Chris Matthews on Fox- They are “whipping up White Hysteria”- Obama News- MSM

Chris Matthews, on Tuesday’s Hardball, accused Fox News of “whipping up white hysteria” over allegations of the New Black Panther Party intimidating voters in Philadelphia as he wondered, at the top of his show, if there was “a rightist strategy to stir up racial resentment among whites by portraying whites as victims of black rule?” The Hardball host, during a discussion about the New Black Panther Party case with Philadelphia radio talk show hosts Michael Smerconish and E. Steven Collins, claimed that “Fox News and its friends” were pushing the story to motivate voters in the midterms because “I think there’s nothing the Republican Party likes better than a nice, scared white voter. Let’s be honest about it.”

While Matthews did agree with Smerconish, about some of the merits of the case, the thrust of the segment was that Fox News and the right were pushing the New Black Panther Party story to race-bait as Matthews claimed: “This is just an attempt by the people on the right, I guess, especially Fox, to just keep pushing this, this beach ball in the air until it finally creates some noise.”