At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 25, 2014 during the MRC’s annual gala, one of three nominees for the “Damn Those Conservatives to Hell Award.”
“If only the people who voted in 2010 show up this November, you can kiss all this goodbye....It will be a double downing of efforts to suppress the votes of those who voted for him in historic numbers, the return to something like Jim Crow days, relevant of all the old anti-black gimmickry of that time: literacy tests and poll taxes and all the rest. The goal will be to erase not just Obama from the history books, but any evidence that someone of his background should ever think of being President. It will mean victory for the haters.”
— Chris Matthews, opening the January 7 Hardball on MSNBC.