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Topics => Media Bias/Media War => Topic started by: Pandora on January 19, 2012, 04:31:12 PM
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Chris Matthews says the way Newt Gingrich pronounced moderator Juan Williams' name at last night's debate was a racially charged moment. (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/17/chris_matthews_the_way_gingrich_said_juan_at_debate_was_racial_code.html)
Matthews, who would later sum this up as a "dog whistle," made his case that this is racist because some people will "clearly hear" it while others "don't want to hear it."
Later in the segment, Matthews say the Republican primary can be summed up as a "receding white culture of the past trying to reclaim something."
Transcript of Matthews on the "Juan moment" below.
Chris Matthews: "Well, we know what is going on. And the people that don't hear it don't want to hear it. You cannot argue a person into it. You cannot tell a person that is code, because the people that don't want to hear that it's code will say it's not and the people that clearly hear that it's code will. It's not something that you can argue with a person."
"There were interesting aspects to that, wasn't there applause when he called him Juan. Newt is a smart guy. He knows how the play an audience. There was a interesting exchange where a question was answered and he said let me help you with that one, Pierre. and it was his name, and Juan is his name, but it was an interesting way to personalize it and it was guts to get in front of a white audience in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and ask a question that was a reasonable question."
I see. If one doesn't hear the implicit racism, one is a racist.
I observed that moment as well, where Newt drawled, "Well, Juan ... ", and then paused before continuing, and it didn't sound like racism to me; it sounded like "Okay, smart-guy, you are now on notice that I'm going to take your ass to school on national TV."
Lastly, Matthews can take his cheering of "receding white culture" and choke on it.
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I see. If one doesn't hear the implicit racism, one is a racist.
Catch 22. If you hear it as racist, it's racist. If you don't hear it..........
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Guess he never watched special report while Brit Hume was on the panel.
Now Juan.
Newt said it precisely as did Brit.
I thought he mimed it on purpose.
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Guess he never watched special report while Brit Hume was on the panel.
Now Juan.
Newt said it precisely as did Brit.
I thought he mimed it on purpose.
Interesting. I don't often catch Special Report, so you may be on to something, Charles.
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Guess he never watched special report while Brit Hume was on the panel.
Now Juan.
Newt said it precisely as did Brit.
I thought he mimed it on purpose.
::thumbsup::
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Matthews has to go through some extraordinary mental/verbal gymnastics to satisfy his ever-shrinking circle of viewers .
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Cwissy is good at twisting things...he's still smarting from all those purple-nurple's he got as a little fat kid, been making people suffer for that ever since...
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.....I observed that moment as well, where Newt drawled, "Well, Juan ... ", and then paused before continuing, and it didn't sound like racism to me; it sounded like "Okay, smart-guy, you are now on notice that I'm going to take your ass to school on national TV."
But Pan, what he was really saying was, "Okay, Black-guy, you are now on notice that I'm going to take your Black ass to school on national TV." You could hear it in his voice.
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Aren't all assholes the same color?
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Aren't all assholes the same color?
Yep. Got nothing to do with skin color.
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Guess he never watched special report while Brit Hume was on the panel.
Now Juan.
Newt said it precisely as did Brit.
I thought he mimed it on purpose.
When you play a recording backwards of Brit saying it, you can hear, "Get back on the porch, boy". You either hear it, or you don't, but it's definitely there......according to Cwissy.
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Guess he never watched special report while Brit Hume was on the panel.
Now Juan.
Newt said it precisely as did Brit.
I thought he mimed it on purpose.
When you play a recording backwards of Brit saying it, you can hear, "Get back on the porch, boy". You either hear it, or you don't, but it's definitely there......according to Cwissy.
::rolllaughing::