Posted on 08/30/2012 5:26:43 PM PDT by chessplayer
You know how MSNBC's Chris Matthews epitomizes liberal sensitivity to race?
There's a reason for that, aside from Matthews's deeply superficial empathy. It also comes from decades of living in the "black majority" District of Columbia -- or so he claims. (video after page break)
Here's Matthews during Tuesday night's MSNBC's coverage of the Republican convention condemning what he considers the racial undercurrent of Romney campaign ads alleging President Obama gutted work requirements in the 1996 welfare reform law --
You know, I think that people that don't recognize the code about welfare and food stamps are really being dishonest and I think if you look at our history, from Ronald Reagan who would talk about the young buck in the line using food stamps to buy T-bone steaks, or certainly Wallace, George Wallace or David Duke. They all talked about welfare. Welfare has been a classic tool to pry apart working-class whites from working-class blacks. It's brilliant because everybody sees it who wants to see it. Certainly blacks can't avoid seeing it 'cause they see the prejudice involved. Whites can deny it because it isn't technically racial or sectarian, but everyone knows what's going on here. Everyone knows this.
And now for Mitt Romney, who should be able to win on the arithmetic, on the unemployment rate, on the job creation, on a number of factors, growth in this country not being what it should be, for some reason has resigned himself to the fact he'll get no black votes and therefore he might as well work for the working-class white vote.
This isn't prejudice on his part, there's no evidence of that. It's really about engineering the country politically. It's a very bad sign of this ability to still be able to do it in our country. It's amazing, here we are in the 21st century, 2012, and what worked 60 or 70 years ago is still working today. Say welfare, people think black because politically they've been taught to say so.
But I go back to living in DC all these years. I've lived there 40 years, a black-majority city, and anybody who wants to get up early in Washington and drive down North Capitol (Street) and drive past Florida Avenue, sees nothing but youn-, but black people up at 6:30 in the morning going to work. That's where they're going, to work, and not at big-wage jobs and not to get a welfare check, they're out working hard all day and not coming home with a fantastic paycheck. So this notion of blacks live on welfare and whites live on work is a brilliant political ploy but it's not true, Rachel (Maddow). And you know it, I know it.
Sounds like Matthews spends considerable time thinking about this -- while driving. Which makes sense, seeing how he doesn't actually live in the District of Columbia as he boasts.
Media profiles of Matthews (Washington Post, NY Times) and his wife, former TV reporter and Marriott flack Kathleen (Politico) have reported that the Matthews reside in Chevy Chase, an affluent Maryland suburb.
Kathleen Matthews serves on the board of trustees of the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., which lists its trustees and their addresses online. Based on the addresses provided there, one learns that the Matthews live smack-dab in Chevy Chase Village -- one of the least diverse locales in the country.
According to census data at Maryland-Demographics.com, 1,953 people lived in Chevy Chase Village as of 2010. Of those nearly 2,000 residents, 10 were black. That's right -- ten. As in, one-half of one percent. Ninety-three percent of its residents were white, the remaining percentage other minorities.
Quite a difference between that "black majority" city where Matthews claims he lives and the rarefied swath of suburbia he actually calls home, don't you think?
Seeing how the man considers himself color blind, he's probably never noticed.
Incidentally, Matthews is also ignorant of the racial demographics of Washington, D.C., itself. Since early 2011, the city has not been majority black, as the New York Times reported in July of that year.
Maybe he could move in the brownstone that Clinton vacated in Harlem. Liberals are so phony.
Lying, tingling dooooosh
I remember a story about Chrissey a few years ago when he went out to buy a Christmas tree. He started screaming at the top of his lungs to the boy who was waiting on him that he was a screw up.
Turns out, he was purchasing the tree at a place helping the handicap which all the help happen to be.
No apologies or anything
What a jerk
He really needs a foot up his ass.
Chris couldn’t survive without lying.
Barack Obama was raised and mentored by people who dreamed of America’s destruction. Why doesn’t Chris Matthews talk about that?
Chrissy is going to have to market his own magic decoder ring. I can’t keep up with all his code word crapp
DC is not black majority any longer
I think i read that this year
whites and other minorities are moving in
is there any way to get this news front page?
I saw him on jay leno once. Only time I ever saw the guy on TV. He said he had been thinking about running for president. Jay told him to forget about that.
When the neighborhood starts selling HUD Section 8 houses, the liberals are the first to move out.
Seems like Chrissy is a liar as well as a Douchebag.
Well Chrissy has made a lot of money from his hypocrisy.
I cried when they shot John Lennon
Tears ran down my spine
And I cried when I saw “JFK”
As if I’d lost a father of mine
But Malcom-X and Ice-T had it coming
They got what they asked for this time
[Chorus:]
So love me, love me, love me,
I’m a liberal
I go to pro-choice rallies
Recycle my cans and jars
I’ll honk if you love the Dead
Hope those funny Grunge bands become stars
But don’t talk about revolution
That’s going a little bit to far
[Chorus:]
So love me, love me, love me,
I’m a liberal
I cheered when Clinton was chosen
My faith in the system reborn
I’ll do anything to save our schools
If my taxes ain’t too much more
And I love Blacks and Gays and Latinos
As long as they don’t move next door
[Chorus:]
So love me, love me, love me,
I’m a liberal
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/jello_biafra/love_me_im_a_liberal.html ]
Rush Limbaugh and the L.A.P.D.
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can’t understand where they’re at
Arsenio should set them straight
But if neighborhood watch doesn’t know you
I hope the cops take your name
[Chorus:]
So love me, love me, love me,
I’m a liberal
Yeah, I read the New Republican
Rolling Stone and Mother Jones too
If I vote it’s a democrat
With a sensible economy view
But when it comes to terrorist Arabs
There is no one more red, white, and blue
[Chorus:]
So love me, love me, love me,
I’m a liberal
“Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, I’m a Liberal”
Once I was young and had an attitude
Stickers covered the car I drove in
Even went on some direct actions
When there weren’t rent-a-cops to be seen
Ah, but now I’ve grown older and wiser
And that’s why I’m turning you in
[Chorus:]
So love me, love me, love me,
I’m a liberal
-Phil Ochs (some verse rewrites by Jello Biafra)
Is it possible that he’s just a giant douchebag?
What did perfectly good douche bags ever do to deserve to be compared to Chris Mathews?
Chris Matthews a deceitful liberal hypocrite?
Imagine that.
When that fraud moves into a house in Anacostia he can get back to us about his liberal race cred.
Until then he can STFU.
Does Matthews have some type of brain tumor; just askin’?
I bet the 1% there are “articulate.”
My apologies to douche bags everywhere!
Well, his whole thesis about the “dog whistles” is that the racist people detect the subtext, but the non-racist people miss it. Since Matthews, Maddow, O’Donnell, Toure, et al, seem to be the only ones who can detect all of these dog whistles, then I conclude that they must be the biggest racists of all.
Chris Matthews says word ‘Chicago’ is racist... lol
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