Go Sarah Go!

For the record, there was nothing remotely racist in my use of the phrase “shuck and jive” – a phrase which many people have used, including Chris Matthews, Andrew Cuomo, and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to name a few off the top of my head. In fact, Andrew Cuomo also used the phrase in reference to Barack Obama, and the fact that Mr. Cuomo and I used the phrase in relation to President Obama signifies nothing out of the ordinary. I would have used the exact same expression if I had been writing about President Carter, whose foreign policy rivaled Obama’s in its ineptitude, or about the Nixon administration, which was also famously rocked by a cover-up.

I’ve been known to use the phrase most often when chastising my daughter Piper to stop procrastinating and do her homework. As she is part Yup’ik Eskimo, I’m not sure if this term would be deemed offensive when it’s directed at her or if it would be considered benign as in the case of Chris Matthews’ use of it in reference to Rachel Maddow. Just to be careful, from now on I’ll avoid using it with Piper, and I would appreciate it if the media refrained from using words and phrases like igloo, Eskimo Pie, and “when hell freezes over,” as they might be considered offensive by my extended Alaska Native family.

The outrageously outraged reaction to this expression from perennial hypocrites like Chris Matthews has only made me laugh. Mr. Matthews, let me share with you my favorite Irish toast: “May we always be happy, and may our enemies always know it.”

- Sarah Palin

Matthews said this earlier (via Newsbusters):

CHRIS MATTHEWS: The blatantness of this thing, I think, went through the roof the other day when Sarah Palin, about whom people have mixed views put out a Facebook post entitled “Obama’s shuck and jive ends with Benghazi lies” regarding to the Obama administration’s handling of the attack on the Libyan embassy. You know, a dog whistle is a dog whistle, Clarence. A trumpet call is another. Shuck and jive has a particular ethnic connection, not necessarily bad in all cases, it’s sort of slang. It doesn’t mean evil but to throw it at the president as an ethnic shot is pretty blatant.

JONATHAN ALTER: Chris, I actually think my old friend Clarence is being a little bit polite. I think this is rank racism. You know, sometimes people on the right get very upset when people on the left charge racism, but, you know, shuck and jive, that’s like talking about watermelon or, you know, for Jews, talking about Jews are greedy or the Irish are drunk, whatever. These are racist tropes and we need to call them what they are, and I actually think at least implicitly Trump was playing on racism today with his ridiculous stunt demanding Obama’s college transcripts.




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93 comments
PVG
PVG

We used to enjoy Hardball when Clinton was in office. Chris was on him mercilessly! Back then, Chris subbed for Rush one day.....HONEST! I listened to all 3 hours.

Chris used to have his wife Kathleen on his show periodically. He called her "Kathleen, my queen". He adored her.

What has happened to that man is beyond belief.

K-Bob
K-Bob

Pat & Stu really gave Matthews a lot of exposure today. I have to agree with Stu: Matthews has something physically wrong going on.

He's dropped a screw or has a leaky gasket in his brain pan.

He's rowing with one oar in the water.

He's investing in perpetual motion machines.

He's gone squirrel huntin' at night.

His Nike pumps are out of air.

His mojo ain't workin'.

He's been drinking Olbermann's bathwater.

His hair is on too tight.

He's had the toaster too near the bathtub.

He's been huffing on commercial breaks.

His grey matter doesn't.

His spatio-temporal axis is non-Minkowskian

He's soaring with moles.

His shuck doesn't jive anymore.

He's had to have the seams let out in his Imperial Kleagle robe.

His white hood doesn't fit over his fat head.

His shoes are too tight.

And he's a very bad person.

Wolfie
Wolfie

LOL! thanks for posting that! :-)

K-Bob
K-Bob

I couldn't stop myself!

GetWhatYouPayFor
GetWhatYouPayFor

In Alaska, they call a truck with a bad clutch "shiftless". She should use that next!

Amjean
Amjean

Good one! The lefties total agenda is "shiftless" in my opinion!

Joseph ewing
Joseph ewing

I plan on watching election returns on MSNBC JUST so I can see Matthews implode as the loss of the Royal Family from 1600 PA Ave happens LIVE.

The evening of the First Debate, I watched them, and it was most entertaining.

The loss of the Anointed One from the WH will absolutely have them all a mess. Matthews will be screaming. Schultz will be crying. Maddow will be talking about how America has Lost it's Way.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha!

maingearinarkansas
maingearinarkansas

I wonder what they're paying Matthews. It must be a whole bunch for him to continue whoring himself the way he does.

Huge_Heffner
Huge_Heffner

White liberals, Chris Matthews and Jonathan Alter, trying to keep 'their blacks' on their liberal plantation. Black people! When are you going to wake up????

Amjean
Amjean

When I think of "shuck" I think of shucking an ear of corn.

When I think of "jive" I think of dancing/music. Don't they do the "jive" on DWTS?

Why is this racist? Do blacks dance while shucking an ear of corn? Other than the fact that the lefties make everything racist, I am not getting this.

Wisewoman2
Wisewoman2

White people. As an AA let me explain to you historically exactly what shucking and jiving really means. It means that a person is being called out for not being serious, for playing around when they should be getting the job done, etc. It was also used during my time by teachers admonishing lazy students to stop shucking and jiving and get serious. That's the entirety of its meaning. It was a less harsh way of pointing out and stopping foolish behavior. That's all. I used it many times with both my white and black students when I was teaching and with my own children. Chris and these people are bullsh*tting you.

Amjean
Amjean

Actually, wisewoman2, I knew exactly what it meant. I was being facetious.

I do not believe, however, that the phrase is strictly owned by blacks.

At any rate, this white woman of german, irish and french descent is tired of

the lefties call to racism. I am tired of Jesse jackson, Al Sharpton, Chris Matthews

and others who race bait for a living.

It is well known in Chicago that black leaders have been "getting their way"

when it comes to social programs, loans, grants, etc. They have been blackmailing

businesses with the threat to cry racism if the businesses don't comply. This needs to end. Its not good for our country. h/t hillbuzz.com

And in this election the cry of racism is used so much that it has become somewhat

ineffective. I am not the only person who is sick of all this.

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

I totally missed the racist allusion. When I heard Sarah say, "Shuck and Jive," I thought she was referring to "Pelosi and Reid."

Linky1
Linky1

If she was referring to these two, it should have been "Dumb and Dumber."

Rich Wojcik
Rich Wojcik

Sarah, it's a loss of time to use logic with mentally sick persons;

that "below idiot level" leftist creature is a barking dog who:

fantasizes about Klit-on havin' sex with Martians,

says his female friend loves Clinton and wants to have sex with him,

gets thrill up his leg (up tow nowhere, 'cause he's got no b*lls).

________________________________

Let's inform people who do not know how deranged he is - and his career

will be over soon.

His mental sickness is progressing

and if he is not canned,

pretty soon two big guys will visit him to pack him into a long-sleeve jacket.

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

You know when Obama is losing when the cries of "racism" get louder. It's all they have left. They cannot defend Obama's record, so to silence any criticism of "the chosen one" they call people "racists." Problem is, they keep doing this so often that the word starts to lose its real meaning, so when there are real examples of racism people simply ignore it. You can only cry wolf so many times before thinking individuals stop listening to you and walk away. And, given the lousy TV ratings that Chris Matthews has , I think that's already starting to happen.

PhillyCon
PhillyCon

Scoop, if it wasn't for you we would have no clue what this idiot Matthews ever has to say! LOL. He gets more play on blogs than his own show.

PhillyCon
PhillyCon

You can just see the foam coming out of Matthew's mouth as you read the words. No video needed here.

His next segment will be on her comment about the Irish. He's ready to jump over a cliff now.

tsturbo
tsturbo

Yeah, there is something rank here, and it's not Sarah Palin.

The corrupt media is destroying our country, because the dumbded down mASSes

reality IS based on their lies.

It's time to regulate the media, and I think the way to do this is with a rating system, modeled after the movie system. How about VL, L, U, C, VC. This stands for Very Liberal, Liberal, Unbiased, Conservative, Very Conservative. Just like movies, their rating symbol will be displayed throughout the broadcast. And the farther the corrupt media are from an unbiased standard, the higher their fees, taxes and amount of government regulation.

Let's use their own playbook against them, and just like Obama's destruction of the coal industry via regulation and taxes, we will bring so much financial destruction on the corrupt media through the new rating system that they will either change or go bankrupt.

iaintlyin
iaintlyin

The unfortunate thing is that Palin doesn't have the national platform (daily show) to counter Matthews' spivel. She established her words as being used often enough by the left that anyone reading racism into them would be inclined to call a vanilla ice cream fan racist too.

Another Mathews/Left headsup as to what we're in for until we conquer the stupidity being taught to young people by our radical left.

Mary
Mary

And that's exactly what they are, "perennial hypocrites". I don't know how they live with themselves.

sDee
sDee

America is not and never has been a racist nation - only a nation manipulated into white guilt syndrome by our leftist social engineers. I am glad that 50 years of constant "implications and innuendo" of racism accusations are not verbalized.

Let's have it out folks - call me a racist to my face if you believe it, and then we will see where that conversation leads.

Wolfie
Wolfie

Sarah handled that beautifully!

Soon you won't be able to calls a spade a spade without being called racist!

Rich Wojcik
Rich Wojcik

they may call Todd Palin "racist" after Bill Maher hits his fist with his ugly snout

and his arshe with Todd's shoe.

Then Todd may wipe his shoes stepping on that humanoid rug...

And, to make it even, the left may call him "racist".

Of course I would enjoy it immensely.

sDee
sDee

:) A great pre-PC expression, eliminated by the Thought Police.

I was in a meeting recently and refused to get stuck with someone else's project mess. I said it was a tar baby. Only one person laughed - everyone else was aghast with political correctness.

That is too is a great expression from a superb fable which many generations have not had a chance to read courtesy of US censorship.

What have we done to America? No more.

Wolfie
Wolfie

It's a disgrace the way Liberals try to control everything, even language use! Control freaks who want a nanny state so they can be the nanny and control everyone's lives. Good thing we won't let them.

Sandra123456
Sandra123456

Tar baby was a great expression that was in the movie "Song of the South" which was a terrific Disney movie released in 1946 combining animation and real actors.

The song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah came from this movie that I enjoyed as a kid. Here's the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcxYwwIL5zQ

Per Wikipedia: "The film has never been released in its entirety on home video in the USA,[3] because of content which Disney executives believe would be construed by some as politically incorrect and racist toward black people, and is thus subject to much rumor. Some portions of this film have been issued on VHS and DVD as part of either compilations or special editions of Disney films"

Here's the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BtjW7PW2z0

Enjoy.

Wolfie
Wolfie

Thanks for the link to the video. I'm saving a copy to my computer as I type because I know Youtube as a nasty habit of removing videos without warning. Especially true if they get a "complaint" from some hyper sensitive Liberal who finds it "offensive" and "deem" it racist and... Well you get the picture.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

Feigned outrage by the biggest perpetrators of racism. These people have lost all validity and relevence. And of course, Matthews is a blithering idiot every single day he opens his mouth to speak.

Rich Wojcik
Rich Wojcik

Majority of MSM urinalists and leftists in general lie

without even realizing the depth of their hypocrisy - e.g.Diane Sawyer makes over 10 million dollars a year (4 what?), but calls

a business owner who works 80+ hr/week "greedy and selfish";

..............................................................

the percentage of their donations to charities

............................ is an equivalent of an average Joe giving a quarter a month.

PhillyCon
PhillyCon

I wonder where Matthews was or is when any black conservative gets called much worse names.

Crickets.

notebene
notebene

Typical leftist rhetoric...yell, "racist" or "squirrel"! Heaven forbid that they get outraged about the real issue which is that the Imposter and his administration left 4 Americans to die in an attack! While I'm excited to see the Imposter get voted out, I know that the liberal loons will still be shucking and jiving crap through our universities, media, and so-called non-profit organizations brainwashing drones for their army of stupidity. The clean up has only begun in November...we have so very far to go!

chatterbox365
chatterbox365

And of course organizations like NOW are once again silent. Sarah can hold her own and I am glad she is swinging right back.

Chris Matthews is a f**king idiot. A pile of dog sh*t has more value than this clown's opinion. Since no clear thinking person watches his show, all he has left to do is be the Jester of the democratic party.

The democrats have nothing to run on so they cry racism, class warfare and discrimination. That's their platform this election and I pray it fails.

If Romney wins, get the popcorn ready and change the channel to MSNBC.

sDee
sDee

NOW is silent as usual, because the "women's movement" like all the other "______ movements" was nothing more than yet-another statist power play.

The battle is and always has been, liberty vs tryranny, the people vs the government. No shades of gray or compromise. We can follow what ever banner we like but if we do not choose the freedom side of that battle, we lose by default.

BTW I've already got extra popcorn - Romney WILL win. My goal now is to see Hussein not just defeated but thoroughly humiliated in his defeat.

We got behind Romney, now he has an obligation to liberty - to expose the American marxist movement and the propaganda media. If not, as Marx himself said, history will repeat itself.

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

A lesser know Irish wish:

May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope.

Have a nice day, Democrats

notebene
notebene

I don't know why you call yourself, wordsfailme! You are one of the wittiest commentators on here! You just made me choke on my coffee laughing! Thank you for the much needed laugh! :D

Shane Ladd
Shane Ladd

Gracious, good-humored Gov. Sarah Palin often uses colloquialism in her conversation. Loony liberals like Chris Tingles see a racist under every bed, a mounted Klansman in every cumulus cloud.

celestiallady
celestiallady

Yeah for Sarah for fighting back against this bulls--t!!!!

kong1967
kong1967

"May we always be happy, and may our enemies always know it." -- Sarah Palin

That's a great saying. Good for her.

Yazz55
Yazz55

These days conservative commentators can't even say as much as "hello" or "good morning" without some libfag wacko like Chris Matthews calling it a racist comment. Its all about a specific person saying something, not the content of what is being said.

The use of the word racist or racism is so overused by the libfag extremist wackos like Chris Matthews, it just doesn't mean anything anymore. Its become a joke. Or perhaps maybe a badge of honor that the libfag extremist liberals have recognized you as a conservative with more intelligence and common sense than any liberal could ever aspire to. Additionally, its seems like Chris Matthews is acting more like a spoiled dog who just wants attention and will even do silly or nonsensical things for attention.

wodiej
wodiej

ROFL!! Stop using phrases like igloo, eskimo pie and when hell freezes over. It might offend my Alaskan native family. Hahahaha...Gov. Palin doesn't take any crap from anyone. And then she aptly notes the many remarks they have made that could have been construed offensive. They are nothing but hypocrites.

Betsey_Ross
Betsey_Ross

Boy, I sure can't add anymore to that. Except Sarah! You go girl!!! Bring down the media. We are sick of all of them. Apparently not buying their product isn't doing much. They keep on shuckin' and jivin'. I wait for the day that none of us ever go to MSNBC again. Even in blog posts. Chris Matthews needs to become irrelevant.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

There used to be an entity called Air America (which included such idiots as Rachel Maddow, Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Cenk Uygur, Montel Williams, and Ron Reagan), which had a couple of the brainless ones who migrated to MSNBC. Soon, there will be a 'used-to-be' MSNBC, as well. It won't be long.