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Chris Matthews: A “New Group Of Crazy People” Are Taking Over The Republican Party

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Chris Matthews welcomed two frequent guests to Hardball, Salon‘s Joan Walsh and Washington Post‘s Eugene Robinson to discuss some controversial Republican stories ranging from Governor Haley Barbour refusing to denounce license plates that honor the KKK’s founder to Speaker of the House John Boehner refusing to tell Americans whether or not they should believe President Obama is a Muslim. Somehow Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann snuck into the conversation too, with Matthews finally just concluding that Republicans are a “party of crazy people.”

Walsh found it peculiar that Boehner “makes his living telling Americans what to believe” on issues like the economy, yet demonstrates a cowardice to stand up to the half of his base that still believes Obama is a Muslim. Walsh warned that Republicans are playing with “racist fire.” Matthews admitted he was having fun discussing the “new group of crazy people” taking over the Republican party, but worried that establishment Republicans soon might not recognize their party anymore. Matthews concluded, “I think it’s a crazy coalition . . . all these guys from main street who run a little business [are going to] realize they are in a party of crazy people.”

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  • Big Eddie

    Nice to see Matthews branching out to other topics .

  • ImNotBlue

    I’m confused. Does Mediaite keep reposting the same story about Matthews over and over again… or does he really just say the same thing, to the same guests, daily?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    ImNotBlue said:
    I’m confused. Does Mediaite keep reposting the same story about Matthews over and over again… or does he really just say the same thing, to the same guests, daily?

    LMAO!

  • Garth

    Bachmann, Beck, Palin along with various and sundry tea-bag nuts are indeed taking over the party and frankly libs see it as a good thing.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Look at the three people in the photo included above.
    Now these three are going to do a clip about “crazy” people!!
    COMCAST!! Where are you?? COMCAST!! HELLO!

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    My show is absolutely non-partisan.

    Chris “I have an Obama shaped tingle running up my leg” Matthews.

  • WCinWI

    So instead of covering real controversies like, you know, the best, they’re gonna cover conspiracy theories? Hahaha oh Comcast what ever will you do?

  • WCinWI

    WCinWI said:
    So instead of covering real controversies like, you know, the best, they’re gonna cover conspiracy theories? Hahaha oh Comcast what ever will you do?

    *best = budget….ughhhhhh to me. :)

  • tgk

    Come on Mediaite, where’s the daily story making fun of Beck? Not here? Would that be because on the days that Beck makes those “crazy” statements and then backs them up with proof, it’s not so much fun to write about?

    How about a story regarding the number of times “caliphate” has been talked about in the last couple of days and NOT by Glenn? No fun there either?

    This is what happens, a barrage of stories talking about “crazy Beck” and his supposed conspiracies, and then no stories when the stuff he talked about starts happening. THAT is why the hard left folks think Media Matters and other liberal sites are right about him. NO FOLLOW UP.

    Sorry for being off topic here, but since Mediaite apparently isn’t going to poke fun at Glenn today, I am putting my rant here.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    WCinWI, you don’t really expect Mediaite to report on the fact that Carney got called out by Jake Tapper on Obama’s fuzzy math do you? They’d much rather ignore that and focus on Tingles’ rant of the day.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    My show is absolutely non-partisan.

    Chris “I have an Obama shaped tingle running up my leg” Matthews.

    i really don’t understand why you guys keep making fun of mathews because he said he got emotional when he heard someone saying how great our country is.
    do you also have a flag outside your house that you wipe your feet on?
    do you spit on soldiers returning from battle?

  • WCinWI

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    WCinWI, you don’t really expect Mediaite to report on the fact that Carney got called out by Jake Tapper on Obama’s fuzzy math do you? They’d much rather ignore that and focus on Tingles’ rant of the day.

    Hahaha oh how I love the occasional Tapper tweak. I didn’t see this exchange.

  • Garth

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    My show is absolutely non-partisan.

    Chris “I have an Obama shaped tingle running up my leg” Matthews.

    The only tingle you feel is when you think.

  • Harry Flashman

    Is it just my take on it or is Matthews getting crazier than an outhouse mouse?

    Seriously, look at the guy’s picture in this article. He’s one short step away from playing with his toes while singing the theme to Spongebob Squarepants. .

    Yeeks.

  • WCinWI

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    i really don’t understand why you guys keep making fun of mathews because he said he got emotional when he heard someone saying how great our country is.
    do you also have a flag outside your house that you wipe your feet on?
    do you spit on soldiers returning from battle?

    Do you make fun of Palin supporters? If so, zip it.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    WCinWI, you don’t really expect Mediaite to report on the fact that Carney got called out by Jake Tapper on Obama’s fuzzy math do you? They’d much rather ignore that and focus on Tingles’ rant of the day.

    Carney looks like he may be a considerable asset to the Tea Prty/GOP’s efforts next year.
    How are the Republicans going to screw this serendipity up?
    I say to the Boehner, McCain, Graham, McConnell bunch – Move Over Rover, and let the Real Men Take Over!

  • WCinWI

    Garth said:
    The only tingle you feel is when you think.

    So you feel no tingles?

  • Cecelia

    And a 84% of Canadians thought that 9.11 was engineered by the U.S. govt. and 34% of Americans do.

    Why is Chris Mathews pulling his hair out over what partisans think about Obama’s birth place? It matters not an iota.

  • Garth

    WCinWI said:
    So you feel no tingles?

    Only when I think. What?

  • Probably NOT wrong

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    i really don’t understand why you guys keep making fun of mathews because he said he got emotional when he heard someone saying how great our country is.do you also have a flag outside your house that you wipe your feet on?do you spit on soldiers returning from battle?

    Now many people of the same Gender makes you Tingle
    in the Lower Exremities when they Speak NumbNuts???

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Matthews is on now.

    When will Fineman be going down another notch, and wind up writing racist conspiracy’s for Salon?

  • OxyCon

    Three crazy asshats, on a lowly network filled with crazy asshats discussing crazy people?

  • Arch

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    Look at the three people in the photo included above.
    Now these three are going to do a clip about “crazy” people!!
    COMCAST!! Where are you?? COMCAST!! HELLO!

    I find this faith in Comcast hilarious. MSNBC has a niche carved out and unless it starts underperforming (against CNN, not against Fox) it’s very unlikely Comcast is going to mess with it.

  • Cecelia

    ““I think it’s a crazy coalition . . . all these guys from main street who run a little business [are going to] realize they are in a party of crazy people.”’

    What? The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was busy?…

    You’ve got to LOVE the fact that he’s addressing this line of “analysis” to Eugene Robinson and Joan Walsh!

  • WCinWI

    Arch said:
    I find this faith in Comcast hilarious. MSNBC has a niche carved out and unless it starts underperforming (against CNN, not against Fox) it’s very unlikely Comcast is going to mess with it.

    Mediaite has a post about MSNBC’s performance. You might want to re-visit that whole “Comcast” being nervous notion. :)

  • timzank

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    WCinWI, you don’t really expect Mediaite to report on the fact that Carney got called out by Jake Tapper on Obama’s fuzzy math do you? They’d much rather ignore that and focus on Tingles’ rant of the day.

    That was hilarious (Carney)

  • OxyCon

    Arch said:
    I find this faith in Comcast hilarious. MSNBC has a niche carved out and unless it starts underperforming (against CNN, not against Fox) it’s very unlikely Comcast is going to mess with it.

    You mean like Crazy “Lawrence” losing nearly 45% of his audience within a span of 3 weeks?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    Now many people of the same Gender makes you Tingle
    in the Lower Exremities when they Speak NumbNuts???

    you clowns can’t even get your insults right. he never said he ‘gets a tingle’.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    C-Span has the press conference on.
    Press corps is giving Carney a good working over.

    When does Beck Media get a seat in that room?

  • Obeezy

    Christine you magnificent titwillow. Release the hounds. DOnt just let people think your bat crazy. Show em dammit!! You cant play second fiddle to no one! Not Keith, not Castro, not maddow. Tell em, you are the hands down craziest mofo to ever lose his moind in television…… Dont worry, those ratings are just a conspiracy agaisnt you..

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Chili,
    I make fun of him because he claims his show is “absolutely non-partisan”, but gets tingles when he listens to BO. Heck, even Bill Maher said he sounds like he wants to have sex with Obama.

  • Obeezy

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    you clowns can’t even get your insults right. he never said he ‘gets a tingle’.

    YOur right Mr Pepper he did not.. It was thrill

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVwWDj0VtG4

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    And Chili, I don’t care if it’s a tingle or a thrill, it’s the same thing.

  • timzank

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    you clowns can’t even get your insults right. he never said he ‘gets a tingle’.

    He actually said he gets a thrill up his leg. Semantics. Either way, Old creepy white dude getting feelings in his nether regions for young articulate black man is kinda creepy. No, it’s actually really really creepy.

    Unless of course you’re into that sorta thing, right?

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Maybe if Obama makes believe he’s a community organizer again, we can get some leadership out of him!

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Correction Chil’
    How many people get a Thrill, Chill, or Tingle in their Lower Extremities
    when someone of the same gender speaks?

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Cecelia says:
    And a 84% of Canadians thought that 9.11 was engineered by the U.S. govt. and 34% of Americans do.

    Yeah I’ve brought this up before. The % of Dems that believe 9/11 was an inside job is larger than the birth movement. I find truthers to be MUCH scarier than birthers.

  • bobmoses

    Oh Chris Matthews acting like a hateful mindless partisan? Yawn. Wake me up when something interesting happens.

    BTW: when is Mediaite going to start regurgitating Hannity’s commentary without comment? What a joke.

  • jim bronson 990cc

    WCinWI said:
    Do you make fun of Palin supporters? If so, zip it.

    What else is there to do with them?

  • bobmoses

    Hey, we all know that the only KKK members who can be honored are Democrats like Robert Byrd.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Probably NOT wrong says:

    How many people get a Thrill, Chill, or Tingle in their Lower Extremities
    when someone of the same gender speaks?

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that? I just watched Seinfeld and that episode was on. hehe

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    tgk said:
    Come on Mediaite, where’s the daily story making fun of Beck? Not here? Would that be because on the days that Beck makes those “crazy” statements and then backs them up with proof, it’s not so much fun to write about? How about a story regarding the number of times “caliphate” has been talked about in the last couple of days and NOT by Glenn? No fun there either? This is what happens, a barrage of stories talking about “crazy Beck” and his supposed conspiracies, and then no stories when the stuff he talked about starts happening. THAT is why the hard left folks think Media Matters and other liberal sites are right about him. NO FOLLOW UP. Sorry for being off topic here, but since Mediaite apparently isn’t going to poke fun at Glenn today, I am putting my rant here.

    Isn’t it funny, almost everything Beck has said is turning out to be true. LOL. Yet these folks will continue to pretend he has said nothing but CRAZY stuff. This may really destroy any cred these losers say on this post. GBR and RRK must be about to commit suicide.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    The contemporary Republican Party is full of some really morally bankrupt people and apologists for them. It is sad to see we still have American like these people in a leadership position of a major political party.

  • Judge Mental

    Walsh found it peculiar that Boehner “makes his living telling Americans what to believe”….

    It appears that Ms. Walsh believes that the position of Speaker of the House entails “telling Americans what to believe.” She seems to be mistaking SOTH for White House Press Secretary.

  • ckw

    Seriously, I wonder if Chris Matthews is okay. He has a silly, confused look on his face more and more often these days, and he seems to be obsessed with a few Republicans who for the most part are not prominent enough to warrant all the attention. I used to consider Matthews well-read and fairly articulate on public issues, but now he seems consumed with rage and incapable of discussing anything but the latest doings of a few politicians who are on his target list. Unlike Maddow, he is not well prepared for his programs and basically could just mail it in. It is sad to see someone come apart in a public setting.

  • The Real Royal King

    armwood said:
    The contemporary Republican Party is full of some really morally bankrupt people and apologists for them. It is sad to see we still have American like these people in a leadership position of a major political party.

    Indeed it is.

    Life would sure be easier if I believed n Blood Atonement.

  • The Real Royal King

    ckw said:
    Seriously, I wonder if Chris Matthews is okay. He has a silly, confused look on his face more and more often these days, and he seems to be obsessed with a few Republicans who for the most part are not prominent enough to warrant all the attention. I used to consider Matthews well-read and fairly articulate on public issues, but now he seems consumed with rage and incapable of discussing anything but the latest doings of a few politicians who are on his target list. Unlike Maddow, he is not well prepared for his programs and basically could just mail it in. It is sad to see someone come apart in a public setting.

    I think he is just concerned for his country. I am as well. When I look at the denigration and degradation of a major political party by a bunch of crude, rude, angry, unstable, hot-headed usurpers, I feel much the same way. It is much like seeing our best political and civic traditions being dumped into a Porta Potty.

  • The Real Royal King

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Cecelia says:And a 84% of Canadians thought that 9.11 was engineered by the U.S. govt. and 34% of Americans do. Yeah I’ve brought this up before. The % of Dems that believe 9/11 was an inside job is larger than the birth movement. I find truthers to be MUCH scarier than birthers.

    It seems to me to be comparing krap to poop so I don’t know what your problem is.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    The Real Royal King said:
    I think he is just concerned for his country. I am as well. When I look at the denigration and degradation of a major political party by a bunch of crude, rude, angry, unstable, hot-headed usurpers, I feel much the same way. It is much like seeing our best political and civic traditions being dumped into a Porta Potty.

    King, I thought you were a Democrat!

  • The Real Royal King

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    And Chili, I don’t care if it’s a tingle or a thrill, it’s the same thing.

    *gawd* Put it into “air quotes” *Michelle-”in”-Utah* and you “won’t” have *to* “worry” of it’s *TRUE* or “not”. *rolling dough* :)

  • timzank

    The Real Royal King said:
    I think he is just concerned for his country. I am as well. When I look at the denigration and degradation of a major political party by a bunch of crude, rude, angry, unstable, hot-headed usurpers, I feel much the same way. It is much like seeing our best political and civic traditions being dumped into a Porta Potty.

    Referring to the Democrat party I assume.

  • The Real Royal King

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    King, I thought you were a Democrat!

    Hence my use of “crude”. *gawd* If it were “democrats” I would HAVE used “urbane”. *roll toke* :)

  • NORBIT

    Geez, if this doesn’t make Mediaite…

    Karl Rove just compared the Tea Party to John Birch Society on O’Reilly’s show!

  • The Real Royal King

    NORBIT said:
    Geez, if this doesn’t make Mediaite… Karl Rove just compared the Tea Party to John Birch Society on O’Reilly’s show!

    Only on word for that: RINO.

  • treecutter

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    Correction Chil’How many people get a Thrill, Chill, or Tingle in their Lower Extremitieswhen someone of the same gender speaks?

    Actually three: Liberace, Richard Simmons and Chrissy “tingles” Matthews.

  • WHarropson

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Yeah I’ve brought this up before. The % of Dems that believe 9/11 was an inside job is larger than the birth movement. I find truthers to be MUCH scarier than birthers.

    You got that right! And while we’re talking about how much less scary I am… let me paste in a portion of some rumor from an insider (unsourced or it wouldn’t be a rumor) that WH meetings discuss the problem of Obama’s eligibility in 2012 and Obama sits quiet as a mouse while they talk about it. .”… This is the tactic Jarrett and crew have prepared. She is worried though that if more than one or two states challenge the president’s eligibility, the issue would turn against them. Measures are being taken to make certain that does not happen. What those measures are, I don’t know at this point. Oh, and while discussion over eligibility was underway, Obama sat motionless. He said nothing. That strikes me as pretty damn odd don’t you think? People are discussing whether or not you are actually eligible to run for re-election in 2012 and you don’t say a word on the subject? “He just sat there with a weird little smile and didn’t say anything.” Go ahead and print that quote word for word. ..” Don’t blame me, I wasn’t there. Somebody could be making this whole thing up. What do you think? http://tinyurl.com/6cnxz3q PS. That tactic is to accuse States that keep Obama off the ballot of RACISM! They wouldn’t really do that would they? Just ask’in.

  • NORBIT

    The Real Royal King said:
    Only on word for that: RINO.

    TRRK,
    Has that image of you and Karl Rove lamenting the big loss in 2012 together come to mind yet?

  • TfT

    Chris, Gene and the Salan gal, sitting at a table criticizing republicans/conservatives.

    Oh how unique3, unusual, quaint and all that crap.

    blah, blah, blah….MSNBC…we are here to talk about what FNC does/says and to criticize conservatives, it doesn’t matter if they are right or wrong, but hehimself tells us what to day and what to say and we say, yes, master, we shall do whatyou want and so they go blah, blah, blah all the way home.

    What a bunch of little liberal piggies who have no brain, no thoughts of their own, must an adoration and ability to do and say whatever the bossman tells them to do or say.

    Comcast must be so proud.

    yawn

  • Grammie

    Certainly those three know crazy in an up close and deep down personal way!

  • Yoda002

    I thought Obama might be in trouble but the Republican-Tea Party craziness are making McCarthy look normal. When a governor can’t distance himself from a past KKK founder you know your in trouble.

    The Republican strategy would be to go far right and try to bring in all the craziness of your party and then once you got the nomination turned towards center and disown the wackos in the party.

  • im_lovin_it

    Yoda002 said:
    When a governor can’t distance himself from a past KKK founder you know your in trouble.

    SERIOUSLY!!!

    “I don’t go around denouncing people,” Barbour told the Clarion-Ledger. “That’s not going to happen. I don’t even denounce the news media.” ~ Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi.

    They want to make state license plates honoring the founder of the KKK. And you won’t denounce that!? Either you are a racist yourself or you know that you will offend racists and you will lose votes. Either way you are a total asswipe!

  • tgk

    NORBIT said:
    Geez, if this doesn’t make Mediaite…

    Karl Rove just compared the Tea Party to John Birch Society on O’Reilly’s show!

    Not true. He was talking about birthers and 9/11 deniers. Not the TEA Party

  • WildMan

    Ol’ Looney Tunes himself, Chrissy ‘Tingles & Thrills’ Matthews along with Ms. Hate The World herself, Joan Walsh and Mr. Reverse Racist, Eugene Robinson…you don’t get much goofier and crazier than that lineup unless you add David Corn to the mix. WE arte witnessing the meltdown of another PMSnbc goofball talking head. With Chris’s numbers/ratings/viewers in the tank I seriously doubt that Comcast will keep this nutjob around much longer. The CEO was on Morning Wacko, errrr, I mean Morning Joe and he did not give Joe & Mika much confidence in whether Comcast will make any changes or not. Bye bye Joe, Mika, Chriss, Cenk, Lawrence and Edith. Rachael will probably luck out because she is a lezzy and hard to fire.

  • ImNotBlue

    Royal leads a group dedicated to increasing civility and respect among the political parties. It’s called the, “Do as I tell you to do, not as I do… you idiot.”

  • Paleoconservatarian

    If you want the inside scope of the Republican party, Eugene Robinson is your man!

  • Grammie

    Yoda002 said:
    When a governor can’t distance himself from a past KKK founder you know your in trouble.

    .
    What did you think of Senator Byrd, former grand Kleigle, of the KKK with much evidence from his personal writings that shows he was a true believer being eulogized by Bill Clinton last year? Were you outraged that Clinton dismissed his whole long and sordid history with a dismissive oh well a good old boy had to that back then.

    Just curious.

  • felixw

    Sign of an intellectual dead TV host — When he runs from substantive issues and instead engages in infantile name-calling.

  • Yoda002

    Grammie said:
    .
    What did you think of Senator Byrd, former grand Kleigle, of the KKK with much evidence from his personal writings that shows he was a true believer being eulogized by Bill Clinton last year? Were you outraged that Clinton dismissed his whole long and sordid history with a dismissive oh well a good old boy had to that back then.

    Just curious.

    I knew I was going get that question. He had condone his actions and has written about how sorry he was to ever be involved with the KKK. The governor is just scared of losing the racists support of his party.

  • Yoda002

    felixw said:
    Sign of an intellectual dead TV host — When he runs from substantive issues and instead engages in infantile name-calling.

    You shouldn’t talk about your favorite Fox hosts like that; thats just not nice!

  • Grammie

    Yoda002 said:
    I knew I was going get that question. He had condone his actions and has written about how sorry he was to ever be involved with the KKK. The governor is just scared of losing the racists support of his party.

    .
    I must say your answer was totally expected but no less indicative of a narrow my guys never did anything wrong and when they did they were truly penitent unlike those nasty Repubs.

    Have you read this on the whole issue or do you prefer to just continue on with your beliefs with no distracting evidence that just might at least show that this situation for Barbour is somewhat akin to Clinton vis a vis Byrd:

    http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/16/is-the-media-just-piling-on-haley-barbour-now/

    Or for a more detailed analysis and background:

    http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/12/in-haley-barbours-mississippi-civil-war-looms-over-license-pla/

  • im_lovin_it

    Grammie said:
    .
    I must say your answer was totally expected but no less indicative of a narrow my guys never did anything wrong and when they did they were truly penitent unlike those nasty Repubs.

    Have you read this on the whole issue or do you prefer to just continue on with your beliefs with no distracting evidence that just might at least show that this situation for Barbour is somewhat akin to Clinton vis a vis Byrd:

    http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/16/is-the-media-just-piling-on-haley-barbour-now/

    Or for a more detailed analysis and background:

    http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/12/in-haley-barbours-mississippi-civil-war-looms-over-license-pla/

    I’m not sure how Robert Byrd is becoming the topic. He can be discussed, but in this instance it changes the subject. The problem is a sitting governor of a state refuses to say that putting the founder of the KKK on a license plate is inappropriate. I think people should be upset about that fact.

  • Yoda002

    Grammie said:
    .
    I must say your answer was totally expected but no less indicative of a narrow my guys never did anything wrong and when they did they were truly penitent unlike those nasty Repubs.

    Have you read this on the whole issue or do you prefer to just continue on with your beliefs with no distracting evidence that just might at least show that this situation for Barbour is somewhat akin to Clinton vis a vis Byrd:

    http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/16/is-the-media-just-piling-on-haley-barbour-now/

    I would give the governor credit for condoning this offensive license plate.

    Or for a more detailed analysis and background:

    http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/12/in-haley-barbours-mississippi-civil-war-looms-over-license-pla/

  • Yoda002

    oops!

    I would give the governor credit for condoning this offensive license plate.

  • Grammie

    im_lovin_it said:
    I’m not sure how Robert Byrd is becoming the topic. He can be discussed, but in this instance it changes the subject. The problem is a sitting governor of a state refuses to say that putting the founder of the KKK on a license plate is inappropriate. I think people should be upset about that fact.

    .
    Did you read the two links I provided or just google for more?

    I brought it up after researching the controversy in response to this:

    Yoda002 said:
    I thought Obama might be in trouble but the Republican-Tea Party craziness are making McCarthy look normal. When a governor can’t distance himself from a past KKK founder you know your in trouble.

    He became a part of the subject with that statement by another.

    I’m quite leery of accepting others’ characterizations of anything I don’t already have knowledge of. After researching it it seems that barbour falls into the category of Clinton et al re Byrd but even in a more tangential way, IMO.

    Based on that I responded with my questions re Byrd’s long well documented history (there is some question if he was involved in some way in a lynching) and the reaction of the current Dems and those Libs in the media.

    I’ve become quite tired of always being accused of being a racist and groups that I associate with as being racist as a knee jerk reaction by many and feel it is proper to respond.

  • Grammie

    Yoda002 said:
    oops!

    I would give the governor credit for condoning this offensive license plate.

    .
    I was loaded for bear when starting this response before I noticed your “oops”.

  • im_lovin_it

    Grammie said:
    I’ve become quite tired of always being accused of being a racist and groups that I associate with as being racist as a knee jerk reaction by many and feel it is proper to respond.

    As well you should be. I can’t speak for everyone else, but I would be frustrated if I was a conservative and had to constantly face charges that I’m a racist. It’s the same as liberals having to face charges of not loving their country.

    I see what you’re getting at, and I was a little out of place to jump into you and and another going back and forth. In the case of Gov. Barbour, however, he is not helping the stereotype of GOP racism by refusing to say that putting the founder of the KKK on a state license plate is out of line. He deserves the media glare for his actions on the matter.

  • murf

    Schtick is beyond old..

  • WHarropson

    Here’s a hint. If Chris Matthews starts calling someone crazy, It’s time to start believing what that person has to say. I’m just say’in.

  • tatboy

    His show is becoming a circus…

  • The Real Royal King

    Grammie said:
    .
    I must say your answer was totally expected but no less indicative of a narrow my guys never did anything wrong and when they did they were truly penitent unlike those nasty Repubs.

    Have you read this on the whole issue or do you prefer to just continue on with your beliefs with no distracting evidence that just might at least show that this situation for Barbour is somewhat akin to Clinton vis a vis Byrd:

    http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/16/is-the-media-just-piling-on-haley-barbour-now/

    Or for a more detailed analysis and background:

    http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/12/in-haley-barbours-mississippi-civil-war-looms-over-license-pla/

    Actually, Janet, it is a very good answer. The Byrd matter is what it is. He sinned mightily. There seemed to be some true contrition, some absolution, some redemption. Although many Republicans and most conservatives don’t belief in these acts, these graces, they nonetheless exist, and the matter is now one for history. Nothing any of us can now do changes that. By contrast, Barbour is now, as we speak, waddling over to the deep trough of racist swill and feeding hungrily. We can do something about that, but it is a matter about which you seem little concerned. I don’t particularly think you are racist, unlike your little buddy Jeff Merrill, but I do think you lack racial sensitivity at times and need to be reminded that we are at times surround by present racism and forever cloaked in our nation’s racist past. It is something which defines us as Americans and something which provides us for an unusual opportunity for redemption and growth. I don’t think it is at all improper for us to want you and all Americans, myself included, to seize that opportunity. The corollary to “great men sin greatly” is that “great men receive an abundance of grace”. If for no other reason than they require more.

  • The Real Royal King

    tatboy said:
    His show is becoming a circus…

    It truly is.

    I agree with much of what Mr. Matthews says, but getting to that is now almost unbearable for me.

    On a side note, I watched part of Ed for the first time in a very long while last night. It’s either not as bad as I remembered it, or he has gotten better. He sure seems to be surging in the ratings for the moment.

  • BatBoy

    Watch the clip from MSNBC below:

    No thanks….

    One only needs to look at the picture of the guests. Tingles, & the two crazy lefties pictured on the right. Maybe that is how they can claim they are balanced, to lefties to appear on the right, there just has to be a middle…right?

  • Black and Gold Brad

    Hey, I kinda can’t blame ole Tingles…

    Chris really believed in Obama and the fierce urgency of now. Chris really believed that Obama would close Gitmo, end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and provide a foreign policy ‘reset’. Chris really believed that the Stimulis would keep unemployment at 8%, and he really believed in the ‘Summer of Recovery’. Chris really believed that we were the ones we’ve been looking for, and that Obama would force the oceans to recede and the planet to heal.

    With all that falling apart, I can’t blame Chris for wanting to focus on the Republicans.

  • WHarropson

    Have you ever watched a child as they have been caught in an embarrassing untruth and feel compelled to defend the lie? Their speech speeds up, their pitch gets higher, and if they have a normal healthy conscious they may have a few sleepless nights. Can you imagine what it must be to be Chris faced with the chore of perpetuating the line of opinion that has possessed him. He needs an exorcism. Poor guy.

  • CAconservative

    It’s more than apparent the Mr.Matthews and his “peanut ass-kissing gallery” will take any remark and twist it until it conforms to their use as a tool against the Republicans. They don’t need to make up crap, there’s enough ridiculous factual-crap ( both sides) that can be pointed out without spinning it. Their continued spinning of the truth is the major factor in why MSNBC is in the cellar of cable news shows.

  • Georgia999

    I love how Chris Matthews talks about crazy people without realizing he is one of them. It won’t be long before he’ll be locked up on Current with the “other” crazies.

  • Georgia999

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    Look at the three people in the photo included above.Now these three are going to do a clip about “crazy” people!!COMCAST!! Where are you?? COMCAST!! HELLO!

    Soooo funny….let’s just keep on yellin’ till COMCAST hears us.

  • Georgia999

    OxyCon said:
    Three crazy asshats, on a lowly network filled with crazy asshats discussing crazy people?

    This should be in capital letters !!

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com RME KRNL

    A “new group of crazy people,” as opposed to the “old group of crazy people,” Chrissy? Hmmm, I would think Chris “thrill up my leg” Matthews should feel right at home with any crazy people.

    His most significant so-called contribution to the national political debate for the last couple of years has been the borderline-frothing-at-the-mouth pejoratives he dreams up to use in his bomb-throwing attacks on conservatives. Aside from that small smidgen of creativity, he should just be ignored, as are most of the “commentators” on MSLSD.

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