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.
Said as only Chris Matthews can say it . . . (barf)
LOL keep yapping Chrissy Matthews, keep yapping..the more you talk the more Im convinced that someone dropped this fool on his head as a child
more blather from Chris Tingle
It has to be that he's just a whore who would say anything to be on TV, and being Ubama's groupie does that.
I suspect that there is a Jay Leno lurking beneath that sleazy surface that would erupt in a heartbeat if he ever loses his TV gig.
Right. And he has absolutely nothing to do with any of the scandals that are percolating to the surface.
It,s because IRS is the new n word. Even though Obama is a biracial.
Considering Chrissy once admitted he was an Alinskyite, can he really say this with a straight face?
The biggest/worst thing Hussein has done wrong was to choose the wrong line of work.
Is Chris lobbying for the Paid Liar’s job?
Obama ha never done any thing right?
What exactly does this forward and lean forward mean?
Okay Chris, take 2 Xanax and don’t call us, we’ll call you.
Well shock for your Chrissy we don’t like you either!
“Said as only Chris Matthews could say it...”
yes, indeed... I feel a big tingle up my leg right now!
Chrissy, we’re just mean spirited about the destruction of America. Not that there is anything wrong with that. We’re just touchy about it. I hope you and your bath buddy will forgive our short sightedness.
Because he’s only half Black?
I don’t dislike Obama. I hate his friggin guts
People don’t like people who screw them over with a big grin.
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