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Wait Until You Hear About the Latest Things MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Finds Racist: ‘It’s a Sickness by the White People’

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)

2smart4libs
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 6:14am
Matthews go see a mental health professional. Something in your past sure makes you feel guilty about something and you need to work through it before you get on the air again

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JTX
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 5:55am
Matthews is, and always will be a bottom feeder who has no idea what he’s talking about except to call everyone racists. This guy obviously has done something really wrong in his life towards minorities and is trying to make up for it by calling everyone else racists.

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pepsicolakid
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 5:54am
Chris has no sense of reality. Could someone,anyone get this man some help!!!

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oxycontinxx
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 5:51am
hey chris…………….your take on certain words being racist really pi ss es me off.

i m a white dude and i happen to like watermelon AND fried chicken !!!!

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Master.Debater
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 5:46am
Those whites are so sick and racist! Matthews makes himself look more and more ridiculous every day, just like his messiah.

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tothepoint
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 5:36am
Why hasn’t someone gotten Chris Matthews the psychiatric help he needs?

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TonyFox
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 5:31am
Whay is wrong in being a RACIST, I pay my taxes abide by the laws, I try to be good and nice to everyone. It’s that my right living in the USA. I’m a RACIST, but it’s my choice.

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charles1540
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 5:28am
This snail old idiot is so in the bag for the democrats it is unbelievable. It should be embarrassing to MSNBC and any all real journalist. Oh I forgot MSNBC is not a legitimate news outlet it is an extention of the democrat party….

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ssfloatnfly
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 5:09am
**** you, it’s 2012 you race chasing blowhards!

Obama is a failure and hasn’t a clue about economics or our American values cemented in Judea Christen Laws, Rules, and principles. His black liberation philosophy can see it;s way back to africa along with the rest of the AFRICANS who fail to become AMERICANS! Go make utopia there, you progressive liberal piece of DUNG!!

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Southerner01
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 5:01am
Trump wants to see Obama’s college records because many people believe that he misrepresented himself as a foreign exchange student. They also want to see what extremist socialist and communist professors he had classes with and what the topic of his master’s thesis was. It has nothing to fo with affirmative action.

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chicago76
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 4:46am
Mathews appears to have allowed senility to get the best of him with age.

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raderby
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 4:46am
projection.

I wish this psychologically messed up idiot would keep his guilt and fears to himself. Who listens to this drooling slobberist anyway?

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chicago76
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 4:41am
Tingle mathews lost it a long time ago. When Clinton was in office and he made up excuses to follow the party line and protect wild willie from being thrown out of office for sexual assault and perjury. Since selling his soul then, like the rest of the democrat party, he has gone on to bigger and better things now. Now, instead of being on the defensive, he has realized it is better to be on the offensive against those who would bring down his beloved BHO. He like the other democrats learned valuable lessons with Clinton. Those lessons are being used today to protect BHO no matter what BHO does.

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Case_Logic
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 4:32am
This manufactured outrage and phony indignation are hallmarks of a true liberal. Chris put the bottle down it only makes you more angry and racist. Oh, and btw take your medication.

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dcovert
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 4:24am
This little p o s makes me want to puke coat hangers!!!!! I can’t wait to watch him loose his mind in T minus 12 days and pop nerve pills like tic tacs

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GorillaG
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 4:21am
That blithering idiot Chris Matthews is like one of those cyborgs in the movies that malfunction and just babbles. The really frightening thing is that theres somebody even stupider that pays him for it and 3 people that watch it on tv.

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BlueJDN
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 4:10am
I’m a racist because I don’t like Obama. And yet I voted for Mia Love. I’m so confused…

Guess I’ll just take half of me to the doctor about my white conservative sickness.

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calmandcents
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 3:54am
The only group more racist than the main stream media Progressives is the NAACP.

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anothercomment
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 3:41am
“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.”
I realize that many people think Chris Matthews is funny, real, crazy, obsessed, acting, or weird. But the more I watch this man, the more I am concerned that he is truly racing towards a mental break with reality. And when the night of November 6th is ending and his tingle didn’t win, he is going to be bedridden, seriously. This man is either in need of medication or is severely over medication on his own! I hope his melt down is NOT televised, but oh wait, it’s MSNBC, and they will ‘gleefully’ televise the entire event, and replay it for the rest of the world to watch. Aaannnd, of course it will be Bush’s fault….or will that line be changed to Romney?

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mikeisgus
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 3:38am
Obama’s ineptitude gets 4 Americans killed, including an Ambassador, for God’s sake, and the news about it is that Sarah Palin used the wrong words to describe Obama’s inaction???? Heaven help us, we are lost as a country!!!!!!!!!!

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ASE
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 3:34am
This guy is irrelevant, as his shrinking listeners attest to.

This is a lib tactic to get you to shut up about virtually everything, or second guess (or third guess) every point until you totally lose your train of thought. Ignore him, and eventually he’ll just go away – no one will want to keep paying him when they see that he is ineffective.

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NotPoliticallyCorrect
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 3:11am
Is it me, or am I the only one that knows Matthews is white? I think this is Armegeddon for the religion known as liberalism and they’re in their death throes and have lost their everlovin’ minds.

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calmandcents
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 3:10am
Matthews obsessive and compulsive fixations and black-and-white thinking is suggestive of a deeper BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder

But then this seems to be a requisite character trait for most main stream media,

I recommend medication, but no more shock therapy!!!!!!!!

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strawberry411a
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 2:54am
Kowtowing to the black race doesn’t make you a progressive Matthews. They hate you more than they hate the average conservative. You are a psychotic confused mess.

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Calimann83
Posted on October 25, 2012 at 2:40am
“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.” if you stare at this quote long enough your brain will begin to melt.

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