Posted on 12/20/2013 9:32:58 AM PST by Kaslin
MSNBCs Chris Matthews took a break from his nightly Hardball tirade to grace the set of Morning Joe to unload on the GOP for opposing extending unemployment benefits and increasing the minimum wage.
Appearing on December 20, the Hardball host proclaimed that Republicans dont like these bums and proceeded to call Republicans these racists for opposing liberal policies on unemployment benefits and raising the minimum wage
Chris Matthews: Youre Racist If Youre Against Raising The Minimum Wage
Matthews began his Friday morning rant by proclaiming:
There's a conflict on the right, hard right, nasty right. If you make fun of people for being unemployed or being underemployed and you get food stamps and stuff like that. Help them make more money. Are you against the working poor, people catching the bus at 6:30 in the morning and work 40-50 hours a week? Are they bad guys or good guys? They’re good guys. Treat them like good guys.
In Matthews’ distorted view of reality, refusing to extend unemployment benefits -- which max out at 99 weeks in many states -- is racist and that you view those individuals as lazy “bums.” Rather than looking at the plethora of data that shows that extending unemployment benefits hinders job creation, Matthews would rather throw extreme statements at Republicans, going so far as to use the typical MSNBC line of calling the GOP racist and bigoted for opposing liberal policies.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
December 20, 2013
7:34 a.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS: See theres a problem here. There's a conflict on the right, hard right, nasty right. If you make fun of people for being unemployed or being underemployed and you get food stamps and stuff like that. Help them make more money. Are you against the working poor, people catching the bus at 6:30 in the morning and work 40-50 hours a week? Are they bad guys or good guys? Theyre good guys. Treat them like good guys. You can't make enemies of all the working poor and the poor and say we don't like the bums or the ones with fancy fingernails or whatever the hell theyre talking about these days, these racists. Or youre going to help the people out that are trying to work and you got to take sides with the worker bees. Okay, you may not have a great education but you're going to work every day. And you're showing up. You're doing your job. Were going to give you a decent wage. Thats a good value for Republicans.
And your definition of “safely” is racist.
Matthews assumes you are racist if you are against the working poor.
That implies that he thinks the working poor are from another race.
That assumption is racist IMHO.
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hey, don’t knock Matthews!
he’s smarter than all of us put together!
he’s figured out how to make millions and millions of dollars by just sitting on his ass shooting his idiotic mouth off once a day.
(his only challenge is to come up with ever-more stupid, crazy, or just plain assholean remarks... each has to be sillier than the last or else he will lose favor)
(only in kapitalist Amerika, alas, could a person like this be so rewarded... and left free to visit whatever bars or bathhouses or parties he wishes, instead of being locked up for psychiatric treatment)
I think he gets that warm tingle down his legs every time he says the word Racist.
They're not helping!
The Original Pajama Boy.
I’m a racist because I like to use non-ethanol gasoline in my white vehicle.
Whatever.
Tingles whips out the race card. And in other news, dog bites man and the Bucs lose again.
Is it racist to point out that any person of any color who believes such a procedure would raise the pool's water level, is "thinking" very stupidly? That's racist???????????
Mathews is like the Church Lady skit from Saturday Night Live......
Is it racist to call someone a racist?
They are Freaking out over food stamps and unemployment bills stuck in Senate
They cant even get those bills through the Senate now.
Chris Hayes (MSNBC) claims GOP Senators are blocking them as payback for them (Dems) changing those Senate rules with a simple majority.
I remember how bummed I was last year after Obama won going into holidays, I knew he would beat Romney, but it still was depressing to have it happen.
Now seeing the lib's Christmas ruined like this is lighting up my Christmas tree,
‘RAAACISTS”
LOLO
Whatever. By merely being non black, you are a racist.
Bingo
That is better than being stupid and ignorant like you Matthews.
Yes, safely could imply settle colonialism, racial dictatorship, marginalization, adverse racism, direct institutionalism, cognitive dissonance, etc... to any racial studies professor *safely* making 6 figures.
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