{"id":109,"date":"2008-05-14T12:33:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=109"},"modified":"2008-05-14T14:16:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T20:16:37","slug":"commentator-chris-matthews-contrasts-sociologists-with-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/05\/14\/commentator-chris-matthews-contrasts-sociologists-with-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentator Chris Matthews contrasts sociologists with Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this fascinating blog post from <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffweintraub.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/chis-matthews-were-not-sociologists.html\">Jeff Weintraub<\/a> about MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews&#8217; comments about contrasting sociologists with Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Weintraub writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Tonight, Matthews suddenly decided that even mentioning class and race in connection with elections is for &#8216;sociologists,&#8217; not &#8216;Americans.&#8217; Using phrases like &#8216;blue-collar&#8217; is &#8216;elitist talk.&#8217; And simply by talking about &#8216;white working-class voters,&#8217; Hillary Clinton is almost &#8216;like the Al Sharpton of white people.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffweintraub.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/chis-matthews-were-not-sociologists.html\">full story<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/194874.php\">video link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this fascinating blog post from Jeff Weintraub about MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews&#8217; comments about contrasting sociologists with Americans. Weintraub writes, &#8220;Tonight, Matthews suddenly decided that even mentioning class and race in connection with elections is for &#8216;sociologists,&#8217; not &#8216;Americans.&#8217; Using phrases like &#8216;blue-collar&#8217; is &#8216;elitist talk.&#8217; And simply by talking about &#8216;white working-class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39112,118,129,39115,39111],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-culture","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}