Matthews: I forgot Obama was black tonight for an hour
posted at 8:48 am on January 28, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Whenever any host on MS-NBC refers to critics of Barack Obama as racist, just keep this link handy. Chris Matthews offers up this revealing non-sequitur as praise for Obama’s “appearance” of post-racial qualities in a manner that echoes Harry Reid’s strange praise revealed in the book Game Change. I’ve puzzled over this comment since I saw in on Twitter last night in the aftermath of the State of the Union address. Exactly what does it mean that Matthews “forgot he was black” in connection to his praise of Obama’s leadership?
It’s interesting. He is post-racial, by all appearances. You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour. You know, he’s gone a long way to become a leader of this country, and passed so much history in just a year or two. I mean, it’s something we don’t even think about.
Except, of course, when Matthews and Olbermann accuse everyone else of being racist for opposing Obama, or deciding that a pickup truck is “racist imagery.” I can certainly tell you how this would have been interpreted coming from the mouth of Sarah Palin, Scott Brown, or any conservative or Republican talking head on a news show. They would have been pilloried for suggesting that national leadership somehow doesn’t go with an African-American background, and labeled as latent racists.
Of course, we got a chance to see that, too. Apparently some people have accused Bob McDonnell of staging people behind him as “props” in order to show an ethnic balance of supporters in the Virginia legislative chamber in which the Governor gave the GOP response, which is an accusation of at least hypocrisy, if not latent racism. Let’s explain who these people are in the shot, from bottom left in clockwise order:
- Staff Sergeant Robert Tenpenny, who served with McDonnell’s daughter Jeannie in Iraq
- Lisa Hick-Thomas, Virginia’s Secretary of Administration
- Jim Cheng, Secretary of Commerce and Trade
- Janet Polarek, Secretary of the Commonwealth
They weren’t “props” chosen and arranged as a diversity optic. With the exception of Sergeant Tenpenny, they’re all members of McDonnell’s Cabinet, which is why they have seats surrounding the dais.
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Racist.
rollthedice on January 28, 2010 at 8:51 AM
Chris, we forgot you were on.
Josiah on January 28, 2010 at 8:51 AM
I recall the Obama rally for Coakley in MA had a similarly diverse group, including a badly burned man. I doubt they were all officials in the state government.
Dems applying a double standard? Water is wet….
Wethal on January 28, 2010 at 8:51 AM
ultimate putz
cmsinaz on January 28, 2010 at 8:52 AM
Good post but the left has no concern for truth or reason . . . they will distort, lie, cheat and destroy to further their left wing agendas.
rplat on January 28, 2010 at 8:52 AM
I forgot Tingles was a moron…wait, I lied.
GnuBreed on January 28, 2010 at 8:52 AM
But the speech was 80 minutes long. So, for sixty minutes Matthews forgot the president was black. But for twenty minutes Matthews was fully aware that the president was a black dude. Perhaps he can tell us what the difference was.
myrenovations on January 28, 2010 at 8:53 AM
Yeah…but what’s with that ethnic-y lookin’ flag next to the stars and stripes?
Weight of Glory on January 28, 2010 at 8:53 AM
Awww, Decider and Grow Fins will be so disappointed to learn that they are complete morons.
uknowmorethanme on January 28, 2010 at 8:53 AM
Wow, Chrissy, just wow. That comment ought to get him fired. The left has been doing a poor job of hiding their obvious and rampant racism for years.
I can not understand what it is about Barack that brings it out in these people.
ORconservative on January 28, 2010 at 8:54 AM
The Democrat party = The Party of Projection
Any time a Progressive screams “racist” over and over and over, you can bet they’re the most racist of all. They’re very miserable people, these Progressives. They hate themselves.
visions on January 28, 2010 at 8:54 AM
Chris Matthews clearly sees people in terms of race. As does the racist Keith Olbermann. Why does MSNBC continue to employ racists?
rbj on January 28, 2010 at 8:55 AM
Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman (Newsweek) could have taped their comments days before the speech as they watch their Goliath blow away like sand particles in a wind – Matthews as usuual puts both feet in his mouth trying to be profound, and Fineman says he belongs on Mount Rushmore.
Marcus on January 28, 2010 at 8:55 AM
what an idiot
dolt
blatantblue on January 28, 2010 at 8:56 AM
It’s kinda like they cling to their erroneous pre-conceptions?
Techie on January 28, 2010 at 8:56 AM
Oh, for crying out loud.
Is EVERYTHING about race, Chris?
It seems to be on MSNBC.
Good Lt on January 28, 2010 at 8:56 AM
Are we the only people in the world that look at Obama and don’t see a black man – we just see a guy who’s screwing up the country?
I’m with Rush. I got over the color of his skin a long, long time ago. It’s just not important.
Red Cloud on January 28, 2010 at 8:57 AM
Does anyone, I mean anyone at MSDNC wonder why their numbers are rock bottom, why “Red Eye” gets more viewers at 2am than their own prime time shows?
Bishop on January 28, 2010 at 8:57 AM
because they can get away with saying this without repercussions
cmsinaz on January 28, 2010 at 8:58 AM
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uknowmorethanme on January 28, 2010 at 8:58 AM
Uhh…this already has a post here…right below the Obamateurism of the day.
Why the double posting?
bridgetown on January 28, 2010 at 8:58 AM
that would be a yes
cmsinaz on January 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM
I know liberals like Chris Matthews. They are the ones that clutch their purses when they pass a black dude, or step back in the elevator, or walk on the other side of the street.
SouthernGent on January 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM
I think the color of his skin is the ONLY thing that is keeping his approval ratings out of the 30s. Because if he was just a regular old white dude, he’d probably already have been ran out of town.
uknowmorethanme on January 28, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Wait a minute,sumpin ain’t right,
what the heck does Chrissy think
about Obama for the other 23 hours!!
canopfor on January 28, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Uhh…this already has a post here…right below the Obamateurism of the day.
Why the double posting?
bridgetown on January 28, 2010 at 8:58 AM
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Because Ed and AP do that all the time.
uknowmorethanme on January 28, 2010 at 9:01 AM
ha…they should check out their blog sometimes. lol
bridgetown on January 28, 2010 at 9:02 AM
Matthews clarifies: “I half-forgot he was black for about a half-hour because he’s half black. There.”
curved space on January 28, 2010 at 9:03 AM
Surely our friend Bleeds Blue has an appropriate explanation for what Chris Mathews meant. Surely, the “college speaking” that Obama put on allowed Chris to forget that he wasn’t hearing was an unnamed dialect that I’d be pilloried if I referred to, but Harry Reid gets a pass when he does.
Until I heard Chris mention this, I guess I had to agree with him. Because, up until that point I was merely judging the man by the content of his character—-and it simply wasn’t going well for him on that front. I believe Martin Luther King suggested that we do that about 43 years ago…apparently Chrissy is too busy tinkling down his leg to put down his racism and come into the new century.
CHRIS MATHEWS GETS NO PASS FOR THIS. FULL EXPLANATION, WHAT HE MEANT, WHAT HE SAID, WHY HE SAID IT AND WHAT IT MEANS TO “FORGET THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS BLACK”
ted c on January 28, 2010 at 9:03 AM
No, you’re not the only one. I really don’t care what the color of his skin is. I never did. It seems like the left is obsessed with it though. Which makes sense since his race was one of the primary reasons they supported him. We know it wasn’t because of his qualifications.
Doughboy on January 28, 2010 at 9:03 AM
Frankly I am sick and tired of the racial issues the left keep spouting. Ever since this a-wipe became president, I’ve seen normally sane relatives and friends who voted for this clown froth at the mouth, yelling RACIST! every time someone disagrees with The Won. The most divisive president EVAH!!
Annietxgrl on January 28, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Yeah, the ‘cleanliness’ and ‘articulateness’ has been known to throw off others, too…
RepubChica on January 28, 2010 at 9:04 AM
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canopfor on January 28, 2010 at 9:06 AM
Wow – When will Chris start looking for a new job? Oh, right I forgot which side he is on. The really ugly thing about his comments is he projects his own racism on everyone else.
First, I see a guy who happens to be president, who happens to be really skilled at reading a teleprompter, and has no clue how the real world functions. Did I mention race? Why should anyone else.
Please someone tell me why does race matter?
EliTheBean on January 28, 2010 at 9:06 AM
Wow, Chris! So, what is your real opinion of black folk? That we are incapable of impressing you? That we shouldn’t be doing jobs an able-bodied white man can do? The fact you forgot Obama was black for an hour? A black man cannot be President?
Careful, your white hood is showing!
Phil-351 on January 28, 2010 at 9:06 AM
Chrissie sees a black man who happens to be president. I see a president who happens to be black.
angryed on January 28, 2010 at 9:06 AM
He forgot Obama was black for an hour? Why? Because he lost his “negro accent?”
Or is it because for the first time in Matthews’ adult life he saw *a man* and not simply the color of his skin?
Too bad it was only for an hour.
Perhaps when Matthews evolves, and stop seeing the skin color of a person, he will stop assuming everyone else sees color, too. Maybe, then, he will quit falsely accusing everyone one else of racism.
“Apparently some people have accused Bob McDonnell of staging people behind him as “props” in order to show an ethnic balance”
Quite hyserical considering if they were all white, McDonnell would be accused of being racist. These idiots need to quit seeing the color of everyones skin.
Who are the real racists here?
sarainitaly on January 28, 2010 at 9:08 AM
Sometimes we both have something to say on the same topic, and I did in this case. I know it was AP’s QOTD.
Besides, I wanted to tie that to the foolish criticism of McDonnell at the same time.
Ed Morrissey on January 28, 2010 at 9:09 AM
It’s always been obvious that Chris Matthews has a man crush on Barry, but I think he has some kind of odd racial fetish attached to it as well. Very inappropriate for a newscaster. Even for one at MSNBC.
anniekc on January 28, 2010 at 9:10 AM
It sure sounds like he’s implying that forgetting about President Obama’s ‘blackness’ makes it easier to think he’s a great leader.
I’m not one to fling around the race card, but I’m pretty sure that’s racist.
BadgerHawk on January 28, 2010 at 9:10 AM
“Because if he was just a regular old white dude, he’d probably already have been ran out of town.”
Taking their personal lives out of the equation (since that wasn’t a real factor in the primaries in ’04 & 07), -he- WAS run out of the primaries, as John Edwards.
ebrown2 on January 28, 2010 at 9:10 AM
Time to call in the race baiting dogs – Sharpton and Jackson…
I am no fan of either scumbag, however – I think it would be interesting IF Reps/cons or a right associated group went to these 2 race baiters and made an argument why Matthews should be a target of their ire.
I understand traditionally they stay to the left – but its all about money and exposure, so as a gift – let them know they would push hard for a black man or woman to replace Chrissy – being there is no color on MSNBC, which you know the MSNBC flakes would fold on.
Also let Sharpton know – he will get more face time on right channels. Word is his coffers are drying up with Bambi at the healm and his $750,000 tax bills arent going to pay themselves…
Odie1941 on January 28, 2010 at 9:11 AM
Chrissie, you;ve forgotten you’re a man since your “thrill down my leg” comment!!
ToddonCapeCod on January 28, 2010 at 9:11 AM
canopfor, see your 3 dog & raise you some sly — everyday people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-336qHRGv1M
GnuBreed on January 28, 2010 at 9:12 AM
Somebody should call the Obama Snitch Hotline,
and report Chrissy,aka,”TINGLES” to HomeLand
Security!!!
canopfor on January 28, 2010 at 9:13 AM
I see a president who doesn’t possess the character or moral authority to fill the office that he holds. Moreover, he no longer possesses the political capital to execute the pie in the sky utopian visions he weaves. His reality is fundamentally detached from that of the rest of us.
ted c on January 28, 2010 at 9:13 AM
I sure cannot wait for Sharpton to come on out and defend this one. Where is he at? He sure was out there toot sweet on Geraldo that Sunday night, on FnF the next morning and so on defending Harry Reid when healthcare hung on by a weak and thready pulse…
WHERE IS AL SHARPTON? WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO “FORGET SOMEONE IS BLACK?”
ted c on January 28, 2010 at 9:15 AM
Wow. Can you imagine the fallout if someone on Fox News said that? That’s gotta be the one of the most racist remarks I’ve heard.
vcferlita on January 28, 2010 at 9:15 AM
He forgot for that one hour.
Guess for the other 23 of the day he was experiencing that ‘Tingle Thing.’
TimBuk3 on January 28, 2010 at 9:15 AM
Yah, that’s about the extent of it.
I don’t even see a President, I see a little boy sitting at the adult table, pretending that his milk is wine and copying the actions of the big people as if he actually understands what they are saying and doing.
Bishop on January 28, 2010 at 9:17 AM
mattyous = your village is looking for you.
RealMc on January 28, 2010 at 9:17 AM
I can say with all honesty that Obama’s skin color never even comes to mind. I hate the filthy lying coward for his policies, his arrogance, his incompetence, his agenda and for a whole lot of other things but I never give his race a thought.
Liberals on the other hand, have to use race or gender or some other label to code people in accordance with identity politics. They are the true racists in society. Matthews will have his liberal card suspended for being too honest in his comments.
highhopes on January 28, 2010 at 9:18 AM
Matthews makes comments that make me think he drinks too much.
DrStock on January 28, 2010 at 9:19 AM
Slightly O/T: The woman in the bottom right-hand corner in the McDonnell pic looks like the spitting image of that chick from One Tree Hill.
http://static1.purepeople.com/articles/7/31/05/7/@/212343-bethany-joy-lenz-galeotti-637×0-3.jpg
Doughboy on January 28, 2010 at 9:21 AM
For an hour I forgot I was black… oh wait, I’m not…
gstep58 on January 28, 2010 at 9:22 AM
Since Obama was elected I have not forgotten even for a second that the Anointed One is a radical Marxist who wants to deliberately destroy the American way of life and the American economy that he and the Far Left disdain and despise.
technopeasant on January 28, 2010 at 9:23 AM
I bet Mathews can’t throw a football. What a loser.
THE CHOSEN ONE on January 28, 2010 at 9:24 AM
They wont apologize, they wont admit to their underlying racism, and they will insist that they are still correct.
canditaylor68 on January 28, 2010 at 9:24 AM
Democrats are the real racists. They always look at sex, color, or sexuality. Never at the individual. Further proof was the Matthews soundbite and the critiques of McDonnell’s audience.
cubachi on January 28, 2010 at 9:25 AM
This Obama fellow is sure swell. Sometimes, when he is speaking, I would swear he was a white man. It’s my job to help him succeed y’know.
DeweyWins on January 28, 2010 at 9:25 AM
Hmm. I’d forget McDonnell was even speaking.
AubieJon on January 28, 2010 at 9:25 AM
When Joe Wilson told the truth at that sham joint session of Congress which was really an infomercial for Obamacare, the world became indignant that somebody would dare insult the President of the United States on the floor of Congress. Yet last night we saw little Barry insult the Joint Chiefs and the SCOTUS while they were sitting in that very same floor. If one cannot call the President a liar in these sessions, the opposite should hold true. Leaders would get that but we don’t have a leader in the White House. Just a Chicago street thug who cleans up well.
highhopes on January 28, 2010 at 9:26 AM
Ed, I certainly hope that your cunning wit and wisdom are on full bore in the wake of this SOTU. If I may interject some descriptives such as wandering, disconnected, pandering, scapegoating, revisionist, foolish and far from B+ work.
This SOTU clearly encapsulated Obama’s view of government. The speech was an utter bureacratic morass of verbal virtuosity and ill-defined vision sprinkled with class warfare and unfulfilled promises being sold as new ones. He put out that “earmark reform” like it was new stuff off the truck, but it’s yesterday’s rotten milk. He has no moral authority by which to standby that remark.
This anointed intellectualism he cloaks himself in is a case study in rhetorical fallacy. Strawmanning and false dilemmas abound in this SOTU forum of unchecked argumentation. The evidence substantiating this speech is less substantial than the foam pillars in Colorado. The laughter at his “although you may not believe in the science behind climate change” was America laughing at him. I could not believe this guy has doubled down on stupid. He is no scientist, no climatoligist, no rhetorician, no purveyor of sound logic, and no argumentarian. He is a man with a great voice and faulty thinking. It was clearly on display.
I will give him a B+ for giving current and future students of logic and reasoning oodles of examples of things not to do when debating.
ted c on January 28, 2010 at 9:26 AM
canopfor, see your 3 dog & raise you some sly — everyday people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-336qHRGv1M
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GnuBreed on January 28, 2010 at 9:12 AM
GnuBreed:That is good one,a blast from the past!!:)
canopfor on January 28, 2010 at 9:30 AM
We don’t think about it because there isn’t much to think about.
What is this history of which you speak, Chrissy?
UltimateBob on January 28, 2010 at 9:31 AM
I was thinking thd same thing. Hotttt….
UltimateBob on January 28, 2010 at 9:32 AM
And this right around the same time his tingle went away?
Trying to psycho-analyze these people is like wading through a rats’ nest.
logis on January 28, 2010 at 9:33 AM
No, you didn’t. Race-obsessed liberals can never do that.
forest on January 28, 2010 at 9:33 AM
So, what is he saying? Either a) Obama exceeded Pissy’s expectation of what a black person may say in a speech or how that person may say it (so, is he therefore a racist for holding low expectations based on skin color?), or b) Pissy’s expectation of what a black person might say or how that person may say it is higher than what Obama achieved (therby insulting Obama, and also exposing Pissy as a racist).
One inescapable conclusion: Matthews certainly isn’t a credit to his race.
mr.blacksheep on January 28, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Oh no….what was that all about?
Bishop on January 28, 2010 at 9:38 AM
Matthews: “It’s a shoulder bag.”
On coverage, I was flipping back and forth between F&F and Morning Joe, and I don’t think either show took this up. Plenty of mention about Justice Alito (to his credit, Scarborough said Obama wasn’t telling the truth about contributions from foreign corporations and, of course, Dems are now spinning it that Obama meant multi-national corporations).
Anyway, I think that we’re going to have to wait for one or more of Beck, O’Reilly, and Hannity to take Matthews to task.
BuckeyeSam on January 28, 2010 at 9:39 AM
I didn’t forget Barack is a flaming liberal.
Ed, thanks for identifying the people behind McDonnell. I was wondering who they were, and it cracks me up that the people who brought us styrofoam Greek columns are crying stagecraft at the governor’s cabinet.
NebCon on January 28, 2010 at 9:39 AM
“I forgot he was black”
So, if you would’ve remembered that he was black, how would that change your perception of the speech Chris. Do you “perceive” speech differently depending upon the color of the speechifier? Does your memory on skin color switch your perception on the tone, content, logic, rate, facts and overall quality of someone who is speaking? Are there some colors which result in better memories for you when you hear their respective voices, or are there some colors that result in bad memories for you when you hear their voices? Which is it Chris? Please explain, what do you mean when you say you “forgot” that he was black?
ted c on January 28, 2010 at 9:40 AM
The Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr was probably proud of Chris Matthews… for an hour!
Michael K. on January 28, 2010 at 9:41 AM
Chrissy Matthews :anagram: “Why, them’s racist!”
Bruce in NH on January 28, 2010 at 9:41 AM
And the truth of the matter is that Obama isn’t even black he’s multi-racial. He didn’t grow up with the “black experience.” He has lived a privileged life that is alien to most Americans of any skin color. For that reason he does not understand real Americans and, more importantly, considers himself a citizen of the world who has risen above the people who put him in office.
highhopes on January 28, 2010 at 9:43 AM
Tonight on Hardball…President Obama will play selections from The Stephen Foster Big Book of Minstral Tunes on the banjo. The highlight of the evening will come at the end of the show when the president will sing, My Ol’ Kentucky Home with special emphasis on the line, “the darkies were happy and gay.” Chris Matthews will have an attack of vapors, spill his mint julep on the floor and cry, “I forgot he was black.”
sdd on January 28, 2010 at 9:43 AM
His dream is a rendition of “Ebony and Ivory” with Obama at a White House Correspondents Dinner.
BuckeyeSam on January 28, 2010 at 9:43 AM
Psychoanalyzing these folks is useless. It’s time to figure out that they are insane and mean us harm.
Yet, the contrast between Bob McDonnell and Barrack Obama was so stark and revealing.
Bob McDonnell=Normal
Barrack Obama=Nuts.
BetseyRoss on January 28, 2010 at 9:44 AM
http://2f.f2bed1.client.atlantech.net/MainMenuCategories/Advocacy/Legislative/Governor-McDonnells-Cabinet.aspx
Bob McDonnell’s cabinet. All those folks in the picture are in there.
ted c on January 28, 2010 at 9:45 AM
I’ll give them some latitude on the columns but not on the “Office of the President Elect” logo. They were so intent on making little Barry look Presidential that they went out of their way to enhance the visual trappings of the job so that everybody knew he was President-elect.
highhopes on January 28, 2010 at 9:46 AM
Matthews: I forgot Obama was black tonight for an hour, and when I remembered, I also remembered I loved the speech.
JiangxiDad on January 28, 2010 at 9:46 AM
But, even if they were props, the Dems do the same all the time. After all, diversity makes a great photo op. N’est pas?
JimP on January 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM
Yep, got over the whole “black guy as president!” right after the inauguration, when he started shtuping the country. I haven’t looked at him as “the black president” since. He just a very annoying, very inexperienced, in your face doof who got elected by a bunch of people who voted for him because he was black and because he made some lofty speeches.
It’s the same motive that drives people like Chris Matthews. They feel so PROUD of themselves, in a kind of self-loathing way, for loving this guy and electing him president. They walked out of those voting booths with goose bumps and their anuses all puckered, thinking “I really did it. Me!” They so desperately want to be viewed as transcendent. It really is a kind of narcissism under the guise of racial “largesse”.
But it’s just a friggin idiotic thing to say. seriously.
somewhatconcerned on January 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM
“I have a dream that one day…” Chris Matthews will shut the hell up.
CP on January 28, 2010 at 9:53 AM
Here is my obligatory “what if a Republican said that” post.
What if a Republican said that?
cannonball on January 28, 2010 at 9:54 AM
Anyone notice that when they released the ratings for the top cable news shows this week, Hardball didn’t even make it on the list?
Maybe Matthews himself has realized that no one is watching his lousy show anymore, with the exception of the production crew actually shooting the dumb thing, so he figures what the hell, he’ll just say whatever he wants and no one will pay any attention to it anyway.
pilamaye on January 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM
As I’ve said many times before. I disagree with Barack Obama because he is 100% liberal, not because he is 50% black.
cannonball on January 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM
In the wake of Harry Reid’s “doesn’t speak with a negro dialect” comment and Bill Clinton’s “this guy would be getting us coffee” comment, how does someone like Al Sharpton square Chris Mathews comment of “I forgot that he was black” and ‘splain to us what he meant. I am so ready to hear from the purveyor and diviner of all that is racist about what Mr. Mathews meant. Oh please, please Rev Wright, er Sharpton, please tell us what Chris Mathews meant.
ted c on January 28, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Chrissy Mathews and Al Sharpton owe all of us an explanation as to how this comment is or is not —”racist”
since every occurrence of “racism” must be divined, examined, dissected and the intent and heart of the guilty party questioned, the peeps are eager to see what these fellas have in store for us.
ted c on January 28, 2010 at 10:03 AM
The primary job of the media is to gather as many ears and eyeballs as possible. Racial tension tends to draw focus. The dying state media needs racism now more than ever to keep ratings, and will dredge it up every chance they get — even where it does not exist. They will not go gently into that good night.
ObjectionSustained on January 28, 2010 at 10:08 AM
For about an hour last night, I forgot I was an American. I thought I was a Venezuelan, listening to Hugo Chavez.
rockmom on January 28, 2010 at 10:11 AM
I betcha first broken promise—Offshore drilling.
Bob McDonnell submitted a request to expand East Coast offshore oil exploration to Washington. No news on how that is going but, I’ll believe it when I see it. Zer0 promised such last night, but, like other things, promises are like buttholes–any liberal can talk out of one. cf, SOTU.
ted c on January 28, 2010 at 10:14 AM
Race baiters like Matthews always have race on their minds. It’s their bread and butter. You could do a six degrees of separation on everything they say or write and end up at the same place—”You are a racist and I’m not, so your opinion is irrelevant, therefore I and mine should run things”.
patrick neid on January 28, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Let me get this straight. There was a prop in the picture, and it was the white guy? The white Staff Sergeant who’s only connection was his service with the Gov’s daughter?
So we had a Token white guy in the picture?
Snake307 on January 28, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Translation: normally, Chris Matthews thinks of Obama as a Black man, or a Black President, and not just as the President.
Which party is the racist one?
hawksruleva on January 28, 2010 at 10:17 AM
Oh, that’s easy. Al will say “I know Chris isn’t a racist, so he’s not a racist.”
hawksruleva on January 28, 2010 at 10:18 AM
Is Chris Matthews relevant at all?
His show is rated so low in his timeslot that ICarly’s opinion would have more relevance to viewers – being that ICarly RERUNS have about 6-7x the viewers.
Spongebob reruns that are 10 years old beat Chris Matthews.
How does he live with himself knowing that his show sets the lowest-range measurement for cable news mediocrity.
Being delusional has some benefit, I suppose.
wildweasel on January 28, 2010 at 10:21 AM
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