I know, Tingles playing the race card is about as shocking as water being wet.
Via NRO:
Chris Matthews argued Monday evening that opposition to President Obama was due to resentment over the South’s loss in the Civil War.
In a conversation with Sam Stein of The Huffington Post and Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post, Matthews seized upon a Confederate flag carrying protester from Sunday’s Million Vets March, a protest against the closure of the World War II Memorial, to allege that such resistance to Obama was not just politically motivated. […]
As a superimposed graphic displayed the Republican elephant next to the words the words “party like it’s 1861,” Matthews asked Stein why protesters like the Confederate flag bearer wanted to “re-create that emotion that led us to the horrible Civil War…Why do they want it again?”