Posted on 06/09/2010 12:27:27 PM PDT by 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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From Tingles lips to God's ear....
“They believe the Federal Govornment is London...”
No, Chris, the Feds have become far worse than London ever was - get it right.
Actually he may have a point: Kenya was a British possession I believe.
Obama has said on tape that the Constitution limits the powers of government. In the same passage of tape, he indicates that this poses an obstacle to some of the agenda items he would like to advance. He indicates that the Supreme Court can be used to push through the laws that would otherwise be unconstitutional.
It is about personal liberty and limiting the power of government. This is no call for the "establishment of a new government" or "rejection of the existing Constitution", both of which Communist Party USA and other Left Wing groups ROUTINELY call for via violent revolution.
Chris Matthews is a revisionist historian, partisan hack, and useful idiot.
King George and his ministers never dared dream of doing what our masters in D.C. do to us.
Matthews interpretation is not so perverted of version of it. I was a little shocked at a Tea Party I went to last year where a section of the Declaration of Independence was read.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government,..."
The biggest applause line was "or to abolish it". When a crowd that is primarily middle-aged, middle-class and white is cheering abolishing the government, then something big is brewing in the country.
Matthews finally got one right. The subversion of the Constitution of the United States of America is serious business. If the socialists in power want to violate our Constitution, the proper process is to pass an amendment first so that their immoral actions will at least be legal. In the absence of such an amendment, many of their actions are unconstitutional. If our Constitutional republic is being governed in an unconstitutional manner, then we do have an occupying force, and we have reason to question the legality of their actions and to resist illegal government actions.
You have that right. The size and the reach of our tyrannical government is much greater.
What can you say about someone who gets tingles down his leg about another guy?
(Apologies to my gay friends - I know you guys are OK.)
Chris is really R E A C H I N G in his effort to misrepresent the Tea Party groups.
He lets himself get so confused because he is forever tripping over his own bias.
That happened a long time ago; it's just that more people are waking up to it now.
Chrissy thinks the reason people don’t listen to him is because they are stupid, so he keeps getting stupider and stupider.
Talking about kicking ass - I’d pay to get the chance to kick his!
He's right, and it's been done before. DWI and now seatbelt roadblocks ARE unconstitutional, but allowed via SCOTUS ruling.
He is right about one thing. It is SERIOUS business.
He’s also forever slipping on his own slobber.
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