Chris Matthews(D) - "Is Sarah Palin the poster girl for racism?"

[ericire12]

A: "Not consciously"

Video Here:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/06/chris-matthews-to-kathleen-parker-is-sarah-palin-the-poster-girl-for-racism/

This aired last night but it’s a nice complement to today’s WaPo navel-gazer about the Obama Joker poster. In both cases, you’ve got “progressives” seeing the racial subtext they’re desperate to see in the cultural inkblot; what makes this different is that Parker relies on her own southern pedigree to tacitly claim a little extra authority when pronouncing upon What Southerners Believe. Result: One of the most bigoted segments I’ve ever seen on a news chat show, and I say that as someone who’s not known for being a great fan of either Sarahcuda or the south. I remember lefties touting this Times map on “Voting Shifts” by county last year after the election as proof of how entrenched racism was down there, but most of the gains in Republican votes from 2004 to 2008 are located in five states: Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and northern Alabama. Virginia, Georgia, both Carolinas, and even Mississippi got a lot bluer, which is hard to explain if Parker’s theory about neo-Confederates bristling at the thought of a contest between a black man and white woman is widely true. God help the conservative news talker who attempts a political read as reductionist as this one; MSNBC, Media Matters, and Think Progress will never let you hear the end of it.

*Interesting timing here..... BHO is facing his first and biggest defeat ever, and MSNBC(D) whips out the race card

[tt11758]

A: "Not consciously"

Video Here:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/06/chris-matthews-to-kathleen-parker-is-sarah-palin-the-poster-girl-for-racism/

*Interesting timing here..... BHO is facing his first and biggest defeat ever, and MSNBC(D) whips out the race card

Let me get this straight, Matthews, you sanctimonious windbag......if someone DARES question "The Anointed One" they must be racist?!?  However, we were told during the previous administration that dissent toward President Bush was the "highest form of patriotism"?

What a bunch of bullshit!!  Typical leftie tactic.....if you can't debate the message you attack, or at the very least shout down, the messenger.  It explains the anal exam the media gave Joe The Lumber when he first surfaced, and it explains the excoriation that Governor Palin and her family went through when she was added to the Republican ticket last summer.  And when all else fails, trot out the race card.  I mean, hell, victimization has been the bread and butter of the democrats for at least half a century. 

And to answer your question, Mr. Matthews:  No, she is not the poster child for racism.  You, on the other hand, along with your equally contemptible colleague Keith Olbermann(D) ARE the poster children for douchebag.

The rumbling you feel beneath your feet, boys and girls, is caused by our founding fathers rolling in their graves.

[Teresa Heilevang]

I just love you tt~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 You said it perfect~~~Everything I wanted to say but was so mad I couldn't think...

[tt11758]

I just love you tt~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 You said it perfect~~~Everything I wanted to say but was so mad I couldn't think...

As always, Teresa, I've got your 6.   

[tombogan03884]

Matthews and Olberman better watch out they COULD wind up in big trouble for their hate speech

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_08_02-2009_08_08.shtml#1249664683

The Cato Institute's [1]David Rittgers explains one of the more
   disturbing aspects of the new federal "hate crimes" law passed by
   Congress.

     States and the federal government are considered separate
     sovereigns. If someone has broken both state and federal laws, he
     can have a day in court in both systems. . . . A trial by a state
     does not rule out federal prosecution for the same crime, and this
     does threaten to thwart the Fifth Amendmentâs demand that no person
     suffer double jeopardy. In practice, however, this hasnât happened
     too often; until now, limited federal jurisdiction meant that Uncle
     Sam usually didnât have the ability to try or retry a state
     defendant.

     Thatâs what makes the new hate-crime law so remarkable. Its
     defining feature is not that it allows federal prosecution of
     crimes motivated by the race, gender, sexual orientation, or
     disability of the victim. Whatâs significant is that it greatly
     expands the federal governmentâs jurisdiction to prosecute cases
     that properly belong in a state court.

     In legal terms, this law achieves its aims through federal
     authority over interstate commerce. If someone assaults you by
     throwing a cell phone at you, what Congress has done is enabled the
     prosecution of the thrower as a function of the fact that the cell
     phone was made in Japan, and therefore must have crossed state
     lines. To non-lawyers, that surely sounds absurd â which is
     precisely why this lawâs drastic overreach is so stark. This is a
     sea change in the power of the government to reach into a state and
     define violence between two people as a federal matter, one
     traditionally handled by state laws and state prosecutors.

     An equally striking feature of the law is that the federal power to
     prosecute is not dissipated even if the defendant is found guilty
     by the state. It explicitly says, in fact, that federal charges
     should be pursued if the state verdict âleft demonstratively
     unvindicated the Federal interest in eradicating bias-motivated
     violence.â

   Thus, the bill simultaneously expands federal jurisdiction to cover
   yet more criminal offenses traditionally handled at the state and
   local level and encourages reprosecution if a state verdict is
   insufficiently harsh to satisfy federal prosecutors.

References

   1. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjkzNGQ2YzBiN2ZjMjkxOTM4MTUyMDhhN2RhYjA2OTQ=

Oh, I forgot it's not hateful if a socialist says it.

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[Kid Shelleen]

A: "Not consciously"

Video Here:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/06/chris-matthews-to-kathleen-parker-is-sarah-palin-the-poster-girl-for-racism/

*Interesting timing here..... BHO is facing his first and biggest defeat ever, and MSNBC(D) whips out the race card

+1000

TT for President 2012

[tt11758]

+1000

TT for President 2012

Kid, thanks for the thought, but I say what I mean and mean what I say, which pretty much makes me unelectable.

[twyacht]

Paul Krugman today in the NY Times played the same card.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/opinion/07krugman.html?_r=1

I'll only post an excerpt as the article makes me want to slap this man...

Where's that wall to line 'em up at.....

That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that’s behind the “birther” movement, which denies Mr. Obama’s citizenship. Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the same; we don’t know how many of the protesters are birthers, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s a substantial fraction.

And cynical political operators are exploiting that anxiety to further the economic interests of their backers.

Does this sound familiar? It should: it’s a strategy that has played a central role in American politics ever since Richard Nixon realized that he could advance Republicanfortunes by appealing to the racial fears of working-class whites.

Don't like Obamacare?

You must be a racist......

This guy is really a Richard Cranium...
aka Dickhead

[Ulmus]

This is why I don't watch MSNBC.

Give me a break. 

I have yet to see anything that would make me think Sara Palin is racist.  I even work with a guy who lived in Wassilla when she was mayor and had a "run-in" with her.  Now this guy hated her so much that he voted democrat for the first time in his life.    And yet, even with all his personal animosity towards her, he never said she was racist.

If he can have enough respect to not make things up, why can't "news-entertainment commentators"?

Again.  Give me a break!

[Neon Knight Anubis]

For a guy who has a show called "Hardball" they seem to turn blue for Obama.