Yesterday morning, MSNBC was running a spot for last night's Hardball, with background artwork showing female silhouetted dancers with the phrase "HER NEW OUTLOOK?" as the headline. It was a promo for Matthews' talking point that evening, about Michelle Obama's image makeover, which is taking place on the cover of Us Weekly and The View. It was also deemed, by eagle-eyed critics, as a sexist ad, what with those three silhouetted dancers. So MSNBC pulled the ad, after it ran "once or twice." This is very bad for Mr. Matthews, who's weathered through weeks of endless accusations of sexism, many of them well-founded. It's unfortunate, then, to have this ad pop up now — when his punching bag Hillary Clinton is officially out of the race, and the most prominent lady right now among the Democrats, Ms. Obama, appearing to be his new target. It's also unfortunate that he'll take most of the blame for this, when it was probably the graphics department that's entirely to blame. Watch the clip here.