Rand's Race: Matthews Plays The Nazi Card
By Mark Finkelstein | October 26, 2010 | 20:27
The guy who put his foot on an anti-Paul protester and pushed should be made to answer to the law. Period. That doesn't mean Chris Matthews had to break out the tired Nazi metaphor. But he did.
On this evening's Hardball, after rolling tape of the incident that occurred outside the Kentucky senatorial debate last night, Matthews dredged up the creakiest cliché in politics.
View video after the jump.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Wo-w-w-w. I don' t know what to make of that, but it reminds me of the 30s in another country.
If Matthews is going to go the Nazi-metaphor route, can't he at least have the courage of doing so straight up, instead of resorting to lamely-laminated references?
MSNBC Talking Points?
Fellow NewsBuster Jeff Poor informs me that Ed Schultz, discussing the incident on his show this evening, also went the Nazi-analogy route. Can we count on Keith and Rachel to keep the chain letter alive?
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Thank you Chris!
Submitted by samhermanmd on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 8:30pm.
Just keep proving Godwin's Law over and over and over and over and over...............ad nauseam.
Bingo! You lose, Chris.
Submitted by Mark Finkelstein on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 8:31pm.
Bingo! You lose, Chris.
Wow. And that was Chrissie's
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 7:50am.
Wow. And that was Chrissie's first analogy...right out of the box!
Maybe we should have Matthews' Corrolary to Godwin's Law : In any confrontation or disagreement involving a conservative or Republican, the first analogy is always Nazi-related.
Does anyone remember Chrissie waxing indignant and drawing Nazi analogies to those SEIU thugs beating up Kenneth Gladney?
well
Submitted by well99 on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 8:47pm.
Thanks Mark for watching Chrissie.You have saved me money on tv replacement as well as blood pressure medicine.I have a game where one guard ask another guard"Did you just fall off the stupid cart?"Makes me think of Chrissie.He definately did.
I made sure to tune into Schultz today...
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 8:56pm.
and sure enough, it was a classic. Apoplectic does not even come close. Showed the clip at least 10 times with special emphasis on the "concussion" (watching the video, sorry, no way). No mention of the blonde wig, oddly enough.
Edward apparently forgot about the finger biter-offer, the wheelchair beatdown boys and many others.
[And I am not defending the idiots involved in this incident.]
I saw that too. I couldn't
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 9:11pm.
I saw that too. I couldn't understand Schultz's outrage at Paul. He kept saying Paul has to speak out against this, which Paul did. I got the impression Schultz wanted Paul to end his campaign because of this.
I watched, too!
Submitted by Texndoc on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 11:32pm.
Special Ed may have hit a ratings high today. He DID NOT disappoint, I laughed and laughed. If there is one lock this election day, it's Rubio. If there is a second, it's that Kentucky is not going to elect some tax and spend ObamaCare loving lawyer.
Yeah, Edward stopped just shy of saying Paul "ordered the hit"
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 8:20am.
The moveon.org creep was hysterical, too.
When Edward implied the woman was NOT there as part of an organized demonstration, the guy had to say, "Um, no, Ed, it WAS organized by us."
No Blood
Submitted by kilrod on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 10:29pm.
No blood, no foul, whats the problem?~@@~
(grins) kilrod "the Birther"
"If an unborn child cannot trust you, why should I,~"
If an unborn child cannot trust you, why should I,??
Wait, wait, wait a second
Submitted by KC Mulville on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 10:31pm.
Before I saw this video here, I was under the impression that a protester was assaulted by crazed tea party psychopaths.
Let's go to the tape. Big crowd. Candidate gets out of car, and someone in a wig makes a move toward the candidate. They (security team?) wrestles her to the ground.
Stop ...
OK. Look. Whether he was a security guard or just a supporter, the guy shouldn't have put his sneaker on the woman's head, after she was already wrestled to the ground. If he was a security guard who was hyped up by the crowd, that might be one thing, but either way he shouldn't have done it. Fine. Granted.
But to leave out the details about the woman instigating the incident is journalistic malpractice. And then to use this as "evidence" that the tea partyers are Nazi brownshirt thugs is despicable. Matthews was a jerk for portraying it that way.
This type of action has been---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 10:37pm.
prophesied, over and over again.
It has come to pass.
We need motherbelts "let me show you my shocked face".
MD
Agreed
Submitted by KC Mulville on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 11:00pm.
I still think motherbelt should patent the duct tape thing.
I strongly urge the duct tape people (3M?) to pay motherbelt a ton of money to appear in their commercials. I can think of five or six scripts off the top of my head. It would be a riot!
Look it's Blonde and motherbelt in the dorm room
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 11:59pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOzgB-M0UUY&feature=related
yea 3-m is very happy...
O'bama 0% capital gains @4:58 and so much more.
That was great.
Submitted by stratman on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 1:36am.
That was great.
3M duct tape...
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 8:25am.
...keeps your brains in one place.
In this political season, when your brain feels like it will explode, reach for 3M duct tape...
The Brain Saver.
Oh, my, upcountry!
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 8:44am.
Oh, my, upcountry!
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 8:46am.
Should have had a spew alert!
Made my day!
KC
Submitted by Samshile on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 3:43am.
A couple guys got busted yesterday for Kiddie porn. They were registered Democrats.
Oh, given Matthews' hysteria,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 10:45pm.
Oh, given Matthews' hysteria, one track mind, and the limited choice of metaphors his brain has for disposal - you know he just had to say "nazi".
Please return NB the way it was.
Submitted by obxray on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 11:01pm.
This use to be a good site but this is what 30,000 got you? I know some will be mad for me saying it.The old site was way much better for me.Lots of updates, number of comments gone.I will be more than happy to donate if you would not fix something that wasn't broken.
AMEN!
Submitted by billb on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 8:41am.
AMEN!
Did Tinglepants cover the
Submitted by mattm on Tue, 10/26/2010 - 11:42pm.
Did Tinglepants cover the SEIU's assaults on TEA Party people? I don't remember it.
I know my local news didn't cover it, but they covered this.
The Left can commit vote fraud all over the place and the only thing the media talks about is Bush in 2000 (which was actually a failed attempt by Dems to steal the election- a concept the libtard media probably never even considered).
They can bash "religion" every day, as long as it's not Islam.
The Dems can be institutionally corrupt, but let one Republican out of a thousand cross the line and that's all you hear about for weeks, months or even years.
Frankly, I bet this punk did something to provoke the attack (and was probably sent in there by some Lefty group to do it) - which the "news" didn't show.
With all the crap the right has taken from these anuses over the years, their lucky this kind of thing isn't more frequent.
And, no, I don't advocate it.
SEIU Were No Angels
Submitted by Prince of Peeps on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 12:40am.
I was thinking the same thing, mattm. Someone please remind me what Matthews had to say when the SEIU thug beat up that black vender outside the Tea Party Rally. And he wasn't making any offensive movement, just giving out some flags. Here's a You Tube link to the SEIU incident, along with some other examples of liberal "tolerance." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFeUhSlHiUQ
That poor woman looks like a
Submitted by billb on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 8:39am.
That poor woman looks like a BP executive during the oil spill
Tackle
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 8:47am.
a person in a disguise rushs a candidate and is tackled to the ground. I would hope this happens. What a joke.
Seriously, these people attacking candidates are hooligans
Submitted by merly1 on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 10:05am.
In MN, we just had the convictions of the of the GOP convention protestors. And this year, Palin was attacked at her MOA appearance (guy arrested) and Gov candidate Tom Emmer was attacked at a public meeting this summer.
These protestors are dangerous, offensive people, ask book tour people like Rove and Coulter!
Of course, MSNBC is unconcerned with violence against GOP'ers.
That guy that was trying to
Submitted by Free Stinker on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 10:31am.
That guy that was trying to throw Tomatoes at Palin, from what I read he missed and hit some Police Officers.-
These Liberals seem to take FAIL to a whole new level. Try to attack a public figure (bad enough) and you end up attacking the Police? Glad to know that little &#!£ got arrested.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
You know, paybacks a bitch
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 8:59am.
Once we restore our country, we need to get rid of these disgusting "news people".
This snake deserves nothing and should be on the street living in a cardboard box.
Dude, you stomped on the
Submitted by wiwf on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:29am.
Dude, you stomped on the woman intentionally. Why do you think you shouldn't be punished and excoriated for it?Tired.Nazi.Metaphor. Anyone
Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 2:09pm.
Tired.Nazi.Metaphor.
Anyone see the irony? Anyone?