Chris Matthews: Did You Drink Three Fifths?

American Thinker ^ | 10/21/2013 | Ken Blackwell

[rktman]

MSNBC's erratic Hardball host, Chris Matthews, has again gone off the deep end with his nonsense talk about the Constitution's three-fifths clause. He's claiming that conservatives believe black people are, or once were, only three-fifths of a person.

Why does a group of people that always loses elections or tends to do lately, why do they call themselves American people because - do they still count blacks as three-fifths? Three-fifths of a vote?

[rktman]

LOL! The ever affable and brilliant christine matthews shows his stupidity once again. Don't these asshats know anything? Probably they do but still would rather "inform" the low/no info voters of "made up" truth. And they go for the bait as usual.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I believe Christine Matthews is three-fifths human.

Does that make me a racist?

[svcw]

So what? The 3/5 was settled law an liberals love settled law.

[rlmorel]

Unbelievable. Liberals step in that hole constantly, completely misinterpreting the 3/5ths Compromise.

[rktman]

WOW! You’re sure giving him a lot of credit.

[Safrguns]

How do you count 3/5ths of a vote?

Seems to me like the actual ratio of votes counted is more like 4:1

[Common Sense 101]

I believe Prissy Matthews consumes three fifths before spewing forth his lunacy on MSLSD.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Is it alcoholism or dementia?

[MrB]

Looks like they’ve been making up for it in the past few elections...

And, lefties - the 3/5ths actually LOWERED THE VOTING POWER OF THE SLAVE STATES.

Get it?

Counting non-voting slaves as “population” would have increased the number of House members...
Anyone home McFly?

[rktman]

Ain’t no accident. They’ve convinced the “minority” that the tea party doesn’t consider “minorities” to be complete and thus inferior. Ergo; free stuff since being less than whole, they would be incapable of attaining things on their own.

[Lazamataz]

Dafuq is he ranting about? Dude is seriously insane. I mean, he should not be allowed to walk around a town unrestrained.

[circlecity]

It was the democrate slaveholders that considered the black slaves less than human. Not the Republicans.

[rktman]

Thus the HUGE guilt they carry and need to “make it right”.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Would a straight jacket be better?
>snort!<

[Common Sense 101]

Yes.

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-the-three-fifths-compromise.htm#slideshow

[a fool in paradise]

Chris Matthews is only 3/5ths of a man. The remainder is flaming homo.

[Lancey Howard]

It was the North - - ie., the people who opposed slavery - - who demanded the “3/5” of a vote for slaves. The South would have loved giving slaves a full vote. Heck, 2 votes! This ignoramus Chris Matthews is the perfect face of MSNBC. He’s a real spitfire (snort!).

[I want the USA back]

I’m fed up with this crap. I’m fed up with people who assign people to a group, and assign characteristics to every member of the group.

[MrB]

Slight correction - it wasn’t for “voting”, because the slaves couldn’t vote regardless of how they were counted.
It was for population based representation in the House of Representatives.