Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
February 10, 2010
On February 9, 2010, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews attacked Debra Medina, who is running for Governor in Texas against Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Matthews denounced Medina as a Southern racist and compared her to former vice president John C. Calhoun, a vocal defender of slavery, state’s rights and nullification. In order to make his point, Matthews quoted Martin Luther King on nullification.
Matthews’ remark is not surprising. The corporate media attack dog continually characterizes Obama’s critics, members of the Tea Party, and advocates of states’ rights as racists.
During the debate between Medina, Perry and Hutchinson, Medina clarified her stand on secession. Medina said she does not support secession and made it clear she does support nullification. In other words, she believes Texas has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which the state has deemed unconstitutional.
Medina also supports interposition or a state’s right to protect individual interests from federal violation or any abridgment of states’ rights deemed by a state to be dangerous or unconstitutional (as established by the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in opposition to the federal Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798).
It is Chris Matthews’ assigned task to slander by innuendo and characterize Medina as a racist little different than supporters of Jim Crow laws and the Black Codes of an earlier Southern era. It was no mistake Matthews dragged out an old Martin Luther King quote that dredges up painful memories of segregation and vicious racism. The exercise was intended to portray Medina as a political throwback or even a closet member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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