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Posted on 08/06/2009 9:35:49 AM PDT by IrishMike
On Wednesday's Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews hosted a discussion with Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker and Salon's Joan Walsh as the trio discussed Parker's latest column, "A Tip for the GOP: Look Away," in which she argues that the Republican party is hurt by being centered in the South with its history of racial politics. Matthews, who would later theorize that Sarah Palin will exploit white racism by visiting "cul de sacs of whitedom," set up the segment by reading a line from Parker's column which compares Palin to a white character in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird who falsely accuses a black man of raping her, leading to his false conviction and death in prison. Matthews:
Here`s a quote that really grabbed me: "That same rage was on display again in the fall of 2008, but this time the frenzy was stimulated by a pretty gal with a mocking little wink. Sarah Palin may not have realized what she was doing. But southerners, weaned on Harper Lee, heard the dog whistle." Kathleen, "heard the dog whistle." Is Sarah Palin a poster girl for racism? Yes or no?
Parker suggested that Palin is indeed a "poster girl for racism," though "not consciously," and alluded to white racism being incited by a white woman and black man being pitted against each other, as in Sarah Palin versus Barack Obama, or in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Parker:
I certainly don`t think she, Sarah Palin, knows anything about Harper Lee or this deep history in the South, where you don`t position a white woman and a black male and pretend like there`s nothing happening there. There`s a deep, deep history. That`s why I mentioned, dropped the Harper Lee in there.
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These people are off their heads.
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Kathleen Parker is lower than whale shit.
What do you expect?
We’ve trained them for decades that all they have to do is
cry “racism”
and we curl up in a ball, stop criticizing them, and let them do whatever they want.
OF COURSE they’re going to do it every time they get a chance -
until it doesn’t work any more.
Matthews is utterly despicable.
Do you know what you find if you delve into the racist history of the south?....Thats right...Democrats.
I didn't realize that Kathleen Parker was on meth.
Matthews is like David Letterman and really has a secret crush on Palin but knows that she’s way too good for him and Parker is so jealous that she can’t see straight. People that didn’t grow up in the south love to analyze the state of racial harmony and get it wrong everytime. They show themselves to be the ignorant fools they are everytime they speak.
Matthews is like David Letterman and really has a secret crush on Palin but knows that she’s way too good for him and Parker is so jealous that she can’t see straight. People that didn’t grow up in the south love to analyze the state of racial harmony and get it wrong everytime. They show themselves to be the ignorant fools they are everytime they speak.
Anything these 3 morons recommend is a sure sign to do the opposite.
Always accuse the other side of what you are doing! Chrissy it is your master that is participating in racism and having a beer fest afterwards! It your master that attended a racist church for over 20 years.
Well, Parker just nailed her political coffin shut. If Palin does effect change in the elections and end up becoming President, Parker will be dropped by her leftist friends and the right won’t have anything to do with her. This woman is just hysterically envious of Palin.
Chris Matthews needs to look in the mirror. There he will find the slavering bigot he seeks.
He is a fool it should have been him instead of Timmy.
Sarah is a private citezen, no longer in the public eye. Why is Chris still obsessing over her?
Alaska? The South?
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA
Chrissy is off his nut. Completely.
Liberals are utterly blind to their own prejudices because they view them not as character flaws but as evidence of their own moral superiority.
About 74% of voters are white. Show me a national politician that refuses to recognize that group to get elected, and I’ll show you a politician that has no chance of getting elected. It’s math, Chrissy, it’s math...
Kathleen Parker. What a dumb, neocon broad.
What in the hell are they talking about? None of that makes any sense... it can be summed up in one word: Offensive to EVERYONE.
Just as if you are a reliably pro-choice Democrat, you are incapable of being a sexist sexula harraser; if you are “correct” on social policy you are incapable of being a racist.
Hillary vs Barrack = not a racial issue.
Sarah vs Barrack = Palin becomes the “poster girl for racism”.
Dear Spitty:
In the words of Opposum (”Dreams of my Father”), “There’s white folks and then there’s ign’ant motherf***ers, like you!”
This garbage isn’t worth a response.
That’s a reach even Plastic Man couldn’t manage. Inspector Gadget is in awe!
Krissy “Spitball” Matthews.
Ah right on cue, the propaganda drop. Like flies to a big, steaming pile...
Certain folks, I guess mostly the republican party and the mushy middle, need to realize the left is an enemy to be defeated.
You can’t play nice with them, they are not decent people. The fantasy that Sarah Palin is a deep south white racist from the pages of a novel set in the year 1936 is not a rational discussion. It is an attack by a very dangerous radical element.
They need to start calling this show Hardbull.
Shhh...do not smash Chris Mathews’ reality with facts. He might lose that tingle in his leg.
One thing to remember about the “conservative” columnist Kathleen Parker. She tends to jump on board whoever wins the White House and rides that train until she has to hop off for her own benefit. She was all on board GWB until she find it got her on TV when she started bashing him. Wait 2 years, she’ll jump again when Obama is at 30% approval. Typical Washington journalist.
Sara Palin is married to(Tod) a native american... Duuugh..
"DEMOCRAT".
Is Chrissy wanting to be Zero’s ‘butt boy’, or something? Geesh.
I would say they need to stop this, but I think its actually good that they keep it up. They are really reaching and scraping the bottom of the barrel.
I think they actually sit around and conjure this stuff up. It gets more unbelievable every time.
How many minorities do you suppose live on Matthews street?
Those that presume to scold us all live in all-white neighborhoods.
Take care of your own hypocrisies first matthews.
Yeah, they used to be Democrats. Now they are Communists under the same heading.
I wish someone would rag all over these sorry SOB’s. Chrissy et all can KMA.
To add to our understanding of left wing insanity.
I have been reading that To Kill A Mockingbird, which is totally supportive of civil rights and tells the plight of a black man unjustly accused of a crime and a heroic white lawyer’s efforts on his behalf against a white racist community -
Is one of the most challenged books (by the left of course) because the dialogue contains racial epithets and I suppose for additional leftist reasons I cannot even begin to understand.
So is Mr. Fantastic!
Do they think they are talking in their living rooms or something? Do they not know they are on TV?
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