running for Tennessee governor. CHRIS MATTHEWS: Up next, Dick Cheney was one of the most unpopular Vice-Presidents ever, but you know it’s bad for Cheney when members of his own party, fellow Republicans want to see him quieted: mugged, I’m sorry, muzzled. We’ve got one of them coming up here: Tennessee Congressman Zack Wamp. You have view the video to appreciate that Matthews use of “mugged” was very much accidentally-on-purpose. View video here.

I just got off the phone with an in-law of Zack Wamp. His wife, Kim is critically ill. For privacy, I will not list what hospital, nor the nature of the illness, but it is not good. I will freemail privately all I know, I just do not feel comfortable publicly announcing this until the family wants it known.