"It's Chinese or something"

Over in War Room, King Kaufman notes the odd exclamation by MSNBC's Chris Matthews to Keith Olbermann in the early hours, below. We assume he's talking about Communist China, and their phony official government displays, but . . . we're honestly not sure. We're even less sure about what he meant about Luther (Luthor? as in Lex) and "the phantom" -- anybody got any clues?