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MSNBC’s Matthews Calls Bachmann ‘Balloon Head’ During On-Air Rant

Jan. 25, 2011 8:28pm Scott Baker

I’m sure Tea Party Express co-founder Sal Russo didn’t expect his visit to Hardball to be dull. Sure wasn’t. It quickly turned into a Chris Matthews rantfest about Michele Bachmann. ‘Balloon head’ became the term of the night.

Mediaite’s Matt Schneider:

The “interview” ended up being just Matthews berating Russo with questions like “do you know how little this woman knows about American history” and “what is she talking about?” Joan Walsh was also a guest for the segment, but there was a little time for her, since it was clearly much more entertaining watching Matthews scream at Russo “are you hypnotized – can you answer a question,” whenever Russo struggled to defend Bachmann.

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fly892
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:47pm
I am not beleiving this…………Did he cross the line……..Is it time for him to follow keith? WOW!

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BadgerBenson
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:47pm
Garbage in, garbage out. I’m hoping Comcast has a line of trucks ready at the curb.

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LLightnin
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:46pm
That my friends was the textbook liberal media performing an off topic gang bang on an unprepared guest.

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- Dunkman
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:09am
  but what i don’t understand is why wasn’t he ready?! what do these people expect when they go on these shows? rational thought and questions?! It would’ve been very easy to explain what she was talking about (3/5 clause). I get so tired of seeing this stuff. He looked weak and stupid. If i were in his spot, I would have went off on both of them which wouldn’t be good either so i’m glad i wasn’t there. something between that and his dear in the headlights interview would be nice.
  
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GoingBeck
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:43pm
Political personality assassin.

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Eblaze44
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:43pm
That tie is obviously too tight around Chris’s neck and the hot air is making him rise.

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Decoragenus
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:42pm
Chris Matthews sounds scared.

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- CatB
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:59pm
  Smart women certanly do send libs into a tizzy .. they like em dumb like Pelosi!
  
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- R. Wirz von Urikon
  Posted on January 28, 2011 at 1:35am
  Tingles is going to wet himself!
  
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13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:42pm
Call her a big fat liar instead, you know what she actually is….

William & Mary only offers a FEW tax law classes and they do not offer a Degree in Tax Law.

So, either Michele Bachmann is NOT an American Citizen and went to William & Mary and got an LL.M because she was Foreign Student.

Or … she is just a big fat liar.

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- Kurty C Wipe
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:53pm
  13th idiot..we are broke…wake up little girl..game is over
  
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- Helldogger
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:54pm
  That’s right 13. Show us how to be “civil”.
  
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- portague
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:40pm
  For the lazy its page 8
  
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- Alvin691
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:44pm
  Wow, lots of Progressives on the boards today. Must have hit a chord :)
  
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frankee47
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:41pm
does this piece of dog feces(chris) think anybody listens to him? that thing running down his leg is yello urine. in other words obama piss.

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- SnapTie
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:49pm
  He finally purchased the proper size depends,so now the tingle won’t be running down his leg.
  
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mossbrain
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:40pm
Darn, got all excited, didn’t have my reading glasses on and I thought he called her balloon breasts. Oh well, dare to dream…

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proantisocialist
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:40pm
looks like mathews is next behind oberman,hmmm oberman sounds a little german huh!

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Bigalisnotlost
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:40pm
What in the world is this nit wit talking about the 13th admendment for???? Looks like he is dumber than his guests on on history………..

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beebacksoon
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:39pm
Com’on Blaze…no more Chris Matthews…he has nothing, I mean nothing, intelligent to say. He acts like he has reverted to preschool antics.

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- GONESURFING
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:54pm
  Chris Matthews wouldn’t know a balloon head if he looked in the mirror.
  
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- GONESURFING
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:55pm
  You are right about him being an idiot, but it’s fun to bash him.
  
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Pray for USA
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:39pm
Sure seems like he’s doing a lot of name calling lately. I would think he would use his time more wisely. Seems like he is just floundering in his own vitriol.

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Mytur_Bin_Isdirty
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:38pm
Balloon Head? Is that what MSNBC qualifies as news? No wonder why their ratings are in the tank. Hey Chris Matthews, how may fifths of a person do you consider an unborn baby?

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BQI
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:37pm
If Chris M. wants to see a head exploding he should go to Black Quill and Ink to take a look at the article, Why Sarah Palin Should be President. At the end of the article is a video that shows whose head is really exploding.

http://www.blackquillandink.com

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- HillBillySam1
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:52pm
  Great site. Thanks for doing some really good work.
  
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- teachermitch32
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:53pm
  Thankyou soooo much for your site, and the hard work you do maintaining it. I will visit often. You are a true American my friend.
  
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- truthwinz
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 4:38pm
  I have a new icon on my desktop ! Thank you for the truth.
  
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Psychosis
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:37pm
someone needs to olberman this fool

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RLTW
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:37pm
Coming from an ashen looking corpse those be fightin words Chrissy

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ONETERM
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:37pm
he just wants a tingle, and she won’t give it to him.

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- Crewbot
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:40pm
  Women probably don’t make him tingle. Only Half-white men.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:57pm
  lol .. sadly to true!
  
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Rob
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:37pm
Damn commerical is too long..

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Crewbot
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:36pm
Better a balloon head than an airhead!

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wildjoker5
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:35pm
Listen to CM, he was there.

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- wildjoker5
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:48pm
  Then he says African American Slaves. DA, 3/5ths applies to ALL SLAVES. Slaves where not just africans, EVERY RACE WAS A SLAVE. And if your status was “slave”, you were considered 3/5ths of a person.
  
  CM even said the founders made compromise after compromise to keep from going to war. Trying to fight against slavery, while trying not to go to war. He said it himself, they tried to take care of it till the civil war when there was nothing else to do but fight. So in his circular logic (if you want to call it logic) he made Michelle’s point that the founders (eventually Republicans) worked ever which way to abolish slavery peacefully and up until the south (Democrats) seceded to keep their slaves and their “equal justice” (for their slaves) was there a fight.
  
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- kmichaels
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 5:14pm
  The 3/5ths had nothing to do with how much of a person a slave was. It was strictly a counting method to determine how much representation slave owning states were due. Pro-slavery states wanted to count them 100% not because they cared for slaves but because they cared about having extra representation at the federal level. It had to do with nothing more than the census count determining representation. So James Madison suggested a compromise of 3/5ths count. And it had nothing to do with blacks either, since free blacks were counted 100%.
  
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jeff29910
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:35pm
He is still recovering from the chills running down his legs

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- Crewbot
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:44pm
  Unfortunately for him, only half-white men can do that, not women.
  
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TruthTalker
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:34pm
Straight from the original balloon head himself.

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CatB
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:32pm
SEXIST bigot .. .

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- bertr
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:45pm
  i kinda of like matthews being a spokesperson of the left, im likeing the right less and less, but i dont see the right ever having there heads stuck so far up…. as the left already has it in our lifetime)
  as i stray further from the right, the left seems to be becoming the more socaily offensive of the two to the general public and it amuses me
  
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- RobertCA
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:12pm
  @ BERTR
  
  I’m happy for you & please stay with the left .
  
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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:21am
  CatB, you said it. A total lack of class, too. Funny, I thought compromise to avoid war was a good thing. Everyone knows the 3/5 clause was nothing more than a political means to an end to rid the nation of slavery, and it worked. Yes, Mathews, slavery was ended by a Republican president, being opposed by the Democratic-Republicans, who later became the Democratic Party.
  
  We need a better spokesman than Sal.
  
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- bertr
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:00pm
  @robertca
  if english is your second language then i apologize that you may not be familiar with the phrase “heads stuck up their butts”, its usually written more profane then that, but if you were unfamiliar with the phrase i can see how the “…” in my post could be confusing. if you just didnt bother to read it, then it could be irony.
  
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12thArticle
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:31pm
Now there’s some non-vitriolic rhetoric for you!

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- Curator_JDR
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:38pm
  Michelle is righteous citizen-legislator. One of the best of the bunch. Matthews is a chattering idiot box…”if he only had a brain”
  
  He is one of the 4 hooked up to the Soros brain-washing machine in Rubin’s animated satire “A Not Too Grimm Fairy Tale” where Americans take back their country and throw the criminals in JAIL where they belong.
  
  http://www.marcrubin.com/hairmerica.ivnu
  
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- Crewbot
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:38pm
  That coming from an airhead. Oh that’s rich!
  
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- Marylou7
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:40pm
  That is so funny. Matthews is an idiot. ROFLMBO
  
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- Firefight
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:43pm
  What BS the 3/5 clause was to keep power out of the hands of the slave states. The south wanted to count slaves in the census to give them a larger representation in congress, but didn’t want to give them the rights provided by the constitution. that was the concession that was made to keep the union together. and if they didn’t do it slavery would probably still be legal. BTW the republican party was founded as the anti slave party.
  
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- NickDeringer
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:48pm
  New tone same as the old tone. MSNBC is made up entirely of Glenn Beck wana-bees.
  
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- wildjoker5
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:49pm
  Then he says African American Slaves. DA, 3/5ths applies to ALL SLAVES. Slaves where not just africans, EVERY RACE WAS A SLAVE. And if your status was “slave”, you were considered 3/5ths of a person. He had to get that race bait in there for the ignorant that will be ready to fight for their freedom to be slaves again.
  
  CM even said the founders made compromise after compromise to keep from going to war. Trying to fight against slavery, while trying not to go to war. He said it himself, they tried to take care of it till the civil war when there was nothing else to do but fight. So in his circular logic (if you want to call it logic) he made Michelle’s point that the founders (eventually Republicans) worked ever which way to abolish slavery peacefully and up until the south (Democrats) seceded was there a fight.
  
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- 325texmex
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:51pm
  Chris matthews should be the next to go!
- DisillusionedDaily
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:57pm
  In the words of Bugs Bunny, “This guy is a real maroon!”
  
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- wildjoker5
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:58pm
  CM interrupted the tea party guy left and right every 4 words. The woman got all the time and berated the Guy for interrupting. At the end CM says the Tea Party guy has all the time he wants to explain. He gave the guy 10 words then interrupted him again.
  
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- 8jrts
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:00pm
  @fire
  I can guarantee CM has no idea about that! Most of us here do know this and our history…I sure wish he had just turned it on CM and said..”ok you tell me about it” and I bet CM would have shut right up.
  It is entertaining to watch him blow a gasket, though.
  
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- GONESURFING
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:01pm
  Matthews wouldn’t know a balloon head if he looked in the mirror. Totally clueless Chris.
  
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- demint.disciple
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:36pm
  Don’t ya just love the civility after the messiah called for it ? ppfffttt…….
  
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- BreeZee
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:52pm
  Leggy thrill did his usual, keep interupting the Conserv and let the lefty say what she wanted without interuption. It’s not hard to figure out what she meant about the Founders, We the people, that means ALL THE PEOPLE and All men are created EQUAL….Duh Crissy
  
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- grandmaof5
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:56pm
  Matthews really needs to quit mixing his meds with alcohol, it makes him say stupid stuff. Oh, he does that without an excuse, now that is downright pathetic. I bet his mamma is proud to have raised a man (?) with so little respect for women.
  
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- ishka4me
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:22pm
  Matthews saw that Olberman got 14 million from nbs after firing and wants to get fired to, so he can donate the money to the needy just like Olbermann
  
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- payitforward
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:53pm
  John Q. Adams fought for human rights and against slavery most of his political life. Michelle was spot on. CM’s typical mode is to misrepresent what was said and then rant about it. He especially doesn’t like intelligent women. He is the sc m of the earth in my book.
  
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- My Sacred Honor
  Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:38pm
  @walkwithme1966
  It is “lose’ and “know”. And what is it exaclty that Michelle bachman does not know? Inform us, enlightened one?
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:04am
  I put Matthews in the category of Sharpton and Jackson, pimps.
  Nothing more.
  
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- godlovinmom
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:23am
  out of all the speeches I heard tonight…Michelle was the most clear…so I could care less what this guys onmsnbc has to say…they’ve already proven themselves time and again…I pray that Michelle keeps sticking up for us Americans….
  
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- Rogue
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:36am
  I am embarassed by Sal Russo’s response. How can you be the co-founder of the Tea Party Express and not know the history of slavery, and how it relates to the constitution. Nice job, Sal. CM hammered you on the issue because you clearly have no idea, when 30 minutes of research would have given you the knowledge to tell him exactly why the 3/5ths clause was in there and how it eventually led to the end of slavery. Do me a favor and give up interviews. Pathetic, Sal.
  
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- heyjim55
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:51am
  Can’t expect Matthews to get all tingly over Bachmann he only has eye for Berry, but on the other hand Matthews learned two new words today Balloon head . Must be because he got to play with Balloons over at Berry’s house.
  
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- fm1885
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:06am
  This is exactly why no one watches this idiot blow-hard….
  
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- ishka4me
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:12am
  if you rub a balloon on your leg it forms static electricity. matthews was making a sexual harassment remark at how he wants a tingle down his leg.
  
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- pldn
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:26am
  what a grand standing idiot. the 3/5 provision was an ANTI SLAVERY provision, meant to reduce the number of representatives pro slavery states would have in congress, it was meant only for counting purposes having nothing to do with how a slave should be treated. Pro slavery factions WANTED slaves to be counted 100% and not 60% (3/5) so they could “represent” them. Mathews should learn some non progressive “history” and look in the mirror to see the real balloon head.
  
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- Mikeyyy
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:51am
  No wonder why the Progressive Lefts hate Bachmann and Palin. They can’t stand any smart female, as it can totally attract the Independent votes away from them.
  
  I want Romney and Palin/Bachmann …Too bad he can’t pick em both. But one is good enough to attract a major demographic…I have a sneaky suspicion that Hil. Clinton is going to throw her hat in the mix too, which makes the dynamic even more fascinating.
  
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- Mikeyyy
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 3:09am
  Wow, I just finished watching that appalling video clip: 1. Both the Chris and the Progressive lady attack the guest, and every time he tries to say anything they attack again, not really letting him defend his positions…they keep attacking trying to make look stupid by controlling the conversation…when he answers, they want to refocus him back on something, hoping that somehow he sides with them, denouncing her. 2. They appeal to his intelligence side, hoping that he will play their stupid games.
  
  Name Calling, Controlling the conversation like a dictator, ganging up, very nice Chris etal…hope your ratings go way up with that technique.
  
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- Stuck_in_CA
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:21am
  Why doesn’t “Tingles” just interview himself? When Walsh told Russo, “You’ve had plenty of time to talk, now it’s my turn”, was a real laugher!
  The desperation of the Left, is reaching a crescendo. Matthews acts like he’s right on the edge of a breakdown.
  
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- Marcobob69
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:38am
  It’s the only thing Matthews and his network have left, to attack the conservatives and the TEA partiers. The tens of people that actually admit to watching this excrement are just as loony as Mr. “feeling going up my leg at the sight of Barry” is!! Hey Comcast, the next step in the “revilalization” of MS-LSD is to relieve the “big three” of their jobs, aka Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz and Randy Madcow! You might actually gain some viewers if you did that and moved to the center a little in your reporting of political news!!!
  
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- Docrow
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:02am
  Chris, shut up and listen! God gave you two ears and one mouth because He wanted you to listen twice as much as you talk!
  
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- oneavid
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:54am
  She is actually quite right. Slavery was accepted by most at our founding. But slowly the founders and the country began to shift their attitude. It was indeed John Quincy Adams who introduced legislation to abolish slavery in 1839. The country still wasn’t quite ready. The Emancipation Proclamation did not cover the 800,000 slaves in the slave-holding border states of Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland or Delaware, which were Union states. For instance, Lincoln allowed Maryland to keep slavery in order to get them to remain on the North’s side. Slavery was not a faucet that was turned off by Lincoln. It required the evolution in thinking of the majority of citizens before the laws could be enacted. I think it’s Matthews who doesn’t have a clue.
  
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- LizardBrainVoter
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:27am
  Chris Mathews should educate himself before spewing his warped, racist view of history on TV.
  The first slave owner in America was a black man who owned a black slave.
  Some slaves were white, some Native Americans.
  3/5ths applied to slaves of all races, and was designed to deny southern slave-holding states the power to enshrine slavery in America permanently.
  The Republican party was formed to combat slavery, and championed the ideas of equality while the Democrats fought to keep them down.
  He would do well to follow Glenn Beck’s example and provide some facts to support his racist ranting.
  
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- watchtheotherhand
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:34am
  FIREFIGHT……. is exactly right. People have distorted and used the actual history of slavery in this country to further their own agendas. Most of the time this has meant twisting the facts into a perverted version of the reality. The republican party was the anti-slavery party and if you ask me still is…..Democrats love their entitlements because it keeps generation after generation of people dependent on them staying in power to get increases in benefits. Their handouts are still slavery just a different form. They don’t care about the poor if they did they would actually help them up out of their pit, but that wouldn’t serve their best interests as all. That’s why they go after any black person who falls down on the conservative side with a vengeance. Clarence Thomas is a perfect example. A black man making something of himself and becoming distinguished and independent will just not fit into the democrat worldview. Now Before someone points out Barry O, just think a minute, he is more than welcome in the club because he is a big wealth redistribution guy. Perfect if your a democrat. The more people dependent on your handouts the more likely you stay in power. And that my friends IS slavery.
  
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- watchtheotherhand
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:39am
  let me clarify…….What I mean by the republican party still is the anti-slavery party……sadly to many have become just like their democrat counterparts, big government hand outs…..Their are still a few who fight the good fight though and some Tea Party members that do as well. However, I know of no democrat that tolerates any limit on federal programs or benefits, they just want more and more !!
  
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- sweet37
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:31am
  I think there is a pattern here with Chris…I think he needs to be called out for the sexist that he is..He is obsessed with Palin and Bachmann..He is trying to get it across that these woman are such dumb dumbs who know nothing of American History…Shameful Chris..you are so obvious..
  
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- TexasCommonSense
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:36pm
  pldn, his agenda is more important to him than is history.
  
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- Jim S
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:38pm
  I am a libertarian/conservative, I have a problem #1) I like Sarah but will not vote for her for any position above mayor. She was hired by the good folks of Alaska and she quit, just flat out quit. In all the interviews, speeches etc., I have been unimpressed by the lack of specifics and overly simplistic solutions. #2)Bachmann is the worst type of person, she has lots of opinions but no idea why or what she’s talking about. Are these people moles put in place to destroy our movement? The #1 problem is the debt and so far NO ONE on my side has said a thing I consider more than a sound bite.
- pajamash
  Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:59pm
  Why do people on the right go on this guys show? He asks a question then doesn’t give him a chance to answer. Constantly belittles the person on the right and cutting him off but gives the woman that leans left all the time she desires. Then Chris comes back to the man that leads right and does the same thing again eventho he says he will give him all the time he needs on two different occaisions.
  
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- middleclassprophet
  Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:13am
  How is him calling her a balloon head any worse than Rush or Glenn calling Obama a racist or a communist? The hypocrisy is blinding.
  
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