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Rep. Maxine Waters To Chris Matthews: Rep. Allen West Sent Unemployed Brother To Me For Help

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Rep. Maxine Waters came off a contentious public event with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to jump into a feud with Rep. Allen West, who responded to the caucus last night by comparing himself to Harriet Tubman and accusing Rep. Waters and others of running a “plantation.” On today’s Hardball, Rep. Waters begrudgingly responded, adding that the Congressman had sent his out-of-work brother to her town hall today to ask for help with jobs.

Chris Matthews began his interview far from the Rep. West issue, however, asking Rep. Waters “what bill you want the President to send up to the Hill so that you guys can fight for it on jobs.” Rep. Waters noted that the Congressional Black Caucus had “produced about 40 pieces of legislation” and that she would have appreciated “the infrastructure bank where we would repair the roads and the streets and water systems” and in the process create government jobs. She also argued that the tax code should make it difficult for companies to move jobs overseas and that the stimulus package was too small. Rep. Waters added that she saw in constituents that they “don’t like that this Tea Party has gained so much influence and appears to be so strong.”

Matthews then turned to the plantation comments by Rep. West, which Rep. Waters smiled at, but dismissed as “odd” and wasn’t really worth referencing, but added with some confusion that “that doesn’t even make sense.” Matthews posited that he “isn’t talking to the black community” and that most of his constituency was white. Rep. Waters seemed to ignore most of this, and instead turned to a personal anecdote: “his brother was here today!” Matthews, confused, asked her to elaborate, and she continued: “he has a brother who is out of work– I asked if he had asked his brother, he said ‘he told me to come to the job fair… to see you.” Rep. Waters said she would do what she could to help him.

“So he sent him to the plantation?” Matthews added with a chuckle, which was bait Rep. Waters didn’t seem to eager to take. “That’s a reasonable conclusion,” she responded.

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  • Anonymous

    Allen West may be the only CBC member who is not a crook , demented and / or a lunatic .

  • Joseph Bernard

    Really, Lantern? That’s all you got out of that?

  • Resist we MUCH!

    Maxine Waters is one of 70 Democrats in the House of Representatives that are full blown members of the Socialist Party of America.

    Socialist Party of America Releases The Names of 70 Democrat Members Of Congress Who Are Members Of Their Caucushttp://conservativebyte.com/2011/08/socialist-party-of-america-releases-the-names-of-70-democrat-members-of-congress-who-are-members-of-their-caucus/

  • Resist we MUCH!

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/35733956/DSA-Members-American-Socialist-Voter-Democratic-Socialists-of-America-10-1-09
    The list of 70 Democrats in the United States House & Senate that are listed as members of the Socialist Party of America.

  • Obama – The – Destroyer

    Mz. Water’s photo reminds me:

    What works best for constipation?

  • Obama – The – Destroyer

    Quiff Maffhews’ (Bahney Fwankism) photo reminds me:

    What works best for hangovers?

  • Anonymous

    “Rep. Waters begrudgingly responded, adding that the Congressman (West) had sent
    his out-of-work brother to her town hall today to ask for help with
    jobs.”

    Sure as shit, West will deny this.  And then he will undoubtedly call her despicable, vile, no lady, and will hold a gun to her head.

  • NDanielson

    You haven’t noticed that most of the liberal clowns here are quite happy watching America slip further into socialism?

  • Resist we MUCH!

    Hey crap artist:  Rep. West is a MEMBER of the Congressional BLACK CAUCUS that was having the jobs fair.  West sent his brother to the BLACK CAUCUS JOB FAIR not to Maxine Waters.

  • Harry Flashman

    Good LORD these people are horrible.

  • Anonymous

    West selling his own brother to the Democrat plantation (West’s words, not mine).

    Lift that barge, tote that bale, West’s a teabagger and teabagger fail.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000152902441 Jeremy Volkens

    It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to understand that when someone who has laid (partial) blame on a Congresswoman’s policies for the staggering unemployment rates in her community sends his unemployed brother to her town hall meeting to say, “where are the jobs?”, it DOESN’T mean he was actually sending that person to look for a job!

    I swear sometimes it really seems like you wacky liberals have had the reason and logic portions of their brains lobotomized.

  • NDanielson

    They don’t even hide their disdain for the Constitution, our traditions, morals…

    Maxine Waters Wants To “Socialize” Oil Companies – YouTube

    23 May 2008 … ElephantOwners(dot com) Congresswoman Maxine Waters displayed not only … about socializing,uh, umm- will be about, basically. taking over. …
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJAkR_6tKQ

    Maxine Waters on the Oil Industry‏ – YouTube

    25 Oct 2008 … Maxine Waters thinks Government needs to own everything. …
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW_FXjbt6wY

    Democrat Maxine Waters threatens socializing oil companies‏ – YouTube

    2 Jun 2008 … Democrat Maxine Waters, Democrat Congresswoman, says she …
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKh7uqucArk

    Congresswoman threatens to nationalize oil industry

    23 May 2008 … Maxine Waters, D-Calif., threatened to nationalize the industry if it … taking over, and the government running all of your companies. …” …
    http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=65111

    Maxine Waters Threatens to Socialize the Oil Companies « America’s …

    25 May 2008 … Maxine Waters Threatens to Socialize the Oil Companies … As soon as she says the words “take over” watch the guy behind her start to smile …
    http://americaswatchtower.com/2008/05/25/maxine-waters-threatens-to-socialize-the-oil-companies/

    As long as the “free” cheese keeps comin’. Of course they’re too stupid to have ever learned that nothing is free. Except stupid. They need to learn that being stupid is hard.

  • Sharpo

    except you are totally lyiing.

    “e told me to come to the job fair… to see you.”

    resist me much, why are you a coward with no balls?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    RwM, dont bother. Just give him couple more days and he’ll get it. BFD is slow just like any other lib.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    RwM, dont bother. Just give him couple more days and he’ll get it. BFD is slow just like any other lib.

  • NDanielson

    Awwwww, Maxine, the Bamster listened: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/18/new-eo-from-obama-to-push-diversity-in-the-federal-workforce/

    Hey, Maxine, how’s that ethics investigation coming along???

  • Michelle

    What I got was that his brother wants to work instead of being given a handout.  I fail to see the “controversy”. 

  • Michelle

    It’s a sad day when liberals are trying to make a controversy out of a black man looking for a job. 

  • Resist we MUCH!

    Racist ASS HO ) )

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    Yeah, we need to create government jobs. That’s the ticket. Waters is such a radical left winger it’s enough to make you vomit.

  • Anonymous

    Allan West is the real hope for the black community.

    Maxine Waters is a sick old racist.

    Chris Matthews is a drunk.

  • Resist we MUCH!

    Racists ASS HO ) )

  • Sharpo

    asking why you are a coward with no balls is not racist. :D

  • Sharpo

    and oregon_conservative hides under an anonymous name. uhuh.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Way to spin it. I’ll have to remember this the next time somebody has some bullshit to say about George Obama.

  • Michelle

    How is that spin?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    As Reverend Jackson Congresswoman Waters rev up with the whole plantation thing I’ll remind you of a post from a Pro-Hillary website offered by a gay congressman asking “What is the difference between Slaves on the Plantation and Blacks Who Blindly Vote democrat” ? Posted by Kevin DuJan  he made the same argument as Candidate Allen West. DuJan went on to say slave owners were giving the slaves the same thing democrats are giving blacks, free food, free housing, free medical care, free menial education and have been doing so for fifty years.

  • Norbit

    Say Maxine,

    Is Tawana Sharpton one of the Democratic Party’s “OVERSEER’S”?

    LMAO!!!!

  • Norbit

    The GOP should ask Cain & West to do an “interview”-type TV & radio ad in the black communities – jobs, jobs, jobs.

  • Anonymous

    Wait, have the Government repair our bridges and keep our water and sewer systems working – Socialism.  What we really need is cuts for the rich job creators – its worked great so far.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    They’re making controversy out of the man’s own brother doing nothing to help him. You’re trying to make it seem like liberals are racist and don’t want black people to find jobs.

  • Michelle

    Well it is true that liberals want people dependent on gov’t.  That’s people of all colors though. 

  • Anonymous

    he went to the person whom west said runs a “plantation” that’s the controversy you twit.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    bullshit yet again. Can you please stop with the lies and talking points?

  • Anonymous

    The issue is why didn’t Allen West help his own brother.  He could have found a place somewhere on his staff for him if he wanted to.

  • Michelle

    That’s the truth.  If it’s supposed to be a secret, you libs aren’t hiding it very well. 

  • Michelle

    And then we’d hear you libs cry nepotism. 

  • Michelle

    And then we’d hear you libs cry nepotism. 

  • Anonymous

    well if they paid for the maintenance and upkeep like they should have done instead of pissing the money they collected in gas taxes and fees away on other programs , i would say hell yes

  • Anonymous

    Maxine Waters is bat$hit crazy! Although I will give her that at least she is consistent in her craziness.

  • Anonymous

    The idea that Col. West, war hero, would ask his brother to go to Ms. Waters, under ethics inquiry, for jobs advice is far-fetched to say the least. He’s been through wars, and she thinks her political antics will wear him down.  Yeah, right…. 

  • Anonymous

    Rep. Waters noted that the Congressional Black Caucus had “produced
    about 40 pieces of legislation” and that she would have appreciated
    “the infrastructure bank where we would repair the roads and the
    streets and water systems” and in the process create government jobs.

    I thought that was what the “stimulus” package was for. guess she shouldn’t have wasted it on political pat projects.

  • Anonymous

    Allan West is an old fashioned embarrassment to the black community. His square hair style fits his square ideals. Definitely needs to go back to the square city district he grew up in.

  • Anonymous

    It’s what you do when greedy republicans refuse to create jobs. Where are the republican jobs by the way? During a time when their taxes are the lowest since I don’t know when?

    Oh. There aren’t any.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s an assignment.

    1. Print out the comment you made above.
    2. Stand in front of a police station, a public school, a fire station, or a museum.
    3. Read your comment aloud and note how stupid you sound.

  • Anonymous

    Socialism is the natural response to republican failures. Period.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B5UKY7V45RWXSRMVIASTCFUNJY Deedxf Deed

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  • Anonymous

    The fact that West would even use the word, “plantation” in reference to a black effort says a lot about his own hatred of self, his wish to distance himself from his own race, and his desire to be more like the people who will never truly accept him as one of their own. He’s an idiot. And the media loves idiots.

  • Norbit

    LOL!

    Set My People FREE!!!

  • Anonymous

    who are the people you so generalized will never truely accept him?

  • Sean

    It is funny that the left will attack Michele Bachmann as being a flake but they have nothing to say about this illiterate arch criminal Maxine Waters. People who vote for Maxine Waters deserve poverty and despair.

  • Anonymous

    Are you serious? Or just young? Blond? I can forgive the latter two.

  • Anonymous

    never mind, i saw your uncle tom reference on the other thread bigot

  • Cammie

    Ummm, no.   The controversy was when West went on Oreilly FIRST to TOUT how he wanted to help those po black folk thru the underground railroad like Tubman but only later to find out his total hypocrisy of telling you brother to go back to the “plantation” because there were no more Teaparty “House Negro” postions available where he was at.

  • Cammie

    Yeah right.  The keywords were:  UN-EMPLOYED brother. 

    Furthermore It was not just a townhall but also a jobfair followed by a townhall that Waters held here in Atlanta that West’s brother attended, located Waters and introduced himself as UN-EMPLOYED.  

    http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/heat-fells-several-as-1119986.html

    b>Speaking from a Congressional Black Caucus jobs fair in Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, the California Democrat said/b> West’s remarks were “a little bit outrageous, a little bit ridiculous and that’s hard to respond to because [it] absolutely does not make good sense.”Waters said in an appearance on MSNBC that even more stunning than the Florida Republican’s comments was that West unleashed a broadside against her while encouraging his own brother to go to the Atlanta job fair Thursday

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61652.html#ixzz1VR5hE9IN

    I swear sometimes it really seems like you wacky conservatives. have had the reason and logic portions of your brains lobotomized.

  • Cammie

    Oh so, West is a member of such a racist organization.   Hey West what do you think your fellow Teaparty members think of you belonging to such a Caucus when they don’t have a White Congressional Caucus?  Why couldn’t you allow your brother to find a job without Affirmative Action/special interest help?

  • NDanielson

    Socialism is the continual progression of taking other people’s money for more and more handouts to buy more and more votes. Clown.

    And liberalism is coddling those who are blaming someone else and society for the fact that someone cannot pay their own way in the most free society that ever graced the planet. Clown

    Socialism is the natural progression of liberal “social justice”. Who the hell owes you ANYTHING, clown? Period.

  • NDanielson

    Typical lib, broad horizons with such narrow vision. All you clowns know is other peoples money.

  • RJchoice

    How is Michelle Bachman going to ‘guarantee’ $2.00 per gallon gas when she gets to the White House unless she plans to ‘take-over’ the oil companies?..

    Since when does the white-house set the price of oil?

  • RJchoice

    How is Michelle Bachman going to ‘guarantee’ $2.00 per gallon gas when
    she gets to the White House unless she plans to ‘take-over’ the oil
    companies?..

    Since when does the white-house set the price of oil?

  • NDanielson

    If someone from Public Notice
    asked me whether this was an example of real or fake government
    spending, I would have unhesitatingly cried, “Fake!” But I would have
    been wrong. The Department of Labor really did
    spend taxpayer dollars — though just how many is not quite clear — to
    develop a Smartphone application to inform outdoor workers whether it’s
    hot outside.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/18/this-just-in-its-hot-in-the-summer-or-so-a-new-smartphone-app-from-the-dol-says/

  • Anonymous

    …Because you conservative idiots don’t know the right things to use it for.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JVB7Z2SODW6CCZVO2QBKOIBOXY Gobear

    Hello all you KKK callers of the Tea Party, did you know more black people have been killed in three years by the democrat party than in three years than the KKK has done 84 years. See the book written by a black Caucus leader William Owans “Obama Why Black America”, close ex friend Al Sharpton
    Niece of MLK “Dr. Alveda King”-says his politcs are anathena to the dream, in this book. Keep voting the Jessie Jacksons and you will have another 3 million dead babies in less than three years. If you like to read about books about black history mabe you will open your un- free eyes.
    By the way, the Black Tea party is huge in L.A. Calf.- search it yourself or does your party keep you lazy by bluting the race card as your only defense!!!!

  • Anonymous

    What the hell are you trying to communicate?? You make no sense!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    Does Allen West’s brother live in Waters’s district?

  • Anonymous

    Hear! Hear!
    Only in America can you hold a jobs fair and then complain when an unemployed man shows up looking for work. 

  • Anonymous

    Maybe he’s not qualified for a GovCo position.  At least he’s looking for work.  BTW- how is ZerObama’s brother doing these days?

  • Donald P. Domke

    If you believe ol’ Maxine, that is!!!  The CBC has to b e the collection of the dumbest asses in the gov’t., with the exception of Allen West.

  • Kelc

    When we have a republican in office,not when we have a democrat.Isn’t that the way it works.

  • Anonymous

    “So he sent him to the plantation?”

    I’m tired of living in a society in which Matthews believes he can get away with saying things like this simply because he’s black.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, Whatever happened to Po’ Folks, anyway? Remember that restaurant? You might be too young. They had those huge biscuits and would serve tea in mason jars. The building had a tin roof. It looked like a shack outside. Are those restaurants still around? Sigh. Good times…good times.

    “House negro”? Really? Wait, I thought we were the racists. I’ve been called that, like, a half dozen times this week alone. Somebody help me out. I believe in smaller government, personal responsibility, keeping most of what I rightfully earn, and judging others on merits rather than by skin color while not using offensive terms like “house negro”. Racist or not racist? A little help. Anyone.
     
    Really? “House negro”?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Now why didn’t Chrissie boy interview Mad Maxine the way he badgers, oops, interviews conservatives and Republicans that come on his show? Why not ask her how big is the deficit and see what Mad Max had to say? MSM bias, that’s why.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    oh, so now the word “plantation” is restricted, too? what’s next, “black”?

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    Pure and utter nonsense.  You must not get paid very much to troll.

  • Anonymous

    No one complained.

  • Anonymous

    Great, he runs a non-profit charity.

  • Anonymous

    Wrong brother. I was referring to George, not Mark.

  • Anonymous

    hold on…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Congresswoman Maxine Waters slips the truth out- Socialize the Oil industryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_93SldBytjE

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    We should be using it for welfare, for food stamps, shrimp treadmills, high-speed rail that nobody will use, for ever-expanding benefits and pensions for unionized public employees, to bail out failed auto companies and for windmills. Duh.

    And we should just confiscate everyone’s money. All of it – those rubes don’t know what to spend it on. The government should be making that decision for everyone, becuase they do the greatest good with it. So let’s raise taxes to 100%, confiscate what we can’t tax, put everyone on foodstamps, and make sure everyone relies on everyone else for their sustenance. That way, nobody will be poor because the government will be taking care of us all.

    Stupid conservative wingnuts.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    West sent the unemployed fellow to talk to Maxine Waters becuase she has and has always had all the answers about how to create private sector jobs.

    She’s the FIRST person you should be going to for jobs.

    Obviously.

  • Anonymous

    So a war hero military vet whose bringing integrity to washington is a bad thing.  You really need to figure out what matters in this world.   Ironically, his sacrifice and those of millions of other vets gives you the freedom to say such idiocy. 

  • gordonbloyershow

    Why would anyone believe anything Mad Max says. She is a socialist and a crook. She was caught using her legislative office as another business.

  • Anonymous

    Libs are ALWAYS masturbating over ‘roads, bridges, and schools’ as though NOTHING has EVER been spent in those areas before. They also masturbate over ‘high-speed rail’ and the Chevy VOLT, neither of which are going ANYWHERE. That famous ‘pelosi-Reid’ high-speed rail between Nevada and California that was paid for in the 2009 ‘Stimulus that didn’t Stimulate’…is it half-way done now, 75% done now? Or, perhaps, hasn’t even been started?

    Libs are near suicidal now, unable to defend their idiotic wet dreams.

  • Rio

    Welcome back, you were missed!

  • Anonymous

    If people want more jobs, than why aren;t they happy with the government creating public sector jobs? Those are really the only ones government can create. They cant go to a corporation and tell them to hire more people.

    What they could do is lower the corporate tax rate, which would free up more money to hire more employees and cut-back on outsourcing. The only issue with that is that many corporations who outsource do so because the labor is cheaper. So even if they have enough cash to hire Americans, they’ll probably still settle for outsourcing because its cheaper. Its a tough issue without a simple solution.

  • Rio

    My career guy Army Sgt. nephew has that same “square hair style” as do countless other troops that are protecting your smug rear end.  He’s doing the same Allan West did, leaving his family for long periods of time to face death and destruction and an idiot sits state side and mocks their hair style. Pfft!

  • Rio

    Yeah, Maxine sure likes them banks, the oversight committee would be working round the clock.

  • Rio

    After a career in the military, serving in life and death situations with every culture, race, sex and creed that makes up the USofA, his mistake might be not taking into consideration the amount of bigots like you still flitting about in…….civil society.

    From his career, he knows the “plantation” system libruls choose to lock minorities into is obsolete, he realizes their outstanding potential and contributions they unselfishly have made  to this country, he lived it, saw it on a day to day basis.

    It’s shameful to look at what the left is posting in here,  using terms such as “house negro,” “uncle Tom,” criticizing the “square hair style” ……..it’s rather common though, as they made a habit of using derogatory language when referring to conservative AA’s in the recent past.  The left likes to think of themselves as not being racist, yet it slips out all the time. 

    broadhorizons?  Pfft!

  • Jerky138

    Where do you get that from slick?

  • Jerky138

    Nope…those are actually your words not his.  Come back to reality for a brief moment so you can realize that he sent him to a Job Fair.  That would equate to him seeking self reliance versus dependance on the gov….or plantation.

    Wipe the drool off your mouth by the way.

  • Jerky138

    Right you are!.  I agree with pelosi and the rest of the gang when she says longer unemployment benefitis are the best way to kick the econmy in gear.  Dont you?

  • Jerky138

    Really?  Are you the spokesmen for the black community and appropriate hair styles? 

  • Jerky138

    Hehe…this guy is a cognative simpleton.  He apparently has no idea the point West was getting at since he is clearly tangled into the nuances of the words West chose to use instead.

    I’ll tell ya broad horizons, the media does love idiots, but I do as well.  Thanks for being here bro!

  • Jerky138

    And they get it..in spades

  • http://twitter.com/bigetexansfan P.

    The majority of America is right along with them, and so are you if you’ve ever enjoyed clean air, clean water, highways, the postal service, law enforcement, fire departments, first respondents, public parks, pubic schools, public libraries, etc… So you get the point. So if you’re one of those people trying to depict the word “Socialist” likes it’s dirty, that bullshit argument is falling apart. By the Socialist very much believe in free market capitalism, we just don’t believe in the GREED that have corrupted it.

  • http://twitter.com/bigetexansfan P.

    Allen West is as we say in Texas “all hat and no cattle”. It’s insulting that Allen West would mention himself in the same breath with Harriet Tubman. History lesson Allen, Harriet Tubman wasn’t a coonin’ step’n fetchit for the people who tried to keep her enslaved. Just because you’re a boot licking ass kissing teabagger doesn’t mean shit to the GOP establishment! You’re a Joke, Herman Cain is joke, Michael Steele is a joke!

    Just so you know it When THEY call the President and the First Lady monkeys, apes, gorillas, make watermellon and fried chicken jokes, and all of the other racist stereotypical bullshit that put on full display the character of the republican party, THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT YOU TOO!! But a fucking idiot like Allen West simply don’t realize this is what they think of ALL people who look like him.

  • Anonymous

    I watched this and the Harriet Tubman thing was hilarious and it was no surprise that Waters didn’t call Matthews on it.
    Waters wanted to make it sound like the Black Caucus was introducing something new in legislation but it’s all the same old tried and failed stuff that garners Democrats votes.
    I was a little surprised that Waters sounded lucid, despite evidence to the contrary.

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