Chris Matthews, like his colleagues in the lib media, is monitoring Sarah Palin's every move as she launches her book, Going Rogue. He's also monitoring the crowds that support her.
Once again, Matthews looks to race as a factor to explain the behavior of conservatives, playing his old 'if you're conservative, if you don't worship Obama, then you're a racist' card.
That is such an insult. It's as if Matthews can't fathom the notion that some people actually like Sarah Palin and share her values.
Reporting from a book signing outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Norah O'Donnell basically describes the crowd as white and stupid and irrational.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Norah, what are the people. can you find out what their belief is in Gov. Palin? What is it they like about her, apparently?
NORAH O'DONNELL: They have a connection with her, and I think it's an emotional connection. A lot of the people I spoke with today were unable to articulate exactly why they supported Sarah Palin. One of them said it was because she upholds the Constitution, was confused and thought that Sarah Palin had opposed the bailout when in fact Sarah Palin supported the bailout.
This is a largely white, almost no minorities in this crowd. And they're here because they love Sarah Palin. I think it's an emotional connection, Chris, because they feel, too, that they've been beat up on, whether it's the economy, or they feel like outcasts. They like the outsider, if you will, in Sarah Palin, and that's why people have been willing to wait, 1,500 of them, since 7:00 AM this morning to just get a glimpse of Sarah Palin. Who by the way, this is not just a book signing, Chris. I mean, that's kind of largely what's in it, but she's about to arrive any minute, and there's a stage out front where she's gonna take to that stage and make remarks, almost like a mini campaign rally.
MATTHEWS: Well, they look like a white crowd to em. Let's go back to Joan Walsh, not that there's anything wrong with that, but it is pretty monochromatic up there.
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JOAN WALSH: I think that there are a couple of whopping lies [in the book] as well as just mean-spiritedness that doesn't serve her well. It's why she'll never be president. She's a very divisive, mean-spirited person.... Norah is right. People who love her, love her; but the general public doesn't trust her and sees this kind of mean girl persona that she's never grown out of.
Norah did great reporting by the way. I was watching when she interviewed these people who were wrong about TARP and who just started babbling about 'she'll defend the Constitution,' as though Obama won't. So, I think you've got that same kind of paranoid, Tea Party, maybe even birther crowd that talks about the Consitution without really understanding what they're talking about. They love her.
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MATTHEWS: I think there's a tribal aspect to this thing, in other words, white vs. other people. I think she's very smart about this....
MATTHEWS: Let me just suggest that she's a mirage at worst in a Republican desert. These other candidates are so boring that she sparkles. Even without by comparison, she sparkles....
MATTHEWS: I think we can argue whether it's a good book or a bad book, but we can agree it's a campaign book.
It's clear that these Leftists are troubled by Palin's popularity, trying to discredit Palin and the crowd at the book signing as a pack of racist dolts.
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