He bashes the Tea Party patriots. In effect, he calls these engaged, concerned, proud Americans useful idiots of "hard-Right oligarchs," too stupid to realize what they're doing.
Video.
Transcript
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well, what you think of these Tea Party people? Mr. President, I look at a lot of them as, they‘re not all crazies. They‘re regular people, a lot of middle-middle-class people.
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: They‘re very religious. They‘re churchgoing people, like yourself.
And I wonder, do they know that they‘re being backed by big corporations and all this conservative money at the top?
JIMMY CARTER: The ones that know it deny it. And, obviously, the Tea Party movement has been completely financed—almost completely financed by hard-right oligarchs who want to prevent the oil companies and major corporations from having to pay their share of taxes or to comply with environmental laws.
MATTHEWS: Right.
CARTER: And so the Tea Party movement has been suborned by these very right-wing people who don‘t give a darn about low-class working people, but just want to feather their own nests.
MATTHEWS: I wish they knew that.
Jimmy Carter is a disgrace and Matthews is a Democrat hack.
Haven't they learned that smearing and besmirching the Tea Party patriots is not an effective strategy for the hard-Left?
Carter and Matthews are in an echo chamber.
They don't know a grassroots revolution when they see one.
An enlightening case of projection.
ReplyDelete