Posted on 06/07/2013 3:46:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via NRO and John Ekdahl, Matthews has made this point many times before, usually with references to Horatio Alger, but it feels extra special after a long week of President Perfect completely betraying the Hopenchange ethos of his first presidential campaign. It’s not the cheap racial demagoguery that gets me here; that’s par for the course both for him and his network, where you’ll find far dumber examples of it than this. What gets me is that a guy who’s spent his adult life in politics reacts to the dynamics of ideological differences and partisanship like a college student would.
Righties dislike O because he’s a statist liberal, and sometimes an aggressive one; if Hillary wins, she’ll be hated for the same reason. Obama’s personal behavior is better than lots of pols’, but plenty of politicians who are more or less decent people in their personal conduct are roundly hated by the other team. Paul Ryan’s a nice guy with a lovely family whom the lefty commentariat loathes because they think he wants to kill grandma. Marco Rubio also seems like a decent person with a nice family; he’ll be the second coming of Hitler in 2016 to the left if he’s the nominee, his shilling for immigration reform notwithstanding. Many people who know Mitt Romney will tell you he’s a warm, generous guy in person; he’s lived cleanly too, apart from his unforgivable crime of making lots and lots of money in business. (Note Matthews’s reference to “money-grubbing” in the clip. For shame, Mitt.) All of them already are or will be regarded by liberals as monsters, not because they have any deep objection to them as people but because they’re roadblocks on the path to the society liberals want America to be. That’s politics. When you know the way to paradise, everyone in your way is the devil. And every single person reading this grasps that already. So how is it the guy who doesn’t, who shrieks like a five-year-old over political animosities, has his own TV show?
Look on the bright side. As bad as this is, it probably doesn’t crack MSNBC’s bottom 10 of the week. That’s a low, low bar.
Jesus never did anything wrong and they crucified him. So, little Chrissy, perhaps we aren’t done with YOUR savior yet.
No democrat has ever done anything wrong according to Spitboy and that includes Stalin.
Pray for America to Wake Up
chrissy is insane. I heard his full comments earlier. For his own good, he needs committed.
Chris who? If it were not for FR, I would not know what he says.
This man is an embarrassment.
I am so sick of people parsing and avoiding the plain facts.
Could someone submit to the Washington Post Fact checker the statement by Chris Mathews to see how many Pinocchio's it gets?
Chris can either sing the party song or be shipped off to the Gulag camp.
His occasional truthful notes are permitted because they temporarily raise his reputation and that of the channel (raise it so it can be dashed once again when it issues more tripe as a propaganda organ of the Left).
Sounds like that tingle has finally made it all the way up his leg, up his torso and into his head where it rattled what pretends to be his brain!
Maybe because he has never done anything RIGHT.
OK Chrissy... answer this:
Why do people like Obama when he's never done anything right?
And picking his skin color doesn't count.
What has ZerO done right?
I’ve read a lot of lib columnists in my lifetime, and virtually every column they write professes disbelief at the failure of conservatives to champion all the goofy lib/leftist schemes/scams that come down the pike. “Why, oh why don’t those nasty conservatives love all the great radical-leftist ideas the latest (meathead) Dem pol wants to inflict on the country?” they wail. I’m trying to remember a lib columnist who actually took the time and effort to discuss conservative ideology and grasp that maybe more government wasn’t a good solution to a particular problem. But I won’t hold my breath waiting for one.
I’ve read a lot of lib columnists in my lifetime, and virtually every column they write professes shock and disbelief at the failure of conservatives to champion all the goofy lib/leftist schemes/scams that come down the pike. “Why, oh why don’t those nasty conservatives love all the great ideas the latest (meathead) Dem pol wants to inflict on the country?” they wail. I’m trying to remember a lib columnist who actually took the time and effort to discuss conservative ideology and grasp that maybe more government wasn’t a good solution to a particular problem. But I won’t hold my breath waiting for one.
RE: What has ZerO done right?
What about the killing of Osama Bin Ladin?
Hey Chris - would love to see you ask Obama this question.....
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