Posted on 06/08/2008 2:23:29 PM PDT by freespirited
Chris Matthews may be an appeaser when it comes to confronting radical Islam; but he is tough as nails, apparently, when it comes to standing up to his own American TV news network.
New York media industry insiders say the liberal MSNBC anchor and talk show host of Hardball and the Sunday morning program named for him has threatened to resign if the network is the first to air a rumored video recording of Michelle Obama ranting about "Whitey." In fact, the sources add, Matthews, who clearly supports Barack Obama, has threatened to resign if the network aggressively pursues the story.
Matthews' position is said to be that airing the video, if it exists, would be an incendiary "political act" instead of a journalistic scoop because it would revive Hillary Clinton's chances of "snatching" the Democratic Presidential nomination from Obama, and possibly trigger a "race riot."
Discouraging Reporting
Himself a former political operative, Matthews is discouraging investigative reporting into Obama's radical past--dating to his community organizing stint in Chicago--including ties to rabid Marxists and Black Nationalists.
Matthews has also let it be known, the sources say, that he will not tolerate discussion of Obama's Muslim background, insisting that the matter of his religious identity is "settled." The fact that he is America's first Muslim-born Presidential candidate according to Islamic religious law, and may also be considered a Muslim apostate, assuming he formally converted to Christianity (which is in doubt), is "beyond the pale of acceptable reporting," Matthews has reportedly told professional colleagues and friends.
Another story that Matthews is bent on ignoring: Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko, 52, was convicted Wednesday of fraud, money laundering and aiding and abetting bribery in a plot to squeeze illegal payoffs out of firms hoping to do business with the state.
Rezko has known Obama since he entered politics, raised money for his Illinois campaigns and was involved in a murky 2005 real estate deal with him.
Obama has donated $150,000 in Rezko-related contributions to charity.
Matthews is an increasingly outspoken critic of American foreign policy--from the Iraq war to standing up for Israel and against nuclear-arming Iran to the need to militarily defeat Islamist terror. (Click below for a sample.)
In a speech at Harvard University's Institute of Politics early last month, Matthews accused his MSNBC bosses of being "basically pro-war during the [Iraq] war." He made the comment in the context of a larger discussion about alleged editorial bias at the network.
His 'religion' is MARXISM! For 20 friggin years he was part of "church" that preached Black Liberation Theology!
From "45 Communist Goals":
#27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]
(some key excerpts)
JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.
I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."
REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."
SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."
Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008
In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obamas pastor in a heated interview about his Churchs teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...
Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Obama's pastor and spirtual advisor "crazy uncle" of more than 20 years, honors "Honorable" Minister Louis Farrakhan with the "Jeremiah A. Wright Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer Award" at the 2007 Trumpet Gala held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
[it appears the original video was removed, but this one is identical to it]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2OhkZ0RSg
Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better"..."If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4337417
Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."..."Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."
Source: http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html
Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says
From the Louis Farrakhan/Nation of Islam website, Final Call...
Malik Zulu Shabazz, chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP):
"We are happy today to be standing side by side with the Nation of Islam. We believe, like the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad believe, in a nation of our own. We believe in a Black first philosophy and a Black Liberation Theology. We dont worry about the criticism. We love all of those who labored in the Panther Party from the 60s. Many are with us today."
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1858.shtml
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES
excerpt...
"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.
Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.
The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."
To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."
Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
FORGET the video...Bill O’reilly needs to ask Obama about his stand on REPERATIONS..you know he was for it, until he was against it. This one issue will be very, very intersting. It’s a no winner for him.
I wonder if Matthews had his tingle on when he laid down the gauntlet.
Does anybody really have any doubt Michelle Obama has never been taped ranting against “whitey”? A tape like that wouldn’t be hard to get. There’s probably a lot more than one.
“His ‘religion’ is MARXISM! For 20 friggin years he was part of “church” that preached Black Liberation Theology!”
I believe you are correct, that Hussein is a Marxist, but he is also a Muslim. He might even consider himself a Christian sometimes, a Black Liberation Christian. This is just proof of his split personality.
He probably considers himself an American too.
Hey Chrissie, make sure the door doesn’t hit you in the ass on the way out of the studio!
Notice how Democrat “issues” are always “settlede” in the MSM before they are discussed.
Matthews gives all whitey’s a bad name
Hmm, maybe we can get rid of two birds with one stone: Chrissy and MaBelle.
So, what's the down side?
He’d be replaced by someone even more prissy and left-leaning than he is. The guy makes Allan Colmes look like John Wayne!
For your Osamabama files...
So what does Chrissy know???
Chrissy, a thrill runs up my leg just thinking about “the tape”.
Whoa...Matthews up in arms about something that doesn’t exist???
My, my, my...
And the Dinasour Media wonder why no one trusts them anymore>
Gee Chrissy, if you are willing to suppress this news, just what other new stories over the years have you and your network suppressed or ignored for political reasons?
In which case, MSNBC is not a news organization but an advertising firm and should be subject to the same campaign and truth in advertising laws as any other PR firm.
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