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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1017103" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>[h=2]<a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2012/08/30/tingles-im-qualified-to-play-race-card-because-i-live-in-black-majority-dc-reality-lives-in-lily-white-affluent-maryland-suburb/" target="_blank">Tingles: I’m Qualified To Play Race Card Because I Live In “Black Majority” DC. Reality: Lives In Lily-White Affluent Maryland Suburb…</a>[/h]<img src="http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tingles-500x291.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Words can’t describe how intense my loathing for Chris Matthews is.</p><p>Via <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/30/msnbcs-matthews-falsely-claims-living-in-black-majority-dc/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">Daily Caller</a>:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">MSNBC host Chris Matthews might have exaggerated his abilities to hear dog-whistle racism at this week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa,Newsbusters’ <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2012/08/30/chris-matthews-claims-live-black-majority-dc-resides-md-village-less-1" target="_blank">Jack Coleman noted</a>.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">During Tuesday night’s coverage, Matthews made the case that he is well-positioned to judge racial issues because of where he lives, after having <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/27/chris-matthews-accuses-gop-romney-of-playing-the-race-card/" target="_blank">repeatedly</a> insinuated that Republican figures are racist.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">“I go back to living in D.C. all these years. I’ve lived there 40 years, a black-majority city, and anybody who wants to get up early in Washington and drive down North Capitol and drive past Florida Ave., sees nothing but young, but black people up at 6:30 in the morning going to work,” Matthews said. “That’s where they’re going, to work, and not at big-wage jobs and not to get a welfare check, they’re out working hard all day and not coming home with a fantastic paycheck. So this notion of blacks live on welfare and whites live on work is a brilliant political ploy, but it’s not true, Rachel [Maddow]. And you know it. I know it."</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">That’s not exactly true. Matthews doesn’t live in the District of Columbia but instead lives in Chevy Chase, Md., described as “an affluent” Washington, D.C. suburb.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1017103, member: 1246"] [h=2][URL="http://weaselzippers.us/2012/08/30/tingles-im-qualified-to-play-race-card-because-i-live-in-black-majority-dc-reality-lives-in-lily-white-affluent-maryland-suburb/"]Tingles: I’m Qualified To Play Race Card Because I Live In “Black Majority” DC. Reality: Lives In Lily-White Affluent Maryland Suburb…[/URL][/h][IMG]http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tingles-500x291.jpg[/IMG] Words can’t describe how intense my loathing for Chris Matthews is. Via [URL="http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/30/msnbcs-matthews-falsely-claims-living-in-black-majority-dc/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter"]Daily Caller[/URL]: [INDENT]MSNBC host Chris Matthews might have exaggerated his abilities to hear dog-whistle racism at this week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa,Newsbusters’ [URL="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2012/08/30/chris-matthews-claims-live-black-majority-dc-resides-md-village-less-1"]Jack Coleman noted[/URL]. During Tuesday night’s coverage, Matthews made the case that he is well-positioned to judge racial issues because of where he lives, after having [URL="http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/27/chris-matthews-accuses-gop-romney-of-playing-the-race-card/"]repeatedly[/URL] insinuated that Republican figures are racist. “I go back to living in D.C. all these years. I’ve lived there 40 years, a black-majority city, and anybody who wants to get up early in Washington and drive down North Capitol and drive past Florida Ave., sees nothing but young, but black people up at 6:30 in the morning going to work,” Matthews said. “That’s where they’re going, to work, and not at big-wage jobs and not to get a welfare check, they’re out working hard all day and not coming home with a fantastic paycheck. So this notion of blacks live on welfare and whites live on work is a brilliant political ploy, but it’s not true, Rachel [Maddow]. And you know it. I know it." That’s not exactly true. Matthews doesn’t live in the District of Columbia but instead lives in Chevy Chase, Md., described as “an affluent” Washington, D.C. suburb. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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