MSNBC: TEA PARTY USING WORD "WE" IS RACIST

How dare they! How dare those rascally Tea Party people use obvious dog whistle words like "we" and "American people" to refer to themselves!  Clearly it's because they think that blacks are only three-fifths of a vote...or something.  What right do these slave-owning wingnuts have to refer to themselves as "American" while showing such disrespect to the Dear Leader by, you know, opposing his political agenda?

Well, it's a good thing that Chris Matthews is here to teach us about the lost art of "civility."  Noah Rothman at Mediaite digs into the latest lesson from Mr. "Thrill Up My Leg":

Matthews is presently touring the media universe and recalling the history which he was privileged to witness and record in his new book, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked. The theory is that politics in the nation's capital used to end at 6 o'clock when bitter partisan rivals would drop their disagreements and have a friendly scotch together.

That era of comity, Matthews submits, is gone. Exploring this theme in The Boston Globe on Friday, Matthews cites the wisdom of former House Speaker Tip O'Neill's chief counsel, Kirk O'Donnell, to explain why Washington worked in the 1980s but fails so spectacularly today.

"It was Kirk who not only taught me the rules of politics, but, just as important, that there are rules," Matthews writes. "I believe Speaker O'Neill and President [Ronald] Reagan honored that truism to a T."

Yes, yes...it's all so heartwarming, is it not?  And no, I don't doubt that there was plenty of comity back in the day.  However, I think that the comity between Reagan and O'Neill was based more on Reagan's people skills than those of Kirk O'Donnell (whoever he was).

But, more importantly, Chris Matthews beclowns himself even more than usual by presuming to lecture anybody on civility.  Again, Rothman:

"Maybe 10%," or "maybe 20%, on a bad day," Matthews said in May when asked by MSNBC host Al Sharpton how much conservative opposition to President Barack Obama is rooted in racism. "It's the sense that the white race must rule, that's what racism is, and they can't stand the idea that a man who's not white is president," he clarified.

They're "almost traitors," Matthews said of conservatives who believe that the Internal Revenue Service, an agency created in 1913 and which recently admitted to targeting conservative groups in order to limit their political efficacy, should be abolished. "First of all, the right-wing are crazy," he said in June. "What they're saying about getting rid of the IRS is insane."

"It seems there's a very interesting compelling continuing effort to delegitimize this president," the MSNBC host added in August. His evidence: conservatives who refer to Obama as "Obama."

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RED EYE - JUNE 22, 2013 FULL EPISODE

Greg welcomes guests Ann Coulter, Michael McDonald and Tucker Carlson.  Michael Moynihan fills in for Bill Schulz.

Chris Matthews: Obama phoning the Prop 8 plaintiffs today was like Nixon phoning the astronauts

Via Greg Hengler. Alternate headline: "Even Tingles starting to compare Obama to Nixon."

It's a bit before my time, so remind me: Did Nixon run for president in '68 opposing the Apollo program the way Obama opposed gay marriage to convince especially gullible social conservatives that he was some kind of middle-of-the-roader on "values?" Even now, I'm amazed at what a total pass he's gotten on that. Marco Rubio may decide tomorrow that he's "evolved" into a border hawk and therefore must vote against the Gang of Eight, but that won't excuse him for having deceived the voters three years ago by posing as something he really wasn't on this issue. He lied, on a subject that a lot of people care about, for his own personal political gain. He showed contempt for the voters. And so did Bambi, who as far as I can tell has paid not the slightest price for it and even now has Matthews fawning over the fact that he deigned to play approving National Father today.

This is one of the most grating things about the movement towards legalizing gay marriage, even for someone like me who supports it: Too many proponents seem too willing to grant each other rhetorical carte blanche after "evolving," no matter how long they opposed SSM before and no matter how nasty they might get now with people who hold the same stance in opposition that they used to. If you go to bed on Monday opposed to gay marriage and wake up on Tuesday in favor, there's no issue, it seems, with calling opponents "bigots" and "h8ers" on Tuesday afternoon. O was a fraud for years on this subject, for selfish reasons, and reversed himself last year only after he'd decided that the road to reelection was by rallying and turning out his liberal base. If he thought his only chance was by holding onto some social conservative votes, he'd be anti-SSM even now. And yet all that's forgotten; suddenly he's the leader of the gay-marriage spirit squad, with duly admiring coverage from his fans at MSNBC. It's good to be the king.

FUN FLASHBACK: JANUARY 2010

Republicans around the country were focused on the Massachusetts special Senate election to determine a successor to the late Ted Kennedy.  The crucial nature of the contest was the filibuster-proof reign of terror known as the Democrat "super majority."  The Dems had control of the House of Representatives, the White House and a big enough majority in the Senate that even a filibuster couldn't stop it.  

Massachusetts had changed its own rules in order to allow the governor to appoint an interim Senator to go to Washington in place of an elected Senator.  When a Republican had occupied the governor's chair, the Dems had insisted on special elections immediately.  In other words, the usual liberal hypocrisy was in play.  Scott Brown decided to disrupt The Narrative by insisting that the Senate seat up for grabs was not Ted Kennedy's seat but the people's seat.

On January 19, 2010, Brown defeated his Democrat opponent, Martha Coakley.  A Tea Party-backed candidate had captured the Senate seat that had been occupied by a Kennedy since 1953.  The Left-wing nutjobs at MSNBC were devastated.

Governor Deval Patrick

It's an interesting clip, is it not? In it we learn that not only are the voters of Massachusetts "racist" by voting for a white man instead of a...white woman...but that even the simple act of driving a pick up truck is "racist" as well. Amazing! Especially since those very same "racist" Massachusetts voters went for Obama in 2008 by a margin of 25.8%. These were the same "racist" Massachusetts voters who elected Deval Patrick their governor in 2006.  Damn those "racists!"

A couple of nights later, Greg Gutfeld and the gang at Red Eye had some fun at the expense of the Kool-aid-intoxicated paranoiacs over at MSNBC.  This is a Red Eye classic:



A week later, Obama gave his State of the Union address to Congress.  Chris "Tingles" Matthews was so impressed that for an hour he "forgot Obama was black."  Get it?  Obama is so "well-spoken" that you'd never know he was a black man. The whitest man on the planet gave his hero a weird thumbs up.  It was such a stupid comment coming from a man who would be the first to condemn a Fox host for saying the exact same thing that even Jon Stewart felt the need to weigh in on it the next day:



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