MSNBC's seething hate for much of the country came through, yet again, on Tuesday night as Democratic operative James Carville appeared to slime the “stupid,” “staggering humanity of conservative evangelicals.” Spitting venom, he described the “problem” Republicans have with “low quality” voters.
Talking to 11th Hour guest host Ayman Mohyeldin, Carville weighed in the accusations against Herschel Walker in Georgia. Carville ranted, “I think this just exposes the massive, staggering humanity of conservative evangelicals. I’m not going to call these people Christians, because I don’t think they embrace very much of Christianity.”
Broadening it out to other Republicans, Carville vented his hate at Christians and conservatives: “I’ve said it before they have a lot of stupid people that voted their primaries. They really do. I mean, I’m not going to supposed to say that. But it’s obvious.”
Posing as a grand intellectual, he concluded:
And you know, when stupid people vote, you know who to nominate, other stupid people. And they have — the Republicans have a problem. They got very low quality people that vote in their primaries, and producing predictably very low quality candidates. It’s evident right in front of you.
Carville’s contempt isn’t new. Way back in 1993, a Washington Post “news” story casually labeled evangelical Christians “largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command.”
“Corporations pay public relations firms millions of dollars to contrive the kind of grass-roots response that [Jerry] Falwell or Pat Robertson can galvanize in a televised sermon. Their followers are largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command.”
— Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf writing about Christian conservatives in a February 1, 1993 news story.
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11th Hour
10/4/2022AYMAN MOHYELDIN: e’re happy to welcome to the program, Democratic strategist James Carville, who helped elect former President Bill Clinton in the early 90s. He knows a thing or two about candidate quality. James, it’s good to see you again. So we mentioned national Republicans, and Trump may still have Walker’s back. But Georgia Republicans are said to be distancing themselves from Walker at this moment. How do you see this critical Senate race playing out?
JAMES CARVILLE: Well, first of all, I want to congratulate that young man, thank God he got his mother’s brain. he would have been terrible if he would inherited his dad’s brain. But I think this just exposes the massive, staggering humanity of conservative evangelicals. I’m not going to call these people Christians, because I don’t think they embrace very much of Christianity. Okay, so he paid for his girlfriend to have an abortion. But of course he did. They got the canceled check. They got the hand written note. They got the evidence, right. He’s got four different children, by four different women that he beats. He has never seen his four kids. His child speaks out against him.
And yet, because he doesn’t want to expand health care to middle class people, a lower middle class people, they’re all going to be forehand. And it just, you know, and I hear this people said young people don’t go to church anymore. Why would they see that kind of hypocrisy? Why would young people want to be part of something like that? When they see a brave young man, like just pointing out that these Republicans and these evangelicals, you know, so everybody can make a mistake. He was caught a murderer, according to them. That’s their view of it. But you can forgive people for murder, can you? Maybe you can have one kid. I bet. Maybe you can ignore one for? I don’t think so.
And there’s just got to be a point. But somebody says this is enough. This -- we can’t -- we just can’t go do it. And that’s just a fact. And the good thing about this, you’re just exposing hypocrisy everywhere.
MOHYELDIN: Yes. And speaking of candidate -- speaking of candidate quality, James, you’ve got, you know, Mehmet Oz, you’ve got Mastriano, you’ve got Herschel Walker, you got Blake Masters.
CARVILLE: Blake Masters.
MOHYELDIN: The question of candidate. Yes, no, of course. So I mean, how big of a problem is it for the GOP that this is the field of candidates that are running in this cycle?
CARVILLE: You know, I’ve said it before they have a lot of stupid people that voted their primaries. I really -- they really do. I mean, I’m not going to supposed to say that. But it’s obvious. And you know, when stupid people vote, you know who to nominate, other stupid people. And they have — the Republicans have a problem. They got very low quality people that vote in their primaries, and producing predictably very low quality candidates. It’s evident right in front of you.
