Chris Matthews to Kathleen Parker: Is Sarah Palin the poster girl for racism?
posted at 7:35 pm on August 6, 2009 by Allahpundit
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.
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The shear amount of stupid coming through the video player is frying the circuitry in my compaut32jt223-
WisCon on August 6, 2009 at 9:07 PM
I may meander down there if I don’t have any work. I’ll have to listen to the radio in the morning and see if I hear anything.
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 9:02 PM
LOLOL
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Aww… Kathleen’s trying to get invited on another date night with her boyfriend.
Illinidiva on August 6, 2009 at 9:08 PM
HUH???
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 9:08 PM
from pbs
jerrytbg on August 6, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Don’t get too offended, just take a good shot back at em. And if you are very new just remember allah is a new york liberal and ed is a minnesota squishy.
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Southern comfort. Oops, that drink is raaaaaacist.
Spirit of 1776 on August 6, 2009 at 9:09 PM
mtb on August 6, 2009 at 9:06 PM
If we insulted you, we apologize.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 9:09 PM
There are plenty of us to commiserate with, don’t get offended.
Cindy Munford on August 6, 2009 at 9:10 PM
mtb on August 6, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Who insulted you? Most people in here are very nice.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 9:10 PM
pleeze b jokin
blatantblue on August 6, 2009 at 9:10 PM
When I was a kid we actually had a book of polish jokes. Illustrated also and the cartoons were pretty funny. The authors were two polish guys.
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:10 PM
I’m all for reparations as long as they send every Democrat the bill.
yogi41 on August 6, 2009 at 9:11 PM
jerrytbg on August 6, 2009 at 9:09 PM
That’s the way I learned my history, anyway.
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 9:11 PM
I am going to have to volunteer for something and get to know some of those folks, I have not knowing anyone.
Cindy Munford on August 6, 2009 at 9:11 PM
mtb was insulted by allah.
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Allah. Imagine.
Cindy Munford on August 6, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Maybe it’s your grammer. :)
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:12 PM
TXMomof3,
Try finding that in a modern textbook…not there.
jerrytbg on August 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Let’s see… Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Evan Williams, Pecan Pie, Daisy Dukes, Chicken Fried… Anything.
That’s a serious cultural heritage by any standard :-)
CaptFlood on August 6, 2009 at 9:14 PM
I would have joined the conversation earlier but my bathroom caught on fire. It’s OK though, it didn’t reach the house.
Renae on August 6, 2009 at 9:14 PM
TXMomof3,
Try finding that in a modern textbook…not there.
jerrytbg on August 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM
So, what exactly are you saying Jerry?
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Renae,
;) !
jerrytbg on August 6, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Okrah, catfish, oysters, gator tail, girls with southern accents!
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:17 PM
SoCo makes me go errrr, errrrrr
MadisonConservative on August 6, 2009 at 9:17 PM
I would have joined the conversation earlier but my bathroom caught on fire. It’s OK though, it didn’t reach the house.
Renae on August 6, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Glad to know your okay, that’s why we put it downwind from the house.
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 9:18 PM
That was the best!
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:18 PM
I believe it. I’m really a “Heinz 57″, but my last name got me every Pollack joke ever made.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 9:19 PM
TXMomof3,
?/S
jerrytbg on August 6, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Crawfish! How could I leave out crawfish!?
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Note to the left…
Desperation makes for a pretty stinky cologne/perfume.
While we are on the topic, please have your professional Astro-Turfer’s shower and apply some deodorant when they attend the town halls. The leftist elites are not used to being around the unwashed masses that make up their base.
RobertInLexington on August 6, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Is that good or bad?
Spirit of 1776 on August 6, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Now that’s ‘Southern Humor’ right there. :- )
thomasaur on August 6, 2009 at 9:20 PM
jerrytbg on August 6, 2009 at 9:19 PM
I was only kidding. My textbooks weren’t modern.
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 9:20 PM
They are going to try to get people to sign health care petitions tomorrow between 11 to 2. I am not going to go but I didn’t if you were involved in the group.
Cindy Munford on August 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM
I got called Irish trash once in boston and was laughing so hard the idiot got even more pissed off.
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Chris Matthews is the poster boy for Cockroaches.
With apologies to lovable, common sense Cockroaches
franksalterego on August 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Or, maybe it’s her grammar.
massrighty on August 6, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I believe it. I’m really a “Heinz 57″, but my last name got me every Pollack joke ever made.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 9:19 PM
I have Wisniewski’s in my family. I was so proud when I learned to spell it.
TXMomof3 on August 6, 2009 at 9:22 PM
LOL!!!
Cindy Munford on August 6, 2009 at 9:23 PM
I’m not formally involved in any group although I should. I keep saying that I’m going to attend one of the Beaches Republican Clubs meetings to see what they are talking about. I always find something more important to do but it’s probably better anyway because if I heard someone espousing the merits of charlie crist or mell martinez they’d probably throw me out anyway.
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:23 PM
And my proofreading is worse.
Cindy Munford on August 6, 2009 at 9:24 PM
You best smile when you correct my spelling.
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:25 PM
I don’t know too many conservatives that are “joiners”. The Dems should be much more impressed with these tea parties and the attendance at these town halls.
Cindy Munford on August 6, 2009 at 9:27 PM
As someone from North Alabama – and has voted for conservatives since Reagan
Chris Matthews, Kathleen Parker and especially Allahpundit can all pucker up – and kiss my butt!
woodman on August 6, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Dear Allahpundit: Thanks for posting this. We need to see what these people are really like so we can be better prepared to deal with them. These three and people much like them are widespread in the news and entertainment media, academia, and among the liberal Democrats. And they are far too influential and powerful.
This is a standard serving of elitist, bigoted, narrow-minded liberal bile, done in it’s usual cheerful and condescending manner, with a healthy dose of the essential self-serving and mutual ego stroking.
Indeed.
Loxodonta on August 6, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Txmomof3,
I know… It’s just fustrating to see how the textbooks have been bastardized in the last 2-3 decades…It’s sad.
jerrytbg on August 6, 2009 at 9:32 PM
I think Chris Matthews is just mad because he not getting that trill up his leg anymore.
thmcbb on August 6, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Depends if I’m hitting on Southern gals.
MadisonConservative on August 6, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Because we have lives and work for a living. Hopefully what is going on in these townhall meetings (by the way, there is a new post by allah and he seems to think these concerned citizens are rude).
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:34 PM
LOL…that one isn’t too bad!
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Chris Matthews: “…cul de sacs of whitedom…”
Lord have mercy. That’s about the most condescending thing I have ever heard a liberal coastie say. And I live in California.
To Matthews, “To Kill A Mockingbird” is a “great movie.” He said he just saw it again.
Doesn’t that just say it all? To a liberal like him, a classic isn’t a classic until Hollywood gets its greasy paws on it.
They don’t know about Atlas Shrugged because only The Fountainhead was made into a movie.
JFK and Nixon inform their history of the 60s and 70s, and Primary Colors is all they need to know about the Clintoons.
silverfox on August 6, 2009 at 9:37 PM
So I have to ask- is that a really bad picture of Kathleen Parker, or does she really look like that?
anniekc on August 6, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Let me finish my thought, “is a sign of renewed activism on the part of the conservative majority.”
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 9:37 PM
My one grandfather was DIRECTLY from Ireland. I’m more Irish than Polish but no one would know it by my name.
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Being born and raised in the great state of Texas, I could care less what someone from frickin new york thought about the South or Texas especially allah. I have been a member since hotair started and I dont ever remember Bryan attacking or criticizing members of hotair like Allah does and I even remember a stretch of crazy ass bans by the pundit that didnt make any since. I say this because even though I hardly ever comment anymore I enjoy reading what every one has to say, even the trolls, so lets try to leave the Liberal yankee BS at home, we get enough of that crap on the drive-by-media and shouldnt have to read it here.
Texas Dude on August 6, 2009 at 9:40 PM
The first sign of some sense!
Though, to be fair, your girlfriend is great too (excepting the vampire obsession).
Spirit of 1776 on August 6, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Look at Parker, she is old and fine-looking Sarah looks like she is 35 years old. Parker writes about fine-looking Sarah sooooo in luv with Obama Chris will have her on the show to trash fine-looking Sarah. Did I say that mother of five was fine-looking Sarah. Anyway, Parker now waits for other oldest looking hags at HuffPost to wine and dine her. Get it!
Without mother of five fine-looking Sarah with wolf-wolf Todd don’t know old looking Parker and older looking hags over at HuffNutPost.
Did I say that mother of five was fine-looking Sarah.
Did I say that fine-looking Sarah will only get finer-looking with time.
Bark-wolf-bark
oldyeller on August 6, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Just because AP said he is less than “a great fan” of the South, it doesn’t make him a hater. Lots of people don’t really know the South and make worse asses of themselves when making generalizations.
silverfox on August 6, 2009 at 9:44 PM
A final piece of advise regarding NOT being a racist, can be found in the following film clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlevC1GpkS8&feature=related
Jeff from WI on August 6, 2009 at 9:44 PM
After seeing that picture of Kathleen, I now understand why she hates Governor Palin. Yowser.
bloggless on August 6, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Thank you, AP. Can’t bring myself to watch, as I couldn’t bring myself to read much of her article, but I sincerely appreciate the defense.
The blatant prejudice against those of us in the South gets hard to take.
Esthier on August 6, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Well by the sound of it Kathleen Parker has finally made the jump from being a RINO to being a confirmed liberal, because once you start accusing people of being racists purely for shock value then you have officially crossed then line from being a misguided fool to being a hate filled left wing ideologue.
And as for Matthews that guy is just a loud mouth idiot.
Hellrider on August 6, 2009 at 9:47 PM
In large patches of our country, there is no penalty, socially, for that. Sad.
silverfox on August 6, 2009 at 9:50 PM
How can these people live with themselves. Sarah Palin is “not consciously” the face of racism? Would I be considered a racist if I pointed out that Sarah Palin isn’t the one who has been out there talking about typical white people, sitting in the pew of a race baiting “preacher”, or defending the insanity of a racist friend by accusing upstanding law enforcement and calling them stupid without a complete grasp of the facts? The media in this country have committed suicide in the eyes of the American people.
“Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”–Isaiah 5:20
jimmy2shoes on August 6, 2009 at 9:54 PM
My rat friend Ben told me he saw the joker in the WH.
I ask, Batman too, he said yes, wife.
oldyeller on August 6, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Sorry, I could only tolerate a little over 2 min. of that video. We got 3 1/2 more years of this crap coming.
smokinjoe on August 6, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Rev. Wright under bus and grandmother typical white person, cop is stupid.
Who is the racist, Ms. Parker and in luv w/Obama Chris?
oldyeller on August 6, 2009 at 9:58 PM
This is one of the most disgusting things I’ve EVER seen. Rarely do liberals/media surprise me, but holy shiite, this almost makes me physically ill.
RightWinged on August 6, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Pinch-pinch, dream, dream, one month senator is POTUS, wake up, wake up, oh no, nightmare, nightmare.
oldyeller on August 6, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Chris Matthews is a psychopath.
Luka on August 6, 2009 at 10:13 PM
AP, oy vey. Forgetting your Palin sentiments for a moment (hey that’s fine, she’s a politician), it’s amazing how you have this ability to still insult people you’re supposedly attempting to defend. Did you even stop to think for a moment whether the above sentence was necessary? And you wonder why people give you so much crap on here. Either you’re sorely lacking in the common sense department or your supposed intelligence is a ruse.
Erich66 on August 6, 2009 at 10:18 PM
OK, I got through 1:34 minutes and I just had to turn it off. THERE IS A BLACK MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND HE’S NOT THE BARTENDER; HE’S THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF!!!! How much of an example do these liberal wackos need before they realize that America isn’t as racist as they make this nation out to be?
Great balls of fire!!
mizflame98 on August 6, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Green looks so good on you, Kathleen.
SouthernGent on August 6, 2009 at 10:30 PM
BTW, I want to know what part of the south you lived in Allah? I’m from the northeast and I moved to Texas. If I had a choice, I’d pick living in Texas hands down.
mizflame98 on August 6, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Georgia got a lot BLUER? Nuts. No way. Georgia was one of the FEW states that voted for McCain/Palin, and overwhelmed the idiots on the left. Blue is not a color I wear. Of course, that nice red leisure suit I already sold to Ahmadinejad, so what am I supposed to wear to Tea Parties and Astroturf events and remain “overdressed”?
bradley11 on August 6, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Why does it have to be either/or?
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I wonder when this guy is going to be on hardball with chrissy? I think he’d slap chrissy silly if he dared to open his mouth.
peacenprosperity on August 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM
good point…Allah’s idiocy has rubbed off on me
Erich66 on August 6, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Who would have thought that the “thrill” running up Matthews leg was Kathleen Parker looking to earn her next cocktail party invite.
Sammy316 on August 6, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Is ‘Koat Tails’ Kathleen the best poster girl and foil they could find for Sarah’s Meteoric Rise to an international persona? Who knew who this broad Was before Sarah? Not Me.
Teddy on August 6, 2009 at 11:07 PM
‘as’ an international
Teddy on August 6, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Chrissy with guests who agree….
Next!
Hog Wild on August 6, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Please explain to me the difference between the Continental Army of George Washington and Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
The institutions they fought for were identical, in every way. Both we’re Confederate armies. Both sought to throw off an overbearing government. The ***spit on the sidewalk*** slavery institutions of the Thirteen Colonies were the same as the ***spit on the sidewalk*** slavery instititions of the Confederate States of America.
Why then is the Continental Army constructed of patriots and the Army of Northern Virginia an army of monsters?
(Don’t get we wrong, slavery died the death it deserved.)
Limerick on August 6, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Because history remembers the Continentals as defenders (Boston massacre rightly or wrongly popularized British as firing first) and Virginia as aggressors as Sumter.
But monsters? No malice, Lincoln said. I agree.
Spirit of 1776 on August 6, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Wasn’t Kathleen Parker sane at some point in the recent past?
I guess she’s just looking for career security.
guntotinglibertarian on August 6, 2009 at 11:47 PM
These people are all garbage, and so are you Allah. You always have to throw in your little barbs and basically agree with the other side. You suck at what you do and have no business posting on a Conservative web site. You smell. You are also not a good pundit, regardless of your politics. Your analysis is usually asinine and frequently wrong outright.
echosyst on August 6, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Okay, I’m biting. Why is it that AP is not a “great fan” of the south? I’m honestly curious because I like his writing and I think I get his humor for the most part. Is it:
1) the culture
2) the climate
3) the people
4) the food
5) all of the above or a combination of the above
thevastlane on August 7, 2009 at 12:02 AM
It’s because Social Cons are based (largely) in the South.
He kind of sees social cons as the 4th leg of a lame dog. They just don’t fit his libertarian hawk view of what the party should represent, which is fine.
Spirit of 1776 on August 7, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Ok, thanks for your response. I guess I don’t care if he likes or dislikes the south, but why doesn’t he just say “social cons” instead of swathing the whole south into that category. That’s why I thought perhaps there was more to the south-hating than just the politics. I’m not at all trying to be a hater and I’m not even from the south. Just a bit confused about this particular subject.
thevastlane on August 7, 2009 at 12:20 AM
No offense at all, but actually it isn’t fine and I wish people would stop making excuses for this turd. Pundits like Frum, AP, and Parker (btw you’re kidding yourself if you think there’s really a hair’s difference between AP and Parker) always harp on having a GOP that can expand its base. And how do they do this? By repeatedly denigrating us hayseed, uneducated rednecks without whom the GOP would be nonexistent. There’s a recipe for success. So they want an all-inclusive GOP not beholden to social cons? Fine. Tell us how to get there. But if they’re not smart enough to come up with a plan that doesn’t include pissing all over the only ones keeping it afloat, then they really needn’t bother.
Erich66 on August 7, 2009 at 12:39 AM
He’s a N’Yawkuh, and has never questioned the idea that everybody else talks funny.
warbaby on August 7, 2009 at 12:50 AM
I’m starting to see that Democrats are so afraid of being racist that they spend all of their time calling other people racist as if it’s some sort of racism repellent.
Ortzinator on August 7, 2009 at 1:45 AM
OK… only could get through half of that. Circle Jerk Galore.
Seriously, how again is Parker a Conservative?
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 2:29 AM
An actual conservative being on MSNBC is sort of like a Jew willfully going on the “Adolph Hitler Variety Hour”
TexasJew on August 7, 2009 at 3:01 AM
The main problem the Far Left has with Sarah Palin: she does not possess one ounce of white guilt and will not allow it to affect how she politically takes on Obama.
That is why she scares the Far Left. Obama is not intellectually or ideologically smart enought to engage Sarah in a debate over which is better: capitalism or socialism.
technopeasant on August 7, 2009 at 3:04 AM
It’s The South. The “S & T” are capitalized.
Show some respect, AP.
HellCat on August 7, 2009 at 3:10 AM
It is not only that. It is also that the South produces more real men per capita than the other regions. AP is a betaboy and so feels threatened by true masculinity.
Sapwolf on August 7, 2009 at 3:16 AM
They keep calling me a racist, I might actually turn into one.
I admit I have certain prejudices-we all do-ultimately it comes down to how we actually treat other people. And those prejudices aren’t necessarily based on race, but a variety of things.
But these Libtards are the real racists because THEY TALK ABOUT RACE ALL THE DAMN TIME!!!!
LIBTARD NEWSFLASH! Some of the biggest RACISTS out there are minorities.
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 7, 2009 at 3:20 AM
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