Guest hosting on Tuesday's "Morning Joe," MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews assigned dark motives to the voters of West Virginia and repeatedly reaffirmed that nobody should be surprised if Barack Obama loses the May 13 primary to Hillary Clinton. According to Matthews, "You could have predicted West Virginia 20 years ago on this one." Making his racial overtones more clear, Matthews derided, "These people made up their mind in '57." [audio available here]
This was all too much for fellow guest host Pat Buchanan. One of the few conservatives on MSNBC, he first laughed and then alluded to the fact that West Virginia has been almost exclusively controlled by Democrats: "What an indictment! What an indictment of your party, Chris!" Matthews snidely responded by claiming his remarks indicated "a suggestion of understanding the geography of America." He followed up by jokingly referring to Buchanan's previous presidential runs and not-so subtlety asking, "How did you do in West Virginia? Pretty good, huh?"
A transcript of the segment, which aired at 6:15am on May 13, follows:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: [On West Virginia]: Well, I'm not sure how we're going to play it tonight.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
MATTHEWS: Whether we're going to play it as another significant bout in this fight or as, sort of, a residue of a fight that's already over. I think most people, like Pat, understand that the fight is over for the nomination. Again, assuming though, development (sic). And that, really, that development which is nothing to do with the election. I'm not sure the election is still about vote count.
BRZEZINSKI: Okay.
MATTHEWS: I think it's about positioning between these two amazingly interesting people. How well will Hillary Clinton exploit her situation to the country's advantage and to her advantage in the next magical three weeks? That to me is the great question.
PAT BUCHANAN: The question here is, what are the voters-- not what Hillary is doing or Barack's doing-- I mean, that looks decided. What are the voters of West Virginia saying to the Democratic Party? I think they're saying, we don't want your nominee.
BRZEZINSKI: [To Matthews] See, that's what I was asking you earlier. And you laughed. You gave me the Chris Matthews [Does the Chris Matthews "Ha!"]
MATTHEWS: Well, I guess we disagree. Oh, I disagree. Because I think this-- You could have predicted West Virginia 20 years ago on this one.
BRZEZINSKI: Okay.
MATTHEWS: You could predict this election-- I'm-- seriously.
BRZEZINSKI: All right, you know what we're going to do--
MATTHEWS: These people made up their mind in '57. I mean, I don't think any other argument-- Should it be Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton?
BRZEZINSKI: 6:15am.
BUCHANAN [Laughing]: What an indictment! What an indictment of your party, Chris!
MATTHEWS: No, it may be a suggestion of understanding the geography of America.
BRZEZINSKI: All right, we got to wrap it up. Oh, Lordy. We'll be right back. We do have a big show this morning. Polls opening up in West Virginia in 15 minutes. David Axelrod will be here.
MATTHEWS [To Buchanan]: How did you do in West Virginia? Pretty good, huh?
—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.
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Yessir! Jest ax good ole
May 13, 2008 - 15:52 ET by mattmYessir! Jest ax good ole boy Robert KKK Byrd...
Matthews, again, displays the bigotry of Leftists.
Indeed Mattm - the Party of Byrd.
May 13, 2008 - 16:05 ET by Gary HallIndeed Mattm - the Party of Byrd.
Robert Byrd, from the 1940's:
"The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth ... in every state in the Union."
"I should [rather] die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
Only when the national media - the MSM - has repeatedly and publicly put these remarks to Byrd and demanded that he atone, will we be able to sense that the MSM is willing to consider the posibility of taking the turn towards fair and balanced journalism. Helen Thomas - you start.
And Byrd survives
May 13, 2008 - 16:14 ET by Cape Conservativewhile the Republican who had the nerve to make one unsuitable remark at a birthday party is out!?!?!
the dispicable power of the
May 13, 2008 - 17:49 ET by TruthMongerthe dispicable power of the MSM...
scum b@st*rds
Indeed it's an indictment
May 13, 2008 - 16:15 ET by ToddonCapeCodChrissie conveniently forgets its Democrats voting in this primary.
So it's his party that isn't voting for Barack Hussein
Democrats... opposed
May 13, 2008 - 16:44 ET by TruthMongerDemocrats...
opposed Lincoln
founded the KKK
opposed the civil rights act of the 60's
the party of racism
Of course chrissie is right
May 13, 2008 - 16:48 ET by DEVILDOCMOMon this one. I just discovered a very old photo of my great great great grandfather who moved to West Virginia in the early 1860's. Sure enough he has a "No Obama" sign in his hand...who could have imagined.
I sure
May 13, 2008 - 17:15 ET by RebelDidn't vote for Obama Today or will I vote for him in November either. we also have the Democrat KKK Byrd they always seem to forget that.
Go WVU
Never vote for Byrd
Matthews and all the msm
May 13, 2008 - 16:58 ET by bigtimerMatthews and all the msm have been down-playing the trouncing Obama is going to get ahead of time for days now...
It is sickening...I despise Hillary but this is past democratic shall we say...typical though isn't it...
Eating their own for breakfast lunch and dinner...
Fun to watch though...
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
Is there anything more
May 13, 2008 - 17:26 ET by krendlerIs there anything more "cool", "hip" and politically correct these days than to be overly-enthusiastic in your support of a 1/2 term senator from IL and implying that "racism" is the reason why he doesn't win a majority of votes in any particular state or (e.g, NH, IN, WV) or why an individual doesn't support him?
Did Matthews mention when 90% of blacks in practically every Dem primary state to date made up their mind to vote for Obama?
Just stopped by to say "I
May 13, 2008 - 17:38 ET by Clear thinkerJust stopped by to say "I told you so".
Democrats have the majority of racists within their own party, yet they try to pin it on Republicans time after time. When are people going to open their eyes???
"Abstain from McCain"
I would say "go f-bomb
May 13, 2008 - 17:45 ET by The Peoples DJI would say "go f-bomb yourself Pissy Mat". But that would be sinking to his level.
WV is a weird state
May 13, 2008 - 18:08 ET by steveba4Here in WV, it's assumed that you are a democrat. To even mention that you are to the right brings gasps. Of course most of the people are democrats because "daddy was in the union and we've always been democrats". The rest are just a bunch of lazy welfare recipients. The bottom line though is that this state has always been and always will be controlled by the democrats. So, if there are any racists here in WV, rest assured...they're all democrats.
So true
May 13, 2008 - 19:07 ET by hillbillyhatfieldI agree 1000%. And if this is a big enough issue, I see it becoming a republican state very soon. Alot of the old dems here are starting to change anyway because of the core christian beliefs. And more abortions, and gay marrages and it will be all right leaning uneducated racists.
No surprise indeed...
May 13, 2008 - 19:42 ET by ThirteenburnWell, it's offical - Hillary wins in W. Virgina, and it's no great surprise, due to the racist population grown from generations attending the weekly Saturday night "Kiss Yer Sister" dances at the local granges tucked into the "hollers", resulting in a population consisiting largely of inbred hicks.
Hillary is enjoying that racist voter base that she and her wife propagated while ruining the State of Arkansas and it contributes greatly to her growing mental delusion that she can still win the nomination of the Democrat Party, and will ultimately result in the total destruction of said party and therefore allowing the RINO McCain to take the White House in November. Coming from a Conservative-turned-Independent, I would think that if you wanted to vote the liberal ticket, why not vote for a true liberal like Obama, whom I happen to think is the best choice to turn this country around, instead of someone who's a fake liberal like McCain?
Whatever.
Keep dumping your own money into a failed campaign, Hillary. I would love nothing more than to see you go broke and if I'm Obama, I don't pay a dime in helping you pay off your own delusional stupidity; the same collective stupidity of the Clintonista, liberal, bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, Anti-America/Anti-American Democrat Party which is overshadowed and surpassed ONLY by it's unbelievably mind numbing intellectual dishonesty.
One thing is for sure; Hillary proves without a modicum of doubt that the J_a_c_k_a_s_s is the PERFECT mascot for said Democrat Party.
Obama in '08!!!
Hate Speech
May 13, 2008 - 21:45 ET by usinkoreaAfter reading this saga (www.thefire.org/inde...) of a college student in Indiana who was found guilty by the Affirmative Action Office for racial harassment by reading a "book about the KKK" in public -- I wonder how long it will be before the likes of Chris Matthews will be able to force MSNBC to fire Buchanan?
How long before Chris and Olberman can have him arrested and convicted?
It is obvious the press has decided within the past few years, probably since Bush was able to get elected for the 1st or 2nd time, that they can no longer indulge in things like "objectivity", and I have to guess, "freedom of thought/speech", and have decided that they have to become activists.
I mean they were already bias to a high degree before, and their claims to objectivity had been false for a long, long time, but it seems since Clinton left office, they have decided to become activists.
There is no way else to describe what they are doing with this current presidential election.
I guess the last couple of presidential elections have shown them, and higher education in America, that the nation cannot survive if they do not propel it forward ---- by force ---- and that if they can't convince the Red Staters of their own obvious ignorance, they have to shut them up and hem them in ---- if not hounding them out of the public sphere - hounding their ideas out of it --- like with new application of the Fairness Doctrine and items like Free Speech Codes and Harrassment Codes at univeristy ---
---and people across the media spectrum repeatedly using the media air waves to tell people whether they live in rotten states with rotten ideas who can only regain public acceptance by proving how much they think like the media elites do......
Don't assume racism in WV
May 14, 2008 - 08:19 ET by Mr. TerryChris Matthews doesn't seem to have come right out and said it was racisim which West Virginians decided on in 1957, though its a good bet that's exactly what he meant.
This race-bating is a Demo talking point to hit anyone who comes against their obama man.
While it is also a good bet that racism is part of the issue there in West-by-God-Virginia we must remember how Obama alienated this demographic in Pennsylvania.
Maybe the state which is #50 in lowest mean income decided to "cling" to their guns and religion because they are so bitter that the coal mines went out of business because of the enviro-leftist's anti-energy policies over the last several decades.
Now people just wait on their check at the first of the month or work at minimum wage. Either way, I know plenty of West Virginian's who wouldn't vote for Obama because he's a far left LIBERAL and that doesn't fit with the conservative mindset of people in that state. Even though they are all democrats - its a mystery wrapped up in an enigma.
In other words, he isn't just a Liberal, he is an elitest one and blue collar people don't tolerate that well. No wonder Hillary got the votes.
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