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Even Matthews Not Buying Sharpton Defense of Hillary's "Plantation"
Hardball/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/17/2006 5:20:42 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

January 17, 2006 - 20:09

Apparently even Chris Matthews has his limits when it comes to swallowing Dem BS. The proof came tonight, when Matthews clearly wasn't buying Al Sharpton's transparently lame defense of Hillary Clinton's allegation, at an MLK Day event, that "the House of Representatives has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about."

Sharpton's theater of the absurd reached its apotheosis when he claimed that Hillary "did not make the comments at a Harlem church". Even the New york Times had to admit that she had spoken in "at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem," and Hardball rolled footage of her speaking at a lectern in the church draped with fabric decorated with a cross.

Responded Matthews, not even attempting to suppress an amused look: "You're kidding me, Reverend. I don't understand why you're defending her. Do you think she would have used that word with a Jewish group, an Italian group? She used that phrase, 'you know what I'm talking about.' What's that supposed to mean? She was pandering."

For what it's worth, in the following segment, MSNBC reporter Norah O'Donnell, who had spoken with people in the Hillary camp, gave conflicting indications on the fall-out. On the one hand, O'Donnell said that Hillary is not going to "walk away" from her plantation statement. On the other hand, Norah said Hillary will have to "clean-up" her remarks.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: gopplantation; hardball; hillary; hillbilly; matthews; pandering; plantation; playingtheracecard; racebaiting; sharpton; tonedeaf
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To: Howlin

Charles Barron says that plantation comment was in response to a question asked of her about why she had voted for the war


61 posted on 01/17/2006 6:05:35 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: beyond the sea

62 posted on 01/17/2006 6:06:41 PM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Don't forget who called Paul Frey a F---ing Jew bastard!


63 posted on 01/17/2006 6:09:33 PM PST by BIGZ
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To: MEG33
NOooo Wire Hangers!!!!

Savage has that down perfectly, Hillary sounds like Joan Crawford, as played by Faye Dunaway.

64 posted on 01/17/2006 6:10:18 PM PST by jeremiah (People wake up, the water is getting hot)
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To: pipecorp
I wish i was in the land of cotton....

Interestingly, currently I'm listening to Antonin Dvorak's "New World Symphony", of which some of its musical passages are based on Dvorak' impressions of hearing gospel sung by workers in the fields of the (then) largely agrarian South ... (if you know what I mean) ...

A beautiful symphony, very pretty ... brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it ;)

65 posted on 01/17/2006 6:10:31 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: SuziQ
Democrats are tone deaf.

Democrats loved being lied to, they judge a persons ability to lead by their ability to lie. (IE Bill Clinton)

66 posted on 01/17/2006 6:11:44 PM PST by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Apparently even Chris Matthews has his limits when it comes to swallowing Dem BS.

I think he's that he's just gotten full.

67 posted on 01/17/2006 6:11:54 PM PST by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: Ludicrous
Well, she is the Former First Black First Lady, so doesn't that give her justification to play the race card and pretend her audience 'knows what she means'?

Ah yes, go for it Hillary, I forgot about that angle.

;-)

68 posted on 01/17/2006 6:12:24 PM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: Pharmboy

Blacks should start making up their wish lists, because this is really going to be their year. Republicans are running very good black candidates in Ohio, Md, and Penn and threatening to run Rice in 08. So far all the Dems can do is call Republicans racists, but if they lose a hunk of the black vote, they are toast.


69 posted on 01/17/2006 6:13:36 PM PST by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: Mo1
LOL Mol, check out this post from DU. They actually think Charles Barron is a paid employee of Fox News.

Charles Barron on Hannity and Colmes fox news: We've got them blathering like assylum inmates.

They're trying to say things to insult each other. THey've got a fake black man on and they're defending their right to insult him on air. They just did.

Hannity: "Do you want to slap me?"

Barron: "You're not even worth slapping."

Right after Hannity said Hilary shouldn't have been in the black gathering with blacks sitting behind her.

It's a beautiful thing. Let's hope all 3 of them get fired for that commpletely inept segment.

70 posted on 01/17/2006 6:14:26 PM PST by mware (The keeper of the I's once again.)
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To: OldFriend
Her heinous is the female version of Howard Dean.

Who, in the course of a lifetime, hasn't encountered—somewhere, sometime, somehow — a Hillary Clinton in one form or another? She's a type, a mold, a case study. It's the Compulsively Lying Psychobroad-Striver-Whose-Ambitions-are-Ahead-of-Her-Talents Phenomenon.

Julia Gorin – http://jewishworldreview.com/julia/gorin081505.php3

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Sounds about right.

71 posted on 01/17/2006 6:16:11 PM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: DCPatriot

Hah! I totally overvalued her worth.


72 posted on 01/17/2006 6:18:58 PM PST by nuancey
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To: beyond the sea

Actually, I had the misfortune to know someone like that evil witch.


73 posted on 01/17/2006 6:19:24 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: msnimje
Tomorrow, and I mean TOMORROW, a Republican needs to say the same thing. Something like, "New Orleans is run like a Plantation, a Chocolate Plantation." -----

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Priceless........... I'm calling my talkshow host with that gem tomorrow morning, if you don't mind me stealing it.

74 posted on 01/17/2006 6:19:29 PM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: Mo1

I saw the video; it was not.


75 posted on 01/17/2006 6:19:58 PM PST by Howlin
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To: beyond the sea
Please do. Tell me which one and let me know if I can listen on the Internet.
76 posted on 01/17/2006 6:21:23 PM PST by msnimje (Senate Democrats ----------- Sound and Fury Signifying INSIGNIFICANCE)
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To: Churchillspirit
....the world's smartest woman.

....with the world's worst memory....

And the world's biggest tin ear.

77 posted on 01/17/2006 6:25:08 PM PST by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Someone needs to ask Hilery who hired Craig Livingstone? Her and her husband have a pile of FBI files they are not authorized to have.

That is illegal domestic spying.

78 posted on 01/17/2006 6:27:19 PM PST by HP8753 (My cat thinks Mark Dayton is a flake)
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To: Mo1

Oh, I see, the GOP 'made' her do it.

The Beast intends on being President and the media (and the rat party) will basically let her get away with what she said.. President Bush would never say what Hellary said.. yet if he did can you just imagine the nuclear fallout..from all sides.


79 posted on 01/17/2006 6:27:30 PM PST by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
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To: mware
They're trying to say things to insult each other. THey've got a fake black man on and they're defending their right to insult him on air. They just did.

I Dare this DU nit wit to call Charles Barron a "Fake Black Man" to his face

I Double Dare him/her

80 posted on 01/17/2006 6:28:22 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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