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Now Chris Matthews Thinks The Word 'Urban' Is Racist
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Posted on 11/14/2012 6:15:24 PM PST by chessplayer

The list of words MSNBC's Chris Matthews believes are racist if uttered by a conservative got longer on Wednesday.

You can now add "urban" which offended Matthews when Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) said it during an interview Monday, but didn't bother the Hardball host in the slightest when Salon's Joan Walsh said it on his own program two days later (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

"There's more of this dog whistle crap going on," said Matthews before he introduced guests Walsh and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Cynthia Tucker.

Really? So if a conservative talks about urban, suburban, and ex-urban voters just like anyone else might, he or she is being racist?

Do only blacks live in cities in America? There are no whites in Manhattan, Boston, or Philadelphia?

Apparently not.

But the really delicious part came a few moments later when Walsh referred to urban and suburban voting areas without a squawk from Matthews.

"Paul Ryan lost his home district, lost his city, his hometown, let's just say that, which is not a particularly urban place," Walsh said without any pushback from Matthews.


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To: chessplayer

Towhead Matthews certainly has a race fixation.


21 posted on 11/14/2012 6:49:17 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: GeronL
So I suppose Pope Urban was a racist too?


22 posted on 11/14/2012 7:06:15 PM PST by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: chessplayer
Mr. Tingles sees a racist under every bed and in every closet (and not a one of them is a person of color).
23 posted on 11/14/2012 7:06:57 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: chessplayer

Oh, let’s add words to help the media...

Baby Daddy
Baby Momma

Have those been picked up yet?


24 posted on 11/14/2012 7:08:06 PM PST by Bronzy
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To: Bronzy

How about those living in the black slums be known as living in the back woods. That isn’t racist and it is rural, has nothing to do with cities.


25 posted on 11/14/2012 7:12:27 PM PST by YukonGreen
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To: chessplayer
"Paul Ryan lost his home district, lost his city, his hometown, let's just say that, which is not a particularly urban place," Walsh said without any pushback from Matthews.

Paul Ryan won his congressional district as congressman this year. 55% which isn't bad considering he was on the ballot twice.

Also Janesville isn't a city or urban place? It has 65,000 people and the biggest city in the county.

26 posted on 11/14/2012 7:16:32 PM PST by Darren McCarty (If most people were more than keyboard warriors, we might have won the election)
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To: Old Sarge

Chrisie Boy needs to check in the Mayo Clinic with Jesse Jackson Jr. They can go through treatment together.


27 posted on 11/14/2012 7:16:37 PM PST by YukonGreen
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To: ConservativeStatement

Actually the racists live in the urban areas


28 posted on 11/14/2012 7:16:37 PM PST by Josa
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To: chessplayer

My dog whistle has made the words “Chris Matthews” deeply offensive and they bring on projectile vomiting.


29 posted on 11/14/2012 7:17:23 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: chessplayer
??

30 posted on 11/14/2012 7:30:31 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend)
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To: Josa
Blacks are more racist than Whites

~ Larry Elder, "The Ten Things You Can't Say In America"

31 posted on 11/14/2012 7:31:07 PM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: YukonGreen

Rural? Never heard of it before Rap Music.

“...do with cities.” Ain’t cities racist?


32 posted on 11/14/2012 7:34:43 PM PST by Bronzy
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To: chessplayer

Mr. Matthews - the key to a long career in your chosen field is not to swallow.


33 posted on 11/14/2012 7:39:02 PM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: chessplayer
The Pope would not be pleased


34 posted on 11/14/2012 7:40:05 PM PST by Mike Darancette (I don't understand why the Boomers are so passive.)
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To: chessplayer

The good news is that before long, Chrissy won’t be able to utter a word, as every word would be declared racist. The really good news is that nobody is watching his loser show except the MSNBC folks that need story lines. Poor Chrissy, he will soon tingle himself to pieces.


35 posted on 11/14/2012 7:44:34 PM PST by 2010Freeper
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To: chessplayer

The good news is that before long, Chrissy won’t be able to utter a word, as every word would be declared racist. The really good news is that nobody is watching his loser show except the MSNBC folks that need story lines. Poor Chrissy, he will soon tingle himself to pieces.


36 posted on 11/14/2012 7:44:46 PM PST by 2010Freeper
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To: chessplayer

I think Chris Matthews is racist.


37 posted on 11/14/2012 7:47:02 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: chessplayer

Would your husband say he is more Urban or Rural?

Very funny. Not racist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxAoMaDvwk0&feature=youtube_gdata_player


38 posted on 11/14/2012 8:50:27 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: chessplayer

I was listening to a discussion of urban schools that included a black education professor. She used the term clearly to mean schools with large minority enrollment, since some of the urban schools she referred to were actually in suburbs. How about that?


39 posted on 11/14/2012 9:30:12 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: chessplayer

Chris is giving a bad name to mental illness.


40 posted on 11/15/2012 7:52:21 AM PST by Calpublican
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