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.
I’m sure Franklin Graham grieves for Chrissie’s lost eternal soul.
It's madness to try to unravel Chris Matthews' worldview, because it is madness. He appears to have hardened over at some point, maybe when he was working for Tim O'Neill, and he can't approach any subject with humility or respect because it threatens his idolatry of Liberal icons.
There's not a "dime's worth of difference" between accusing Rick Santorum of being "a theocrat" and the anti-Catholic bigotry, particularly of the late 18th to early 20th century.
And accusing Franklin Graham of being "a disgrace" is demonic. The very heart of the man's preaching, like his father before him, is grace, itself, the gift of the unmerited favor of God through the finished work of Christ.
Matthews may be the aging and slightly mad dog of the Democrat junkyard, one of the most fearful-sounding among them, and almost guaranteed to be among the first to bark, obeying the slightest impulse to warn his social circle about his fears, regardless of the real danger. Barking at every little noise in the night, miles away.
Always remember that Chris Matthews was replaced by an orange traffic cone.
He's a ROMAN CATHOLIC. If that scares you you should probably stay home on primary day. Bears might attack you on your way into the polling booth.
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