Coming of her "unleash" comments regarding President Obama, Rep. Maxine Waters headed to MSNBC'sHardball with Chris Matthewswhere after some light chit chat about her remarks shewent in on fellow member of Congress, Tea Partier, Rep. Allen West.
West, a Republican, had made comments earlier accusing Waters and others of being "overseers" on the Democratic Party's "21st century plantation." Waters countered that she found it "odd" that when West's own unemployed brother needed help, West told him to head over to the Congressional Black Caucus' job fair and talk to those he despises.
President Barack Obama is delivering the State of the Union address tonight. In the past, I enjoyed watching MSNBC coverage of events like these -- not so much for the slant -- but for the hope that Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Joe Scarborough would be forced into a small room again to talk to each other, then try to eat each other's heads while Rachel Maddow pleads for peace. Because, that's just more fun. The chin-checking and unchecked ego is simply better TV, than watching Katie Couric be clip and dry when she really wants to be chipper and funny as everyone sits around a table at CBS and tries to divine meaning out of whatever the First Lady is wearing. I'm just not feeling that. I want my quasi-lefty blowhards. I want my bloviating Keithy.
Chris Matthews EVERYONE! Give him a hand. Come on! Give it up!
Why is this offensive? Because it assumes that something was wrong with someone being black giving an awesome speech. Not acknowledging color isn't some magical compliment. Black people don't mind being recognized as black people. Most of us really like being black people. What we DON'T like is when we do something really amazing, like, become President of the United States and give a good speech and you're all, "That speech was sooooo good I forgot you were a Negro." It's like telling someone "You're smart for a girl!" Or "I don't see color!" Or it's like saying "You're a great lover for a guy with such a small penis. I didn't even NOTICE the lack of motion in that ocean!" Why can't you just say the speech was good? So good you wanted the President to get off that podium and make sweet, hot, half-Mandigo love to you, Tweety? I would have respected you more!
Some representative who's name really isn't worth mentioning is proposing a bill that would require that all future US presidential candidates supply a birth certificate proving they are a US citizen. He said it was just about enforcing the law ... and dealing with "Birthers," conspiracy theorist whackadoos who don't believe the current president is a natural born citizen.
Hey everyone! It's everybody's favorite bigot (OK ... my favorite bigot) Patrick J. Buchanan! And he's arguing with The Maddow about why-oh-why white males need to be protected! You know? Because they built this country and they earned it! Poo to those brown folks and women who got stepped on. And Hispanics don't have it that bad anyway and ... and ... oh, just WATCH this monstrosity. You'll get the point.
For once I have to say the words, Thank God I Watched Hardball before I saw this because despite Chris Matthews' leanings towards Pat on the particular issue of the "reverse discrimination" firefighter case, they actually had on the president of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund who ... *gasp* ... bothered to use logic and facts to explain why the test scores were thrown out in the first place and why the city feared being sued.
The White House tried to shut down some gossip talk that they were angling to support (or attempt to convince) Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to run for the senate seat currently occupied by one fine George Jeffersonian man, Mr. Opportunity!, the "Say-Pay Kid" -- Roland Burris.
You see, Madigan had a meeting at the White House and tongues went to wagging! What could that mean? Was the Obama Administration trying to get rid of my dear, embarrassing, ex-Gov. Blagojevich-baiting Uncle Burris? But I love laughing at him? He's HILARIOUS! Why would they ever want to let that man go?
Updated on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 11:19AM by
Danielle Belton
Former congressman, failed Tennessee senate candidate and giant pretty boy Harold Ford, Jr. (who The Snobenjoysplayfullymocking) said he would have voted for torturing terrorism suspects after 9/11 on MSNBC's Hardball which caused me to breathe out one of my patented "Oh, HAROLD!" sighs.
According to former Democratic representative Harold Ford, who now makes his living as a "centrist" pundit, maybe torture's not so bad. Here he is yesterday on MSBNC's Hardball: "I think if you ask the majority of Americans if they were opposed to the water boarding of some of these high-level terrorists or those who orchestrated terrorist attacks, I think you would be hard-pressed to find many Americans, many Democrats even, who would be that outraged by it."
(Reality check: Recentpolls show that, even in the absurd ticking time-bomb scenario, the public is at best evenly split on the issue. And I assure you many of us are more than outraged.)
I like how even though he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell over ever holding office in Tennessee again (he's currently over the Democratic Leadership Council), he still holding onto his Blue Dog/Red State bona fides.
For some reason, after years of using Alan Colmes as a personal punching bag for bringing a thesaurus to a knife fight, Sean Hannity is doing to pre-inaugural stunt casting and has invited Rev. Al Sharpton and Meatloaf to an upcoming segment of his shout-fest on FOX News. I don't know if this is just to stir up some trouble/ratings, but say what you will about the Good Reverend Al -- he's no Al Colmes.
Mike Paul, Republican strategist, tells Pat Buchanan, unapologetic bastard, that the Republicans need to be a "big tent party" and reach out to the young, women and minorities. Pat's all, "Um ... no." Then has a good laugh about it, doing his best to frustrate, confound and infuriate Paul, who (naturally) wishes there would be more than just him, Condi Rice, Michael Steele and Ron Christie at the holiday party. Pat is Pat and Paul takes offense. Insanity ensues and this time Chris Matthews didn't have to do any heavy lifting. I can't believe I forgot to post this last week!
Pat, who I "lovingly" call "The Bigot," is notorious for not putting up any happy-talk when it comes to doing anything different from what they did in the Nixon Administration to get some black votes. Pat's of the mind that if you can get your 12 to 20 percent, great. If you can't, who cares? Why is he going to waste time winning over people he either:
A) Believes cannot be won over
B) Doesn't want anyway
Pat all but told Paul, "Vote Republican! That's great! Convince your friends and family! Go do that! Me? Me? I'm doing what I've always done. Jack shit. Because I don't give a shit. No sir. I do not!"
What's "sad" is some ... er ... ill-informed conservatives have bashed Paul on the blogosphere for this above sparring with Buchanan, accusing him of supporting Barack Obama. I'm going to assume they based that on pigmentation only because between Paul, Ron Christie and Amy Holmes, I don't know who was tripping over their feet the hardest to explain why electing Barack Obama would be a nightmare. I almost wanted to comment and defend Paul, then I remembered how I couldn't stand him and stopped myself. "What am I doing!" I said as I started to type.
But, you know, I care. Even when I don't agree. I care ... about keeping the record straight. Besides, I don't want them putting Mike Paul and The Snob on the same team.
PS. I'm still on vacation! Complain all you want, but Mariah and Nick will still be there until next Monday (because I wrote all the items two weeks in advance)!
Coming of her "unleash" comments regarding President Obama, Rep. Maxine Waters headed to MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews where after some light chit chat about her remarks she went in on fellow member of Congress, Tea Partier, Rep. Allen West. 
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