Matthews Compares Conservative Cartoon for Kids to Cambodian Re-Education, Mao Propaganda
Former Arkansas Governor and possible 2012 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has produced a cartoon series that offers a decidedly conservative alternative to the typical liberal bilge that kids are inundated with on TV and in schools across the nation and Chris Matthews is not happy about it.
On Thursday's Hardball Matthews played a clip from the kids show that featured an animated Ronald Reagan imparting some inspiring words to the children, after which the MSNBC host railed: "that's right from a Cambodian re-education camp or it's chairman Mao's little red book. What propaganda!"
(video, audio and transcript after the jump)
The following excerpt was aired during the Sideshow segment of the May 13 edition of Hardball:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Next up, through the looking glass. 2012 contender Mike Huckabee is producing animated history lessons for children. What was America like before Ronald Reagan? Here's the conservative spin.
(Begin clip from cartoon entitled Time Travel Academy)
ANIMATED CHARACTER#1: The downturn in the economy is killing us, people are out of work, and some of their morals are just gone.
MUGGER: Give me your money.
CHARACTER#2: And in Iran Islamic fundamentalists stormed the U.S. embassy and took 52 American diplomats hostage.
CHARACTER#3: Oh no it's bad, really bad.
CHARACTER#4: That guy's gotta gun! C'mon!
CHARACTER#5: Do something!
CHARACTER#6: Ahh!
CHARACTER#4: Why is everybody so excited?
CHARACTER#7: Because they see hope.
RONALD REAGAN IN ANIMATED FORM: God had a plan for America. I see it as a shining city on a hill. If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
[On screen: Go back in time to see how one man transformed a nation...And the world."]
(End clip)
MATTHEWS: You know I don't know whether that's right from a Cambodian re-education camp or it's chairman Mao's little red book. What propaganda!
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Must Be a Card-Carrying Communist
Submitted by rogue operator on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 10:05am.
I no longer have any doubt that at least half the news and opinion media are communist, if not formally, than at least in loyalty. This kind of disinformation is deliberate and beyond the pale.
All Americans should immediately cease denying what these "liberals" and "progressives" actually stand for.
I guess Chrissy has never read
Submitted by sherlock1 on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 10:16am.
I guess Chrissy has never read the creepy little tract "Why Mommy is a Democrat", which is not only preachy about how Dems care about people, but is also loaded with subliminal messages about how evil and uncaring Republicans are. Well, maybe he did read it, and uses it an instruction manual for his show?
MSNBC loved the Obama kiddy
Submitted by kg on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 3:42pm.
MSNBC loved the Obama kiddy book but are in full attack mode on these DVD's.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Matthews the Monkey-Man
Submitted by Slyrr on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 10:32am.
Chris Matthews is a monkey with two pairs of arms and hands so he can cover his eyes, and ears at the same time. If only he had a third set so he could shut his stupid, fat mouth.
If he wants to start bringing up lists of liberal hollywood propaganda on political, religious and social issues, he hasn't got a leg to stand on OR get thrills with.
From liberals we get:
- lawyers shows like Law & Order: where the episodes are written specially to slam, mock and figuratively criminalize anyone who isn't a democrat
- Captain Planet: which brainwashes kids into thinking that companies are evil polluters run by supervillain/monsters waging 'war' against their 'earth mother' Whoopi Goldberg, and which teach kids that it's OK to vandalize and destroy property, as long as its in the name of beloved mother Gaea.
- Crooked teachers: Forcing their kids to sing hymns to Barak Obama - mocking students who say their parents vote republican - teaching kindergarten kids how to use condoms - telling underage kids that sex out of wedlock is OK - encouraging abortion and homosexuality among underage kids, et. al.
- Family Guy: portrayed actual Nazi stormtroopers wearing Republican campaign badges
- NPR: fires people who don't say what they want - openly mock republicans to raise money from arab terrorists - openly support Democrats, then lie and say they're 'objective'
- The West Wing: 'Nuff said.
- NBC: Showing google chrome commercials portraying 'gay support groups', even having Woody from Toy Story supporting the cause
- Wrote books, plays and movies about 'how to assassinate Bush'
- Kids books: 'Heather Has Two Mommies'.
this is just of the top of my head. Research would uncover countless other examples - in news, schools, movies, tv shows, commercials, books and everywhere else that liberals have infested.
If Chrissy-boy could pull his head out from his nether regions long enough to get a breath of air, he might see that he's become everything he ever said he hated.
Going ape over the truth............
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:23am.
Well done research and FACT WISE.
Chris Matthews has no
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:16am.
Chris Matthews has no business accusing anyone of spreading propaganda when propaganda is what his show is all about. But in Chrissie's mind, liberal & socialist propaganda isn't propaganda at all but journalism and information. What a freakin' hypocrite!!!
Right On:
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 12:54pm.
Mathews spews some of the most vile, depraved slander and agitprop since Soviet times. It is the left's substitute for arguing issues where they loose big time.
Matthews, you idiot!
Submitted by jessieH on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:18am.
Historical facts are not propaganda. If we want propaganda, we'll watch your moronic show. Try reading a history book, if you can even read, you idiot.
Non historical WH
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:33am.
This is funny. They were taking the photos after the fact & made to look like live pics. All STAGED!!!!!!\
White House: No more photo re-enactments
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110512/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_photographers
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer – Thu May 12, 3:12 pm ET
NEW YORK – The White House said it is ending its long-running practice of having presidents re-enact televised speeches for news photographers following major addresses to the country, a little-known arrangement that fed suggestions of fakery when Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden.
PS: This is OT but priceless. Putin Test Drives Europe's Cheapest Car, Takes 5 Attempts To Start: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/05/13/putin_test_drives_euro...
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
I'm sure that all....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:17am.
131,000 people who watch his show agree.
Since they are still explaining how seat belts work every time you get on a plane, I concede that there may be that many people who don't know how to change the channel of a TV set.
Not quite speechless
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:24am.
Just one thing to say:
MMM Barack Hussein Obama MMM
Propaganda?
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:36am.
That would be as opposed to all the tripe about living "green," political correctness, and diversity that they receive on shows like Sesame Street, Arthur, Diego, and everything else on Nick Jr.?
I'm sure Chris views that as a public service; you know, early childhood "education."
That's pretty funny coming from a communist like Prissy
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:34am.
It's akin to Hitler accusing Mussolini of being a fascist.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Interesting analogy, Chris . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:46am.
. . . since the portion you aired made references to God and both Mao and the Khmer Rouge were avowed atheists.
As an example of brainwashing (or as the Democrats gently term it: socialization), I prefer the video of the young children in that elementary school class making motions with their fists as they chanted the praises of newly-elected President Obama. They didn't get that from a cartoon. They got that from their teachers, who were indoctrinating them.
Now, THAT'S right out of the playbooks of Mao, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez, Kim Chong-Il, -- not to mention Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin.
I think you mean this....
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 12:04pm.
Barack Hussein Obama
And the teacher is obviously instructing them.
And let's not forget this one....proclaiming Obama the Alpha and Omega
and proclaiming his greatness.
Matthews lives in Bizarro World.
Yep
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 12:43pm.
It's the cult of personality, and the MSM was wildly complicit in the case of this President.
But it stands to reason that a man who has some homo-erotic affinity for the President would fail to recognize it. Hell, he's immersed himself in it.
Galvanic your right. Socialiasts Chrissy! Wake up!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 12:38pm.
Chrissy makes me sick. His stupidity is just amazing yet he gets a TV spot. To me, propaganda is propaganda because it is teaching something as true that is false and as being good yet is harmful. We need to take our kids away from these socialists. They are ripping our Country up and tearing up what is right and good. Then laugh about it. How has your "social reform" worked out Chrissy? 1 in 7 on food stamps. Socialist, anti-moral, progressive home wreckers are literally ruining our society. The 'news" media, teachers, government, and Hollywood are the primary propagandists doing it.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
What we you thinking
Submitted by John21 on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 12:01pm.
First it’s Christi Mathews.
As a guest do you expect to hold an intelligent conversation using good manners while showing at least a basic level of respect? On Christies show are you high? Mr. Mathews does not even know those items exist (and they don’t with his associates).
Did you expect to hear any intelligent conversation of that program?
Did you expect anything remotely associated with facts, truth or honesty?
Do you think he does any of his own thinking?
Did you expect him to speak of anything that is not in the DNC talking point?
Did you expect to hear anything that is not on the far left fringe of human understanding?
Did you not expect to get covered by his Obambot slobbering?
You are an Optimist
Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 1:02pm.
...Barack Hussein Obama...
...Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm...
...He wants to be Yo' Mama!...
I guess it's okay with Chrissy to have school children have to sing songs of praise to BO
because there's a GIHUGO difference between the two.
Come on Chrissy, wipe that mayonaise off your chin...
Tingles
Submitted by Texndoc on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 2:41pm.
The guy has just gone bat-s*** crazy ever since he's been ridiculed for "I got this thrill up my leg!".
I think he just says stuff now to get himself on Newsbusters.
Mmm-mmm-mmm. Huh, Tingles. Yes, it's the RIGHT with the little Mao book. Mmmm-mmmm-mmmm.
I think you might be right,
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 3:13pm.
I think you might be right, tex....it's more attention than he gets on his show all week.
This matthews piece of
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 10:48pm.
This matthews piece of garbage needs to go visit S-21 and take a good hard look, and everytime he turns his head away someone needs to slam his face into the wall and tell him to take real good look.
Barack Hussain Obama! Umm!
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 12:13am.
Barack Hussain Obama!
Umm! Ummm! Ummm!
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
My
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 3:39am.
My response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp9g9fmMtoE
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.