Schultz: I 'Absolutely' Believe Cheney Wants Americans To Die

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There was a tell-tale moment during Ed Schultz's repugnant rant on today's Morning Joe. In the course of alleging that Dick Cheney wants Americans to die in a terrorist attack, Schultz boasted: "I got a lot of support when I said that on the Ed program, I got a lot of support overnight when I said it again." [H/t reader Melody and Mitchell Blatt.]

Translation: the ratings-starved Schultz will say pretty much anything if it garners him a few more eyeballs on the paranoid-lefty fringe.

Here's Schultz spewing his bile . . .

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JOE SCARBOROUGH: Do you agree with the CIA Director that it's as if Dick Cheney hopes Americans die so that he gains a political advantage?

ED SCHULTZ: Absolutely. Absolutely.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: So you believe Dick Cheney wants Americans to die --

SCHULTZ: I want Dick Cheney to come out and say "I do not want this country to get hit, and I will do anything I can to help the president so we don't get hit."

SCARBOROUGH: You just said "absolutely."  So again, I want this on the record: you believe the former Vice-President wants Americans to die in a terrorist attack so he can gain a political advantage?

SCHULTZ: You got it, Joe.  You got it.  I think Dick Cheney's all about power.  I think Dick Cheney's all about seeing this country go conservative on a hard right-wing and I think he'll do anything to get it that way.
And a bit later . . .
SCHULTZ: I'm telling you what I think; I'm telling you what I believe. I got a lot of support when I said that on the Ed program, I got a lot of support overnight when I said it again.  I think Leon Panetta backed off of that because he probably got a talking-to.

SCARBOROUGH: But you know what?  You can also say that America took down, that we plotted to destroy and kill Americans on 9-11.  You'd get a lot of support if you said thattoo.

SCHULTZ: I don't believe that.
A bit later still . . .
MIKE BARNICLE: I certainly don't believe that the former Vice-President of the United States is sitting there in McLean, Virginia saying "you know, I hope today's the day." Do you believe that?

SCHULTZ: I really do, Mike. I do. I really believe, because I think it's all about the conservatives grabbing the power and keeping it.  These folks hate.  Just my opinion. I mean, I don't want to offend anybody.
Of course not.

—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.


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Dick Cheney

along with GW did their jobs of keeping America safe. It's osama obama who doesn't have the savvy or knowhow to defend this nation and besides that he doesn't want to and it will be his fault as to whatever comes at us now. He needs to go and soon.

They did?

Bush and Cheney kept us safe? Tell that to the 3000 plus who died on 9/11 - tell that to the folks who watched lower Manhattan burn. So here's the right-wing postion - the folks who were in charge on 9/11 actually kept us safe - they have "savvy and knowhow" - now Obama ain't got "savvy and knowhow" - but - at least as of yet, we''ve not been attacked...

 

 

They did?

Bush and Cheney kept us safe? Tell that to the 3000 plus who died on 9/11 - tell that to the folks who watched lower Manhattan burn. So here's the right-wing postion - the folks who were in charge on 9/11 actually kept us safe - they have "savvy and knowhow" - now Obama ain't got "savvy and knowhow" - but - at least as of yet, we''ve not been attacked...

 

 

It's not their fault?

"...it will be [Obama's] fault as to whatever comes at us now."

 So let's get this straight - 9/11 was NOT Bush's fault - it was  - I suppose, Clinton's fault - but if we're attacked again, it still won't be Bush's fault - it will be Obama's fault? IOW, Bush/Cheney is faultless - everyone else is to blame... 

We won't be attacked right

We won't be attacked right away.  It will take the terrorists quite some time to stage an attack, thanks to Bush. 

It took eight years of Clinton mismanagement to ripen the terrorists plans sufficiently they could stage 9-11.  Obama has only just begun, by providing foreign aid money to Hamas and through emboldening Islamofascists through policy statements such as his recent speech in Cairo.  Let Obama deliver even 4 years of his overt and obvious incompetence.  There will be an attack.

The actions and policies

The actions and policies must be taken into account for their totality.

The Bush administration in the days following 9/11 put in place policies to ensure attacks would not take place, or if they were carreid out were mitigated.

The Obama administration has reversed much of those policies so that attacks are not only more likely, but the mitigation efforts are reduced as well.

Yes, GWB kept us safe and helped minimize the damage that

bill clinton left us. 

SCHULTZ: I want Dick Cheney

SCHULTZ: I want Dick Cheney to come out and say "I do not want this country to get hit, and I will do anything I can to help the president so we don't get hit."

This guy Schultz is a complete moron, I apologize to all morons out there.  Dick Cheney is trying to help the country and this President by calling Obama out and telling him what is wrong and why.

This says volumes about Ed Schultz

and absolutely nothing about Cheney.

This is Ed Schultz projecting what he thinks onto someone else.

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

www.loyaltoliberty.com

i think schultz

has moved over to the whacky side ,too much cool aid,huff po and kos.

HMMMMMMM

 

 Does this jerk not know that tens of thousands will die because of the "O".  Just wait ans see it will happen soon. Gosh even Joe Bidet said so. 

bush and Cheney spent billions

War on terror is expensive.  I suspect spending on defense tells us they are committed to protection.

 

News Flash.  Obama is asking for 80 billlion for the war today.  Didn't the leftisits want surrender?

You can predict the future?

Because the FACTS and HISTORY claim that Bush/Cheney presided over the worse terrorist attack in American history... you might be right - ti sure seems that's what your side WANTS - just like Schultz said...

Presided over?  That is a

Presided over?  That is a ridiculous comment which comes from either ignorance or stupidity.  You don't "preside over" an attack unless you're the one who ordered it.

Was America ready for it?  Nope.  The question is why.  The answer is - for many reasons, including the Clinton administration's "Gorelick wall" and their weak response to attacks like the 1993 WTC attack, the Khobar Towers and the U.S.S. cole.

Those are facts, it isn't about blame, or at least it shouldn't be, it's about the question of how to deal with this threat.

One response is to ignore the threat as far as possible, try to appease the terrorists by ackbnowledging their justification for hating us, and try to treat them as criminals with U.S. constitutional rights, rather than as enemy combatants at war with us.

The other response is to recognize the threat, treat it as the war it is, and use every method possible to bring it to a successful conclusion.

Up until 1993, we didn't really acknowledge the threat - which first reared it's head after the 1967 Six-Day war.  Then, for 8 years, we followed the "appeasement" method.  9/11 proved that method doesn't work.  Bush changed policies and they have succeeded thus far in preventing domestic terrorist attacks and in inflicting huge damage to the terrorists. 

What happens next will depend on whether Obama continues Bush's policies or reverts back to pre-9/11 methodology.

1.)  Would the attack have

1.)  Would the attack have occurred under the Clinton Administration?  Yes.  Clinton took no actions that were later reversed by the Bush administration to prevent such an attack.

2.)  Did the Bush administration take measures and change policies to reduce the likelihood of attack post 9/11 or mitigate the harm due to such attacks?  Yes.

3.)  Has obama reversed those policies?  yes.

4.)  Has Obama made any additional efforts beyond the original bush policies?  No.

5.)  Does ANYONE imagine a Gore Administration using force to counter an attack?  Not really.

6.)  What would the likely response of the Gore Administration have been?  Most likely a round of "oh dear me, woe is me we have been attacked" feel good foreign policy that would have harmed our enemies little.  But it would have made us popular in the sidewalk cafes of Paris.

Therefore, WHO wants us to suffer from an attack?

Off subject

 

 Using the Dem's position on uninsured what will happen to the millions that came across our border every year? Have they counted them??????? 

If stupid....

were snow, this sucker would be a blizzard !

As Bugs Bunny is fond of saying, "What a maroon..."

Ed Schultz is an insult to idiots everywhere.

I would think there would be an idiot and moron uprising by now to silence this guy. He is truly giving them a bad reputation.

 

"Live for yourself...there's no one else more worth living for.
Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"- Rush--Anthem

Eh...

SCHULTZ: I want Dick Cheney to come out and say "I do not want this
country to get hit, and I will do anything I can to help the president
so we don't get hit."

Cheney HAS been trying to help the president... by pointing out the shortfalls in Obama's policies. If Obama would just listen to Cheney's advice, the country would be safer.

 

-Ghostbuster

We'd be safer?

"Cheney HAS been trying to help the president... by pointing out the shortfalls in Obama's policies. If Obama would just listen to Cheney's advice, the country would be safer. "

So Obama should listen to the man who disregarded intelligence memos weeks before 9/11 - the man who was caught blind sided on 9/11? And you guys think this will keep us safer?

It won't be his fault

When this country is attacked again Obama will just say, "This is a problem I inherited," and that'll be the end of it. 

Due to the large number of loons out there...

Due to the large number of loons out there, I would expect this man to receive extensive support. Schultz is a nut of the first order. I wonder how often they let him out.

LOL Thalpy... I just

LOL Thalpy...

I just wonder when he will be recommitted...along with most of the msnbc cartoon characters.

It's a miracle the walls of msnbc aren't all padded yet...with men in little white coats standing by.

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

The Difference:

If, instead of on television, Schultz was sitting on a park bench saying these things, people would avert their gaze and walk quickly by. 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

I've said it before about Ed

I've said it before about Ed Shultz, and I'll say it again and very likely many times in the future ----

Ed Shultz is an ignorant blowhard. 

It was Cheney who spoke out against Obama making public
photos of the terrorist prisoner abuse while the media, the left, and
ignorant blowhards like Ed Shultz practically stood and cheered. What a
great way to inflame more hatred and terrorist attacks! Don't
ignorant blowhards like Shultz and Leon Pin-head-a  realize that such a brazen decision could
result in more attacks against the US? If Cheney really wanted more
terrorist attacks against the US, why didn't he derisively applaud when
Obama released the picutures? It seems like it's the left and the
ignorant blowhards like Shultz that wish to see another attack on the
US based simply on their actions and their words.

A little message

A little message for ED(Erectile Dysfunction) Schultz. Hey asshole, Bush and Cheney kept us safe for over 71/2 years despite ever effort by you traitorous liberals trying to block his efforts and the MSM such as the NY Slimes exposing our plans to the enemy and now we have this total fool obama sucking up to Castro, Chavez and Ahmadinejad and doing absolutely nothing while North Korea builds up it's nuclear arsenal and threatens nuclear war against us.

When the next attack comes, despite obama's BS rhetoric and kind talk to our enemies, when thousands, perhaps tens or even hundreds of thousands Americans lie dead or are vaporized, guess what, it's going to be open season on liberals, we are going to rise up against you and take back our country by any means possible.

Liberals are destroying our country from within economically, financially and morally, and after the next attack while our enemies rejoice in our destruction while obama and his minions scratch their heads and try to figure out why we were attacked and how they can best appease our enemies further, WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL TAKE DECISIVE ACTION TO REBUILD A BROKEN AND DEMORALIZED COUNTRY AND IT WILL NOT INCLUDE PEOPLE SUCH AS YOURSELF, YOU AND LIBERALS LIKE YOU WILL GO THE WAY OF THE DODO, NEVER TO BE HEARD FROM AGAIN! 

If you think this hate speech, fine I don't give a rats ass what you think, in fact you remind me of a line I heard in a Dirty Harry movie:

   To me you're nothin' but dogsh*t, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogsh*t. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful where the dog sh*ts ya!

Yeah but he's a radical

Yeah but he's a radical leftist, so it's no shocker really.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

Oh PLEAAAASE put this guy on

Oh PLEAAAASE put this guy on Fox.

 Seriously.

If he had a show on Fox, he'd get watched.  If he were watched, people would know how absofrigginlutely nuts the liberal base is. If people knew how nuts they are, they'd all vote for conservatives.

 It's a can't-miss proposition -- especially when you realize that Fox viewers, being smart, would tune this dude out inside of two days.  Meaning he'd go back to not getting watched, and we'd still have everyone knowing how NUTS he actually is.

Did I mention that Ed Schultz is nuttier than a bad Christmas fruitcake?   Yeah.  He's nuts.

Schultz is nothing but an

Schultz is nothing but an old, bitter, liberal with Conservative Derangement Syndrome.  So he got support on his show and again last night, that means what, a handfull of people?

Nobody cares what he thinks but a few other nuts.

Mr. ED

 

        Mr. ED flunked out of Air America and he will be booted by MSLSD by Sept. Even they think he's a nutcase.

Just when you think you've heard it all.

It used to be, before cable TV, that when someone said the kind of asinine things Schultz has said, he would be held up to the contempt and ridicule that such a ridiculous person deserved. Ever since the '80's, when the  government released many of the mental patients from state institutions, people like Schultz have thrived. There is no fear that a public display of insanity might end up in a trip to the asylum. MSNBC has made idiocy the gold standard for libs - not that they needed the help.

Oh, for the good old days…how do I get back to the other side of the looking glass?

I wish Dick Cheney would

I wish Dick Cheney would hold a press conference every week, delivering his withering, but reasonable criticisms about how this Administration and Congress are mishandling national security.  The more he speaks publicly, the more unhinged nutcases like Ed Schultz are compelled to wave their arms around and spew emotionally-charged, nonsensical rants on air.  The more these ideologically-challenged fruitcakes are forced to defend their shaky positions, the more they expose themselves as the frauds they are...and eventually it will sink in with the "undecideds" that That One and his Congress are incompetent and must be replaced.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

Schultz "I don't want to offend anybody"

...what a POS.

Whenever Dick Cheney has spoken on this issue he has done so in a calm professional manner. He's a true American Patriot! Sgt Schultz on the other hand.............. 

 

 


Yo Ed... Doubling down on

Yo Ed...

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

tell-tale moment during Ed Schultz's repulsive rant

 Mark, a "tell-tale moment during Ed Schultz's repulsive rant.."

I'd suggest that there's a "tell-tale moment" during most all of his broadcasts which clearly suggest that it is he, like so many of his commrades, who are the hate-spewing voices of the media.

While Schultz and his ilk (radio, TV, and national newspapers & magazines), on a daily basis, continue to create out of thin air the view that it's a handful of conservatives promoting fear mongering in this country, the evidence is clearly evident in their own words and actions that practicing intolerance and fear promotion is the dominant calling of the left wing MSM. 

 

Schultz the political guru

So what political advantage does Cheney get Ed? He's not running for anything. You, on the other hand appear to be running for your ratings life.  You who took 1600 from the Shyster and ran the already low ratings into obscurity so now you hope your "following" comes across to save your sorry pathetic ass from going back to 3 stations in your "network" a la Bill Press. What a pathetic loser you are and I'm big enough to say it to your face you blowhard bully and see what you'd do about. What a slug of a punk.

Well, some Americans,

Well, some Americans, anyway. <snicker>

Ruthless

One of President George W. Bush's failings was not disassembling Reno and Gorelick's dysfunctional Justice Department quickly enough. He should have gone through Clinton's administration with a flamethrower and taken out the garbage. Democratics are ruthless in cleaning out old administrations, Republicans are not. The result after forty years or so is a State Department, FBI, CIA and Lord knows what else, totally infected with leftists. This is how the merdivorous Kendall Myers blended into Washington's State Department for decades, he didn't stand out.

Death!

The only that should die are your radio show and that horrible excuse that PMSNBC has on its airwaves at 6 PM. It isn't any better before or after 6 PM, so Schultzie at least isn't the only lousy show on PMSNBC. All of their show are a WASTE!