NewsReal Sunday: Chris Matthews says the Dumbest Thing In Television History

David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | October 25, 2009 | Paul Cooper

[Southern Partisan]

Julian Bond referred to the “Taliban wing of the Republican Party”. He spoke as the head of the NAACP.

[digger48]

That’s the quote I remember. Thanks

[mjp]

the group in this country that most resembles the Taliban, ironically, is the Religious Right

"radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America."
rosie o'donnell

typical moral equivalency of the secular humanists and commies and their sympathizers who prefer a permissive relativistic ethics

[Jackknife]

[Sir_Humphrey]

Julian Bond will say anything to prove he hates whitey. And as we all know there is plenty of money to be made hating whitey. And Julian is one of a long line of mediocre talents who has wealth only because they perfected hating whitey to an art form. Not surprised, he was educated by Quakers. (Is that a really a religion?)

Anymore, I find it not really worth my while to engage the left in debate. The young ones, though that is a different matter. We have to get them if we are to get our country back and save from the likes of Obama.

[khnyny]

That's interesting because Bond went to private schools - some of them quite religious, lol. As an aside, I bet his children attended private schools as well.

Julian Bond is the quintessential hypocrite who has profited quite handsomely on the “racial divide” in America. Just like the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of this world. Julian is just a little more polished.

[FormerLib]

I call them the Talibatheists.

[luvbach1]

He spoke as the head of the NAACP.

Of course you meant the NAALCP, the National Association of Liberal Colored People.

[bray]

How them ratings coming along spitboy?

Pray for America

[stevem]

Many years ago Matthews said of some event that Ronald Reagan showed how a leader is to behave. This was regarding some issue I can't recall. I don't think it was a Reagan departure from Reaganism.

That was the last time Matthews ever said something smart. It was also likely the first time.

The contest for the dumbest thing ever said on TV is a king-of-the-hill sort of fight. Matthews has been king on multiple occasions.

[JoeMac]

As Ann says in response to “The Religious right’’’ line, ‘’As opposed to what, The Atheistic Left’’?

[PhilDragoo]

Does Chris Matthews know Hussein called for negotiations with the Taliban in March of this year?

[Stultis]

Does this mean we can burn him?

[Verginius Rufus]

Julian Bond is a full-time faculty member in the Department of History at the University of Virginia with the rank of professor. His highest degree is a B.A. from Morehouse College.

Of his 52 colleagues as full-time members of the department, 50 have Ph.D.'s, one has a "D.Phil." from Oxford, and one has a degree from France which is probably the French equivalent of a Ph.D.

[khnyny]

Thanks for confirming my theory regarding Mr. Bond.

So, Bond plays the part of “professor” very well. Does he have a tweed jacket with leather elbows? Smoke a pipe perhaps? Pontificate on command?

Most importantly, what history courses does he actually teach and do the parents who are paying out the ying yang for their kids’ education know their kiddies are being gypped?

[khnyny]

Btw, I’m not making fun of college professors - I was attempting to make a joke regarding Bond’s playacting.

It is an insult and affront to every every colleague Bond works with at UVA. I’m sorry to say that from your description, it looks like a real life Animal Farm.

[Verginius Rufus]

Apparently he teaches courses on the history of the civil rights movement.

He's known for extremely vitriolic attacks on Republicans. No doubt that makes him more respected by his colleagues and students. (I must admit that I don't know any of his colleagues personally so that's just speculation.)

He boycotted the funeral of Coretta Scott King because he considered the church where it was held to be "anti-gay."

[khnyny]

Let me get this straight, (no pun intended) Bond teaches courses on the history of the civil rights movement, then boycotts Coretta Scott King's funeral?

Wow, so gay trumps African American civil rights icon. What is this the pc version of rock, paper, scissors?

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Hey randomhero

This Matthews character sounds like he attended the same class you did......

[Verginius Rufus]

I got that from the Wikipedia article on Bond--I don't remember from the coverage of the funeral whether he was there but assume they got that right. Maybe he just didn't want to go and compete with other civil rights leaders and with Jimmy Carter in seeing who could come up with the most vitriolic comments about Republicans and President Bush.

Bond has 5 children from his first marriage and remarried a few months after divorcing his first wife, so he doesn't appear to have a personal stake in the gay-rights crusade.