Chris Matthews Slams Mike Huckabee’s Obama-Kenya Comment: ‘It’s Racist!’
Chris Matthews appeared on The Tonight Show last night with Jay Leno and predictably revealed his admiration/adulation for President Barack Obama, particularly for the White House response to the disaster unfolding in Japan. He also brazenly shared his opinions on many other news items of the day, but was most vocal in his critique of Governor Mike Huckabee‘s recent comment that Obama grew up in Kenya learning about the Mau-Mau Revolution. Matthews did not demur in his critique, simply saying “it’s racist!”
Matthews made clear that he expects next year’s presidential election to be a close one, but added that the American public won’t remove Obama from office unless the economy is in the tank. Regarding the GOP slate, Matthews exasperated “this is the weakest list of candidates that I’ve ever seen,” continuing, “Mitt Romney is the reason that the list gets longer…everybody looks at him and says ‘by God, I can beat him!’” He also mocked Michele Bachmann’s recent gaffe regarding the location of the “shot heard ’round the word” saying of the Minnesota Congresswoman “you gotta at least know High School history to run for President.”
But it was his critique of the birther movement vis-à-vis Huckabee’s comments that drew Matthew’s greatest ire, explaining what he feels to be the absurdity of that argument and flatly calling it racist. Watch the clip below courtesy of NBC:
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