Chris Matthews: 'People That Talk About Blood Libel and Bull's Eyes Shouldn't be President'
Chris Matthews on Wednesday said that as a result of her use of terms like "blood libel" and "bull's eyes," Sarah Palin "shouldn't be President of the United States."
Such happened after Matthews spent much of the first half of his "Hardball" program excoriating the former Alaska governor for her videotaped response to the tragic shootings in Tucson Saturday (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well, people that talk about blood libel and themselves being victims to it and they talk about bull's eyes shouldn't be President of the United States. And people seriously shouldn't be thinking about it.
This came at the end of a lengthy segment wherein Matthews, along with ultra-liberals Ron Reagan and Media Matters' David Brock, trashed Palin for her comments.
The program began with an even longer segment featuring Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and NBC's Chuck Todd assisting the "Hardball" host with the Palin bashing.
Readers are once again reminded that Matthews believes his program is "absolutely nonpartisan."
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Tingles
Submitted by SnapTie on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:11pm.
I finally know why he gets tingles down his leg when Obama speaks.His Depends get saturated and dribbles down his leg.
Only
Submitted by JustAl on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:12pm.
. . . people who give away free "t" shirts should be President! Let's hear it again for "Jakarta Carta".
Chris Mathews' hypocrisy
Submitted by MacWell on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:17pm.
I'm convinced that liberalism is a mental disorder. Here's a guy who spends night after night spewing the very rhetoric he proceeds to project on others. If that isn't the definition of insanity I don't know what is...
How about people who say . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:17pm.
. . . "They bring a knife, we bring a gun." ? Should anyone like that be President?No they shouldn't,
Submitted by ThisnThat on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:35pm.
according to Mathews logic. And if they say things like "These [Americans] are our enemies, and we need to kick their a$$" as President, then he should immediately resign, according to Mathews logic.
Gee, I wonder -- do we have a president that has said these things? Like, 3 months ago? C'mon, Mathews, answer the question.
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
"Logic" and Chris Matthews don't belong in the same sentence
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:57pm.
Regardless, Chris Matthews no longer deserves to be on cable TV...no matter how many viewers he DOESN"T have.
The DNC has used maps and
Submitted by rbosque on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:17pm.
The DNC has used maps and metaphors before, if he's non-partison he would give equal time to the DNC.
Remember what Matthews said quite unabashedly . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:34pm.
. . . on Election Night 2008: "It's my job to see that this President succeeds."
He can't claim any pretense of objectivity after that.
Mathews may as well post
Submitted by Hunter12 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:17pm.
Mathews may as well post "Good-looking, intelligent women from Alaska who have brown hair and wear glasses shouldn't be President". We know his rhetoric by now. How about "People who preach an escalation of violence like bringing a gun to a knife fight, shouldn't be President!"
This may not be the place to post it, but is anyone but me tried of seeing that ugly, grinning idiot's face plastered all over everywhere (Fox News take heed) every time you log in to a news page. Quit giving him all this press. Infamy drives ten times the incidence of these copycat type things. Quit making this creature famous.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Matthews has maintained since her nomination . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:41pm.
. . . in 2008 that she's not qualified to be President, so why does he keep hammering his point home?
ONE REASON: Ratings. Palin-angst is one of the top themes across all the MSNBC programming. I imagine their mostly sexually-frustrated male audience identifies with both the hosts and the hatred of Palin, so they keep tuning back in.
I wonder if Prissy realizes he just DQ'd Obama from being POTUS
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:22pm.
...along with a whole bunch of other dems.
Somehow I doubt it.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Bring guns, American's are
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:28pm.
Bring guns, American's are cowards, they hold unto guns and religion, cops are stupid, the enimies, jackass, from DC. They are all bastards, i will burn the studio down, rip out Cheny's heart, Bush is a liar, the worst people in the world, palin is to blame, Palin is dumb, Tea party are a bunch of nazi's, they were spit on and called racist names, we need a islam sit-com to set us straight, and on and on. And they call conservatives hate-ful????
Yet Chrissy Matt
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:33pm.
Has a "conga line of liberal freaks on his show" specifically to make inflammatory remarks about the right. No hypocrisy there?
H/T Levin
You know, this thread is full of people
Submitted by ThisnThat on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:38pm.
who recognize a clear hypocrisy in what Mathews is saying. Why is it that no one in the MSM or non-Fox cable news -- and I mean NO ONE -- can see the same thing we're seeing? Says a lot, doesn't it?
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
None is So Blind
Submitted by JustAl on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:59pm.
as he who will not see. And no, for all of those libs trying to follow the thread, using the term "not see" is not conservative code for nazi.
Chrissy Again
Submitted by rammingspeed on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:58pm.
It was code for "people who aren't socialists shouldn't be president." Nice job, Chrissy.
Alan Dershowitz disagrees with Chrissy Mat-Choose
Submitted by Conservator on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:26pm.
"...Liberal Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz told the blog biggovernment.com that blood libel has taken on "broad metaphorical meaning" and said there was "nothing improper and certainly nothing anti-Semitic in Sarah Palin using the term to characterize what she reasonably believes are false accusations..."
Sarah Palin's effort to defuse controversy backfires with 'blood libel' comment - Thursday, January 13, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/12/AR2011011206366.html
More relevant, is the hate speech Chrissy uses to attack Rep. Michele Bachmann, such as being a Zombie in some Boris Karloff movie, violent or extreme? What if one of your derange viewers shot Rep. Bachmann based on two years of you spewing outrageous personal attacks on her intelligence and her right to be a member of Congress - eh Chrissy?
MSNBC is the voice of the radical left; heck even CNN can't compete with the vitriolic comments made on this network daily.
Thanks all the same, Chris
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:26pm.
We have elections for people to decide who should and should not be President.
Remember how unhappy you were to hear the Swiftboat Vets opinions on whether Kerry should be president?
The way I see it, Palin is "swiftboating" the Dems, that is 1) stubbornly contending she didn't do what she was accused of, and 2) making the case that it's a character flaw to have accused her of something that heinous, and trying to buld a political career out of it.
Liberal Protestations
Submitted by xraynova on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 3:37pm.
It doesn't matter what Palin says, and it doesn't matter when she says it. The liberosocialists will attack her on any peripheral grounds they can find.
Palin must be attacked on issues like her map, because liberals cannot compete with the real, Conservative policy issues.
Hannity, Beck, Rush (on the 'net) and others should repeatedly end their shows with a shot of the democrat map where they "target" their "enemies" by state.
hmmm... did I just say "shot" ? Please... I beg your forgiveness.
And people who refer to people
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 4:16pm.
with opposing viewpoints as teabaggers and the new one, "Full Mooners" (which is subliminal for asses) should not be on TV.
Tingles
Submitted by sheik yermami on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 7:03pm.
Tingles shouldn't be on TV.
Palin will be the first female US president.
Tingles knows it, and it gives him the creeps.