Chris Mathews compares Bernie sanders winning to the Nazis taking France.

[TheSocialDem]

Chris Mathews has been a joke for awhile now but this is low



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-matthews-bernie-sanders_n_5e51ad62c5b629695f5b64d7

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Matthews is very inclined to hyperbole - sometimes to the point of farce.

He likes drama, but statements like that make him look like an idiot.

[Big Blue Marble]

6. There is not hyperbole here.

There is only danger.

[enough]

40. Yes. NT

[Tarc]

2. Matthews needs to be dumped into a 3am slot, and give his 7pm slot to someone competent

I'd love to see Katy Tur there.

Thee's also the wee problem of making Nazi allusions when speaking abut a Jewish individual. Matthews is exposing some deep-seated antisemitism here.

[ms liberty]

3. Just saw that headline. People are acting unhinged. n/t

[NoDakLinda]

30. Just saw that headline. People are acting unhinged. n/t

They're not acting!

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Matthews is a long time full Democrat

So his reaction is filtered through his life experience.

[Ron Green]

7. Geez, that doesn't reflect well on full Democrats.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. What?

[Ron Green]

12. Matthews said some pretty nasty things.

Like Trump-nasty.

[MrsCoffee]

48. Sanders has said some pretty nasty things himself.

Usually about my party. Take his latest tweet for example.

But his surrogates are the worst.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

60. No it doesn't!! Tweety's a buffoon!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!!

[Voltaire2]

19. Big Bush Crush.

So we will have to cut those 8 years out of his “full Democrat” bio.

[redqueen]

24. Apparently being a supporter of George Bush is a-ok with a lot of DUers

🤔

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

61. Yes, Tweety AND Bloomberg!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!!

[CentralMass]

28. Wasnt he the guy who misogynisticilly attacked Hillary Clinton in 2008.

He does this every primary. He is pretty obvious with his blatant bias and it has the feel that his employer supports the candidate that he pushes.

[SharonClark]

56. Yes, he was the guy. He was horrid toward her.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

62. How anyone can watch and stomach that fool is beyond me.

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!!

[John Fante]

32. Matthews voted for GWB in 2000. That's unforgivable.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

63. What about the current Democratic candidate who funded and endorsed Shrubby?

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!!

[RandiFan1290]

39. How embarrassing. nt

[Magoo48]

55. He's a dull, paranoid talking head. He spews what corporate news censors tell him to.

[Big Blue Marble]

5. Chis is entitled to his opinion.

He has been around long enough to have prospective. If we lose the House, Senate, and the Presidency.
It will be as bad as the Nazi overrunning Europe. We are done.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Yeah, I think that's his point

Many pundits are seeing parallels to World War II when fascism last reared its ugly head

[Big Blue Marble]

11. You are right.

He is old enough to have learned about the rise of German racism. We.should pay attention.

[TheSocialDem]

10. In your metaphor, trump is the fascist. That's not who Chris was alluding to

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Oh yes he was. He was alluding to the consequences of re-electing Trump

not the policies of Bernie

[Big Blue Marble]

15. Chris is saying that we are falling into racism.

And Sanders is not the one to stop it.

[Skidmore]

33. And he's

right. Economic grievance does not eliminate racism or misogyny or homophobia.

[BlueWI]

53. So Chris Matthews knows this better

than the majority of voters of color in the primary so far, who have voted for Sanders?

I disagree with that assessment.

[Skidmore]

65. Matthews

recognizes this.

Sanders is intent on burning down whatever remains of the our government that Trump hasn't taken a wrecking ball to. Collateral damage is of no concern to either of them.

[BlueWI]

66. Your statement is nothing beyond hyperbole.

Why defend Matthews' false equivalency, while continuing to talk over voters of color who support Sanders?

There's nothing wrong with supporting other candidates for the nomination. I do too. But the facile comparisons and dismissing the preferences of the electorate help no one.

[question everything]

27. And the worse: Trunp and the turtle will fill all judicial positions

To set the curse fo generations.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

14. Was this on his show "Old Man Yells at Me"?

His relevance has left. MSNBC just needs to catch up to that fact.

[NoDakLinda]

31. Re: His relevance has left. MSNBC just needs to catch up to that fact.

….you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone
for the times they are a-changin.
.

[Steelrolled]

16. Why is a cable news "personality" a new item?

Infotainment actor.

[melman]

17. In a sane world a comment like that would get him fired

But in this one nothing will happen. Unfortunately.

[CalFione]

18. He is not entirely wrong. Trump is our Hitler.

and Democrats are conceding him another term by nominating Sanders.

[white_wolf]

20. We tried a moderate against Trump and lost.

I'm so sick of reading arguments that Sanders can't win. They always come down to him being too extreme. Clinton was about as moderate and "safe" as you can get and she lost. I'll take my chances on a candidate who actually stands for working people.

[W_HAMILTON]

21. She was running on "the most progressive platform" in party history (Sanders's own description)

For as conciliatory as she was towards Sanders in 2016 -- even though she didn't need to be, she dominated him in a way that Sanders will not come close to dominating anyone in 2020 -- she still got shiv'd by his supporters.

Now, fast forward to 2018 and it was the actual moderates that won back the House for us.

And Hillary did and does stand for working people -- fuck Sanders disciples for leading anyone to believe otherwise.

[anamnua]

22. Godwin's Law strikes again. NT.

[NYMinute]

23. Matthews is right

[HarlanPepper]

25. Better get used to it.

Tweety is the least of your problems moving forward.

[redqueen]

26. #FireChrisMatthews is trending. Top tweet is from a Warren supporter.

Link to tweet

Habitually wrong, should-be-retired pundits are losing their fucking minds. Maybe they'll finally go away.

[DanieRains]

29. I Can't Stand Tweety

He's an idiot.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

34. Chris Matthews usually treats politics like a sports match-up, like the results don't REALLY matter.

His life probably wasn't affected much, either way.

President Sanders, however, might significantly raise his taxes. Poor guy.

I feel the same way about James Carville, married to a Republican strategist.

[madaboutharry]

35. I'm just going to post what I wrote in another thread.

Matthews needs to get control over his emotions.

I can understand that he is worried about Sanders becoming the nominee, but that was completely out of line. Nothing should ever be compared to the Nazi occupation of Europe. Analogies like that are an affront to the victims of WWII.

[SharonClark]

57. Well said.

[Baitball Blogger]

36. Bernie is bringing in new voters. That's a fact. And I'm guessing, based on the interviews

with groups that support him, they represent people that the Democrats failed to connect with, and they failed to do so at their own expense. And many of those people do not look like Chris Mathews.

As I see it, the Democratic party has been creeping away from its original base of support for decades and Bernie is capitalizing on that oversight.

Sometimes I think that the concept of the two party system is harder for Democrats to pull off than it is for Republicans. It's like we have been following our own concept of trickle-down, which fails to reach the people at the lower pay base, and young people who see the gauntlet they have to run to get to the top and have seen opportunities close and problems, like environment and deficits, grow.

God, though, if Bernie wins, please let him be the real thing. In other words, if I discover he turns out to be a puppet for Russia my head will explode.

[Squinch]

42. Bernie has NEVER brought in new voters. He always says he's going to, but the

numbers always show that he doesn't.

Always.

[Baitball Blogger]

44. He is bringing in the latin and youth vote.

[Squinch]

45. Where? In NH, the youth vote was no greater than it ever was.

In 2018 the youth vote did turn out, but Bernie-backed candidates and Our Revolution candidates got clobbered. Almost none of them won. Moderates did great. So that one time the youth came out, they didn't come for him.

I understand he tells you over and over that he's doing this, but he isn't.

[Baitball Blogger]

46. Listen, you're trying too hard to be argumentative.

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Nevada was the first diverse state, so it's the results coming from that state that is news of the day.

Watch MSNBC. It's one of the few networks that goes out of its way to make sure there is a diverse canvas of guest speakers. And this morning, they are the ones who are interpreting the results.

[Squinch]

47. I'm not trying to be argumentative at all. I'm simply stating facts.

The 2018 election was pretty diverse.

Youth does not come out for Bernie.

[jcmaine72]

37. WTF???

This Bernie bashing has now officially crossed the threshold into INSANITY.

When someone draws the ridiculous and offensive comparison of a Jew winning a democratic election to a brutal Nazi conquest and occupation then you know that person is either an imbecile in the extreme or a virulent antisemite. I wonder which Chris Matthews is? Both, perhaps? The two usually walk hand-in-hand

[radius777]

38. CM speaks the truth. Full quote:

“I’m reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940, and the Gen. [Louis] Renault calls up [British Prime Minister Winston] Churchill and says, ‘It’s over.’ And Churchill says, ‘How can it be? You got the greatest army in Europe. How could it be over?’ He said, ‘It’s over.’ So I had that suppressed feeling,” Matthews said.

He's not referring to Bernie per se - but the idea that the modern Dem party of JFK, Bill Clinton and Obama could nominate a socialist independent who is being actively supported by Russia for the purpose of losing to a president who was installed by Russia.

Basically, CM speaks for the majority of regular Democrats who support American capitalism w/safety nets (not socialism) and are pro-trade and internationalism (not isolationist).

The left loves to laud FDR, but he and Truman set down our very internationalist (and sometimes interventionist) foreign policy after learning the lessons of WWII of having had our heads in the sand. Both FDR and Truman also hated socialism and communism, and saw big government spending more in keynesian terms than marxist ones.

[Baclava]

43. He said France took one look at the Germans and surrendered, nothing about Nazis

Nothing about the Holocaust, nothing about fascists, people are going way overboard

[Squinch]

41. There are many steps between, but I can see it. If BS is the nominee, we lose.

Yes, I know many don't believe that, but we do.

And if you know history, you know Godwins Law went out thw window when trump was elected. Trump REALLY IS very like hitler in the way he is proceding. Even the steps he is taking.

First identify a group to hate and rally around that hate. "Mexicans are all rapists and murderers, immigrants are coming to infest your town with gangs."

Then, lock up members of that group.

Take over a major information hub: he now dictates what Fox airs.

One by one violate any laws that limit your power in small ways. When that passes, violate that law in a larger way. Neutralize all blocks to your power this way.

Kneecap the press. Check.

Take over the courts. Happening right now.

Declare marshal law after a manufactured disaster and you're done.

So you all may ridicule Chris, but I'm not going to.

[NurseJackie]

49. My opinion of him just SKYROCKETED!!! I'm glad he's speaking out. It's about time.

[Squinch]

50. I am, frankly, horrified to realize that Filthy Donnie REALLY IS following Hitler's playbook.

Step by step! He's doing the same things!

And if BS wins, Filthy Donnie will be reelected and free to finish the job.

I am not finding Tweety crazy at all.

[NurseJackie]

51. If the worst comes to pass... it will be cold comfort for me to say "I Told You So"

If the worst comes to pass... it will be cold comfort for me to say "I Told You So" so I'll probably just have to get it tattooed to my forehead instead of continually repeating myself.

[Squinch]

52. Jackie, I agree. And I really am scared.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

54. I don't how Tweety has managed to keep his job... he's an absolute fuckin' joke!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!!

[Nanjeanne]

58. He shouldn't be on the air but Comcast is not going to let him go. He's their pit bull.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

59. He's more like a chihuahua than a pit bull!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!!