There’s something seriously wrong with this guy (other than his man-love for Obama).
Via Beltway Confidential:
MSNBC host Chris Matthews described George Washington as an “elite” and a slaveowner in order to strengthen his criticism of Mitt Romney for campaigning on his successful business record.
“Let me try the class warfare the other way,” Matthews said, prefacing an argument that Romney is engaging in class warfare when he argues that “‘you benefit from having a guy as successful as me’ — that was his word, ‘successful.'”
Newt Gingrich, Matthews guest at the time, countered that “that’s what George Washington would have said,” at which point Matthews went on offense.
“They were elites!” he said of Washington and Founders like him. “Well, just remember Washington had a couple hundred slaves, and there was a different kind of politics [then].”