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Chris Matthews: 'Normally' Domestic Terrorists 'Tend to Be on the Far Right'
NewsBusters.org ^ | April 15, 2013 | Scott Whitlock

Posted on 04/15/2013 5:49:00 PM PDT by Kaslin

Just hours after explosions rocked the Boston Marathon on Monday, Chris Matthews speculated, "Normally domestic terrorists, people, tend to be on the far right." He then reconsidered and suggested, "...That’s not a good category, just extremists, let’s call them that." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]

During live coverage, the Hardball host highlighted a possible explosion at John F. Kennedy's presidential library and thought this could be a personal attack on the Democratic Party: "...But going after the Kennedy Library, not something at Bunker Hill, not something from the Freedom Trail or anything that kind of historic, but a modern political figure of the Democratic Party. Does that tell you something?" (Police are now considering the incident at the JFK library to be fire-related.) One can only guess what it tells Chris.

Chris Matthews: 'Normally' Domestic Terrorists 'Tend to Be on the Right'

Has Matthews not heard of left-wing domestic terrorists such as William Ayers or the Weather Underground?

[Thanks to the MRC's Jeff Meyer for assistance with the video and transcript.]

A transcript of the April 15 segment is below:

5:17pm ET

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about domestic terrorism as a category. Normally, domestic terrorists, people tend to be on the far right, well that’s not a good category, just extremists, let’s call them that. Do they advertise after they do something like this? Do they try to get credit as a group or do they just hate America so much or its politics or its government that they just want to do the damage, they don't care if they get public credit, if you will?

MICHAEL LEITER: What we'll see over the coming couple hours and days is lots of people taking credit for this. We'll probably have al-Qaeda take credit for it. We'll have domestic terrorists take credit for it. And it will be the responsibility of the FBI and the Boston police to figure out if any of those are actually real cases like Timothy McVeigh destroying the Oklahoma City courthouse federal building; no one took credit for that. So it might be some time or never that someone actually takes credit for this. Lots of people will say they were responsible for it.

MATTHEWS: I was just thinking, again, it's early; it's an early situation, but going after the Kennedy Library, not something at Bunker Hill, not something from the freedom trail or anything that kind of historic, but a modern political figure of the Democratic Party. Does that tell you anything?



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: chrishasyphillis; chrismatthews; hardball; leftwinglunatic; syphillis
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The left is so predictable
1 posted on 04/15/2013 5:49:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
BULLSTALIN

To paraphrase Chris Matthews, "when I find myself in times of trouble, I just try to recall Saul Alinsky..."

2 posted on 04/15/2013 5:50:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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Hey Chrissy, I challenge you to name one


3 posted on 04/15/2013 5:51:02 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Kaslin

Like the unibomber?


4 posted on 04/15/2013 5:51:38 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Kaslin

Us prisons overflow with domestic terrorists. Each one a democrat.


5 posted on 04/15/2013 5:51:59 PM PDT by NoLibZone (None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
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To: Kaslin

He is such a piece of sh&t!!!


6 posted on 04/15/2013 5:52:12 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Kaslin

how can he say that with a straight face? someone better call his ass on it... liar!


7 posted on 04/15/2013 5:53:01 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: Kaslin

Where did he come up with that? Ted Kazinsky, the Unabomber, was right wing? The guy who crashed the plane into the tax service building? Timothy McVeigh wasn’t right wing no matter hard they try to make him out to be.

Trying to think of a recent right wing terrorist. Maybe Eric Robert Rudolf?


8 posted on 04/15/2013 5:53:42 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: cripplecreek
Like the unibomber?

More like Bill Ayers.

9 posted on 04/15/2013 5:53:43 PM PDT by grobdriver
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To: Kaslin

Commie thugs who have nothing better to do than go on TV and make light of a tragedy for their own political gain “Normally” come from the left..just thought I’d put that out there


10 posted on 04/15/2013 5:53:46 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Kaslin

He is in the final stages of syphillis.

I am not at liberty to say how I know this.

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11 posted on 04/15/2013 5:54:38 PM PDT by NoLibZone (None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
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To: Kaslin

I never knew Bill Ayers was far right!


12 posted on 04/15/2013 5:55:13 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Kaslin

Chris does realize that if this bomber was an angry white Tea Party male, his picture would already be “out there” everywhere. That’s how I know this bomber is a Muslim. No pictures.


13 posted on 04/15/2013 5:55:55 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: Kaslin

Weather Underground, ELF, ALF, Unibomber.


14 posted on 04/15/2013 5:56:17 PM PDT by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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To: Kaslin

Its not even worth responding to. That person, Chris Matthews, is bats**t crazy. Him and all 5 of his viewers.


15 posted on 04/15/2013 5:56:59 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: cripplecreek
Obama’s buddy buddy Bill Ayers.
16 posted on 04/15/2013 5:57:13 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Kaslin

17 posted on 04/15/2013 5:57:58 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: cripplecreek
Like the unibomber?

And the Weather Underground, and the Symbionese Liberation Army, and...

Lots of "tea party" types in those groups. /sarcasm

18 posted on 04/15/2013 5:58:33 PM PDT by holymoly (I hope this isn't double posting again.)
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To: dhs12345

And dozens since. Several occupy types in the last few years alone.


19 posted on 04/15/2013 5:59:03 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Kaslin
useless asshat

geez.

20 posted on 04/15/2013 5:59:57 PM PDT by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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