Posted on 11/19/2013 7:24:11 AM PST by chessplayer
A scandalized Chris Matthews on Friday railed against Dick Cheney for having the audacity to call out Barack Obama's "lie" on Americans being able to keep their health insurance. Naturally, the Hardball anchor insinuated that the reason behind this was racism. An angry Matthews fumed, "Dick Cheney comes right out and calls [Obama] a liar. When a right-wing back-bencher did that four years ago, he was called out for rebuke even by his own party." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
The host continued, "Well, now what was condemned as historic bad behavior comes snarling out of Dick Cheney's mouth and nobody says to shut up." Matthews hinted, "Is this, calling the President a liar, the new language of American politics. Or is it a language specially treated for the country's first African-American president?"
DICK CHENEY: We look at the mess that has been created out of "Obama care" by the president having said, You can keep your policy if you like it, you know, guaranteed, period. That turns out that was a lie. And he repeated it over and over and over again.
Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman appeared to echo the racism charge:
HOWARD FINEMAN: Well, I would normally be reluctant to make the accusation of racism...I say what's the missing element here? What's the "X" factor here that makes them go so crazy? Well, there are two things. First of all, we live in divided worlds of politics and reality. They deny his validity because they deny the rest of the world outside of the world they live in, number one. And number two, I think race has to be part of it because they see everything that he does in apocalyptic terms. Why? What other explanation is there?
Did Chris Mathews call Bush a liar?
People who accuse others of racism need a pop in the mouth.
The accusation should be treated as vile, like using the “c” word or “n” word.
Chaney should have added a more complete set of adjectives.
Such as “lying piece of document hiding excrement”
or
“wouldn’t know the truth if it hit him in his hidden transcripts”
or
“bottom-dwelling septic tank inhabitant”.
or
“Mr Toe Cheese”
Obama is slime, pure slime, unadulaterated slime.
Dumb, too.
Chrissy (piss be upon him) is a racis’ liar.
Racism my rear! Obama is a liar regardless of his race. Blacks, like Whites, Hispanics, Asians, etc. are all capable of lying. Obama has been quite good at it.
How many different ways can the Liberals try to cover up the absolute mess that Obamacare is?
Obama has lied from the moment he was old enough to speak a full sentence. Calling it ‘flubs, errors, mis-representations’ or anything else is just plain cover up.
Matthews’ head might be on a pike after his own staff finds out what it will cost THEM for health care cocverage!!!
...said on the same network (MSNBC) that has a news show host calling for someone to defecate on Sarah Palin...they need to only look in the mirror to see crazy...
Good Point, Chrissy’s comment implies that Blacks are incapable of lying, thus calling a Black person a liar is racist. But as we know...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Chris Matthews is irrelevant.
Interesting.
Oprah used the same idea, that the only explanation for Joe Wilson calling “Obama” a liar was racism.
The alternative, and obvious explanation, was overlooked.
IOW, another lie!!
Is liar like the N-word where only Blacks can call each other liars?
Why does reality bother these LIBiots (LIB idiots)?
Mathews progressive dream world is collapsing under his feet daily now. That ‘tingle’ seems so long agao.
Turns out that"back-bencher was right,as is Cheney.
The only “tingle” this moron LIB gets now is from his Depends is leaking.
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