Chris Matthews: Craving a Pinch of Rudy Giuliani's 'Fascism'February 20 2007
Counterbias.com
by Dr. Andrew Bosworth & John Calvin Jones
On the February 7, 2007, edition of MSNBC’s Imus in the Morning, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews heaped praise on GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. Matthews called the former mayor of New York City, former federal prosecutor, and Reagan’s special envoy to Haiti, “the kind of gutsy, street-corner politician we all grew up with” who “stood on the corner during the fire and told us what was going on.”
Matthews said that he would like “
guy who wasn’t on the ranch during Katrina -- who was out on the street corner answering questions.” Matthews added: “I’m so sick of Southern guys with ranches running this country. I want a guy to run for president who doesn’t have a -- I’m sorry -- a ranch. Wouldn’t that be good?”
Matthews again touted the progress Giuliani made in improving olfactory conditions in New York City, asserting that “subways didn’t smell like pee anymore” and that “ven the phone booths in New York have always smelled like pee.” Matthews made similar claims on the February 5, 2007, editions of MSNBC Live and Hardball, both noted by Media Matters for America. Matthews also claimed that Giuliani “made you feel like you had a right to walk the street safely” and added, “I think the country wants a boss like that, you know? A little bit of fascism there. Just a little bit. Just a pinch of it.”
Giuliani knows a lot about pushing and encouraging pinches and slaps of fascism.
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