MSNBC's Matthews Belittles Homeschoolers
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Matthews Belittles Climate Change Skeptics and Homeschoolers
By Geoffrey Dickens (Bio | Archive)
November 3, 2009 - 18:28 ET
If you're a skeptic of climate change or want to educate your child at
home Chris Matthews probably thinks you're an oddball. On Tuesday's
Hardball, the MSNBC host egged on the former liberal Republican New
Jersey governor and former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman to turn to
the camera to scold all the global warming non-believers in the GOP as
he urged: "Would you tell your Republican colleagues right now – look
in the camera and say, 'There is climate change and we have to do
something about it?'" And later on in the show Matthews stereotyped
all homeschoolers as some sort of anti-social shut-ins that don't want
their children to "go to public school 'cause you don't want to mix
with other people."
The following exchanges were aired on the November 3 edition of
Hardball:
MATTHEWS: Last question. Here's my litmus test. Are you pushing home-
schooling?
CHRIS CHOCOLA, PRESIDENT CLUB FOR GROWTH: We don't, no, we, we support
school choice. But that's up to-
MATTHEWS: No but home-schooling where you don't go to public school
‘cause you don't want to mix with other people. You want to keep the
kids at home so you can teach them about life at home, away from the
exposure of other social groups. Are you for that? Because that would
be, I would consider that culturally conservative, at least.
CHOCOLA: We, we do not push home-schooling, we support school choice.
We think parents are the ones that are the best in a position to make
a decision about the education for their children.
MATTHEWS: Mr. Chocola I'm with you on school choice. Thank you sir,
very much.