Chris Matthews: Back On The Weird

From time to time Chris Matthews digs out his stash of weird, takes a deep draw and exhales a voluminous cloud of stupid.

Don't get me wrong, I sort of like Tweety and his borderline schizo unpredictability. But sometimes he just makes you rewind and say "wha..???"

Remember his homoerotic musings about Giuliani and Ahmadinejad fighting it out in a bare-chested backstreet brawl? Remember his fleeting man-crush on Fred "Aqua Velva" Thompson?

Now Matthews hits the weird once more and waxes lyrical on Obama-era post-racialism. Commenting on the State of The Union speech last night, he said he clean "forgot [Obama] was black tonight... You don't think in terms of the old tribalism, the old ethnicity. It was astounding in that regard."

Although Matthews would probably prickle at being accused of racism, he's a perfect example of the duplicitous attitude too many avowed 'non-racists' have toward blackness. Without even thinking about it, he's basically saying "I like Obama because he's not being black. He's trying to be like me and I'm flattered by that."

Never kid yourself that the contextualized, subliminal racism of the 'thinking classes' is every bit as nasty as the blunt, indiscriminate racism of the unthinking wingnuts.