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Chris Matthews and MSNBC Now Claim the Word 'Chicago' Is Racist
Newsbusters ^ | August 30th 2012 | Rusty Weiss

Posted on 08/30/2012 2:48:15 AM PDT by bronxville

Chris Matthews was on Hardball tonight covering the Republican National Convention with guests Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and John Hielemann of New York Magazine. In what is seemingly the natural progression of things these days with Matthews, the subject of the 'otherization' of the President was being discussed. Because, if you weren't aware already, Barack Obama is black, and any time a Republican chooses to discuss the failure that is his administration, the media will be there to quickly remind you that they only feel that way because of his skin color.

But tonight's episode of race-baiting with Chris Matthews was a bit odd in that the panelists somehow came to the conclusion that reminding people of the President's roots in Chicago politics is racist. In fact, simply saying Chicago is racist. (Video below).

Robinson sets the racial tone by saying (h/t The Right Newz):

"It's all part of this Barack Obama as 'other' sort of blanket campaign that has been waged by the Republican Party for some time now. It may be gaining some traction now, though I wonder why now as opposed to a bit closer to election."

Matthews then demonstrates his mind-numbing ability to take an idiotic statement, amplify it, and subsequently make it exponentially more idiotic coming from his mouth, when he said this:

"Yea, well let me ask you about that gentleman. What about now, is this constant barrage of assaults, saying the guy is basically playing an old game of demagoguery politics, where you take the money from the worker bees and give it to the poor people to buy votes. That's basically what they're charging him with. Old big-style, big-city machine of 50 years ago."

He added, "They keep saying Chicago by the way, have you noticed? They keep saying Chicago. That's another thing that sends that message - this guy's helping the poor people in the bad neighborhoods, screwing us in the 'burbs."

Hielemann helpfully interpreted Matthews statement, presumably for those too challenged to understand basic words (or as we in the business refer to them - Hardball viewers), by making this jaw-dropping statement:

"There's a lot of black people in Chicago.".....contin at site:

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rusty-weiss/2012/08/30/chris-matthews-and-msnbc-now-claim-word-chicago-racist#ixzz251NR8Gaa


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chicago; chrismathews; racism
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To: bronxville
When you start from the pre-determined conclusion that "the other side" is racist, everything they do or say is warped to "confirm" that conclusion.
`No, no!' said the Queen. `Sentence first--verdict afterwards.' - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

41 posted on 08/30/2012 5:11:00 AM PDT by kevkrom (Those in a rush to trample the Constitution seem to forget that it is the source of their authority.)
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To: bronxville

No surprising at all.

Obama cannot run on his record.

Blacks and white guilt elected him last time and it is the only thing that can elect him this time and Chrissy and these other white guilt azzholes know it.


42 posted on 08/30/2012 5:13:12 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: taildragger
He's definitely taken his obsession into a mental state.

You can see this happening in almost any group, more so with left wing than right, where people in the group become obsessed on one issue.

Everything that happens reaffirms their beliefs.

Look at the global warming nuts, everything is because of global warming.

Look at the anti gun nuts, want a deaf kid to change his name because his hand signature of his name reminds them of a gun.

People that are this obsessed are indeed dangerous.

43 posted on 08/30/2012 5:14:35 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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Bookmark for later indigestion.
44 posted on 08/30/2012 5:14:39 AM PDT by moose07 (The truth will out, one day.)
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To: bronxville

Any Republican: One plus one is two.

Matthews: That’s RACIST.

Any Republican: Water is wet.

Matthews: That’s RACIST.

Any Republican: Chris, I......

Matthews: That’s RACIST.

Any Republican: (Says nothing)

Matthews: That’s RACIST.


45 posted on 08/30/2012 5:20:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Communist Party = Democrats. Socialist Party = Republicans. WE NEED A CAPITALIST FREEDOM PARTY!)
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To: Ann Archy

What color were the father and son Mayor Daley’s? Someone want to remind me?
(i do know the answer)


46 posted on 08/30/2012 5:29:16 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: newnhdad

My favorite was when someone said that calling Obama “skinny” was racist.

Now, Obama is pretty thin and while skinny is maybe not the most flattering word it isn’t racist.

I forget what point the person who called him skinny was making, but that’s the beauty part.

It doesn’t matter what you say, they’ll say it’s racist anyway.


47 posted on 08/30/2012 5:33:35 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: bronxville

Silence is racist!


48 posted on 08/30/2012 5:34:59 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: bronxville

Chris Matthews is “entertainment” at the same level of the old school side show freaks. It’s some crazed, raving syphilitic drooling all over himself once a day for your entertainment pleasure. Sure, it’s macaab, but people who watch him know that they aren’t him, and that makes them feel better about themselves...


49 posted on 08/30/2012 5:45:04 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: bronxville
Mindboggling!

More like desperate.

50 posted on 08/30/2012 5:47:19 AM PDT by tapatio (In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010)
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To: tapatio

The DIMs are like the “new moozlums”...everything and anything offends them in some way or other...especially THE TRUTH!


51 posted on 08/30/2012 5:49:40 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: bronxville

‘Golf’ is also now a racist term. I heard that yesterday after MConnell jokes about Obama and the PGA.

MSNBC seriously claimed that it was an attempt to link Obama to Tiger Woods or something. Ignore the fact that 99.99% of the PGA Tour is white. LOL!


52 posted on 08/30/2012 5:50:30 AM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
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To: albie

“double Chrissy” sounds like a gymnastics move I really don’t want to think about.


53 posted on 08/30/2012 5:52:25 AM PDT by Humble Servant (Work for the most conservative one in the race, and keep up the pressure.)
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To: kearnyirish2

Actually, it can be distilled down to any criticism of leftist policy is inherently racist

because leftist policy, in their definition, is inherently anti-racist.


54 posted on 08/30/2012 6:02:42 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: hal ogen

It is a shamefully weak cause that is harmed by the truth.


55 posted on 08/30/2012 6:03:46 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: Lazamataz

"A Trip To The Doctor" by Chrissy Matthews


56 posted on 08/30/2012 6:15:26 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
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To: bronxville

Matthews is in need of some serious intervention and his wife had better hide all the knives in the kitchen.


57 posted on 08/30/2012 6:37:59 AM PDT by Gritty (Our media is taken over by Obama no less than Hugo Chavez took over media in Venezuela-John Voight)
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To: Joe Boucher
Chicago is an Indian word meaning stinky onion.

There's another explanation for the meaning of Chicago that I am partial to. The story goes that some Indians from outside the area asked some local Indians for a good place to hunt. They were pointed toward where Chicago is. When they got there, the only "game" they found were skunks. So Chicago could also mean, "place of the skunks." Considering the way things have turned out, that has become a kind of parable.

58 posted on 08/30/2012 6:48:32 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: bronxville

Despicable...time for a national boycott of NBC & GE until these vicious race baiters are unemployed.


59 posted on 08/30/2012 7:39:46 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: bronxville

So talking about Obama’s excessive golf is racist, talking about Chicago is racist, maybe they can just put out a list of everything that isn’t racist. It’d save time.


60 posted on 08/30/2012 7:41:53 AM PDT by DaveInDallas
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