Chris Matthews: ‘I forgot he was black tonight.’
Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Matthews. Apparently this was his way of saying he liked it. I can sympathize with the risks of talking on national TV for a living, but …. that’s disturbing. Not said with bad intent, perhaps, but strange that he thought he had to go there with so much else to be said.
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Midori
January 27th, 2010
11:00 pm
Good old Tweety – his foot just keep getting stuck in his mouth.
Midori
January 27th, 2010
11:00 pm
er, “keeps”
josef nix
January 27th, 2010
11:02 pm
Oh, my! Thanks for reminding me, Chris…! Words fail me, no easy task…
cmac
January 27th, 2010
11:04 pm
is this terd actually on the tv? what channel? does ANYBODY watch it?
Ridgerunner
January 27th, 2010
11:04 pm
Headline: “INTIMIDATION: Obama directly condemns Supreme Court; Dems cheer… ”
Just how arrogant can one get ?
Sunshine and Thunder
January 27th, 2010
11:05 pm
Obama’s black?
cmac
January 27th, 2010
11:07 pm
half black!
NRB2
January 27th, 2010
11:12 pm
Oh I get it. What Biden said was okey-dokey, but this comment was raaaaaaaacist and eeeevil.
Get a life, Jay.
Also, the speech sucked. He can make his swipes at the Tea Party all he wants.
But we’re going to get what we want, which is to lop off the criminal federal at the knees, starve them, and defeat them.
They are the REAL enemy.
getalife
January 27th, 2010
11:16 pm
The tea party turning on sister Sarah is funny.
The gop can’t work with Obama or they lose the tea party like Sarah.
Jay
January 27th, 2010
11:16 pm
NRB, you have a rich fantasy life. Still pining away about “McVeigh’s heroic effort” are you?
Explain to me what was heroic about it again?
josef nix
January 27th, 2010
11:19 pm
This comment was neither particularly racist nor evil–it was silly…
Jay
January 27th, 2010
11:19 pm
Come on, NRB: What’s “heroic” about blowing up a building of innocent people?
Let’s hear it, plain and simple. Bring what you got.
Jay
January 27th, 2010
11:20 pm
Go ahead, tell us how you’re going to “lop off the criminal federal at the knees, starve them, and defeat them,” just like your hero did.
NRB2
January 27th, 2010
11:22 pm
Jay, are you bringing up that ol’ chestnut again because I called you on the typical liberal hypocrisy and you need to change the subject?
It’s not my fault your lame and you buy into Oblamer’s “government is your friend” crap.
Hate the game, not the playa’…champ.
If you want to know why I think McVeigh was a-ok than I suggest you watch Arlington Road on Blu-Ray.
NRB2
January 27th, 2010
11:23 pm
Jay, you’re posting too fast. I know I’ve reduced you to a lump of pink Jell-O because I dissed His Highness and his lame speech, but chill out.
It’s all good.
Like I always said, even after the AJC padlocks it’s doors, you’ll make a fine living peddling pencils out of a tin cup off the Highland Ave. exit.
NRB2
January 27th, 2010
11:25 pm
So Jay, can you explain why you feel Chris Mathew’s comment was out line, but Biden’s wasn’t?
Kamchak
January 27th, 2010
11:25 pm
That thirty-one seconds is thread worthy?
josef nix
January 27th, 2010
11:25 pm
Whee–Jay and NRB–
As my kids would chant, “Fight! Fight!”
And here I was, gettin’ ready to call it a night…
joe matarotz
January 27th, 2010
11:26 pm
I guess Chris Matthews developed temporary amnesia after seeing Obama kiss Geitner’s a$$ in front of Congress. Or maybe he was distracted by the shrew behind him.
Jay
January 27th, 2010
11:30 pm
NRB, I just want to make it clear to folks exactly who you are and where you’re coming from. And nothing makes what McVeigh did “A-OK”
Here’s a partial list of his victims, from the nursery:
Baylee Almon, 1, Oklahoma City
Danielle Nicole Bell, 15 months, Oklahoma City
Zachary Taylor Chavez, 3, Oklahoma City
Anthony Christopher Cooper II, 2, Moore
Antonio Ansara Cooper Jr., 6 months, Midwest City
Aaron M. Coverdale, 5, Oklahoma City
Elijah S. Coverdale, 2, Oklahoma City
Jaci Rae Coyne, 14 months, Moore
Taylor Santoi Eaves, 8 months, Midwest City
Tevin D’Aundrae Garrett, 16 months, Midwest City
Kevin “Lee” Gottshall II, 6 months, Norman
Blake Ryan Kennedy, 1, Amber
Dominique Ravae (Johnson)-London, 2, Oklahoma City
Chase Dalton Smith, 3, Oklahoma City
Colton Wade Smith, 2, Oklahoma City
Sorry, no movie is going to make that “A-OK.” Nor will it lessen my disgust at those who think it is.
jokerman
January 27th, 2010
11:31 pm
Isn’ t it fun to watch as all the miscreants of the party of NO waltz onto center stage, and decry
over Obama’s state of the Union Address.
Remember lapdogs you had 8 years, to do something that would put this country on the right track.
Yet, all Bush and his ship of fools created was a huge ditch…Which is not going to be filled overnight.
Goodnight……………
Jay
January 27th, 2010
11:31 pm
I didn’t say it was worse, and I posted about Reid’s comment as well.
NRB2
January 27th, 2010
11:32 pm
Good, now that we’ve established all that, how exactly is “I forgot he was black” worse than “no negro dialect”…I mean other than the fact that latter oozed out of the lips of a Democrat??
NRB2
January 27th, 2010
11:34 pm
Also, should I post a list of the names of the kids that Bill Clinton MURDERED at Waco?
josef nix
January 27th, 2010
11:35 pm
joe m…
The shrew behind him, you say….
“If I be waspish, best beware my sting”
Jay
January 27th, 2010
11:35 pm
It’s “threadworthy” as an addendum, Kamchak. It wouldn’t be something I’d start the day off with.
Speaking of which….
josef nix
January 27th, 2010
11:37 pm
NRB
“Also, should I post a list of the names of the kids that Bill Clinton MURDERED at Waco?”
That was Janet Reno…
NRB2
January 27th, 2010
11:38 pm
Little One Jones, 2,
Serenity Jones, 4,
Chica Jones, 2,
Hollywood Sylvia, 1,
Rachel Sylvia, 12,
Startle Summers, 1,
Mayanah Schneider, 2,
Crystal Martinez, 3,
Isaiah Martinez, 4,
Joseph Martinez, 8,
Abigail Martinez, 11,
Lisa Martin, 13,
Dayland Gent, 3,
Page Gent, 1,
Cyrus Koresh, 8,
Chanel Andrade, 1,
Murdered by Bill Clinton and Janet Reno April 19, 1993!
Star Koresh, 6,
josef nix
January 27th, 2010
11:42 pm
Waco was wrong. Oklahoma City was wrong.
josef nix
January 27th, 2010
11:44 pm
Oh, well, looks like the fight is off…and so am I…good evening…
Jay
January 27th, 2010
11:44 pm
NRB, and how many of those poor children were being sexually abused by your other hero, David Koresh, the guy who named his place “Camp Apocalypse” because he intended to become a martyr there?
Balance Our Budget
January 27th, 2010
11:46 pm
Randy Barnett Professor, Georgetown University Law Center :
In the history of the State of the Union has any President ever called out the Supreme Court by name, and egged on the Congress to jeer a Supreme Court decision, while the Justices were seated politely before him surrounded by hundreds Congressmen? To call upon the Congress to countermand (somehow) by statute a constitutional decision, indeed a decision applying the First Amendment? What can this possibly accomplish besides alienating Justice Kennedy who wrote the opinion being attacked. Contrary to what we heard during the last administration, the Court may certainly be the object of presidential criticism without posing any threat to its independence. But this was a truly shocking lack of decorum and disrespect towards the Supreme Court for which an apology is in order. A new tone indeed.
Dave R.
January 27th, 2010
11:47 pm
Let’s all remember that it was Chris Matthews who also got a “thrill up his leg” when hearing Hope & Change speak during the campaign.
Ewwwwwwww!
Drain The Swamp (NIF)
January 27th, 2010
11:48 pm
Jay
**your other hero, David Koresh**
Something about a guy who claimed to be Jesus that had to wear glasses. Seems like the Son of God would have better eyes than that.
Mr. Miyagi
January 27th, 2010
11:49 pm
Ralph Macchio is the anti-christ…
Jay
January 27th, 2010
11:51 pm
He also mancrushed all over George Bush in his flightsuit on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln.
Drain The Swamp (NIF)
January 27th, 2010
11:52 pm
Mr. Miyagi
Scott Brown
Took Teddy Kennedy’s seat.
The women on The View all have the hots for him.
There’s only one answer. Scott Brown is the anti-Christ.
Ridgerunner
January 27th, 2010
11:53 pm
Balance Our Budget :
Reference is made to my 11:04.
You are indeed correct sir but it is also a very “scary” tone that was used against the Supreme Court ……….. one that wantabe dictators like to start with !
He owes the Supreme Court a public apology.
Drain The Swamp (NIF)
January 27th, 2010
11:53 pm
Jay
I have a flight suit. You should get one for the Missis. The girls like em.
Jay
January 27th, 2010
11:55 pm
Do they come equipped with bananas?
Ridgerunner
January 27th, 2010
11:55 pm
In my opinioin, Americans are farther apart now than they were in 1864. This does not bode well for our future.
Mick
January 27th, 2010
11:56 pm
The lunatic fringe, I know your out there…
Drain The Swamp (NIF)
January 27th, 2010
11:56 pm
Jay
No, but they go crazy when you strap on those big oxygen hoses.
Balance Our Budget
January 27th, 2010
11:57 pm
One thing Obama failed to note is the reason we can pull our troops out of Iraq is because of George Bushe’s successful surge . One other question how long does it take before the problems we are facing now is no longer the former administrations fault.
Dave R.
January 27th, 2010
11:57 pm
They’re called the Democratic leadership in Congress, Mick, and they’ve all gone home for the evening.
Ridgerunner
January 27th, 2010
11:58 pm
…………. and I thought I could never be more ashamed of a President than Bill Clinton.
Ridgerunner
January 28th, 2010
12:00 am
Mick:
That’s what the British called Adams, Washington, Madison and Jefferson ……… the lunatic fringe.
Mick
January 28th, 2010
12:00 am
**He owes the Supreme Court a public apology.**
The supremes owe the american people an apology.
**One other question how long does it take before the problems we are facing now is no longer the former administrations fault.**
Try as you might but you can’t erase history.
Mick
January 28th, 2010
12:01 am
**That’s what the British called Adams, Washington, Madison and Jefferson ……… the lunatic fringe.**
I was just quoting the lyrics to a song.
Dave R.
January 28th, 2010
12:02 am
Well, enough fun for one day. Some of us have to work early tomorrow to pay da man!