Matthews: 'Is Sarah Palin a Poster Girl for Racism?' ...(Now Obama, this here is STUPIDITY)

News Busters ^ | August 6, 2009 | Brad Wilmouth

[IrishMike]

On Wednesday's Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews hosted a discussion with Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker and Salon's Joan Walsh as the trio discussed Parker's latest column, "A Tip for the GOP: Look Away," in which she argues that the Republican party is hurt by being centered in the South with its history of racial politics. Matthews, who would later theorize that Sarah Palin will exploit white racism by visiting "cul de sacs of whitedom," set up the segment by reading a line from Parker's column which compares Palin to a white character in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird who falsely accuses a black man of raping her, leading to his false conviction and death in prison. Matthews:

Here`s a quote that really grabbed me: "That same rage was on display again in the fall of 2008, but this time the frenzy was stimulated by a pretty gal with a mocking little wink. Sarah Palin may not have realized what she was doing. But southerners, weaned on Harper Lee, heard the dog whistle." Kathleen, "heard the dog whistle." Is Sarah Palin a poster girl for racism? Yes or no?

Parker suggested that Palin is indeed a "poster girl for racism," though "not consciously," and alluded to white racism being incited by a white woman and black man being pitted against each other, as in Sarah Palin versus Barack Obama, or in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Parker:

I certainly don`t think she, Sarah Palin, knows anything about Harper Lee or this deep history in the South, where you don`t position a white woman and a black male and pretend like there`s nothing happening there. There`s a deep, deep history. That`s why I mentioned, dropped the Harper Lee in there.

[Dr. Thorne]

In the words of the great Bob Grant, Kathleen Parker is "a fake, a phony and a fraud". We have a word for her kind of Republican:

"DEMOCRAT".

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Is Chrissy wanting to be Zero’s ‘butt boy’, or something? Geesh.

[envisio]

Oh man it just gets better and better.

I would say they need to stop this, but I think its actually good that they keep it up. They are really reaching and scraping the bottom of the barrel.

I think they actually sit around and conjure this stuff up. It gets more unbelievable every time.

[Finalapproach29er]

How many minorities do you suppose live on Matthews street?

Those that presume to scold us all live in all-white neighborhoods.

Take care of your own hypocrisies first matthews.

[Paperdoll]

Yeah, they used to be Democrats. Now they are Communists under the same heading.

[SMM48]

I wish someone would rag all over these sorry SOB’s. Chrissy et all can KMA.

[Williams]

To add to our understanding of left wing insanity.

I have been reading that To Kill A Mockingbird, which is totally supportive of civil rights and tells the plight of a black man unjustly accused of a crime and a heroic white lawyer’s efforts on his behalf against a white racist community -

Is one of the most challenged books (by the left of course) because the dialogue contains racial epithets and I suppose for additional leftist reasons I cannot even begin to understand.

[Sister_T]

So is Mr. Fantastic!

[anniegetyourgun]

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/08/06/alaska-blogger-who-pushed-pali

[roses of sharon]

OMG, these are bigots and racists of the highest order.

Do they think they are talking in their living rooms or something? Do they not know they are on TV?

[IrishMike]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309727/posts

[more equal then others]

The more important question that begs for an answer is “Is Chris Matthews the poster boy for Stupidity?”

[denydenydeny]

What liberals say about Palin is what they really believe about the working class. Always.

[Uncle Ivan]

That’s an insult to whale shit.

[euram]

We can expect to see a lot more attacks on Gov. Palin. 0bama’s numbers are dropping, cap and trade has been put off until next year because it is so unpopular, and he’s having trouble seizing control of health care, because, again, the majority doesn’t want socialized medicine. So, what do they do, play the race card against the highest profile person in the republican party.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNu0mvAfhKk

[BertWheeler]

Is there any chance that what we’re told about the past is a lie? I mean, when we go to tea parties and criticize politicians for trying to ram socialized medicine down our throats the press talks about us as if we’re waving nazi flags around and yelling “death to black people”...

Is there any chance that all the stories about “our collective racial past” are fraudulent also? Was anyone here actually alive in the 1950’s and 1960’s to help me understand because I wasn’t around back then.

As for Kathleen Parker, well, she’s a media creation. She’s never been a conservative, and the only time she ever exhibits scorn is when it’s directed at conservatives.

[Wallace T.]

The Beltway “conservative” establishment is ultimately more comfortable with their fellow elitists of the leftist persuasion than with the unwashed masses south of the Rappahannock and west of the Alleghenies. (Can you really picture the likes of Peggy Noonan at a Tea Party event in, say, Shreveport, Louisiana?) They are also losing control of the conservative movement. Sarah Palin’s strong popularity among the rank and file and the rapid spread of the “Birther” beliefs despite silence on the matter from most major conservative talkers (Michael Savage being the most notable exception) and hostility to the beliefs on the part of National Review, Michael Medved, and Ann Coulter are evidence of the decline of Beltway clout.

[stayathomemom]

OF COURSE they’re going to do it every time they get a chance - until it doesn’t work any more.

Could officer Crowley be the Rosa Parks of the "I'm not a racist" movement?