Mary Matalin Smacks Down MSNBC’s Dyson: ‘Will You Ever Get Tired of Beating Up On Darth Vader?’

NewsBusters.org ^ | December 8, 2013 | Noel Sheppard

[Kaslin]

There was a really delicious exchange on ABC’s This Week Sunday that conservatives across the fruited plain will greatly enjoy.

After hate-spewing MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson bashed former Vice President Dick Cheney for once wanting Nelson Mandela put on a terrorist list, Matalin shot back, “When will you ever get tired of beating up on Darth Vader” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Mary Matalin Smacks Down MSNBC’s Dyson: ‘Will You Ever Get Tired of Beating Up On Darth Vader?

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: I'm the same generation as President Obama, and taking a stand against apartheid both in the university community and more broadly in terms of, you know, dealing with the disinvestment strategies, but also challenging Ronald Reagan's engagement approach. I think conservatives get a little bit of amnesia here when they forget that Dick Cheney wanted to put him on the terrorist list and insisted he stay there, that Ronald Reagan resisted - he said on the one hand that Nelson Mandela should be released, but he depended upon a white supremacist government to reform itself from within. I think Nelson Mandela challenged that. Also, though, he challenged people on the left as well.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST: Amnesia, Mary?

MARY MATALIN: When will you ever get tired of beating up on Darth Vader who said Nelson Mandela is a good man? As we’ve seen in your earlier segment, it was a complicated situation. The ANC was a terrorist organization at one point. He has since said wonderful things about Nelson Mandela

Actually Mary, much like former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Cheney is a frequent target of the haters on MSNBC.

As such, as long as Phil Griffin is running this farce of a so-called “news network,” there’s little likelihood Dyson and his fellow character assassins will stop attacking the former vice president.

Yet Dyson's appearance on This Week raises another issue. Given the shame that has been foisted on MSNBC with the high profile departures of Alec Baldwin and Martin Bashir, why would Stephanopoulos invite one of their other despicable flamethrowers on his program?

Somebody clearly wasn't thinking about those optics.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Using Darth Vader is a racist dogwhistle.

Because he wore a black helmet and uniform?

[ifinnegan]

Thanks.

I do actually know. I was being facetious.

[Kaslin]

If I am not mistaken Dick Cheney had his dog dressed up as Dark Vader one Halloween

[Kaslin]

I wished someone still had the graphic with him as the serpent head

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Now that...is funny.

[VeniVidiVici]

Because NBC is a network channel, and MSNBC a cable channel. That’s why.

Doesn't matter. They are one and the same. MSNBC isn't even a subsidiary. They ARE the same company. It's time we started holding NBC responsible for what these idiots are saying on MSNBC.

[Terry L Smith]

Rhodesia was a very nice country.

Former V.P. Dick Cheney, still isn’t as dumb, or crazy, as some would have Americans think.

Sometimes, we Americans forget that ol’ Dick was once CEO of the best military aircraft manufacturer in the world, i.e., McDonnnell-Douglas.

[Orangedog]

Doesn’t matter... Msnbc still gets your money. Please, keep sending it to them. Then piss and moan some more about all the mean things they say about you and people you like. Might as well... You’re paying for it of your own free will.

[Kaslin]

True, and that is why Sarah Palin refused to go to NBC for an interview with Tom Brokaw the other week

[Kaslin]

Cheney’s Dog Darth Vader for Halloween

[VeniVidiVici]

True, and that is why Sarah Palin refused to go to NBC for an interview with Tom Brokaw the other week

LOL! She beat me to it!

[Kaslin]

I did?*grin*

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Yeah...HA!

Thanks...that’s a riot.

The dogs both look like good sports.