Thursday, March 7, 2013

Chris Matthews: Obama is the perfect American or something...

I hope Chris Matthews has a good set of knee pads. he really needs them. 
MATTHEWS: These anti-government patriot groups have skyrocketed in number during President Obama’s time in office. There only 149 groups back in 2008 and 2012. There are more than 1300 and that’s an increase of over 800 percent. Look at the chart there. Yesterday the Southern Poverty Law Center sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder warning that the gun control debate may lead to even more such groups being founded.  Mark Potok is a respected guy for us. He’s with the Southern Poverty Law Center. And Brian Levin is with the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
Gentlemen, I want you to start tonight. It’s your report Mark. So lead the way here. Let me ask you this. I’m gonna get into this in my close tonight on the show, which I feel a lot. I Look at Obama as a perfect American. I don’t mean politically. We can disagree left and right on him. You can argue about the drones. Argue about the fiscal policy, all that stuff. But as a citizen. The guy went to school, he never broke a law. He did everything right. He raised a wonderful family. He’s a good husband, a good father. My God I don’t think he’s ever gotten a speeding ticket. The guy does everything right and these right-wingers. And he’s really been pretty moderate on guns until the horror of Newtown. And I don’t know what they’re so afraid of, except that he happens to be black. Is there some reason why he has sparked this explosion of right-wing organizing?

1 comment:

benjmonster said...

"never broke a law" except, you know, for all the drug use (not that there's anything wrong with that...)