Did Chris Matthews Really Compare Kansas’ Abortion Regulations to Racist Jim Crow Efforts?
- Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:16pm by
Billy Hallowell
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On Thursday night‘s episode of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews compared the way in which Kansas’ new abortion regulations were implemented to the instillation of Jim Crow laws in the South. He said:
…is this basically setting a whole bunch of conditions like they used to do with literacy tests in the South to keep blacks from voting. Is this a bunch of regulations that basically kill any chance of having an abortion legally in Kansas?
While Matthews does, indeed, go on to claim that his analogy isn’t “exactly parallel,” the comparison is a bit outlandish. Jim Crow laws were tragically utilized to discriminate against a specific race. It is hard to imagine that new regulations being set in Kansas at all compare to the livelihoods that were destroyed through institutional racism.
At the least, Matthews comments were over-the-top. Watch the video for yourself below:
(h/t Newsbusters)
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Comments (95)
vennoye
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:27pmI will NOT miss Chris Matthews when he is gone!! I do not watch him now, but it’s time for him to go.
Report Post »liesnomore
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:20pmChris Matthews is like a baby pulling on his mother’s apron crying ” Mommy, Mommy, Mommy!” He just wants to be noticed..by someone, sometime, anywhere…
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:14pmAgain Blaze, the hype of the headline doesn’t even come close to matching the content of the story … * you guys get paid for this? Really?
Report Post »starboardlady
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:11pmMSNBC had become the tabloid cable news channel. This is their M O and this is how they plan to survive…by making outrageous statements. At least once a week, Morning Joke says something we talk about. If we want them to go away, we should totally ignore them.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:03pmI’m sure that man would do a better job as President than obama.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:06pmThese comment replies are not working correctly. And the “oldest to newest” feature is terrible! It would be nice to be able to save our preferences.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:45pmTHESE changes suck I can only Hope They Change it back ! don’t model YAHOO !
Report Post »liesnomore
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:22pmNot sayin’ a whole lot there captain
Report Post »frankee47
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:03pmthat warm feeling on Chris’s leg is urine
Report Post »frankee47
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:01pmi keep saying,the warm feeling on Chris‘s leg is Obama’s urine.
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:58pmas long as progressives abort thier offspring,,im fine with abortion…just not for christian or REAL american women…hows that tingles
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:58pmCrissy Mathews hates children and is a baby killer!
Report Post »Astalavistababy
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:51pmNot sure why anyone calls attention to him. His ratings suck and he gets more attention on these sites than his program attracks. He‘s hard to watch and they have to hand out towels to the guests to wipe themselves after he’s done spraying them with his saliva. Never seen a host who has to slurp it back after every sentence. Very gross.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:45pmchrismatthews, you, sir, are irrelevant.
Report Post »Arizona Don
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 3:43amSir???
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:45pmI like the guy from Kansas-and I really like old pick-ups, looks like a guy that doen’t take any c—–p from anyone!
Report Post »His Lamb is Satanic
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:43pmcm is commie liberal pos.
Report Post »FREDD The WILSON
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:43pm@Aaron in Joke County; And Imbeciles like you will ride in the baggage department
Report Post »stacybernardslay
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:40pmWhat is the problem with abortion? Or with homosexuality. Liberals abort their children and gays usually don’t have any unless they adopt. If it weren’t for the Marxist teachers union we could end liberalism in one generation.
Report Post »Astalavistababy
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:39pmWhen will Comcast fire this idiot! They would just replace him with an even bigger idiot like Anthony Weiner.
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:37pmWell, with Chris Matthews absurdly comparing abortion regulations to Jim Crow laws, I may very well bet that his leg must be tingling whenever he hears the name of the Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, in addition to “The Anointed One.”
Report Post »Kansas Mom
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 1:39am“they used to do with literacy tests in the South to keep blacks from voting”
Now the libs just kill them before their born to keep them from living.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:35pmMSLSD Chris Matthews……..madcows, the PLO guy, the two airheads on the morning show and Ed the head………. The cartoon channel
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:33pmAaron in Polk County
Report Post »I thought Chris Matthews had a FOX Sunday Morning show…
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P1$$y Chrissy is on MrsNBC
Froggy Chrissy is the one on FOX
Aaron in Polk County
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:32pmAll Airlines carrying passengers in the state shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more rows for each passenger, or by dividing the passenger cabin by a partition, so as to secure separate accommodations
google it.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:30pmJim Crow ..Margaret Sanger
Report Post »Same difference
FormerLib
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 11:30amIndeed. Chrissy seems unaware that abortion was originally championed by the left to control and eventually eliminate racial ‘inferiors’, which included the mentally and developmentally disabled, ethnic and racial minorities, and so on. And now it is being used as a mere from of birth control, but much more than that: it is the instrument by which the west is committing cultural suicide; as developed producer nations abort their children out of convenience, they are not replacing themselves. Meanwhile, cultures that produce little and consume much are reproducing at incredible rates. This means fewer and fewer will be providing for the needs of more and more of those unable to care for themselves. We are headed toward a world that looks like Somalia or Mexico.
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:29pmChris Matthews is irrelavent. Too bad his mother didn’t ab…
Report Post »saneromeo
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:25pmOh darn have we Kansans gone and offended Mrs. Matthews? Shucks.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:09pmNo, you just offended the Constitution, women’s rights and the law in general.
Report Post »FREDD The WILSON
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:24pmMust be that tingle he has in his leg.
Report Post »boomboom
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:34pmNaah…that’s his undependable Depends.
Report Post »Aaron in Polk County
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:23pmI thought Chris Matthews had a FOX Sunday Morning show… My mistake.
Report Post »Anthony Davis
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:07pmChris Wallace dude…
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 9:56pmThat’s the other Chris, you know, the one who asked Michele Bachmann whether or not she was a flake.
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 12:54amYES HE DID, WHAT A NUT
This is the same guy that compared Bill Clinton to Jesus: http://tiny.cc/4m8hv
Report Post »TennesseeConservative
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:11amThat Boy is dumber then a box of rocks.
Report Post »hud
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 11:11amI‘m wondering when wee weiner’s show is going to debut on the looney tunes channel (msnbc)
Report Post »hud
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 11:14amHow the hell did they get this many nutbags under one roof?
Report Post »JRook
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 2:12pmOk we do understand what analogy means right. In this sense he was referring to the development of seeming reasonable medical care regulations that were developed and implemented for no other reason than to effectively ban abortion in Kansas. So in that sense they are similar to Jim Crow laws which we enacted to restrict ability for blacks to vote, among other things. The analogy derives from the use of these regulations to restrict a woman’s right to choose. But than again this is from a state that wanted to teach creationism in science class.
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