Posted on 10/25/2006 7:26:37 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
On last night's Hardball, Chris Matthews hinted at what he had in mind regarding the ad the RNC has been running in Tennessee about Dem senatorial candidate Harold Ford, Jr. Claimed Chris:
"It has ethnic overtones, sexual overtones."
Tonight, Matthews took an ugly, explicit leap down into the atavistic mud. Interviewing Sen. Dick Durbin [D-IL] - who was relatively reserved in his comments - Matthews began by asserting that the RNC's goal in running the ad was to "get their point across to perhaps angry white voters, or people who had a problem with a black senator already."
Later, Matthews embraced the absolutely worst stereotypes of a racist South, claiming the RNC was:
"playing on white sensitivities about losing white women to black guys. It was so obvious what they were doing there."
I'd encourage readers to view the ad at Michelle Malkin's site here, and judge for themselves. In my opinion, if anyone is doing his worst to stir racial animosity, it is Chris Matthews.
Aside: earlier in the show, Matthews argued that the Iraq war was intrinsically misconceived since "anybody who studied history for two weeks would have known that Third World countries don't like being invaded by white people from the west." Looks like Matthews has really got it in for The Man!
Chrissy is OK (guilty pleasure) sometimes. While Olberman is 100% unwatchable. Never saw more than 2 minutes of that idiot
I can hear the pundits now. "Why use a black woman? Is it so inconceivable to racist republicans that a white woman might date a black man?"
Well, what is it? Did Ford's ol' pappy say "cracker" or "tracker"? Inquiring minds
well shoot me then
If indeed such an advertisement was something that the public would have fits about what about this advertisement where the thing people got agitated about was not the race of the people but the fact the woman dropped her towel.
I don't care what color someones skin is and the RNC Ford ad does not either. It's nothing about race.
I guess one interesting thing that people might find out from this thread is how many white Freepers have black friends or dated or married someone who happened to be black. You can count this Texas boy (me) in that list. Growing up we had blacks kids in our house and I dated black females and used to be the only white guy that partied with the "hip" black kids in school. I'd go to black clubs with my friends and be the only white guy there. I never had a problem. Maybe because I was a dancing fool. I have always had black friends and happened to visit with one today. I don't think of him as "black" though, he's my friend.
Harld Ford's problem is not the color of his skin, it's Harold Ford. Anyone that does not want Ford elected because of his skin color is an a$$.
But then you find out that she's a stripper and you don't feel so bad.
Funny. I'm a black woman. I saw the ad. I didn't believe it was racist.
Next thing you know the RNC will run a commercial about an insecure talk show host ambushing an attractive philipino woman. LOL!
Chris Matthews: Angry White Male?
I thought it didn't matter what color you are.
The only people who saw racism in that ad, were
*racists*. Like The NAACP DemoProfiteer leaders
and DimoKlan propagandists like Crap Matthews
and that whackjob Cootie Uberbuttmunch.
No one else would have thoughtt of it.
Matthews is the one fixated on race. The actress in the ad was doing a take-off on the Playboy party incident involving Ford. Spitter's just getting worse by the day.
I never would have thought of that. I'm glad we have Chris Matthews around to reinforce racial stereotypes in all of us so that they never die.
The only folks who see racism in that stupid commercial are racists.
Same here. When you think Playboy Mansion, you think blonde bimbos, partying celebrities and Hef in pajamas.
I was a groomsman at one of my best friends' wedding. The fact that he is black and her white didn't strike me as threatening to my Caucasianess.
Matthews is admitting his own warped sensibilities here. The ad immediately struck him as racist because he is racist.
I do believe Matthews has gone round the bend.
What century is he living in? Black men dating white women, and vice versa, is no longer an issue except perhaps for creepy old white guys like Matthews.
What an absurd bigot! Just when I think this twit can't possibly say anything more inane and offensive, he dumps a load like this...
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