While working out today I watched (listened to) the Chris Matthews show.
I could not believe how racist and liberally biased this show was.
I always thought Matthews was left, but not in a throw-it-in-your-face way.
Then again, it seems Obama has forced out his true colors.
There was Chris, three liberals and one semi-conservative.
They spent most of the time talking about how great it was that "white" America was now over and we could finally have the multicultural America they have always wanted.
They bashed Bush for being a WASP and representing elite white people, while Obama represented the common man. (the conservative pointed out he is half-white)
Then they talked about what he might have learned from the 4 Presidents he had lunch with.
They bashed the Bush's and praised Carter and Clinton. In fact, when the conservative lady said one negative comment about Clinton Matthews scolded her.
There is no way in hell you could watch this and not think it was slanted.
Matthews is so in love with Obama it is actually embarrassing.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
The Chris Matthews Show
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"They spent most of the time talking about how great it was that "white" America was now over and we could finally have the multicultural America they have always wanted..."
at one time, when this crowd used this coded language, it was done to water down black-power rhetoric, while still giving it credence
this has morphed into a deep-seated contempt for ALL white americans, and, in order for them to reconcile the dichotomy of bashing whites while BEING white, they reframe the debate in terms of, let's say, someone like you, being the first level of oppressor, because of your political viewpoint, then, someone like myself, representing the second level of oppressor, due to my views on racial issues, and so on
chris matthews is generally not well liked among the left, in fact, he wanted to run for office in his home state of pa, an idea quickly shelved when polling revealed just HOW unpopular he was
he has ALWAYS been unbearable in his man-crush with "that one", do you recall his "tingling leg" moment?
creepy
Thanks for the laugh. Here's some quotes from matthews about his last man crush,GWB:
"[S]ometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility."
"Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs"
is THAT who the "sunny nobility" quote came from? i hear that one all the time, LOL!!
oh, they need to get that network squared away...
when was that...a week after 9-11...man do you make a weak and lazy arguement
What show were you watching? I just watched it, and I certainly had a different experience.
three liberals and one semi-conservative Who were the liberals? Paige, maybe. O'Donnell is a news person, not a journalist and you'd really be hard pressed to come up with evidence that she's a liberal. Kathleen Parker is a conservative, period, not semi. Just because she recognized the truth about Palin does not negate her conservative credentials. Salam I'd never really heard of before, but I watched the entire program and did not hear him say anything that would make him a liberal.
The show was not about skin color or race as much as it was about culture. If you watched the horseshoe trophy presentation, it was hilarious, not bashing.
the conservative lady said one negative comment about Clinton Matthews scolded her. He did not. She alluded to Monica, and said, "Somebody had to say it". To which Matthews replied, "No they didn't," as in "it goes without saying."
they bashed the Bush's [sic]. Not they didn't, they made fun of some of WASPy pics and videos which was to the point of the culture theme.
they praised Carter and Clinton. No they didn't. They made fun of Clinton and said virtually nothing about Carter.
There is no way in hell you could watch this and not think it was slanted. Yes you could. I didn't find it slanted. This was not a show about Obama, liberals, non-whites are good and everyone else is bad. It was about how the demographics of the country, especially the youth, and the election of an African-America as president suggest that the "traditional" white america culture of Lawrence Welk is giving way to the culture of hip-hop.
Is this a liberal lie? Chill out, dude!
kathleen parker, "semi"-con? LOL...
game, may i recommend an interesting show? (serious)
the mclaughlin report, eleven am on sundays, cbs
for one half-hour, the panel goes at each other, intensely, they cover a lot of ground, if you have limited time on weekends
it's not bad
the only msnbc show i like is "morning joe", with scarborough
I have seen the mclaughlin group or report or whatever they call it now...it can be good...
i may boycott the teevee entirely, until this embarrassing spectacle of this inauguration is over...
Wow, a perfect example of Game's reasoning:
1. Make an assumption with no basis in reality, but that fits your pre-existing convictions ("when was that...a week after 9-11")
2. Immediately accept the assumption as fact
3. Use that "fact" to launch a personal attack on a liberal ("man do you make a weak and lazy arguement")
Thanks for the example of wingnut "thinking" in action.
BTW, both quotes were from fall 2005, when everyone except for the 30% or so of Americans that are irredeemable, well, let's just call them "low information voters" as a euphemism realized that Bush was a terrible president.
This is why I haven't owned a television set for over a year. Though I know exactly what you're talking about, Game. Chris Matthews' Sunday program usually has three liberals and a part-time conservative. For example, you'll see three liberals, maybe Andrea Mitchell, Gloria Borger, and Clarence Page, and then Matthews will throw in a conservative Obama idolater like Andrew Sullivan or David Brooks for balance.
Good grief.
Matthews, though, isn't a hardliner like Olbermann. Matthews isn't one of the popular kids; he's a slobbering, weather-vane phony, a joiner, aspiring to be a sidekick, always trying to get the coolness of others to rub off on him. If everyone hated Obama in fours years, I would expect Matthews to follow suit. He's a douche.
No comment on the racism part. I didn't see the show. but I must say it always amazes me that you find someone giving an opinion as a sign of bias, no matter what they say. Unless it is far right and then it is totally fair and balanced. It's an opinion show for Gods sake! You guys are so sensitive! If someone has an opinion that doesn't match up with yours(the right in general, not you specifically game) it's a sign of liberal bias and you as a conservative are being treated sooooo unfairly and they are out to destroy you. It's getting pretty sadly pathetic.
I am in jasons camp about the tv news or tv in general. They aren't talking about what is really going on or what is important. They are not entertaining or informative most of the time..no matter what network or show. I have pretty much given up the tv. It's all a game, a facade, and people eat it up like it is reality. The politicians don't run this country or most other ones. Money runs the world and we are all being robbed blind by the true elite. Not the phony elite they make up to give you something else to hate. They divide us to make sure we don't focus on what they are doing to us. They fund both sides of wars, they profit. If you think the Fed is federal or has a reserve you need to look again. The IMF, the world bank, ..manipulation tools. Look it up. Study. You are being royally maipulated and most of the world has no idea.
Agreed - Chris Mathews is a liberal guy and his show is slanted. Are you also going to write on how Hannity or Bill O'Reilly Show? Just curious to know if you find them 'slanted' or "brilliantly fair and balanced"?
It appears progressives like Ron, with all of the power, are left without anything to hate. What's pitiful? Making up invisible super secret conspiracies to resist, now with all of the Republicans gone.
You shouldn't be disappointed. Your entire ideology is about compromise, Ron. You see, logic isn't black and white; you must understand complexity and nuance. Everyone must sacrifice for the common good, even progressive activists like yourself. Our holy Messiah needs to feed liberal special interest groups, i.e., underperforming corporations looking for handouts, trial lawyers, agribusiness giants, etc. Can't we bring everyone together? What do your petty *individual* hangups matter in the big scheme of things? Having things one way or the other is outmoded traditional thinking-- in our new progressive Utopia, things are all ways to all people. You and I should be the happiest people in the world! Everyone wins!
(If everyone is a winner, then no one is, which is the perverse agenda of liberalism.)
What's wrong with compromise, in proper measure??
It's only January, but we see a strong contender for the 2009 "Unbalanced Poster Leaves Comment Apropos of Nothing" award in the post above.
But Matthews is no liberal. He gets on his knees eagerly for the powerful elites, Democrat or Republican.
If it weren't for his his insipid continual sliming of Gore, we probably could've avoided the disastrous Bush presidency.
ya, I'm really mad Bush has kept us safe for 8 years. I was hoping for more terror attacks.
Obama will be much better, giving trillions in handouts, putting people in charge of the CIA who have no eperience...oh ya, much better.
Right, that Bush set the bar really high - What a great president, he didn't get us all killed!
of course he did do his darnedest to bankrupt the government and dismantle the bill of rights, and preside over a net decline in the average incomes of Americans, and institute torture as official policy, and weaken all of the consumer and public health agencies, and ruin our credibility and standing in the world, and increase income disparity, and start a needless war, and flush the world economy down the crapper, and fail to capture Osama.
But he didn't get us killed, so I guess I can't complain. Because that is what the Constitution lists as the ONLY requirement for the President - keep us safe. Not to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Nevermind that he was keeping us safe from dangers that HE MADE WORSE. Nevermind that he STILL HASN'T IMPLEMENTED THE CHANGES TO PROTECT OUR CHEMICAL FACILITIES, PORTS, POWER GRIDS OR WATER PROCESSING FACILITIES.
I didn't die, Mr. President - thank you very much. I'm sure that game will be just as grateful if he doesn't die during Obama's term of office.
Heckuva Job!
Damn Game,
Don’t you realize!? If Obamighty fails, it’s only because of bloggers like yourself, and talk radio of course!
Jason – What You Said!
Ron – While everyone’s opinion may have the equal right of utterance, not everyone’s opinion is equal. It’s perfectly legit to satirize fawning, sophomoric, utterly lacking in substance opinions like those uttered by Matthews. Or sure he likes to throw out “accepted lib ideology”, but because it’s accepted by Libs don’t make it legit.
Here’s a perfect example: Obama was recently asked in a “news” interview: “Some suggest that history shows we cannot spend ourselves out of a recession with government spending”.
His answer? “Well, ummm…, ahh, some say, …ummm. we’re not… ahh, spending enough, some say, umm (ya that’s the ticket!!!) we’re spending too much (are my ears pinned back enough?), AaHa, Ya, umm (I’m the man).
This bit of utter ridiculousness was shown, and commented on as a good thing!!! Matthews was drooling, Couric was praising (panting), and 4 out of 5 of the View was almost erecting a totem pole.
"ya, I'm really mad Bush has kept us safe for 8 years..."
that, and only that, he did
when the repo man comes for your car, remember you got it under bush, as well
"I was hoping for more terror attacks..."
what terror attacks have you personally experienced, game?
"Obama will be much better, giving trillions in handouts, putting people in charge of the CIA who have no eperience...oh ya, much better..."
but didn't mccain also fly across country and interrupt his campaign to make sure the wasted bailout spending bill passed?
and, didn't bush say today, that he deeply regrets not getting amnesty for illegals through?
game, these are both men you supported...does that mean you supported their policies?
and, if barky also is in agreement with both of them, why are you posing this, as if you had some caped crusader, lurking in the wings, waiting to save the day?
"His answer? “Well, ummm…, ahh, some say, …ummm. we’re not… ahh, spending enough, some say, umm (ya that’s the ticket!!!) we’re spending too much (are my ears pinned back enough?), AaHa, Ya, umm (I’m the man)..."
blamin, he plays the sputtering fool, without the teleprompter
i'm sure, that there will be more for everyone to realize they don't like, and he will have a very fast baptism by fire, believe me
"This bit of utter ridiculousness was shown, and commented on as a good thing!!! Matthews was drooling, Couric was praising (panting), and 4 out of 5 of the View was almost erecting a totem pole..."
scary scene, no?
but bush is almost gone, now, blessed is the Lord
”ya, I'm really mad Bush has kept us safe for 8 years..."
that, and only that, he did
Yep, the single most important task facing a president.
The overwhelming majority of Bush’s secondary failures as president find their origins in Democrats using the war as leverage, and Bush allowing the to do so.
uh, no. The single most important task facing a president is to uphold the Constitution. Those of us that aren't screaming cowards recognize that selling out the ideals that make this country great doesn't really do anything to keep us safe in the long run.
BTW, those of us that are not blind ideologues, frantically searching for a post-hoc rationalization for the election and re-election of the worst president in modern times realize that BUSH HAS MADE US LESS SAFE.
Blamin', why don't you tell us exactly what interview you are referring to so that we can look up the transcripts to see what he actually said, or are you afraid that you would be exposed as a liar? I can't believe that any bush supporter would actually go there to criticize someone's speaking ability. It's like you are completely devoid of the capacity for self reflection.
It's nice Bush started taking the protecting America mantra seriously after he chopped brush in Crawford rather than read the August 2001 PDB. Had he bothered to read it, he might have said to himself "Y'know, my most important job is keeping the American people safe." Uhh, right after I clear that brush that I could just as easily pay some illegal migrants to do for $20. So much for that grand re-writing of history!
Jason, I have no idea what you are talking about so I am left unable to comment. Sometimes I get and even agree with what you say but sometimes you lose me completely. I have no problem with snark but this time you need to be a little more clear because I can't relate enough to even have an opinion on whatever it is you are trying to say.
He kept us safe if all terrorists are Muslims. If you include the anthrax attacks or the colleges where a bunch of people got killed or the people killed at the malls or the people killed at the bus stops...oh wait, that's not terrorism, that's crime. It's only terror if Muslims do it.Then each and every one of those would have been terrorism. Terrorism is a scam. We will get hit within the next year. My prediction. To many people are demanding their rights back. Got to instill that fear again.
By the way I have started a new blog. Plenty of conspiracy theories and stuff.
from bud white, who blogs at no quarter...
"Further illustrating their break with traditional liberalism, Markos Moulitsas has declared himself a libertarian Democrat, in other words: a politically correct Republican. These neo-liberals are really proposing a Party run by those who have little need for government and instead focus on identity politics, environmentalism, post-partisan government, and the rejection of American exceptionalism...
chris bowers from openleft opined:
"There should be a major cultural shift in the party, where the southern Dems and Liebercrat elite will be largely replaced by rising creative class types. Obama has all the markers of a creative class background, from his community organizing, to his Unitarianism, to being an academic, to living in Hyde Park to shopping at Whole Foods and drinking PBR. These will be the type of people running the Democratic Party now, and it will be a big cultural shift from the white working class focus of earlier decades..."
sean wilentz from huffpo describes the schism this way....
"Without a majority of those voters, the Democrats have, since the party’s inception in the 1820s, been incapable of winning the presidency. The Obama advocates declare, though, that we have entered an entirely new political era. It is not only possible but also desirable, they say, for Democrats to win by turning away from those whom “progressive” pundits and bloggers disdain variously as “Nascar man,” “uneducated,” “low information” whites, “rubes, fools, and hate-mongers” who live in the nation’s “shitholes.”..."
hash said:
when the repo man comes for your car, remember you got it under bush, as well
I am a responsible american, I pay my bills and don't buy things I can't afford...
And I do not agree with Bush or McCain on the handouts, and have said so here
the repossessed car is a metaphor for the things we take for granted, none of us were alive during the last serious financial collapse
very little of how much suffering we do or don't experience, will have to do with our own personal accountability, in fact, it may be worse for those of us who were careful
we just don't know, yet
Hash,
I have to disagree with you, to an extent.
It won’t be “worse” for us that were careful. At least it won’t be worse for us that were careful and un-greedy.
Any, even partially, informed investor knows better than to invest everything in “one basket”.
As the market will eventually turn around, I feel the sorriest for those close to retirement that bet the farm on one type of investment.
"As the market will eventually turn around..."
here's my point
i'm looking at the worst-case scenario, for now, and considering the idea that the market WON'T turn around, at least for any length of time that you, i, or anyone of our general age range has ever experienced
when you imagine yourself in that admittedly horrifying and depressing realm of thought...that our entire economic and financial framework would no longer be as we know it...one's ability to weather it becomes far less morally inflected, or based upon what we consider responsible fiscal management...
and into another portal where, perhaps, basic needs would be different, financial institutions, registration conventions and commercial codes would be markedly different from today's, currency, trade, and the very notion of employment, restricted travel, identity verification, etc., would carry different meanings in our day-to-day lives
we already see obvious hints at how what we would never imagined twenty years ago, banks being bailed out with taxpayer funds, which i consider capitalizing profit while socializing loss, being rewarded, by being replenished, with no real end in sight
less then ten miles from my den, madoff sets in a jet-set penthouse, where he has absolute freedom to further conceal his monstrous crimes
day after day, we, the public, become more inured to the process, more broken down by what will eventually seem everyday events, while the future is cast in stone
and we have experience in dealing with your scenario, indeed, many of us may indeed profit from it all, God willing!
my concern lies with the fact that our nation, and our generations, and our people, really don't have a helluva lot of experience with the doomsday scenario...
it really is true, we don't inherit the world from our ancestors, we borrow it from our kids
Hash,
The market works best for those willing and able to invest for the long-term.
Define what you mean by: "considering the idea that the market WON'T turn around, at least for any length of time that you, i, or anyone of our general age range has ever experienced"
3 years? 5 years? 10 years? or even more? If you mean more, then the only "safe" investment is stuffing your cash in the mattress, or better yet trading your cash for gold and stuffing it in the mattress.
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