Chris Matthews: "Shuck and Jive" racist

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On Wednesday, Chris Matthews called Sarah Palin a racist for using the term "shuck and jive," but Newsbusters' Scott Whitlock wrote Wednesday evening that Matthews used the phrase "while talking to Rachel Maddow about her visit to Afghanistan."

Matthews was upset because Palin wrote a Facebook note entitled, "Obama's shuck and jive ends with Benghazi lies."

“The blatantness of this thing, I think, went through the roof the other day when Sarah Palin, who people have mixed views, put out a Facebook post titled ‘Obama’s shuck and jive ends with Benghazi lies,’” Matthews told Clarence Page.

“A dog whistle is a dog whistle. A trumpet call is another,” he said.

But it turns out that the perpetually angry MSNBC host used the phrase at least three times.

"What has it been like, as you shuck and jive, hang out with the men over there, the women over there, in uniform risking their lives every day?" he asked Rachel Maddow on July 7, 2010.

Newsbuster's Noel Sheppard said that Matthews used the phrase on June 2, 2000 and again on February 27, 2006.

It seems that by his own definition, Chris Matthews is a racist.

Whitlock said that White house press secretary Jay Carney also used the phrase, and Andrew Cuomo used it as well.

"Sorry. I'm going to shuck and jive! Time to shuck and jive," Carney told the press corps in September 2012. By Matthews' definition, Carney is also a racist.

Palin responded to Matthews in another Facebook note, saying "there was nothing remotely racist" in her use of the phrase.

"In fact, Andrew Cuomo also used the phrase in reference to Barack Obama, and the fact that Mr. Cuomo and I used the phrase in relation to President Obama signifies nothing out of the ordinary," she wrote.

Palin said that she would "appreciate it if the media refrained from using words and phrases like igloo, Eskimo Pie, and 'when hell freezes over,' as they might be considered offensive by my extended Alaska Native family."

"The outrageously outraged reaction to this expression from perennial hypocrites like Chris Matthews has only made me laugh," she wrote. "Mr. Matthews, let me share with you my favorite Irish toast: 'May we always be happy, and may our enemies always know it.'”

http://www.examiner.com/article/hypocri ... rm-3-times