Dan Rather: ‘Articulate’ Obama Couldn’t Even ‘Sell Watermelons’

"He couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic."

March 8, 2010 at 3:06 pm - The Chris Matthews Show
Dateline: Washington, DC

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Terry   March 8th, 2010 - 3:09 pm

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!

Desiree   March 8th, 2010 - 3:11 pm

Is that a racist comment, dannyboy???????

I'd Rather Not   March 8th, 2010 - 3:12 pm

Mr. Rather, he’s half white, so he could sell half a watermelon, right? You racist twit!

Me oh Yeah   March 8th, 2010 - 3:13 pm

Perfect!!! LOL Now let’s watch him get castigated by the media……NOT!!!!!!!!!!

Tom   March 8th, 2010 - 3:15 pm

Hmmmm he said it on Chris Matthews show so it must be true…..

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   March 8th, 2010 - 3:15 pm

America…the “flim flam” Obamaman…aka Bilderberg Bush-Obama….aka…Saul Alinsky Obama…aka Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama…is a watermelon salesman!

But the deaf, the dumb and the blind continue to buy his Marxist elixer!

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obamaizinoverhishead   March 8th, 2010 - 3:15 pm

dan rather…i agree with you

Hooked on Obonics   March 8th, 2010 - 3:17 pm

Ah yea liberals… He’ll get away with it.

dumbasslibhater   March 8th, 2010 - 3:20 pm

No Watermelons? What about Bananas??

OnGuard   March 8th, 2010 - 3:22 pm

I forgot Obama was black until Rather mentioned watermelon.

Anderson Pooper   March 8th, 2010 - 3:22 pm

Did Matthews forget BHO was black? http://www.AMREN.com

max   March 8th, 2010 - 3:23 pm

Whoa, See how fast Matthews cut him off ?

lindava   March 8th, 2010 - 3:24 pm

Is it just me, or did Matthews move awfully quickly to shut up this heresy?

Mike   March 8th, 2010 - 3:24 pm

Nice try Chris but you weren’t quick enough….

Sai Chai   March 8th, 2010 - 3:24 pm

My, oh my! Dan Rather makes what sounds a lot like a racist comment on Chris Matthew’s show, and it just gets glossed over as if he had never said it. Andrea didn’t even gasp or fall off her chair!

Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, and Tea Partiers get skewered for comments like this. But the double standard is alive and well among the media “elite”.

ObamaNation   March 8th, 2010 - 3:25 pm

Dan Rather gives me a THRILL UP MY LEG – http://www.LIVESHOT.cc

district6   March 8th, 2010 - 3:25 pm

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He could sell stuff!!! ,I wouldn’t buy that dan , i say he just CONSUME in wanting to be like and that entails not offending anyone.

That drives me crazy about him , he wants to please all side,thats why you have all the compromise DAN . have nothing to do he is a lousy salesman, Because he did SELL HIS CAMPAIGN WELL TO GET ELECTED.

And in 2012 he will get re-elected with ease because americans have a funny way of electing presidents with this in mind ‘ we will vote for the devil we know’ just ask george bush.

Donald Duck   March 8th, 2010 - 3:26 pm

Aren’t liberals the greatest?? They are soooo stupid that they even surprise themselves as to how stupid they are. I thought that Tingle Boy was going to swallow his tongue when Ole Danny Boy let loose with the watermelon analogy. Now, how is the leftist media going to spin this so that it is Rove’s or Bush’s fault.

Webster   March 8th, 2010 - 3:26 pm

Boy Chrissy sure covered for him pretty quick.

GREEN JOB$ CZAR   March 8th, 2010 - 3:26 pm

Yes We Can Build a http://www.NewNation.org YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!

hello-timmy-someone-step-out-ofline   March 8th, 2010 - 3:28 pm

i hope dan is uptodate with his taxes, if the Whitehouse is in a bad mood one phone call to little timmy and the IRS can really have Dan lose alot of sleep.

VIVA LA RAZA!!   March 8th, 2010 - 3:30 pm

We no like Watermelons. But we run to the TACO BELL after we cross – http://www.BorderInvasionPics.com

libertarian416   March 8th, 2010 - 3:33 pm

he’s right ya know…
(”couldn’t sell watermelons???!!! now wait just a cotton-pickin minute!) lol

myleftbrain   March 8th, 2010 - 3:35 pm

What watermelons Dan? Why?

Your words Dan, not ours.

olddog   March 8th, 2010 - 3:37 pm

I imagine Sharpton & Jackson will get on this right away and shakedown NBC for an “apology” (+ a few $’s)! I wish he would have said this on Fox, the MSN would be talking about it for days!

Sister mary   March 8th, 2010 - 3:38 pm

Boy and fuzzy zeller was put to pasture for saying we will now have fried chicken dinner at the masters.

I know Chuck Todd will on this ASAP !!!!

sage   March 8th, 2010 - 3:38 pm

more racism from the socialists nutters, what else is old?

tunisia Johnson   March 8th, 2010 - 3:39 pm

@district6 Is English your second language? May I recommend “Hooked On Phonics”.

thas yor massa yer bad mothin Rather   March 8th, 2010 - 3:41 pm

Thas yor massa yer bad mothin Rather!

Gets us a rope!

drop soap rahm   March 8th, 2010 - 3:42 pm

Throw cotton balls !!!!!

minkxy   March 8th, 2010 - 3:44 pm

After all the pc and untrue racial accusations,it’s about time.Double standard needs to be over.And if you want to be an American,learn what it is.Or take your whiny rear out of here.One way tickets.I have had enough. One card…..American !

john   March 8th, 2010 - 3:45 pm

Dan Rather, of Rather-gate, the guy who started the fake activist journalism in earnest is in the MSNBC house! Took him a couple of decades, but he sounds like he’s finally being honest.

So the all white network, MSNBC, lets Rather talk about Obama selling watermelons on the freeway with the highway patrol to flag white people down and intimidate them. No racism in that visual I guess.
.

J Dub   March 8th, 2010 - 3:47 pm

How about fried chicken Dan.
or maybe some ham hocks and collard greens.

Dave, Tn   March 8th, 2010 - 3:48 pm

HATE TV New York bahahahahahaha

bitterweed   March 8th, 2010 - 3:48 pm

It is a ‘racist’ comment..can’t say fried chicken or watermelon around blacks..and better keep your cotton balls undercover or you’ll get brought up on ‘hate’ charges..Dan, they’ll be coming for you man..lol..bye bye!

Maladroit   March 8th, 2010 - 3:48 pm

I think “district6″ might be from District 9.
What language WAS that?
“Prawn”?

Maladroit   March 8th, 2010 - 4:00 pm

iam just kidding @district6 , you take a shot at president bush, so i had to get back at you for something.

Fourth Stooge   March 8th, 2010 - 4:06 pm

Watermelons are delicious. I’m not sure what Rather has against watermelons. Watermelons don’t need sold.

We demand reparations and federal subsidies.

Signed,
Watermelon Growers of America

matt22   March 8th, 2010 - 4:09 pm

“what’s the frequency, Kenneth?….WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH?”

cs   March 8th, 2010 - 4:12 pm

Dan Rather expressed his opinion, what’s wrong with that? He happens to be right, too. Barry Hussein is a lousy salesman. He is an even lousier leader, in fact calling him a leader is blasphemy!

stevsie   March 8th, 2010 - 4:14 pm

this is a test: if you think that comment was racist.. you’re a racist! watermelon is not racist it’s a yummy fruit.. now if he’d said fried chicken……

Guest   March 8th, 2010 - 4:16 pm

Why do people call him articulate? He says “aks” instead of “ask,” and he mispronounces the words, “a” and “the” 99% of the time, sounding much like an old illiterate sports jock doing a 1950’s TV promo.

I think for once, Old Danny Druthers has it right. Or course he’s not a racist because he’s a Margaret Sangerite, but it is very curious that almost every instance of this clip has magically been removed from the internet, making me wonder who really controls the censorship on the net? Sangerites? You bet.

If you intend to fundamentally transform America, where better to start than by controlling the internet?

Just try to find anything about a supreme court justice’s late night tryst in a Washington DC park. He was found staggering and disheveled. Hmm hmm hmm. Completely gone from the internet. And we thought that was impossible.

This Druthers thing is more about internet censorship than anything.

Tip of the Hat   March 8th, 2010 - 4:32 pm

Dan Rather is right. I liked Obama but didn’t vote for him.

His mama needed to man him up with a real job as a kid,
paper route, lawn mower, or join the Scouts. Has this guy
ever changed a tire or even washed a car? Is he forever on
some woman’s or some patron’s apron strings?

Damn.

G-man   March 8th, 2010 - 4:32 pm

Wheres the Justice Brothers Jesse jackson and Al Sharpton at ? or the drive by media also

Tip of the Hat   March 8th, 2010 - 4:37 pm

“lindava March 8th, 2010 – 3:24 pm
Is it just me, or did Matthews move awfully quickly to shut up this heresy?”

It’s not just you my friend. Three years to go. Tick. Tock.

rick   March 8th, 2010 - 4:38 pm

AAAAHHHH. THIS REMINDS ME OF THE LITTLE RASCLES. THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
REMEMBER ALFAFA , THE OND WHICH LOOKED LIKE OBAMMY.

NOQTR4TR8RS   March 8th, 2010 - 4:39 pm

I couldn’t disagree more, Dan. President Obama is one of the best salesmen to ever live in the US.

He sold a majority of our population on the idea that he could bring “Hope and Change” to our country by electing him. This, in spite of the fact that he sorely lacked experience and qualification to be POTUS; in spite of the fact that he is a socialist, and socialism is inherently detrimental to our Constitution: in spite of the fact that you and your network got caught red handed forging illegal documents on his behalf that were relative to the military service of a sitting President; in spite of the fact that he has a lifetime history of surrounding himself with anti-American radical leftists, including domestic terrorists; and in spite of the fact that a great deal of his past was, as it remains to this day, purposefully concealed from public view.

He also has been recognized as Gun and Ammo Salesman of the Year by the National Rifle Association, and other pro-Constitution organizations for his phenomenal ability to raise awareness relative to the the Second Amendment, and for the potential need for self-defense.

3. He sold the American People on the idea that Congressional debate relative to health care reform would be open, public, and televised.

4. He sold the American People on the notion that his administration heralded a new day – the beginning of post-partisan politics.

The ability of the this man to sell esxceeds Ron Popeil, Billy Mays, and P. T. Barnum combined. If he lasts to the end of his term without being impeached or resigning, he may even exceed the abilities of that legendary salesman who sold the monorail to Springfield on the Simpsons.

Get Doober Dan Some Geritol   March 8th, 2010 - 4:41 pm

Here’s my deal.

I don’t think he’s a nice guy.
I don’t think he’s articulate.
And I don’t think he’s smart enough to GROW watermelons let alone sell any.

“Would you buy a used watermelon from this Chicago thug?”

xfiler93   March 8th, 2010 - 4:42 pm

Imagine if Rush or Hannity or Beck had said that? WOW, end of all civilization as we know it if they did. Libs are the ulitmate hypocrites.

testicular man   March 8th, 2010 - 4:44 pm

Can you imagine if Rush, Beck, Hannity, Coulter or any freaking conservative commentator would have said that?

i-dan-rather-is-a-tool   March 8th, 2010 - 4:46 pm

damn dan, i guess your mouth feel on your feet . WTF!!! WAS fried chicken and cotton taken.

rusty   March 8th, 2010 - 4:52 pm

Jesse Jackson Leads Bingo Rights March in Alabama

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/jesse-jackson-leads-bingo-rights-march-in-alabama/

Dave   March 8th, 2010 - 4:52 pm

Rick:

Alfalfa was the skinny white kid with the hair that wouldn’t stay in place.
(he was in love with Carla)

and I agree with..
Get Doober Dan Some Geritol :

“And I don’t think he’s smart enough to GROW watermelons let alone sell any”

NOQTR4TR8RS   March 8th, 2010 - 4:52 pm

Rather’s statement is not racist. He is a leftist, and therefore immune to charges of racism. Rather enjoys the same immunity as these respected Democrats:

Senator Robert Byrd – Former Grand Kleagle and recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, and activist against the Civil Rights Act.
Joe Biden – Vice President of the United States and current racist.
Harry Reid – Senate Majority Leader and current racist.
Sonia Sotomayor – Justice, U. S. Supreme Court and current racist
Louie Walcott – a.k.a. “Minister Louis Farrakhan”. Cult leader and professional racist.

fastfacts   March 8th, 2010 - 5:01 pm

Was Dan Rather drunk, as a media elite and democrat, why in the world would he ever say that. I am laughing my butt off that someone of his guild would say that.

SOURCE OF OTHER MEDIA BLUNDERS AND RIPS ON THE PRESIDENT: http://www.americanparchment.com

uh-oh,careful what you ask for.   March 8th, 2010 - 5:14 pm

HA! When matthews got stung by the response he tried to cut Rather off!!!!!
whoa!!! did u see matthews adjust his body and look away?HA! isnt it just truly
amazing how msnbc expects everyone who come on their programs to favor obama?

is this why they select certain guests?
Rather hammered it!

be guided by facts   March 8th, 2010 - 5:15 pm

fastfacts:
“why in the world would he ever say that”

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because its the truth?

geewhizwow   March 8th, 2010 - 5:18 pm

Dan who?

oh no he didn't   March 8th, 2010 - 5:23 pm

Sour grapes anyone? I have plenty to pass around
until 2012

Steve   March 8th, 2010 - 5:27 pm

What a racist pig!! Of course the MSM will ignore it. Notice how Chrissie quickly changed the subject. What a bunch of liberal losers!!

SubjectoftheUSSA   March 8th, 2010 - 5:37 pm

Thanks for the brilliant racism you old mofo

R from ID   March 8th, 2010 - 5:40 pm

(Danny) One lib making a comment, that if said by a conservative, would make all the PC culture go nuts, not to mention the black “leadership”.

(Chrissy) The other lib, butting in, it appears, to save the first libs hind end.

White Liberals and their not quite so hidden racism at it again.

Just makes your leg tingle, doesn’t it?

temple62   March 8th, 2010 - 5:41 pm

MSNBC must have a 5 second delay, Chrissy sure shut Rather off fast when he failed to speak the MSNBC party line

Playa Pimp   March 8th, 2010 - 5:47 pm

Don’t know about that , but I bought a set of 20″ chrome spinners off him down in Englewood back in ‘04. He be sayin’ they “fell off da back of a truck”.

yohooo   March 8th, 2010 - 5:51 pm

Come on dan you could have said peaches or cantalop
but know you had to pull on your klan hood.Damn racist Demacrate

Kagiso Edwards   March 8th, 2010 - 6:00 pm

Dan, the funniest and smartest thing you ever said . and the most racist …. courtesy of MSNBC! LOL!

get a grip   March 8th, 2010 - 6:39 pm

people are becoming far too sensitive when it comes to Blacks and race. this has GOTTA STOP.
i can honestly tell you the thought of associating watermellons as a derogatory remark
from Rather never crossed my mind until now. seems obama has increased a division of
the races ever during his campaign and since he took office.

get a grip people. we cant even make innocent comments anymore? GET A GRIP!!!!

well, er...   March 8th, 2010 - 6:41 pm

betcha it made matthews day? NOT!

Mr.GJG   March 8th, 2010 - 6:41 pm

Hey Dan, why don’t you ask him to shine your shoes while your at it?

True American   March 8th, 2010 - 7:50 pm

how about fried chicken?

Anthony W.   March 8th, 2010 - 8:07 pm

Well, actually he could sell watermelons. But he’d need a government subsidy.

Brad   March 8th, 2010 - 8:12 pm

What does watermelon have to do with being black?

Waffen SS   March 8th, 2010 - 8:14 pm

Leave it to Dan Rather to speak out with the left wing talking point, that were suppose to be secret of course!

Way to go Dan we need to hear MORE!!

Veritas   March 8th, 2010 - 8:25 pm

I think ‘ol Dan has developed some Alzheimer’s in the last 8 or 9 years. Either that, or he is just a liberal that let’s his mouth kick in before starting up his brain! What a moron. Tingles jumped on the grenade as quickly as he could, but alas he was a bit too late.

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txmike   March 8th, 2010 - 8:47 pm

I bet he could sell some crack or pimp some beeotches.

Rubicon Cross   March 8th, 2010 - 8:53 pm

I think Dan Rather is yet again wrong. In fact, isn’t selling watermelons excatly what Barry Soetero did before he became our socialist president? Did he have some other qualififcation? Question, if a watermelon falls in the forest, will it’s sound appear on Obama’s teleprompter?

RogerCfromSD   March 8th, 2010 - 9:08 pm

“He couldn’t sell watermelons”!?!?!?!?!

OMG That is hilarious. I can’t believe he said that. HE probably can’t believe he said that.

Pizza Lady   March 8th, 2010 - 9:16 pm

Good Job, Matthews…Finally, an almost FAIR AND BALANCED report!

Choctaw 9   March 8th, 2010 - 9:25 pm

Wow! Dan, after manufacturing a false story about Bush, you start telling the truth for once. Trust me, I would buy somehthing from the deceased Billy Mays before I would buy anything B. O. says. Because it stinks.

Dingy Harriet Reid   March 8th, 2010 - 9:27 pm

Well, I disagree! I believe he being a light skinned (cuss,cuss) of intellect and he being able to turn on or off that ghetto (cuss,cuss) dialect, he should be able to sell snake oil…ummm er…I mean watermelons (hope and change)

LibbyLibLibs   March 8th, 2010 - 9:27 pm

I like seedless watermelon. Any chance it might be seedless watermelon?

asthedrivensnow   March 8th, 2010 - 9:39 pm

get a grip, you are right.Obama has indeed increased the divisions.

WatermelonFarmer   March 8th, 2010 - 10:17 pm

Rather, you gave the idiot another idea…Now Obama is going to force me to give him all of my watermelons, along with all of my hard earned money, just to prove you wrong, so he can pay for his socialist health care bill!

saintpeeter   March 8th, 2010 - 10:23 pm

Actually, Obama’s cap and trade policy is watermelons, green on the outside, red on the inside.

And you know what, he can’t sell that either.

Imagine, Americans actually can figure out he’s a fake after all!

msnbc with pants on ground   March 8th, 2010 - 10:28 pm

lets hear msnbc’s rant on racism NOW?
(NOT A BEEP OUT OF ‘UM SO FAR)

slinger   March 8th, 2010 - 10:31 pm

dan, are you just sounding off like michael moore?
who cares what you have to say- to liberals and
progressives obama can’t do enough… to the rest
of us he keeps doing too much.

progressive = racist   March 8th, 2010 - 10:58 pm

Joe Biden disagrees. He says Obama is articulate and that yes, he can sell watermelons. Because he’s so clean and all.

part of the healthcare takeover?   March 8th, 2010 - 11:01 pm

Maybe Obama can’t sell watermelons, but he can have his thugs pass an unconstitutional law that mandates all Americans to buy watermelons they don’t want.

Bob Peckerwood   March 8th, 2010 - 11:02 pm

Well I like watermelons and I am a honkey! So there!

Mike   March 8th, 2010 - 11:08 pm

If a republican politican said that it would be the lead story on the TV news and on the front page of every newspaper and magazine.

Because it’s a liberal who said it the news media will either refuse to report it or put a positive spin on it.

Journalism died many years ago.

Pizza Lady   March 8th, 2010 - 11:20 pm

Me thinks Obama is rubbing Joe Biden’s head…before it was hair-plugged, saying…”wish Cotton was a monkey, wish Cotten was a monkey…” Gotta know the “Little Rascals”…showing the age…

SORTA   March 8th, 2010 - 11:50 pm

Blasphemy Colonel….here in the South…..why those watermelons sell themselves….that’s just ridiculous.

Bob   March 8th, 2010 - 11:59 pm

Why watermelon.Why not fried chicken

ArizonaHoss   March 9th, 2010 - 12:13 am

What is racist about watermelons?

Avi Marranazo   March 9th, 2010 - 3:04 am

Please spare me the mindless reflexive epithet of “racist”. It’s meaningless and is only used to shut people up.

claspur   March 9th, 2010 - 4:12 am

Watch… He’s making a play to get hired-on at FOX, like Lou Dobbs. lmao

buford   March 9th, 2010 - 8:47 am

I love this. I dont care if republicans raise hell about a double standard because the liberals are showing everyone who the real racist people are. The liberals used Obama as their token and they are now going to throw him back to the Chicago Mob where he came from. Keep up the work liberals. I wont complain as long as you keep preaching your racist hatred so the world can see who the racist really are.

CommonSense   March 9th, 2010 - 10:57 am

Yeah and the ignorant Liberal Trolls on here try to say it’s Conservatives or Republicans who are the racists.
The KKK was started by Democrat types after the Civil War to fight against the Northern Republican types.
MLK was a Republican and it was a majority of Republicans in the 60’s who made it possible to pass Civil Rights Laws.
Democrat Presidents were at the wheel for WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Bay of Pigs, Bosnia, Somalia.
Wake up those of you who “think” Democrats care at all about you – look at the actions and not the pandering words they use on you to get elected.
All Politicians are not trust worthy – BUT DEMOCRATS ARE DESTRUCTIVE AND EVIL!

Don't 4 get gore's daddy   March 9th, 2010 - 11:34 am

Common sense has plenty of it, but don’t forget it was gore’s dad who was against civil rights! And he didn’t like melons.

Drano   March 9th, 2010 - 2:27 pm

LOL !!

But I think the phrase is “couldn’t sell watermelons in Harlem”

Well at least he is as the dimocrat vice racist Biden said “articulate and bright and clean”.

RatherNot   March 9th, 2010 - 6:16 pm

Dan Rather couches his comments on what the Republicans and Independents will say…but I’ll put money on it that he came up with this watermelon line because he was the one who joked about it before this interview.

Army of Davids   March 9th, 2010 - 9:50 pm

Rather is angry because he wanted the public option.

He’s a true believer.

James Dean   March 10th, 2010 - 12:49 am

Dan, He’s not selling watermelons… you twit! It’s fried chicken.

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