Chris Matthews Rants Over Rush Limbaugh's 'Astounding,' 'Crazy' 'Assault on Women's Rights'
A frothing Chris Matthews on Wednesday excoriated Rush Limbaugh for an "astounding assault on women's rights." Matthews shrieked that the conservative talk radio host's commentary on liberals and birth control "sounds like hatred of women."
The Hardball anchor began by playing a clip of Limbaugh asserting, "Could it be that Democrats fear kids? I mean, they are aborting their own people. The vast majority of people having abortions are Democrat voters." An angry Matthews responded, "It is an astounding assault on women's rights that he's playing to there. I don't care what language he uses about aborting." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
The left-wing host piled on, "That sounds like hatred of women. That's a weird kind of message."
Matthews proceeded to speak for Limbaugh, suggesting, "He is basically saying 'Me, this big guy, this big guy is telling women there is something wrong with you and deciding whether you want kids or not.'"
A transcript of February 15 segment, which aired at 5:42pm EST, follows:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Here is an example of a crazy guy, not crazy, smart normally but here is Limbaugh taking you guys off the cliff with him by talking about- and here is a big guy, a male figure- talking about birth control yesterday. Not about the church. Just birth control.
RUSH LIMBAUGH: What do Democrats inherently fear about pregnancy? Well, they've made it into a disease. Pregnancy is a great health risk for women. Could it be that Democrats fear kids? I mean, they are aborting their own people. The vast majority of people having abortions are Democrat voters.
MATTHEWS: Okay. Is that helpful to your campaign? I think women would like to hear-
ED ROGERS: That is what is called in politics playing to your negative stereotype. Rush Limbaugh is a good man and a wise man. He ought not have said that.
DAVID CORN: Oh, Ed.
ROGERS: It's not helpful to the Republican cause. You ought not- And the worst thing you can do in American politics is play to negative stereotypes.
MATTHEWS: You mean, a guy with four wives and no kids is talking about the evils of birth control?
ROGERS: And I hope he has your next diatribe I hope on his show.
MATTHEWS: Doesn't bother me any.
ROGERS: He'd be flattered by it.
CORN: If this plays with the Republican base-
MATTHEWS: This hatred of birth control.
CORN: It shows- this is the problem Mitt Romney is having. The Republican primary base has ved so far to the right but it's also animated by a tremendous hatred of the left, of Obama, and Democrats.
ROGERS: You always say that. Democrats always say the Republicans hate-
MATTHEWS: That sounds like hatred of women. That's a weird kind of message.
CORN: But, this is expanding it beyond Obama to say Democrats are aborting their own, Democrats are immoral. They don't like women. Women- I don't like women. I don't know what he is even saying there but whatever he is one of the leaders of the right.
MATTHEWS: He is challenging the right of a woman today in the 21st century to decide if she wants to get pregnant. It is an astounding assault on women's rights that he's playing to there. I don't care what language he uses about aborting. He is basically saying "Me, this big guy, this big guy is telling women there is something wrong with you and deciding whether you want kids or not." He has been married four times without kids. I wonder if birth control has something to do with it.
ROGERS: Come on. There is no point in personalizing it.
MATTHEWS: I have to!
CORN: Rush Limbaugh personalizes everything.
MATTHEWS: He's accusing the Democrats of aborting their young.
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Rush is right...agin!
Submitted by P. Aaron on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:20pm.
Why else would they react this way?
Um, paging David Corn,
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:23pm.
David, why don't you toodle on over to DKos for a day, then we'll talk about one side of the political spectrum hating on the other side, mmmm-kay? Hypocrite...
"He is challenging the right
Submitted by MightyMouth on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:38pm.
"He is challenging the right of a woman today in the 21st century to decide if she wants to get pregnant"
Earth to Chris, If a woman has unprotected sex and gets pregnant, she screwed up! But she is still PREGNANT! That would be ALREADY PREGNANT dummy! It happened, she decided to toss the dice and she lost. The point being made by Rush was that democRATS have reduced pregancy to a disease and possible health risk, which makes the baby less human and easy to discard. That's what democrats are... baby killers...pure and simple. And I maintain that a person CANNOT be both a Christian and a democrat at the same time. Choose a side liberals!
Good point. I have preached
Submitted by okie-pastor on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 12:55pm.
Good point.
I have preached the gospel for 10 years. And have consistently made similar points.
only difference being a person can not be both a follwer of Christ and a liberal or secularist. no more than a person can be both a Christian and an Athiest.
merriams definition liberal: (includes) loose, or lacking moral restraint
The only good use for liberal is when we give liberally for charity or for good cause; but to live liberally - outside of the retrainsts of morality and decency is what the secular world hopes to legislate to avoid conviction and gain what they believe would be "freedom". "Those burdensome chains of values, morals, and decent behavior are keeping us from utopia! We must lean forward, progress, move on, to a world in which laws are not based on Christian values but are determined by liberals, secularists, athiests, and statists "
"behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the children of God! Therefore the WORLD DOES NO KNOW US, because it DID NOT KNOW HIM" - I John 3:1
Chris is right....
Submitted by tvhall on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:47pm.
It is a woman's right not to have a baby - by abstinance, preventative birth control however saying she has a right to murder a fetus is just barbaric.
Liberals are so inconsistant...Don't execute a murderer, but it's ok to murder and inocent baby.
God will punish this nation for that stance, I'm not so sure that that punishment hasn't started!
tvhall
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:50pm.
They don't see inconsistency. A dead baby isn't old enough to vote, like a dead adult is. A murderer can still vote Democrat.
Holy hyperbolic
Submitted by Rio on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:47pm.
Holy hyperbolic hyperventilating! Wonder who, among Matthews guests, got the shower today.
Poor
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:48pm.
tingles. He gets upset everytime Rush speaks the truth to an audience of 100 times more he has. Rush has been on a roll this week making it very clear what Barry is up to. His lies, his flip flops, his general all around plans of ruining America and people are listening!
Chis Matthews has no problem with demeaning women
Submitted by frank14 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:48pm.
---if it's a Democrat like JFK or Bubba doing it.
Nobody said women cannot use contraceptives...
Submitted by IdahoJim on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:48pm.
...It is just wrong to ask the rest of us to pay for it.
IdahoJim
http://idahoandy.net
Yes, Rush, you "nailed it."
Submitted by balboa on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:49pm.
Yes, Rush, you "nailed it." Democrats are afraid of pregnancy AND kids.
Genius.
Under your skin, eh?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:53pm.
He must've gotten to you if you typed more than four words in one post.
Yep you have to admit that
Submitted by MightyMouth on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:53pm.
Yep you have to admit that pregnacy is pretty messy (not as messy as an abortion though). And kids have those nasty diapers and need for constant upbringing... All that stuff takes away from bong smoking and lines of cocaine. So why not just skip it all?
Don't forget, you have to go
Submitted by ant on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:21pm.
Don't forget, you have to go through all that trouble of indoctrination..and if the tyke has ever been to a 4th of July parade, it's sooo much harder. Plus, all those lunches from home to inspect, the memorizing of Obama anthems, all those kid's shows the Mooch must appear on for propaganda....a LOT of work.
What's wrong with Limbaugh's statement?
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:08pm.
MATTHEWS: "He's accusing the Democrats of aborting their young."
Accusing? I thought that was what NOW, NARAL, and Planned Parenthood wanted: a woman's right to abort a child when she chooses.
Democrats are aborting their young because they choose to do so, no?
Because they choose to do so
Submitted by balboa on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 9:13pm.
Because they choose to do so is a different statement from "They're afraid of pregnancy and kids!"
I'm talking about Matthews' quote
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 9:23pm.
He said that Limbaugh accused Democrats of aborting their young. (Republicans do to, for that matter.)
So what's Matthews' point?
Oh Matthews is completely
Submitted by balboa on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 9:29pm.
Oh Matthews is completely ridiculous. He's just ranting.
And I agree
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 9:55pm.
And Limbaugh is a ranter, too. But he's apparently better at it, because he's got a large audience and he gets the goat of acts like Matthews, who single-handedly has deemed Limbaugh the leader of the GOP and conservatives. On more than one occasion, I've heard Matthews quote Limbaugh as if he's GOP Moses.
MATTHEWS: He's accusing the Democrats of aborting their young
Submitted by vrwc13 on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 4:07pm.
He's not accusing them, he is just stating the obvious:
They ARE aborting their young...
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
Consequences
Submitted by CJohnson on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 3:47pm.
and reality in general.
"Hatred of women"? Now that's rich
Submitted by Vivaldi5 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:58pm.
"Hatred of women"...said the guy whose "Elusive Hero" JFK (in)famously asked Mimi Alford to take care of brother Ted and aide Dave Powers....
Let's not forget Obama's
Submitted by ant on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:26pm.
Let's not forget Obama's buddy Bill Ayers, who once guilted one of his 'freshman conquests' into 'taking care' of his black friends to prove she wasn't racist. From her story, the non-racist 'brothers' sure had no tender-love-making in mind for the white chick. Another Democrat, another rapist. Nothing to see here...move along.
found their target
Submitted by Tjexcite on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 7:59pm.
"They" have found how to win even with the numbers and statistics with numbers like what is on now say that it will be a one term. Say that the other side hates you and will take away your right to birth control if they win so you must stop them.
Old and busted: Hope and Change
New Hotness: Hate and Lies.
Media Matters has the...
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:04pm.
Media Matters has the talking points out, the theme for the time being will steer away from the race card and the class warfare against the better earners. The attacks on the republicans and the church will be : 1,2,3, wait for it : They are attacking women and women's rights, they are against a woman's right to choose, blah blah blah.
They are about as subtle as Al Sharptons ignorance.
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:10pm.
There is something wrong with this guy Matthews.
Seriously..there is something wrong with him...
Not to be taken orally
Submitted by CJohnson on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 3:50pm.
I think he swallowed a spermicidal agent and it killed what was swimming around in his head.
Hmmm
Submitted by ant on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:15pm.
Rush's paragraph the show cited only mentions abortion, yet Matthews and his guest both hear 'birth control'. I will never, for the life of me, understand how a libtard concludes killing a fetus is the same as wearing a condom. They are truly of their 'father'.
they don't think that...
Submitted by OuttaMyWay on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:35pm.
but it is their job to try create a moral equivalence, in the mind of their audience.
There was a guest on Hannity on Friday, and she was taking the term aboritfatice (as in 1. medicine that causes and abortion 2. a word i cannot spell) and saying that they were not providing abortions, as if she could not hear the last part of the phrase.
Again, Marxists get it WRONG.
Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:25pm.
The GOVERNMENT intrusion on what it STATES the CHURCH must do is in Violation of the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Also, when these idiots refer to abortion, they only use "HEALTH OF THE MOTHER OR RAPE" as the excuse to have an abortion. Nevermind all of those other pregnancies.
David Corn from Mother Jones' Pinko bloody rag is just another tool that Tingles uses to shred any person that he deems as an enemy to his lord and savior King Hussein.
Did Tingles actually go to college?
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:52pm.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Here is an example of a crazy guy, not crazy, smart normally but here is Limbaugh taking you guys off the cliff with him by talking about- and here is a big guy, a male figure- talking about birth control yesterday. Not about the church. Just birth control.
Is there a sentence in there, anywhere?
Refresh my memory
Submitted by Clemenza on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 8:56pm.
Isn't Chris Matthews the same left wing piece of $hit that refers to women as ballon heads and profoundly stupid. I guess Tingles like memory is starting to slip . . . . just like his momies did.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/05/17/chris-matthews-sar...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/chris-matthews-michele-bachmann...
http://mrctv.org/videos/maher-insults-palin-and-bachmann-milfs-morons-id...
But Chris, you people love, love, love abortion
Submitted by WarEagle01 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 9:20pm.
Please quit acting like you think there's is anything wrong with it.
I love it, Rush gets the liberals ire every time...
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 9:26pm.
and calls them on it right before they do it almost verbatim, literally amazing.
Liberals *use* women and their rights as talking points.
Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 9:35pm.
They *use* the "Birth Control" issue to make themselves look like they care about the issue to get away with their perversion of the law. Now if they started mandating that men get vasectomies, then what will they do? Obviously they won't dare to go that route. This is their easiest method to sleaze their way into our everyday lives. FACT.
Alinskyism, pure and simple. But I have a question.
Submitted by lotr on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 9:49pm.
Chris Mathews is employing Alinsky tactics. It's as simple as that.
But I have an open question: Why do the pop-libs and Dems constantly associate contraception with "women"? I cannot help but to conclude that they assign the responsibility of "practicing safe sex" to women, not men. And I'm not really all that surprised. Comments?
I Have No Problem With Liberals Self-Aborting
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 11:24pm.
More power to them.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
abortion is birth control?
Submitted by truckinmann on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 11:43pm.
Have the libs finally admitted that they consider abortion to be birth control? I guess they have. This is a good day! This is the beginning of the implosion of the pro abortion network of murderers. Halleluiah!
Obama gives Chrissy a tingle.
Submitted by KyWriter on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 11:45pm.
Rush makes him wet his pants.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 1:52am.
Rushbo has got the libbies sooooo figgered out.....they fall for it every time.
Rush is right. Liberals believe in abortion, so they are in...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 3:34pm.
effect aborting their own people. Matthews is supposed to be a Catholic. He obviously believes in abortion as a form of birth control.
There has to be a special place in Hell for "so-called" Catholics like Matthews, Pelosi, Kennedy, Biden, et al.
That is not a place I would want to go to.
I wonder how long Mathews has to spend
Submitted by David Kramer on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 8:45am.
in the confessional? Confessing his list of sins from just one show probably takes a couple of hours to try and explain away. Oh I forgot, their religious beliefs is just a cover. They are just using their religion to cover for their marxist ideals.
Pride. Check
Greed. Check
Envy. Check
Anger. Check
Lust. Check
Gluttony. Possible
Sloth. Check
The Democrat party backers have it all.
but . . .
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 4:30pm.
The women being raped at OWS? Mathews isn't concerned about that.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
but . . .
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 4:48pm.
The women being raped at OWS? Mathews isn't concerned about that.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Weird is his audience will
Submitted by CJohnson on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 4:52pm.
Weird is his audience will not even detect the dots, much less connect them.
Here's a difference.
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 6:22pm.
Rush asks if the Democrats fear kids, Matthews states that this is simply hatred of women. Both are stretches, but one is phrased for speculation, the other just ham-handed co-option. It would be funny--if not tiresome--the way that Rush is called to task for speculating when the Dems just jump to conclusions and claim it as truth.
I don't really even see what Rush's kid status has to do with it. Seems to me to be a reflexive reach for Alinsky's "hypocrite" tactic. Now, here's what's interesting: to a lib, I am without a doubt wrong because Matthews never mentioned Alinsky, or specifically used the word "hypocrite". My comment is from left field despite the fact that Matthews reports his take as legitimate whether or not Rush mentioned "hate" or "women". This is the constant Dem hypocrisy on speculation. People who suspect Obama might be a Muslim are WRONG, because Obama said so. But Rush could repeatedly say "I don't hate women" to no effect, which leads us to our second principle of Dem hypocrisy that they can take for granted that a conservative is lying based on whether or not they believe him. If we want to disbelieve Obama and remain "sane" we have to prove it.
Rush's seeming allergy to maintaining a traditional marriage has long ago disqualified him as a moral authority in my mind. Still even non-moral authorities can make moral observations, arguments and analysis. This is more of the Alinskyan attempt to freeze the conversation by the charge of hypocrisy than a serious attempt at analysis.