Sorry Chris.  You can kiss Al Gore Sr.'s buttocks all you want, but your memory is all wrong.

Furthermore Chris, your side of the aisle is celebrating the stench of Robert Byrd this week.

Cover over your party's Klan roots all you want.  This generation knows it's not so.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

 If I remember it right, it was southern Dems like Robert Byrd-WV, J.William Fulbright-Ark, & Al GoreSr-TN were leading the charge to fight the 64 Civil Rights act. The story behind the story should be as important to the story Matthews is talking about. But he is not honest enough to mention that, because he lies for a living, & he does'nt even care if you know he's lying.

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

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

Nightwish

what outrageous revisionist history to suggest that it was conservatives and not liberals who fought for equal rights.  Conservs want liberals to be responsible for there mistakes...live up to yours.  fighting civil rights was a low point for conservaives, and no strangling of the facts can change that.  you think bull conner was a liberal?!

Thank the heavenly father for Obama

You should not have made reference to my all time favorite movie. get this

     MOVE ON..MOVE ON....MOVE ON

I hope he fails, soon.

I wouldn't say that the Democrats passed it or the Republicans, I would just say more Democrats voted for it than Republicans  -Matthews

Wrong Chrissie!

That was only because there were more Democrats than Republicans.

A history teacher has put together the numbers, and guess what?

More Democrats also voted against it than Republicans.

In the House of Representatives, the vote was 152 Democrats for, 96
against; 138 Republicans for, 34 against. That is, 61% of the Democrats
and 80% of the Republican members of Congress voted to pass the bill.

In the Senate, 46 Democrats voted for and 21 against; 27 Republicans
voted for, and only 6 voted against the bill. That makes 69% of the
Dems and 82% of the Repubs senators voted to pass the law.

Who thinks just like Chrissy Mat, I mean other then CT

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Does anyone take this guy seriously?  Or are they just keeping him on the air because he's the liberal news equivilant of Howard Stern?

Seriously, it seems the only reason he's still around is because some people tune it to see what kind of stupid tear he'll go off on next.  Whether he's humping Obama's leg for thrills in his pants or cooking statistics to conform to his megalomanical cosmology, this guy is a living joke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Civil_Rights_Act#By_party

Back in 1964 Democrats overwhelmingly controlled the Congress. Republicans only had 33 seats in the Senate.  They voted for the bill by 80 %. 27-6   Democrats voted for it in much lower numbers.  Over one third of them voted against it.    The Democrats could not have passed the bill alone even though they held a 2-1 advantage.

What a maroon.

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

Libs celebrate Sheets Byrd, but it`s the Republicans who are racist. Uh, huh.

Unfortunately, the revisionist history `tards like Tingle Legs Matthews spouts has worked very well for the last 50 years.

Here's a little history lesson for the dumbed down, younger crowd. Before the Civil War, The Democrats were pro slavery and heavily Southern. The Republicans were a new Party, Anti-Slavery and largly Northern and led by a man named Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War Northern Democrats were called Copperheads and were actually against the Union's war to free the slaves. Following the war, the Democrats sustained their anti-negro stance and assumed control of the Southern States and maintained it till the late 1960's. All the notorious anti black, anti civil rights Southern governers standing in the schoolroom doors were traditional Democrats. Lester Maddox, George Wallace. Bull Conner was a traditional Democrat. The Republicans were anti slavery and called Carpetbaggers in the South. Lincoln was killed as a Republican President because he freed the slaves. The South only went Republican in the 70's because of the leftist, treasonous turn of the Dem Party after being hijacked by Communists at the 1968 Chicago convention. That led us to the reversal of Southern political alignments we see today. Blacks actually support the traditionaly anti Black Dems because those Dems bribe them with welfare. The anti slavery GOP now has white support after Southern racism died in the 70's. This is all very strange sounding but absolutely true and is NOT taught in schools because of the Dems Socialist/Communist agenda, and they run the schools.

John C. Stennis 

Wiki: Stennis Civil rights record

Throughout Stennis' long career, his record on civil rights was poor. As a prosecutor, he sought the conviction and execution of three African American share croppers whose murder confessions had been extracted by torture. The convictions were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case of Brown v. Mississippi (1936) that banned the use of evidence obtained by torture. The transcript of the trial indicates Stennis was fully aware of the methods of interrogation, including flogging used to gain confessions.

As a Senator, Stennis was a strong supporter of racial segregation. In the 1950s and 1960s he vigorously opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and he signed the Southern Manifesto of 1956, supporting filibuster tactics to block or delay passage in all cases.

Near the end of his life, in the 1980s, he supported civil rights legislation while opposing the national holiday to honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Stennis campaigned (along with Governor of Mississippi William Allain) for Mike Espy in 1986 during Espy's successful bid to become the first black Congressman from the state since the end of Reconstruction.

but, hey he supported the Navy...

Seen your ratings lately?

CABLE NEWS RACE
NOV. 18, 2009

FOXNEWS HANNITY/PALIN 4,200,000
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,868,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,512,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,383,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,235,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 1,980,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,041,000
CNNHN GRACE 1,036,000
MSNBC MADDOW 957,000
CNN KING 835,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 625,000
CNN COOPER 611,000

'Nuff said...

"Inferior people should not be employed." - Firesign Theatre

Who is this Chris guy? Isn't he on the local cable channel like Wayne and Garth?  I think he has about the same number of viewers.

Ratings for MSNBC down over 60% while Fox increased 5%.

Before long Tweety'e entire audience will be his production crew. 

With the success FoxNews has had you have to wonder what MSNBC and CNN are doing and why they are not trying to ramp up with conservatives to better compete?

As usual, Chrissy Matthews lies. Congresswoman Virginia Foxx was absolutely correct. Here are the facts:

1964 Civil Rights Act (Anti-segregration and
discrimination Act)

Because of the problem with a possible Senate
filibuster, which would be imposed by Southern
Democrats, the diverse aspects of the Act were first
dealt with in the House of Representatives. The
roadblock would be that Southern senators chaired both
the Judiciary and the Commerce committees.

H.R.7152 passed the House on Feb. 10, 1964. Of the 420
members who voted, 290 supported the civil rights bill
and 130 opposed it.

Republicans favored the bill, Democrats supported it .
Republicans supported it in higher proportions than
Democrats. Even though those Democrats were Southern
segregationists, without Republicans the bill would
have failed. Republicans were the other much-needed
leg of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A much-higher
percentage of Republicans than Democrats supported the
civil-rights bill. For example, in the House,
Republicans voted 138 to 34 for civil rights, a margin
of 81 percent to 19 percent. The Democrats' margin was
152-96 or 61 percent to 39 percent.

On June 17, the Senate voted by a 76 to 18 margin to
adopt the bipartisan substitute worked out by Dirksen
in his office in May and to give the bill its third
reading. Two days later, the Senate passed the bill by
a 73 to 27 roll call vote. Six Republicans and 21
Democrats held firm and voted against passage.

The single-most-important vote for the legislation was
the attempt to cut off the anti-civil-rights
filibuster in the Senate. In order for the bill to
pass, civil-rights supporters needed two thirds of the
Senate to break a filibuster by the opposition.
Republicans voted overwhelmingly to break the
filibuster by 81.8 percent (27-6), but only 65.7
percent of the Democrats voted to end the filibuster
(44-23). Thus, if only Republicans in the Congress had
voted, any potential filibuster would easily have been
overridden. But, if only Democrats had voted, the
pro-civil-rights forces would not have been able to
obtain the necessary two/thirds vote to break the
filibuster and the civil-rights bill would have died.
No Republicans in Congress, no civil-rights bill — it
is as simple as that.