Referring to an RNC ad as the "Mehlman cesspool," Chris Matthews was being non-partisan. Really - he told us so! Posted on 10/24/2006 3:59:19 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Referring to an RNC ad as the "Mehlman cesspool," Chris Matthews was being non-partisan. Really - he told us so!
On this afternoon's Hardball, Matthews interviewed Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., Dem candidate for senator from Tennessee. The first topic up was an ad the RNC is currently running using actors to tweak Ford on his positions on a variety of issues, from taxes to gun control to North Korea. The ad also alludes to the fact that Ford attended a Playboy party at the Super Bowl in Jacksonville in 2005.
At the ad's end, an alluring woman saying she met Harold at a Playboy party whispers "Harold, call me!"
Democrats have been quick to cry that the use of a white woman is an insidious appeal to racism. Matthews wasted no time sounding the Dems' battle cry:
"Congressman, let's get out of the Ken Mehlman cesspool here for a minute. I really do, I think this is a nonpartisan assessment. The ad, I have seen it 10 times today, it has ethnic overtones, sexual overtones. I don't think Ken Mehlman was healthy accepting this kind of environment."
Three asides:
You can view the ad here and come to your own - non-partisan, of course - conclusions.
This Ford is going to have as bad a year as the car builder. Harold, there is always the Al Gore global warming tour.
He said he has a finace??? Maybe she's WHITE!!!! THAT would be hysterical!!
Did Chris's nose grow? If not, it should have! He doesn't have a non partisan bone in his body, if you can find his bones that is! :-)
Does Harold date women...period?
Where's the ad?
Someone still watches Chrissy Matthews?!!!
I can't take the spit running down the corner of his mouth to start with. When he opens his mouth and then I certainly can't take it!
"Is Nora pregnant? She looks different from before?"
That happens when you are trying to give birth to a majority.
She should be glad that she prefers jackasses, because is she liked elephants, she would be pregnant a lot longer.
Thanks for the straight line.
"Ford opted for the high road.......claiming "I have too much joy in my heart to be mad."
He is laughing at the southern evangelicals, believing that they are stupid enough to fall for his pious political playbook.
It must have been a month or so ago when (TV), Harold told an interviewer he had a fiance but he wasn't going to introduce her till after the election. I remember my exact reaction. BS!!! I remember thinking, he's pretending he's got a fiance because being a family man, married and settled would appeal to voters.
I've never seen it mentioned again. But yes, I heard it.
"the msm are not objective and they aren't even trying to hide it anymore."
get outta here! you mean the adolescent, puerile, intolerant, treacherous hyenas are becoming stymied? you mean they can't exist without someone to read the party line to them? that they can't take their own medicine? that their self-righteous anger is being recognized as just that? that if they win absolute power, they're all in line for a job as a camp counselor re-educating republicans?
no! you can't be serious!
sarcasm off
He is a butt buddy with Keith Olbermoann.
One thing is as clear as waterford crystal. If Chrissy didn't think the ad would hurt his buddy Ford, he wouldn't have his panties in a bunch over it.
The dems know the ad will end up hurting them.
I would have liked to have seen the call me girl in a bunny costume though...wouldn't that have been a hoot?
So O'Donnell looking at Ford like that is racist?
Wonder if Barnacle would feel the same way if white people voted for Blackwell, Steele, Swann (sp) He did not even mention these black men running for Senator and Governors. Can white people feel proud and color blind if we vote for these men. do they ever ask that 90% of black folks that vote for Black candidates over white ones if they should feel proud and color blind if they vote for a white man. Just wait till we hear from the MSM how all women are going to vote for Hilliary. SEXIsm I will say it now will never be brought up.
So does that make MSNBC racist for showing a white woman making eyes at Harold Ford?
Ha! Chrissy is as much non-partisan as Limburger is non-cheese. They both stink bad.
Did I miss it?
I've looked for a link to the add on FR.
I'm dying to see what all the fuss is about?
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