Chris Matthews on Obama's Religion. Also, Matthew's Views on the Islamic Cultural Center near "Ground Zero."

Chris Matthews is one of the best in the business when it comes to stripping down to the core of a lot of political spin. He leans left politically but he does grill the left a lot for their own garbage. I appreciate that integrity and balance. Irregardless of party, I do not like people playing political games and tricks; nor pushing wedge issues to divide the country as the right-wing is hard at work doing right now.

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TPJ: The following is Chris commenting, interviewing guest and analyzing the madness that's been happening over this Islamic community center in NYC:

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TPJ: I'm with Chris, "How far away should we move it before it no longer "offends?" Two blocks, five blocks, ten? My suspicion is that this less about being offended by the cultural center being near "Ground Zero" and more about being offended by Muslims--period. Because supposed we do move the center out of Manhattan to New Jersey. What if someone there says it offends them too? Do we move it again? How many times would it be o.k. to ask these LOYAL AMERICANS to move their cultural center and house of worship before it constitutes a violation of their first amendment protection to freedom of religion? As well as property rights.

Notice how that opponent of the center in this last video said it pains many "Americans" to see this center built, which places those on the other side of the issue (the Muslim-Americans who want this center built) as being seen as non-American. Somehow their emotions and feelings don't matter because they belong to religion that had some radicals amongst them who attacked us. It's guilt by association and is utter and complete bigotry.

And everyone still blows off the fact that innocent Muslim AMERICANS died at the same site (Ground Zero) these reactionaries claim this Islamic center is dishonoring? So, the cultural center is dishonoring their own fellow Muslim-Americans who died at "Ground Zero" too? It doesn't make sense and that's because more than likely is this about race and being anything considered, "foreign" or "non-American."

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