Michael Eric Dyson rips Mary Matalin for ‘amnesia’ after Cheney branded Mandela a terrorist

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Michael Eric Dyson rips Mary Matalin for ‘amnesia’ after Cheney branded Mandela a terrorist
By David Edwards
Sunday, December 8, 2013 13:57 EST



Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson lashed out at conservative strategist Mary Matalin, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, after she defended her one-time boss for branding Nelson Mandela a terrorist in the 1980s.

Following Mandela’s death last week, several media outlets pointed out that Cheney had not only voted against sanctions on South Africa’s apartheid government, but had also maintained that he didn’t have “any problems” with the vote as late as 2000.

On ABC’s This Week, Dyson observed that “conservatives get a little bit of amnesia when they forget that Dick Cheney wanted to put him on the terrorist list and insisted that he stayed there, that Ronald Reagan resisted — he said on the one hand that Nelson Mandela should be released, but he depended upon a white supremacist government to reform itself within.”

“When will you ever get tired of beating up on Darth Vader, who said Nelson Mandela is a good man,” Matalin shot back, referring to Cheney. “It was a complicated situation, the ANC was a terrorist organization at one point. He has since said wonderful things about Nelson Mandela.”

“But when you say about excusing Darth Vader, so to speak, this is not just about rhetoric,” Dyson insisted to the former Cheney aide. “This is about public policy that prevented the flourishing of ANC, and look, when they had the feet on the neck of Nelson Mandela and millions of black people in South Africa.”

Watch this video from ABC’s This Week, broadcast Dec. 8, 2013. (at link)

[Rex]

1. Beat up Darth Vader? When, where?

He hid in a secret bunker for 8 fucking years while commanding an illegal war in Iraq! THEN he got a new heart from a human that actually had one...FUCK DEFENDING DARTH VADER you stupid person! HOW BOUT THAT?

[pangaia]

2. How does Carville stayed married to the witch?

Or is he really just as bad and the whole thing is just fun and games.

[TacoD]

3. You got it. (nt)

[freshwest]

4. Yup.

[Kurovski]

8. it's a marriage made in Satan's small intestines.

He does all sorts of damage to the commonwealth for filthy lucre, just like la Madam.

[hatrack]

5. Is it just me . . .

. . . or is Mary Matalin pretty much the most genuinely unpleasant person you've ever seen?

I'm not talking just appearance; it's her nasty, venomous and infinitely condescending "intellectual" positions that close the deal for me . . .

[Kurovski]

9. If she were half as appealing as E.coli, she'd be ahead of the game.

[hatrack]

10. Did you see her wtih Van Jones immediately after the 2012 election?

Fulminating rage, barely held in place by heavy pancake makeup.

She made me think of what Nancy Grace would be like at high levels of amphetamine intoxication.

[Kurovski]

11. No, God is a merciful presence betimes.

The dark, ill wind of Matalin is so chill and devastating that I could even see myself huddling with Nancy Grace as we turn away from MM's ferocious riptide of magnetic misanthropic misery.

Cheney must have knighted Miss Mary into Beelzebub's ranks.

[Kurovski]

6. Dyson is a gentleman...I am not. Matalin is a scummy little liar.

No amnesia hath she. Turd nibbler for cash, crapmaster-matic.

She's a Dirty little eye-rolling liar, but you know...it's ever-so complicated. So there's THAT.

[sabrina 1]

7. Why has Cheney not been prosecuted for War Crimes yet? I know it will happen eventually

but in the meantime, do we need to have to hear that name mentioned at all other than to let us know the progress of the charges against him?