Matthews Accuses Huckabee of Wanting to Commit Genocide, Says Limbaugh & Beck 'Ethnically Disdain' Obamas
Chris Matthews went off the deep end on Wednesday’s Hardball as he accused conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck of demonstrating “ethnic disdain” for the First Family and even charged former Arkansas Governor and current Fox News host Mike Huckabee of wanting to ethnically cleanse Arabs from the West Bank.
Right after a discussion about Republican contenders like John Thune and Chris Christie not entering the presidential race, Matthews told his GOP strategist guest Todd Harris “You are being left with the crazies now” like Huckabee who Matthews charged wants to “clear out all the Arabs in the West Bank, just get rid of them all!…Talk about ethnic cleansing? He says hes gonna do it.”
Then Matthews immediately turned to a clip of Rush Limbaugh critiquing Michelle Obama’s health push and claimed the talk show host wasn’t merely making fun of nanny state politics, but that there was something more sinister involved as he went on to accuse Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and their listeners of being racist, as seen in the following rant:
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MATTHEWS: No, I think its race too, again. I don’t rarely raise this flag, but I think theres a disdain from people like Limbaugh for this First Family as a family. Theres a disdain towards them. He wouldn’t talk about another First Family that were white like this. He has a disdain, which has come on again and again. [Glenn] Beck has it too. Its ethnic disdain and they feel, they feel happy doing this because they know their followers out there like it. They’re in the business of keeping a radio listenership. They know it doesn’t offend their type ditto-heads or they wouldn’t be saying it.
