Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Chris Matthews Weaves A Tapestry Of African-American Stereotypes...
In contrasting two African-American Senate candidates, Democrat Harold Ford and Republican Michael Steele, Motor Mouth Matthews sounded more like a frightened 90-year-old white lady that just saw her first black guy.
It's probably the dumbest goddamned thing I've seen in the most fucked up political season of my lifetime.
But Michael Steele has ran a first-rate campaign. He's a gentleman of the first order. You talk about meeting -- I've met him at so many football games and baseball games, and he's always great to hang around with him, but that's all I really know about him. But the commercials have been so positive. He's so -- I hate to say this because this sounds so damn ethnic -- unthreatening, which a lot of white voters like to see from an African-American. Unthreatening. You almost have to be castrated to take the fear away from some people. And this guy comes on as a funny guy, a lighthearted, positive guy. And the people go, "God, this guy is a guy I'd like to have living next door," although that may be pushing it in some cases.I assume his next pieces of evidence for Steele's electibility are his ability to speak well and lack of a criminal record...
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