Chris Matthews: Racist “Paleface” Voters In New Hampshire Are What Did Obama In

The Whistler • January 12, 2008

“Paleface.” That’s not offensive at all.

MSNBC host Chris Matthews didn’t just uncork his line on Primary Night about how New Hampshire Democrats would have displayed their racism to pollsters if they heard an “Archie Bunker voice” on the other end of the line. He repeated it on Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” show on MSNBC. He was upset at anyone who thought the pollsters and pundits were wrong about the Obama victory, when white voters lied to pollsters: “Methinks Paleface speak with forked tongue.”
Matthews declared he thought this was over in 2006: “I thought white voters had stopped being what they want to be. And you know what it tells me? People aren’t proud of who they are.” Host Joe Scarborough, asking Matthews to address the alleged bigotry in New England, drew out Matthews, the former top aide to Boston-area Rep. Tip O’Neill, to denounce the whole Boston area: “There’s different kinds of prejudice, as you know, in the north than there is in the south, but it exists. It may not be ‘I think I’m better than you,’ but it might be ‘I don’t want to live next door to you.’”

If we were talking about a white candidate who, say, hadn’t done well in Harlem would Matthews be so quick to blame racism?
There are literally dozens of potential problems with the polling in New Hampshire that could explain Obama having won in the polls but not the actual primary, and not one of them have to do with the primary voters themselves being racist, be that racism conscious or unconscious.
I think this is a refrain we’re going to hear more and more from the media. If Obama isn’t the nominee, it’ll be because “America isn’t ready for a black candidate” because we’re all subconsciously racist. Or something like that.
It’ll be baloney, but that’ll be the angle the media takes regardless.

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http://Array 2Hotel9

Why else do they do the DNC’s biding, free of charge?
Bat One

Odd… we haven’t heard anyone from the Indian… er… native American community dismayed at Matthews’ use of the clearly stereotypical “Paleface.”

Makes me wonder if they aren’t too busy defending themselves against such racial slurs as “Brave” and “Warrior” that they can’t be bothered with real insults, like Matthews’.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

I was blaming Hillary and her devious little supporters. They are not above playing dirty political tricks.

Chris Matthews is blaming forked tongue Paleface.

Note the difference.

Chris Matthews is being unfair to all Democrats here. American Democrats, by and large, just as the majority of the American population, simply don’t care that Obama is black. Or half black. They either like him for what he stands for or they don’t like him for what he stands for. That is America today.
2Hotel9

They hate that bitch as much as we do, though not quite as much as Bill and Chelsea do. That very special kind of despising hate that only comes from living around an overbearing, foulmouthed, manipulative bitch.
Bat One

There’s a certain delicious irony in Matthews’ stupid remarks. Usually, its smarmy white liberals from the Northeast. like Chris Matthews, who are lecturing the rest of us about our insipid racism. But in this case, its Matthews’ own home boys, liberal Democrat yankees who are being castigated, a point made all the more pertinent by the fact that exit polls show that independents who voted in the Dems’ primary went overwhelmingly for Obama.

Like so many Democrats before him, Matthews unfurls that tattered old banner of racism simply because people didn’t behave the way HE thought they should. Pity Zell Miller has retired. Mr. Matthes is once again in need of a good rhetorical ass-whuppin’.
pparets

African-American voters traditionally vote by margins as high as 95% for any Black candidate, regardless of qualifications. Cynthia Bash-em-with-a-phone McKinney comes to mind. Does Chris Matthews regard that as bigotry? No. Becuase he is schooled in the Saul Alinsky tradition where minorities can never be racist.
2Hotel9

“Mathews is a GE/MSNBC corporate hack.” are wholly owned subsidiaries of the DNC, so he is saying exactly what your party, the Democrat Party, has ordered him to say. Ain’t that special!
Hoss

So, white folks are called “paleface” now, huh.

When will the left stop dividing this country by categorizing everyone by race and income, and being a bunch of racists and race-baiters who project their pathetic qualities as a characteristic of and onto those on the right.
Bat One

If Hillary raised the Messiah Chris would comment on the inappropriateness of her wardrobe when she preformed the miracle.

WOOF,

Wrong!!! Matthews, like a good Democrat, would instead remark on how such a public display of a religious-based event by a government official is an unseemly and constitutionally offensive action that ought to be permanently banned.
2Hotel9

Racism is alive and well in the Democrat Party, and its agit-prop wing.
WOOFX

Bottom line, Mathews hates the Clintons.

If Hillary raised the Messiah Chris would comment on the inappropriateness of her wardrobe when she preformed the miracle.
WOOFX

Mathews is a GE/MSNBC corporate hack.
WOOFX

GE/MSNBC are DNC subsidiaries?
Get real Hotel.
WOOFX

The DNC wants Mathews to
rip on Clinton?

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