Posted on 02/09/2012 11:01:49 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Only two days after admitting that Barack Obama has a problem with his "frightening" birth control decision, Chris Matthews on Thursday was back on offense. He berated Rick Santorum as a "theocrat" and knocked Reverend Franklin Graham as a "disgrace."
The Hardball host singled out Family Research Council President Tony Perkins as the representative of all those who would question Obama's faith. Matthews interrogated, "Tony, do you think this president is a Muslim?" He added, "Why [do] your people" make such allegations?
An exasperated Perkins replied, "no" and shot back, "My people?...The things that we have said have always been about the President's policies. That's what we can clearly analyze. I don't know what's in a man's heart."
Matthews sought to draw a distinction between Obama and Santorum, mocking, "Tony, there's a big difference...between being a theocrat and believing a president should impose his religious believes and someone who is anti-religious."
The liberal anchor brought up Santorum's 2005 speech on the Senate floor about the Terri Schiavo: "Don't you think that's verging on more theocracy in this country than the French Revolution?"
Matthews previously smeared Rick Santorumon on January 5, 2012, saying that the former senator wants a "theocracy" that will "trump the Constitution."
A partial transcript can be found below:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Franklin Graham is a disgrace. Okay? I don't think he's the typical Christian minister, do you? With his commentaries on Islam and his comment- his partisanship?...
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Tony, there's a big difference and a lot of space- and we call it America- between being a theocrat and believing a president should impose his religious believes and someone who is anti-religious. I mean, let's talk about Santorum here. You gotta play defense a little bit here. You think Santorum is legitimate? Santorum, during the Schiavo case, went into the Senate floor with just two other senators and he played chaplain that night when the Senate- [Video of CPAC appears onscreen. Santorum is praying with some people.] Look here. Laying hands or whatever you called it going on here. A religious-style crusade for the President of the United States. He was the guy that brought this session, intervening in the Schiavo case in Florida, which I think cost him his seat by the way, and played chaplain. Don't you think that's overreach? Don't you think that's verging on more theocracy in this country than the French Revolution?
TONY PERKINS: No. When you're actually talking about theocracy, you see this administration using its power to impose this ideology and extract allegiance from the public.
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MATTHEWS: Tony, do you think this president is a Muslim?
PERKINS: No.
MATTHEWS: Why does your people, why do people like Rick Santorum standby-
PERKINS: My people?
MATTHEWS: Well, Rick Santorum stands by while a person, right in front of his face, accuses the President of being a Muslim. And he says nothing about it.
PERKINS: [exasperated]: I don't know. I mean, look, the things that we have said have always been about the President's policies. That's what we can clearly analyze. I don't know what's in a man's heart. I don't know if he's accepted Christ as his savior. If he says he has, that's between him and God.
He’s not Christian or Muslim but he often sides with the muslims just like lots of other secular leftists.
Levin has stated that he'll vote for the Republican nominee. After ripping Myth a new asshole tonight, he even said that Romney possesses a compelling quality...that "he's not Obama."
LOL
Matthews well, he’s Matthews- Rick will lose women voters.
Isn’t 0bama the one currently trying to force his theology on Christian churches through the law? Matthews is a terribly unstable guy.
Van Jones isn’t Obama, either.
In the end, I say vote your own conscience. To heck with these talkers. Me, I vote for Newt. If Newt goes down, I will do a write in. RS's far right religion scares me. He cannot beat Obama. The media will crust him. Newt has already went thru the vetting ringer. Imo.
Chris Matthews DESPISES ANYTHING GOOD and GODLY!!! He is a pathetic little man.
“RS’s far right religion scares me. “
He’s a Catholic, just like Newt. Scary isn’t it?
RS’s far right religion scares me...Catholics are far right? When the hell did that happen? Sure weren’t when I was in high school, college.
Matthews is a disgrace.
Franklin Graham has fed more people than Matthews can possibly imagine. I have nothing but contempt for those that criticize people that have totally devoted their lives for the good of others. Chris Matthews should look at the following link and weep in shame.
http://master.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/In_Pictures/
I am Catholic... I don’t push my beliefs on others...
I’m Jewish. I have no problem with Catholics who want to save the lives of babies. I do have a problem with those who want to do nothing.
I have been a Newt supporter but I don’t wish to be associated with you. If you will not vote for Sen Santorum, if he’s the nominee, than you are a loser. In fact you’re a disgrace to all conservatives.
If you think that Sen. Santorum will lose more women voters than Newt will, than you’re just plain nuts.
HIs name is now officially **** chris matthews.
LLS
Saving lives and railing against sexual deviancy is not theocracy but basic ethics and morality that is self evident to anyone.
It’s self evident to anyone who is not an immoral deviant.
“It’s self evident to anyone who is not an immoral deviant.”
Even the secular Russians in Brooklyn, once shown examples of Weprin’s support for gays, understood that this was disgusting and not normal.
I recommend he take a good long look at the provisions for people with his condition within the Obamacare law.
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