On Wednesday, MSNBC host Chris Matthews tackled a variety of, what he views as, persistently racial memes and insensitive attacks directed at President Barack Obama from the right. After detailing a series of attacks on the president from a number of prominent Republicans, Matthews chastised those who criticize him for seeing racism in questionable places. He said that those who disagree with him on that matter are 'dead wrong' and 'dangerous.'

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Matthews began by noting to syndicated columnist Clarence Page that the 'blatantness' of the racial antipathy towards Obama on the right 'went through the roof' after former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin posted on her Facebook that 'Obama's shuck and jive ends with Benghazi lies.'

'A dog whistle is a dog whistle,' Matthews said to Page. 'A trumpet call is another.'

Page said that the derivation of that term is questionable and there are innocuous uses for that term, despite its origins in the antebellum South. He thought the bigger error on Palin's part was jumping to conclusions about the incident in Benghazi.

Matthews did not agree. 'When you keep doing this stuff like — look at this Thompson, the kid of Tommy Thompson,' Matthews sai.