Hardball's Chris Matthews ranted on Friday that Sean Hannity
and Fox News are spreading "crap" about Barack Obama and trying to turn
the President into a "black revolutionary" with an "automatic weapon."
Of his competition on the higher rated Fox News, Matthews spewed, "And
then he's like a black revolutionary with the automatic weapons, the
big sunglasses, the beret. Right?...Is that Sean [Hannity's] image of
this president?"
The liberal anchor prefaced his comments by
threatening, "Let's do a psychoanalysis of this guy, Sean Hannity." [See
video below. MP3 audio here.]
Mocking FNC viewers, Matthews imitated, "Did you hear that, dear? Come
in here! Did you hear what Sean says? He's really one of those people."
Deriding Hannity's viewers as stupid, he marveled, "Somewhere someone must be believing this stuff, this crap."
Of course, considering Matthews's dismal performance on Jeopardy, perhaps he shouldn't be questioning anyone's intelligence.
A transcript of the May 18 exchange can be found below:
5:05
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let's do a psychoanalysis of this guy, Sean Hannity.
DAVID CORN: Oh, please!
MATTHEWS: No, no. Is this showmanship or does he really have in his
doubt- Does he really believe there's some other person under this guy
we're watching?
...
MATTHEWS:
You know, the image they must have in their heads- First of all, they
love Alinsky because it sounds, basically, like a communist And then
he's like a black revolutionary with the automatic weapons, the big
sunglasses, the beret. Right? That's- Is that Sean's image of this
president?
DAVID CORN: it seems to be-
MATTHEWS: Not this guy who likes to play golf- spends his free time
trying to learn to play golf. There's a lefty. He's trying to learn. He
won't even tell us his score. He's just trying to learn. There's a lefty
if I ever saw one.
CORN: This is an imaging of the Bill Ayers. Sarah Palin saying he pals
around with terrorists. It all goes back to this that he's not us. He's
not American, whether it's because black or socialist or whatever he
is.
EUGENE ROBINSON: We don't know what he is, but he's not us!
CORN: And we never figured it out! Now it's time to figure it out!
MATTHEWS: Look at Michelle. Doesn't she look like one of those lefties
from the campus. Scraggly hair, hanging around the campus. She's a
fashion plate. She's perfectly turned out.
CORN: No, no. She's the angry black woman.
MATTHEWS: That's what I don't see. They're raising perfect kids.
They're all well turned out. They act like they're Mr. And Mrs Perfect
everyday.
CORN: They have fooled you.
MATTHEWS: They're meeting in the middle of the night.
CORN: You've fallen for it. It's a ruse. And they're bailing out the banks!
MATTHEWS: Somewhere someone must be believing this stuff, this crap.
CORN: I'm sure it's good for ratings at Fox. Right?
MATTHEWS: "Did you hear that, dear? Come in here! Did you hear what Sean says? He's really one of those people."
-- Scott Whitlock is the senior news analyst for the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.
