Race Card: Schultz Claims Republicans Have 'Pre-Civil Rights Attitude' On ObamaCare
If Barack Obama is going to win re-election, he's going to have to count on massive, overwhelming, support from his base. And what better way to gin up that base than by accusing Republicans of Jim Crow racism?
Rush Limbaugh played an amazing montage today of a series of Dems using the "discrimination" talking point in describing Republican opposition to ObamaCare. Ed Schultz took the notion a giant step further on his MSNBC show this evening, flatly claiming that GOP opposition amounts to a "pre-civil rights attitude." Got that, base? Opposing ObamaCare = George Wallace at the schoolhouse door. Welcome to the new era of civility!
View video after the jump.
Watch Schultz shamelessly play to people's worst fears.
ED SCHULTZ: The Republicans basically, as I see it, have a pre-civil rights attitude when it comes to health care. They want to deny, they've already repealed, they want to deny, they want to openly discriminate against people because they're sick. That's what today's vote was all about. They want to tell people, well, we're going to favor the insurance companies instead of you. They're going to tell young people with this vote that no, you can't be on your parents' policy. You can't do it. It's discrimination is what it is. They are taking away the opportunity of Americans to get health care with their attitude. This takes us back to the '60s! They want to deny. They want to deny people an opportunity to get better. They want to exclude. They want a two-class society.
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Some just never learn.
Submitted by Ashrak on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 8:43pm.
More projection. He is the one with the pre civil rights attitude and his position on firearms demonstrates it better than anything else. Democrats, liberals, progressives, leftist, whatever one will call them - tried to stop the 14th Amendment then and they still refuse to relent before it today. It is folks like Ed, folks who would endlessly deny, who brought it to Amendment status because folks of the day knew a great many would scoff at legislation alone and that a full Amendment must come to pass for it to stand the test of time.
I am left to wonder if the Seargent will ever understand just how much of a fool he is making of himself.
Wasn't the opposition to civil rights mostly democrats?
Submitted by Duff on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:51pm.
Like George Wallace and the ku klux klan (Sen. Robert Byrd (D)) among many others.
Now children, learn your history or you could end up like an ignorant buffoon like this obnoxious clown.
Sens. Robert Byrd and Al Gore Sr. were two of the
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 11:40pm.
. . . prominent Dems who voted against the Civil Rights Act.
Psycho Eddie....
Submitted by adamsmith on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 8:44pm.
Too bad people don't end up in Hell for being stupid.....
A way to increase Ratings...?
Submitted by AMR1960 on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 8:59pm.
Hey you lurker crypto-commies @MSNBC reading this blog--If you want to increase the ratings for "Big Eddy"; inserting a laugh track to go with Ed's unhinged & insane rants might help some.
Can't wait for Comcast to pay you-all a visit ;o)
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Long Live...THE REPUBLIC !
Is Ed mentally ill?
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 8:58pm.
What's wrong with these idiots at (MS)NBC? Their anger is way over-the-top. "Pre-civil rights attitude"... seriously, Ed? The fact is that the majority of Americans did not want ObamaCare. The fact is that today's repeal vote had more votes than it took to pass Obamacare.
Get some help Ed. Maybe Olbermann can recommend his mental health therapist.
Kurt, would YOU go to Keith
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:22pm.
Kurt, would YOU go to Keith Olbermann's therapist? LOL
It is hydrotherapy.
Submitted by Hunter12 on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:28pm.
It is hydrotherapy.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
ed was born of poor but humble parents.
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 10:10am.
They all lived together in a small, mud hovel with nothing but grass and weeds to eat.
Finally, when young ed was 3 years old, a man came to the door looking for a brain for his pet skunk.
Finally, after much negotiation, the poor but humble parents of young ed sold his brain to the man for 11 cents (Canadian).
The brain was successfully transplanted into the skunk which immediately rejected the brain as being too stupid.... but that's another story....
Young eds now vacant cranial cavity was filled with some material they located in the outhouse pit to keep it from collapsing.
That my friends is how young ed grew up to be the first living brain donor.
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Schultz is being racist. He
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:13pm.
Schultz is being racist. He is implying that black people disproportionately usurp government benefits and therefore will be the primary beneficiaries of Obamacare.
Does Obamacare only pay for black people? I did not know it was made specifically for black people.
Ed may be on to something
Submitted by Hunter12 on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:25pm.
Ed may be on to something there. This is not funded under ObamaCare, but the stimulus bill set aside $1.1 Billion to do Comparative Effectiveness Research and if you look on page 8 of their report to the President, it says: "One important consideration for comparative effectiveness research is addressing the needs of priority populations and sub-groups, i.e., those often underrepresented in research. The priority populations specifically include, but are not limited to, racial and ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, children, the elderly, and patients with multiple chronic conditions. These groups have been traditionally under-represented in medical research." Sounds like targeting research monies based on race to me.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Ed, study your history
Submitted by Hunter12 on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:13pm.
Ed, study your history dumba$$. If the Republicans had the same attitude they had pre-civil rights, they'd be in a mode of getting ready to pass it, not repeal it. You would need to say Republicans are acting like the Democrats in the days befor civil rights, they agin' it. The liberals forget they've rewritten history and then they try to reference it intelligently. Go back and look it up in an unedited book, Ed. Republicans passed Civil Rights. Democrats, like AL Gore Sr, filibustered it and then tried to gut the law.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
"You would need to say
Submitted by NC Cop on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:28pm.
"You would need to say Republicans are acting like the Democrats in the days befor civil rights, they agin'it."
Bingo!
The dems stood against civil rights legislation more often, a lot more often, than Republicans. It absolutely astounds me how the left re-writes history on a constant basis.
After he did his best to stop
Submitted by Hunter12 on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:33pm.
After he did his best to stop it and failed, Gore Sr jumped on the bandwagon. I guess someone told him, "Hey, there are a lot of African Americans in your district. They are going to get to vote more easily from now on." Everett Dirksen was the point man to get the legislation passed, a Republican Senator from Illinois.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Here's a link to Gore, Sr's
Submitted by Hunter12 on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:57pm.
Here's a link to Gore, Sr's actions, for the incredulous out there. Do a little of your own research, if you don't believe it. The gentleman even tells you where to look.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Republicans AND Democrats passed civil rights legislation.
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 11:18pm.
The search for historical realities in the arena of racial progress is no better served by spinning GOP yarn than it is by the effort of the left to excise the critical role played by Republicans in the passage of civil rights legislation during the 50's and 60's--or by your warped and oversimplified characterization of the far more complicated--and even occasionaly ignoble---behavior of Al Gore Sr.
Gore did indeed vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for reasons that were rooted in opportunism and election year politics rather than overarching philosophy. It doesn't excuse his vote---it may in fact render it less excusable--but it does tend to explain his mixed record as well as the social milieu which dominated and defined racial politics and the South of that era. As he had demonstrated to some extent beforehand, and to a much larger degree afterwards, Gore was more of a 'moderate' than nearly all of his regional political contemporaries. And the notion that his subsequent, and far more active, support of civil rights bills was cynically designed to appeal to an expanded African-American voting bloc in his "district" [btw...Senators represent states, not districts] is sheer nonsense. It was bound to--and no doubt did--cost him votes in his failed 1970 re-election bid.
Jer
Most definitely, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 2:27am.
One of your more convoluted explanations of why a Democrat did what he did; and yet you state Hunter's post was a "warped and oversimplified characterization of the far more complicated--and even occasionally ignoble---behavior of Al Gore Sr."
After all the ins and outs, ups and downs, and zigs and zags of your "explanation" reference Al Gore, Sr. and his Civil Rights voting record, it sure is funny to see you call out someone else as being warped in their treatment of the same situation.
Aren't you originally from Tennessee?
Maybe that "splains" it.
MD
Sorry, Matthew...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 3:18am.
Convoluted?...er, no. Not at all. It is an admittedly brief yet accurate summation of the social, racial, and political dynamics in play at the time. Furthermore, my criticism of Hunter's seriously flawed analysis is, if anything, understated. Yes, I lived in Tennessee during the period in question and recall very well the state and national debate regarding civil rights legislation, as well as the reasons underlying Gore's later senatorial defeat in 1970. His outspoken oppostion to the Vietnam War was probably the issue which hurt him the most, but the public perception of [comparatively] 'progressive' civil rights views also worked against him.
Jer
Admittedly brief, eh?---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 5:16am.
An accurate summation of the "social, racial, and political dynamics in play at the time". Somewhere around 170 words in your post. "Al Gore, Sr. was likely a bigot; and sired one of the biggest toads ever to enter into American politics in the twentieth century". 24 words. Much more concise, and IMO, much more accurate. No charge. MDThis is Ed on the deck of the Titanic, frantically flailing his
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:14pm.
...arms about, just before it slips beneath the waves forever.
The racism charge has no meaning anymore. Just ask the boy who cried wolf.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave, Actually, I would
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 9:59am.
Dave,
Actually, I would think that The Cowardly Schultz would have dressed up as a woman to get on board one of the lifeboats...
"Bias" Just Doesn't Cover It Any Longer
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:16pm.
Any more reporting of the over-the-top attacks of Schultz and you'll have to change NB's motto to "Exposing and Combatting the Liberal Media's Hyperbolic Lies About Conservatives"
Didn't we already see this gambit?
Submitted by neutron on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:19pm.
During the "W" years, Republicans were R A C I S T!
Last year, leading up to the midterm, T.E.A. Party folks were R A C I S T !
That strategery worked so well at convincing everyone to vote Democrat, that now MSLSD is doubling down on stupid. You're all R A C I S T ! Everyone of you conseratives, Independents, Republicans, Libertarians, you're all R A C I S T !
Let's see how well it works again! (Einstein defined "insanity" as repeating the same experiment and expecting a different outcome.)
Ed needs to read cajun's posts*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:22pm.
I posted on another thread today the Black Tea Party is having it's first convention in Houston this week. The Houston media is covering the event. Let's see if Eddie has the courage to check it out.
Democrat calls Republican health care fight "blood libel"
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:30pm.
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn invoked the Nazi analogy and accused Republicans of perpetrating a "blood libel" with their opposition to Obamacare.
"They say it's a government takeover of health care. A big lie just like (Joseph) Goebbels. You say it enough and you repeat the lie, repeat the lie, repeat the lie until eventually people believe it. Like blood libel, that's the same kind of thing."
Cohen, in his defense, said the remark was "taken out of context."
Of course, in context, it made perfect sense and wasn't offensive at all. Because, you know, saying it's a government takeover of health care, if a lie, IS the equivalent of claiming that Jews kill children to make Matzos for Passover, so he was justified.
\sarc off
How DUMB does one have to be to repeat the term "blood libel" right now???
"Blood libel!"
Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:36pm.
"Blood libel!"
Oh, damn. ;-)
Maybe someone could ask Steve
Submitted by Hunter12 on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:48pm.
Maybe someone could ask Steve why we need all the duplication of bureaus and services if it's not a government takeover of health care?
as an aside, here's a little nugget for Joe Wilson.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Bizarre
Submitted by dronetek on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:39pm.
All I can think of is that scene from the movie "Airplane", when everyone takes a turn smacking one of the passengers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0GW0Vnr9Yc
Dronetek: From The Source
How dumb do you have to be...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:48pm.
to equate Civil Rights with Insurance 'reform'? That's like comparing the Civil War to any given Jerry Springer show!
Joan Rivers Tells FOX News To 'Go F**k Themselves'
Submitted by im41 on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:50pm.
Did you hear this one?
Thank God that this is as close as we are going to get, to Rivers actually showing her ass.
Schultz probably thinks he was a 60's Freedom Rider.
Submitted by KyWriter on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 9:54pm.
It's one of his milder delusions.
Uneducated
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 10:02pm.
This bafoon knows no history of the Civil Rights Bill. As often as he calls more then half of American's a bunch of racists the more he proves what a racist he is. Those who point fingers are usually the one's with the problem. Wish he would go back to carrying water for his football team in NO.Dak
Nice Tone, Special Ed.
Submitted by LibertyAtStake on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 10:08pm.
Didn't you get the memo, fathead?
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
"Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive"
13th,14th, 15th
Submitted by Samshile on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 10:16pm.
AMENDMENTS WERE Created by Republicans. 1964 Civil Rights Act 84% Elephants. Who wants black americans to have dignity and a job? Elephants.
It's unbelievable sad
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 10:17pm.
It's unbelievable sad how MSNBC allows this missing link of a character to take up an hour of prime time air five nights a week.
All he's really doing is throwing his own crap against the wall, hoping & praying something sticks......but it never has. Why?
Barack_Must_Go.....
KAAAA-BOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 10:42pm.
What was that? It sounded like a man's head exploding on TV.
Waste a pucker
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 11:09pm.
Just missed Harry and Nancy by this much. Now I am going to have to waste a good pucker! Darn it!
Special Ed, Chief
Submitted by HockeyKid on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 11:10pm.
of the left's Department of Bombastic Lunatic Finger-pointing (and Silly Walks).
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
But Ed is talking about his fellow Democrats
Submitted by WarEagle01 on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 11:16pm.
All of the villains of the Civil Rights era--Faubus, Wallace, Maddox, Connor, etc.--were Democrats. Just like Ed. And Democrats like Ed Schultz founded the Ku Klux Klan, twice. They also opposed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and every single piece of Civil Rights legislation right through the 1960s. These racist pigs were Democrats like Ed Schultz. So, I guess Ed is saying we should vote Republican. OK, I guess I agree with Special Ed.
I love it!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:00am.
The Prog/Lib/commies are losing their minds over this! We really should do this more often!
Brains
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:20am.
A huge majority of them have a single cell solar powered brain. Because of their dedication to Global warming they stay inside all day. This explains their lack of a thought process.
There ya go again "special ed"
Submitted by donabernathy on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:50am.
26 year old children....... and ya think Loughner is a loon
roflmao
This website should have a
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:58am.
This website should have a dedicated section that high-lights every instance the race-card is being used by the left-wing media. It seems like several times every day there is some form of "race card" being dealt by the left. Hilarious and shameful at the same time.
Race Baiting Has Lost It's Steam
Submitted by Boil It Down on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 2:12am.
Hey Ed, didn't you get the memo that the race card has been backfiring on you guys. Maybe your buddy "The Great Race Divider" Sharpton has convinced you otherwise with some sort of gratuity but, if so, he flim flammed you. But, I encourage you to keep it up and even add a little more rage and hyperbole, 'cause it's workin' great for us. With a little more emphasis you can make the word "racism" mean absolutely nothing at all. People of reason around the world own you a debt of gratitude for providing someone to point to and say "see..that's what not to be".
See Ed Schultz. See Ed
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 10:06am.
See Ed Schultz. See Ed Schultz make wilder and wilder attacks against Republicans in a desperate attempt to get noticed amongst all the other radical liberal voices at MSNBC - who are all doing pretty much the same thing as he is. It's like the cacophony of insanity you'd hear walking down the hall in the secure ward of an insane asylum...