Chris Matthews: "the country wants ... a little bit of fascism"

[reprehensor]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200702070011?src=other

Saying "the country wants ... a little bit of fascism," on Imus Matthews further saluted Giuliani

On the February 7 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews heaped praise on GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, calling the former New York mayor "the kind of gutsy, street-corner politician we all grew up with" who "stood on the corner during the fire and told us what was going on." Matthews said that he would like "(a) guy who wasn't on the ranch during Katrina -- who was out on the street corner answering questions," adding: "I'm so sick of southern guys with ranches running this country. I want a guy to run for president who doesn't have a fucking -- I'm sorry -- a ranch. Wouldn't that be good?"

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From the February 7 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning:

MATTHEWS: The subways didn't smell like pee anymore. Even the phone booths in New York have always smelled like pee -- when there's not even a booth, it's just a phone and it smells like pee. And this guy cleaned it up, and he made you feel like you had a right to walk the street safely. I think he did a great job. I'm sorry. And I think the country wants a boss like that. You know, a little bit of fascism there. Just a little bit. Just a pinch of it.

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Oh, no, Chris. The country, the WORLD doesn't need that shit.

My uncle fought honest-to-God Nazis in occupied Europe, and I'm pretty sure he would have ripped your head off if you said that in front of him.

"It Can't Happen Here" ain't so far-fetched with knuckleheads like you out there.


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UPDATE:

The co-producer of 9/11 Press for Truth has written an open letter to Matthews;

An Open Letter to Chris Matthews & the management at MSNBC

Dear Mr. Matthews,

Is even a little bit of fascism that led to the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto
what we want in our country? If you could travel in time, would you even want to
take even a little walk along a street there?

I for one do not want even one iota of fascism in my country or in a leader? As
far as I'm concerned the current resident in the White House, so deeply in the
pocket of the most powerful corporate interests, already embodies and enacts
more than just a little bit of fascism. Please wake up Matthews!

You know lately I've come to really appreciate your playing hardball when it
comes to the Iraq war. However, when it comes to Guiliani, I think you're way
over the edge and doing the country and especially New Yorkers and 9/11 widows a
grave disservice.

Mr. Matthews, please have a read of Radio Silence about the Motorola radio
scandal where Guiliani's negligence(?) may have caused the deaths or scores of
first responders and widow Kristen Breitweiser's posting on Huffington Post
about Guiliani's Deadly Impact in NY.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristen-breitweiser/giulianis-deadly-impact_b_18564.html

Read this and then tell the all 9/11 widows and members of the NYFD or NYPD that
Guiliani's brand of itsy-bitsy fascism is what this country wants or needs! Mr.
Matthews, with respect, you need to spin out up from your spin zone and examine
the real record of your fascist-lite wannabe boss. And you need to set the
record straight on Hardball and prove you know how to do good old-fashioned real
investigative reporting. Do that and tell me how good you feel spinning the
image of dust covered Mayor stuck on the streets of lower Manhattan because he
had elected to put his Emergency Management Operations center in WTC 7!

And if you can't or won't do this on Hardball, MSNBC needs to play hardball and
give you your pink slip and find someone who will tell it straight about Rudy
Guiliani.

And for God's sake, enough already, any more fascism in this country, we'd have
Blackwater, Haliburton and scores of other corporate contractors running open
detention centers for everyone now daring to claim the emperor (or Rudy) or the
empire has no clothes.

Kyle F. Hence
Co-Producer, 9/11: Press for Truth
http://www.911pressfortruth.com

[nxylas]

1. As long as he makes the trains run on time

:sarcasm:

[acmejack]

2. Chris needs a bit of a lobotomy.

Just a touch of one...

[madmax]

3. you got that right!!!

He's such an asshole. I haven't watched him since the campaign of 2000. He made me sick.

[Hieronymus]

4. Tweety is so full of shit.

[lazyriver]

5. I really think he's lost his mind. It has to be more than just

irresponsibility to say something that stupid.

[Gman]

6. One voter's opinion

just like another piece of anatomy everyone has.

[tanyev]

7. Springtime for Rudy!

Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Republic Party!

[unpossibles]

8. um, yeah, the Subways do still smell like pee.

sorry.

And no, we don't want a little fascism, thank you. We're still trying to deal with the past 6 years of that.

[AX10]

9. Oh that's it!

DROP DEAD CHRIS!!! Matthews was, is, and will always be a REPUBLICAN at heart!

A little bit of "fascism"??? :wtf: is wrong with you, so shithead!!! Remember those 500,000 Americans who gave their lives so we could be free of any hint of "fascism"??? Tweety is just that delusional.

[youngdem]

10. The right is made up of people who want to be told what to do

These are the same folks that would have ratted out those who tossed tea in the harbor a number of years ago.

They like authority because they aspire to it, like it, and are aroused by it.

[earthlover]

11. Is that like a little bit of pregnancy?....

Problem with fascism is that it isn't a little bit....

[billybob537]

12. Cue the Twilight Zone theme

WHAT f(%^&#$ing planet do these asshats live on????

Edit Right I can just see Rudy now with his toidy brush and bucket of P B Gone What a MAYA

[tabasco]

32. I support this post. LMAO! n/t

[Ken Burch]

Chris, as Billy Bragg would put it,

"You're a dedicated swallower of Rudy"!

[Sagan]

13. I'm kind of sick of Tweety telling us what the country wants..

First, we wanted a "regular guy", not a "smart" guy like Gore or Kerry.

So he pumps up the Chimp and tells us that we really love the swaggering moron. And then the whole flight suit thing happens and he tells us how much we love the idiot.

Now, he's sick of Chimpy? So move on to the next mistake?

Tweety, you're so irrelevant. It would be sad if there was anything sympathetic about you.

[AX10]

17. The Internet is quickly replaces his old-style breed of....

overpaid Pundits. Why else do you think the corporatists want to regulate the internet. It's all about control. They do not want us to get uncensored information.

[indepat]

14. Poor Chris doesn't understand that with fascism, like measles, one can't get just a little bit of it

It's enough to make one either weep or :rofl:

Besides fascism stateside has long been the full-blown garden-variety type.

[Selatius]

15. The country has TOO MUCH FASCISM

There's more than enough right-authoritarianism in the land. What's needed is more left-libertarianism to erase it out.

[Judi Lynn]

16. He's snapped completely. He's gotten farther and farther away from reality.

In just the last week I was horrified to see him speaking from a location to someone else who was interviewing HIM, maybe Keith Olbermann, perhaps, and while he was speaking saliva was streaming down his chin, and hanging in a blob there, just dangling, ready to fall onto his knees.

I was horrified. He didn't even seem to notice, and the camera just kept right on his face. They went to a commercial, and I thought, "Thank God, now he will wipe his chin," and when they came back, BADDA BING! There was the same saliva.

What the HELL is happening to him?

I think whatever this is, is very intense. That's just not normal. His thoughts, like the "fascist" remark started getting sick years ago, and it just keeps building.

Oh, yuck!

[Lars39]

18. He needs his ass kicked from here to Sunday.

[HughBeaumont]

19. OK, that fuck is now insulting my Grandfather (RIP)

WWII Vet, D-Day pilot and Pearl Harbor Survivor. Fought fascist causes so it couldn't happen here.

We stopped people on BOTH sides of the pond who tried this bullshit for a reason, Tweety. Read your history books. It's NOT a human need to have one class with all the money manifested as the "leader". Stupid shit.

[reprehensor]

31. Pretty pathetic.

That guy needs a history lesson, pronto.

[Bake]

20. We already have much more than "a little bit" of fascism

And it's killing America.

Bake

[Poiuyt]

21. So Giuliani is a fascist

That's what I take from this

[maxsolomon]

22. he's right

i'd take it further, and say that, despite all of us bleeding heart pinko commie liberal fags, this country will choose fascism when our empire is clearly & undeniably in decline.

when:
sea levels rise & flood waterfront property
there's no more cheap gas
'minorities' become the majority
there's no more cheap food shipped all over the country & up from chile & mexico
etc.
etc.

and then the rest of the planet will have to get together & bring us to democracy by invading & occupying the country. THAT will be ww3.

[lumberjack_jeff]

23. Look for the positive. Nazi phones don't smell like pee. n/t

[TankLV]

24. What's more incredible is that he feels safe in uttering those thoughts OUT LOUD!

Just like other scum...

Gee, torture isn't ALL bad...

Human rights is so quaint...

etc...

I'm sick of this shit...

[nealmhughes]

25. Yep, don't come around my house Chris...

My Uncle Carl has NO cousins (dead in the death camps). My Uncle Herbert was shot in the head by a Nazi as he led a charge during the Battle of the Bulge. My Uncle Owain was a hopeless alkie for the rest of his life reliving the horrors of Baatan -- 40 years of nightmares due to Japanese Fascism.
No thanks Mr. Matthews. I'll take Jefferson and Voltaire over Hitler and Busholini...sorry, je m'ajuste, Mussolini any day.

[GreenTea]

26. And we all know "fascism" doesn't grow, it'll just stay where one puts it.

[A Simple Game]

27. What Chris didn't mention is that he is sick of a president that dresses

in flight suits and now would prefer a President that looks good "Dressed Up".

[yardwork]

28. Tweety is an ass

[EFerrari]

29. Kick and rec Kyle's great letter.

:kick:

[progressivebydesign]

30. Chris- don't confuse what you like in bed to what we want in America. n/t

[Disturbed]

34. America has two Fascists now.

Busholini and Darth. We need to rid America of those two and all of their Criminal Cabal, forthwith!

[Rex]

33. Chris

You want a pinch of fascism? Is that what you said? Oh,.the country is ready for a pinch, I see now.

Chris you bloated scumbag, who the fuck gave you the right to pick what America wants? Oh ya that M$M.

You fucking sellout clown.

[EFerrari]

35. kick

[Downtown Hound]

36. Um, no Chris, we don't want a little bit of fascism

and on behalf of freedom-loving Americans everywhere, let me just say why don't you shove a swastika up your big fat ass and drown yourself. You are an obnoxious and smarmy pig.

[sakabatou]

37. And everyvon vill like de Furher.

[NuttyFluffers]

38. and now my suspicions are confirmed...

well, that book is now closed and written off. who else is left to take off their head sheet and strap on an armband? :popcorn:

[peekaloo]

39. A Pavlovian dog. Corporate masters ring his bell and he salivates for them.

literally.

I'm calling him Blondi from now on.

[autorank]

40. Crime went down in NYC under Ruddy due to demographics. K&R

The population of probable criminals was significantly reduced, hence the number of crimes went down.

That's about it.

Where does it say Rudy gets credit for a reduction of births years before he ever thought of running
for mayor.

We live in a fantasy world. Fascism had nothing to do with anything in NYC, a little or a lot.

[rman]

41. That's why a majority of the country opposes Bush and his wars

Makes perfect sense.

[Skidmore]

42. "a little bit of facism".... in a way he's right about that.

How do you suppose corporations got so powerful? The American citizen for a long period of time has bought the idea that it was patriotic to be a consumer, and the American worker has bought the idea that it was all about the needs of the company. As long as the bells and whistles on the train jingled, jangled, and tooted and the lights came one, every one was happy to wave flags and sing "God Bless America." Land of the free and home of the power shopper. Facism is about nationalism as a product, a brand. As a culture, we have learned to be comfortable with branding.

Yes, the American people do have a role in it. Someone has to buy these mounds of stuff and embrace the crap they peddle as values now.

[The Backlash Cometh]

43. Chris Matthews: Rewriting history. Mattehews was instrumental

in giving us George Bush. He even voted for him. I don't think I would trust him on the next president either. And Giuliani reminds me of a city version of a good ole boy.

[Ganja Ninja]

44. I would prefer a little fascism too.

As opposed to the boat load we currently have.

[Frank Cannon]

45. He's right. Can I start by beating the shit out of him with a billy club?

I mean, it's only right that Tweety contribute his fair share to this "little bit of fascism" exercise.

[petgoat]

46. I want to ask Mr. Giuliani this question:

"You have said you were warned that the World Trade Center was going to
collapse, warned fifteen minutes before it happened. Who told you this,
how did this person know, and why were none of the firefighters in the
building warned to evacuate?"