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MSNBC host: Paul Ryan quoting Thomas Jefferson a 'lovely thing' for 'a wealthy white man' (Video)
The Daily Caller ^ | August 13, 2012 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 08/13/2012 8:24:25 AM PDT by Rufus2007

On a special broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball” on Saturday, weekend morning host Melissa Harris-Perry expressed her displeasure with the selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s running mate.

In particular, Harris-Perry took issue with Ryan quoting Thomas Jefferson’s line in the Declaration of Independence, in which he declared rights come from God and nature and not from government.

“The thing I really have against him is actually how he and Gov. Romney have misused the Declaration of Independence,” she said. “I’m deeply irritated by their notion that the ‘pursuit of happiness’ means money for the richest and that we extricate the capacity of ordinary people to pursue happiness. When they say ‘God and nature give us our rights, not government,’ that is a lovely thing to say as a wealthy white man.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: melissaharrisperry; msnbc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; paulryan; romney2012; ryan
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I mean, I know it's MSNBC but COME ON.

It shows a real lack of understanding the American concept to key in on that and play victim.

1 posted on 08/13/2012 8:24:31 AM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

Wow, A twofer !

They get to condemn his wealth and his skin color at the same time!................


2 posted on 08/13/2012 8:25:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: Rufus2007

Never trust a dash woman. That hyphen tell you all you need to know.


3 posted on 08/13/2012 8:26:29 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Rufus2007
Quoting Karl Marx is a lovely thing for a half-white wealthy man.
4 posted on 08/13/2012 8:28:55 AM PDT by JPG (Make it happen.)
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...and that we extricate the capacity of ordinary people to pursue happiness.

Typical pseudo-intellectual poseur.

5 posted on 08/13/2012 8:29:52 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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When they say ‘God and nature give us our rights, not government,’ that is a lovely thing to say as a wealthy white man.”

Is this from an episode of “When Idiots Speak”?
Was she wearing a lapel pin that stated “Yes I am a racist”? Was it underneath a Communist Hammer and Sickle?


6 posted on 08/13/2012 8:31:07 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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the racism and th eleft is always there, they just cannot help themselves with it, they are infatuated with colour.


7 posted on 08/13/2012 8:32:58 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Rufus2007

That’s pretty good coming from a successful ($), female, black TV host.


8 posted on 08/13/2012 8:33:29 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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The liberals do not like that Jefferson wrote “all men are created equal”. The liberals say that Jefferson literally meant males, and only males of a certain social pedigree.

We’ve all heard that old saw, that the founding fathers were worthless human beings because they allowed for slavery to continue, didn’t give women the right to vote, didn’t celebrate homosexual diversity, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Since the founding fathers of the 18th century didn’t have a politically correct 21st century worldview, they are worthless, per the most extreme liberal/radical types.

I suspect that Mrs. Harris-Perry is liberal/radical in her views.


9 posted on 08/13/2012 8:33:46 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Never trust a dash woman.

"Marcie Dahlgren-Frost. Dahlgren is my maiden name, Frost is my married name. I'm single again, but I never bothered to remove the Frost. And I get compliments on the hyphen."


10 posted on 08/13/2012 8:33:46 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.)
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Perhaps she has missed obama spitting on the Constitution, or him channeling Washington, Lincoln, King, Kennedy, and his favorites Alinsky and Stalin. Perhaps she had better give -up her well paid job and become a factory worker or a cashier so people won't think she's a high paid black woman with white aspirations!
11 posted on 08/13/2012 8:34:09 AM PDT by mardi59 (THE REBELLION IS ON!!! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!)
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12 posted on 08/13/2012 8:35:52 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: mardi59

She looks part white to me. Does that make her a partial self-hater?


13 posted on 08/13/2012 8:37:19 AM PDT by mkboyce
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A female obama. She’s a self hating black woman.


14 posted on 08/13/2012 8:39:39 AM PDT by mardi59 (THE REBELLION IS ON!!! LET THE GAMES BEGIN!)
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To: Rufus2007

What a pathetic woman. Western civilization is not for everyone.


15 posted on 08/13/2012 8:40:54 AM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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...we extricate the capacity of ordinary people

And if those ordinary people just happen to be union members, that extrication comes at a hefty price!

16 posted on 08/13/2012 8:40:54 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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Missy & tingly missed that it was the
Republican Party that freed the slaves,
thus fulfilling the Declaration.

The Democrat Party has always chosen
to enslave America to the Federal Government,
citing Satan and Darwin.


17 posted on 08/13/2012 8:41:29 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: Rufus2007

At least Jefferson only screwed one slave at a time instead of three hundred million.


18 posted on 08/13/2012 8:41:41 AM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: facedown
Typical pseudo-intellectual poseur.

Yes, but it plays well to the other pseudo-intellectual poseurs who speak the same kind of gibberish and vote Democrat.

19 posted on 08/13/2012 8:44:10 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Red Badger
Wow, A twofer !

Yup, a double bagger for sure!

20 posted on 08/13/2012 8:48:45 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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