Chris Matthews "Little Winkie" and Hillary's "Plantation Comment"/Digby

[KoKo]

House Slave

by digby

Tweety is gleefully flogging Hillary's "plantation" comment like he just discovered his little winkie.

There has bever been as great a GOP tool as Tweety Matthews. He gets a little bit uppity once in a while so they force feed him some bullshit which he happily regurgitates with gusto so as not make somebody important in the Republican establishment really, really mad at him. (When that happens, as we know, Monsignor Tim reports him to the Big Boys.)

Atrios has put this link up explaining why the Republican Magnolias having the vapors over this plantation comment is a steaming pile of fetid, GOP talking points.

I don't know if any of you would like to tell Chris Matthews how to use Google, but of you would, here's his e-mail: [e-mail]

Maybe he or his staff would like to look over those links and then explain why he and his Republican pals thinks she's so out of line.


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[LittleClarkie]

1. Indeed, the folks in the Harlem audience didn't seem to have an issue

why should the lilly white GOP? And here I thought they were trying to cultivate the black vote. I wonder if they finally realize that there's no chance in hell?

[DRoseDARs]

3. Because blacks are racist against people of color...

...erm, I guess? :shrug:

[...of J.Temperance]

2. I haven't been paying attention the past two days, what was Hillary's

Plantation comment?

[Mabus]

6. House of Reps...has been run like a plantation...

"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," Clinton (D-N.Y.) told an audience at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ during an event sponsored by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

"It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard," she added to thunderous applause.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-ushill174590843jan17,0,5641976.story?coll=ny-rightrail-columnist&track=mostemailedlink&vote19737754=1

[...of J.Temperance]

8. Thanks :) At least you have some manners

Of course there's nothing wrong with Hillary's comments and they're truthful comments as well...but the Repukes hate the truth being told, as we all know.

Hillary is so damn fab :)

[Mabus]

14. Just happened to be cruising through reading threads

I stopped by here and saw your request. I hit refresh and no one had posted the quotes so I did what I could to help you out.

[Goblinmonger]

7. Here's a link

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/17/clinton.plantation/

Personally, I think it is a pretty funny comment.

[...of J.Temperance]

9. Thanks to you as well :) Hillary's comments are both true and humorous

Tweety needs to shut the fuck up, I'm sure he's due a new pair of kneepads, who cares what Tweety thinks, except his paymasters at the RNC of course.

As you showed as well, good manners cost nothing :)

On Edit: Dammit spelling error.

[radio4progressives]

12. Hillary was simply stating the obvious, and all the whities and racists

reactionaries are up in arms.. freaking out .. sheesh!

I'm no HRC fan, but this is one time when she nailed right on the head, but the reactionaries are having a field day, accusing her of pandering to the African American Community in Harlam when she said (paraphrasing) that this aministration treats the minority in congress like it's their plantation. (again, i'm parapharsing but it was in that kind of context)

Gosh, like the Reichbot politicians neeeever do that! ohhh noooooooooo.

but if it's Hillary, well goddam all the hired guns come out swinging and whining like a bunch of racists white supremacists that they are.

The problem is that the reichbots hire African Americans to do their shooting, so it sort of hard to make the case isn't it?

And there's that freaking jesse jackson who really does have a problem making a lick of sense or being understood with whatever speech impediment he suffers from.

[...of J.Temperance]

13. The same people didn't go batshit crazy over Bill Bennett's comments

His NOLA comments about abortion...yep, the same one's who are up in arms over Hillary's true comments, never said a darn thing over Bennett's completely disgusting and racist comments.

Where are these freaks over Glenn Beck's comments about it was okay for Thomas Jefferson to have sex with his slaves because "black people in those days were just like furniture is now"...oh yes, CNN has hired the racist Glenn Beck I forgot.

It's total hypocrisy as usual with the Repukes.

There's nothing wrong with Hillary's comments, her comments are true and she should just ignore what the Repukes are saying and what Tweety's saying...she should NOT apologize, she's got nothing to apologize for.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. He couldn't even get Norah O'Donnell to agree with him...

He's spitting all over himself, as usual, asking if Hillary's comments "cost her the election" or some such nonsense, and O'Donnell replied "Honestly, I don't think she did any lasting damage..."

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. You can fool most of the people some of the time, but you can't fool

98% of the black people at all. They don't fall for this shit. Only white people do.

[...of J.Temperance]

5. Jaysus, what am I chopped liver? Huh? I like Hillary EVERYBODY knows

So heck, if ya'll answered in this thread, you already know what Hillary's plantation comment was...so c'mon, what was her comment?

On Edit: I've spent at least 60% of my time on DU defending Senator Clinton...people know this.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Matthews is so silly. Isn't he part of the right-wing now? And since

when has the right-wing given a damn about PC?

Not to mention, that Hillary's Plantation comment was apropos. Dems have no rights in Congress as long as the right-wing have majority control.