Bigot Chris Matthews' War On Catholics And Mormons

Bigot Chris Matthews' War On Catholics And Mormons

The host of MSNBC's "Hardball" is waging war not on women, but on Catholics and Mormons. ASSOCIATED PRESS View Enlarged Image

Bias: Having lost that tingly feeling up his leg, MSNBC's Chris Matthews savages GOP presidential candidates as belonging to cults. Well, at least they didn't spend two decades listening to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Imagine the uproar if Rush Limbaugh had called Islam a cult. Yet there was Matthews, whose legs once twitched at every word coming from Barack Obama's teleprompter, telling fellow MSNBC left-winger Ed Schultz in the presence of the Rev. Al Sharpton that the GOP has "two RCs — Roman Catholics — running and a Mormon, so three cultists running."

Having Matthews, Schultz and Sharpton on the same show is perhaps the greatest collection of intolerant minds ever assembled, with the possible exception of when David Duke dines alone.

Mr. Ed was recently given a token suspension by MSNBC for calling conservative pundit Laura Ingraham a "right-wing slut," though it didn't ignite the firestorm directed at Limbaugh for using similar references to describe Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown coed impoverished by having to buy her own contraceptives.

Schultz at least issued a pro forma apology, something Sharpton has never done for his career of inflammatory remarks and actions. His promotion of fraudulent rape charges brought against cops in 1987 by 15-year-old Tawana Brawley catapulted him to national prominence and is typical of the moral vacuum he brings to the table.

So there was Matthews explaining to these open minds during MSNBC's primetime coverage of primary results Tuesday night how bitter rubes who cling to their Bibles and guns were willing regarding their presidential nomination "to outsource it to a Mormon" — like someone calling tech support in India to get their computer fixed.

Matthews, of course, will claim that the description of Mormons and Catholics as cult members is not his personal view but how he felt the Southerners in Alabama and Mississippi, the two primary contests that night, perceive the choice among Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

But that would be pushing another nasty stereotype — that of intolerant red-state rednecks whose white robes are merely waiting for them at the dry cleaners.

That the Republican Party has as its three main contenders "two RCs and a Mormon" is a shining example of the tolerance enshrined in a party relentlessly portrayed by Matthews, Schultz, et al. as racist, sexist homophobes.

In February, at a Presidents Day forum held at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., Matthews, a Catholic himself, while talking about Richard Nixon, the so-called Southern Strategy and racism, claimed the Catholic Church was the new home of bigotry. "If you're really anti-gay," he said, "you become a Catholic now." On the subject of bigotry, this physician needs to heal himself.

Matthews has been in the forefront of those saying the resistance by the Catholic Church and other denominations to Obama-Care's mandate that they provide free contraception is not a reaction to an assault on freedom of religion and conscience but in fact a part of a war on women. Those "cultists," it seems, are capable of anything.

Sorry, Mr. Matthews, opposing Obama-Care and its mandates and defending the First Amendment do not constitute an intolerant war on women.
Nor are GOP voters being forced to choose among candidates of those two "cults." It is you who are an intolerant member of the cult known as liberalism.

Freedom of religion, not membership in any particular one, is the real issue, and one that Romney, Santorum and Gingrich all champion.
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