President Ed Schultz Would Stage Show Trials of Bush Officials as Retaliation for GOP Filibustering
For a mercifully fleeting moment, Ed Schultz was considered a possible candidate for Senate.
It came in the wake of Sen. Byron Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, announcing in January 2010 that he would not seek re-election. Speculation briefly centered on Schultz running to succeed Dorgan until Schultz adamantly denied he had any intention of doing so.
On Friday, Schultz demonstrated why he is unfit for public office or anything resembling genuine power over other people. It came during a conversation with a caller to Schultz's radio show after the caller complained that "war criminals" in the Bush administration were "not held accountable" for their crimes (audio) --
SCHULTZ: So you think that as soon as Barack Obama got in he should have pivoted right on back to the Bush administration and gone after them for war crimes?
CALLER: Without a doubt. That's what everybody wanted. That's what we do to other, you know, we're talking about Libya now. Immediately he said Gadhafi was going to be held for wars against, I mean, crimes against humanity. So what can we do with our own war criminals?
SCHULTZ: Yeah.
CALLER: I mean, why be so hypocritical about it?
SCHULTZ: Well, you know, the answer to it all was that impeachment was off the table. That's what Nancy Pelosi said. That was of course before the 2008 election. The president trying to lift the country's spirits and accomplish something, ran into one filibuster after another. If I had been president, having run into one filibuster after another, I'd have given them about a year. And then I would have turned and gone after the Bush administration -- all right, look, you don't want to work, I've tried to work with you, you've filibustered everything, I can play this game too. And President Obama just didn't want to do that.
Obama, to his credit, just didn't want to do that -- "that" being a thuggish abuse of power. Not surprisingly, no such qualms from Schultz.
By his own admission, Schultz would have "gone after the Bush administration" not based on evidence of illegality by its officials, but because of entirely legal legislative maneuvering by congressional Republicans in a separate branch of government. In other words, Schultz would break the law by pursuing politically-motivated prosecutions against those not breaking the law.
I'm not the only conservative who has compared Schultz to the roly-poly doofus Sgt. Schultz of the old "Hogan's Heroes" sit-com. But the more I think of it, the comparison is unfair. Unlike Ed Schultz, Sgt. Schultz, even on his worst day, was a half-hearted national socialist.
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unfit??
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:44pm.
This buffon is unfit for anything human.
Wow.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:46pm.
Did I just wake up? What filibusters is he talking about? Now, I know PMSLSD is a "well respected" (in their own minds) news organization, but isn't this Schultz guy, just a little past his "best if used by" date?
Ed? How long since your dose was adjusted?
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 7:31pm.
Must be ratings time, or he is trying to avoid the dose adjustment on his Lithium and Seroquel.
Why does anyone take anything
Submitted by goon on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 7:45pm.
Why does anyone take anything this buffoon says seriously, he no credibility in North Dakota one bit...
Why bother with trials ED?
Submitted by Dan Diego on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 7:48pm.
Since you've already convicted them, just skip ahead to televised public hanging / stoning.
Never a Question In My Mind
Submitted by Boil It Down on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 8:10pm.
It is so obvious that Schutz is a born tyrant. He has called on the Administration to behave as tyrants.
Go after the Bush administration
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 8:41pm.
because the Senate isn't cooperating? What's your next plan, Ed--go after Major League Baseball owners to resolve the football lockout?
Ed arrives at the studio every day for his scheduled battle of wits--completely unarmed.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
The toon to the right
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 8:47pm.
Covers this in it's entirety, very appropriate
What filibusters?
Submitted by Blorg on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 8:55pm.
The Democrats had a 60 vote supermajority in the Senate.
Yep, and to hear the dimwits talk
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 9:01pm.
You might think they didnt know?
A supermajority for only seven months...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 12:09am.
And the Dems were forced by the Repubs to conduct Senate business under the continuing threat of filibuster. So it quite often required 60 votes just to move legislation forward.
Jer
The liberal Democrats screwed their own---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 2:02am.
pooch.
It is to laugh.
MD
Good Golly!
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 9:55pm.
Wow! Fat Ed is now President. What an improvement.
Senator Schultz? I laughed heartily.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 10:29pm.
Until I remembered Senator Franken.
Who will likely be a Senator for the rest of his miserable life.
Ed shouldn't have any problem
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 10:50pm.
Ed shouldn't have any problem then when his islamic masters stone him to death for supporting gays.
Ed Schultz Does Not Have the Gravitas of Sgt. Schultz
Submitted by Avitar on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 12:08am.
This is not too surprising. Sgt. Schultz was written with the awareness that Hitler's empire only lasted twelve years. So Sgt. Schultz represented the Germans who had the situational awareness that the Patriotic Liberal Labor Union party (That is NAZI in English) was driving Germany right over the Clift. Sgt. Schultz was closest to being a German Tea Partier.
Ed Schultz on the other hand has no situational awareness. He is unaware that the Progressive era was a product of the "Press Barons" gaining effective control of America's media and isolating most Americans form alternative unfiltered news. The Baron controlled media are going bankrupt and Every sort of unfiltered news is still available despite their best efforts toward "net nutrality."
When Washington, D.C. liberals in the DOJ last attacked by arresting some fring Mormon church branches in Texas and New Mexico. Shooting the dogs did not provoke return fire and they tried to isolate the "under aged" girls who were as old as 27 years. The Secret Police were backed down when proof of their age in the form of birth certificats were cyrculated on the Internet right by passing the MSM.
If Ed Schultz had any say in the mater we would be in a second Civil War.
How do they keep Ed from
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 12:13am.
How do they keep Ed from digging in his ass and then sniffing his fingers during the show?
They Don't
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 10:44am.
They tie his hands so he can't reach till the commercial breaks... then during the commericals he goes and takes a BIG DRINK from the Obama Urinal to get as Much recycled Kool-Aide he can get so he can go again.
Ummmmm Ed,
Submitted by Ashrak on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 12:14am.
Filibuster?
How about the Wisconsin 14?
Remember what you had to say about being in Wisconsin and broadcasting from there during that debacle?
This is what always happens to liars. They forget what lies they have told and contradict themselves endlessly.
No wonder he worships Obama, two peas in a pod.
Proving his stupidity
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 2:17am.
Ed Schultz Leans Forward At a Non-Union Shipyard.
By Don Irvine | March 13, 2011
Politico reports that liberal MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz shot a network promo at a non-union shipyard.
Workers at Colanna’s Shipyard in Norfolk, VA, which bills itself as the oldest family-owned, private shipyard in the U.S., were surprised to see Ed Schultz, Spike Lee and an entourage of about 50 people appear on site Wednesday to shoot the next set of promos for MSNBC’s “Lean Forward” campaign.
“We are not a union yard,” a shipyard executive told POLITICO. “Never have been. Don’t want to be…Ed Schultz and this shipyard just don’t match.”
Norfolk was chosen because it’s Schultz’s hometown. Other locations for the promo shoot included Schultz’s high school, a Ford factory that shut down a few years ago, and Doumar’s, an old-fashioned drive-in restaurant famous for its barbeque sandwiches and waffle cones.
According to local station WAVY-TV, the unscripted, documentary-style ads will focus on “jobs, outsourcing and unions.”
Tanya Hayre, director of media relations at MNSBC and NBC, said the crew was not aware of the shipyard’s union status.
“It was a last-minute decision to shoot at the shipyard and our crew was not aware of its employment policies,” she said.
The assumption being because it was a shipyard it must be unionized of course.
Somehow I don’t think that promo will actually make it on the air lest the non-union workers remind Schultz that they aren’t on the same political wavelength.
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NUTTY Fox Business Host Judge Andrew Napolitano also
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 1:20am.
believes George W. Bush and Dick Cheney should be indicted because they "participated in criminal conspiracies to violate the federal law and the guaranteed civil liberties of hundreds maybe thousands of human beings."
Sadly, we have a few nuts that lean to the right as well, even though the left has a monopoly on nuttiness.