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Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts) Tue Apr 21, 2015, 04:19 AM Apr 2015

Chris Matthews: Some GOPers Talk ‘Like They Think the Base Is Wearing Sheets’

Matthews: Some GOPers Talk ‘Like They Think the Base Is Wearing Sheets’
by Josh Feldman | 8:59 pm, April 20th, 2015 video
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Chris Matthews tonight looked at some of the more questionable recent statements from Republicans, from Mike Huckabee saying no one should join the military while President Obama‘s still in office to Wayne LaPierre saying eight years of a “demograhically-symbolic” president is enough.

Matthews was a little bothered by that last one, and asked why any part of the GOP base would “have a problem with a black president.” David Corn said this is just part of an ongoing attempt to make Obama into “the other” and say “he’s not an American” and amp up the rhetoric more and more so they get more attention.

Matthews and his panel were also bothered by Huckabee’s comments, which Corn deemed anti-patriotic.

“Some of these guys,” Matthews observed, “talk like they think the base is wearing sheets, though. I think they may have underestimated who the Republican voter is.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/matthews-some-gopers-talk-like-they-think-the-base-is-wearing-sheets/

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Chris Matthews: Some GOPers Talk ‘Like They Think the Base Is Wearing Sheets’ (Original Post) Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 OP

Tweety had the best line of the 2012 GOP Primary process: Warren DeMontague Apr 2015 #1

Eeeewwwwww! Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #2

He knew exactly what he was doing, too. Warren DeMontague Apr 2015 #3

He most definitely has a perverse side to him! Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #4

Oh so that how it got spread around. Historic NY Apr 2015 #15

"Is Santorum the flavor of the weak?" DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #21

Lately Chris has wheniwasincongress Apr 2015 #5

Perhaps the situation has become so dire that he Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #6

The GOP's 'ongoing attempt to make Obama into “the other” and say “he’s not an American” ...' pampango Apr 2015 #7

Sure! Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #8

Interesting that you left gender off that list oberliner Apr 2015 #11

You are right. I should have included gender. I almost did but thought of Palin, et. al. But pampango Apr 2015 #13

Agreed oberliner Apr 2015 #16

Look at the Klan in the 1920s, and they're pretty familiar JHB Apr 2015 #9

Except wearing them openly in the street would be non-PC nowadays. Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #10

Just a different tailor JHB Apr 2015 #12

I dunno, Chris. I think they know exactly who most Republican voters are. tanyev Apr 2015 #14

This one... Triana Apr 2015 #17

Maybe they've evolved to be like the 'cloak of invisibility' in Harry Potter... Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #19

"I think they may have underestimated who the Republican voter is." That is who the ChisolmTrailDem Apr 2015 #18

I think Chris was just being polite. Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #20

While I can understand how you would think that way, he's been giving regular ol' rethugs the ChisolmTrailDem Apr 2015 #22

Perhaps just a spoonful of sugar with the bitter pill? Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #23

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

1. Tweety had the best line of the 2012 GOP Primary process:

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 04:26 AM

Apr 2015

"Is Santorum the flavor of the week?"

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

2. Eeeewwwwww!

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 04:31 AM

Apr 2015

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

3. He knew exactly what he was doing, too.

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 04:38 AM

Apr 2015

Sick old bastard.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

4. He most definitely has a perverse side to him!

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 04:49 AM

Apr 2015

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)

15. Oh so that how it got spread around.

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 08:43 AM

Apr 2015

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

21. "Is Santorum the flavor of the weak?"

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 09:00 AM

Apr 2015

wheniwasincongress

(1,307 posts)

5. Lately Chris has

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 05:00 AM

Apr 2015

been calling things out the way they are. He's not holding back and he seems to see things more clearly than he used to. 2015 Chris is better than 2012 Chris.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

6. Perhaps the situation has become so dire that he

Reply to wheniwasincongress (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 05:30 AM

Apr 2015

feels duty bound to speak out?

pampango

(24,692 posts)

7. The GOP's 'ongoing attempt to make Obama into “the other” and say “he’s not an American” ...'

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 05:50 AM

Apr 2015

Treating anyone who is not a straight, white, Christian American as 'the other' because he or she is not a "straight, white, Christian American" is now a standard republican tactic. Obama is 'the other'. Immigrants are 'the other'. Gays are 'the other'. Refugees are 'the other'. Muslims are 'the other'. Foreigners are 'the other'.

If they can make us fear the various 'others' they concoct, they must figure we will not have the energy left to fear the 1% that runs the GOP and uses these "fear the other" campaigns to turn out scared voters.

Thanks again for a great article, Surya Gayatri.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

8. Sure!

Reply to pampango (Reply #7)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 06:01 AM

Apr 2015

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

11. Interesting that you left gender off that list

Reply to pampango (Reply #7)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 07:24 AM

Apr 2015

You wrote:

Treating anyone who is not a straight, white, Christian American as 'the other' because he or she is not a "straight, white, Christian American" is now a standard republican tactic.

However, I would amend that to say "Treating anyone who is not a straight, white, Christian American male as 'the other'...."

Clearly gender is also part of this construct as the OP specifically points to the significance of Hilary being female in Huckabee's comments.

pampango

(24,692 posts)

13. You are right. I should have included gender. I almost did but thought of Palin, et. al. But

Reply to oberliner (Reply #11)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 07:42 AM

Apr 2015

she and other women are not powers in their party. Being a woman does make one an 'other' in the GOP today.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

16. Agreed

Reply to pampango (Reply #13)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 08:53 AM

Apr 2015

If you look at Huckabee's comments, you will see that she is group Hillary with Obama as both being outsiders. As if to say, now we can go back to "normal" and elect while males again!

Where I think we have even further to go is with regard to atheists. It seems like that admitting to being an atheist makes you unfit for office, which is just ridiculous in my opinion.

JHB

(37,160 posts)

9. Look at the Klan in the 1920s, and they're pretty familiar

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 07:16 AM

Apr 2015

They were against "uppity" nonwhites, against immigrants, treated labor rights as a pernicious foreign ideology, and were convinced the country needed to be saved from a "foreign religion": at that time, it was Catholics

Same shit, different tailor.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

10. Except wearing them openly in the street would be non-PC nowadays.

Reply to JHB (Reply #9)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 07:19 AM

Apr 2015

Better to confine their nefarious activities to closed meetings and the blogosphere.

JHB

(37,160 posts)

12. Just a different tailor

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Reply #10)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 07:24 AM

Apr 2015

Showy private "uniforms" haven't been "CC" (Conservatively Correct) since WW2.

So far.

tanyev

(42,558 posts)

14. I dunno, Chris. I think they know exactly who most Republican voters are.

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 08:07 AM

Apr 2015

Triana

(22,666 posts)

17. This one...

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 08:56 AM

Apr 2015

NRA's Wayne LaPierre On Clinton And Obama: "Eight Years Of One Demographically Symbolic President Is Enough"

LINK (with video): http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/04/12/nras-wayne-lapierre-on-clinton-and-obama-eight/203250

Are we sure they're not wearing sheets? I'm not.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

19. Maybe they've evolved to be like the 'cloak of invisibility' in Harry Potter...

Reply to Triana (Reply #17)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 08:58 AM

Apr 2015

There, but NOT there.

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)

18. "I think they may have underestimated who the Republican voter is." That is who the

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 08:56 AM

Apr 2015

rethug voter is. They support candidates that hate brown people and most of them are racist to the core.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

20. I think Chris was just being polite.

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Reply #18)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 09:00 AM

Apr 2015

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)

22. While I can understand how you would think that way, he's been giving regular ol' rethugs the

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Reply #20)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 09:03 AM

Apr 2015

benefit of doubt for a few weeks now. He completely ignores that regular ol' rethugs put their clowns in office and their clowns are nasty racist m'fers.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

23. Perhaps just a spoonful of sugar with the bitter pill?

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Reply #22)

Tue Apr 21, 2015, 09:05 AM

Apr 2015

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