Matthews Charges Town Hall Protesters 'Upset Because We Have a Black President'

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Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's "Hardball," painted town hall protesters as racist as he charged, "I think some of the people are upset because we have a black president." Matthews invited on Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and the Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore to analyze the uproar at the town hall meetings and after Moore offered that some of the protesters' rage was caused by the "$800 billion obscene fiscal stimulus bill," Matthews interjected with his own explanation for the anger as he exclaimed: "Are you telling me that these guys were created by this new president? That the people we're watching on television with their guns and their attitudes about the republic weren't around before January 20th?!...Okay I think, I think some of the people are upset because we have a black president." [audio available here]

The following exchange was aired on the August 11, edition of "Hardball:"

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STEPHEN MOORE, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Certainly I agree that when, when people go to these kind of town hall meetings and tea parties they should be very respectful and polite. As you know, Chris, I've been on college campuses where I've been shouted down and not able to speak as a conservative and I think it's just ill behavior. But I do think it's important for people like Ed Rendell to understand there is an amazing amount of rage out in this country. It's, it's, it's, now again I think people should keep it under control.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Rage at what?

MOORE: Rage because of the $800 billion obscene fiscal stimulus bill...

MATTHEWS: Are you telling me that these guys were created by this new president? That the people we're watching on television with their guns and their attitudes about the republic weren't around before January 20th?!

MOORE: Well Chris here's the problem with, look I don't agree with that gentleman that you had on before. I think it is absurd to bring a gun to these kinds of meetings. So I agree with you entirely on that. But I think that you all are kind of missing the point of what's going on here. There are hundreds of millions, I mean hundreds of thousands of Americans who are so enraged about what's going on.

MATTHEWS: Okay.

MOORE: This is still a pretty conservative country and people are upset about the policies in Washington and they don't think the politicians are listening.

MATTHEWS: Okay I think, I think some of the people are upset because we have a black president. Let's take a look at Senator Specter's town meeting. Some of these statements people are making.

MOORE: But Chris, c'mon!

MATTHEWS: Listen to what they're saying! Let's listen-

MOORE: This has nothing to do with race. That's, that's an absurd comment.

MATTHEWS: Oh no let's listen to what they're saying. Here's a Specter town meeting. And then Governor react to this.

(Begin clip)

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: I don't believe this is just about health care. It's not about TARP. It's not about left and right. This is about the systematic dismantling of this country. I'm only 35-years-old. I have never been interested in politics. You have awakened the sleeping giant. We are tired of this. This is why everybody in this room is so ticked off. I don't want this country turning into Russia, turning into a socialized country. My question for you is, what are you going to do to restore this country back to what our Founders created, according to the Constitution!

(End clip)

MATTHEWS: Governor Rendell this is primitive talk.

GOV. ED RENDELL: No question.

MATTHEWS: What do you make of it? Is this about the health care bill or is this about some basic, sort of, almost secessionist movement going on out there against any kind of federal role in anything to do with social welfare?

RENDELL: Well I grant Stephen one point. I think there are people who are legitimately concerned about the amount of debt the country is running up. And, and I think that is a legitimate concern. However to say that these people who come to the rally that, that's foremost on their mind. Stephen let's begin with the fact that many of these people are birthers. The birthers are absolutely nuts. They won't believe the clear and credible evidence that President OBama was born in Hawaii. Hawaii is part of the United States of America. I think the birthers are-

MOORE: Ed, Ed. Governor let me say this. I hope that you all on the left keep calling, calling these people who go to these tea parties and town hall meeting nuts, because you're talking about the broad USA.

RENDELL: I didn't say they were all nuts. I didn't say they were all nuts. No.

MOORE: But look you are! You look at a couple of people like this nut who brings a gun to this rally and say, "These people are just crazy! Why don't they just shut up and go home!" And you know, we, and Chris-

MATTHEWS: Okay.

MOORE: -I have to say it is so outrageous for you to say that these people are angry because we have a black president. I mean it makes me think that you're totally out of touch with...

MATTHEWS: No the reason, the reason-

MOORE: A lot of people voted for Barack Obama.

MATTHEWS: No the reason, the reason, the reason I say it is because I look at the map of the United States and I see where people question his birth. And I see the pattern of race here and it's historic in our nature. And I see it and I don't like it. And you're telling me these people just have, just have idol thoughts. "Well he may not be born here." Could it not be his ethnicity? And you deny that Stephen? You deny that's the issue here?

MOORE: Could it be? I'm sorry, what?

MATTHEWS: His ethnicity? That's not the issue here.

MOORE: I don't believe it is. I believe...

MATTHEWS: You really don't believe that?!

MOORE: I really don't.

MATTHEWS: And you look at the people, the kind of people that have been jumping up and down on this issue.

MOORE: Chris, Chris I think most conservatives, that I know, and I go to a lot of these meetings, they're proud of the fact that we have a black president today. They genuinely are proud of our country for electing a black, black president. They don't agree with his policies but the fact that we have grown beyond racism, I think, is a great thing for this country. I think most conservatives agree.

MATTHEWS: You think these people vote for Obama?

MOORE: Some of them did.

MATTHEWS: Oh c'mon!

MOORE: I know some of them do. I went to these tea parties. A lot of them are independents. A lot of the people who were angry, angry at George Bush as they are with Barack Obama. They just think our country is out of control. You don't, you can't borrow $10 trillion over the last decade. We're losing control of our country.

—Geoffrey Dickens is the senior news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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Gates wore out the race card

Gates wore out the race card ...

The race card NEVER wears

The race card NEVER wears out.

(mangling the Samuel Johnson quote about patriotism):

The race card is the last refuge of the desperate liberal.

So true. And on the back of

So true. And on the back of the race card? Turn it over, and you can play the "class envy" card, sometimes more readily recognized as "the rich" option. The sad thing is, it's liberals that are the true racits and snobs in this society. And they rely upon people being too dumb or "on the dole" to call them on this. Thus, Chris Matthews gets to say anything he wants, because no one is going to question his tactics, his agenda, or his hypocricy.

___________________________________ 

"Tax the rich" is a basically unstable way of governing - The NYT

Matthews himself is such a

Matthews himself is such a racist. The Democratic party as a whole is racist. I do not see how minorities would ever entertain the Democrats. You would think someday they would wise up. 

"DumbAssity of Dope"

Pretty simple, really.

We've spent $7.4 Trillion on the "War on Poverty" since 1964. Why would they ever "wise up"?

There is documented 40 trillion

that has been spent.

Enough to give one Million dollars to 40 million people in poverty.

Did you get your thank you card yet?

 

http://gjresult.com

 

No Thank You card yet

but the bills keep coming.

Dems...........

The Party of Slavery-Democrat

The Party of Jim Crow-Democrat

The Party of Segregation-Democrat

The Party of Socialism-Democrat

Dems just don't study history, do they? Isn't name calling a Saul Alinsky thing????????

ucw... EXCELLENT...great

ucw...

EXCELLENT...great keeper and I will be passing this on.

Thanks.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

I saw a clip of Dingle

I saw a clip of Dingle saying when he signed onto a civil rights bill he had KKK protesters dogging him, that'll happen when you ask Byrd to stump for you.

mb

I like your work up of the Johnson quote. May I use it?

Same OLE strategy

 Yawn...anything, just anything...to avoid talking about what is in HB 3200...the art of distraction never grows old to the topic-shifting smear merchants of the secular socialist Party.

Who do they think they are fooling? 

Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish)

Black is white whatever

Since “conservative whites” are… conservative, the chances they would vote for a Democrat in the first place is slim.

Reagan VS Liberalism

You go it spot on

You go it spot on upcontrywater. But Crissy "tingle leg" Matthews doesn't have a leg that hasn't gone numb with excitement for Obama to stand on, so he resorts to the old race card.

I think Chrissy is

I think Chrissy is channeling his "inner Tingle"

Matthews is nothing more than a partisan hack.

If MSNBC keeps losing audience, do you think that Matthews or Olbermann will be biting the dust?  I hope so, they're both a disgrace.  

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

GOV'T WASTE...

 I want to see the books at MSNBC, they were part of the GE tarp/bailout, & I want a full accounting of who makes what & where there can be cuts. The MSNBC division of GE is gov't waste, & GE should be pressured to clean up non-performing divisions as long as they took taxpayer money.

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

Matthews knows

That he has to be outrageous in order to land on blogs and YouTube because no one watches his show. I thought the gun carrying guest did surprisingly well for a tv amateur as well.

Born black

Chrissy sees himself as the champion of black people. If he had been born black it could have been him instead of Jesse Jackson. 

Oh for crying out loud!

That's not even original! 

It's SO last week!

Matthews is just trying to jump on the "call-em-racist" bandwagon to get a piece of the attention.

He's  pathetic.

Truly

Parroting Jeaneane Garofolo is just soooo uncool.  LOL.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Oh, and <channelling

Oh, and <channelling Natalie Maines> Just so you know, some of us are embarrassed to be from the state where Rendell is governor.

However to say that these people who come to the rally that, that's
foremost on their mind. Stephen let's begin with the fact that many of
these people are birthers.

Ed, you don't have a CLUE how many of these people are "birthers."

Is the birth certificate issue a running theme at these meetings?

That's just another backhanded slap at people about whom you know NOTHING! Except the fact that they are mad about socializing health care.

 

It could be worse mother

you could be living just below the Mason Dixon Line in the outrageously nicknamed "Free State" with me...

How do you think I feel?

I was raised in Pennsylvania (where Rendell is now) but I now live in Maryland. It's like having the flu ... nausea at both ends!

Period, Dot, Bingo.

BOR (the all knowing) has decreed that the birth certificate is real, case closed. How can you argue with that?

The term 'birther' is a smoke screen.

 

It's not about obama, or his birth place.

It IS ABOUT the CONSTITUTION.  Article II, Section I.

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“No Person, except a
natural-born Citizen…shall be eligible to that Office of President….” – Article
II, Section 1, Clause 5”

 

The phrase natural-born citizen is defined as one being “born in the
country, of parents who are citizens.” The word citizens has been obviously
pluralized. Furthermore, citizen was defined in the previous sentence, so the
meaning of that word is not in dispute. From these points, we can logically
deduce the meaning of “natural-born citizen” as one born in the country of two
parents who are obligated to perform duties as members of the society, who are
subject to the authority or jurisdiction of the society’s government, and who
enjoy the privileges of such a citizenship and can participate in the political
construct. If both parents do not fit that description, then they are not
citizens of the country and their children cannot inherit that condition at birth.

 

Despite what many so-called “scholars” agree upon in regards to the term
natural-born citizen, the writings of Emerich de Vattel point to a very
specific meaning – and his definition of the term is the only explicit one
known today. Vattel’s 1758 treatise, The Law of Nations, was based on the
reasoning and literature of past natural law theorists and his work was greatly
accepted and cited by our Founders and other jurists and statesmen for well
over a century.

 

Obamas father was a British Subject. 

His step father was an Indonesian Citizen.

He applied for student aid as a foreign student.

 

http://gjresult.com

 

Outrageous!

Oh, sorry, it's only Matthews. It's only MSNBC. Phew ... for a second there, I was a little worried.

mb - You're right. It WAS last week

from Mark Finkelstein's Aug. 7 blog

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Put 100 of these people in a room. Strap them into gurneys.  Inject them with sodium pentathol. How many of them would say "I don't like the idea of having a black president"? What percentage?

CYNTHIA TUCKER: Oh, I'm just guessing. This is just off the cuff. I think 45 to 65% of the people who appear at these groups are people who will never be comfortable with the idea of a black president. 

Cynthia Tucker, aka Chris' "source".

                  ~~save your tea, dump congress~~

Thriller...

Matthews: "I think...."

Right there's his problem.

Chris Matthews the racist

When Mr. Matthews played the video of the 35 year old woman, where was anything about race mentioned by her?   All she asked was that the Congress and the Senate follow the Constitution when they enact bills or laws.

What is wrong with that statement?   This Health Reform Bill is not following the Constitution.  The taking over of GM and firing of its CEO is not following the Constitution.   This is straight governement takeover of our lives from birth to death.

Wake up Chris Matthews, the tingle has gone to your brain and all you see now is race, race, race and blame it on the conservatives.   We want answers and we want responsibility with our tax money and I don't think that is too much to ask from our leaders.  That's what they are supposed to do, and that is represent their constituents, not their own egos.

He's a "RACER"

Matthews loves to try to discredit people as "birthers."

Well there is more to the birth certificate controversy than to this bogus claim that people are opposing BO because he's black.

We should start using the term "RACERS" for people like this. (No offense, you NASCAR people)

Good One mattm

See my post down at 21:11 on 8/11 for more terms.

 

Stop Funding Leftist Propaganda - Boycott GE & Disney

What a jack@ss!!!

Matthews you're a blithering idiot!!!

I voted for Alan Keyes three times! Yeah.. it's all about race alright.. just with you RACIST democRAT liberal pablum pukers!!

$@!$%^#  moron!

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Don't you know...

that if you like black conservative politicians but despise black liberal politicians you are a racist?

Just wait, the media will begin calling today's mobs, tomorrow's racists mobs because they don't agree with a LIBERAL black president's vision for America. (Note to Chrissy Matthews, liberal is bold because that's what I despise about this president.)

Racist Media

Yeah, but couldn't you say that you 'hate' the white Obama instead of the black one?

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

selective loathing

Obama had the best of both worlds -- pampered on the white side and affirmative-actioned on the black side.  He's had more unearned privilege in his life than most upper-middle class whites ever knew.  Yet he plays himself as a sophisticate who rose above the dung heap of disadvantage and discrimination. (Dubya's much-maligned 'cowboy' persona at least has a shred of credibility.)

I can understand him identifying with the stigma of being seen as black, so his 'black' affectations I can take in-stride.  It's the incongruous grandiosity you might call his 'whiteness' that I detest.  His smug "I'm in charge, you fall in line" and "if you disagree you just don't understand" attitude is what sickens me.

Matthews is simply what happens when puke gets sick.

God, it really is fun watching Matthews

get more and more unhinged by the day.  To me the biggest surprise is that anyone would be shocked by the "racist" allegations.  This is the logical conclusion of groundwork that Tingle-boy and his ilk have laid since Obama got the nomination.  From now until Obama exits the political scene, no criticism of Obama can ever be legitimate; it's all racist.

You'll find more authentic

You'll find more authentic debate on Springer and WWE than you ever will on Chrissy Matthews' weak show.  The fat turd is a deceptive partisan hack and he knows it.  He has nothing of substance to discuss on the issue of health care reform, so he tries to pull this highly disingenuous "birther" slight of hand non-sequitur out of his ass...as if anyone with at least half a brain is going to fall for that Bush=Hitler/Obamunist Health "Care" opponent="birther" garbage.  Keep bringing down the GE ship, fat boy...Immelt's never going to be able to flog enough screw-in mercury bombs to save your gigantic ass.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

FITZY...

A couple of things Fitz,

Your post is dead on. The only thing I can add is that  since Jack Welch left GE, the stock price has been going down. If you are a shareholder of GE, you should be pissed about that. How many own GE stock in some some sort of long term investment pension plans they are part of? That's more then a few I would guess.

As for Matthews, I really don't understand how he stays on the air.  The guy has never gotten ratings, & there is no real potential for growth. Maybe there are a handfull of people in the Beltway & Manhattan who think this clown is worth watching/listening to, but that sure as hell is not the case in the heartland.

Finally, I left the most important for last...I love your tagline, it does remind me of a Tug McGraw(the ex MLP pitcher & the father of country siger Tim McGraw) at a bankrupcy court hearing. This Sunday, your boys vs my boys on FoxSoccerChannel. Liverpool @ Spurs, how do you think your club does this year? Can Spurs get into the Top 4 or better?

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

Danybhoy, Yeah, I've

Danybhoy,

Yeah, I've really gotten sick of Immelt's cross-promotional scam with the "Green is Universal" campaign.  Just bleed the junk science propaganda into every pore of the network's programming, from prime time, to late night, from local and national news to football and try scaring people into buying your crappy light bulbs by sending your Today Show crew to all corners of the world to preach an environmental apocalypse.  What a joke.  No wonder the stock's in the toilet.  I certainly won't buy any GE crap.

Tough opening match for Spurs.  The last three seasons have begun with much optimism after much buying and selling (especially buying)...and the inflated expectation that came from the end of the 2006 season.  Needless to say, those last three seasons were largely disappointing as the expectations had to balance out in light of a bad start fueled by an opening day away defeat to a Northern team (Bolton, then Sunderland, then Middlesbrough) followed by unexpected early losses.  I think that because the opening match is home to Liverpool, and in light of the attention that Manchester City (and to a lesser extent Aston Villa, Fulham and Everton) have generated, Spurs can float under the radar of more realistic expectations.  Sixth is about the best we can hope for, however...hopefully Harry will use the off-year from the UEFA Cup as an opportunity to go for the FA Cup...I'm kind of sick of seeing the "Top Four" at Wembley every May.  That said, your Reds are in as good a position to win the League than they have been in some time.  Alonso is a massive loss, but Arsenal and United have lost a fair bit more...and I can only see Chelsea as having stayed the same or gotten better from last year.  Lucky break with the Gerrard affray trial, mind. :-)

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

The Stupid............It Burns!

Now exactly what in this woman's statement is racist?  

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: "I don't believe this is just about health care.
It's not about TARP. It's not about left and right. This is about the
systematic dismantling of this country. I'm only 35-years-old. I have
never been interested in politics. You have awakened the sleeping
giant. We are tired of this. This is why everybody in this room is so
ticked off. I don't want this country turning into Russia, turning into
a socialized country. My question for you is, what are you going to do
to restore this country back to what our Founders created, according to
the Constitution!"

What this 35-year-old woman is saying is exactly how most of us are feeling.  There is a reason that people who did not pay attention to politics before are now because they see what is being done.  The politicians in D.C. have awakened the sleeping giant and it has zip, zero, nada to do with the race of our president.  When will these embeciles get this through their collective brains? 

I am tired and I am exhausted at hearing these idiots play the race card day after day after day when race has nothing to do with it.  

She'll be on Hannity tonight

and was on his radio show earlier.  Not exactly a swastika-waving, gun-toting racist.

It's Chrissie's

It's Chrissie's instantaneous transition to "find the victimology in all this" mode.  He jumped to the absurd conclusion that ased on his hypothetical view of the U.S, map that what this woman was saying was somehow a secret subconcious desire to return to the days of the old south and what all that entailed.  Chrissie is a narcisstic jerk and isn't worth the oxygen he consum es on a daily basis.

You see...

Liberals like Chris Matthews think the Constitution itself is racist.

Well now, let's remember

Well now, let's remember that our Constitution was written by old White men and not a wise Latina.

Brilliant Idea!!!

If you are a person in this country who believes in this concept of cradle to grave care for all, then YOU pay for it. And that includes you, Chris Matthews. 


Fixes...

The Tenth Amendment

Tort Reform

TERM LIMITS

Adherence to the entire Constitution.....

Vote them all out. Write them first to tell them why...Government corruption needs to end now. They work for us...Smash the Political Class.............

MATTHEWS: Okay I think, I

MATTHEWS: Okay I think, I think some of the people are upset because we have a black president.

And some people are gaga simply because the President is black

Some people voted for Obama simply because he was black.

Some people drool that Obama is a "genius" for no other reason than he's black.

Some people get outraged when Obama is criticized, because he's black.

And that's just Chris Matthews.

How's that thrill working out for you Christine?

Thanks Barack: from post-racial to most-racial in just six months!

Let us not forget

He is OUR president, no matter what - BUT, we have the right to say he might be acting like a bonehead, just like the demolibs told us that THEIR president, Bush, was a cowboy, drunk dummie. How is it that these dummies can't remember what they once said? Sorry, I forgot, we're talking about demolibs - Oh, and the cowards in the media have no clue what might be thought by the folks who supposedly watch their shows or read their papers/magazines. Chrissy - if you know how to read, and read this and other posts, let your tingley legs take you out of the beltway and actually go to a townhall meeting and listen to the people who are now finally taking their dukes and duchesses to task. We really don't need a "ruling" class, ain't what the founders wanted.

 

Proud member of the MOB - Move Over Barack, we want our country back! 

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Racists

Wow, now MSNBC is taking talking points from Janeane Garafaolo. Can't imagine why their ratings are in the tank.

 

"Stupid is as stupid does" Forrest Gump

Geeze, the video makes it

Geeze, the video makes it worse. He's a snide son-of-a-gun (no pun intended) isn't he?

I guess Chrissy realizes that he can pretty much say whatever he wants since nobody's watching...

Matthews paints with a broad stroke

"You look at these kind of people"

"You think these people vote for Obama"

"Let's listen to what they're saying"

"These guys"

Chris Matthews not only caters to the lowest common denominator of the left wing nuts; he is a pitiful example of the lowest common denominator of uninformed, lazy, blind followers of the Church of the Latter Day Saints of Barack Obama.

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

Birthers

Oh, stupid me, I just realized, it's the birthers that are carrying the swastikas! I just keep missing them in all the MSM "Journalism" that we've been subjected to lately. You know "the 4th estate" and all that. Keeping the Govt. in check by asking the "tough" questions and doing all that in depth investigating. You know quoting the Huffington Post and Daily Kos and other non biased trustworthy media outlets. (say what? since when is plagiarizing the huffpo or kos not journalism?) Now where was I, (stop, I don't care if George Sorros is paying the bills) I will regurgitate the party line right up to the waiting line for my health care.

Just when you think Matthews has completely embarrassed himself

He goes and out does himself once again.

He makes a statement about the racist attitudes of people at town meetings and then to prove his point he uses a clip of someone who said absolutely nothing racial and then calls it primitive.  He then scoffs at the idea that some protester may have in fact voted for Obama.

 

MATTHEWS: You think these people vote for Obama?

MOORE: Some of them did.

MATTHEWS: Oh c'mon!

In Matthews's world everyone voted for Obama  or they were klansmen.  The possibility that someone who fell for Obama's schtick is now criticizing him is unfathomable because everyone He knows absolutely loves Obama.

 

 

" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him....-Sen. Jim DeMint

After reading all the

After reading all the racist, homophobic, right-wingnut comments on this page, all I can say is....

Ditto.   ;^) 

 

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams

Confirmed

Just us "typical white people". < : )

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

Chrissy

Cant get it thru his little mind that people dont want their lives controlled.Doesnt matter by who.This is a free country wheather he likes it or not it is going to stay that way.

Check out this racist

Check out this racist dog.

http://www.youtube.c...

If you've lost the dogs, you've lost America.

Smart dog. He knows if he

Smart dog. He knows if he takes the treat there are strings attached.

Way to make friends and influence the folks, Chrissy and Eddy

Get on a cable TV newstalk program and call the frustrated, voting protesters "gun-toting" "racist" "birthers".

Oh that's right.  Nobody watches that dog and pony act anyway.  But the Media and Dems everywhere are gnawing at their own hide by making condescending, ad hominem attacks on the people asserting their right to assemble and dissent.

How many race cards are

How many race cards are there in a deck? A day does`nt go by now without opponents of The One`s policies being accused of racism.

52?

But does that include two jokers?

Why so serious?

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

The deck these jokers are

The deck these jokers are bottom-dealing from is ALL "race cards." 

 

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Race Card

Fred Reed was a police reporter for one of the large Washington newspapers....He now writes a column which can be googled 'Fred on Everything'.
Fred published a weekly online column in which he got to say the things his editors would never, ever have let him write in the paper. His stuff is iconoclastic and various articles have probably offended everyone regardless of political orientation. So, with the warning that 'This is definitely not politically correct,' here comes Fred.

The following is an essay regarding the failings of a system and a

culture. Please note that he elegantly describes the mood of many

Americans and he does so without prejudice.

Slavery Reparations ..........by Fred Reed!

On the Web I find that Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of

Afro-American Studies at Harvard, is demanding that whites pay reparations to blacks.

It's because of slavery, see. He is joined in this endeavor by a gaggle

of other professional blacks. I guess he'll send me a bill, huh?

I feel like saying, 'Let me get this straight, Hank. I'm slow. Be

patient. You want free money because of slavery, right? I don't blame you.' I'd like free money too. Tell you what. I believe in justice. I'll give you a million dollars for every slave I own, and another million for every year you were a slave. Fair enough? But tell me, how many slaves do you suppose I have? In round numbers, I mean...Say to the nearest dozen.

And how long were you a slave?

Oh. In other words, I owe you reparations for something that I didn't do and didn't happen to you. That makes sense. Like lug nuts on a birthday cake.

Personally, I think you owe me reparations for things you didn't do and never happened to me. I've never been coated in Dutch chocolate and thrown from the Eiffel Tower. I'll bet you've never done it to anyone. I want reparations. Kind of silly, isn't it?

But if we're going to talk about reparations, that's a street that runs in two directions. You want money from me for what some other whites did to some other blacks in another century. How about you guys paying whites reparations for current expenses caused by blacks? Not long ago blacks burned down half of Los Angeles, a city in my country. Cities are expensive, Hank. Build one sometime and you'll see what I mean. Whites had to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for you. You can send me a check.

Now, yes, I know you burned LA because you didn't like the verdict in the trial of those police officers. Well, I didn't like the verdict in the Simpson trial. But I didn't burn my house and loot Korean grocers.

Over the years blacks have burned a lot of American cities: Newark, Detroit, Watts, on and on. Now add in the fantastic cost over the years of welfare in all its forms, of large police forces, for cells and jails and security systems in department stores. I can't live in the capital city of my own country because of crime committed by blacks. Toss in the cultural cost of lowering standards in everything for the benefit of blacks. See what I mean?

Now, I'd view things differently if you said, 'Fred, blacks can't get

anywhere in a modern country without education. We know that. We need better schools, smarter teachers, harder courses, books with smaller pictures and bigger words. Can you help us?'

I'd say, 'Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh! Not just yes, but hell yes. Let's sell an

aircraft carrier and get these folks some real schools and get them into the economic main-stream.' I'd say it partly because it would be the right thing to do, and partly, because I'd like to add you guys to the tax base.

The current custodial state is expensive. I'd just love for blacks to

study and learn to compete and stop burning places. But is it going to happen? You may not believe it, but I, and most whites, don't like seeing blacks as miserable and screwed up as they are. I spend a fair amount of time in the projects. Those places are ugly. It's no fun watching perfectly good kids turn into semi-literate dope dealers who barely speak English. It just plain ain't right. But, Hank, what am I supposed to do about it? I can't do your children's homework. At some point, people have to do things for themselves, or they don't get done. Maybe it's time.

I'll tell you what I see out in the world, Hank... I think blacks are too accustomed to getting anything they want by just demanding it. True, it has worked for over half a century. Get a few hundred people in the street, implicitly threaten to loot and burn, holler about slavery, and the Great White Cash Spigot turns on.

Thing is, whites don't much buy it any longer. Most recognize that what once was a civil-rights movement has become a shakedown game. Few people still feel responsible for the failings and inadequacies of blacks.

Political correctness keeps the lid on -- but everyone knows the score. Which scares me, Hank.

On one hand, blacks hate whites and incline toward looting and Burning. (The whites you hate are the ones who marched in the civil-rights movement. Ever think about that?)

On the other hand, whites quietly grow wearier and wearier of it. Not good.

On the third hand (allow me three hands, for rhetorical convenience), blacks keep demanding things. As I write, you demand reparations for slavery. Blacks in Oklahoma (I think it was) want money for some ancient race riot. Other blacks reject the Declaration of Independence, blacks in New York hint broadly at burning and looting over a trial, yet more demand the elimination of the Confederate flag, and the federal equal opportunity

apparatus, which means blacks, wants to sue Silicon Valley for not hiring nonexistent black engineers. That's a lot of demanding for one month, Hank. What happens if whites ever say, 'No' ?

Now, how about you? You've got a cushy job up there at Harvard, and you can hoot and holler about what swine and bandits whites are. I guess it's lots of fun, and you get a salary for it. But don't you think you might do blacks more good if you told them to complain less and study more?

For example, if you want blacks to work in Silicon Gulch, the best

approach might be to find some really smart black guys, and get them to study digital design, not Black Studies. That's how everybody else does it. It works. Then blacks wouldn't feel left out, and racial tensions would decline. Sound like a plan?

Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week do professors of

Afro-American Studies spend in the projects, encouraging poor black kids?

Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier

Probably not a good idea to

Probably not a good idea to copy an entire article from another site. They have laws against such things.

Speaking of slavery though, I found out on Sunday that an ancestor of mine was sold as a white slave. Do I get reparations too?

First of all, Rendell needs

First of all, Rendell needs to get his @ss back to PA and work on the budget now that he's driven our state into the ground, and stop running for Spector's senate seat when Spector gives up the ghost.

Secondly the arrogance of Chrissy is unbelievable.  He KNOWS the people against these proposals are racist?!  No Chrissy, they are the people who pay the bills for this country and are sick and tired of the government continuing to act like taxpayers are an ATM without having to repay the money.

"Secondly the arrogance of

"Secondly the arrogance of Chrissy is unbelievable.  He KNOWS the people against these proposals are racist?"

He's projecting. He assumes everyone else is just as racist as he is.

Keyes

As someone stated above, I too voted for Alan Keyes every time he ran, as well as financial support and worked his campaign. What a great man, and would be a wonderful leader. But, what do I know, as I am just another redneck white guy out there..

Typical White Person

I'd like to see him debate Obama Bin Biden on healthcare. He would mop the floor with Obama.

One rule: NO TELE-PROMPTERS OR EAR PIECES!!

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Lets give the bamster a time

Lets give the bamster a time limit too, I'm sick of his rambling speeches.  He says nothing and uses a lot of words to do so.

Times Up.. Mr. President.

And heckling should be allowed as well. He lied all day at his campaign rally. Doesn't he understand that the reason a lot of people are outraged is because they SAW what's in the bill??? Who's he trying to fool??

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Obama lies

Shep Smith on Fox gave Obama a hand.  He asked where the people could go for "unbiased information" about the bill and the truth so he gave the link to whitehouse.gov as a source.  How about giving people the link to the BILL ITSELF?!  That's where people can find the truth, not listening to Obama the master liar.

Radical

Why is that no surprise.I watched Shep and it was easy to tell which way he was leaning.

In his usual pathetic way

Shep also proclaimed the UN Report about America's health care ranking Senator Cardin was citing as the "truth".

Disinformation, thy name is Shepard Smith.

 

I give no credibility to

I give no credibility to anything coming out of the UN. I have no interest in following the lead or rules of other countries, we're having enough trouble having our own government represent our interests.

Shep Smith is becoming a joke.

How do you watch?

He's like a ventriloquist's Ken doll dummy with a teleprompter.

Sick

I am really sick and tired of these left-wing fools playing the race card every time their Messiah gets criticized.  This is not about race.  It is about policy, fiscal responsibility, freedom, the Constitution, and the republic.  I don't oppose Barry and the Democrats because he is black.  I oppose Barry and the Democrats because they are Marxists who are destroying the republic.

Mr. Tingle Thighs delivers

Mr. Tingle Thighs delivers the intellectual coup d'etat:  he plays the race card.

 "I think some of the

 "I think some of the people are upset because we have a black president."

Chrissy, you ignorant slut!  We are upset because fiddytwo percent of the voters did not care enough about what was revealed about Obama's statements and voting records to keep a marxist out of office.  We are upset because we know that Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution enumerates the powers of the Federal Government, and almost none of what Teh One has been doing is listed there.  We are upset because the very newsmedia who claim to be unbiased and in the middle and watchdogs over government are extremely biased to the left, and lapdogs for Barak. Or, did you forget about your leg tingle, Chrissy?

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

is that a dead cat on Tingles head?

He is just disgusting. All he does is spew spittle and scream that anyone who opposes Obama is a racist birther. That's his new thing - "Are you a birther? Do you deny his right to be President? Are you, are you? Are you a birther? Tell me TELL ME!"

Who does Matthews think he is, Olby? HA No wonder they are failing miserably, they are completely unhinged.  

Olbermann, Matthews, O'Donnell, Ed, the whole lot of them. Hacks. 

 

 

dead cat

Oh yeah, that's his new 'California surfer look' launched this week... pump up the volume, bolder highlights, a little bit of bang goin' on, fake tan. Replaces the sparse Senator Moynihan combover he had.

Goes along with the new graphics and sound effects that started Monday.

Same old bullsh*t, but somehow hipper. Or something.

Ask Kenneth Gladney which

Ask Kenneth Gladney which party is the party of the bigot.  Why isn't someone punishing this hate speech by the SEIU and other bigots from the hate filled SoCOMMS.  So how is it portrayed by the liberal press?

http://www.wikio.com...

These are the same people who covered the Duke rape case, the Tawana Brawley fiasco, and the Rodney King hype, but because the guy is a black conservative he is a liar.

"What experience and history teach is
this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it."


G. W. F. Hegel

he's getting the JTP treatment

I hope he's ready for it.

___________________________________________ 
"The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax"  - HR 3200 (Health Care Bill) Pg. 203. Ln 14 & 15

Matthews Is A Non-Person

I long ago gave up on paying attention to anything Matthews says or does. It's always going to be as crazy or crazier than his last stunt, so it's of no concern to me.

In the spirit of "Fisking" internet comments, and devoting as little bandwidth as possible to nitwits like Matthews, we need to develop a shorthand lexicon to identify nonsense from the left.

Here are my opening contributions. If you don't "get" some of them, please ask for clarification.

the debate was Gored

the opposition was Alinskyed

the DNC event attendees were a bunch of D-Baggers

the Counters still think Gore won the 2000 election

the voting results were Frankened

the registrations were Acorned

Ok, everybody into the pool, there has to be more of these.

 

Stop Funding Leftist Propaganda - Boycott GE & Disney

lol

That works for me JSS.

Alinsky-Matthews

This ploy is straight out Alinsky's playbook.

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Of course, methinks I give Matthews too much credit, as I'm not certain he has the wit or discipline necessary for acting on principle (no matter how depraved), but intentional or not, his tactic is Alinsky-esque.

 

"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann

I'm sure some are upset

I'm sure some are upset about the president being black...and they include Democrats and independents.

But they're not the ones showing up at town hall meetings and tea parties.  Thankfully.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

rule 5

RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

I'll bet that Matthews will

I'll bet that Matthews will never read this...

Obamacare Broken Down For All

It would make too much sense and be too indepth for him. 

 

http://iamnotaracist.wordpress.com/  

Commenting on Chrissy . . .

. . . is such a waste of bandwidth.

Matthews

This is why you don't go to Chris Matthews for news and analysis, he's incapable of both.  There was a time when I'd listen to Matthews because I thought he loved the game and he'd take both sides.  Not any more.  He's now become nothing more than a partisan hack.  

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

Correction...we have a HALF black pres.

Allen Keyes for President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

So we can have the best qualified AND black president.

Yeah....I'll have to take a

Yeah....I'll have to take a pass on Keyes too. Surely Black America has better to offer than Obama and Keyes.

Condi Rice for president!

Condi Rice for president!

Pfffttbb!

You probably liked Colin Powell for President too?

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

NO!!

NO!!

?????

What has Colin Powell got to do with Allen Keyes? Why would you lump them together? Keyes thinks on his own. Powell is a "Yes" man.

Educate yourself...Colin is also not 100% black. Is there a patern here???

Allen Keys is a great man and I was for him the very first time I heard him speak. Go by his content...

Powell is a TRADER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want the best qualified.

I want the best qualified.

Its not because we have a black president...

...its because we have a wack president.  Fo Reelz.

It gives me a tingle

It gives me a tingle up my leg to hear him say that. He knows that racism has nothing to do with this grassroots uprising and it scares him to death. He knows that the silent majority has been awakened and Obama is loosing support. He feels like he has to help (he said that was his job) and screaming racism is the best he can come up with. What else can he say? It is funny as hell to watch him. What a water headed retard!!

Conservative Blogs Central

Chris Mathews has went off the deep end

He's a nut. He makes an assertion with absolutely no data to back it up ( like how many of these protesters and opponents are "birthers")and relies on "Oh common."

What I thought was funny as hell was Rendell's backtracking about calling these people nuts :)  How soon we forget, chicken's come home to roost.

I am the mob. Don't tread on me.

RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama is perfect for the left--including the state-run media--because he comes with a built-in way to ridicule anyone who dares to stand up to him and/or his policies. Just yell "RACIST!"

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We need to stop calling them "Progressives" when in reality they are big government "Socialists" who no longer value the individual's rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Just for the sake of argument, let's assume Chrissy is correct.

Assume the angry white males in the South can't stand that a black man is President.  Why would they come out now and protest this fact around a completely different issue?  Have all the angry white male Southerners received some secret message, via their amygdala, which are parts of the brain involved in memory of emotions?

 Does this make even the remotest sense?

If angry white male Southerners were so upset by the prospect of a black man becoming President, why didn't they do something about it, when it could've mattered, in the election campaign?

 It's too late now, baby.  He's the President and Healthcare Townhalls aren't going to change that.

 Chrissy is a mental case and doesn't know what he is saying.  Or he's a race-baiting demagogue, who puts George Wallace to shame.

 

Yet another perfect example of the...

intellectual dishonesty and race baiting of the left in general, and of the microbrains over at MSNBC, in particular. If anyone for any reason criticizes Obamessiah, they are a racist. Period. To these delusional twits, there is never, ever, a legitimate reason to find fault with anything that "The One" says or does.   

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

"We have a duty...."

"We have a duty to see this President succeeds.  We have a duty to see his policies succeed."

 

Isn't that a direct quote from this tool? 

We've won already, but no

We've won already, but no one on the left seems to realize it yet.

This is all they have.  We oppose The Health Care Takeover because POTUS is African-American ?

 

We've already won.

"This is all they have. 

"This is all they have.  We oppose The Health Care Takeover because POTUS is African-American ?"

It's especially rich when you consider that the independants who handed Obama the election are against it too, which means the same people who elected a Black man president are against a government takeover of health care because the president is Black. 

Matthews is, of course, loco

Matthews is, of course, loco for choco puffs.

But then you have the other kook, Beck, saying that everything Obama does is for reparations, which MIGHT lead people to be upset because we have a black president. 

I'd really like to see Beck

I'd really like to see Beck and Matthews do a show together.  (kidding)

It would be like Hannity and Colmes, just less cerbrial.

And more yelling.  Lots more yelling.

More drooling, more crying.

More drooling, more crying.

I assume you mean the

I assume you mean the audience . . .  ;-)

Free,

I think my head would acutally explode. :)

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

Tingles vs. Mr.

Tingles vs. Mr. Caffeine

Sounds like a CurrenTV (Al Gone's "News" channel) show.

 

 

"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media.-- Lowell Ponte

8>)

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

Of course, of course. :-p

Of course, of course. :-p

balboa

Your just saying that because...oh wait your right....)

Link

Does anyone have a link to the bill? Unlike my senators I want to read it.

Snede 7711

This might get you there....

 

http://www.liberty.edu/media/9980/attachments/healthcare_overview_obama_072909.pdf

******

Matthews legs must be vibratin' like a jack hammer these days.    :)

MSNBC, NBC and GE

Is it possible that Jeff Immelt http://en.wikipedia.... is encouraging Chrissy and Olbermann to do what they do to serve as a distraction from Mr. Immelt's other interests; green energy.  I mean what's the cost of a few terrible anchormen and decreased advertising revenue when compared to the profit in green energy. Especially if it's somehow taxpayer subsidized.

Could Immelt be winning the war in the politics of energy because we didn't even know we were fighting it?   Distract and conquer comes to mind for some reason.

The latest video of  O at the town hall meeting trying to answer a question without a teleprompter was almost painful to watch.

Remember...

 

Matthews said he felt like he wanted to help this administration!

"Matthews said he felt like

"Matthews said he felt like he wanted to help this administration!"

Actually,  he said it was his job to make sure it was a success.

http://www.breitbart...

Know what else he said in that video? Trying to figure out motive is the worst thing you can do as a journalist.

Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....

Right, Chris, and yet, you just know the motive behind these protests is racism.

What an ass.....and not in a good way.

We can't let the race card

We can't let the race card work its magic anymore.  I think there are very few people who dislike Obama simply because he is black.  It is his liberal extremism, anti-capitalism, pro-socialism and apologizing for America that piss so many of us off.  

I dislike Ted Kennedy for the same reasons.  Does that mean I hate white/Irish people?  I hope not, because I am IRISH! 

We can't let the race card work its magic anymore.

We can't let the race card work its magic anymore.

 

Absolutely correct---every day as I review the news I see race used as a stick. 10 out of 10 times it is used against conservatives, regardless of the race of the conservative. We should turn the race card over on those who use it. Isn't using the race card  the most racist thing one can do???

The Tingles

is, and always has been, a joke.  He's really gone off the deep end, throwing smear after smear after smear, with of course nothing to back it up.

What's the latest cable ratings on this putz so that I can laugh at him some more? 

 

here..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hFiab7fjak

Maybe a little extreme, but hell, he makes some good points.

I'm mad as Hell, and I'm NOT going to take it anymore!

my comments

my comments above are referring to the video link, not the blubbering idiot from msnbc.

I'm mad as Hell, and I'm NOT going to take it anymore!

matthews

Having been beaten by a D-list comic I know you have to be "provocative". The simple fact you dumb ass is that it's not because BO is half black, it's because he's all RED. Get that , Mr. Tingles?

              

                I am a first time protester and I'm not upset because we have a black president. I'm upset because we have THIS black president. It takes more than organizing to run a country. He doesn't have what it takes. Neither does the czars or the other people he has around him.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

"community organizing"

"Community organizing" is, in fact, a nefarious Saul Alinsky leftist tactic for radicals to seize power by hook or by crook.  I am appalled that the Republicans (including Sarah Palin) did not bring this fact to light prior to the national election.  There should've been less Ayers/Wright (mere associations) and more Alinsky, the progenitor of both Obama and Hillary, and the reason why neither of them can be trusted.

 

"Let's wrap him up, alright?" -- Keith Olbermann

For the last time: We don't have a black President!!!

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

SCREWBALL WITH SCREWBALL...

 Stupidity seems to be the driving force behind Matthews & MSNBC's entire lineup. Classic lib logic, play the race card. If they could'nt play the race card, they could'nt play cards. But I could be strongarmed into believing that Matthews would be willing to play strip poker with Obama, BathTubBoy, Eugene Robinson, Special Ed, & Schuster. I'm assuming that World Poker Tour 2009 would beat that in the ratings, that's because MSNBC ALWAYS gets beat in the ratings.

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

I for one

I am not cringing over this racism stuff anymore...I object to this president because he is a phony, a liar, snobby, irritating, and not as smart as he thinks he is--and he thinks I am a dopey goober he can roll over with his sophist remarks. Skin color isn't in the mix. Who cares?  

Hey chrissie?

 

He's an Arab.

His ancestor sold the American Black ancestors into slavery.

If it weren't for his ancestors we would never have had a slavery prblem to begin with.

http://gjresult.com

 

Black president?

I thought our president was half white?  

"Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity.  But in simple obedience to duty." - From the barracks at Ft. Benning

"I think some of the people

"I think some of the people are upset because we have a black president." C. Mathews (D-SRM).

Geeze Louise! The Press can't even get that right. We have a half-black President. What? His Caucasian mother never existed? Those white genes in The One have no value? They must  strangely be considered his "dark" side.

We defnietly know we're winning on all fronts now that the "Progressives" have the media playing the race card for them.

We all know how the Left defines a "racist"

A "racist" is anyone winning an argument with a Liberal.