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Christine O’Donnell Demands Chris Matthews Apology To Bible Belt For ‘Elitist, Rude Remark About Low IQ’s’

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Former Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell (R-De) demanded an apology from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews via Twitter Thursday morning over comments the Hardball host made during MSNBC’s post-debate wrap-up. “Chris Matthews owes Bible belt an apology for elitist, rude remark about low IQ’s,” O’Donnell tweeted, adding, “Hannity would’ve been fired if he said it!”

Matthews did, indeed, mention Bible Belt voters and “minimal IQ levels,” but a review of the clip in question suggests O’Donnell’s anger might be misplaced.

In discussing Gov. Rick Perry‘s appeal to Republican primary voters, as opposed to Mitt Romney, Matthews drew a distinction between hardline conservatives, and more moderate Republicans. “With the baptists in South Carolina and across the Bible Belt that doesn’t like Mormons, all you have to do in this race is reach a minimal level of IQ to be okay to run against a Mormon in the deep South.” Matthews said.

“Just be good enough. and I think he did that tonight. He was good enough. He didn’t make a fool of himself, and that’s all they want.”

If I’m hearing this right, Matthews isn’t saying that Bible Belt voters have low IQs, but rather, that they have a lower bar for a candidate to meet when running against a Mormon. In other words, they’re not stupid, they’re just religious bigots who would rather vote for a relative dummy than a Mormon. While there is polling to suggest that being a Mormon isn’t necessarily a political asset, there’s no data to suggest the phenomenon is restricted to the Bible Belt.

Here’s the clip, from MSNBC:

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  • Anonymous

    Tingles should know it means to have a low IQ…..this nut doesn’t even understand that SS is a ponzi scheme!!

    I wonder if PMSBC is happy with who represents them?
    I wonder if they understand why they have such pathetic ratings?

  • Lizton

    LOL

    Low-IQ O’Donnell is insulted at what she and the teabaggers are.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Her anger MIGHT be misplaced. All the Marys in Heaven, this woman is desperate for attention, I say: “Desperate!”. She must be destitute again. Needs to run for another office. Get those campaign funds in to pay for the rent, the utilities, the grcoeries!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Gustafson/13904322 Ryan Gustafson

    Finally Tommy gets one right. He had been on a hack-tastic roll for a while.

  • Anonymous

    The Bible-belt is certainly known for producing people with low I.Q.’s. Bill Clinton & Martin Luther King, Jr come to mind. Christine O’Donnell was smart enough to rid Delaware of a Rove-backed RINO; and if you read chapter 15 of her book “Troublemaker”, you will get the best description of Obama’s “pretend-presidency” anyone has yet written.

  • NomoBeeHO

    Quiff Maffhews = The Drooler

  • Anonymous

    Matthews was saying that conservative Bible belt voters don’t need a candidate for Prez to have a high IQ; his observation is that Perry fulfilled expectations. Christine is making making a mountain out of a molehill here.

  • USAdood

    You know who has a low IQ? The people who expected Obama to pay their bills, put gas in their car, and send their kids to college for free. (And all the money to do so comes from ‘Obama’s stash’)

    Hope and Change!

  • Norbit

    You mean, the Democratic base!

  • Norbit

    I’m sick and tired of these morally-bankrupt, supercilious media-morons like Matthews.

    MSNBC conducts a nightly hate-fest, no doubt at the complicit behest of the revolutionary Marxist in the WH! 

  • Anonymous

    Christine O’Donnell would come off better if she focused her criticisms on what was actually said.  Clearly, Matthews was speaking of candidates having a “lower bar” when opposing a Mormon opponent in the Bible belt.  She could have taken issue with that and had a valid point.

  • bohratom

    Pew poll found the group with the lowest knowledge of political IQ during the 2010 elections were Blacks and minorities. Of course you won’t see any mention of that from Chris and the Libs at MSNBC since they don’t want to hurt their base.

  • Anonymous

    You said the same thing Matthews said and it didn’t sound any better coming from you.  Christine is not my favourite person but she was right – Matthews owes republicans an apology for his asinine statement.  He keeps pushing the envelope on acceptable behaviour against the right and he crossed the line.

    I don’t care how smart he thinks he is – there is a level of behaviour as a t.v. personality that you have to abide by.  

  • Anonymous

    Hey now, they were there for their free Obama money!

    Resist we much!

  • Anonymous

    Mattews and Maddow should co host a weekend program on MSNBC, and title it The ” Douchebag And The Dyke ” Show.

    The first episode could delve into the fact that both gay and liberalism apparently stem from the same damaged gene at birth.

  • Anonymous

    Norbit you are such a sweetheart!

  • Anonymous

    She started a Pac for income, she needs needs to stay in the news, like you know who.

  • Anonymous

    The contrary argument would be that conservative voters insist on a candidate with a high IQ; is that the position you’re trying to defend? I’m not a particular fan of Matthews, but Christine seems to think he said that southern voters have low IQs, and that isn’t what he said, at all.

  • Anonymous

    It’s no mole hill. Mathews has been insulting us folks out here in fly-over country for years. He’s got a lot of apologizing to do for all of that. This hit against people in the Bible belt is merely his most recent.

    I’m just sorry it wasn’t someone who commands more respect from the public who confronted him with a call for the apology.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans just have to appeal to the low IQ voters and the Republicans know it.   

  • Anonymous

    These people are so set on pushing this sectarian hate that its sickening. Their idealistic followers too. The same people who whine about nationalism are actually the most fascist of us all.

  • Anonymous

    low IQ voters….the democratic base

  • Anonymous

    Seriously harlow – quit while you’re ahead.

    Matthews making any comment regarding the i.q. of people accepting any candidate is out of line.  
    Your attempts to “explain” what Matthews really said, or what you think he said, or what Tommy thinks he said are moot.

  • Anonymous

    Message understood: you have no interest in anything but your own opinion, so I should stop wasting my effort communicating with you. Consider it done.

  • Anonymous

    I think Matthews is painting with too broad a brush or making a sweeping generalization about southerners and that is’nt professional or objective.

  • Moderate

    Detroit has the lowest HS graduation rate in the US and the highest Democratic voting rate.

  • http://twitter.com/musashi_m4 Josh Kim

    That’s funny considering you said Palin would make a strong leader.

    Dr. King graduated from college when he was 19. Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar.

    And Congressman Mike Castle would have won the Delaware seat, which is why Joe Biden’s son decided not to run.

  • Anonymous

    Can I see the link to that poll? 

  • Lyndaliles

    ROFL! YOU BOUGHT HER BOOK?

  • Moderate
  • Kim Anderson

    At least they comment based on fact. What about all the hosts on fox, and limbaugh, they lie,fabricate, distort everything.Hannity get fired? Your kidding …right?!  Quit watching it!  
    Rachael is very honest & Just. She is one of the few,on tv news that is. 

  • Bob

    yes – a ponzi scheme that nearly eradicated the widespread pre-1930s poverty among the elderly, and has provided a social safety net for 70+ years.

  • Moosenuts99

    You believe in science now, huh?

  • Bob

    Maybe her fear of “mice with fully functioning human brains” was rooted in jealousy. 

  • Bob

    I guess you missed the part where MLK stood up to and defeated the ignorance of the South.

  • Bob

    Slay them strawmen, USAdood.
    I don’t think anyone expected that, but if it helps you to explain why people hate the GOP, I guess it works.

  • Bob

    A paranoid red-baiter complaining about a “hatefest.”
    LOL

  • Bob

    and surveys show FOX rightwingers to be the most ignorant viewers in all of news.

  • Bob

    and the rightwinger a few post above was trying to lecture us on hate.

  • Anonymous

    MessNBC’s post debate “coverage” was a huge joke. It’s amazing how low that “news” network has fallen under Phil Griffin.

  • Anonymous

    A closer examination of this article suggests the author may be suffering from the affliction that Mathews attributed to the backbone of this country.

  • Anonymous

    “With the baptists in South Carolina and across the Bible Belt that doesn’t like Mormons, all you have to do in this race is reach a minimal level of IQ to be okay to run against a Mormon in the deep South.” – Chris Mathews

    Paraphrased…Holy crap! That Rick Perry is an idiot, but the Bible Belt doesn’t seem to care.
    Mathew’s observation is correct. Perry thinks that the Earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years old, and that the Flintstones, was a reality show. No need for Matthews to apologise.

  • Redleaf

    Don’t worry: TeaParty_SOB is going to donate his social security checks to charity. And I’m sure he’s suggesting the same to all his friends and family members. He would never take a government handout, nor would anyone he knows. 

  • Anonymous

    Huh?

  • Glutton

    Chris Matthews should apologize, but he is right about Bible thumpers having low IQs.

  • Glutton

    Also, Christine O’Donnell shouldn’t be taking up this cause.  He is the personification of a low IQ Bible thumper.

  • Anonymous

    christine talking about low IQ . someone please  wake me up. I’ve got to be dreaming!!Just put a spell on him babe

  • Anonymous

    Thank God there aren’t  too many of you here in our state. Aren’t you missing Lars now?

  • Ralph

    Yes, it sounds like Chris is expressing a prejudiced and wrong-headed view of voters who live south of the Mason-Dixon Line (that’s the line that seperates Maryland and Pennsylvania, where Matthews is from).  Romney’s Mormon faith hurts him with voters without regard to region.  It’s gotta be a huge advantage in fundraising though.  Nothing like ethnic identity to build a war-chest.

    Chris Matthews doesn’t make that many gaffes along those lines.  Of course, he has a random noise generator quality to him that assures anything he says will be buffeted within the context of a lot of other equally stupid stuff.

  • Anonymous

    I couldn’t agree more. Professional and objective are two things I would never accuse Matthews of being. I’ve often said that there is enough in the archives to put in a book, without writing one paragraph yourself. “The comedy stylings of Chris Matthews”

  • Hugo Daun

    ROFL! YOU BOUGHT HER BOOK?

    What Lyndaliles said!

  • Anonymous

    Disgusting lie……there was no mention of race in that poll……go back to your kkklan meeting, racist douch£

  • Anonymous

    I’m always amazed at how the MSM believes that racism, bigotry, homophobia, ignorance, only begin at the Mason-Dixon Line. Believe me, it’s everywhere. Yes Chris….even in you’re beloved Pa. I believe the East Coast/West Coast Intelligentsia (Cultural Hoi Polloi) condescension and dismissiveness towards the South and the rest of America only belies their own elitist attitudes. Classic Liberalism thinking that they know better than you in regards to how you should live your own life.

    Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
    George S. Patton

  • Anonymous

    I can’t believe a Christine ODonnell tweet merits a “story.”  Pathetic.

  • gobarbara

    you complain about people who are intelligent, educated, liberal, multi-cultural as elitist  but you are being elitist by being so judgemental

  • david r

    The comments of the erstwhile candidate for the U.S. Senate and current media hound hosebag Christine O’Donnell stir the question in one’s breast, “Who gives a shit?”  Tommy, just let her fade away.  Write about anyone else.  Anyone.

  • Anonymous

    You’re not hearing it right, Tommy. Because you don’t want to hear it right.

    What a lackey you are.

    If it wasn’t so pathetic, it would be funny.

  • Anonymous

    Ponzi schemes always work great for the people who get in on it early. You see, that’s how a ponzi scheme works.

    Knowing all those people got exponentially more money then they put in is gonna make the future generations of Americans feel so good as they are working until they die in a bankrupt, nanny state.

  • Anonymous

    They were loaded lefty questions designed to be spun by lefties.

  • Anonymous

    BwwaaahahahahaahLOLOLOLOLOL!

    What a dolt you are!

  • Anonymous

    So now rightists dispute numbers? Low IQ means he registers low on the scale. It’s a number, there are no apologies for measured numbers. Low means low, Christine. Go get a degree

  • Anonymous
  • NeverWrong

    Chrissy ‘Tingles & Thrills’ Matthews and the rest of the idiotic, moronic, imbecilic ignoramuses at LSDnbc are by far the LOWEST of the LOW IQ’ers in the lamestream media. Nobody takes Chrissy or Joey Blowhard & Mika Airhead or Al NOTsharpton or Randy Madcow or Lawrence O’Don’tKnowNutin’ell or the overfed, redhead, Ed Schultze, seriously.

    LSD/PMSnbc is NOT credibile … PERIOD…!

  • Glutton

    Whatever you say, troll.

  • Glutton

    Sorry but if Republicans nominate Perry over Romney, then Matthews has nothing to apologize for.

  • Tampa Bay Raise

    Not only did he buy it, he memorized passages from it, ho li xhit.

  • Anonymous

    He should apologize.  They aren’t stupid.  Just ignorant.

  • Anonymous

    I get a tingle in my brain every time Matthews speaks. Me thinks it’s my brain protesting against my ears as if to say “Why do you force me to process the inane ramblings of a deranged loser who would suck Barack Obama’s toe jam if he could?” I gotta go with my brain on this one, sorry ears.

  • Anonymous

    You are correct but they are fine looking bunch of lads wouldn’t you say?

  • Anonymous

    1. Who is Christine O’donnell? Is she the one who is from Alaska? The one who killed her kid in Florida?

    2. She has a book?

    3. No, seriously. You bought that idiots freaking book? 

  • Anonymous

    Tea Party SOB would like to make damn sure you know he’s got a shootin’ iron to keep your socialist mitts of his Medicare!  The Mr. Hannity on the talkee box told him that colored fellas from Acorn was comin’ to git it!

  • Anonymous

    Matthews always swings toward whomever he thinks is rising in power.   You can have your tingles moment, which was asninine, but don’t forget the even more ludicrous day when he was hosting G. Gordon Liddy and they watched Bush land on the carrier.  In addition to gushing about how well Bush ‘filled out the flight suit’  Matthews declared that he had never been more proud of a Commander in Chief…   So don’t get too carrier away with the idea that he’s stickly a liberal hack – He’s an all purpose hack.

    As for level of behavior that you have to Abide by, Shultz, Matthews and even Olbermann haven’t even gotten into the same time zone of crap that Hannity, Beck, even the moron trio on Fox and Friends indulge in regularly.

  • Brenjlit

    Rachel Maddow looks just like Ron Reagan.  Are they brothers?

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Good job Maddow! you did a wonderful job handling the post-game show.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tommy-Bottoms/1655397187 Tommy Bottoms

    Its funny how the same people who think racially profiling Black people is OK because they ‘statistically’ commit more crime than others or Muslims because they are the ones more likey to commit terrorist acts…yet they are offended that people refer to those the that live in the Bible Belt as dumb or have low IQ’s…even though they consistantly have the lowest education test scores in the country. But its OK…because we all know that conservatives aren’t hypocrites…its just the lamestream media that tries to make them look bad…lol! Tingles should be ashamed of himself and apologize!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWUMDXSUYVXFOVKEDR7OG3SD7A John Doe

    Richard(Rachel) and Ron are twin brothers

  • Daveschultz

    She is a joke and a disgrace to the human race

  • chrisallenpoor

    I just love when you teatards use the word “tingle” and it makes you titter like little girls who’ve said something naughty.

  • TruDat

    All those saps on MSNBC are brain dead.

  • TruDat

    It’s interesting that these liberal boors believe they’re intellectually superior, yet they voted for a Jr. Senator with no work history, an AA attained university degree, and a bumper-sticker catch phrase for a political platform.

  • Anonymous

    Does Christine live in the Bible Belt?  If so…it explains a lot.  (Ya, I know.  She lives in Delaware!)

  • Anonymous

    Does Christine live in the Bible Belt?  If so…it explains a lot.  (Ya, I know.  She lives in Delaware!)

  • Anonymous

    Yup.  We don’t need none o them IQs out cheer in thee Bable Belt.  Let us pray!

  • Anonymous

    A 60+ year “ponzi scheme”? Plus about 22 more years of payments the gov. owes SS. Only morons would call that a ponzi scheme- wait- Perry said it- right- it is  a moron.

  • Anonymous

    So Ronnie Raygun- the God of righties- had 2 gay kids? Dickless Cheney has at least one.
    Gingrich has a gay sister. What is it with righties that so many of them are gay and they hate gays-
    yet claim to be a “family values” party- sounds more like hypocrites to me.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like you live in the south or you don’t understand English- well, most rednecks really don’t understand English so - yeah it looks like you’re a southerner. 

  • Politixisadisease

    I luv this guy!! Cant get that image of bachmann attacking that hot dog like a drunken college whore!!!

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of morons- “blacks and minorities”? Splain the difference for me redneck?

  • Anonymous

    I’ll bet you didn’t even watch the debate.

  • Anonymous

    Not as tittered as your boy TINGLES does whenver he has his weekly circle-jerk around Obama’s picture.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, O’Donnell really hit you a home run! She’s much smarter than scholars and peace makers. Keep burning your RINO’s,…. it may be our safety net.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    The book must not be selling well. Get a real job Christine. You haven’t held one since 2005. You’re trying to follow the path of Palin, but, she just threw you under the bus by forcing the Tea Party Express to keep you away from Iowa. You’ve become as irrelevant as Sharon Angle. 

  • Djbynum02

    I agree with Chris Mathews–all Republicans in the northern states, western and eastern states should move south and creat their own little world.

  • Anonymous

    More like Lettuce prey!

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