The Most Honest Thing Chris Matthews Has Ever Said
If NBC were the NFL, we’d describe this statement from Chris Matthews as the moment when a veteran but snakebit head coach whose team is losing its season gets the dreaded “vote of confidence” from the team’s owner. In other words, we’ll keep you on for the rest of the year, but you better win the rest of your games this season if you expect to be back next year:
On today’s edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Matthews told Priebus that Republican attacks on President Obama’s welfare stance, as well as Mitt Romney’s remark about his birth certificate, were evidence that the Republican party was playing “that little ethnic card… the race card,” and called it an embarrassment to the party.
Matthews criticism, leveled with a remarkable emotional intensity, visibly rankled the show’s co-hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. RNC spokesman Sean Spicer called it “outlandish.” Priebus called it “garbage,” and later charged Matthews with trying to be “the biggest jerk in the room.” In an interview with Matthews Monday evening, Newt Gingrich charged Matthews with racism.
But Matthews told POLITICO that has received an outpouring of support — from his bosses, who he says “agree with substance of what I said,” and from fans in places as disparate as Mozambique and Jamaica.
Something tells me that the Nielsens for MSNBC in Mozambique are even worse than they are in America. But setting that aside, perhaps Matthews really does have a vote of confidence from his employers. I think we can safely conclude that Matthews is, for once, being honest when he says that his bosses “agree with [the] substance” of his racist statements, considering its dishonest edits earlier this year to frame George Zimmerman as a racist, the recent on-air utterance of the N-word by a 9/11 truther who co-hosts one of their shows, and the statement that MSNBC president Phil Griffin gave to NPR a year ago:
I’m a big fan of the Reverend Sharpton. I’ve known him quite a bit. he’s smart. He’s entertaining. He’s experienced. He’s thoughtful. He’s provocative, all the things I think that MSNBC is.
He sure is. And so is Chris.
GE: It brings bad racialism to life.
Update: In his column this week for the L.A. Times, Jonah Goldberg quips, “Huzzah, America, our centuries-old struggle with racism and bigotry may be coming to an end:”
Just to recap, here’s what Romney said of himself and his wife: “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.”
As with most things Romney says, it’s hard to appreciate the full breadth and depth of the blandness of his delivery from just reading the words on the page.
Yet this is “the basest and most despicable bigotry we might be able to imagine.” Clearly, if that’s the worst we can come up with, the state of racial tolerance in America has never been better.
Of course. Which is why Chris and the rest of the liberal Bletchley Park that his network have transformed itself into have to work ever harder to detect all those racial dog whistles only their ears can receive. Which brings us to James Taranto’s observation yesterday: “The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it’s intended for somebody else. The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you’re the dog.”
And, what does the ‘leg tingler’ have to say about ‘The One’, you know,’the one who parts the oceans, and heals racial divides’, and all that crap – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/30/the-racialist-potus-seeks-transformation-via-raced-based-classroom-edicts-say-it-aint-so-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
and, whose racialist AG eschews the law to empower the Black Panthers, who are nothing more than domestic terrorists, inciting to kill whitey! And, don’t get me started on their protection of ILLEGAL aliens.
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Matthews was totally right – Priebus looked like a fool – Driscoll is a hack
Too funny!
Matthews is like that kid in the movie.
“I see racist people.”
And so, obviously, are you!
Watch TV tonite and see the next POTUS.
Chris Matthews is a deluded, bloviating gasbag. Priebus should have torn him a new one on national tv.
But that’s just it, he didn’t. He did not defend himself nor his party. He is incapable of taking the point on fighting the left. He has the debate skills of a sixth-grader. He is woefully unprepared to fight back against the likes of Crissy.
We have always had weak party chiefs. He is just another in a long line of nobodys who got that position.
You said it all, blotto. I watched Priebus and was thoroughly disappointed. He let ‘tingles’ run on and on without shutting him down. The host of the show looked like he was totally some where else.
The Left, including mouthpieces like Chris Matthews, is slipping into thuggery. Still, to be fair, Mr. Matthews has always presented himself as a pompous bass and a Left-wing goon. So, this latest rant is nothing new. Soon he will slip into to oblivion, as will MSNBC.
“…Chris and the rest of the liberal Bletchley Park that his network have transformed itself into have to work ever harder to detect all those racial dog whistles only their ears can receive.”
You do realize that human beings cannot hear dog whistles, right? Just sayin’
You do realize that that was the point of the simile (or is it metaphor; I always forget) don’t you?
It’s amazing to read that the Bigoted Left — so contemptuous and intolerant of opposing viewpoints — are unaware of what bigotry is, and still sees themselves as holy and pure and superior in all ways (which again is the hallmark of bigotry). Now then, shall we debate which side of the political aisle has the irrational view of homosexuality, and which side sees the world (and presidential candidates) in terms of skin color?
I guess they do agree because they all follow a pattern. Look at every one and they all tip the scale in one direction and some even look like they are the same person.
If they have any followers at all it tells you more about the listeners and it scares the bejeebers out of me to think we have such brain dead citizens.
Matthews is a consummate servile panderer of the genus “ringed neck journalist”*.
* ”Ringed necked journalist”; Anyone of the species of obsequious journalists that have a ring around their neck which indicates a trademark sphincter chafing from pandering to their master. Also identified by the familiar race baiting and disjointed squawk when the ringed neck is concealed by a shirt collar.
Raaaaacism, as a charge against, is sooo over. I live in Northern Virginia (talk about political schizophrenia!) so I see all varieties. Being called a raaaacist, even by someone of a different race is usually part of a joke or a laugh at some dumb pol. (And this seems to be independent of the ideology of either person)
Because Matthews’ brain never sends any ‘stop’ signals to his mouth, odds are he’s not really even in whatever Journolist replacement strategerie website/message board the partisan big media types have created to share their talking points for the general election campaign. So Chris goes for the lowest common denominator, which is to repeatedly play the race card with ever-increasing shrillness and frequency (if there is a new tactic being cooked up for the general election, they wouldn’t let Chris in on it yet, because his stream-of-consciousness style would be akin to some comic book or Bond super-villain revealing his entire scheme in advance of it actually happening).
Matthews might try mixing the Medicare scare tactics in with the race card, and the others may come up with some other lines of attack in the upcoming weeks. But it may also turn out this is all they have, since they can’t concoct any positive reasons to re-elect Obama under the current economic conditions. So by October we could end up with others in the big media simply following Chris’ lead and screaming out ‘racism’ 24 hours a day up through Nov. 6, or doing 30 minute news pieces and 8,000-word articles on that upcoming new movie from Sony on how Obama killed bin Laden.
Liberals, like Chris Matthews, have to resort to charges of hidden racism ( i.e. code words or institutional racism ) because overt racism is becoming ever increasingly rare and the black socioeconomic disparity is real and not going away.
Liberal don’t believe in the valdity of intelligence test, except to let convicted murders escape the death penalty, and purport to believe that all cultures are somehow equal. So if you can’t blame it on Nature or Nurture, blame it on the white guy.
Then that leaves with a new form of racism. Whereas whites are responsible for both their socioeconomic status and that of blacks, the black population is responsible for neither. Idiots like Matthews can rail against whites all they want. It will not restore the black family, shut down the abortion mills or stop blacks from gunning down other blacks on the streets of Chicago.
“If you can hear the whistle….You’re the Dog”
LMAO….. LOVE it!!!!
In an era where the NAACP holds press conferences to call out Hallmark graduation cards that say “black hole,” and Toure says the word “angry” is a racist attack, I too declare racism to be effectively defeated.
A defining moment in American history, to be sure.
Chris Mathews cannot think of “welfare” and “food stamps” without thinking of Black people. This is intense, embedded racist (NOT racialist) thinking.
Al Sharpton is a racist, anti-semitic pogrom artist with blood on his hands. He is accepted by both MSNBC and the Democratic party. David Duke was thrown out of the Republican party, and I’m not aware he has any blood on his hands.
NBC: Racist. Anti-semitic. Liberal. (Or do I repeat myself?)
That Romney will strap you to his car?
Or that Obama has an additional menu item?
Astute and subtle. Excellent observation and well placed. Thank you.
among the best ways of dealing with liberals is letting them be who they really are. Given enough space, they reveal themselves as Matthews has. It would be nice if more Repubs took an equally aggressive tone is in response, as I have seen the likes of Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham do. Which raises another question – why is it that women appear to be the ones with the balls among conservatives?
We Don’t Need No Stinking Warrant: The Disturbing, Unchecked Rise of the Administrative Subpoena BY DAVID KRAVETS 08.28.12
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/administrative-subpoenas/
Matthews and the rest of M.S.N.B.C.takes their orders from Obama and the Democratic party and will do and say anything to get Obama reelected.Chris Matthews is so hateful that he has become mentally and emotionally disturbed.
I just got off the phone to corporate offices of Comcast and their customer service exec couldn’t have been nicer. Now we’ll see what happens.
Which brings us to James Taranto’s observation yesterday: “The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it’s intended for somebody else. The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you’re the dog.”
That is the money quote and needs to be repeated as often as possible, if you are the one hearing the racist whistle, you are the racist.
either C. Matthews is drinking again or he is one dry drunk
the RNC chair is not particularly effective in that type of forum
What will they do, how will they survive and be fulfilled if they can’t play the race card?
If Cris can get three people that watch him, they would have a forum,
If despite their best efforts Obama loses the election, any slight degree of restraint these race-mongers currently feel will evaporate, as will any self-serving concern with the actions their provocations may inspire. What will they do then, and what will be the result?
As their accusations get more vicious and inevitably become naked threats, these people (and their employers) must be asked candidly if they are willing to set back race relations in this country another 20 years in order to re-elect a failed President who is black?
Jacob Rothschild, John Paulson And George Soros Are All Betting That Financial Disaster Is Coming
Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world? Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down. Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson made somewhere around 20 billion dollars betting against the U.S. housing market during the last financial crisis, and now he has made huge bets that the euro will go down and that the price of gold will go up. And as I wrote about in my last article, George Soros put approximately 130 million more dollars into gold last quarter. So will the euro plummet like a rock? Will the price of gold absolutely soar? Well, if a massive financial disaster does occur both of those two things are likely to happen. The European economy is becoming more unstable with each passing day, and investors all over the globe are looking for safe places to put their money.
The mainstream media keeps telling us that everything is going to be okay, but the global elite are sending us a much, much different message by their actions. Certainly Rothschild, Paulson and Soros know about things happening in the financial world that the rest of us don’t. The fact that they are all behaving in a consistent manner right now should be alarming for all of us.
Of course they endorse what he says. They endorse him every time they give him a paycheck.
Love the dog-whistle quote. Love it! Here’s my offering:
Last night I heard upon the stair
A racist dog-whistle that wasn’t there.
He is representative of the marxists.
So again I ask you what are we going to do about them? We cannot live with them.
“racialism. ”
NO! Its “RACISM”, why sugar coat it?
Call him what he is – Chris Matthews spews vile hate filled racism.