Ed Schultz Says Hasan is a Terrorist -- And Blames Bush/Cheney for Ft. Hood Massacre

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Liberal radio host and MSNBC bobblehead Ed Schultz deserves credit -- he's that rare left-winger willing to throw political correctness to the wind and describe accused Ft. Hood killer Nidal Hasan as a terrorist.

After finding such clarity unsettling, however, Schultz quickly reverts to form.

Here's what Schultz told his radio listeners on Thursday (click here for audio) -- 

SCHULTZ: We've gotta stop being so damn academic about what a crime is. I think you could easily make the case that the guys that stepped on the planes on Sept. 11, 2001 had the exact same motivation as this guy did, vice versa. And I'm not afraid to take nasty email from people who think that I'm leaning to the right. There's no left, right, center, blue, green on this. You know, we're gonna get hung up on definitions on what a terrorist act is. There's 13 people dead! What was the motivation for that? It was hate. It was ideological. It was religion. It was faith-based, all of that, and we missed it. And now people are dead and many injured.

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This is where I cut ties with a lot of Americans when it comes to whether it's politically correct or not. We have to, in the cable industry and talk radio, we're going to ask the provocative question about, well, what do you think? But I want to be very clear. I think that this was an act of terrorism. I do, I think it was premeditated. He was out to take people down in an institution that he opposed and he was unfortunately a part of. I think he was a terrorist, I think he's a murderer and I think he ought to be hung!

By the end of Thursday's radio show, Schultz's kneejerk habit of blaming the previous administration for all manner of woe in the world returned with a vengeance (here for audio)--

SCHULTZ: Where the hell was Mr. Tough Guy, Dick Cheney? Because they were checking this guy out during the Bush administration, the Department of Homeland Security under the Bush years, the biggest rearrangement of government in the history of America, the Department of Homeland Security, and all the checks and balances ...

CALLER: Is that true?

SCHULTZ: Wait a minute! And all the checks and balances. They knew who this guy was, the FBI did, back in 2007. And they knew exactly what the writings he was having, the contacts he was having. So, where the hell's Dick Cheney on this one?! Hell, we got hit on their watch again 'cause they didn't stop us from that guy doing what he did!

CALLER: So, are you telling me that Dick Cheney knew about this guy back in 2007?

SCHULTZ: I think we should ask the question. I mean, come on (crosstalk) this, this happened on, this happened on the Bush administration's watch! He slipped through the cracks!

Don't be surprised if Schultz refrains from pushing this line of argument -- seeing how it also places the blame for nearly 3,000 Americans murdered on 9/11 squarely on the Clinton/Gore administration.


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Lol...come on it's Mr. Ed

Lol...come on folks... it's Mr. Ed and msnbc...are we supposed to expect anything different from the loud-mouth- dumb-arse-brown-nose wannabe?

'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart

You call him, "Mr.

You call him, "Mr. Ed"

and of course

I think of the horse, or, rather the hindend of one. LOL!!

Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.

This clown.........

Is another simple minded ass!!    As Forest Gump said..."stupid is as stupid does"!!!

This clown.........

Is another simple minded ass!!    As Forest Gump said..."stupid is as stupid does"!!!

Our fault, then?

If it is OUR FAULT, that these perfectly reasonable people hate US, what can we do? Just kneel and wait for the sword to fall? I guess every single one of the last 10 Presidents, up until Obama has been wrong. All the Secretaries of State, Defense, the Intellegence Agencies, Our Allies- ALL WRONG since the 1940's. Glad we finally got that fixed!

Please Don't.......

Please don't insult Mr. Ed! He had class, intelligence, and a winning personality! Schultz is the equivalent of Mr Ed's rear end!

Asinine!

This Schultz guy is a moron! These crazy jihadist terrorists have been attacking America for years and will not stop until we destroy them. So Schultz Douche blames Bush for fighting back! I guess he thinks we should just say sorry and wave the white flag! I dont think so pal. click here to read more crazy "lib" logic http://thedailyzing.com/334/7-habits-of-highly-defective-liberals/

I am going to coin a new phrase..

Ed Shultz is a "Busher".

Defined as: Someone who blames EVERY bad thing on Bush!

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

 

This guy makes an ass out of

This guy makes an ass out of himself every day. He must really hate himself.

SPECIAL ED...

 Schultz does step in it every single day, & that takes talent. But I am waiting for him to go so far over the line on air that not even MSNBC can defend him & get away by "suspending" him. He has a history of on air incidents, & he's just a ticking time bomb waiting to blow. God I hope it happens soon, on live TV.

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

Ed's right...

Technically, Ed is right on this one.  Hasan was up to no good during the Bush/Cheny era.  However, the PC problem in the military (and government at large) began way earlier.  Jack is right to point out that using this rational puts 9/11 in Clinton/Gore administration.

Realistically, though, the huge events leading up to  9/11 were a direct cause of Clinton/Gore policy, whereas Hasan was the result of a bungling bureaucracy (and what bureaucracy doesn't bungle?).

Bush and Cheny had never heard of Hasan.

Clinton and Gore knew who Bin Laden was.

In fact, I'll put Hasan

In fact, I'll put Hasan squarely on Clinton/Gore's shoulders, too.  It was their mind-numbingly stupid record of political correctness that caused Hasan's colleagues and superiors to look the other way in spite of his warning-beacon behavior.

Way to go, Bill and Al.  Another notch in your legacy. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Let's check the timeline.

"Hell, we got hit on their watch again 'cause they didn't stop us from that guy doing what he did!"

So is Schultz the first Democrat to admit that 9/11 was on Clinton's watch??

A full year in and they're still blaming Bush. When does Barry's term start?

You know...

...If Hasan was arrested in 2007 what Schultz would have said about Bush and Cheney, right? Here's a few adjectives: Fascist, Nazi, Hitler, Un-American, Fear Monger, Anti-Muslim bigot...

Not sure if Cheney would have known

I am trying to be objective here, because I do think that Bush/Cheney did get some things wrong and that they encouraged PC in the military and elsewhere. I must admit that I was disappointed when Bush started with the religion of peace stuff. 

I have been reading up this issue with interest, because here in Australia our undercover people have been quite successful in breaking up a few plots for a similar massacre at the Holdsworthy Army base, and they have been successfully putting these plotters on trial. So, what I want to know is whether or not investigations were stymied at the lower end of the chain.

What I am asking here is whether or not this information ever reached the level of the Vice President Cheney. If some junior clerk/investigator decided that there was nothing to worry about, then could Cheney be responsible if he never saw the report in the first place?

I do think that the person who determined that there was nothing to worry about with regard to the Hasan communications and investigation should be removed from his job. He was totally incompetent. 

 At the same time I continue to blame PC as a major factor in Hasan being enabled to go ahead with a bold plan to take out members of the military. What is obvious to me is that he was being groomed by that Imam in Yemen. The investigors should have picked up on that fact.... so why didn't they?

"It was religion. It was faith-based"

"It was religion. It was faith-based"

Gee, Ed, even when you try and access your inner-man you end up with your usual commie talking points. You just can't bring yourself to really be honest and say, "It was Islam. It was Muslim based." Nope, you've got to  dump on Christians and Jews, too (also without mentioning us by name).

I predicted tea parties would return. Now I'm predicting dueling will return.

“It is almost impossible to distinguish a politician from a gangster.” (Will Durant, 1931)

Schultz has his head stuck ...

Schultz has his head stuck where the sun don't shine and I'm not talking about in the sand here.

Actually, Ed baby, this attack happened on obama's watch. When obama took his oath (which by the way he does not honor) everything that happens or happened after that is on his (obama's) watch. Ed, no matter how much you wish and want this not to be so, it is so and will remain so.

Oh BTW Ed, it won't do you any good to keep a$$ kissing obama hoping to get the job of propaganda minister in the obama administration cause that job is already taken.

Remember folks, Freedom isn't Free. It was bought with the blood and sacrifice of the men and women who are serving and who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.

For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.

Also remember folks, that the way to SUPPORT THE TROOPS is to support their mission. Anyone who says that they support the troops but don't support their mission is lying about supporting the troops. And if you want to know, yes I do have a dog in the fight, he is a United States Marine.

Sgt Schultz

Where's the Sgt Schultz picture normally associated with Ed topics? Did someone here complain? 

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Re Sgt Schultz

Exactly, and in fact far more people watched him on Hogan's Heroes than listen to him on the radio.

Verdammt!

Does that make Olbermann Colonel Klink?

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason

Go see the WH Ed

Ed..... IF Cheney and his people knew, they certainly told Obama's people to keep an eye on this one. 

The report from Cheney on Hasan is probably laying under the fully prepared
Cheney Afghanistan evaluation and planning study that Obama's
people also said they never got. 

He knows mmmmnnnnothinggggt!

He knows mmmmnnnnothinggggt!

Fat Eddy

Please excuse Fat eddy.  He has a reason for making outrageous statements: He works for air america and msnbc.  He has to make outrageous, irrelevent statements in order for people to pay attention to him. If he fell over today, think anyone would pay attention?  This is what we get from guys who scarf up those $1 cheeseburgers 10 times a day.

I have run out of things to say about Special Ed

Honestly, I don't see how this stoopid goober-cheese manages to dress himself in the mornings.

-Dave

Our elected representatives have failed us.  

Front row seat

During one of the Vain Ones' press conferences Fat Ed was seated next to Helen Thomas in the front row. After this revelation of the truth about Hasan, he will be lucky to get into the room. He might receive a dead fish.

Unbelievable But Normal

 

 . . . for state run media

 

Isaiah 5:20a Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil. . .  KJV

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