Posted on 12/11/2017 5:32:06 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Chris Matthews has come close to calling a liar an Alabama woman who said her grandmother was 16 when she married a man in his 30s.
On this evening’s Hardball, Boston Globe reporter Annie Linskey said that a woman she interviewed in Alabama told her that her grandmother had married at 16. Matthews retorted, “yeah, but her grandfather was 17.” Linskey replied, “no, no, he was in his 30s.” Shot back a skeptical Matthews:
“No! Are they dreaming this up just to win the case down there? That seems very convenient.”
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Chris Matthews comes close to calling a liar an Alabama woman who says her 16-yr. old grandmother married a man in his 30s.
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I know a woman who’s birth father was 60 and her mother was 16 when this woman was born.
He is not very bright.
Truth to a lib is like garlic to a vampire.
Old “tingle my leg” Chrissy is a real bloodsucker.
After watching him on Jeopardy, it would seem he is pretty stupid.
3 great grand parents were more than 10 years difference and 1 grand parents and all ended their marriage by death.
The thrill is gone, and now he’s just bitter.
My first husband’s grandmother was 14 when she married a 40 year old man. They had 14 children. I knew that grandmother and loved her. She was still squatting to husk corn when she was in her 90s. She was a joyful funny woman.
I thought that we always had to believe the women? Or is that only when the women are trying to make Republicans look bad? Yeah. Thought so.
Once upon a time it was the norm The man married when he could support a family. He married a young bride to maximize that family and to be more sure that he was the father of his first child. Families married off daughters young because if they were not virgins their prospects were less bright and if they had a child already they were pretty much unmarriageable.
Those “open minded” libs...
There are a whole lot of people who believe that the world has always been the same as they know it. Happens when folks don’t read history.
on my mother’s side...My grandmother was 18 my grandfather 36
and on my father’s...his grandmother was 17...and she married a man age 50...
Here in Florida back in the 60s a shrimp boat owner and captain who was a widower in his late 60s took a thirteen year old bride. He died after four or five years and she was left with a nice large house some acreage and three shrimp boats which she has long leased out quite profitably through the accountant her husband left her.
My stepmother married a 30 year old man when she was 14, in Lovelady Texas. This was not unusal in rural Texas. Her husband was a drunk and abusive man. She stuck it out with him for 25 years and finally divorced the disgusting pig. She eventually martied my wonderful dad and they were blissfully married for 38 years.
My maternal grandmother was 15 when she married my grandpa who was 30. This was in Clifton Arizona. They had seven children and had a long and happy marriage.
“She was still squatting to husk corn when she was in her 90s.”
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Sound like a great lady! But why did she squat while cornhusking - or do you mean when out in the field?
That reminds me of an old Jewish joke [I’m Jewish by the way]:
Jake, a widower, retires in NYC and moves down to Miami.
Two weeks later, he calls his adult kids back home: “Guess what? I’m getting married!”
“To who, Dad?”
“A 19-yr. old cocktail waitress.”
“But Dad: the sex—it could be fatal!”
“Eh. If she dies, she dies!”
Ping for your interest Megan dear.
Even Chris Matthews has to have heard about Jerry Lee Lewis and his 13yr old wife...
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