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First a ‘Cultist’ and an ‘Outsourced’ Indian IT Tech, Now Chris Matthews Likens Romney to African ‘Colonizer’

Chris Matthews is not particularly good at choosing metaphors lately. After having likened the former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to an Indian tech support worker and accusing the GOP of “outsourcing the election to a Mormon,” (a religion which Matthews also suggested was a “cult”), Matthews has now hit Romney with yet another odd metaphor in the wake of his losses in Alabama and Mississippi. Now, according to Matthews, Romney is like an African colonizer.

Mediaite brings us the latest Matthews gaffe [emphasis added]:

Matthews asked Steve Schmidt, former senior advisor to John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, if it seemed to rank-and-file Republican voters that he “didn’t belong.”

“He’s not a backslapping urban politician, you know, who can go down there and pull off the y’alls and the cheese grits,” Schmidt observed. “He’s a serious man with a record of accomplishment and he particularly has a record of accomplishment in making broken things work right and I think being able to communicate that through the prism of this is how it benefits you, the voter, in a primary context and then ultimately in a general election context, you know, convincing people he has the core competence to restore prosperity to the country.”

“It sounds colonial!” Matthews exclaimed. “Like, I’m not one of you people, but I can come in and run your country better than you can! I know I’m not one of you, but I’m really good at this business sense. You know! Colonial! That was the colonial argument by the way in Africa. We’re going to come in. We may not belong here. We’re not one of you but we got this economic sense. We know how to run businesses better. I’m sorry, these metaphors never work!”

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It may be a good idea for Matthews to lay off Romney, given two gaffes this close in proximity to each other, one of which has already drawn extensive fire. In fact, during his Wednesday morning radio broadcast, Glenn Beck himself savaged Matthews for his comments on-air.

“The guy is a bigot. Let’s call him that,” Beck said. “Anybody who doesn’t fall in line with what he thinks is right is either stupid or a cult or dangerous.”

Watch below as Beck lampoons Matthews for his bigoted remarks:

“I don’t give a flying crap if he was purple. I don’t care. I care about his character, and I care about his policies. That’s what the south just proved,” Glenn added.

Glenn concluded the segment saying, “I have no problem defending my faith with reasonable people who aren’t using lies and smears against me. I have no problem. I’m not trying to convert you. You want to do your church. You want to be atheist whatever I don’t care. I don’t care. This is America. We all stand together, and we defend each other’s right to worship God the way you worship God unless you’re blowing people up. We’re all cool. Just be cool with each other. But the lies that are coming out are absolutely outrageous, and I say this with real indignation.”

 

Comments (80)

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  • dawg71
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:23am

    Grasping at straws much? You need a slide rule and a compass to follow the logic trail of this one. Running as outsider, hmm. I recall a certain senator from Chicago doing that. Saying he could do things better then the establishment. Yeah, pretty sure that same Senator did that to.
    Having a almost arrogant gant about his superior world view. Yeah, I know that senator did that.
    Trying to convey competence about your plans to restart the economy. Yeah, he did that to and failed. Thats what politician do dumbass. They try and persuade folks that their idea’s are better then the other guys. Your right about one thing metaphors never work at least yours.

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  • barber2
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:15am

    Thank old Chris for picking up the anti-colonialism thread which so bothered and angered Obama’s father before his sad death. Was this anti-colonialism part of the Democrat/ Obama campaign theme ? Very odd.

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  • sb36695
    Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:04am

    It’s time for a drug test!

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  • Erin
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:51pm

    Sick of Chris Mathews and everyone like him.

    Check out my youtube video–personally featuring me. This is why Romney lost the south. The CLEAR reason.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHsyQPc4QYU&feature=autoshare

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:50pm

    I think unless people be born again, they are going to have the fruit that they have no matter what their deeds are at this point.

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  • soybomb315
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:42pm

    why does theblaze even run these things. i dont watch msnbc for a reason.

    Romney is not trying to colonize the GOP but he is trying to buy his way through the primaries in each state using negative ads

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:42pm

    I think the reason Matthews comments sound off the wall is he dreams these comments up, writes them down and then looks for the first opportunity to slip them into the conversation. Some people when engaged in a conversation with others don’t follow the conversation because they are just looking for an opportunity to get their say in. I’m sure 70 years ago Matthews was interested in what you had to say but those days are long gone. He long ago found his only true friend in a bottle of Jacks

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:41pm

    Matthews is like that kid back in junior high who thought he was so clever because he used big flowery words to impress others, but the words never made sense. It took no time at all for the kids to dismiss him entirely.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:41am

      The only time you hear about Crissy is when ya’ll mention him. Quit giving any credence to what he says and maybe he will go awzy.

      )MG

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  • Kathleen3
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:38pm

    Anyone who has worked in the mental health field quickly realizes Chris Matthews deserves our pity, not our ridicule. I can not bear to watch the man as I fully expect him to have a complete meltdown at any moment and be carried off the MSNBC set.

    This is a man who realizes he is never going to be as successful as Rush Limbaugh, never be a replacement for the late Tim Russert, and now finds himself fighting and clawing just to keep his position on the lowest rated cable news station.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:05am

      I have worked in a psych hospital and Chrissy exhibits grandiosity with word salad line of thought. He is probably bi-polar with emphasis on MANIC. Chrissy might have Korsakoff syndrome also. His statement….” its my job to get bho elected…” is a clear reference to delusional ideaology.

      Chrissy? Tipster O’Neill is DEAD. Camelot is over. Hard to believe you are a roman catholic.
      You drink too much of that starbucky socialism coffee
      BTW DID you ever QUESTION Obummers religion???

      OMG 2012

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:26pm

    matthews is a progressive white slave…he is so guilty for his white skin that he hates christians and conservatives for not being self loathing like him..after 3 yrs of having tingles up his leg at the site of black men … now he,s trying to impress his masters by such attacks..he has a progressive form of stockholm syndrome….im sure they have to pull him off sharpton daily…its sad really…but thats msnbc for ya…

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  • MrMagoo
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:26pm

    I don’t remember Tingles trashing Hillary as she was pandering to blacks down south…..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQYdg3LYqJE

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  • OperationNorthwoods
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:24pm

    I don‘t know which is worse Rick Santorum’s sweater vests or Glenn’s suspenders. Seriously dude you aren’t working on a farm.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:39pm

      i like the sweater vest and the suspenders are great. when a person has confidence darn near anything they wear looks good. seriously

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  • bigmel754
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:22pm

    These people are so much stupider than we give them credit for! Scared people do very dumb and freighting things when cornered! They cannot communicate rationally because they are so irrational. How will these people who put stock into this administration survive after being sacrificed for being blind followers?

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:41pm

      totally agree. these liberal show their true colors very quickly the second they are not getting their way. I tell you they represent the spoiled 3-8 year old children who’s parents have never disciplined them not getting their ways kicking screaming tantrums on the floor. that is what they act like giant spoiled rotten children its disgraceful

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:19pm

    Maybe anyone who likes bands are also cultists? “Hey you, Standing in the aisles with itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me?” I think he can.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:22pm

      And don’t give up without a fight, and don’t become “Comfortably numb.”

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:25pm

      Although I think his smiles are completely faded.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:30pm

      And it really isn’t just fantasy, he walked through the aisle walking right at me. The people‘s backs were turned and so they couldn’t see. But he said that he did it for you.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:27am

      Eliasim is this you in resurrection mode ? Your pseudo- religious lingo are a give away….

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    • Amica
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 2:39am

      Barber2:
      It may or may not be Eliasim, but it’s not pseudo-religious lingo, it’s Pink Floyd…paraphrased. Duh.

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:17am

      Wow, my clicker works great to get past this person, click, zip and he’s gone!

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  • Goldi
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:17pm

    How come Glenn doesn‘t ever ask santorum about the ministers who introduce him at rallies and fund raisers and in the same introduction disparage Romney’s religion? The head of his enterprise in Florida has said some things that santorum, if he was any kind of a Christian, would disavow. No one asks him, not even Glenn!

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    • slr4528
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:32pm

      I was wondering the same thing. It seems to me that Santorum and Gingrich echo the Democrat’s strategy against Romney.

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  • martinez012577
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:15pm

    This is another problem with Romney. His religion is going to be a topic, a topic that doesnt need to be even brought up because it not one of the problems facing our country.

    Debt
    Spending
    Wars
    Freedoms

    Anything that takes away from those issues should be ignored. The problem for Mitt, Rick, and Newt is they cannot debate Obama on those issues because they are all four in agreement.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:47pm

      yea – ron paul wins on the issues every time. Its funny that republicans have more of a problem with ron paul than the independents. I dont know if it is looks/personality or his foreign policy. In the end, most people will regret dismissing him like they have

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:11pm

    When Imus called the Rutgers basketball team “Nappy headed hos”, the left was furious, and did everything they could to bring him to his knees. Matthews, Sharpton, Maher, and anyone else on the left does it, they play stupid and ignore it ever happened.

    It’s high time the people yank their ovaries and step on them, starting with Mr. Matthews…

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:56pm

      That is an intriguing idea – go back in time and remove the ovaries of their mothers before they are born………hmn

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  • KangarooJack
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:11pm

    What an eliteist bastard!!!!!

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  • KangarooJack
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:09pm

    Oh, wait, Cameron here’s for a spell….somehow, I’m thinking that David is NOT GOING to go away with a good feeling.

    Were I Dave’s wife???? I’d have taken a detour trip to Kentucky and gotten myself a few Louisville Sluggers to take home. Next time a mob (pretty sure it’s coming soon) surrounds a car of the “Let’s just call it the upper class“ of England and you have a mob surrounding the car ”screaming off with their heads”….GREAT job there UK Security! ‘

    Our English Cousins????? Y’all better stock up on Louisville Sluggers for what is to come this Spring. Might interest you in my pic that I choose. It’s of one of YOUR people jumping from a roof during one of YOUR riots.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:07pm

    Sounds like a Stephanopoulos moment, where the gorgeous one got his marching orders to ask about contraception at one of the Republican debates. Silly question at the time, but look at how much mileage the Dems have gotten out of that one. “Colonizer” means RACIST. That’s going to be the next thing Romney will have to fight. Leftists are ruthless, devious and corrupt. Maybe Obama himself fed the line to Chris? Watch it get traction. If we had a more sophisticated, informed electorate they couldn’t get away with this crap……. but we don’t!

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  • RougeFastFingers
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:04pm

    Matthews the moron also called the catholic church a cult. Think we would dare to call islam a cult?

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    • wethecrazypeople
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:09pm

      moron. chris matthews is a roman catholic

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    • marhee9
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:13pm

      Of course he wouldn’t call Islam a cult. What a crazy world we are living in, especially since Barack Obama became President. These idiots in the liberal media will stop at nothing to protect this guy. Chris Matthews is amongst the worst of them. There is a video that came out today about the Bill Maher/Rush Limbaugh situation. You should seethe comments section where the libs are tripping over themselves trying to protect Maher. Amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMToF_H7rqM

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    • READRIGHTHERE
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:15pm

      Moron,

      He called all three of them Cultists after describing the main candidates as two Catholics and a Mormon. Look it up and have a listen.

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    • wethecrazypeople
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:26pm

      @ READRIGHTHERE, you revolting moron, neither santorum or gingrich are catholics in any sane, average catholic’s sense: the catholic church explicitly warns of global warming, these pandering liars deny that it’s even happening. There is no trace of Christ’s love for everyone in any of their rhetoric. No love at all

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:38am

      WE: I find it hard to understand how many calling themselves “ Catholics” are so spiritually empty. Think the Catholic Church in America needs some serious re-education. These ” chicken-in-very-pot” social justice / material Catholics have strayed far from Christ’s spiritual message. Think the Church needs another Synod with some serious Holy Spirit attendance !

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  • Slayer
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:01pm

    Listen to Matthews: Liberals really do hate us all, don’t they?

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  • youdidthis
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:01pm

    this bs is just a distraction.

    sue his buttocks, fire the pos and move on.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:58pm

    Chris Mathews is like one of those animatronic Bears from Chuckie Cheese, just does the dance while a tape plays. The problem is when he was built, he scared the crap out of the kids, killed one of the token takers, and humped the skeet ball machines. They tried to destroy it, but it won’t die. So unfortunetly, MSNBC found him in a dumpster, now we have to listen to it, someone just keeps changing the tape. Our only chance is to find who changes the tape everyday, and stop them.

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:58pm

      “humped the skeet ball machines”. I’ll be chuckling over that one for days. Lord help me, I can picture it.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:34am

      Sums it up…..thanks for the laugh
      & Please, someone wash the skeet ball machines

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:23am

      Darn, made me snort LOL.

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    • katiefrankie
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:22am

      There are tears in my eyes, that was so funny! Drat – skeet ball is my favorite game to play at the “fun center!”

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  • SpeckledPup
    Posted on March 14, 2012 at 10:55pm

    ‘african colonizer’… no doubts now that matthews and the obamamedia have been coached by the WH. they are not smart enough to realize how much obama hates America (and England ) specifically their history as ‘colonizers’ — maybe they have a staffer who must listen to Glenn Beck ..and SPLAIN IT TO matthews …and the other mindless useless eaters in the communist obamamedia

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    • wethecrazypeople
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:03pm

      @speckledpub, do you appreciate England’s (well, uk’s) history of colonization? Shouldn’t a US president disapprove? Ireland? India? America? Do you think colonization is a noble tradition?

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    • Wilma
      Posted on March 14, 2012 at 11:04pm

      I thought calling the GOP presidential candidates “clowns” was incredibly disrespectful. There is freedom of speech and there is crossing the line.

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    • SpeckledPup
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:21am

      if the majority of the enterprising adventurous colonizing Europeans hadn‘t have been put off by the rampant diseases and inhuman heat and spearchuckin natives during 300 years of skirting Africa’s coasts, Africa would have been a prosperous continent by 100 years ago; like Europe and North America ..and Hawaii, imagine how it could have been comprised of well-fed, prosperous, industrialized civilized cities thru-out the entire continent, bustling roads, factories, farmland, hospitals, and no warlords and no massacres and refugee camps. reasonable civilized governed States, not warring little warlord countries, had it been able to be colonized, and civilized, not just a few major cities along the coasts, which’re now mainly ghettoes, yes Africa would have been an entirely different place today. it is the only place on Earth that Europe gave up on. and look how it has remained. Disease, starvation, massacres, and they chose that.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:25am

      Wilma: “ clowns” ?? You have outed your obvious bias.

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