Posted on 02/25/2009 11:47:14 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
TV Newser: MSNBC's Chris Matthews has responded to his uttering of the words "Oh God" just as Gov. Bobby Jindal emerged to deliver the GOP response last night. TVNewser has obtained some of what Matthews will say on "Hardball" tonight: "I was taken aback by that peculiar stagecraft, the walking from somewhere in the back of this narrow hall, this winding staircase looming there, the odd anti-bellum look of the scene. Was this some mimicking of a president walking along the state floor to the East Room?"
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While there no doubt were elements opposed to seccession in Louisiana, the Governor's Mansion wasn't one of them, lol.
I believe the author meant antebellum.
You don’t have to lecture me about the history of the Ante-bellum period. Every period of history has had its own horrors. And as far as the plight of the enslaved and down-trodden in the Ante-bellum South goes, what the Dems have done over the years, to keep most blacks on the plantation, has been nothing less than criminal itself.
I think they were just complimenting certain aspects that have been portrayed in films, etc. The quiet peacefulness, the dignified manners, the “southern belle” fanciness, etc. I saw the comments as excluding the ugly aspects of that time. Some day I’d love to visit the deep south and take some pictures.
Happy Wednesday to all Freepers online today. :)
Or the gas station down the street in St. Louis that Mahatma Gandhi ran.
There has been human bondage, in one form or another, for all of human history. And, there still is today.
So, easy on the antebellum south bashing. They were not alone, not unique in being dependent upon a form of human bondage, and did have their finer points outside of the peculiar institution. They paid a dear price for it, and their world was destroyed. That alone leads to a degree of romanticizing.
Sadly, the tingle that ran up little Chrissie’s leg during the Obama campaign went all the way up to his head, blowing his tiny brain out his left ear. Given the many times Chrissie has gladly taken it in the ear by his pals on the left, the size of that orifice made it inevitable. He DID have a transplant. Unfortunately, it was the cryogenically preserved brain of Lyndon Baines Johnson and turned out to be even smaller than the original organ, probably because – as with nearly ALL Democrats -- it had never been used.
Every period of history has had its own horrors.
Indeed. And that explains my absence of nostalgia for the past. It's hard enough trying to make things work in the present for the sake of the future.
The quiet peacefulness, the dignified manners, the “southern belle” fanciness, etc.
All made possible by the sweat, tears, pain and awful affronts to the dignity of people of the 'wrong' color. I'm not having any of that nostalgia. And I'm from the South.
Yeah Chrissie, like your heart throb’s podium with official seal of “Office of the President-Elect”.
Well. What was Obama mimicking with the Greek columns and his ascension before the election?
Ah Yes!...Chris Matthews and his tingly leg! What a moron!
That was his cover.
This was an outright racist dig at Jindal's Indian heritage.
Matthews is an unabashed racist and he knew exactly what he was doing.
Outsourcing is an Indian reference just as gay is a homosexual reference.
When you do, plan to go when the azeleas are in bloom.
You speak as if you have firsthand knowledge. I strongly suspect you don't.
As far as this contention that slaves were horribly abused, widely and routinely, I'll point out that there was a great deal of money and prestige involved. They were expensive, both to acquire and to keep up, but necessary to provide the profit that a plantation required to continue operating. It's illogical to assume that hideous mistreatment was the rule. We now embrace the ideal that no human should ever be owned by another, here in the United States at least. That was a result of the war, if not the intention starting out.
To make an apt comparison, can you imagine a northern factory owner horribly neglecting or abusing the machinery he'd made such a gigantic investment in, in hope of generating future profit? Irrational, isn't it? The machinery was kept up. What he had a cheap, steady supply of, was immigrant labor. These he routinely mistreated, as if they were a dime a dozen.
Another example would be indentured servants, transported to the colonies from England and Ireland. Dime a dozen. Only valuable for the headrights and the labor that could be wrung out of their pitiful existence. These, too, were routinely mistreated. Most didn't live to the end of their indenture, and those who did found the length of their indenture extended for bizarre "infractions," such as having a common law wife and children.
As far as the physical circumstance of most held in slavery on a plantation, I'd say it was likely no worse than the typical hardscrabble frontier existence. Slaves had no control over their own fates, and their bodies were quite literally owned, though. That is a wrong, no matter what, from the perspective of now, from the perspective of man's treatment of his fellow man. But, itt's a modern perspective. We have that luxury. Mankind has not, for most of his existence.
So, you're certainly cherry picking your history, in order to justify some odd regional bias. Is slavery "good?" No, it isn't, from the perspective of now. It was, however, an ingrained part of society, accepted and utilized, for the vast majority of human existence. As I mentioned, the world is not without it to this day.
Not likely, because then the slave would be of lesser value, because he, or she, couldn't work.
All made possible by the sweat, tears, pain and awful affronts to the dignity of people of the 'wrong' color. I'm not having any of that nostalgia. And I'm from the South.
The quiet more pleaceful times didn't have anything to do with geography. That entire era, among a certain income class was similar, no matter where they were. In the North, that lifestyle was made possible by the low paid household help, who were sometimes indentured servants, who were treated even worse than the slaves, because with the slaves, in order to sell them, they had to be of some value to the new owner. With the lower paid help, and indentured class, they were on their own within the 'master's house'.
Oh, heck yes, this was a shot at Jindal’s heritage. For crying out loud! Matthews said ‘outsourced’ three times in order to make sure the reference was heard. What a racist little scumbag.
Chrissy wet himself again.
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