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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/08/michael-eric-dyson-rips-mary-matalin-for-amnesia-after-cheney-branded-mandela-a-terrorist/Michael Eric Dyson rips Mary Matalin for amnesia after Cheney branded Mandela a terrorist
By David Edwards
Sunday, December 8, 2013 13:57 EST
Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson lashed out at conservative strategist Mary Matalin, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, after she defended her one-time boss for branding Nelson Mandela a terrorist in the 1980s.
Following Mandelas death last week, several media outlets pointed out that Cheney had not only voted against sanctions on South Africas apartheid government, but had also maintained that he didnt have any problems with the vote as late as 2000.
On ABCs This Week, Dyson observed that conservatives get a little bit of amnesia when they forget that Dick Cheney wanted to put him on the terrorist list and insisted that he stayed there, that Ronald Reagan resisted he said on the one hand that Nelson Mandela should be released, but he depended upon a white supremacist government to reform itself within.
When will you ever get tired of beating up on Darth Vader, who said Nelson Mandela is a good man, Matalin shot back, referring to Cheney. It was a complicated situation, the ANC was a terrorist organization at one point. He has since said wonderful things about Nelson Mandela.
But when you say about excusing Darth Vader, so to speak, this is not just about rhetoric, Dyson insisted to the former Cheney aide. This is about public policy that prevented the flourishing of ANC, and look, when they had the feet on the neck of Nelson Mandela and millions of black people in South Africa.
Watch this video from ABCs This Week, broadcast Dec. 8, 2013. (at link)
Rex
(65,616 posts)He hid in a secret bunker for 8 fucking years while commanding an illegal war in Iraq! THEN he got a new heart from a human that actually had one...FUCK DEFENDING DARTH VADER you stupid person! HOW BOUT THAT?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Or is he really just as bad and the whole thing is just fun and games.
TacoD
(581 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)He does all sorts of damage to the commonwealth for filthy lucre, just like la Madam.
hatrack
(59,592 posts). . . or is Mary Matalin pretty much the most genuinely unpleasant person you've ever seen?
I'm not talking just appearance; it's her nasty, venomous and infinitely condescending "intellectual" positions that close the deal for me . . .
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)Fulminating rage, barely held in place by heavy pancake makeup.
She made me think of what Nancy Grace would be like at high levels of amphetamine intoxication.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)The dark, ill wind of Matalin is so chill and devastating that I could even see myself huddling with Nancy Grace as we turn away from MM's ferocious riptide of magnetic misanthropic misery.
Cheney must have knighted Miss Mary into Beelzebub's ranks.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)No amnesia hath she. Turd nibbler for cash, crapmaster-matic.
She's a Dirty little eye-rolling liar, but you know...it's ever-so complicated. So there's THAT.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)but in the meantime, do we need to have to hear that name mentioned at all other than to let us know the progress of the charges against him?