CNN amplifies Ed Schultz

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Over the weekend, there was a mini-scandal with lefty talk radio host Ed Schultz calling John McCain a "warmonger" in Barack Obama's opening act. We covered it here. Well, ... Schultz is at it again, and this time CNN is giving the assist by inviting Schultz onto their morning show.

USA Today reports:

"I'm sorry, John, the label sticks. John McCain is a warmonger," liberal radio host Ed Schultz said a few minutes ago on CNN's American Morning. ...

"Labeling a candidate is not being disrespectful," Schultz told CNN host John Roberts. McCain's policies, Schultz said, "fit the description, there's no question about that. ... John McCain has no end game in Iraq. ... (He) is saber rattling with Iran. ... The man is a warmonger."

John Roberts noted that, "Obama didn’t quite condemn the remarks," even if the Obama campaign has denied the substance of the remarks. My sources tell me that CNN is inviting Schultz onto the show several more times today.

Why is John Roberts, a credible journalist, allowing this guy on his show? Why is CNN making the editorial decision to give this guy a platform to launch his attacks? And why won't Barack "New Politics" Obama call for his supporters to act with respect and honesty?

The first and second questions have the same answer: the Media needs to do something for the next few weeks, and ginning up controversy like this will have to do until the next gaffe.

As for the third... please. Obama's trying to win an election, and the progressive half of his base react badly to any suggestion at all that Republicans or conservatives deserve respect - or, indeed, oxygen. You were expecting moral courage from the man? Hee.

The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!

Any sane person would realize that, it's so simple. And such people, grounded in reality, also know the only thing to do with world wide, long term terrorism, is to ignore it. Or maybe keep ordering police investigations.

And why does CNN give Ed Schitz a platform? Because he says the kind of things they would like to say but can't, and if you're going to pimp for a politician with nothing to offer but gas you might as well go whole hog.

Actually CNN and Ed are doing us a favor, let's not spoil the fun. The more the vile nuts of the left are pulled out from beneath the rocks by their like minded buddies of the media, the more their ugliness is exposed.

"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville

Consider who else was called a "warmonger." a gentleman called Winston Spencer Churchill by those people who were sure that Herr Hitler wanted peace until he invaded the Soviet Union.

Then a pacifist who lives in fairy tale land.

Though I don't see much of a difference between McCain's rhetoric on Iran and Obama's threats to unilaterally attack Pakistan. But the media has already given him a pass on that.

Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

Mt. Rush territory, a hopeless task. CNN & MSNBC are in a race to see who can get further left & more awkwardly stupid as this contest turns into an Obama/McCain fight.

Every few days, some nobody like Schlitz will pop its head up and instead of whack-a-mole, the CNNBC construct will promote the rodent to full-time "journalism."

Good to remind us of Churchill, also. There will always be ostriches like Obama, we need an eagle like McCain.

sounds like.
That line of Schultz's - "Labeling a candidate is not being disrespectful,"
Is one thing I think he and all lefties will regret mightily.
For a group whose party members have gone out of their way to help the enemy and harm our troops and compromise security during war to call John McCain a 'warmonger' is a move that will haunt our democrat friends for years to come.
And now that we know labeling candidates is not only Ok but is not disrespectful, well, I am reaching for my thesaurus even as I type.

any politician who brazenly and recklessly sings "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran'' in public, before TV cameras, can't squeal when he gets called a warmonger...those of you on this site who hold Obama accountable for what his pastor said should hold McCain to the same standards and stop blaming the media and everyone else...

because an obvious joke equals calling someone a name.



Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.

When you're running for President of the world's only superpower, EVERY WORD you utter is going to be analyzed. Not just by your political opponents, but by countries around the world looking for hints how you would govern.

When Obama shot his mouth off about trade, Canadians, Mexicans and Colombians were instantly up in arms about it.

So if McCain makes jokes about bombing a foreign country, don't be too surprised if that has repercussions worldwide.

How would YOU feel if Barack Obama made a joke like: "You know, I think I'll talk with my ol' buddy Osama bin Laden and let him have half the Middle East if he'll act nice. After all, our first names are so similar that I'm sure we'll be the best of friends."

First off, keep in mind that *EVERY* single joke will get your opponents to say "That was completely inappropriate and I think he should apologize immediately!"

The two kinds of jokes are the following:

1) Jokes that make your supporters say "HECK YEAH!!!! THAT'S WHY I VOTE FOR THIS GUY!!!!" (e.g., Reagan's "The bombing begins in 5 minutes.")

2) Jokes that make your supporters say "Well, you have to take his joke into context" or some variant. (Pretty much any attempt of Kerry's wit resulted in this.)

Whether "bomb, bomb Iran" is the former or the latter is outside of the scope of this particular comment.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire

And we Canadians were able to calm down only after he told us that he really didnt mean what he said, he was only doing it for the peasants :)

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China is Evil. Boycott the Olympics. Give Japan the bomb.

He used to be a conservative talk show host here in North Dakota. Used to allow the former Republican Governor to fill in for him and so on. Then the Soros money came his way. An idea was floated to get a "red state" radio guy (North Dakota) to launch a new progressive radio theme. You know try to break into middle America. So Schultz changed. He bacame a liberal and he hasn't looked back. I wonder if all of Schultz's fans know that he used to hunt deer and upland game here in North Dakota. Wouldn't that qualify him as a warmonger in a liberal world?

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What kind of person will change his "beliefs" for any sum of money?

A person with no beliefs to begin with.

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