Chris Matthews: Condi Rice Could Counter Obama's "Ethnic Excitement"
By Logan Murphy Sunday Jan 27, 2008 10:10pm
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Chris Matthews as been sticking his foot in his mouth (more so than usual) a lot this primary season and during MSNBC's coverage of the State of the Union address tonight, he stepped in it again. Tweety made the suggestion that because Barack Obama has created an ethnic excitement in America, if he doesn't get the nomination Condi Rice would make a great VP choice for a GOP candidate because black people might still be hopeful of putting an African American in higher government:
Matthews:"...And I have to think given the ethnic, you know, excitement - let's call it American excitement about Barack Obama. If he doesn't make it to the nomination a lot of people on the Republican side might say, well why don't we try do something to offset that and take advantage of the hope of having an African American at a high level of government."
This is wrong on so many levels, and certainly does nothing to end the media meme that race and gender are driving this primary season. Somehow, I don't think Condi would motivate a lot of Democrats to vote for a Republican this year. He's also echoing Robert Novak on this one too.
Three little words? "Chris, you're fired."
Ew. That is SO not right on so many levels. Although much already been said about this angle has already been "not right", and this just reaches a whole new plateau of "that ain't right".
It almost makes you picture marketing analysts advising a GOP candidate. "Sir, we have realized that what your ticket needs is 50% more 'ethnic excitement'". (shudder)
poor chrissie
Surprise surprise....all we need now is Fuzzy Zoeller back in front of a camera
He's not gonna get fired over that, gimme a break. It would be interesting to see Condi running though. It would be a nice opportunity to trash her for the opportunistic sycophant she is. God, I hate that woman.
Twitty is an idiot.
when i heard it... i thought: you gotta be shitting me...
nobody, but nobody is considering Condi Rice for anything other than the usual high paying gig bestowed upon Bush's lie-babies...
matthews is a moron...
Chris is like that drunk cousin-in-law that says stupid shit at every family gathering. The kind of statements that stop conversations for an uncomfortable silence and have everyone thinking "When is cousin Sue gonna divorce this doofus?" That includes cousin Sue.
His time is done, and he's falling screaming into the abyss as we watch, hence the babbling. Ever so entertaining.
I kinda gagged when I heard him say that.
But it's the CLINTONS that are injecting race into the election, right?
Someone put this douche on unemployment please.
There are so many new articulate pundits (Rachel Maddow, Sam Seder) and yet we're stuck with the same group of clowns that bought the WMDs B.S. and ignored the attorney firing scandals for months.
Dear god, our media is completely F@$ed.
Chris Matthews: Like driving a car with no brakes. At some point he will go careening off the road.
Number than a pounded thumb.
Chris Matthews mouth is just so appalling on so many levels. Not least because it seems to be totally disengaged from any brain.
I'd like to see Phil Donahue brought back. He told the truth. I'd also like to see some new faces as well.
He just told McCain "You know you're in my heart." He's such a dope.
It shows a shocking level of contempt for African Americans - most no fans of the stupidest person ever to be SOS.
Any lingering support could be erased by election ads showing her shoe-shopping during Katrina.
fools surrounded by fools, seriously welcome to the insane asylum called America, kool aid passed out at 8:00 am daily.
Was that Jeff Gannon sitting next to Condi?
Seriously, why does he get paid obscene amounts of money to pull his retarded "insights" out of his ass, and offer it political analysis?
i would like the definition of "ethnic excitement"
Tweety is as DINGY as McCain, as the Beck Brat on CNN, as O'Liely and the bunch at Murdock Pig Pen, as Ron Paul, as Lieberman, as BUSH HIMSELF, and not to forget Novak and Tucky Carlson, the whole lot of which should be put to work cleaning up oil spills for the next eight years!
I didn't know Condi was black. She sounds more like an Italian Aunt I know, Tomita...
nohobear @ 20:
Because he does his Corporate Master's bidding.
Matthews twice today said that Kennedy endorsement of Obama was like "King Arthur returning from the Crusades to nominate Robin Hood." The first time he did it, going to break, I thought "O.k. He just misspoke." The second time, I realized that yes, he really is that big an idiot.
What fawning, ass-kissing, delusional nonsense. Matthews must be smoking crack.
Condi Rice is about as "likeable" and "impressive" as Robert Macnamara, Gen. Westmoreland and LBJ were in 1968.
These arrogant elite white pundits need to be put in check!!
GOP hack Kathleen Parker wrote the same thing recently. Guess they all got the same memo.
Please tell me I am not the only person whose head was ready to explode throughout the speech? All I can say is thank goodness they have Olbermann @ MSNBC to counteract the inanity of Matthews. Is it me or is he getting worse? I think he's almost as crazy & cranky as McCain.
After weeks of proclaiming that race had nothing to do with the SC vote & then going on to talk only about racial divisions among the turnout, what did you expect from Tweety? Every cable talking head keeps saying it's not about race but they can't stop overanalyzing the racial break-down of the SC vote. Even Superdooper Tuesday's had its racial projections already. It's hard to stop chanting a mantra once you've started it & been allowed to continue on with impunity. Tweety is just continuing the not-about-race dialogue that the 2008 Presidential Campaign is about
ethnicAmerican excitement. Is that code for something, Tweety? Like, if you're not for Obama, you're not an American? I've heard that disgusting tactic used before but usually it's about Iraq & said by a Repug.Tweetie birds M.O. is just to rile people up and cause MSM misdirection. A lot of the stuff he says is just asinine.
In other words, hes a tool with a mic.
Your not the only person Gr8.
Wow.
That. is. just. wrong. on. so. many. levels.
Absolutely jaw dropping. First he's sexist and nows he's a big fat bigot.
Is it me or does tweety seem to be mAnn Colder's alter ego?
Matthews is so over. Can't watch, just like I can't watch GWB. But I did just catch his "in my heart " line with McCave. We need help. We need someone to streak the House, or drop fliers on the national mall, or broadcast through an old fashioned megaphone that the people of this country are pissed off and we aren't going to take it anymore. Obama may be done with bickering, but if nobody stands up to these evil and very powerful corporations, we will all find ourselves at Guantanamo or something like it and the great American experiment will be over. They aren't going to stop for platitudes.
Slightly OT but still on course... Can Bill be Hillary's VP?
I swear to sit and listen to the msm nowadays is almost like sitting on the short bus. These people are just seriously retarded.Someone needs to play back to them some of the completely stupid shit that comes out of their mouths.
Not just Matthews; pretty much all of them. Same old crap.Sometimes I think I'm watching TMZ........
I'm just glad that most young americans get their news from the internet and take the time to research and know whats true and whats not. That at least gives me hope for the next generation!
chris twitty matthews should just get off of tv, cable and anything
political. he is so full of ignorant racist bullshit. he is a total bore.
Jared @ 35:
Rachel Maddow was talking about this the other night. It seems to be kind if a gray area, although not specifically prohibited.
Yeah, yeah, put Condi on the Republican ticket. They will sink faster than a lead balloon.
Do it!
Shut up, Chris. Go hold up Romney's picture with one hand.
Cancel your cable tv. You all are enabling the MSM by buying their crappy cable programming, and watching it like pornography. Save your dignity and cancel your Time Warner subscription. MSM will get the message when they go out of business from people cancelling thier cable and Refuse to buy the garbage they are selling!
Kinda off-topic, but similar in the way it demonstrates how horrible our MSM is.
Wolf Blitzer couldn't host the Situation Room today because....well, the President invited him to lunch, along with some other 'highly distinguished' anchors, as John King puts it. As I was watching that, I thought to myself: The sign of a good anchor is when he DOESN'T get invited to lunch by the President. These guys are so pathetic. It's all about access. If you're too tough, you don't get to talk to them.
Anyone who mentions C. Rice as a prospect for any position in our government is un-american.
Leezzaa sure would counter Obama's 'Ethnic Excitement'.
She'd create 'Ethnic Ennui'.
Isn't it amazing that although we sometimes make off the wall comments, we see the insanity, and our government keeps marching over the cliff, or acts like the charge of the light brigade, and sit there and clap, pat each other on the shoulder for the damn good job they are doing running our country.
and Right the fuck on Gr8
JESUS, MATTHEWS, HE'S BLACK. GET THE HELL OVER IT.
Pardon me for that moment of estrogenic excitement. :eyeroll:
Well, I personally spit wine across the room when that crap came out of Tweety's piehole..sweet Jaysus, wtf was that about?
So black people will just vote for any black person, now that they caught on.
Well Alan Keyes should be moving up in the polls than.
If Kindasleazy were picked to run for VP think of all the great footage of her lying and stonewalling Congress. Run " Mushroom Cloud", "No one would have imagined that someone would use planes to fly into buildings" and clips of her shopping for shoes while people drowned in New Orleans.
I say bring her on.
Somehow I don't think Condi "Uncle Thomas" Rice would be quite the draw for African Americans as Barrack Obama. She's a sell out to her race and the American people as a whole.
Oh, and thanks for having it up as video..I filched it and of course gave proper attribution ;)
Tweety just seems to be losing it more and more every day.
To get Condi to run,they need a FEEDBAG.
Should the republicans win in November, and they want to give Leezza another government job, they could create a 'Department of Religion', and make her Secretary. (Or 'Priestess').
When she started every sentence with 'Who could ever believe.........?', she'd fit right in.
And at Christmas, she could put on white-face, and play the Virgin Mary in the Christmas Creche. (With a little chicken blood sprinkled on her twat)
In Matthews world, black people are the lawn ornaments of politics. Keep it up Tweety! Yer' makin' us soooo proud.
Ruthless People @ 50:
....not to mention nobody is going to want anything remotely associated with the Bush regime anytime soon.
Try to imagine what Chrissie would be doing if he were black.
Struttin' down Santa Monica Boulevard in a fire-engine red latex thong, and a see-through bra?
Runnin' the towel concession at a 'House of Great Lays'?
Operatin' a push broom after-hours in a GayBar?
Chris Mantooth is an idot.
Sometimes you gotta wonder what Chris Matthew is smoking. I could barely hold my cookies when he was discussing what a nice family the Bush's are. Please. An American Disgrace is closer to the truth. It was the dinner hour here. People were eating.
What a twat.
myiq2xu @ 8:
I had an uncle like that. Whenever he boob-babbled, my aunt put his dinner in a dog dish and made him eat on the back porch floor.
Anyone else here reminded of that Chapelle's Show sketch where they dubbed the word "n****r" whenever someone said "minority"? Someone should do that to this clip.
Rudy will be at the House of Great Lays to,IN DRAG singing showtunes.
Jared @ 35:
The vice president cannot be someone who couldn't by law be president. Bill Clinton would be invalidated by dint of his having served two terms as president. Also the running mate has to come from a different state.
Bush family should be shown on Jerry Springer,not MSNBC.
Of course! Like Steve Cobert. Condi is a Republicans best friend!
Ian McGarrett @ 64:
Well thank Earth Mother for that!
... of course, given the harm Bill is doing to Hillary's campaign she's probably by now wishing he was in a different state.
The American public isn't even seeing race or gender in this contest and is embarrassed by this drunk uncle who keeps bringing it up. It's a non-issue, Tweety!
Having Matthews as a pundit seems appropriate to me.
After listening to the idiot-in-chief (president shit-for-brains for those in red state america), it only seems fitting to have a clueless jack-ass come on and enlighten us with even greater depths of incoherent stupidity.
Matthews has already taken so much heat about his remark tonight, that he's invited Obama to be a guest on his show.
He's already rehearsing opening lines. So far, Chrissie's staff has vetoed,
'Hey, Barack, tell me how you overcame being black'.
'Straight up, Obama, would you rather be white?'
'Would you consider Condi as a running mate, or would that unbalance the ticket?'
This is so convoluted that I am almost breathless. What a sick f*#k.
Tweety is a dick. Period.
Has Matthews completely lost his mind?!
The repubs know they are going to lose so Rice is the perfect symbolic running mate, both a women and black. It is the most likely pick by either McCain or Romney.
WooHoo !!
Mitt/Condi2008
Mormon Ethnic Excitement Galore !!!
*shoes and hairspray not included
Putting Rice on adds nothing to the ticket. Barbara Boxer totally tore her apart during her confirmation hearings while Boxer was a member of the minority.
Another thing, there's absolutely nothing compelling about Condi's service these past few years as Secretary of State or in her prior position. Tweety only sees her color. He needs to seriously STFU.
someone get chris off the tainted sushi for shrist's sake! coni has far more in common with O.J. than the one thing she has in common with barack: her color . . . what a fucking delusional bafoon you are chris, you simple-minded stateman groupie. what an insult to a great man comparing him to a murdering bitch war-criminal.
fuck me! has everyone gone entirely cuckoo?
Matthews is the archetypal dork: self-important, loud, callow, crass, full-of-it. I have never understood why people admit him into their living space via the tube, when they would avoid him in the workplace or at a party.
Oh yeah and let's just put this nonsense to rest about black people potentially voting for Condi. It may surprise this douchebag Tweety to know that we vote the way we vote for a reason. Just ask Michael Steele and that democracy killing thug Kenneth Blackwell how much their color helped them carry the black vote.
There was a moment, when KO was interviewing, Tweety interrupted. The camera stayed on KO for a second or two, the look on his face was priceless. It was one of those Kodak moments, "fill in the caption" contest. Mine is: "What the fuck is this idiot going to say now?"
Chris M is really out of touch with the African-American community it would be political suicide for a republican presidential hopeful to put Ms Rice on a ticket hoping to bring in the ethic vote.
They have to learn the lessons of Mr. Keyes and Mr. Steele that it takes more than putting a black face on a ticket and expect African-Americans to vote blindly for them.
What a monumental fool
effwit
Chris is trying to make himself relevant setting next to Keith O. Chris is pissed that Keith O's show is doing better and that MSNBC paired him with a guy that use to be a sports announcer
I guess Tweety didn't get the memo: Condi Rice is as radioactive as her husband, Duhbya. Shit, the RepubliCONS gave up the "Condi For President" meme at least a year ago. Tweety honestly thinks any of the GOP candidates would want Condi as a running mate?? Hell, they don't even want to mention the name George W. Bush, let alone one of his disgraced underlings.
Condi Rice isn't black.
She's a Republican.
Once a black person becomes a Republican there black card is immediately revoked.
And that goes for Colin " The Floor Mat" Powell too.
Ever see the Chapplelle skit about the Blind Racist who hated black people but since he
was blind he didn't know he was also Black.
I think of that skit every time I see a Black Republican.
At what point do his handlers go for an "intervention"?
Seriously, this guy is in need of therapy.
Calling Obama and Rice comparatively ethnic is just plan inaccurate. It would assume that their historic family cultures and ancestries are comparable, which they are not. It's part of the reason one of them is a democrat and the other is a lying scumbag. :)