Chris Matthews: Insert Foot in Mouth

Chris Matthews put his foot in his mouth (again) for several moments following President Obama’s State of the Union speech.  The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates eloquently responds with I Just Remembered Chris Matthews Was White.

This is why Obama will never be postracial–he can’t make white people face the lie of their ignorance, anymore than Jimmy Baldwin could make black people face the lie of our homophobia. It’s white people’s responsibility to make themselves postracial, not the president’s. Whatever my disagreements with him, the fact is that he is brilliant. That he is black and brilliant is pleasant but unsurprising to me. I’ve known very brilliant, very black people all my life. At some point that number of white people who still can’t get their heads around our humanity will have to accept the truth: the president is black, even if you don’t quite know what that means.

Chris Matthews did “clarify” the remark later on during MSNBC’s coverage of the State of the Union.  During the Rachel Maddow Show, he mumbled his explanation as Rachel seemed rather uncomfortable (giving the “what the hell are you talking about” look I love her for).  Sigh.

Scott Roeder: GUILTY.

Scott Roeder has been found guilty of murdering Dr. Scott Tiller.  Sarah Cliff’s blog on Newsweek’s website:  What the Roeder Guilty Verdict Means for Abortion Providers. NOW (National Organization for Women) has issued a press release in response to the jury’s decision:

NOW urges the Department of Justice to investigate this network of anti-abortion terrorists. NOW leadership and our dedicated grassroots activists across the country, have been tracking and witnessing these terrorists at work for decades. Some of our own members have survived harassment and assault. NOW would be happy to share with the Justice Department any relevant evidence we might have that would help shut down this conspiracy to deny women their fundamental right to abortion through violence and the threat of violence.