Matthews: Weiner in Trouble Because Behavior Offends 'Culturally Backward' Christian Conservatives

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**Frazzled**

Really, I thought it was because he sent pictures of his baby maker to a college aged woman he never met?

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Matthews: Weiner in Trouble Because His Behavior Offends 'Culturally Backward' Christian Conservatives
By Geoffrey Dickens | June 10, 2011 | 11:40

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On Thursday's Hardball, Chris Matthews determined that Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner could be in danger of being forced out of Congress by Blue Dog Dems who face uphill battles in red states because, as he put it, "people in the rural areas of this country who are Christian conservative culturally - you can say backward if you want...don't like this kind of stuff."

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During a discussion about Weiner's chances of survival, after being caught sending lewd pictures to women via Twitter, the MSNBCer claimed the liberal congressman didn't have to worry about his, according to Matthews, culturally superior constituents in New York - the "56 percent in Brooklyn and Queens" who "can live with this guy." Instead he had to be concerned with his Democratic colleagues fearful about re-election in the "conservative culturally part of the country."

The following excerpt was aired on the June 9 edition of Hardball:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: If you're a Blue Dog Democrat from a conservative culturally part of the country, where you're fighting out every election with two or three points to spare, if you're a -- if you're are [Jim] Matheson from Utah or you're from Oklahoma and you're a [Dan] Boren -- and he's leaving Congress - your life's getting difficult enough defending the East Coast and the left coast Democratic Party. They're too far left. Look at what happened in Arkansas last year. It's getting very, very hard to defend the behavior, politically, of the party. Now you throw on top of that immoral behavior, indiscrete behavior, embarrassing behavior, gross behavior like this, and you still have him in your midst. And that's my question to you. If you're Steny Hoyer, who does speak for the Blue Dogs, if you're Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker, who has to deal with them, don't you have to deal with the fact - you're losing any chance of getting back a 218 majority?

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I want you to pick this up, Ben. This is, to me, the stakes here. If he stays, they never get the leadership back. They never get the Speakership back because the people in the rural areas of this country who are Christian conservative culturally - you can say backward if you want - but they don't like this kind of stuff at all. They're not part of that 56 percent in Brooklyn and Queens who say, "okay, we can live with this guy." Your thoughts, Ben? Isn't that the cutting edge of this?

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Geoffrey Dickens is the Deputy Research Director at the Media Research Center. Click here to follow Geoffrey Dickens on Twitter.

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**Chowderhead**

Frazzled wrote:Really, I thought it was because he sent pictures of his baby maker to a girl of unknown age he never met?

Fixed for you.

And yes, Chris Matthews is insane.

**Frazzled**

Holy crap, I just realized your avatar is Norman Bates.

Did you know he was a balding fat guy in the book?

**Stravo**

Funny how Chris overlooks little details like Weiner repeatedly lying to his constituents and new revelations that he has offered to help coach the women on how to lie about the relationship and even offered to have his staff meet with them to do that. I guess I have to be culturally backward to be offended by that.

**Chowderhead**

Yes, Frazzled. I did.

I'm doing a whole "Serial Crimes" Motif for my Avatars. I've had killers, arsons, piracy, the works.

Edited because my spelling sucks.

**Frazzled**

Chowderhead wrote:Yes, Frazzled. I did.

I'm doing a whole "Serial Crimes" Motif for my Avatars. I've had killers, arsons, piracy, the works.

Edited because my spelling sucks.

No your spelling's fine. Please don't turn me into a lampshade The Wife would hate that. After all, that yard is not going to cut itself.

**Manstein**

Typical Chris Matthews, a Democrat messes up and somehow conservatives are to blame. Pure foolishness if you ask me. At least Olberman was entertaining in his insanity, this guy just comes off as plainly ignorant.

**dogma**

He's not entirely incorrect. Often times when someone "messes up" politically it has nothing at all to do with offending the people who support them.

**youbedead**

Manstein wrote:Typical Chris Matthews, a Democrat messes up and somehow conservatives are to blame. Pure foolishness if you ask me. At least Olberman was entertaining in his insanity, this guy just comes off as plainly ignorant.

I just find Mathews irritating and grating. Mathew is MSNBC's O'reily and Olberman is their Beck

**Ahtman**

Apparently now Chris Matthews is in trouble because his behavior offends 'Culturally Backward' Christian Conservatives.

/rimshot

**Seaward**

You don't need to insult quite a lot of people !

Thanks ! Reds8n

The more you know...

**SilverMK2**

... say what?

Just so long as he didn't do it after playing video games

**Polonius**

Given that there is no evidence that he'd lose a reelection campaign, this analysis is correct.

You could phrase it more diplomatically, but when you care more about who a guy is boning than the kind of job he does, that's at least... not progressive.

Yeah, I know that the counter is that the problem isn't the pictures, it's the lying. Nobody who has dated a woman more than, like, 10 minutes believes that. You only lie about stuff that'll get you in trouble. Lying made it worse, but it's not the problem.

**Karon**

youbedead wrote:
Manstein wrote:Typical Chris Matthews, a Democrat messes up and somehow conservatives are to blame. Pure foolishness if you ask me. At least Olberman was entertaining in his insanity, this guy just comes off as plainly ignorant.

I just find Mathews irritating and grating. Mathew is MSNBC's O'reily and Olberman is their Beck

Lets not go that far...its certainly not to that extent.

**dogma**

Ahtman wrote:Apparently now Chris Matthews is in trouble because his behavior offends 'Culturally Backward' Christian Conservatives.

/rimshot

**Frazzled**

Evidently its now been discovered he was tweeting underage girls. I can see the campaign ads now.

**SilverMK2**

Frazzled wrote:Evidently its now been discovered he was tweeting underage girls. I can see the campaign ads now.

"Who do you want in charge? Do you want some luddite paedo stuck in the the past, picking up chicks outside the school gates, or do you want the paedo of the future who seduces your young daughters online? A candidate with a keen interest all the latest technological developments in photography and communications technology?"

**Frazzled**