Posted on 08/26/2010 11:23:23 AM PDT by sickoflibs
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this sleazy tactics being used against the president.
Here`s the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, the world`s greatest deliberative body, out there playing ball with the birther crowd. The people systematically trying to deny the president`s identity as a Christian born in this country.
It`s really quite sleazy the way they`re doing it. They don`t have the nerve to go out and say he`s not American and he`s a secret member of another religion. They do it what Senator Mitch McConnell did Sunday, encourage that notion, underwrite the crazies -- meanwhile, undermining any positive action by the government they`ve sworn to serve.
Here`s McConnell playing the game: when asked repeatedly by David Gregory on "Meet the Press" why so many Republicans believe the president is a Muslim. First, he dodged the question of why so many Republicans, members of his party, believe the president is a Muslim. He refused to stop the propaganda campaign, refused to give a simple answer that, of course, he believes the president is a Christian.
Finally, he said, quote, "The president says he is a -- the president says he`s a Christian. I think him at his word. I don`t think that`s in dispute."
I don`t think that`s in dispute.
It`s a comment like yours, Senator, delivered on a prestigious Sunday program, which is the very reason the president`s identity is in dispute.
McConnell was asked again, why so many Republicans believe this. He said again, here`s his direct quote, "I have no idea, but I take the president at his word."
Well, here are the numbers. Only 27 percent of Republicans say the president is a Christian. The rest, about 3/4 of the party, in the Pew Research Poll increasingly believe he`s a Muslim or assume is the McConnell stance of being noncommittal on the matter. Just 23 percent of Republicans today say the president was definitely born in the U.S. In other words, that he`s a legitimately elected president or even, I suppose, that he`s even legitimately in the country -- just 23 percent say that.
So, this is the strategy the Republican leadership. Let people who think President Obama is a secret Muslim think it, as long as they vote Republican. Don`t rattle their cage. Keep them in the pack.
Meanwhile, they`re underwriting their worst theories, thinking he`s a secret Muslim, pitch (ph) hand and glove with thinking he was born in Kenya, undermining anything he tries to do on the economy, on health, on anything constructive. Make him as foreign, as un-American as possible by undercutting anything he tries to do.
What a great American way to meet your oath of office, Mr. McConnell.
That`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
Right now, it`s time for "THE ED SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
And Republicans are doing this to stop Obama from accomplishing anything constructive?? Chris, it's over. Democrats are finished for the year. You guys fired all your bullets.
But what MSNBC is really doing here is laying the groundwork for explaining why democrats get a beating in November: racism. Matthews did exactly the same thing years ago when Harold Ford JR lost the Senate race, calling the opposing campaign racist and accusing voters of voting racist.
Freak out at MSNBC ping!
All one viewers?
“Here`s the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, the world`s greatest deliberative body, out there playing ball with the birther crowd.”
I am a birther!
How can that whiny, pissy little man keep a straight face when he says “This is Hardball?”
It’s actually kind of fun watching Chrissy lose his marbles.
Luckily only leftists watch PMSNBC.
What a crybaby this idiot is.
This is what dogs hear when people talk: bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark.
This is what people hear when Chris Matthews talks: blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather blather
They are really a disturbed bunch over at the..
M ental
S ection of
N ational
B lathering
C ommunists
In Nov 2008 Chrissy boldly announced...”my job is to ensure this presidency is a success”.
I would say Chrissy has failed miserably.
Watching MSNBC on the night of Nov 2 should be great fun.
If the electoral tsunami does indeed come to pass, it’ll be a blast watching Chrissy and Co. try to spin it on Election Night.
Sounds like McConnell learned how to “media tweak”
Chrissy, STFU you moronic imbecile.
Matthews managed to spin McConnell saying he believed Obama into an “attack” on Obama. What a raving nut.
Chris sounds like he’s “TEA-A-PHOBIC”
Next thing the msnbc types will claim that we are purposefully wrecking the economy to make obama look bad.
Par for the course with these nutjobs.
Yeah they better stock up on Depends for Chrissy & Co.
Bellvue transport vans will be parked outside MSLSD.
Son of FRANKENstein.
..”undermining any positive action by the government they`ve sworn to serve.”
They swore to serve the people, NOT the government. Fool.
If you follow pissy Chrissy’s reasoning, shouldn’t he be mad at the reporter for asking the question? McConnell didn’t bring up the issue.
Unhinged..
“smearing Obama”
Is that like “swiftboating”, when you present certain facts that stand in the way of your opponent’s narrative?
LMAO how do you smear obama???
Actually, that is only half-right. It is only a matter of days before Matthews loses his. Olbermann lost his mind long before Schultze lost his.
I am serious when I say Chris Matthews is becoming more and more mentally ill. He has become incoherent and even his guests on the Left shake their heads at him.
Is that all you got to go with Chris?
Tip O’Neill and Edmund Muskie are spinning in their graves, he taught you hate speech better than that.
How can that whiny, pissy little man keep a straight face when he says “This is Hardball?”
Heh heh ... play this twerp a little chin music and he’d wet himself ...
Hey Chris!
Which part of Obama’s agenda are calling “constructive”?
Is it the shredding of the Constitution?
The ruining of Healthcare?
The destruction of the economy?
The stealing from the wage earner to ensure the enslavement of the dependent voter?
The empowerment of the unions at the expense of the job providing corporations?
The allocation of citizenship to illegal aliens, to establish a beholding voting block and a permanent workforce at slave wages?
Just trying to understand what you socialists define as “constructive” Chris.......
“Sergeant Ed Schultz lost his mind yesterday, it’s only a matter of days before Olbermann and Matthews lose theirs.”
How can they lose what they’ve never had?
When chrissy gets off of his knees, wipes his mouth maybe he’ll say something that makes sense.
NOOO, they would never do that! Except maybe on this show :
I really am enjoying watching these Obama cult worshippers see their universe collapse before their eyes. They are making all the excuses ahead of time.
No, Chris, the reason it's in dispute is that the President hasn't done anything to clear it up. He could resolve the birther dispute by simply making public his actual Birth Certificate, which shows date, time, location, parentage, etc.
He could resolve the Muslim vs Christian question by attending Church on a regular basis. All previous Presidents have found the time to do so, and there hasn't seem to have been any problems with security, even after 9/11.
The ball's in Obama's court. If he's such a good basketball player, let's see his moves.
When the ‘bammer’s approval rating is down to 1 (person, not percentage) it’ll the homo-erotically charged Chris Matthews, still longing for a grateful caress from the object of his twisted fantasies.
“Christian born”!!?? Obama’s mother was a non-believer as was his putative father. If Obama bears anything Christian about himself it probably came from his grandmother, and even that is questionable. Matthews really is a fool.
Alternate translations: Ed Schulz; Keith Olbermann and many others.
“He could resolve the Muslim vs Christian question by attending Church on a regular basis.”
Preferably one that doesn’t share Islam’s hatred for western Civilization in general, and America in particular, unlike Jeremiah Wrong’s United “Church” of “Christ”.
Way ahead of ya. Ed Schultz has claimed repeatedly that businesses arent hiring because they want to “hurt” Obama.
“Matthews really is a fool.”
Love turns people into fools, and Chrissy is a girl in love.
Good catch.
Here is what I think: Obama may consider himself some kind of weird Christian who sides with Musllms almost all the time, but that is not one of the choices on the poll questions. So people pick the “best answer” available, which is that he is a Muslim, since he acts like one.
No. Chrissy fit Matthews thinks all Reporters like should put elected Republicans questions about what they believe about Obama’s Birth and Religion. You see Matthews game plan is to split Republicans from their voters, particularly their base, under the guise of being a objective reporter. He was demanding McConnell insult Republicans who believe these things, but McConnell refused to give him what he wanted sending Chris into a Chrissy fit. Funny to watch. How about pleading for GWB to come out like some libs are doing?
For example : the Ground zero Mosque issue splits elected Democrats from their liberal progressive base who demand stuff like Lawsuits against Arizona and that Obama support the Mosque unconditionally.
Same perverted logic: At least O’Connell said he takes Obama at his word that he’s a Christian. Why can’t liberals take Obama at his word when he said “my Muslim faith?” Do liberals think there’s something WRONG with being a Muslim? (snicker/sarcasm)
Wipe your kiester!
What do Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Ed Shultz and Rachel Maddow all have in common? They are all unattractive and unhappy gay men.
LOL. Matthews is losing it.
I wish I could remember just a fraction of the slime that Democrats said about Bush. I didn't hear Matthews whining about any of that during those eight years.
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