Chris Matthews Links Gay Marriage Opponents to Supporters of Slavery
Minutes after Barack Obama came out for gay marriage, Wednesday, Chris Matthews appeared on MSNBC to compare opponents of such unions to "wolves" and to link them to supporters of slavery. Warning of political danger to the President, Matthews spewed, "The dens are opening. The gates are opening of wolves coming out for this, the Karl Roves."
After describing liberalism as the force that brought all social change to America, the Hardball anchor warned about the armies that feed off "resentment." Matthews lectured, "That army has been out there during Jim Crow. It was out there during abolition, during suffrage. There's always an army that feeds on change and feeds against it." [See video below. See MP3 audio here.]
According to the host, it has been the "long march towards liberalism in the country" that has brought justice. Matthews complimented MSNBC's left-wing slogan: "It has always been forward-leaning, as we say on this network actually, and it has always moved in that direction."
A transcript of the exchange, which appeared on the May 9 segment, is below:
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CHRIS MATTHEWS: The wolf lairs are opening up. The dens are opening; the gates are opening of wolves coming out for this, the Karl Roves. The people who will use this against the President in states like North Carolina and in Pennsylvania. They will use it from the pulpit. They’ll make it a religious issue. They will use it to go to communities, black and white. Working-class whites. Very evangelical black Americans – they will go to them at the pulpit. They use everything they can to exploit this. This is a very- well, it's a shattering fact now in American life.
MARTIN BASHIR: You're suggesting that it is going to redound negatively for the President.
MATTHEWS: It will be a major effort for that to happen. I don't know how the American people will react, whether this will be a voting issue or not. I know that this is an earth shaking statement by the president positively for everyone that is gay they have the president on their side for something that really matters which is love. It is a pretty profound statement by our President. I don't want to get past that too quickly.
BASHIR: No.
MATTHEWS: That's the good news for everybody in the country in terms of freedom and the long march towards liberalism in the country, which has always moved forward for rights for all kinds of people. It has always been forward-leaning, as we say on this network actually, and it has always moved in that direction. But there has always been another army out there that feeds on those who resent it. That army has been out there during Jim Crow. It was out there during abolition, during suffrage. There's always an army that feeds on change and feeds against it. The wolves, and they're being released right now and they're probably giggling with delight at how they're going to use this.
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I knew last night that
Submitted by ricklail on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 5:07pm.
I knew last night that MESSNBC would be calling the good folks here in NC all kind of names. I never thought they'd equate it to Jim Crow or slavery. Then again I don't know the mind of Tingles. It changes so much. By the way there were a lot of blacks for the amendment.
Someone should tell Chrissie
Submitted by robert108 on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 5:11pm.
Someone should tell Chrissie that it's the Democrats who were the supporters of slavery.
They will compare everything
Submitted by tcm14 on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 5:15pm.
They will compare everything to slavery. It's all they've got. If you think about it you can compare just about anything to opposing slavery, which is probably why they do it because it requires no intelligence.
Sure, Chris, sure.
Submitted by KyWriter on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 5:46pm.
Um, but what about the fact that gay marriage is much less popular in the black communities than in white communities? How do you spin that, Mr. Spittle?
Old Motown tune
Submitted by bobsmom on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:00pm.
"...same old song, but with a different meaning since you been gone......." Runs through my head every time I hear slavery/Jim Crow/blah blah blah. We need to make them cards they can just hold up and save their voices. Also makes me wonder why in the hey they think the name "Jim Crow" means anything to a large portion of society. Young people of every color most likely have no idea what they're talking about. Kind of like the Gordon Gekko thing yesterday, and that's a reference out of the more recent past than Jim Crow.
Slavery, huh? It never
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:02pm.
Slavery, huh? It never occurred to me to order any of my gay friends and aquaintances to wash my car, or clean my house, or mow my lawn without compensation. I guess I really missed out on this "slavery" thing. Jeez. BTW, they can vote can't they? I never heard of slaves having that right.
Chrissy, please do us a favor and buy a dictionary before you use words that you obviously don't know the meaning of.
While we're on this subject,
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:42pm.
While we're on this subject, when is Chris Matthews going to admit that even though Jim Crow laws were wrong, the court and federal government did overstep their bounds in addressing it? And that our culture afterwards swung to the opposite extreme on race issues, to the point of extreme political correctness and academic theory that race doesn't exist?
While we're on this subject,
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:42pm.
While we're on this subject, when is Chris Matthews going to admit that even though Jim Crow laws were wrong, the court and federal government did overstep their bounds in addressing it? And that our culture afterwards swung to the opposite extreme on race issues, to the point of extreme political correctness and academic theory that race doesn't exist?
While we're on this subject,
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:42pm.
While we're on this subject, when is Chris Matthews going to admit that even though Jim Crow laws were wrong, the court and federal government did overstep their bounds in addressing it? And that our culture afterwards swung to the opposite extreme on race issues, to the point of extreme political correctness and academic theory that race doesn't exist?
While we're on this subject,
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:42pm.
While we're on this subject, when is Chris Matthews going to admit that even though Jim Crow laws were wrong, the court and federal government did overstep their bounds in addressing it? And that our culture afterwards swung to the opposite extreme on race issues, to the point of extreme political correctness and academic theory that race doesn't exist?
While we're on this subject,
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:42pm.
While we're on this subject, when is Chris Matthews going to admit that even though Jim Crow laws were wrong, the court and federal government did overstep their bounds in addressing it? And that our culture afterwards swung to the opposite extreme on race issues, to the point of extreme political correctness and academic theory that race doesn't exist?
While we're on this subject,
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:42pm.
While we're on this subject, when is Chris Matthews going to admit that even though Jim Crow laws were wrong, the court and federal government did overstep their bounds in addressing it? And that our culture afterwards swung to the opposite extreme on race issues, to the point of extreme political correctness and academic theory that race doesn't exist?
While we're on this subject,
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:42pm.
While we're on this subject, when is Chris Matthews going to admit that even though Jim Crow laws were wrong, the court and federal government did overstep their bounds in addressing it? And that our culture afterwards swung to the opposite extreme on race issues, to the point of extreme political correctness and academic theory that race doesn't exist?
While we're on this subject,
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:42pm.
While we're on this subject, when is Chris Matthews going to admit that even though Jim Crow laws were wrong, the court and federal government did overstep their bounds in addressing it? And that our culture afterwards swung to the opposite extreme on race issues, to the point of extreme political correctness and academic theory that race doesn't exist?
While we're on this subject,
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:43pm.
dup
sorry a lot of duplicate
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:57pm.
sorry a lot of duplicate posts i dont know what happened
So Obama was like a slavery supporter.........
Submitted by GregE on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 9:30pm.
............until yesterday.
Still gave Chris tingles up his leg while being like a slave supporter?
Hey, Chrissy...how you gonna
Submitted by RR GOP on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 12:12am.
Hey, Chrissy...how you gonna handle change in the White House this fall...HA HA HA HA HA HA
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