Matthews Perverts Tea Party Movement: Participants View Federal Government as British Occupiers

Newsbusters ^ | June 9, 2010 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

MSNBC's Chris Matthews's ratings lag far behind those of his competition, Fox News' Glenn Beck, on a regular basis. So is he perhaps trying to become the anti-Glenn Beck to bolster his stature in the cable news world?

On MSNBC's June 9 "Andrea Mitchell Reports," Matthews commented on the Gadsden flag, as if it represented an attitude that viewed the federal government as a occupying force, comparable to pre-Revolutionary War America.

"You know that Gadsden flag, the ‘Don't Tread on Me Flag' with a rattlesnake is so important," Matthews said. "They believe, a lot of people in the right - that the federal government has replaced the British as the occupying force in North America and they have to be ready to fight it. It's serious business."

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[Durus]

"You know that Gadsden flag, the ‘Don't Tread on Me Flag' with a rattlesnake is so important," Matthews said. "They believe, a lot of people in the right - that the federal government has replaced the British as the occupying force in North America and they have to be ready to fight it. It's serious business."

It's a bit of a meandering thought as is typical of Matthews, but, in a rare lucid moment he actually stumbles over a truth. The Gadsden flag is important as it was a symbol of defiance in the face of tyranny. Our Founding Fathers created the constitution to prevent tyranny or failing that it provided protection to the rights we would need to fight tyranny. While I wouldn't say that the majority of conservatives feel that the Federal Government is equally tyrannous as was British rule, we always have to be ready to fight tyranny and we always need to be watchful for incremental encroachment. The lustful desire for power in certain people never sleeps, and there is always another to take their place if they fail. People that wish for freedom and justice must be equally implacable. Chris Matthews need not question our resolve. It's that resolve he must demonize it as it stands in the way of his socialist utopia where he and his ilk will bear all of the ill gotten power they so desperately crave.

[Hacklehead]

Chris doesnt understand that we have replaced one tyrant 3000 miles away with 3000 tyrants 1 mile away. And were SICK OF IT!

[WKUHilltopper]

STFU, Matthews...you traitorous SOB. Go suck up to your fascist buddies.

[cubreporter]

Still spittin’ after all these years... :)

[mo]

And how is it NOT? The FEDS are far more intrusive to communities than any British King ever dared!!

[Oldpuppymax]

Well as a matter of fact, Chrissy...you’re RIGHT. I have a Gadsden which I fly every day. And I DO have a bunch of guns. But it’s been weeks and weeks since I shot a “revenuer!”

[TruthConquers]

Matthews Perverts Tea Party Movement: Participants View Federal Government as British Occupiers Royalists,

Then it is very simple.

Royalists = Elitists

I have wondered for a while if the Northeastern tendency towards elitism was to be found in the loser Royalist mindset.

[kittymyrib]

King George taxed pennies on a dollar. Our jack-booted masters take our pay-check dollars and leave us pennies for our families.

[SMARTY]

Now, THAT’S funny!!

[WKUHilltopper]

“They believe Washington is London.”

Idiot. No, Washington is Berlin-1935.

[Dem Guard]

"You know that Gadsden flag, the ‘Don't Tread on Me Flag' with a rattlesnake is so important," Matthews said. "They believe, a lot of people in the right - that the federal government has replaced the British as the occupying force in North America and they have to be ready to fight it. It's serious business."

After 18 months this is what this "informed" media person has to say about the Tea Party movement? How embarrassing for him!

[TigersEye]

...and they have to be ready to fight it.

Have to be ready? A lot of us were born ready, Chrissy. We're Americans not socialists or communists or Chicago gangsters.

[Plummz]

BP.... British President

[Red Steel]

Matthews is completely deranged.

[omegadawn]

This country is waking up I hope it’s not to late. My friends in the South are the Confederate Battle flag as a protest against obama and my friends in the North are flyibg the Gladsen flag in protest against obama. . North and South uniting agains one common foe, obama. Ain’t it wonderful!

[El Gato]

The British were the government prior to the revolution.

No taxation without representation, and all that. The colonists were at first fighting for their rights as Englishmen.

The British were not foreign occupiers. Our government may however be headed by a foreign occupier. Certainly those who wrote the Constitution would consider the child of a British father to be a foreigner, for purposes eligibility at least.

[Oceander]

[Uncle Chip]

that the federal government has replaced the British as the occupying force in North America

Perhaps for the first time in Chrissy's life, he is on to something.

[steamroller]

I’d like to “pie” him wifh a dog-crap meringue.

[panaxanax]

“But it’s been weeks and weeks since I shot a “revenuer!”

LOL. You’re lagging behind, my FRiend! We try to shoot at least two a week up here in our neck of the woods.

My Gadsden is proudly waving in the breeze right now.