MSNBC Political Analyst: Romney Wants to 'Go Back to a Time' When Women and Blacks Couldn't Vote
MSNBC political analyst Karen Finney said Friday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants to "go back to a time when women couldn't vote, blacks couldn't vote."
Such was said on the Martin Bashir show immediately following the former Massachusetts governor's speech to the National Rifle Association (video follows with transcript and commentary):
KAREN FINNEY, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Two thoughts. One, the number, I can't wait to see all the fact-checks coming out of the DNC because the number of, I won't call them lies but misinformation that came out of Mr. Romney's mouth was stunning.
And, you know, here’s the other problem: the picture that he was painting of an America, you know, restoring an America. I kept thinking, “Well, it sounds like you want to go back to a time when women couldn't vote, blacks couldn't vote, we don’t have.” I mean, it just didn't sound like this was the America that we all know and love.
As shocking as it might seem, even her perilously liberal host noticed that's not what Romney said:
MARTIN BASHIR, HOST: To be fair, Karen, but to be fair to him, he didn't say that. He didn't say he wants to go back to a period before when African-Americans couldn't vote, did he? He didn't say that. I mean, there were other even more astonishing statements I thought in the speech.
Sadly, these folks don't understand that restoring America doesn't have anything to do with one's race, religion, or gender.
It's about fiscal and personal responsibility instead of government being involved in every aspect of people lives regardless of cost and whether folks want such intrusion.
Isn't it a shame that everything to liberal media members is about either women, minorities, or religion?
I guess that's the only way you concoct all these so-called "wars" Republicans are supposedly waging in this country.
*****Update: Finney has asked me via Twitter to include the transcript of her response to Bashir.
FINNEY: But when he says things like, “I want to return America, I want to restore America,” I guess the question, or when he talked about the Constitution not being a living document, I mean, some would say that because the Constitution is a living document, we passed rights for African-Americans to vote. We passed rights for women to vote because we recognize that that there were, that we should expand the freedoms of the Constitution not restrict those freedoms. That’s where I come up with that.
That's all well and good, but it doesn't change the fact that Finney began by saying Romney wants to "go back to a time when women couldn't vote, blacks couldn't vote," which is utter nonsense that even the perilously liberal Bashir challenged.
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Liberals war on America
Submitted by MidAmerica on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:33pm.
Liberals love America.
It's the Americans they don't like.
"Isn't it a shame that
Submitted by tcm14 on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:38pm.
"Isn't it a shame that everything to liberal media members is about either women, minorities, or religion?"
Well that is because they need to divide the country. They don't even hear what is said in a speech, they only consider how they can use it to divide the nation.
Does anyone watch that show?
Submitted by ray johnson on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:34pm.
Does anyone watch that show? That chick is seriously unhinged...If she watches that bs later, she must be shocked at the absolute stupidity...and playin' that race card??? fuggetaboutit!
The people that watch CNN or
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:55pm.
The people that watch CNN or MESSNBC acutally believe the BS coming from those 2 networks
.
What is so scary is that the dumbasses that watch those networks vote.
Obama Wants....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:39pm.
....illegal aliens and dead people to vote...oh wait, he already has that....
Shock and Awe
Submitted by BPinTexas on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:43pm.
These people are in for the shock of their lives come November 2012.
ABO 2012!!!
Rosen
Submitted by Scott Trent on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:46pm.
It`s the Democrats who HATE stay at home MOM`S. Just ask CNN.
Here's another idiot that does not know the Constitution
Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:52pm.
I guess all libs beleive because Obama has trashed the Constitution that a President Romney would too. There is not way to keep women or blacks from voting unless the constitution is amended . That ain't going to happen.
Why is it that libs
Submitted by nanabanana on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 9:58pm.
seem to believe that only the vote for women and African-Americans happened "back then"? And they forget that those are Constitutional, unlike so much/most/likely all of what Mr. Obama has put out there. Ugh.
No, Karen. Us neanderthals just wanna to go back to when
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:56pm.
waitress sammiches were de rigueur.
Really wasn't that long ago, anthropologically speaking. However, I'm left with the impression you would've been considered merely an optional condiment.
Edit: Karen makes Kim Kardashian look like Casper the Ghost. MORE FAKE TAN, its already April!!!
nothing new here
Submitted by bmac32 on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:54pm.
Just keeping the blacks in line and the little woman in the kitchen.
I can't believe these people
Submitted by hardrock01 on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 7:05pm.
I can't believe these people are so stupid that they don't know their comments are insane.
Insanity is "normal"...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:24pm.
to crazy people.
I wonder . . . .
Submitted by Clemenza on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 7:08pm.
If Morning RINO and hdi bubble brained Pollock will condem this on Monday morning's show. Remember, it was just this morning that "Dead Intern Joe" said that ROmney should condem Alan West because they are both Republicans.
Well Joe, this lady is paid by your network. We are waiting on you.
women and blacks not vote?
Submitted by MidAmerica on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 7:08pm.
I would like to go back to a time when illegals, dead people, felons, and Mickey Mouse didn't vote.
Right on!!! And
Submitted by nanabanana on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:00pm.
Amen to that!
She's right about one thing...
Submitted by MacWell on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 7:25pm.
stupid women like her shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Actually she shouldn't be allowed out in public without a nanny.
Moment of Clarity? Nah
Submitted by djwolf12 on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 7:37pm.
Martin Bash*t, Friday: "To be fair, Mitt didn't say that".
3 days from now:
Martin Bash*t, 4/16/12: "Mitt Romney wants to go back to a time where Women and Blacks coudn't vote".
Comcast Executives need an enema.
Can't rule that scenario out
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 4:47pm.
MARTIN BASHIR, HOST: To be fair, Karen, but to be fair to him, he didn't say that. He didn't say he wants to go back to a period before when African-Americans couldn't vote, did he? He didn't say that. I mean, there were other even more astonishing statements I thought in the speech.
Two comments --
1) When a comment is so absurdly outrageous that Martin Bashir say it's unfair, the line has really been crossed. This guy has made outrageous statements the hallmark of his show.
2) After suggesting her statements were unfair, he returned to bashing-Bashir mode by saying that there other Romney statements that were more outrageous than her assertion.
Bashir is the gift that keeps on giving.
msnbc
Submitted by kinijane on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 8:20pm.
Does anyone other than News Busters watch it?
So...let me get this
Submitted by rbosque on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 8:36pm.
So...let me get this straight, Romney wants to prevent women and Blacks to vote like the Democrats did this past century?
More like
Submitted by Dan Diego on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 8:54pm.
MSNBC political activist Karen Finney said...
The dead giveaway
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 5:01pm.
KAREN FINNEY, MSNBC POLITICAL
ANALYSTPARROT: Two thoughts. One, the number, I can't wait to see all the fact-checks coming out of the DNC. . .That's right. Wait until the DNC gives you some talking points.
A real political analyst checks a multitude of sources, weighs the accuracy and value of information, and produces analysis.
This idiot is just a DNC rep on the MSNBC payroll.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:43pm.
Liberals really are funny, doncha think?
two can play this game. When
Submitted by 4rcane on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 10:57pm.
two can play this game. When Obama say "fundamental transform of America" It means he want to transform into a situation where black can't vote and when theres slavery
Finney and Bashir
Submitted by Pinger on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 1:06am.
Are these two - Finney and Bashir - on drugs?
Bashir had a brief moment of clear-headedness when he asked Finney "did Romney say that?", then he went back into the haze and said he'd heard other more astonishing statements from Romney.
I'd like someone to analyze people like these two. Where is Sigmund Freud when you need him?
She is so stupid she couldn't
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 1:24am.
She is so stupid she couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel.
Does the use of such
Submitted by Andrew H. on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 6:22am.
Does the use of such hyperbole make one a liar? Yes. Every democrat is in fact a liar and thief.
The so-called mainstream media is the propaganda arm of the criminal DNC.
Just when the sump-pump stops
Submitted by dreamsincolor on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 8:12am.
This level of sheer and utter stupidity comes bubbling up from the depths of the basement toilet at MSNBC.
When will it sink in why Fox News continually eviscerates them in the ratings? She is an employee of MSNBC - She said it out loud so I have to believe that it is really the level of her understanding of Romney's speech at the NRA. (I know she was trying to cute, or funny, but it comes across non comedic and makes her look profoundly stupid)
This is what passes as journalism and/or informed commentary at MSNBC.
This "woman" needs . . .
Submitted by rickbren on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 9:03am.
. . . to study history a bit better. Before the state of Utah, then Deseret, would be allowed to enter the Union, they had to revoke women's suffrage. It turned out that the state of Utah was second only to Colorado to allow women to vote. . .
You Funny Lady, Karen Finney
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 1:03pm.
Hey, Finney: Channeling Contessa Brewer will get you...fired. It'll take awhile, cuz MSNBC wants you to talk to all the nutball viewers who'll believe your sh*t, but keep it up, sister! It'll be aloha on a steel guitar, as Bing Crosby once said.
And, you lefties don't want a "living Constitution," you want the current Constitution to be outlawed, so you can establish your Marxist government. Just sayin'
Foot in Mouth desease
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 1:33pm.
"I can't wait to see all the fact-checks coming out of the DNC..."
What, a prestigious, unbiased, expert "political analyst" such as yourself can't do your own fact checking? You have to wait until a political party does it for you? That's not very analytical of you, but it IS highly political.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Yeah, yeah, Karen
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 2:45pm.
And MSNBC wants to go back to a time before Fox News Channel. You know, back before diversity of thought was legal.
Ratings
Submitted by squirefld on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 6:36pm.
MSNBC want to go back before Fox News kicked everyones butts in advertising revenue. At the same time, I guess she didn't get the message to lay off the women remarks, because Romney is going to use Obama's anti-women track record against him.
Imagine having a brain that
Submitted by ant on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 7:07pm.
Imagine having a brain that worked that poorly. Imagine if the Black Panthers said, 'Kill the cracker babies' and your brain heard, "Let's focus on State's rights..". Or Obama said, "I think wealth redistribution is a good thing" and your brain heard, "I swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States." Libs are demented...Finney excessively so.
Unbelievable commentary, yet so progressively liberal.
Submitted by Less1leg on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 11:22pm.
When you don't have real political points to fight with, make unquestionably the most outrageous BS that the liberal news will sell to the short sighted public.
Look, the Hiliary Rosen story, and the comments she made were offensive to all women who choose family ahead of career. A lot of women chose this path. It may not be Ms.Rosen's personal choice, but its a valuable choice between a couple for the long term benefits of the whole family unit.
Heck Gay's and Lesbians out there. It affects you too for goodness sakes. Having one partner staying home and keeping an organized household is a proven fact benefit to the family unit on the long term. Except in the dual income dual career beliefs of a Hiliary Rosen. Just pawn the kids off to some social worker, all day day care, full day kindergarten. You know, make someone else raise your kids so that you can see them ten minutes at night just long enough to remember their names. When summer vacation time rolls in, pawn the kids off to a summer camp. On and on. Pawn the kids off, let someone else raise them. But you can always say you are a family. But a family of what, part-time cohabitants. NIce.
Political analyst? There is a better word for her.
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sun, 04/15/2012 - 3:38am.
She is a "hack"! She is a Democratic Party hack. In order to say something that partisan and that stupid as well as untrue, you have to be a hack and this woman obviously is one!