Posted on 08/28/2010 4:03:19 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
The hatred for Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and Americans that don't agree with the current direction of this nation was dripping from Chris Matthews' lips Friday evening.
In a show filled with falsehoods and anti-Conservative rants that should even embarrass folks at MSNBC, the "Hardball" host concluded by once again attacking one of the most popular radio and television personalities in the country along with the former governor of Alaska.
Of the "Restoring Honor" rally to be held in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Matthews asked, "Can we imagine if [Martin Luther] King were physically here tomorrow, today, were he to reappear tomorrow on the very steps of the Lincoln Memorial?"
The MSNBCer disgustingly answered his own question, "I have a nightmare that one day a right-wing talk show host will come to this spot, his people`s lips dripping with the words 'interposition' and 'nullification.'"
Matthews continued practically seething venom, "Little right-wing boys and little right-wing girls joining hands and singing their praise for Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. I have a nightmare" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
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CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Let me finish tonight with those few lines from the Martin Luther King speech of 1963.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., CIVIL RIGHTS ICON: But not only that, let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MATTHEWS: Dr. King was talking about the founding place of the KKK, Stone Mountain. The site of the Scottsboro Boys trial -- Lookout Mountain.
This was 1963, never forget. The civil rights bill was a year away. Lunch counters and gas station restrooms were still for whites only, so were hotels and restaurants throughout the South. I remember myself seeing those white-only signs along the highway heading south during a spring break. I remember seeing one still there when I went to rural Louisiana to train for the Peace Corps.
There was a hard divide in this country back then. On one side stood the people who believed in the power of the federal government to do the right thing, especially when state governments, local governments and local businesses persisted in doing the wrong thing or doing nothing.
It was the time when governors like Ross Barnett of Mississippi and George Wallace of Alabama stood up to keep their universities white only.
A time when people used terms like "nullification" and "interposition," who claimed the right to obstruct the federal government, to act even when Congress passed a law.
Today, we hear the echoes of those voices, people calling for nullification. Even secession gets a call from those who just don`t like the federal government and certainly don`t like the man leading it.
Tomorrow, those who thrill to such words are heading here to Washington. They`re heading directly to the Lincoln Memorial, site of the Martin Luther King speech. The main speaker is the man who said this about this country`s first African-American president.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GLENN BECK, FOX NEWS HOST: This guy is, I believe, a racist. Look at the way -- look at -- look at the things that he has been surrounded by.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MATTHEWS: That is the man who comes to Lincoln`s feet to claim the mantle of Martin Luther King.
Can we imagine if King were physically here tomorrow, today, were he to reappear tomorrow on the very steps of the Lincoln Memorial?
I have a nightmare that one day a right wing talk show host will come to this spot, his people`s lips dripping with the words "interposition" and "nullification." Little right wing boys and little right wing girls joining hands and singing their praise for Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. I have a nightmare.
Many talked today about a religious center near Ground Zero being a desecration. What do you call this?
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Actually, the real desecration is what Matthews and his co-conspirators at MSNBC are doing to journalism.
Offering opinions about political figures and competitors on rival networks is one thing, but this constant invective aimed at Republicans and Fox News personalities coming from Matthews and virtually all the on air talent at MSNBC is getting totally out of control.
What Matthews did Friday evening isn't much different than what NewsBusters reported is now regularly being spewed by liberal radio talk show hosts.
Does MSNBC really want its programming to be at the same level as the hatred being uttered by the likes of Mike Malloy, Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, Ron Reagan, Jr., and Montel Williams?
As Ed Schultz is now a part of MSNBC's prime time lineup, and is a regular emitter of some of the most vile rhetoric on the radio today, maybe the answer is "Yes."
Journalism be damned, I guess.
“Nullification” in today's context reminds me more of OJ's trial than of politics. The word we use against zerOcare is *repeal*. It has nothing at all to do with skin color.
There were no songs to anyone except Jesus at the rally. No one even joined hands, outside of some couples who were holding hands and some parents holding their children's hands. I didn't even see any frowns or down turned lips. I saw dozens of black pastors on the podium. I saw white and black pastors, side by side, even embracing.
Matthew and his crowd need to realize this is 2010. The protected classes of today are not white. They are not American citizens. They certainly are not entrepreneurs or taxpayers. His nightmare was a calm sun-drenched rededication of individual faith and quiet patriotism.
Democrats, both!
The reason Chrissie thinks of things like that is because the left does that with their icons.
Who can forget Barack Obama, mmmm, mmmm, mmmm?
We are not facist wannabees. We don’t sing to our leaders, and we don’t want others to. And we certainly don’t ask our children to.
The only people we sing about are those long dead, and as part of learning history.
Oh don't be absurd, Crissy Mathews hasn't a hateful bone in his body.
He has got to be one of the most soft spoken content filled persons ever to exist.
Does anyone actually watch “tingles”? If not for FR and Fox I wouldn’t know about a single bit of goo that issues forth from this knucklehead. Or any of the others mentioned (Reagan Junior- what a disgrace!).
But I am left to wonder...is he aware that he is speaking about his OWN party when talking about the KKK, the southern governors who refused to allow black kids to integrate, those who wrote and enforced the Jim Crow laws? The left has always felt nothing but hatred- they are just overly convenient about its focus. Black people then, conservatives and Christians now. Without the hatred, they would have to face the failures that they are.
Once, States did bad things.
The Federal government made states stop doing bad things.
THEREFORE,
Everything States do is bad
THEREFORE,
The Federal government must stop States from doing anything
AND
The Federal government can do no wrong because it stopped some bad things once upon a time.
Is that about right?
“The site of the Scottsboro Boys trial — Lookout Mountain.”
Um, no. Scottsboro, Alabama is near Lookout Mountain, Tennessee (50 or so minute drive), but they are not one in the same by any geographical stretch of the imagination. The trials were in Alabama. Chris Matthews is a stupid ass.
MATTHEWS: That is the man who comes to Lincoln`s feet to claim the mantle of Martin Luther King. Can we imagine if King were physically here tomorrow, today, were he to reappear tomorrow on the very steps of the Lincoln Memorial? I have a nightmare that one day a right wing talk show host will come to this spot, his people`s lips dripping with the words "interposition" and "nullification." Little right wing boys and little right wing girls joining hands and singing their praise for Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. I have a nightmare.
Many talked today about a religious center near Ground Zero being a desecration. What do you call this?
Interesting theory, Chris.
Liberal politician delivers stemwinder in Location A, \ Location A becomes "Sacred" to the entire polity.
And that means conservatives can't walk or speak or lead schoolchildren in singing there.
Interesting thought. Novel theory. Discussion?
<singing> Mmmmmm....mmmmm.....mmmmmm....
</singing>
FOX should announce that it is no longer going to mention competing networks or their personalities on its show, and invite them to do the same
The other networks ONLY consist of bashing fox, they woul dhave a hard time filling empty air
Geez..why doesn’t this guy just paint himself black and be done with it???
Okay. “Yellow-stained inseam” made me shoot Diet Coke out through my nose, just now. ;)
you make a nice point... maybe chrissy could get them to call out the national guard to block the steps to keep them from enteri...
waitaminnit...
Which was itself a bad thing GOOD THING </liberalcensor> both substantively and methodologically.
“Nullification” in today's context reminds me more of OJ's trial than of politics. The word we use against zerOcare is *repeal*. It has nothing at all to do with skin color.
Like you, I am older than Mathews and remember the early/mid 60's. To my knowledge, I never heard the words "interposition" and "nullification" associated with the civil rights movement.
May I add that, if anybody was, it was bound to be Democrats?
So often, when I read Mathews' words, I wonder "What the hell is he talking about?" This is another one of those times...
What about the school kids singing to Barack Hussein Obama mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmmm?
;)
That’s right Chris. They are coming to take you away.
Chrissy is using codespeak.
He's exercising his right, as a Massachusetts Righteous Person, to bullyrag Southerners in particular and smear conservatives in general by "bracketing" [propagandist's term of art] them with known perverse entities like the Ku Klux Klan and the segregationists.
There is nothing about the Constitutionalists who are talking "nullification"/"secession"/"interposition" today, that makes them socially and politically identical with the segregationists of 80 years ago, but he's seizing on those terms, which were last widely used in the 1830's and 1860's, to yoke the Constitutionalists to the Confederacy, slavery, segregationism, and racism -- the holy exacta of liberal demagogy.
This has been a major meme of the reactionary liberal counterattack on conservatism since the 1994 congressional elections, when Bill Clinton and his MSM allies began to try to smear conservatives "for serious real". The use of the "Confederate flag [pseudo-] issue" and a host of Southern hate-puppet icons (beer-swilling good old boys driving drunk with shotguns in their trucks, that kind of thing) has always been an attempt by the Clintonistas and their allies to drive a wedge between Midwestern, "battleground State" conservatives and mostly-Southern social conservatives. It's about "busting the box" -- the Finkelstein box that describes the conservative strength of what liberals like to call "flyover country", a.k.a. "the sticks".
I just checked Wikipedia and Matthews was born in 1945. That means he was in college from perhaps 1963 on? MLK’s speech was in 1963 as well, right? And the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 (by mostly Republicans). So, maybe Chrissy actually saw segregation when he travelled as a Freshman to spring break, maybe not. I’m fifteen years younger than him and I can attest to the fact that I NEVER saw segregation and not a lot of racism either. Furthermore, as a previous poster pointed out all of the segregationists were DEMOCRATS!
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