Since the election, Chris Matthews doesn’t even bother hiding his passionate love for all things Barack Obama. It started when he flat out told Joe Scarborough that his job was to make Obama’s presidency a success. Since then his leg has been tingling full-time and his appearance on Ellen was no different.

Behold the partial transcript:

ELLEN DEGENERES: Amazing! And you must be thrilled? I mean what, what a moment.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well I am thrilled!

DEGENERES: Yeah.

MATTHEWS, picking up shot glass: To Barack Obama!

DEGENERES, toasting: Yeah. To Barack Obama!

Matthews is such a shameless hack.