Matthews Mad at Mexicans Who Mocked Miss USA

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Yes he leans left. But MSNBC host Chris Matthews was manifestly offended by the Mexican audience at the Miss Universe pageant that booed Miss USA. The Mexicans were adding insult to injury, since the lovely and gracious Rachel Smith of Tennessee had earlier slipped onto her derrière during the evening gown segment of the competititon.

Discussing the matter on this afternoon's Hardball with his panel of NBC political director Chuck Todd, Howard Fineman of Newsweek, and Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Tribune, Matthews unleashed on the Mexicans:

• That's about the worst PR I can think of for this Mexican immigration bill which is mainly helping Mexicans become legal Americans. . . This young woman smiled right through it. That's class, but [the booing] wasn't very classy.
• What is it about immigration though that bothers Mexicans? I mean there are 12 million here illegally. That's fairly benign, even if it is passive, policy. It's hardly predatory. What other country in the world let's 12 million come in there, live there illegally? How can you be mad at that?
• I'll tell you one thing. If an American audience in New York or Washington or L.A. had booed a Mexican woman after she had made a mistake like that by tripping, and mocked her the whole week, we'd be talking, the PC-dispensers of the major newspapers and the media would be going all over it, saying how terrible a country we are. I'm serious, I don't know why they do it. They want to have good relations with us. This is not Vicente Fox, this is not the PAN politics that gets people elected down there. It must be a minority of elite or angry people. But this is the kind of thing that people do remember. . . They didn't feel much for her, did they? They saw it as a chance to dump on us.

When the producers showed, yet again, the footage of Rachel Smith tripping, a miffed Matthews interjected:

I think MSNBC ran this 4,000 times today. Let's not us do it again. Can we stop this joke? Let's stop now. Let's stop doing that picture. Somebody seems to get a kick out of that, somebody who doesn't like women or something.

ASIDE: During a subsequent panel, Patrick Buchanan described the Mexicans who booed as "a bunch of bums."

Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net

[RichInOC]

“They can’t do that to our beauty queen!”
“Only we can do that to our beauty queen.”

[capydick]

I'm serious, I don't know why they do it.

They do it because they hate the US Chrissy. I'm sure you would have the same incredulous question after another Al Qaida attack here. Your liberal view of the real world is ignorant.

They want to have good relations with us.

No they dont Chrissy. See above.

[apro]

“They can’t do that to our beauty queen!” “Only we can do that to our beauty queen.”

Wrong beauty queen.

[Othniel]

Yeah, you want to see how Mexicans feel about the US, go to a soccer game sometime where an American team is playing a Mexican team. Shouts, taunts, yelling,"Osama, Osama," throwing beer at our players, whistling through the national anthem. What a bunch of jerks.

The immigration bill is a bunch of crap. Why not enforce the laws already there, and send their butts back across the border?

[rockrr]

liberals suck (but mexicans swallow)

[nativist]

Must be the same group that booed the US soccer team in LA.

[Digger]

Grissy, the dumb rock that he is could never understand that he thru his mouth are part of the cause.

[Esther Ruth]

The incident did show how low uncultured and crude they can be down Mexico way

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Mexican women I am seeing around the Chicago area and suburbs lately, many of the young ones seem extremely catty, predatory, vixen like, wicked and p.o’d. This can’t be good for family values, marriages, what is left of the ones that are left. I really had a much different preconceived idea of what these women may be like. Thought they would be sweet, demure, ol fashion and loving. We is in trouble.

[Duke Nukum]

Well, you know, Mexico, so rich in natural resources, is a cesspool for a reason.

It is a people that make a country. America is wealthy because of the people. Mexico is a poor cesspool because of the people.

I don’t see a way around it.

One doesn’t purify a cesspool by allowing the cesspool water to seep into the drinking well.

[dennisw]

Mexican women I am seeing around the Chicago area and suburbs lately, many of the young ones seem extremely catty, predatory, vixen like, wicked and p.o’d. This can’t be good for family values, marriages, what is left of the ones that are left. I really had a much different preconceived idea of what these women may be like. Thought they would be sweet, demure, ol fashion and loving. We is in trouble.

They were probably more like that 30 years ago. American morals have degenerated and so have Mexican.
It's nonsense about how traditionally Catholic these illegals are. They are a mishmash

[OkieDoke]

Chrissie thought they were booing John Edwards . . . .
Chris—chill! It wasn’t America’s Breck Girl.

[Sender]

U.S. soccer team faces chants of 'Osama'

GUADALAJARA, Mexico Feb 11, 2004 - The boos nearly drowned out “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and a few dozen fans chanted “Osama! Osama!” as the United States was eliminated by Mexico in Olympic men’s soccer qualifying.

A loud anti-American crowd hollered as Mexico beat the United States 4-0 Tuesday night in the under-23 tournament, claiming a berth in the Athens Olympics. Mexico had already eliminated the U.S. baseball team from Olympic contention.

As U.S. players left the stadium for their bus, several fans — some clutching beers — chanted “Osama! Osama!” in reference to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

[SquirrelKing]

Great title!

[Silly]

Sing to the tune of God Bless The U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood

Just because our girl can't walk or stand,
Don't mock Miss U.S.A.!

[GOP Poet]

Yes but especially because we send them millions and billions of OUR dollars. Who wants their paycheck stopped for doing absolutely nothing? How DARE we.

[GOP Poet]

REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!!!!! :-)

[LouAvul]

I normally don’t like analogies but that is an excellent analogy.

[Razz Barry]

You are correct. A country can only be as great as its people. Every time someone gives me that tired line, “We are a country of immigrants”, I first tell them no, more of us were born here than immigrated, 2nd, our founders, as with Canada, immigrated from western Europe, not the cesspools of Latin America. They’re worlds apart.

[iThinkBig]

“What... somebody slipped Chris some testosterone? He’s having very unusual reactions for sure.”

Nah, at the end of the day he is an American. Just a tool of the left most of the time and gets paid well for it.