Chris Mathews Calls out Reince Priebus Over Romney's Race Baiting

      This is why you got to love Chris Matthews. He's got a high profile place in the media and this morning he used his bully pulpit to go right after RNC Chairman Reince Priebus over Romney's race baiting.

      "Political observers have noted for a while that Mitt Romney’s claim that President Obama gutted the work requirement in the 1996 welfare reform law is false. But few in the mainstream media have have gone so far as to accuse Republicans of playing the ‘race card.’

      "But Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” didn’t hold back in a tirade launched against RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Monday morning, accusing the Romney campaign of using race to defeat Obama. Matthews lit into Priebus, citing both the welfare attacks and Romney’s recent birth certificate joke as evidence that the GOP is “playing that little ethnic card there.”

      “I have to call you on this, Mr. Chairman,” Matthews said in an appearance with Priebus on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” as he responded to Republicans’ criticism that Obama is running a very negative campaign. “But they’ve both negative. That cheap shot about ‘I don’t have a problem with my birth certificate’ was awful. It is an embarrassment to your party to play that card.”

      "Matthews continued, turning the attacks up a notch:

“You can play your games and giggle about it but the fact is your side playing that card. When you start talking about work requirements, you know what game you’re playing and everybody knows what game you’re playing. It’s a race card and yeah, if your name’s Romney, yeah you were well born, you went to prep school, yeah, brag about it. This guy has an African name and he’s got to live with it. Look who’s gone further in their life. Who was born on third base? Making fun of the guy’s birth certificate issue when it was never a real issue except for the right wing.”

      http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/chris-matthews-gop-priebus-race-card-birther-welfare.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

     You got to say as well that Reince, Romney and company truly have no shame. How can any Romney apologist dare speak of running a dirty campaign? Romney only outlasted Gingrich and Santorum by attack ads by his Super Pac-Newt put it best by saying that Romney had a lot of billionaires and he had only one.

     When you have shameless media hacks coming from the David Brooks School of Vapid Centrism giving Romney a pass while showing faux outrage over comments of Democrats like Reid and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz that are actually true it makes you even more grateful for a Chris Matthews.

    Nice job Chris!