Cheney Aide: Black leaders "enslave" African-Americans

[BurtWorm]

Let's watch the heroic pundit class jump on her for using an outrageously inappropriate race-baiting metaphor.

:sarcasm:


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/10/15737/0138

Matalin: I like to lecture black people
by kos
Thu Feb 09, 2006 at 11:57:37 PM PDT

Absurd.

MATALIN: Well, when you're -- have no facts -- you know, there's no facts, there's no vision. Therefore, there's no hope, it's all hate, and it's all anger. So it's -- I'll say again, it's sad. Look, this -- we're at a time in our nation's history where we need all the best brains involved in the process, and one whole party has taken itself out of the game here.

SEAN HANNITY (co-host): Yeah.

MATALIN: And the reason that -- it's not their face. It's not their message. There's no policy, there's no facts. I mean, the attacks on the president yesterday completely missed the progress that's been made in the African-American community, which can be credited to President Bush. African-American homeownership at an all-time high --

HANNITY: Well --

MATALIN: -- the achievement gap between the white and black students at a high, closing, narrowing. I mean, you know, I think these civil rights leaders are nothing more than racists. And they're keeping constituency, they're keeping their neighborhoods and their African-American brothers enslaved, if you will, by continuing to let them think that they're -- or forced to think that they're victims, that the whole system is against them. Articulate it better, Sean; it's so sad to me.

And Matalin isn't some fringe GOoPer. She's one of Cheney's top aides.

Cue Steve Gilliard.

[EFerrari]

1. The transparency of the Cabal's projection is sort of

breathtaking,isn't it?

I don't know how you all can stand to listen or watch or read these disgusting people. Better man than I am.

[liberal N proud]

2. It was all on FAUX - did anyone see it

Kind like if a tree falls in the forest and no one was there did it make a noise.

[BurtWorm]

3. Have no fear. The heroic pundit class was watching.

:eyes:

[paineinthearse]

4. Source is not Kos

The transcript's source is http://mediamatters.org/items/200602090003.

Click on the orange link in Kos.

[Skidmore]

5. Mary Matalin is, frankly, why I won't listen to Carville any

longer. You know he needs to acquiesce, regardless of whatever crap comes out of her mouth.

[Olney Blue]

7. I don't understand that relationship. This comment alone in the OP would

be grounds for divorce, in my book.

[rucky]

11. It's a great gimmick that's made them both rich and famous.

Not bad for a couple of mediocre strategists, eh?

Did you think it had anything to do with ideology?

[Olney Blue]

6. So the civil rights leaders fighting against racism are racists?

And they are ENSLAVING their African-American brothers?


This is the most insulting idea I've heard since Barbara Bush's "working well for them" comment.

:mad:

[SujiwanKenobee]

8. Geez. You think Carville and Matalin are into "angry sex"? n/t

[applegrove]

9. She seems to be okay with using "explosive words" like "enslave".

As always it is one set of rules for the WH, one set for everybody else including Hillary Clinton.

And how really is making a people's narrative "wrong" freeing them? Just so that they will vote in elections for a big war machine that doesn't educate kids, but sends them off to war so corporations can get rich.. how is this a better narrative?

People have a right to where they come from. And how they value things.

Me thinks Matalin is just upset at the transformation experience and empathy that was so present at CSK's funeral.

[GarySeven]

10. Well, at least she didn't refer to the "plantation"

Her fellow conservatives would never stand for that kind of reference.