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Matthews highlights Limbaugh response to Obama's comments on Gates

July 26, 2009 12:14 pm ET

From the July 26 edition of The Chris Matthews Show, syndicated by NBC:

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Limbaugh: "[W]e saw white firefighters under assault by agents of Barack Obama"; "Now white policemen are under assault"

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    • Author by juliajayne (July 26, 2009 1:17 pm ET)
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      Was it something personal that made him go into this case, Chris asks? Gee, maybe because he was specifically asked about it. And he was friends with Gates?

      As for the media's crush on all things that can distract from the real issue, what's your excuse? Something personal? Money, fame, celebrity status? Keeping monied interests happy?

      Just wondering. ;-) And not really bagging on CM so much. He can be a charming idiot and by gosh sometimes he even does his job. Ha!
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      • Author by wolf kotenberg (July 26, 2009 1:24 pm ET)
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        Yeah, Mathews is a spinner.
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      • Author by pointofview (July 26, 2009 9:44 pm ET)
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        But, the question is........why is this story here?????

        Matthews played the issue fair, and who cares that he played Limbaugh's remarks? Matthews covered both sides of the issue, and given Limbaugh's huge audience, it was appropriate to cover his remarks.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (July 26, 2009 1:18 pm ET)
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      Nice to know we have a president who is also human. Bravo president Obama.
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      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (July 26, 2009 9:43 pm ET)
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        The drive-by thumbs-down coward thinks it's a bad thing to have a human President.
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        • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (July 27, 2009 8:12 am ET)
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          Apparently, the drive-by thumbs-down coward doesn't like being called a drive-by thumbs-down coward, either.
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    • Author by kromecom48 (July 26, 2009 1:26 pm ET)
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      Black Americans -- including the POTUS -- don't undertand the big deal being here. What he said was accurate. A man in his own home was arrested and hulimiliated by police. That was stupid on the part of the police.

      A man who has strived to bridge racial chasms in America, is a one of nation's foremost scholars on race and is by no means a race baiter, was arrested in his own home for the sacrilege of offending an officer? When did this become a police state?

      It fully illustrates that White America doesn't get that there our two standards of response by police officers of ALL colors when dealing with minorities. There are few black men of any social economic level who haven't experienced something similar. The majority of White men cannot possibly comprehend what law abiding, upright minority men and boys still have to go through. Until you do, perhaps shutting up -- as Bill O'Reilly might suggest -- would be a good idea.
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      • Author by wolf kotenberg (July 26, 2009 1:47 pm ET)
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        I wonder if this is a vestige of the Bush 43 era of " 1984 " mentality I have often posted negatively about the Patriot Act ( who is watching the watchers ? ) and I wonder if pres Obama will kaybosh this act now that a person got arrested in his own home ? I woul certainly be a lot happier if Lynn Sweet would ask him about that, since I, as a mere mortal, never will.
        W
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        • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 26, 2009 6:16 pm ET)
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          Police can run run a homeland security check on a person,during routine stop.Takes a while
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    • Author by dmhack (July 26, 2009 1:49 pm ET)
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      "Was there something personal that made him go into this case?"

      That is the kind of question only a privileged white man can ask and only black people from every strata of society can answer.
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    • Author by Romario (July 26, 2009 1:55 pm ET)
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      I'm pretty sure if the professor who was arrested had been Paul Krugman and the cop had been black, Chris Matthews would have been asking why the cop had been so out of line.
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      • Author by snoopy (July 26, 2009 2:51 pm ET)
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        Witness: ‘No way’ Novak didn’t know he hit someone; victim was ’splayed across the front’ of his car.

        Politico reports that conservative pundit Robert Novak “was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning.” Novak initially “drove away from the scene,” but turned around when “a bicyclist stopped him and said, ‘You hit someone.’” Novak claimed: “I didn’t know I hit anybody.” But Washington DC’s local ABC affiliate interviewed the bicyclist who saw the incident. WJLA’s Suzanne Kennedy reported live from the scene:

        I just spoke with the bicyclist about three minutes ago. He tells me that the pedestrian was actually splayed across the front of Novak’s convertible, and that there would be absolutely no way Novak would have not known that he had hit someone.


        A white man hits a pedestrian and drives away from the scene, and all the cops do is issue him a citation. A black man yells at an officer in his own home and he's led away in handcuffs. Nah, there aren't two different standards...
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    • Author by canaanxing9025 (July 26, 2009 3:24 pm ET)
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      "Was it something personal that made him go into this case?"

      Like Duh!
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    • Author by canaanxing9025 (July 26, 2009 4:13 pm ET)
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      I have been thinking about what Chris Matthews has been highlighting on his shows recently. The birther controversy, and now the arrest of Professor Gates.

      I really think, Chris Matthews is doing a credible job of showing that race, even with the celebratory election of our first black President, is just right under the surface. Obviously it has erupted like a boil recently.

      Was this one of the unintended consquences of the Obama election, or was it inevitable?

      I would just like the race problem to go away, but it won't. It won't until injustices are aired, and people of color in this Country experience "justice for all."

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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (July 27, 2009 8:42 am ET)
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        Was this one of the unintended consquences of the Obama election, or was it inevitable?

        Some seem to think that President Obama's election means that racism is gone. They're wrong, of course, but their optimistic/naieve outlook is preferable to those who thinnk thate President Obama's election means that racism is suddenly OK now!
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    • Author by canaanxing9025 (July 26, 2009 4:15 pm ET)
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      I have been thinking about what Chris Matthews has been highlighting on his shows recently. The birther controversy, and now the arrest of Professor Gates.

      I really think, Chris Matthews is doing a credible job of showing that race, even with the celebratory election of our first black President, is just right under the surface. Obviously it has erupted like a boil recently.

      Was this one of the unintended consquences of the Obama election, or was it inevitable?

      I would just like the race problem to go away, but it won't. It won't until injustices are aired, and people of color in this Country experience "justice for all."

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    • Author by Digital Jedi (July 26, 2009 4:46 pm ET)
         
      You'd think big grown men and women could handle having their actions referred to as stupid every now and again, without having a bunch of sideline players try to defend them.
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    • Author by wzwriter (July 26, 2009 8:00 pm ET)
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      Limbaugh had to get his KKK uniform made out of king-size sheets.....
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      • Author by pointofview (July 26, 2009 9:46 pm ET)
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        As usual, another useless remark from WZ, which adds nothing to the conversation.
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        • Author by snoopy (July 26, 2009 10:24 pm ET)
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          Now there's an ironic statement...
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        • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 26, 2009 11:15 pm ET)
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          Where you been point of view.I saw something odd the other day.Replies to your post,that you didn't answer.Refusing to answer questions,whats up?
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          • Author by pointofview (July 27, 2009 1:42 pm ET)
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            BLK

            I answer as many as I see. Not always easy being one of the few token republicans here. What do you want to know?
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        • Author by juliajayne1 (July 27, 2009 12:12 am ET)
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          Hey, if it's funny, it's not useless. I like to laugh.

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          • Author by worrierking (July 27, 2009 8:29 am ET)
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            How can you laugh at something when the target of the joke wasn't either poor, black or handicapped?
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        • Author by RABBITLUVR (July 27, 2009 4:50 pm ET)
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          Let's see... WZ so far has three thumbs-ups and you, POV, have... three thumbs-downs.

          I think we can make the correct conclusion.
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    • Author by kager (July 27, 2009 8:31 pm ET)
         
      Shouldn't he be asking was it something personal that made Limbaugh go into this case? Obama said the police officer was wrong. Obama never mentioned race.Obama has a personal interest bcuz Gates is a personal friend, someone he has met. Obama also specifically mentioned Cambridge police no other station. Rush im willing to bet has never met any of the officers involved or has ever had a personal friendship with any of them. Yet he turns the conversation into a attack on white policemen everywhere. This totally ignores the existence of black and women police officers in this country. The person we should be analyzing is Rush not Obama.
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