Saturday, November 18, 2006
NOVEMBER 16, 2006: Chris Matthews: "Hardball" television show: MSNBC
On this show, Chris Matthews referred to the back row of the House of Representatives as "Red Neck Row". The Congressman he was talking to deferred answering to such a ridiculous comment. Matthews continued to remark, "I think Congressman that I would fit in to that row with my conservative views." I will review the show transcript to post the exact words that Chris Matthews used, but to even agree that someone would have views that agreed with a "negative and ethnically degrading" term like "Redneck" is appalling. It adds clarity to Chris Matthews views towards Italians and many other ethnic groups in the United States.
On this show, Chris Matthews referred to the back row of the House of Representatives as "Red Neck Row". The Congressman he was talking to deferred answering to such a ridiculous comment. Matthews continued to remark, "I think Congressman that I would fit in to that row with my conservative views." I will review the show transcript to post the exact words that Chris Matthews used, but to even agree that someone would have views that agreed with a "negative and ethnically degrading" term like "Redneck" is appalling. It adds clarity to Chris Matthews views towards Italians and many other ethnic groups in the United States.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
NOVEMBER 15, 2006: CHRIS MATTHEWS: "Hardball" Television Show: MSNBC
CHRIS MATTHEWS: "There is an old Italian expression..Maxim. Revenge is a meal best served cold."
WHAT POSSESSES THIS MAN TO AFFILIATE EVERYTHING VILE WITH ITALIAN ETHNIC CULTURE?
[From Wikipedia] "Revenge is a dish best served cold." - suggesting that emotional detachment ("cold blooded") is best for taking revenge. In some usages it is used to mean that when taking vengeance, a great deal of time (in some cases even years) is necessary for both planning and the sweet feeling of revenge. This is often incorrectly sourced as "La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid" in the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The phrase does not actually appear there. Apparently, the saying exists in many cultures, including Sicilian, Spanish and Pashtun, making its ultimate origin difficult to determine.
(NEVERTHELESS, BEFORE CONCLUDING, WIKIPEDIA NOTED THE FOLLOWING:)
"In the fifth season of the HBO series The Sopranos, Tony Soprano states that Revenge is like serving cold cuts. To this, his psychiatrist Dr. Melfi offers the traditional Parker/Khan phrasing."
WELL, CHRIS MATTHEWS, WE KNOW WHERE YOU DISCERNED YOUR REFERENCE TO THIS "MAXIM" IN YOUR PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE OF ITALIAN CULTURE!
CHRIS MATTHEWS: "There is an old Italian expression..Maxim. Revenge is a meal best served cold."
WHAT POSSESSES THIS MAN TO AFFILIATE EVERYTHING VILE WITH ITALIAN ETHNIC CULTURE?
[From Wikipedia] "Revenge is a dish best served cold." - suggesting that emotional detachment ("cold blooded") is best for taking revenge. In some usages it is used to mean that when taking vengeance, a great deal of time (in some cases even years) is necessary for both planning and the sweet feeling of revenge. This is often incorrectly sourced as "La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid" in the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The phrase does not actually appear there. Apparently, the saying exists in many cultures, including Sicilian, Spanish and Pashtun, making its ultimate origin difficult to determine.
(NEVERTHELESS, BEFORE CONCLUDING, WIKIPEDIA NOTED THE FOLLOWING:)
"In the fifth season of the HBO series The Sopranos, Tony Soprano states that Revenge is like serving cold cuts. To this, his psychiatrist Dr. Melfi offers the traditional Parker/Khan phrasing."
WELL, CHRIS MATTHEWS, WE KNOW WHERE YOU DISCERNED YOUR REFERENCE TO THIS "MAXIM" IN YOUR PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE OF ITALIAN CULTURE!
Thursday, November 09, 2006
WHERE IS YOUR OUTRAGE HERE CHRIS MATTHEWS? You can DEFEND TOM KEAN JR. & NOT NED LAMONT? It seems to bother Howard Fineman BUT LET'S ALL (Chris Matthews & Howard Fineman) "Sleep with the Fishes" & "Dress in Soprano's Leather"!
NEITHER Howard Fineman NOR Chris Matthews have any problem SLURRING
ITALIAN AMERICANS with ETHNIC "MAFIA" SLURS:
MATTHEWS: Silence is golden. Let me ask you about another race that
seems to have been decided now. Tom Kean Jr. in New Jersey, son of the
former governor—a very Waspy, rich, sort of old money sort. Howard you
are shaking your head positively—you like those guys—against Bob
Menendez
FINEMAN: How does he get to be described that way and Lamont doesn‘t?
MATTHEWS: Well, I guess there‘s different strokes. Look, Menendez here looks like he has been put in the mob by the other side. They‘ve got him in “Sopranos” leather here. You know, sleeping with the fishes politically already. I‘m sorry, it didn‘t work. Menendez is ahead and it looks like he‘s put away Kean. Why? Why is it over so early?
FINEMAN: George Bush in New Jersey, I think. It‘s one of those states where you mention Bush and just, talk about sleeping with the fishes, you go straight to the bottom of the river.
WHERE'S YOUR OUTRAGE CHRIS MATTHEWS?! THE FACT IS YOU HAVE NONE!
NEITHER Howard Fineman NOR Chris Matthews have any problem SLURRING
ITALIAN AMERICANS with ETHNIC "MAFIA" SLURS:
MATTHEWS: Silence is golden. Let me ask you about another race that
seems to have been decided now. Tom Kean Jr. in New Jersey, son of the
former governor—a very Waspy, rich, sort of old money sort. Howard you
are shaking your head positively—you like those guys—against Bob
Menendez
FINEMAN: How does he get to be described that way and Lamont doesn‘t?
MATTHEWS: Well, I guess there‘s different strokes. Look, Menendez here looks like he has been put in the mob by the other side. They‘ve got him in “Sopranos” leather here. You know, sleeping with the fishes politically already. I‘m sorry, it didn‘t work. Menendez is ahead and it looks like he‘s put away Kean. Why? Why is it over so early?
FINEMAN: George Bush in New Jersey, I think. It‘s one of those states where you mention Bush and just, talk about sleeping with the fishes, you go straight to the bottom of the river.
WHERE'S YOUR OUTRAGE CHRIS MATTHEWS?! THE FACT IS YOU HAVE NONE!
November 9, 2006: Chris Matthews: "Hardball" television show: MSNBC: 5:00 pm
When making a quick and obscure political reference to a former congressman, Chris Matthews said:
MATTHEWS: "Ed Brook once said after he lost up there, in a race that was all messy because of divorce in his family, and an Italian war bride, and he dumped her and the daughters came after him. It was a real mess, but he said something so classy. He said, I did not cry on the mountain. I will not cry in the valley. In other words, I played this business as a business I have chosen and defeat comes with it."
My question to anyone is:
"What exactly does an Italian War Bride have to do in the context of a classy satement by a former U.S. Congressman?"
COULD CHRIS MATTHEWS HAVE SAID THIS SAME IMPORTANT STATEMENT:
MATTHEWS: Ed Brook once said after he lost up there, in a race that was all messy because of divorce in his family. It was a real mess, but he said something so classy. He said, I did not cry on the mountain. I will not cry in the valley. In other words, I played this business as a business I have chosen and defeat comes with it.
I BELIEVE THE WORD CHRIS MATTHEWS IS CLASSY AND ETHNIC SLUR AGAIN!
When making a quick and obscure political reference to a former congressman, Chris Matthews said:
MATTHEWS: "Ed Brook once said after he lost up there, in a race that was all messy because of divorce in his family, and an Italian war bride, and he dumped her and the daughters came after him. It was a real mess, but he said something so classy. He said, I did not cry on the mountain. I will not cry in the valley. In other words, I played this business as a business I have chosen and defeat comes with it."
My question to anyone is:
"What exactly does an Italian War Bride have to do in the context of a classy satement by a former U.S. Congressman?"
COULD CHRIS MATTHEWS HAVE SAID THIS SAME IMPORTANT STATEMENT:
MATTHEWS: Ed Brook once said after he lost up there, in a race that was all messy because of divorce in his family. It was a real mess, but he said something so classy. He said, I did not cry on the mountain. I will not cry in the valley. In other words, I played this business as a business I have chosen and defeat comes with it.
I BELIEVE THE WORD CHRIS MATTHEWS IS CLASSY AND ETHNIC SLUR AGAIN!
OH MY!
The fraud MORAL OUTRAGE by Chris Matthews regarding Italian Ethnic Slurs!
(NOTE: If you keep a racist talking enough, his racism will tie him in knots.)
Matthews Mad About NJ 'Sopranos' Ad - But Not When Fineman Called W 'Tony Soprano'
NewsBusters ^ Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 10/29/2006 2:40:21 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
When it comes to MSM outrage over pro-Republican TV ads, it's hard to top Chris Matthews. He pounded for days on the RNC ad about Harold Ford, Jr., accusing RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman of "cesspool" tactics and claiming the ad played to white fears of "losing white women to black guys."
Matthews had a similar over-the-top reaction to an ad [see it here] running in NJ that uses a mobbed-up character to mock ethically-challenged Bob Menendez. Here's how Stephen Spruiell at National Review's Media Blog noted Matthews comments:
"Well maybe because I've spent so much of my life in New Jersey... but you know, I have to tell you Charlie, it's an ethnic ad. Whatever else it is, it's an ethnic ad. It's about Italians in New Jersey, it's about the mob. Tying Menendez into Torricelli. They're closing the loop, they're making their point, and that has been politics in that state for years, between the WASPy people like Christie Todd Whitman and the Keans, father and son, running against the ethnic people, they tied it all together: If you're ethnic, you're a crook, right?"
Matthews continued: "What the hell does Bob Menendez have to do with The Sopranos? What's he got to do with Bob Torricelli, besides, they're not WASPs, they're ethnics?"
But when last year a guest on his own show described President Bush to Matthews' face as a "Godfather" who was like "Tony Soprano," Matthews, far from reacting in outrage, drew his guest out to make sure his audience got what he was saying.
Here's how NewsBuster Noel Sheppard noted it at the time:
Matthews: "Howard, is it -- I think it is simple. Was he in the loop, the president?"
Howard Fineman: "I think he's in the loop the way Tony Soprano is in the loop at the Bada-Bing."
Chris: "For those of us without HBO, what does that mean?"
Fineman: "That means he's the Godfather. The Godfather doesn't know all the details. I've compared the Bush family before to the Corleones."
Using Mafia slurs is apparently OK with the MSN, so long as they're directed at the Bush administration. In his pay-to-read column in this very morning's New York Times, Frank Rich has this to say in discussing possible changes in Iraq policy:
"The adults in charge of disengagement will include the Bush family consigliere, James Baker."
The fraud MORAL OUTRAGE by Chris Matthews regarding Italian Ethnic Slurs!
(NOTE: If you keep a racist talking enough, his racism will tie him in knots.)
Matthews Mad About NJ 'Sopranos' Ad - But Not When Fineman Called W 'Tony Soprano'
NewsBusters ^ Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 10/29/2006 2:40:21 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
When it comes to MSM outrage over pro-Republican TV ads, it's hard to top Chris Matthews. He pounded for days on the RNC ad about Harold Ford, Jr., accusing RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman of "cesspool" tactics and claiming the ad played to white fears of "losing white women to black guys."
Matthews had a similar over-the-top reaction to an ad [see it here] running in NJ that uses a mobbed-up character to mock ethically-challenged Bob Menendez. Here's how Stephen Spruiell at National Review's Media Blog noted Matthews comments:
"Well maybe because I've spent so much of my life in New Jersey... but you know, I have to tell you Charlie, it's an ethnic ad. Whatever else it is, it's an ethnic ad. It's about Italians in New Jersey, it's about the mob. Tying Menendez into Torricelli. They're closing the loop, they're making their point, and that has been politics in that state for years, between the WASPy people like Christie Todd Whitman and the Keans, father and son, running against the ethnic people, they tied it all together: If you're ethnic, you're a crook, right?"
Matthews continued: "What the hell does Bob Menendez have to do with The Sopranos? What's he got to do with Bob Torricelli, besides, they're not WASPs, they're ethnics?"
But when last year a guest on his own show described President Bush to Matthews' face as a "Godfather" who was like "Tony Soprano," Matthews, far from reacting in outrage, drew his guest out to make sure his audience got what he was saying.
Here's how NewsBuster Noel Sheppard noted it at the time:
Matthews: "Howard, is it -- I think it is simple. Was he in the loop, the president?"
Howard Fineman: "I think he's in the loop the way Tony Soprano is in the loop at the Bada-Bing."
Chris: "For those of us without HBO, what does that mean?"
Fineman: "That means he's the Godfather. The Godfather doesn't know all the details. I've compared the Bush family before to the Corleones."
Using Mafia slurs is apparently OK with the MSN, so long as they're directed at the Bush administration. In his pay-to-read column in this very morning's New York Times, Frank Rich has this to say in discussing possible changes in Iraq policy:
"The adults in charge of disengagement will include the Bush family consigliere, James Baker."
IN RELATED MATTERS, APOLOGIES REGARDING INAPPROPRIATE COMMENTS:
In its boilerplate apology for Brokeback smears, MSNBC omitted mention of Matthews
Summary: In its apology for comments made by Don Imus and Chris Matthews -- which was identical to an apology MSNBC issued in 2004 over ethnic slurs made on Imus's show -- about the film Brokeback Mountain, MSNBC did not mention Matthews or his affiliation with MSNBC.
MSNBC issued an apology for comments made during Imus in the Morning, a radio show the news channel simulcasts, by MSNBC personalities Chris Matthews and Don Imus about the film Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features, 2005). But the apology -- which was identical to an apology MSNBC issued in 2004 over ethnic slurs made on Imus's show -- failed to mention Matthews by name and drew no connection between the network and Matthews, an MSNBC employee. During the January 18 edition of Imus in the Morning, Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball, quoted radio host Michael Savage in referring to the film as "Bareback Mounting." Imus in the Morning host Don Imus responded that his own producer called it "Fudgepack Mountain."
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) complained about the comments to MSNBC, and Jeremy Gaines, the news channel's vice president for communications, subsequently made the following statement, according to GLAAD:
"Imus" is produced by WFAN radio and is simulcast by MSNBC. The views expressed on the program are not those of MSNBC. Having said that, it was unfortunate that these remarks were telecast on MSNBC. We sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by these remarks.
But MSNBC failed to apologize for the fact that the remarks were made by Matthews -- one of its lead news hosts -- instead deflecting responsibility to WFAN, which produces the Imus show. In posting the apology, GLAAD criticized MSNBC's failure to name Matthews, writing:
[I]t's ludicrous to suggest that Chris Matthews, one of the network's anchors and most visible commentators, should not be held accountable to the network's standards and practices, particularly for comments he makes on MSNBC.
The language of the apology repeated a previous MSNBC apology. After WFAN sports anchor Sid Rosenberg, a regular guest on the Imus's show, on the November 12, 2004, edition called Palestinians "stinking animals" and said, "They ought to drop the bomb right there, kill 'em all right now," MSNBC issued an apology to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). According to CAIR, the apology read: "The views expressed on the program are not those of MSNBC. Having said that, it was unfortunate that these remarks were telecast on MSNBC. We sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by these remarks."
In 2003, MSNBC fired Savage -- whom Matthews called "wonderful" while quoting his variation on the Brokeback Mountain title -- for labeling a caller to his MSNBC show a "sodomite" and instructing him to "get AIDS and die."
— S.G.
Posted to the web on Tuesday January 24, 2006 at 5:01 PM EST
In its boilerplate apology for Brokeback smears, MSNBC omitted mention of Matthews
Summary: In its apology for comments made by Don Imus and Chris Matthews -- which was identical to an apology MSNBC issued in 2004 over ethnic slurs made on Imus's show -- about the film Brokeback Mountain, MSNBC did not mention Matthews or his affiliation with MSNBC.
MSNBC issued an apology for comments made during Imus in the Morning, a radio show the news channel simulcasts, by MSNBC personalities Chris Matthews and Don Imus about the film Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features, 2005). But the apology -- which was identical to an apology MSNBC issued in 2004 over ethnic slurs made on Imus's show -- failed to mention Matthews by name and drew no connection between the network and Matthews, an MSNBC employee. During the January 18 edition of Imus in the Morning, Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball, quoted radio host Michael Savage in referring to the film as "Bareback Mounting." Imus in the Morning host Don Imus responded that his own producer called it "Fudgepack Mountain."
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) complained about the comments to MSNBC, and Jeremy Gaines, the news channel's vice president for communications, subsequently made the following statement, according to GLAAD:
"Imus" is produced by WFAN radio and is simulcast by MSNBC. The views expressed on the program are not those of MSNBC. Having said that, it was unfortunate that these remarks were telecast on MSNBC. We sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by these remarks.
But MSNBC failed to apologize for the fact that the remarks were made by Matthews -- one of its lead news hosts -- instead deflecting responsibility to WFAN, which produces the Imus show. In posting the apology, GLAAD criticized MSNBC's failure to name Matthews, writing:
[I]t's ludicrous to suggest that Chris Matthews, one of the network's anchors and most visible commentators, should not be held accountable to the network's standards and practices, particularly for comments he makes on MSNBC.
The language of the apology repeated a previous MSNBC apology. After WFAN sports anchor Sid Rosenberg, a regular guest on the Imus's show, on the November 12, 2004, edition called Palestinians "stinking animals" and said, "They ought to drop the bomb right there, kill 'em all right now," MSNBC issued an apology to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). According to CAIR, the apology read: "The views expressed on the program are not those of MSNBC. Having said that, it was unfortunate that these remarks were telecast on MSNBC. We sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by these remarks."
In 2003, MSNBC fired Savage -- whom Matthews called "wonderful" while quoting his variation on the Brokeback Mountain title -- for labeling a caller to his MSNBC show a "sodomite" and instructing him to "get AIDS and die."
— S.G.
Posted to the web on Tuesday January 24, 2006 at 5:01 PM EST
Daily Kos: posted by Hunter
Chris Matthews may indeed have a prediliction to Italian Ethnic "mafia" slurs
An Ethnicity-Baiting Chris Matthews Flat-Out Lied
by Hunter
Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 07:49:28 PM PST
Well look what we have here. Tim Chapman at Townhall has the entire Democratic document that Chris Matthews called "disgusting", and which Republican liars from Drudge on down are using as the basis of their claim that Democrats attacked Alito for being Italian American. Yeah, the attack I talked about here.
Only one problem. Read the so-called "disgusting" memo. It doesn't say anything like that. Do a search. The word "Italian" isn't even in it. The whole so-called "outrage" has been a complete fabrication by Chris Matthews, by Matt Drudge, and by the perennially race-baiting right.
Oh, by all means, the memo talks about 'Scalito', a long-held nickname given to Alito by legal friend and foe alike to describe his far right, Scalia-like views.
And -- horror of horrors -- one point out of fifteen talks about a case where as a U.S. Attorney, Alito failed to win convictions of twenty mobsters after the longest criminal trial in U.S. history.
Doesn't say anything even remotely implying Alito had any connection to the mobsters except prosecuting them and apparently botching the case. Doesn't say anything at all about Alito being an Italian American. Doesn't imply jack-shit about it.
So Chris "Fair Game" Matthews, in addition to being the smarmy sack of pundit crap that we always knew he was, flatly made up the part about the Italian American slam in the memo. He lied. He put two-and-two together in his own head, and came up with Mobsters = Italian = Alito as his own slam, then sold it as a "disgusting" Democratic attack.
Let the bastard hear about it tomorrow. He fabricated the entire race-baiting slam in his own warped head. Ask him why he did it, because as an Italian American I'm interested in hearing that.
Thanks to Red State for pointing me at the actual memo, even though they lacked even the basic, primitive integrity to at any point actually tell us what it really said. Ditto to the mental geniuses of Town Hall, who went out of their way to publish a document proving flatly that they lied about their own smear.
Oh, and Drudge? I'm not nearly done with you on this one. Did Matthews come up with the attack on his own, or did he suck it directly out of your sorry teat? And who gave you the story to push?
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Tags: Chris Matthews, Hardball, media, Matt Drudge, race baiting (all tags)
Chris Matthews may indeed have a prediliction to Italian Ethnic "mafia" slurs
An Ethnicity-Baiting Chris Matthews Flat-Out Lied
by Hunter
Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 07:49:28 PM PST
Well look what we have here. Tim Chapman at Townhall has the entire Democratic document that Chris Matthews called "disgusting", and which Republican liars from Drudge on down are using as the basis of their claim that Democrats attacked Alito for being Italian American. Yeah, the attack I talked about here.
Only one problem. Read the so-called "disgusting" memo. It doesn't say anything like that. Do a search. The word "Italian" isn't even in it. The whole so-called "outrage" has been a complete fabrication by Chris Matthews, by Matt Drudge, and by the perennially race-baiting right.
Oh, by all means, the memo talks about 'Scalito', a long-held nickname given to Alito by legal friend and foe alike to describe his far right, Scalia-like views.
And -- horror of horrors -- one point out of fifteen talks about a case where as a U.S. Attorney, Alito failed to win convictions of twenty mobsters after the longest criminal trial in U.S. history.
Doesn't say anything even remotely implying Alito had any connection to the mobsters except prosecuting them and apparently botching the case. Doesn't say anything at all about Alito being an Italian American. Doesn't imply jack-shit about it.
So Chris "Fair Game" Matthews, in addition to being the smarmy sack of pundit crap that we always knew he was, flatly made up the part about the Italian American slam in the memo. He lied. He put two-and-two together in his own head, and came up with Mobsters = Italian = Alito as his own slam, then sold it as a "disgusting" Democratic attack.
Let the bastard hear about it tomorrow. He fabricated the entire race-baiting slam in his own warped head. Ask him why he did it, because as an Italian American I'm interested in hearing that.
Thanks to Red State for pointing me at the actual memo, even though they lacked even the basic, primitive integrity to at any point actually tell us what it really said. Ditto to the mental geniuses of Town Hall, who went out of their way to publish a document proving flatly that they lied about their own smear.
Oh, and Drudge? I'm not nearly done with you on this one. Did Matthews come up with the attack on his own, or did he suck it directly out of your sorry teat? And who gave you the story to push?
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Tags: Chris Matthews, Hardball, media, Matt Drudge, race baiting (all tags)
JUNE 30, 2006: Chris Matthews: "Harball" tellevision show: MSNBC
When referring to "a really bad man" or "terrorist" at Guatanamo Bay Prison, Chris Matthews used a fictional "mafia" character reference "Luca Brasi" to whom he called "Luca Bratsi" of the movie "The Godfather" fame instead of calling the person perhaps OSAMA BIN LADEN, KIM JUNG IL, JOSEF STALIN, ADOLF HITLER or any other political terrorist of the 20th or 21st century. Nevertheless, Chris Matthews chose a fictional "mafia" slurring character reference from a movie. Chris Matthews, that is an Italian ethnic slur. Please stop using those metaphors. You are much to intelligent.
MATTHEWS: But what happens now if we‘ve got a real—let‘s assume—not your client who is a driver for bin Laden. Let‘s talk about we‘ve got a Luca Bratsi down there somewhere in Guantanamo, a real bad guy who systematically and cruelly killed a bunch of Americans.
When referring to "a really bad man" or "terrorist" at Guatanamo Bay Prison, Chris Matthews used a fictional "mafia" character reference "Luca Brasi" to whom he called "Luca Bratsi" of the movie "The Godfather" fame instead of calling the person perhaps OSAMA BIN LADEN, KIM JUNG IL, JOSEF STALIN, ADOLF HITLER or any other political terrorist of the 20th or 21st century. Nevertheless, Chris Matthews chose a fictional "mafia" slurring character reference from a movie. Chris Matthews, that is an Italian ethnic slur. Please stop using those metaphors. You are much to intelligent.
MATTHEWS: But what happens now if we‘ve got a real—let‘s assume—not your client who is a driver for bin Laden. Let‘s talk about we‘ve got a Luca Bratsi down there somewhere in Guantanamo, a real bad guy who systematically and cruelly killed a bunch of Americans.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
OCTOBER 27, 2006: Chris Matthews: "Harball" Television Show: MSNBC
(IN a discussion with Charlie Cook, The Cook Report, on the "Harball" Show, Chris Matthews engaged in an interpretative discussion regarding as he called it, "an ethnic ad". Unfortunately, Chris Matthews once again digressed into his incessant demeaning "mafia" slurring insinuations that Mr. Cook would not engage in later in this printed dialogue. To this end, Chris Matthews also begins to create a so called implied ethnic battle between White Anglo-Saxon Protestants and "Ethnic" people by the Tom Kean Jr. campaign. He names former Governors Whitman and Tom Kean Sr. as examples of "Waspy", and as his knowledgeable base of reasoning he credits his youthful vacations at Ocean City, New Jersey as his educational background for making such an asinine statement. Please read the following excerpt provided by Chris Matthew's MSNBC staff on his website.
MATTHEWS: Well, Charlie, where is the Italian Anti-Defamation League on this baby? I know Menendez is Spanish surname guy, but, clearly the “Sopranos” reference is obvious. They may have found a non-Italian actor, but look, the leather jacket, all thaccoutrementnt, the mannerisms of the “Sopranos”.
COOK: This thing is, is that—you know, does New Jersey, like a handful of other states, like my home state, have a reputation for corruption? Heck, yes. Hudson County, where Senator Menendez is from, does it have a reputation within New Jersey for corruption? Absolutely.
Tom Kean needs to be—have this election about corruption, not about Iraq or anything else the administration may or may not have done. He’s got to have it about corruption, and that’s Menendez’s vulnerability. That ad goes to the heart of Menendez’s challenge in this election.
MATTHEWS: Well, maybe because I’ve spent so much of my time in New Jersey during the summer, especially in Ocean City, but you know, I have to tell you, Charlie, it’s an ethnic ad. Whatever else it is, it’s an ethnic ad. It’s about Italians in New Jersey. It’s about the mob, tying Menendez into Torricelli, they’re closing the loop, they’re making their point.
And that has been politics in that state for years, between the Waspy people, like Christie Todd Whitman and the Keans, father and son, running against the ethnic people. They tied it all together, if you’re ethnic, you’re a crook, right? Isn’t that the message? What the hell does Bob Menendez got to do with the “Sopranos”? What’s he got to do with Bob Torricelli?
They’re not Wasps, they’re ethnics.
COOK: Yes.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let me—I don’t want to you to have to join me on all this stuff. I’ll just play hardball and you agree with it, you give me the up side.
Let’s take a look at the next ad. It think what—what do we got next here?
(IN a discussion with Charlie Cook, The Cook Report, on the "Harball" Show, Chris Matthews engaged in an interpretative discussion regarding as he called it, "an ethnic ad". Unfortunately, Chris Matthews once again digressed into his incessant demeaning "mafia" slurring insinuations that Mr. Cook would not engage in later in this printed dialogue. To this end, Chris Matthews also begins to create a so called implied ethnic battle between White Anglo-Saxon Protestants and "Ethnic" people by the Tom Kean Jr. campaign. He names former Governors Whitman and Tom Kean Sr. as examples of "Waspy", and as his knowledgeable base of reasoning he credits his youthful vacations at Ocean City, New Jersey as his educational background for making such an asinine statement. Please read the following excerpt provided by Chris Matthew's MSNBC staff on his website.
MATTHEWS: Well, Charlie, where is the Italian Anti-Defamation League on this baby? I know Menendez is Spanish surname guy, but, clearly the “Sopranos” reference is obvious. They may have found a non-Italian actor, but look, the leather jacket, all thaccoutrementnt, the mannerisms of the “Sopranos”.
COOK: This thing is, is that—you know, does New Jersey, like a handful of other states, like my home state, have a reputation for corruption? Heck, yes. Hudson County, where Senator Menendez is from, does it have a reputation within New Jersey for corruption? Absolutely.
Tom Kean needs to be—have this election about corruption, not about Iraq or anything else the administration may or may not have done. He’s got to have it about corruption, and that’s Menendez’s vulnerability. That ad goes to the heart of Menendez’s challenge in this election.
MATTHEWS: Well, maybe because I’ve spent so much of my time in New Jersey during the summer, especially in Ocean City, but you know, I have to tell you, Charlie, it’s an ethnic ad. Whatever else it is, it’s an ethnic ad. It’s about Italians in New Jersey. It’s about the mob, tying Menendez into Torricelli, they’re closing the loop, they’re making their point.
And that has been politics in that state for years, between the Waspy people, like Christie Todd Whitman and the Keans, father and son, running against the ethnic people. They tied it all together, if you’re ethnic, you’re a crook, right? Isn’t that the message? What the hell does Bob Menendez got to do with the “Sopranos”? What’s he got to do with Bob Torricelli?
They’re not Wasps, they’re ethnics.
COOK: Yes.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let me—I don’t want to you to have to join me on all this stuff. I’ll just play hardball and you agree with it, you give me the up side.
Let’s take a look at the next ad. It think what—what do we got next here?
Friday, November 03, 2006
OCTOBER 26, 2006 Chris Matthews "Hardball" MSNBC
MATTHEWS: I have heard it read a couple of years ago, somebody said it‘s not that the Democrats don‘t know how to make these ads, they just feel they have gotten above it, that this is really bad stuff. It‘s like they are like Michael Corleone. They have gotten out of the business of running dirty ads. The Republicans are still in that business. They say, look, I have left that behind. That‘s the Democrat‘s attitude. We‘re not going to run that kind of campaign. Is it the mentality?
How about going out of business like Enron or Michael Millkin?
Stop the Italian Ethnic Slurs "mafia slurs"!
MATTHEWS: I have heard it read a couple of years ago, somebody said it‘s not that the Democrats don‘t know how to make these ads, they just feel they have gotten above it, that this is really bad stuff. It‘s like they are like Michael Corleone. They have gotten out of the business of running dirty ads. The Republicans are still in that business. They say, look, I have left that behind. That‘s the Democrat‘s attitude. We‘re not going to run that kind of campaign. Is it the mentality?
How about going out of business like Enron or Michael Millkin?
Stop the Italian Ethnic Slurs "mafia slurs"!
Thursday, November 02, 2006
NOVEMBER 2, 2006 "Hardball" television show, MSNBC, 5:00 pm.
Chris Matthews: Italian Ethnic Slur "mafia slur" when referring to U.S. Senator Bob Menendez:
"...(they: The Kean Campaign) is putting Menendez 'with the fishes' - I'm sorry."
What are you sorry for Mr. Matthews? Are you sorry for making another Italian Ethnic Slur "mafia slur"?
Chris Matthews: Italian Ethnic Slur "mafia slur" when referring to U.S. Senator Bob Menendez:
"...(they: The Kean Campaign) is putting Menendez 'with the fishes' - I'm sorry."
What are you sorry for Mr. Matthews? Are you sorry for making another Italian Ethnic Slur "mafia slur"?
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Chris Matthews of MSNBC's HARDBALL must stop using ETHNIC SLURS AGAINST ITALIAN AMERICANS on his show that airs weekly at 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm on MSNBC. Mr. Matthews continues to use metaphors and examples that continually relate politics to: "The Godfather" movie, "The Sopranos" sitcom series, "Goodfellas" movie, and a host of other "mafia" related terms and phrases that are denigrating MILLIONS OF LAW ABIDING ITALIAN AMERICAN CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN. NOW THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES ANTOINE SCALIA AND SAMUEL ALITO (BOTH ITALIAN AMERICANS) REPRESENT THE CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY OF THE COUNTRY, Many Italian Americans like myself are very hopeful that the future is very bright for tolerance and respect rather than incessant replays of but a handful of criminal phrases that stain a growing and already strong ethnic cultural heritage here in America.
CHRIS MATTHEWS PLEASE STOP YOUR INCESSANT BELITTLING OF ITALIAN AMERICANS
CHRIS MATTHEWS PLEASE STOP YOUR INCESSANT BELITTLING OF ITALIAN AMERICANS
