Tweety: "If I were a slave, I would say the whippings were pretty tough"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

MATTHEWS: Let me try to figure out what's going on here. Dee Dee, she is talking to an African-American audience up in Harlem, a very friendly audience. They have to be sold on the importance of the Democratic Party, obviously. It's not as easy as it might have been in the past.

She is making her case that the party is a good party. It's been hamstrung in the last four or five years because of Republican control of the House and Senate and the White House.

The way she says it, she says, “Well, they run it like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about.” Like you people, especially, know what a plantation is. Now, come on, that clearly was playing ethnically, wasn't it?

MYERS: You know, look, I think she was in a room in front of an African-American audience on Martin Luther King Day. Again, I think it was an unfortunate choice of words. But as you reported, Chris, she went on to say about the House that's been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has a chance to present legislation to make an argument to be heard. I think she was very clear about what the broader context of her quotation was. And it's been taken out of context.

MATTHEWS: Do you think a plantation is a useful metaphor for a place where you can't speak your mind? I would think if I were a slave, and I have to imagine something as horrible, I would say the whippings were pretty tough. Being told I couldn't get married would be pretty tough. Being told to take orders until the day I die would be the hard part. The freedom of speech part would probably not come to mind.

MYERS: I don't know, Chris.

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[tuvor]

1. Chris Matthews: Proof that vocal cords can indeed be found in one's ass.

[phantom power]

2. Funny thing to say, from a guy who's entire career is..

all about saying any damned thing he wants to.

[patrice]

3. Don't listen to that shit.

Democrats, Speak the truth honestly from your own heart. People will be able to make up their own minds about you, and those who can't or don't are their own business.

What Mathews is talking about here is exactly what fucked up a very fine candidate, John Kerry.

[sallyseven]

4. Dee Dee Myers needs a soul transplant.

Tweety should remember that Newt Gingrich used the same analogy in 1994. So did Cal thomas and several other repukes. Of course being on the wh payroll Tweety would never admit that. He is a big stupid idiot.

[Neil Lisst]

5. I used to watch him every day. Now, hardly ever.

He's a shadow of the man he used to be.

Not a pretty picture.

Even SNL has abandoned him because of his milquetoast manner.

[TygrBright]

6. Oh, put a sock innit, Matthews....

You don't know DICK about slavery or what the African American experience was like. I'd bet substantial money that you've never even READ the autobiographies of slaves like Sojourner Truth and Booker T. Washington. And I'd stake MAJOR cash against your ever having read W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, or even Malcolm X.

The first, the very FIRST priority that drove many, many slaves to escape wasn't just to "escape the whippings" or to not have to "take orders" (hell, what's a job, after all?) It was to GET AN EDUCATION. They knew damn' well that without the ability to read and write they'd never be able to make a better life for themselves and their children. After family reunion, "freedom of speech" was a huge motivator for slaves to escape slavery, and drove them to risk horrible beatings and even fatal consequences.

You ass. You'd trade your own freedom of speech in a NY minute if someone threatened your wimpy butt.

contemptuously,
Bright

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. Off topic, but "TygrBright"...William Blake?

William Blake. 1757–1827

489. The Tiger

TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies 5
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart? 10
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp 15
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee? 20

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

http://www.bartleby.com/101/489.html

[TygrBright]

10. Yup (N/T)

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

7. I used to say he ran hot and cold. Now he seems to have shifted into

non-stop cold GOP-dumb.

:puke:

[Snivi Yllom]

8. the whippings are not nearly as bad as.....

.....Tweety taking it up the rear daily from his corporate masters.