Matthews: Weiner in Trouble Because His Behavior Offends 'Culturally Backward' Christian Conservatives
On Thursday's Hardball, Chris Matthews determined that Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner could be in danger of being forced out of Congress by Blue Dog Dems who face uphill battles in red states because, as he put it, "people in the rural areas of this country who are Christian conservative culturally - you can say backward if you want...don't like this kind of stuff."
(video after the jump)
During a discussion about Weiner's chances of survival, after being caught sending lewd pictures to women via Twitter, the MSNBCer claimed the liberal congressman didn't have to worry about his, according to Matthews, culturally superior constituents in New York - the "56 percent in Brooklyn and Queens" who "can live with this guy." Instead he had to be concerned with his Democratic colleagues fearful about re-election in the "conservative culturally part of the country."
The following excerpt was aired on the June 9 edition of Hardball:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: If you're a Blue Dog Democrat from a conservative culturally part of the country, where you're fighting out every election with two or three points to spare, if you're a -- if you're are [Jim] Matheson from Utah or you're from Oklahoma and you're a [Dan] Boren -- and he's leaving Congress - your life's getting difficult enough defending the East Coast and the left coast Democratic Party. They're too far left. Look at what happened in Arkansas last year. It's getting very, very hard to defend the behavior, politically, of the party. Now you throw on top of that immoral behavior, indiscrete behavior, embarrassing behavior, gross behavior like this, and you still have him in your midst. And that's my question to you. If you're Steny Hoyer, who does speak for the Blue Dogs, if you're Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker, who has to deal with them, don't you have to deal with the fact - you're losing any chance of getting back a 218 majority?
I want you to pick this up, Ben. This is, to me, the stakes here. If he stays, they never get the leadership back. They never get the Speakership back because the people in the rural areas of this country who are Christian conservative culturally - you can say backward if you want - but they don't like this kind of stuff at all. They're not part of that 56 percent in Brooklyn and Queens who say, "okay, we can live with this guy." Your thoughts, Ben? Isn't that the cutting edge of this?
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So, in Matthews' book,
Submitted by HockeyKid on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 11:47am.
So, in Matthews' book, indecent exposure is a progressive activity that modern Americans should all approve.
It's time for Matthews' wife to book him some professional help, too. Maybe he and Weiner can join Perverts Anonymous together.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Remember Bill Mahrer's past
Submitted by ant on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 3:47am.
Remember Bill Mahrer's past comments about the football player and women "..don't just want to see a man's penis just cold like that... blah,blah, blah...something about said offender and white men.. blah,blah.."? Where is all that? I guess it's okay to crucify ball-player and pop-stars but not Democratic politician scum.
He has a wife?
Submitted by apf2 on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 8:58am.
I thought he was just another queer bashing the religious that refuse to accept his perversion as normal...
You sure she isn't just a cover?
how about his non-constituents-
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 11:50am.
who must live with his votes on important topics-
can we all agree-he has lost his mind.how can you or me or anyone trust his judgement.NOT!!!!
he needs deep therapy-or is it okay to take lewd pictures and send them to folks you do not know.
if some young kid sees those photos is he subject to Kiddie Porn Laws.
Our military is subject to a code of conduct-and this guy is not.
"Conduct unbecoming"
Excommunication
Submitted by kiwikit on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:15pm.
is what is needed here. Send these comments to his priest along with the number (hundreds) of times he's publicly called for maximum abortion. If the act of his being excommunicated has'nt been done, it's only because of the lack of courage of his priest and in reality, he certainly no longer is a member of the Church. BTW what does this say about what Chris feels free to do in his off time? I assume he's a pervert, too.
Thank you Chris Matthews I
Submitted by okie-pastor on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 11:53am.
Thank you Chris Matthews
I would like to thank you for calling my congregation 'backward'
Not only have you given our church bulletin board material proof of how Christians are viewed by MSNBC
But have provided me a new sermon topic
2 Corintians 6:17
Come out from among them (the pop-culture world) and be ye separate (different, 'backward')
What you intended for an insult I will preach to others as a compliment. If you are the epitome of 'normal' than I am most glad to be backward!
Good for you!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:56pm.
Now that's taking a lemon and making lemonade!!
Preach it, Okie.
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:24pm.
There's something wonderfully symmetrical about that.
So many people are completely unaware how biased the MsM has become. This is yet another over-the-top example.
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Pastor
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:30pm.
As a clinger to Christianity and my guns I am offended by any sexual deviancy. What Weiner did was an act of a pervert.
My pastor always says if you were on trial for being a Christian would there be enough evidence to convict you.
Post it! Post it!
Submitted by GW on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:45pm.
If you write your sermons out (as opposed to talking from an outline), please post this. I'd love to read it.
Will do.
Submitted by okie-pastor on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 4:31pm.
Will do.
Anybody care to guess what Tingle's new screensaver is?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 11:58am.
.
Google "The Web Site is Down"
Submitted by GW on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:47pm.
Profanity alert, but there is a funny comment in there about how icons can be arranged on a dsektop.
It is not that we are backward culturally.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:08pm.
It is just that us people in the rural areas don't have high speed internet so pictures of Congressmen's willywackers take foreveeeeeeeer to load.
Yeah, but my wife said...
Submitted by BikerHoop on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 6:51pm.
... the pic loaded fast because it was so small!
The proverbial dog looking at the hand pointing
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:09pm.
Are the liberals really that stupid? Just like with the Clinton impeachment it is not about the initial activity that is causing all the problems. It is about the blatant and bald-faced lying to cover it up.
Wiener should just have come out and said "Ooops. Yes that was me being stupid and sophomoric."
But no. instead he has to call a press conference and lie to the whole country and claim that he himself was a victim of hacking. Not many politicians are trusted by regular everyday people, but Wiener can never be trusted again by anybody.
Meanwhile the libtards at MSDNC are trying to make it all about the initial behavior and not about the lying and the cover up.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
You're right
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:19pm.
But this is the standard Democratic gameplan.
1. Bring in the professionals to assess the damage and begin damage control
2. Deter other witnesses from coming forward (this was the aim of Weiner's statement that private investigators had been hired to find the "hacker.")
3. Make apologies if necessary
4. Change the issue from criminal activity to sex
5. Insist that sex is private and the public has no business in anyone's private life
Too her credit, Democratic columnist Kirsten Powers has rejected that method, and posted a scathing attack on Weiner on the Daily Beast.
What is it about a lieing representative that Chrissy girl
Submitted by nonncom on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:12pm.
doesn't get.....it's not so much what he did, though it is deplorable....it's that he lied to cover it up.....
Chris,
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:12pm.
Get some help.
And may God have mercy on you your soul.
Considering that this
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:17pm.
Considering that this statement came from a knee-pad wearing, Ritalin-laced, spitting, slobbering, mouth-way-ahead-of-brain, delusional Leghumper. - talking about some pencil-necked, whiny, arrogant, sanctemonious, self-absorbed, lying, cheating Weinerschnitzel - .I'm feeling rather proud of being 'culterally backwards'....................
It's almost sad to see how
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:21pm.
It's almost sad to see how far this guy has fallen. Almost.....
But, Chris Matthews, Obama's got a plan for rural Americans,
Submitted by Gary Hall on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:25pm.
Yesterday, it was announced Obama issued an executive order establishing a White House Rural Council.
Don't worry Chris, you and Obama are on the same page - and he's out to fix 'em. They be seeing the light soon now.
(;~> gary
Obama does have a plan for rural Americans
Submitted by NL207 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:27pm.
Obama plans to take away their guns and their Bibles so that they may cling to the government just like his urban subjects.
Obama does have a plan for rural Americans
Submitted by NL207 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:29pm.
Obama plans to take away their guns and their Bibles so that they may cling to the government just like his urban subjects.
NL207 - you can say that again..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:42pm.
NL207 - you can say that again..
(;~> gary
Looks like I already did ....
Submitted by NL207 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:51pm.
.
He is in trouble because he LIED and CHEATED!
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:26pm.
In Matthew's amoral viewpoint, any conduct by any liberal politician is okay as long as the politician continues to vote for liberal positions.
His hypocrisy is now at a cosmic level.
Or in this case . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:22pm.
. . . 56% of his constituents in some poll forgive Weiner, so it's none of our business.
The congressman made it public business....
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 4:34pm.
...the nanosecond he put himself into a position where he could be compromised by blackmail. His voting affects not only his district, but the nation. The lying and poorly attempted cover-up are both at issue. It is very easy to be crass and say that all politicians lie, but in this case Weiner betrayed not only his wife (which is NONE of our business), but congress (which IS our business). If this were a Republican, the Democrats would be screaming their heads off for resignation. The story will not go away.
Just remember these people are elites
Submitted by Carl Kolchak on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:27pm.
In my opinion these people in the media are like mindless zombies who have stuck up people come on their shows and pat them on the back and tell them what great awesome elite hosts they are. They like to tell us what hard hitting journalists they are and how much they care about finding out the "truth". Then when they get trumped on the story by others, they don't seem to care that Weiner was wrong about saying his account was hacked.
You have so called elitists like Whoopi and Behar claiming on "The View" that it was all a conspiracy to get Weiner. These are the same people who like to tell everyone how stupid anyone who doesn't have their political views are. They receive cheesy applause from their studio audience who is probably made up of mindless zombies who think they are getting the "truth" because the hosts refer to themselves as elites.
That's funny
Submitted by jessieH on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:36pm.
Matthews callin us backward. If I wasn't so busy, laughing at him, I could just ignore his petty insults.
I doubt Chrissie ever visits
Submitted by AngryInOhio on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:47pm.
I doubt Chrissie ever visits "flyover" Country, he has to be afraid of getting beat up considering all the times he has insulted Americans who live there.
Chrissy Often Cites He's a Catholic
Submitted by Conservator on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:52pm.
I'm curious if all those progressive culturally Catholics - you can say forward if you want, support a Congressman sending pornographic images of himself? - I doubt it.
Do you want to know?
Submitted by aposematic on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:54pm.
If you ever have wondered how America has become a Republic racing as fast as possible into a Hellish existence, Mathews insane rantings explains it all.
Chris...
Submitted by Too Old To Be Cool on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:53pm.
So only the "culturally backward Christians" think that you should, y'know, honor your wedding vows? Especially when you've been married less than a year? And your wife is pregnant?
You're really okay with him not doing that? Would it be okay if your spouse / significant other did that to you?
To: the Friends of Chris
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:56pm.
It's time for "that" talk.
Another view........... from the east coast
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:00pm.
I'll take those "rural backwards folks" if I need someone to fix something or make something and to give me a hand WHEN I NEEDED IT.
Folks, are what FOLKS are, an even being from the east coast I respect them for BEING REAL.
Way too many easterners can't change a flat, mow there own lawn or wipe there own ass.
Watch Survivor as I do, and the ones you want on your team are the "Rural backwards hillbilly's".
FN spittles would put out the fire when ramblin on and he would never make it passed the first vote either, he probably can't swim..............................................
Weiner bleeps up with his willy and it is now on the "rural folks"?
Maybe the Demonrats have no balls Tingles, ever think of that?
Weiner's got a problem w/anyone w/some class
Submitted by felizagain on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:04pm.
Anyone with an ounce of class, self respect, dignity, cares about the person they bothered to marry, cares about the woman carrying their unborn child, has concern for those who are dedicated workers in his personal office backing him up every day, thinks of anyone but himself............yeah, the guy has a problem with those people. Matthews can't figure out that Weiner's life and his x-rated stupidity are a reflection of the man himself, and yes, the party he is part of. Bill and Hillary are unhappy with him. They are not exactly Christian Conservatives are they? Weiner is a loathsome jerk of a man. He created this problem. No one else did. It's all on him. Not the right, not Christians, not conservatives.
Matthews is paid to come up w/these lame comments every day? That's some easy gig.
Matthews, the other day while
Submitted by Van Halen on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:06pm.
Matthews, the other day while still in last place in the ratings, YOU yourself went after Weiner! What changed? Did you get a new talking points fax from the White House or the DNC?
Yes Chris, you're right being
Submitted by rbosque on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:12pm.
Yes Chris, you're right being "culturally forward" must therefore mean that you also stick out your crank, take a picture and distribute it right? How often do you do this Chris and do you send any of those pics to the WH?
Thanks Chris but I'll stick to keeping my gizmo in my pants along with most of the culturally backwards people in this country.
a despicable misogynist
Submitted by Rackie on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:12pm.
Not love, not sex, Tony fantasized about gagging women with his big dick. Jamming it down their throat. He wouldn't dare try that with Huma. More likely Tony "Big Baloney" Weiner only fantasized about gagging working class women over whom he felt he could control and denigrate.
I'm a Christian and I'm proud
Submitted by Kat Outta the Bag on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:32pm.
I'm a Christian and I'm proud to be backwards in today's society when you consider how completely messed up society is. So thank you, Chris Matthews, for the compliment...you bass turd.
Well, Matthews leg is
Submitted by tampamom25 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:36pm.
Well, Matthews leg is probably tingling again and it's happening so often that its cutting off circulation to his brain. Weiner has a problem, he's a sexual pervert and needs help. Oh yeah, and he needs to resign or be thrown out. Sadly, what he'll probably get is a reprimand.
Matthews doesn't understand the nation either.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:47pm.
If Matthews really believe the rest of the country should lower their expectations of politicians like they have in Brooklyn and Queens, he's very wrong. Is is possible that he thinks the attitudes in Brooklyn and Queens is typical of the nation?
It makes my neck hurt, shaking my head at the ridiculous stuff that comes out of his mouth. -bidn-
Matthews doesn't understand the nation either.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:49pm.
If Matthews really believes the rest of the country should lower their expectations of politicians like they have in Brooklyn and Queens, he's very wrong. Is is possible that he thinks the attitudes in Brooklyn and Queens are typical of the nation?
It makes my neck hurt, shaking my head at the ridiculous stuff that comes out of his mouth. -bidn-
Were they Muslim - he would not have said that
Submitted by LSBeene on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:51pm.
Not that I need to mention this - because it's blindingly obvious: but he'd have never said that if the perople he were referring to were Muslim.
Chrissy, Christians are not
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:51pm.
Chrissy, Christians are not 'culturally backward' we are culturally stable. We stand on a Rock not shifting sand of cultural relativity. Those like you Chrissy want to go down a amoral road that will end in chaos and the closest to Hell this side of the grave. You will sneer at us now but beg for a drop of water in the hopes it will quench your thirst for even a brief moment later.
re: cocktail weiner.....
Submitted by peteto1 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:52pm.
The DELUSIONAL Democratic Party has/had NO CHANCE of taking back the House!! What a bunch of pipe dreamers....Talk about "whistling past the graveyard"!! Obama is going to get trounced in 2012 for his INEPT job as President and the BEST part is he's going to drag the whole Dem. party down with him. The economy IS the last nail in his political coffin, period, and it's not going to get better before the election. His policies have GUARANTEED that the economy tanks until 2013. The question now is: does the Democratic Party go the way of the Whig and Bull Moose Parties: EXTINCT??.....................
And I was so hoping this was going to be a phallus-free Friday..
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:56pm.
...at NB.
:-(
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
It'll never happen
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:08pm.
Dave, not to dash your hopes, but look at all the pricks we have in DC. Until they are gone, ain't no "phallus free" happening any time soon.
And that's just the men. I could get banned for what I would say about some of the lib women politicians.
-Jon
It's time for Matthews to go...
Submitted by ghostsouls on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:04pm.
How much more are the viewers going to take from this morally bankrupt person? Being liberal is fine, but knocking those that believe in God, any God, is just wrong. If you are an atheist, that is find, we will respect your rights, and if we are christian, muslim, or what ever, you need to respect our rights as well. Matthews has lost all credibility, He is Fox New's equivalent of Beck on steroids, MSLSD, if they plan on having ANY credibility as a news source, needs to can this moron and move on, before they lose another 10 million in viewership.
Well, then, I guess....
Submitted by Forbus on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:31pm.
sending pictures of your sexual organ to total strangers on the internet...then lying about it...makes you a Liberal Democrat and a "Progressive."
Let's Make It Simple
Submitted by Maestroh on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 2:33pm.
I have a proposal on this and I know how it will play out.
Let's put Sarah Palin in Brooklyn with a new home. Her only problem will be figuring out where to hide the ammo.
Now let's take her self-appointed intellectual superiors and put them out in the middle of Alaska.
Who survives longer?
Enough said.
Wrong again, Crissy
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:11pm.
It isn't that they're Christian or conservative, and they're definitely not backward. It just the little fact that THEY HAVE MORALS, something you and your brain-dead ilk have no concept of. Of course, "Christian" and "conservative" are usually synonyms for "moral", so it kind of does go hand-in-hand.
Is it really so wrong to hold elected officials, LAW-makers, to AT LEAST the same standards as "normal" Americans?
Moron!
Matthews
Submitted by LarryG on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:15pm.
This lickspittle dickhead doesn't know anything because he only understands east coast progressive ninnies.
He.wouldn't know how to deal with anyone outside of his so-called "intrellectual milieu". How anyone with a functional brain could watch his putrescent ramblings is beyond me. His chronic left-wing croakings are more than any reasonable human should have to endure. Fat, brain-dead schlub!
Fishbowl Chris
Submitted by NCMike on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 3:46pm.
Chris, Chris, Chris. Although you're not texting your unclothed psyche on the internet, you're exposing your naked ignorance with statements like this. The culturally backward Christians like myself, aren't so much angered because Anthony Weiner is true to his moral relativist psuedo-standard that "anything goes as long as you do no harm." I would expect an amoral leftist like Weiner has no problem sending photos of his privates, his parents' privates, or even his kids' (I'm sure he's very open-minded and wouldn't want to invade the privacy of his children) to any and all on the internet; my problem is that Weiner repeatedly lied to those trusted purveyors of news.You know, like yourself, over and over as he voiced his outrage about the incident. Weiner lied. Now I guess to folks in the news business, (who routinely do it every minute of the day), lying, or being lied to, is no big deal because it "causes no harm", but to the culturally backward Christians of America, we haven't reached the "tolerance level" of Weiner's sophisticated constituents who not only have no problem with Big Weiner advertising Little Weiner on the internet, but also apparently have no issue with their elected representative lying to the entire nation while he bamboozles Wolf Blitzer and his ilk. You know, I'm actually pretty sure that there are some atheists, Muslims, and "none of the above" who also do not blythely care that Tony Weiner arrogantly lies to them. But you believe what you want to Chris. Being a moral relativist entitles you to reconstruct reality to suit yourself. Enjoy life in the fishbowl, we're ALL watching and waiting for your next pearl of wisdom for us clods.
Nanette
Submitted by Nenzina on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 4:01pm.
Of course Mr. Tingle approves - I bet the lewd pics gave him another tingle up his leg.
Chrissy's new Hissy
Submitted by GBoettner on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 4:23pm.
How much longer do we have to hear Chrissy the Drunk? This imitation of a man makes me sick. I realize he thinks perverts are acceptable but must we hear his idiotic ideas in public?
Send him to an airport men's room so he can tingle with the other wierdos.
Liberals are sick people.
Obama/Biden.. Now I know why they have a JACKASS for party symbol.
Who died
Submitted by mkj on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:13pm.
and made him judge, jury and executioner????? If we have a moral compass we are culturally backward????? That's what's wrong with Chrissy and people like him - they think they are the gift to the "culturally backward". Arrogant elitists. Everyone has to agree with them. Yes, he has lost his mind.
Every time I see one of these
Submitted by AngryInOhio on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:38pm.
Every time I see one of these videos of Chrissie, I always make a point of emailing his show on the MSNBC comments page telling him what a moron he is. It doesn't do any good, but it makes me feel better. Does anyone on this blog know how to directly contact Comcast and complain about this idiot and everyone else on this "network"?
I hope all of you do the same thing, maybe it would make a difference if all of us bombard their website!!
really Chris?
Submitted by michiganruth on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:25pm.
I work at one of the most liberal universities in the country. my very liberal colleagues (including one socialist) were VERY surprised to hear they were "culturally backward Christians" because they think Weiner is a piece of cr*p.
this is just more proof--as if any was needed!--that Chris Matthews doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
Guess Chris forgot about their resident goat-floccer
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:52pm.
Sink Booger.
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
Indecent Exposure
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 9:34pm.
There are laws against exposing one's genitals in public in every country in the world. They can't all be backwards, can they?
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Chris Mathews
Submitted by Hausmaus on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 12:59pm.
Chris Mathews is the way he is because of a rare phenomenon that occurs only to liberals. The birth sac, or placenta which was responsible for keeping him alive shifted to the rectal canal on the ninth month of gestation. Although he was given a thourough scrub at birth, the fecal matter which had become part of his feeding apparatus had finally become one of his vital organs. Chris Mathews is the epitome of "Liberalismus Excrementus".