Tweety: "This gets very ethnic, but the fact that he's good at basketball doesn't surprise anybody"

[RamboLiberal]

Summary: On Hardball, discussing Sen. Barack Obama's bowling performance at a campaign stop, Chris Matthews said to MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard, "You know, Michelle -- and this gets very ethnic, but the fact that he's good at basketball doesn't surprise anybody, but the fact that he's that terrible at bowling does make you wonder." While showing the video of Obama's bowling, Matthews asserted, "It isn't the most macho form there."

On the March 31 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, discussing Sen. Barack Obama's bowling performance at a March 29 campaign stop at Pleasant Valley Lanes in Altoona, Pennsylvania, MSNBC political analyst Howard Fineman asserted, "If you can't do something like that, you shouldn't do it. He should have stuck to shooting hoops -- which he's very, very good at, by the way, and which translates racially, too, especially during the NCAA basketball tournament. Don't do something you've never tried before in front of a national television audience, OK?" Addressing MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard, host Chris Matthews responded, "You know, Michelle -- and this gets very ethnic, but the fact that he's good at basketball doesn't surprise anybody, but the fact that he's that terrible at bowling does make you wonder." While showing the video of Obama's bowling, Matthews asserted, "It isn't the most macho form there."

Media Matters for America documented that on the March 31 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist repeatedly mocked Obama's bowling performance -- which Scarborough called "dainty."

Earlier on Hardball, Matthews asked Obama supporter Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) about Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor, by asserting, "Let me ask you about this Jeremiah Wright story. You go to a church. I assume it's a black church. That's my jump to assumption there." He added, "Is this preacher problem a real problem? I've looked at it. It doesn't seem to bother black voters. It seems to bother some white voters. What is that story about? How do you see that story as a political problem for Barack Obama?"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310018?f=h_latest

A bit racist here Tweety - and f'ck this turning a fun campaign stop into f'in windsurfing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am starting to think these fools should put on their white hoods first!

Obama ought to challeenge these out of shape fools like Tweety to a game of basketball and a game of bowling! Jerks!

[MercutioATC]

1. Let's subject Obama to the real test: Can he ski?

We all know that only white people can ski.

[RamboLiberal]

3. Can he swim?

We know only white people can swim. :sarcasm:

[MercutioATC]

13. Ooh! Equally good...maybe better!

:toast:

It used to be golf, but Tiger fucked that up... ;)

[thunder rising]

24. Golf, you know only ... ooops .... lacross?

[saltpoint]

15. I'm pretty white and can't ski worth a damn.

I'll kick anybody's ass at Trivial Pursuit, though.

[Thickasabrick]

28. Maybe we should test to see if he's a witch - see if he floats. nt

[sandnsea]

37. And play golf, hehe n/t

[anonymous171]

2. What's the whitest sport?

[blitzen]

4. Tournament croquet

[JeffR]

7. Damn!

Good call.

[TomInTib]

10. Oh, Damn!!

That was some damn fine cabernet that just shot out of my nostrils.

You owe me, big-time.

Tom

[JeffR]

6. Lacrosse, or

curling. Followed by NASCAR.

Painfully white.

[MadBadger]

9. Ummm, hockey?

[kmsarvis]

20. NASCAR RACING

[Grown2Hate]

41. Hockey?

:shrug:

[Rockholm]

42. What's the blackest sport?

Your post is racist and disgusts me.

[boston bean]

51. Kegling. That's a pretty white sport. nt

[DarienComp]

5. This is a new way of testing Obama now? How well does he do at "white" sports?

Should he try golf next? Maybe polo or badminton?

:banghead:

[nolabels]

47. Or maybe fishing

People dying in the thousands on foreign shores while trillions of dollars are being wasted and they feel the need to talk about rate peoples sports acumen.

If the irony didn't sound so ignorant it would almost seem funny :shrug:

[saltpoint]

8. Andre Watts has an almost flawless command of Brahms, but not because

he's Afro-American.

Tweety has turned himself into a cartoon over the past several years. If we have Bill Moyers and Jim Lehrer on PBS, we do a lot better than the commercial cable twist-and-shout from MSNBC etc.

[BklynChick]

11. I saw that exchange and didn't find it be racist. Scarborough and Matthews are totally different

IMO. Scarborough is a racist prick. Matthews is just ignorant about many things, including race, but at least he admits it.

[Olney Blue]

12. This is one of the dumbest segments on Tweety I've seen.

I actually thought Obama showed what a good sport he was by trying a game he doesn't practice alot.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

14. Tweety's balls would be so wet with his own spray and slobber

they'd end up in somebody else's alley.

[cwood]

16. Lol

I admire him for doing something he isn't comfortable with in front of so many people... but a 37 is something I would expect my 5-year-old niece to get. Not that I'm a great bowler... I'm happy if I break 100. :)

[BklynChick]

17. we were watching w/my 6yo and she proclaimed, "I got a 59 at bowling."

[jimshoes]

18. Did they get all critical when dumbshit

fell off a segway? Hey tweety, how about a nice tall glass of shut the fuck up.

[KingOfLostSouls]

19. Tweety: uncomfortable white man

he's like one of those guys who tries to not be over offensive and ends up just making an ass out of himself.

"like err, blacks, err...black americans, or err I meant afro..uhh, african americans."


he'd be less embarrassing if he'd just called him a "brotha" like he was zoolander or something.

[DarienComp]

26. You had a problem with my ugoogily?

[Neshanic]

21. Wait. He said some words but they were taken out of context.

What's good for the Goose...

[Forkboy]

23. That's the spirit!

:eyes:

[gauguin57]

22. Obama is one half white. So, by Tweety's logic, he must be good at every sport there is.

Why in the hell are we talking about Obama's bowling score when our country is falling APART? HUH?

[dsc]

25. It is hard for me to have too much sympathy here

after all the times that obvious sexism on the part of Tweety and his cohorts were so cavalierly dismissed. For the record this is clearly racist. Just as racist as much as so many of his comments were sexist. I just think we should have equal outrage.

[KittyWampus]

50. this is better fodder for comedy, though.

[Awsi Dooger]

27. Scarborough nailed the proper word

Dainty does describe Obama's bowling form. It's the same term I used in the 37 thread.

I've never seen an adult of either gender bowl 37, or remotely close to that low. That's the only significance. It should be virtually impossible, with any type of coordination.

[scheming daemons]

29. For the record... he only bowled 7 frames......and the 7th was a spare.....

...He had 37 after 6 frames, got a spare in the 7th... and then quit.


So at a minimum... he would've had 47.... and was on pace for about a 70.


:-)



Not much better than a 37, though..... heh

[Willo]

30. Okay 37 was pretty bad. I think my first time was 42 but give him a break

he had cameras and a whole heap of people watching LOL

That's gotta be worth a couple a points. :-)

Gotta find a fair sport. How's his racquetball? Can he shoot pool?

[RamboLiberal]

32. I think he said he hadn't bowled since he was 16

And I doubt he was taking the whole thing very seriously!. And it was only meant as a side trip to a small PA city who had been bemoaning that no presidential candidate had visited them since Truman and I think it was Adalai Stevenson.

[Erin Elizabeth]

31. Ok I haven't watched the TV pundits in about three years

and I'm remembering why now.

WTF?

Who the fuck CARES if he can bowl or not???? That's NOT A SKILL I NEED IN MY PRESIDENT.

Good Lord. And racist, to boot. Oooooo, can he play table tennis? Beach volleyball? How about frolf? Can he play FROLF? CUZ IF NOT, I JUST DUNNO ABOUT HIM.

Gad. Those idiots piss me right the hell off. How does anyone watch them?

[RamboLiberal]

33. Check out this graceful white guy!

[Catherine Vincent]

36. LOL!

Thanks for the reminder.

[Willo]

34. Erin, I was enjoying the lighthearted banter in this thread.

I'm sure no one is picking a candidate by them :)

[Catherine Vincent]

35. Matthews is such a loud mouth dimbulb sometimes.

He doesn't know when to shut up.

[beachmom]

38. Soon, basketball will become an "elitist" sport while bowling will be akin

to chopping wood. Very, very macho.

God our media sucks.

[6th Borough]

39. Bowling is as much about socializing as it is about skill.

Plenty of people bowl...plenty of people suck...and yet enjoy themselves in the process.

These talking heads are schmucks. A night of bowling for the average guy is like playing some mini-golf.

If this had been mini-golf (and he had a rough outing) instead of bowling, would they compare his putt-putt skills to golfers with no handicap?

[6th Borough]

40. Besides, bowling is about the beer...

and for me, the billiard tables, after a match of bowling which usually ends in the 80's for me.

[MojoMojoMojo]

43. What makes you assume hes any good ?Just like Obama supporters assume he would make a good president

He plays basketball,but he may suck at it.

[Willo]

45. Introducing AirBarack

http://youtube.com/watch?v=daH0ltD20A0

[dsc]

53. because several press accounts have stated he is good

and he was on a basketball scholarship to his private high school.

[JayFredMuggs]

44. Why are these wasteful, silly, ridiculous and pointless threads ...

allowed to be posted on the DU?

Could it be that people on the DU really DO NOT WANT TO DISCUSS ISSUES ????????????

I'm beginning to think this is a place only for mostly over-sexed, money envious, middle class, unschooled white, women who have little to do with their time

This thread is an example of nonsense, parading as politics.

[Random Lee]

46. He is still Matthews' favorite Democrat

Thank god he does not hate Obama as much as he hates Hillary or Bill.

[Doctor_J]

48. MSRNC has become the Buchanan network

all have adopted Pat's outlook on race relations. By November they will be wondering aloud if chitlins & collard greens will be the main course at the Obama inaugural.

[GoldieAZ49]

49. oh my!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Levgreee]

52. It's a fact that Black people play basketball more, and therefore are better on average

just like cricket is popular among Indians, and they'd be better on average. Not exactly racist, in my mind. It is an ethnic/cultural thing.

It is also a fact that a smaller proportion of black people are able to swim. It is more traditional among white families to give lessons and teach kids... although, the geographies of both races plays a role also, since children in urban areas have less access to water.

[Berry Cool]

54. How about figure skating? Everyone knows only white people can do that.

(Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany, the new world champions)