Chris Matthews: Condi Rice Could Counter Obama's "Ethnic Excitement"
By Logan Murphy Sunday Jan 27, 2008 10:10pm
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Chris Matthews as been sticking his foot in his mouth (more so than usual) a lot this primary season and during MSNBC's coverage of the State of the Union address tonight, he stepped in it again. Tweety made the suggestion that because Barack Obama has created an ethnic excitement in America, if he doesn't get the nomination Condi Rice would make a great VP choice for a GOP candidate because black people might still be hopeful of putting an African American in higher government:
Matthews:"...And I have to think given the ethnic, you know, excitement - let's call it American excitement about Barack Obama. If he doesn't make it to the nomination a lot of people on the Republican side might say, well why don't we try do something to offset that and take advantage of the hope of having an African American at a high level of government."
This is wrong on so many levels, and certainly does nothing to end the media meme that race and gender are driving this primary season. Somehow, I don't think Condi would motivate a lot of Democrats to vote for a Republican this year. He's also echoing Robert Novak on this one too.
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Three little words? "Chris, you're fired."
Ew. That is SO not right on so many levels. Although much already been said about this angle has already been "not right", and this just reaches a whole new plateau of "that ain't right".
It almost makes you picture marketing analysts advising a GOP candidate. "Sir, we have realized that what your ticket needs is 50% more 'ethnic excitement'". (shudder)
poor chrissie
Surprise surprise....all we need now is Fuzzy Zoeller back in front of a camera
He's not gonna get fired over that, gimme a break. It would be interesting to see Condi running though. It would be a nice opportunity to trash her for the opportunistic sycophant she is. God, I hate that woman.
Twitty is an idiot.
when i heard it... i thought: you gotta be shitting me...
nobody, but nobody is considering Condi Rice for anything other than the usual high paying gig bestowed upon Bush's lie-babies...
matthews is a moron...
Chris is like that drunk cousin-in-law that says stupid shit at every family gathering. The kind of statements that stop conversations for an uncomfortable silence and have everyone thinking "When is cousin Sue gonna divorce this doofus?" That includes cousin Sue.
His time is done, and he's falling screaming into the abyss as we watch, hence the babbling. Ever so entertaining.
I kinda gagged when I heard him say that.
But it's the CLINTONS that are injecting race into the election, right?
Someone put this douche on unemployment please.
There are so many new articulate pundits (Rachel Maddow, Sam Seder) and yet we're stuck with the same group of clowns that bought the WMDs B.S. and ignored the attorney firing scandals for months.
Dear god, our media is completely F@$ed.
Chris Matthews: Like driving a car with no brakes. At some point he will go careening off the road.
Number than a pounded thumb.
Chris Matthews mouth is just so appalling on so many levels. Not least because it seems to be totally disengaged from any brain.
I'd like to see Phil Donahue brought back. He told the truth. I'd also like to see some new faces as well.
He just told McCain "You know you're in my heart." He's such a dope.
It shows a shocking level of contempt for African Americans - most no fans of the stupidest person ever to be SOS.
Any lingering support could be erased by election ads showing her shoe-shopping during Katrina.
fools surrounded by fools, seriously welcome to the insane asylum called America, kool aid passed out at 8:00 am daily.
Was that Jeff Gannon sitting next to Condi?
Seriously, why does he get paid obscene amounts of money to pull his retarded "insights" out of his ass, and offer it political analysis?
i would like the definition of "ethnic excitement"
Tweety is as DINGY as McCain, as the Beck Brat on CNN, as O'Liely and the bunch at Murdock Pig Pen, as Ron Paul, as Lieberman, as BUSH HIMSELF, and not to forget Novak and Tucky Carlson, the whole lot of which should be put to work cleaning up oil spills for the next eight years!
I didn't know Condi was black. She sounds more like an Italian Aunt I know, Tomita...
nohobear @ 20:
Because he does his Corporate Master's bidding.
Matthews twice today said that Kennedy endorsement of Obama was like "King Arthur returning from the Crusades to nominate Robin Hood." The first time he did it, going to break, I thought "O.k. He just misspoke." The second time, I realized that yes, he really is that big an idiot.
What fawning, ass-kissing, delusional nonsense. Matthews must be smoking crack.
Condi Rice is about as "likeable" and "impressive" as Robert Macnamara, Gen. Westmoreland and LBJ were in 1968.
These arrogant elite white pundits need to be put in check!!
GOP hack Kathleen Parker wrote the same thing recently. Guess they all got the same memo.
Please tell me I am not the only person whose head was ready to explode throughout the speech? All I can say is thank goodness they have Olbermann @ MSNBC to counteract the inanity of Matthews. Is it me or is he getting worse? I think he's almost as crazy & cranky as McCain.
After weeks of proclaiming that race had nothing to do with the SC vote & then going on to talk only about racial divisions among the turnout, what did you expect from Tweety? Every cable talking head keeps saying it's not about race but they can't stop overanalyzing the racial break-down of the SC vote. Even Superdooper Tuesday's had its racial projections already. It's hard to stop chanting a mantra once you've started it & been allowed to continue on with impunity. Tweety is just continuing the not-about-race dialogue that the 2008 Presidential Campaign is about
ethnicAmerican excitement. Is that code for something, Tweety? Like, if you're not for Obama, you're not an American? I've heard that disgusting tactic used before but usually it's about Iraq & said by a Repug.Tweetie birds M.O. is just to rile people up and cause MSM misdirection. A lot of the stuff he says is just asinine.
In other words, hes a tool with a mic.
Your not the only person Gr8.
Wow.
That. is. just. wrong. on. so. many. levels.
Absolutely jaw dropping. First he's sexist and nows he's a big fat bigot.
Is it me or does tweety seem to be mAnn Colder's alter ego?
Matthews is so over. Can't watch, just like I can't watch GWB. But I did just catch his "in my heart " line with McCave. We need help. We need someone to streak the House, or drop fliers on the national mall, or broadcast through an old fashioned megaphone that the people of this country are pissed off and we aren't going to take it anymore. Obama may be done with bickering, but if nobody stands up to these evil and very powerful corporations, we will all find ourselves at Guantanamo or something like it and the great American experiment will be over. They aren't going to stop for platitudes.
Slightly OT but still on course... Can Bill be Hillary's VP?
I swear to sit and listen to the msm nowadays is almost like sitting on the short bus. These people are just seriously retarded.Someone needs to play back to them some of the completely stupid shit that comes out of their mouths.
Not just Matthews; pretty much all of them. Same old crap.Sometimes I think I'm watching TMZ........
I'm just glad that most young americans get their news from the internet and take the time to research and know whats true and whats not. That at least gives me hope for the next generation!
chris twitty matthews should just get off of tv, cable and anything
political. he is so full of ignorant racist bullshit. he is a total bore.
Jared @ 35:
Rachel Maddow was talking about this the other night. It seems to be kind if a gray area, although not specifically prohibited.
Yeah, yeah, put Condi on the Republican ticket. They will sink faster than a lead balloon.
Do it!
Shut up, Chris. Go hold up Romney's picture with one hand.
Cancel your cable tv. You all are enabling the MSM by buying their crappy cable programming, and watching it like pornography. Save your dignity and cancel your Time Warner subscription. MSM will get the message when they go out of business from people cancelling thier cable and Refuse to buy the garbage they are selling!
Kinda off-topic, but similar in the way it demonstrates how horrible our MSM is.
Wolf Blitzer couldn't host the Situation Room today because....well, the President invited him to lunch, along with some other 'highly distinguished' anchors, as John King puts it. As I was watching that, I thought to myself: The sign of a good anchor is when he DOESN'T get invited to lunch by the President. These guys are so pathetic. It's all about access. If you're too tough, you don't get to talk to them.
Anyone who mentions C. Rice as a prospect for any position in our government is un-american.
Leezzaa sure would counter Obama's 'Ethnic Excitement'.
She'd create 'Ethnic Ennui'.
Isn't it amazing that although we sometimes make off the wall comments, we see the insanity, and our government keeps marching over the cliff, or acts like the charge of the light brigade, and sit there and clap, pat each other on the shoulder for the damn good job they are doing running our country.
and Right the fuck on Gr8
JESUS, MATTHEWS, HE'S BLACK. GET THE HELL OVER IT.
Pardon me for that moment of estrogenic excitement. :eyeroll:
Well, I personally spit wine across the room when that crap came out of Tweety's piehole..sweet Jaysus, wtf was that about?
So black people will just vote for any black person, now that they caught on.
Well Alan Keyes should be moving up in the polls than.
If Kindasleazy were picked to run for VP think of all the great footage of her lying and stonewalling Congress. Run " Mushroom Cloud", "No one would have imagined that someone would use planes to fly into buildings" and clips of her shopping for shoes while people drowned in New Orleans.
I say bring her on.
Somehow I don't think Condi "Uncle Thomas" Rice would be quite the draw for African Americans as Barrack Obama. She's a sell out to her race and the American people as a whole.
Oh, and thanks for having it up as video..I filched it and of course gave proper attribution ;)
Tweety just seems to be losing it more and more every day.
To get Condi to run,they need a FEEDBAG.
Should the republicans win in November, and they want to give Leezza another government job, they could create a 'Department of Religion', and make her Secretary. (Or 'Priestess').
When she started every sentence with 'Who could ever believe.........?', she'd fit right in.
And at Christmas, she could put on white-face, and play the Virgin Mary in the Christmas Creche. (With a little chicken blood sprinkled on her twat)
In Matthews world, black people are the lawn ornaments of politics. Keep it up Tweety! Yer' makin' us soooo proud.
Ruthless People @ 50:
....not to mention nobody is going to want anything remotely associated with the Bush regime anytime soon.
Try to imagine what Chrissie would be doing if he were black.
Struttin' down Santa Monica Boulevard in a fire-engine red latex thong, and a see-through bra?
Runnin' the towel concession at a 'House of Great Lays'?
Operatin' a push broom after-hours in a GayBar?
Chris Mantooth is an idot.
Sometimes you gotta wonder what Chris Matthew is smoking. I could barely hold my cookies when he was discussing what a nice family the Bush's are. Please. An American Disgrace is closer to the truth. It was the dinner hour here. People were eating.
What a twat.
myiq2xu @ 8:
I had an uncle like that. Whenever he boob-babbled, my aunt put his dinner in a dog dish and made him eat on the back porch floor.
Anyone else here reminded of that Chapelle's Show sketch where they dubbed the word "n****r" whenever someone said "minority"? Someone should do that to this clip.
Rudy will be at the House of Great Lays to,IN DRAG singing showtunes.
Jared @ 35:
The vice president cannot be someone who couldn't by law be president. Bill Clinton would be invalidated by dint of his having served two terms as president. Also the running mate has to come from a different state.
Bush family should be shown on Jerry Springer,not MSNBC.
Of course! Like Steve Cobert. Condi is a Republicans best friend!
Ian McGarrett @ 64:
Well thank Earth Mother for that!
... of course, given the harm Bill is doing to Hillary's campaign she's probably by now wishing he was in a different state.
The American public isn't even seeing race or gender in this contest and is embarrassed by this drunk uncle who keeps bringing it up. It's a non-issue, Tweety!
Having Matthews as a pundit seems appropriate to me.
After listening to the idiot-in-chief (president shit-for-brains for those in red state america), it only seems fitting to have a clueless jack-ass come on and enlighten us with even greater depths of incoherent stupidity.
Matthews has already taken so much heat about his remark tonight, that he's invited Obama to be a guest on his show.
He's already rehearsing opening lines. So far, Chrissie's staff has vetoed,
'Hey, Barack, tell me how you overcame being black'.
'Straight up, Obama, would you rather be white?'
'Would you consider Condi as a running mate, or would that unbalance the ticket?'
This is so convoluted that I am almost breathless. What a sick f*#k.
Tweety is a dick. Period.
Has Matthews completely lost his mind?!
The repubs know they are going to lose so Rice is the perfect symbolic running mate, both a women and black. It is the most likely pick by either McCain or Romney.
WooHoo !!
Mitt/Condi2008
Mormon Ethnic Excitement Galore !!!
*shoes and hairspray not included
Putting Rice on adds nothing to the ticket. Barbara Boxer totally tore her apart during her confirmation hearings while Boxer was a member of the minority.
Another thing, there's absolutely nothing compelling about Condi's service these past few years as Secretary of State or in her prior position. Tweety only sees her color. He needs to seriously STFU.
someone get chris off the tainted sushi for shrist's sake! coni has far more in common with O.J. than the one thing she has in common with barack: her color . . . what a fucking delusional bafoon you are chris, you simple-minded stateman groupie. what an insult to a great man comparing him to a murdering bitch war-criminal.
fuck me! has everyone gone entirely cuckoo?
Matthews is the archetypal dork: self-important, loud, callow, crass, full-of-it. I have never understood why people admit him into their living space via the tube, when they would avoid him in the workplace or at a party.
Oh yeah and let's just put this nonsense to rest about black people potentially voting for Condi. It may surprise this douchebag Tweety to know that we vote the way we vote for a reason. Just ask Michael Steele and that democracy killing thug Kenneth Blackwell how much their color helped them carry the black vote.
There was a moment, when KO was interviewing, Tweety interrupted. The camera stayed on KO for a second or two, the look on his face was priceless. It was one of those Kodak moments, "fill in the caption" contest. Mine is: "What the fuck is this idiot going to say now?"
Chris M is really out of touch with the African-American community it would be political suicide for a republican presidential hopeful to put Ms Rice on a ticket hoping to bring in the ethic vote.
They have to learn the lessons of Mr. Keyes and Mr. Steele that it takes more than putting a black face on a ticket and expect African-Americans to vote blindly for them.
What a monumental fool
effwit
Chris is trying to make himself relevant setting next to Keith O. Chris is pissed that Keith O's show is doing better and that MSNBC paired him with a guy that use to be a sports announcer
I guess Tweety didn't get the memo: Condi Rice is as radioactive as her husband, Duhbya. Shit, the RepubliCONS gave up the "Condi For President" meme at least a year ago. Tweety honestly thinks any of the GOP candidates would want Condi as a running mate?? Hell, they don't even want to mention the name George W. Bush, let alone one of his disgraced underlings.
Condi Rice isn't black.
She's a Republican.
Once a black person becomes a Republican there black card is immediately revoked.
And that goes for Colin " The Floor Mat" Powell too.
Ever see the Chapplelle skit about the Blind Racist who hated black people but since he
was blind he didn't know he was also Black.
I think of that skit every time I see a Black Republican.
At what point do his handlers go for an "intervention"?
Seriously, this guy is in need of therapy.
Calling Obama and Rice comparatively ethnic is just plan inaccurate. It would assume that their historic family cultures and ancestries are comparable, which they are not. It's part of the reason one of them is a democrat and the other is a lying scumbag. :)
tweety, a racist?
bobby novak too?
Over the past few years I have heard some really awful shit coming out of Tweety's mouth but this really takes the cake!
Rice impressive? She's been one of the worst and least effective heads of the State Department ever! Not to mention her bang up job as National Security Advisor and the intelligence on Iraq.
Tweety has it in for women, now he wants to add racism too??? He's probably has already proposed a new segment for his show..."Dueling Negroes Power Rating Numbers"
The man has got to have a brain tumor... no one can be that chronically idiotic with out some underlying medical condition. Maybe its a new form of Tourettes syndrome... maybe they'll name it after him... Tweety Tourettes
Tweety is Imus in a business suit.
Ah Tweety, you're living proof that you can be dumber than a stump in America and still be a millionaire through family connections and sheer luck. What an abomination.
I've been meaning to ask this question for awhile: why do you call Chris Matthews "Tweety"? Is it related to Tweety-Bird? I don't get it.
Yeah, and if they can't get Condi, Alan Keyes is available. Or even Clarence Thomas.
I am no fan of CM, but I agree with him on this one. I would like to see polling data for obama/clinton and clinton/obama vs. mccain/rice and romney/rice.
Having Rice rI am no fan of CM, but I agree with him on this one. I would like to see polling data for obama/clinton and clinton/obama vs. mccain/rice and romney/rice.
Having Rice run as VP could help the Republicans in a lot of ways.
In the past the Republicans only get around 10% of the black vote. I think she could significantly raise those numbers even if Obama is on the Democratic ticket.
She would be the first female Vice President. That is also ground breaking. McCain comes across as a moderate/independent Republican. Rice has largely stayed out of the political fray. I think she has one of the highest approval ratings for Republicans. I think that ticket could grab a lot of independent voters, who may very well determine this election.
In addition, she has the highest approval rating of anyone in the Bush administration.
From the Wall Street Journal
Of the 1,001 American adults polled online April 20-23, only 28% had a positive view of Mr. Bush's job performance, down from 32% in February and from a high of 88% in the aftermath of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The current rating is his weakest showing since his inauguration.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice garnered the approval of 45% of those surveyed, down from 46% in Februaryun as VP could help the Republicans in a lot of ways.
In the past the Republicans only get around 10% of the black vote. I think she could significantly raise those numbers even if Obama is on the Democratic ticket.
She would be the first female Vice President. That is also ground breaking. McCain comes across as a moderate/independent Republican. Rice has largely stayed out of the political fray. I think she has one of the highest approval ratings for Republicans. I think that ticket could grab a lot of independent voters, who may very well determine this election.
Is there anyone who heeds Tweety?
I am no fan of CM, but I agree with him on this one. I would like to see polling data for obama/clinton and clinton/obama vs. mccain/rice and romney/rice.
Having Rice run as VP could help the Republicans in a lot of ways.
In the past the Republicans only get around 10% of the black vote. I think she could significantly raise those numbers even if Obama is on the Democratic ticket.
She would be the first female Vice President. That is still ground breaking, and less threatening than Clinton or Obama for those who fear change. McCain comes across as a moderate/independent Republican. Rice has largely stayed out of the political fray. She has one of the highest approval ratings for Republicans. I think that ticket could grab a lot of independent voters, who may very well determine this election.
From the Wall Street Journal
Of the 1,001 American adults polled online April 20-23, only 28% had a positive view of Mr. Bush's job performance, down from 32% in February and from a high of 88% in the aftermath of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The current rating is his weakest showing since his inauguration.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice garnered the approval of 45% of those surveyed, down from 46% in February
What planet is Chris on??? No one likes her and Condi sucks at what she does. Chris go on vacation dude, give it a rest. You say a lot of stupid things but this one takes the cake.
Condi looked drop dead cute in her cream colored outfit. She is a much more attractive than I thought she was.
Wuuuu Condi!
Fix that gap, baby!
And while the people of new orleans suffered and drowned......... she shopped for shoes in NYC. She was approached by a republican woman and asked what the hell she was doing there ! Nice choice Tweety, the right wing tool .....puke..........................
Chris was such an idiot. He was speaking so eloquently in the beginning about the War when he said that if we're winning, why can't we come home. And then he makes such an assinine comment that it completely made me forget his intelligent comment of three seconds before. Condi Rice was the worst NSA in history and she is in the running for most ineffectual and uninspired and completely overmatched Secretary of State. She let Cheney run roughshod over her and refused to do anything to stop the "Iraq War Train."--read and of Bob Woodward's books to know what I'm talking about. But then I guess that goes with the Republican standard these days, promote incompotence and idiocy to even higher levels. The President is a failed governor. The VP failed as a Chief of Staff and a Secretary of Defense. Condi, no more needs to be said.
The lesson, as always, Chris Matthews is an idiot
Condi's presence would also be a nice counter to Sen. Obama's straight and gapless teeth.
She's SO multi-faceted.
What the hell good does a Sovietologist who even after it became obvious that the Soviets were gonna collapse failed to predict it mean? It's almost as good as running a campaign based on 'Nam war hero service for a National Guard guy who stayed stateside-oh wait.
Wasn't Chris Matthews one of the ones that was telling us how we would love to drink a beer with George Bush... Now, I guess he wants to drink beer with Condi..
I would think that perjuring oneself before Congress ought to be a disqualifier from running for VP. Certainly Rice's perjury ought to be easy enough to document at this point.
How? By talking about her adventures in shoe shopping? Please!
Peace through impeachment!
Marco Zandrini
chris,
what are you smokin'?
Ridiculous. Obama has a huge cracker following. (lol)
Young people, unlike the white haired old fogeys are much more colorblind. Matthews and his ilk simply cannot wrap their heads around this fact. Their racism is more than what they simply see = its built into their entire personalities. They cannot even comprehend that those of us who haven't been born and bred into racism just don't give a damn about Obama's color.
I am all about Edwards, because I believe that he is the best person for the job. But watching these stupid old bastards struggling to explain away Hillary or Obama's appeal to largely progressive America = I realize that I'll be more than happy to vote for her or Obama if they become the democratic candidate. And I'll love the apoplexy from the old, decrepit, bass-ackwards white male establishment.
Condi Rice has absolutely ZERO credibility in the black community! The disgusting way she jumped up to clap every time Dubyah spoke was truly embarrassing. I swear she would had clapped if Bush had farted. What a mamie.
What Chris Mathews said is correct. (Much as I dislike Rice)
Why do we have to pounce on everything anyone says?
I dislike Republicans with a passion but this petty sniping from our side makes us look bad.
I also notice that it was Keith Olbermann that first raised the point be we don't criticize him at all.
I have stopped visiting the Media Matters website for these same reasons.
jwf @ 27:
How can you stand to read that putz?
You people are terrible for even suggesting that Condi should be the R-VP! Won't any of you think about poor Holy Joe Lieberman's feelings?
Condi for VP makes Baby Lieberman cry. I'll have none of it.
I almost threw up in my mouth last night when I heard Tweety touting Kindasleezy as veep material.
She is nothing more than a bobble-head. Oh wait a minute, that means she's PERFECT for higher office.
Aaacccccccccccchhhhhhhhhh!
Mathews has been desperate since day 1 to get another Republican in office. hell, just last week he was doing everything he could to get his guests to say that Guilliani getting second place in Florida is great news and that 2nd place would only be good for GUilliani while bad for other candidates. When his guests all gave him a look like he was an idiot and said, "Uhmmm....second place in Florida is bad no matter what" Mathews tried to rephrase the quesion a few times in hopes, clearly, of them saying that GUilliani is still viable in the race.
Mathews goes out of his way to find reasons to bash Clinton while he drools over the man-smell of Romney, the maverick McCain, the freshness of HUckabee, and of course the strong and admirable leadership of Bush.
Frankly, I don't think the Condi thing has anything to do with race. I think it is just another desperate attempt for Mathews to hype the undeserving Republican party. This is his way of saying, "Hey! Republicans have black people too! Look at Condi! Why don't more people care about blacks in the REpublican party? If Condi were to run, clearly everyone would care more about a black Republican than a black Democrat!" This is just another example of Mathews being a total and completely ignorant idiot. Sometime the stupid crap that comes out of his mouth makes my head hurt.
But honestly, I'll take his subversive Bush admin worship over another piece about how he loves the man-smell of Romney or Guilliani.
She does look good in jackboots:
http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2005/03/02/i_love_condi_rice.html
The guy says it all: "So sexy. So satanic."
Dan Abrams, if you're reading this: Please don't pair Chris Matthews with Keith Olbermann any more....it's like pairing Bill O'Reilly with Edward R. Murrow.
To say that we are picking Obama becuase of his race and not his message is both raciest and ignorant. Condi Rice personifies everthing that is wrong with the Republican, neo-conservative ideology and for that she is dispised and should be IMO. I have no idea why Mathews thinks she is popular. Seems like these guys have an instant polling installed on their behind prompting them to spit out what American People think instantly!
A free press that informs is vital to any free society. It is just as important for us to take our airway back and use it for information and education as it is to fix all other parts of our government.
This was the most assinine logic by this fool during this whole primary deal. I don't see how Olbermann can sit there and not say a damn thing to counteract such utter nonsense. This was a very racist statement in my opinion, even though he tried to say it wasn't. A message to Keith, this fool is making you look just as foolish when you just sit there and let such complete bs go with nary a word to the wiser. I can't stand to watch it anymore. Even David Gregory the dancing Rove fool was better than Tweety. I watched on C-Span, but did anyone else notice how Condasleezy kept looking over at the Dems with every idiot Repuke cheer and sneer at them? She does it every year. Thank God not only for this being the treasonous chimp's last speech, but the last year for that stupid broad's sneers. Vice president my ass. Bring it on Chris and all you rightwing tools.
I guess that Chris hasn't heard that Condi doesn't even command respect from career State Department types. She mostly knowledgable about the Soviet Union and weak on the rest of the world. That's why she has gotten the Middle East so wrong. That and the fact that she is a certified toady.
Why does this cretin still have his own "cable news" show?
[deleted--over the top] If Condi came to any bar or club in Chicago where us brothers hang out trust me, she would never get chosen(unless she's buying drinks).
Clay Peck @ 119:
Excellent observation!
"Ethnic Excitement?" is that the new republicanspeak for "Jungle Fever?"
mathews is so shallow
This reminds me of when in 1991 the original Bush appointed uncle Clarence Thomas to replace the legendary Thurgood Marshall as a Supreme Court Justice. He was probably shocked that black people almost universally rejected "another colored". That ignorant old dumb fuck racist actually thought that black people were so stupid that he only had to replace one negro with another! Racist generally think everyone else is racist too. Matthews clearly has that same disease if he thinks black folk would ever support Aunt Condi.
Starting to think Matthews hasn't been exposed to too many black people in his life. Statements like this and the one he made in regards to the Hustle and Flow video (as if Blacks asked these artist to "represent" us) are bone headed at best.
Ethnic Excitement sounds like the title for a 70's blaxploitation sex on the plantation movie.
"Stepping in it" and "sticking his foot in his mouth"? That, my friend, is a very unsanitary mix of metaphors.
Obama's coming to Idaho this weekend... Do you think he's going to stir up any "ethnic excitement" here? News Flash, Tweety: there'll be a huge turnout for Obama and it's because there's a sense of this guy's GREATNESS. It's got nothing to do with race or gender. It's about leadership and decency and our kids.
Orangutan. @ 15:
Amy Goodman's is a relatively old face (no insult intended) but hers would be wonderful to see regularly in Canada on U.S. television.
Here's a copy of an e-mail I sent to Matthews this morning:
Your remark on Secretary Rice last night showed incredible misunderstanding of both the reason for Senator Obama's appeal and the public's real assessment of Secretary Rice. Secretary Rice would not be acceptable as a running mate by either side -- the left KNOWS that every time she says "the fact of the matter is . . " it will be followed by a whopper of a lie. We blame her for not getting Bush's attention on the "Bin Laden Determined to Attack the US" PDB, shoe shopping during Katrina, "mushroom cloud" scare tactics. The right knows that she will never pass the heightened public scrutiny of her personal life that comes with being on the ticket versus the pass she gets in the Cabinet. How would she ever explain her "life partner" from the foaming-at-the-mouth gay-hating religious right? NO ONE would find Rice acceptable on the ticket.
The public doesn't like Obama BECAUSE he's black -- a black on the republican side doesn't compensate or balance the equation. People are responding to Obama's words and vision. Rice's history of lying, scaring us, indifference to the poor, and political spinning are not equal to Obama's vision -- even though they might share a skin color.
Quit trying to deconstruct everything to a process -- it causes you to make incredibly stupid remarks.
Dear X-topher,
You are a complete mega douche dumbass! The only reason you have a job is because your republican corporate overlords need so-called dems to look as stupid and superficial as possible. Nice job you do at that, Tweety McMegadouche!
STFU. A lot. Kthxbai
XOXO,
Jazgar
Berkeley, CA
A Twofer one. Black and a woman all wrapped up in a tidy neocon package. Gotta watch out for the stilletto heels.
jwf @ 39:
No he can't.
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