Posted on 11/11/2015 7:14:19 PM PST by markomalley
According to Chris Matthews, it's uncertain whether the term Hispanic can properly be used to describe GOP presidential aspirants Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Florida). It's better to say they are "Cuban nationals," offered the Hardball host on his Nov. 11 program.
Matthews's remarks came during a roundtable discussion in which Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel was outlining how she believes Cruz will seek to paint fellow Cuban-American Rubio as too moderate for the party's nomination:
(video at link)
MSNBC
Hardball
Nov. 11, 2015; 7:44 p.m. Eastern
AMANDA TERKEL: ...you started to see in the debate last night where they drew more contrasts on policy, starting to preview a little bit more –
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Who's out to get who?
TERKEL: Uh, I think Ted Cruz. You already saw he's starting to get Marco Rubio. Didn't call him out by name but started to preview, you know, you don't want someone's who's soft on immigration, you don't want someone supporting sugar subsidies, for example. So, Trump and Carson, they didn't go after each other. But –
MATTHEWS: Sugar subsidies are worthy of a presidential debate now.
TERKEL: – it's going to get nastier.
MATTHEWS: I couldn't believe that last night.
TERKEL: I was surprised it was mentioned too, but, you know, he is clearly watching Rubio.
MATTHEWS: So you're trying to insinuate that Marco Rubio, a fellow, uh, Spanish surname, I'm not sure the right word is Hispanic for them, because they are Cuban nationals or whatever, or come from Cuba. But, uh, is he going to insinuate that he is still basically for what he calls amnesty?
TERKEL: I think he is. And, I mean Rubio got very, very lucky last night in that he did not have to jump into the immigration debate. He skated by, he got some slightly easier questions. And you saw Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Donald Trump get in there on immigration. But Rubio didn't have to do it, but he's going to have to, obviously.
Maybe we should start calling ourselves “trans-cultural” and declare ourselves to be hispanic.
Matthews is an idiot. Cubans aren’t victim
enough for him.
Not sure if Matthews the result of a brain switch experiment between a man and a monkey, he really likes bananas though.
Proving, once again, that liberals are the true racists.
Also, his prior statements that his family was forced to leave Cuba because of Fidel Castro were not true. His parents immigrated to Florida during the reign of President Fulgencio Batista.
Leni
I’m not sure Chrissy is Human
He is probably both, with a strange sexual appetite, because his leg tingles in a strange way.
And Matthews is a moron.
It only does that when he encounters "clean" Negroes.
In media terms, they should qualify as “white hispanics, right?
Chris Matthews and Amanda Terkel?
Boy, now *there’s* a brain trust. /sarc
Gee Id be Dutch-American but since that was nearly 400 years ago...
and English-American...or is that Anglo-American..
and French-American too..
Oh and Irish-American...
and then theres that crowd from the Palatine who make me a German-American..
and Canadian-American, and New Zealander-American..
Guess I’m just a thorough-bred American..
Maybe we should just be happy that Chrissy didn’t refer to them as anchor babies.
The basic meaning of “Hispanic†is a person with a Spanish Surname, or one whose father or mother has a Spanis Surname.
Funny how liberals hate anyone whose family suffered under communism. Doesn’t matter if you’re Cuban, Polish, or German — if you experienced communism firsthand and oppose it as a result, it is a given that liberals hate you.
I think they prefer to be called Latinos.
Whatever. 75% of them are Mexican/Mexican Americans.
Crissie has cooked his brain with booze.
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