Chris Matthews (Again) Attacks Conservatives: "A Confederacy of Hate"

On the October 18 Hardball, Chris Matthews compared conservatives to pro-slavery Confederates: “Fight, fight, fight! That’s the echo of this week. You hear it in every remark or grunt from the hard angry right. They call themselves ‘the American people,’ as if the majority that voted for President Obama are some invading force of others, or a group of lesser Americans who should be credited with only three- fifths of a vote, like they were before the Civil War and the 13th Amendment made them whole. It’s that fight again....Alongside the battlefield, where the women and children once watched, we see the [Rush] Limbaughs and the [Erick] Ericksons turned out to cheerlead, the right-wing camp followers plying their trade like the women who got their name back in the earlier time from General Hooker. Yes, there’s money in war, even this phony war of faux filibusters and televised jibes at park police — a confederacy of hate.”