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Oct. 25, 2012 12:18am Jason Howerton

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During “Hardball” on Wednesday, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews took on the daunting task of calling out all the “racist” things conservatives say, which, according to him, constantly “trickles out” every week. For anyone who is keeping score, the words “monkeying,” “watermelon,” and the phrase “shuck and jive” are all racist, the host revealed.

“The blatantness of this thing, I think, went through the roof the other day when Sarah Palin, who people have mixed views, put out a Facebook post titled ‘Obama’s shuck and jive ends with Benghazi lies,’” Matthews said to his guest, syndicated columnist Clarence Page.

“A dog whistle is a dog whistle. A trumpet call is another,” he continued, adding that “shuck and jive” has an “ethnic connection.”

After explaining the history of the term and mentioning that it originated in the South, Page said it disturbed him more that Palin was “jumping to conclusions” regarding the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission on Benghazi.

“That’s just paranoid politics,” he said.

But Matthews was sure it was just racism. “When you keep doing this stuff like — look at this Thompson, the kid of Tommy Thompson,” Matthews said. “I got nothing against Tommy Thompson, but he’s raising his kids wrong when the kid shouts out at some event that…[Obama] is from Kenya.”

Matthews said the racism just “trickles out” every couple weeks. The MSNBC host even found a way to find racist undertones in Donald Trump’s statement that Obama was “monkeying” with the unemployment numbers when the rate dropped to 7.8 percent earlier this month.

Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg View columnist and MSNBC contributor, agreed with Matthews and said conservatives are displaying “rank racism.”

“Shuck and Jive, that’s like talking about watermelon or, for Jews, talking about Jews are greedy or Irish are drunk or whatever. These are racist tropes and we need to call them what they are,” Alter said.

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Matthews and Alter also agreed that Trumps “big Obama announcement” on Wednesday, offering $5 million for the president’s college transcripts, was racist as well and about proving Obama was an “affirmative action” student.

“He’s basically saying Barack Obama was too stupid to be at Columbia because he was an affirmative action student,” Alter added. “It’s racist.”

Matthews followed up with this extremely difficult to follow statement: “Anybody out there, by the way, thinks we’re saying things, it’s over and over again. And if you think we’re saying things, you’re dead wrong and you’re dangerous.”

Got that? Good.

“As a white person, I think it’s a statement against the white people to talk like this,” Matthews said after playing a clip of Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu saying he wishes Obama would learn how to be an “American.”

“It’s a sickness by the white people. Anyway, they ought to be ashamed of themselves,” he concluded.

Watch the clip via MSNBC below:

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UPDATE: Sarah Palin has posted the following message on her Facebook page:

For the record, there was nothing remotely racist in my use of the phrase “shuck and jive” – a phrase which many people have used, including Chris Matthews, Andrew Cuomo, and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to name a few off the top of my head. In fact, Andrew Cuomo also used the phrase in reference to Barack Obama, and the fact that Mr. Cuomo and I used the phrase in relation to President Obama signifies nothing out of the ordinary. I would have used the exact same expression if I had been writing about President Carter, whose foreign policy rivaled Obama’s in its ineptitude, or about the Nixon administration, which was also famously rocked by a cover-up.

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Comments (510)

beeboop
Posted on April 2, 2013 at 12:25pm
The only sickness that White people suffer from is White Guilt. This is what is letting Obama and friends to destroy this country.

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petitegirl
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:07pm
Why doesn’t obama make chris matthews Czar of racism?

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Mr.CommonSense
Posted on October 31, 2012 at 5:19am
I’m coming out! I admit that I’m a racist! I HATE people from planet Stupidia. Since Mr. Tingles is obviously from that planet, I guess I hate him too.
Seriously though, I’ll chip in if we can get this guy a lobotomy, preferably the back alley kind.

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bobbiejean
Posted on October 28, 2012 at 12:00pm
Have they gotten to the point where the word ”black” can no longer be used? How about
the word ”dark”, as in ‘it looks dark outside?’ Watermelon? Really? Is ”chicken” next?
This is all nonsense, of course. If ‘they’ cry ”racist”, they are being the racist.

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jessieH
Posted on October 27, 2012 at 9:41am
Listening to this nut is like listening to Ed Shultz or Keith Olberman. Or, as I like to call them, the three stooges.

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siobhan3270
Posted on October 27, 2012 at 7:18am
Wow! As a white person I feel so enlightened. I had no idea that when I asked for a piece of watermelon at the company picnic or when I go to the zoo and laugh at the monkeys I was being a racist. I hope all those good white non-racists like Matthews continuously points these things out to me. Like when he said, sometimes he forgets that Obama is a black man when he speaks, or when Biden said he is clean or when Reid said he can talk without a black accent. They are such better human beings than me. Hey Chris as an Irishman, I hope you are drunk, ’cause I’d hate to think you are really that stupid. That goes double for Biden. I can say that because I’m Irish too.

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coachpanto
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:30pm
So…criticism is the new racism!

Brilliant! If someone finds fault in your ideas, policies, and actions, all you have to do is pick any negative word in the criticism and say, “Aha! You used the word xxxx! That means you are saying I’m inferior! You’re saying I, personally, my ethnicity, my culture, is inferior to yours!” It’s beyond asinine. It’s fackin retarded, logically, but logic doesn’t work as a defense when your Marxist president’s ratcrack policies fail.

Guys like Matthews need to be called out publicly to hand to hand combat for these kind of insults. Being accused of racism should be treated like being accused of child rape, or like the guy called your wife a whore. I’d like to see somebody like Paul Ryan or Allen West call yakloaf and crush Matthews’ jaw right on his sick little yankcircle show on MSNBC.

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devildogger
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:27pm
Is there anyone more monumentally idiotic on a regular basis than Chris Matthews, excluding Biden, of course?

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arturor44
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:22pm
chris backs obama health plan and obama backs planned parenthood which aborts mostly blacks babies… so who racist and obama half white … confused

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girlymctx
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 7:16pm
So by definition Chris Mathews is calling himself, his ‘friends if HE HAS ANY, & his family all Racists?!! I’d say YES! He’s one of the worst racist self haters I’ve ever seen…

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texmex1973
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 6:58pm
This is total stupidity. These people inject racism into everything. Republicans don’t talk about racism because they judge by ACTIONS not skin color. Liberals are the ones who WANT racial tensions. According to Mathews whites are “SICK and DANGEROUS” Yet HE is the one who constantly talks about race.

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MacJedi
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 6:55pm
Racism is evil.
Racism must be eliminated.
Our government practices and promotes “institutionalized racism” against the American People by:
1. cataloging (non-criminal) citizens by race
2. treating one citizen differently from another based on racial parameters
3. maintaing race data in the census
4. spending tax dollars based on racial parameters
5. collecting taxes based on racial parameters

I’m sure there are more that I have not even thought of, yet.

We the People must change our government.

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damone0397
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 6:34pm
Sounds like Chriss wants to be first in line to suck and jive the chief oxygen thief’s pecker???? And the Libya attack info is all wrong from Palin???? Are these two on the air screaming that the WH has lied totally about what happened…..I never heard more **** about RACIST until ubama got on the ballot in 07… Sure is funny that blacks are never racist…only whitey…..keep stealing our oxygen msnbc sucks anyway!!!!

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pandora
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 6:04pm
Matthews is so stupid that he doesn’t realize that he is white. He obviously hates himself.

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I-have-black-immunity
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 5:08pm
Oweblamer is an angry dark skinned white man and Chris is an angry light skinned knee grow.

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ClaraJune
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 4:26pm
If ANYONE knows racism, it’s Chris Matthews, by God! This guy is as big a racist as Jesse Jackson and/or Al Sharpton. Maybe moreso. It’s all he ever talks about. What’s up with that? Is he trying to propagate Obama’s race war? He’s an idiot and he has no place on television. I recommend contacting MSNBC and telling them waht you think of Chris Matthews. Even better, contact the sponsors for his show and tell them you refuse to purchase their products until they remove their sponsorship of his racist rantings.

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forgetyou
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 4:01pm
Onother white racist who has not come out of the closit.

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forgetyou
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 3:58pm
Lead poisining would would be to quick a death for this traitor

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DIS3
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 2:54pm
Chris Chris Chris—–I am so looking forward to the day after the election when you explain why that loser we have as our President has lost. I just know it won’t be becasue he does not know or care about what is going on it will be for another rteason—-Right Chris ( wink wink)

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yohannbiimu
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 2:35pm
Take a look at the pic of Chrissy at the top of the post, and then find a picture of Norwegian traitor Vidkun Quisling. I swear they’re identical.

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gac1218
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 2:35pm
Let’s see. A good portion of white people voted for Obama last time, but most all polls say the about 95% of blacks will vote for Obama this time. Where’s the true race issue?

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Neils60
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 2:24pm
Consider the source here. Matthews is the guy who disparaged all people of color, when he made a comment on MSNBC, following an excellent address by President Obama to a joint session of Congress (State of the Union 2009). Matthews stated that, “I almost forgot that the president was black for an hour.” Of course, Matthews didn’t/doesn’t understand how insulting that remark was, and his cohorts on MSNBC were either too stupid, or so protective of Matthews, that they didn’t admonish him for that statement either.
Finally, his argument that a vote for Romney is based upon the president’s race, rather than on merit, is a complete joke, but it will earn him some points with any moonbat who views his program, and, perhaps, MSNBC’s management.

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deeberj
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 1:56pm
Chris is a racist. Not other people. He hears something and automatically attaches racisim to things that were not meant to be so and much of it doesn’t sound at all racist. Until he explains how his racist mind figured out it was racist. He has lost all credibility. How can anyone take that man seriously?

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Fishsnot
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 1:30pm
Matthews should be “exiled and shunned” by the ENTIRE WHITE RACE for the “racist” he is! Also, if you see him on the street, PLEASE someone, anyone to please kick him in the nuts, poke him in the eye with a sharp stick, then push him in front of a BIG truck or BIG bus!

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ExDC
Posted on October 26, 2012 at 1:12pm
I swore I would not post again; however, reading the posts, well, I don’t think readers are taking Chris Matthews as serious as you need to. Matthews is a “Hate Monger” and the hate he is filling the air waves with is “Class Warfare Hate Mongering!” When I saw the Nanny murder in NYC last night, I immediately thought of all the hate Matthews has been spewing to get blacks to hate whites! Matthews is dangerous because MSNBC has given him a big platform to sow hate mongering and class warfare which only benefits the democrats!

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