Posted on 01/14/2011 10:42:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Have you no sense of decency?
That’s the question that must be asked of MSNBC host Chris Matthews. The left-wing blowhard and Democratic Party apparatchik is shamelessly and obscenely trying to destroy Sarah Palin’s political future.
I know, I know. This is old news, right? I mean, what else is new?
But we’re now four days removed from the Saturday morning massacre in Tucson! Time and reflection are supposed to make our national dialogue and debate wiser and more enlightened, not stupider and more depraved.
Matthews, moreover, is supposed to be MSNBC’s more cerebral and respectable leftist blowhard. He’s supposed to be different from, and somewhat better than, the other four members of the MSNBC politburo: Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Keith Olbermann.
Only he’s not. Matthews is just as nasty, mean-spirited, vicious and vitriolic as the rest of them. Indeed, here’s what he said last night:
As long as she lives, Sarah Palin will be checkable on Google. You can look up crosshairs and Gabrielle Giffords, and you will get Sarah Palin and the crosshairs.
Check it out: It is never going away unless she deals with it.
And if she doesn’t deal with it, she will always be the candidate who put Giffords in her crosshairs before Giffords was shot. And that is powerful imagery. And she ought to deal with it instead of hiding in a bunker.
Whomever is advising her to hide right now — and you know, she is pretty talkative. Where’s she been now for five days, except she doesn’t know what the hell to say.
And I got something to say: I made a mistake. Fix it. We’ve all made mistakes.
Yeah, Matthews, you’re right about that one. We all make mistakes. I obviously made a big mistake by turning on the television and tuning into your sorry excuse for a show.
Sarah Palin is a dignified woman who will not, and should not, dignify your abuse and bullying with a response. But I’m less dignified and more eager for a fight, so I’ll respond.
How dare you? How dare you suggest that SarahPAC’s flier had anything whatsoever to do with this nut’s senseless and horrific act of violence?
How dare you suggest that a political map, which “targeted” 20 House Democrats for defeat, is in any way linked to the Tucson massacre? How dare you suggest that placing these Democrat districts in the crosshairs on a political map helped to precipitate Saturday’s murderous rage?
Where I come from, savagely and groundlessly attacking a woman in the way that you have, and impugning her honor, are grounds for a fight. As David Brooks explained in yesterday’s New York Times, these are “vicious charges made by people [such as yourself] who claim to be criticizing viciousness.”
And as Quin Hillyer has observed at the American Spectator:
There is nothing, nothing at all, wrong with martial language in the context of politics. Anybody with a lick of sense understands that the language is metaphorical. And almost anybody in the mental condition of… Loughner needs no martial language from politicians to set him off.
In fact, as Charles Krauthammer points out in today’s Washington Post: “There is no evidence that [murder suspect Jared] Loughner was impelled to violence by…anything, political or otherwise, outside of his own head.”
Loughner, explains Dr. E. Fuller Torrey in today’s Wall Street Journal, “is reported to have had symptoms associated with schizophrenia — incoherent thought processes, delusional ideas, erratic behavior — and almost certainly was seriously mentally ill and untreated.”
But to paraphrase Krauthammer in a slightly different context, the origins of Loughner’s delusions are clear: mental illness. So, too, the origins of Matthews’s vicious smears: not mental illness, but political malice.
“Sarah Palin is a dignified woman who will not, and should not, dignify your abuse and bullying with a response.”
She kinda did today.
They’re just so hopping mad that she refuses to play by their rules.
A proper Republican is supposed to go into the defensive cringe; shamefacedly admit to the accusations and promise to do better in the future, endorse some dem bills and go on bended knees to the MSM, begging them to ease their attacks.
Sarah refuses to cooperate and that is driving them nutz.
They’ve abused their power too many times and it is evaporating on them but this is their only trick so they keep doubling down.
Mathews is a nothing that makes his living spewing venom and Sarah Palin’s name makes headlines. It’s a crime he can’t be sued for every last cent. He ought be excommunicated from the Church.
Pray for Sarah Palin.
He’s an immature little sissy boy
As far as I know, Todd Palin has not said anything publicly about these slime bags, but I wonder what he really thinks of Matthews and others? Someone, other than the Palins, needs to jump up and tell Matthews and his ilk, to stick it somewhere. I would stand up and cheer.
Tinglebell needs to lighten up with his anti-Palin vitriol and heated rhetoric.
Ha!
What happened to the pic in #7? Was that a copyrighted image or something?
He only matters in his in his own mind and to the handful of others that listen to him.
They probably tinkle on his leg after winning the Presidency.
That’s funny....LOL.
Not so fast and clear.
It looks obvious to me that the Left’s embrace and propagation of the drug culture causes many to develop a mental illness, or even a more serious case of mental illness.
Then these freaks are corralled by the democrat party to make politics and tell the rest of us how we should live and be governed.
They are sick.
Chris Matthews is a waste of flesh.
Everytime a liberal Democrat gets in trouble the whole liberal establishment circles the wagons to defend them. When a conservative is being attacked all you get from the Republican establishment is the sound of crickets...
Matthews wants to be a martyr for the cause of the left.
Maybe he will take a long walk of a short NYC pier? Who knows.LOL.
Maybe he will get fired. But maybe Palin will sue him and take him for a cool 10 million. I would like to see that.
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