Schultz Says Racism Behind Republican Opposition To 'Occupy' Movement
Serious question: if he ever had it, has Ed Schultz totally lost it? There's lots to be said about the Occupy Wall Street movement. But of all the cockamamie comments, of all the nutty non sequiturs, surely Ed Schultz's takes the crazy cake.
On his MSNBC show tonight, Schultz claimed that what lies behind Republican criticism of Occupy is . . . racism. In a beyond-bizarre analogy, Schultz somehow said that there's "no difference" between GOP congressman Peter King's criticism of Occupy Wall Street and Trent Lott's 2002 birthday-party praise for Strom Thurmond. Video after the jump.
Watch Schultz's synapse-snapping, utterly incoherent attempt at analogy.
ED SCHULTZ: I am absolutely amazed that Peter King is getting a pass by the media for saying what he said on Friday on Laura Ingraham's radio show. Let's just get into this a little bit more. He says: "I remember what happened in the '60s when the left wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and end up shaping policy. We can't allow that to happen." Well I'm old enough to remember the 60s as well, congressman. And those protests were about stopping the war in Vietnam that eventually took 56,000 American lives. That was a time period in this country when we were also fighting for civil rights. You know: so black folks could go fight, to go vote. I mean, is that what you're for?
So I ask Mr. King tonight: do you agree with Trent Lott, who said back on December 5th, 2002 that you know what? If we had voted for Strom Thurmond, we wouldn't have had all these other problems. I mean, those two comments, what Peter King said on Laura Ingraham's radio show and what Trent Lott said back in December of 2002: there's no difference! It's a mindset of the Republican party. If they don't hear what they want to hear they want everybody else to shut up. But it's also that dirty little secret of the Republican party: they've got a real issue with race.
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rock meet
Submitted by gfrrman on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:00pm.
Ed, Ed meet rock........and the rock slithers away thinking, I've got more brain cells here. The White van is coming Ed, make sure the robe and slippers are clean..
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Broken record, you fathead!
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:03pm.
Nobody gives a hoot about you Ed.
Shut up and run your construction business and fly your plane. You are so damned out of touch that you might as well be living in a separate universe!
This must drive Eddie Boy crazy
Submitted by Firmworm on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:36pm.
This is the plane Eddie boy flies, and this is Rush's EIB One. Ha Ha!
Actually THIS is the type of
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:50am.
Actually THIS is the type of plane Speshul Ed "Short Bus" Schultz is currently allowed to fly.
Am I imagining it or is the
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:03pm.
percentage of black people protesting on Wall Street a fraction of a percent?
Minorities are non-existing with iStinko OWS hippies.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:13pm.
Just like other astroturfed liberal lunatic fringe movements, they have absolutely message or purpose for people of color or minorities. They are just whining white-guilt college trust-fund brats and burnt-out hippies having a 4-decade acid flashback. Who in the hell could identify with that toilet-crust? UGH............
Makes it tougher
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:29pm.
to be a racist though, don't you think?
Hey Ed, they are 99.9999999% white, you ignorant dumba$$
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:17pm.
LOL - Yeah, that's redundant, but it works in this goober's case.
BTW: Just exactly how in the Hell did you ever get a for-real pilots license, Ed?
I wouldn't let you taxi me from the parking area to the run-up area.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave, Goober called. He asked
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:54am.
Dave, Goober called. He asked you no longer associate him with Speshul Ed. Thanks.
:-)
That was the word 6 weeks ago Fathead Ed...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:15pm.
...your trainers/handles should have put up different magnetic words on your fridge. Maybe they did but you ate them. The words this week are "surtax", "fair share", and "class warfare". You can borrow these, just don't eat them.
Perfect!
Submitted by philkerner on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:20pm.
As in "Crazy Larry," can we please just refer to Mr. Ed (sorry, no offence to the smart horse) as "Crazy Cake Eddie?"
Perfect.
To me he'll always be Speshul
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:55am.
To me he'll always be Speshul Ed "Short Bus" Schultz.
Hey Ed, Is your perosnal
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:22pm.
Hey Ed,
Is your perosnal corporate greed machine still hiring illegal aliens for construction work and exploiting Canadain indians?
ZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:01am.
LOL - And then some. :-)
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Never Ending Joke
Submitted by rammingspeed on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:35pm.
When are they going to rip this demented stooge off the stage? Leftists are getting more and more pissed off at his insanity, because he only (obviously) hurts their cause. But that's liberal programming for you: Do what you want and never back down, even after they close the lid and drop you six feet. Sheesh!
No
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:52pm.
you fat a$$, it is not a racist "occupy" Why not try and figure out what the hel you are standing up for,before calling it racist. Conservatives don't want any involvment hanging around with mobs and sidewalks full of human filth who yell about, who knows what. The banks gave them loans for school and the schools and federal gov. are responsible for the rates they used for their wasted education.
"A real issue with race"
Submitted by wingnut55 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:16am.
It seems to me that the party with a "real issue with race" is the Democrats. They are the ones who keep bringing up the color of people's skin. They are the ones who can't see past that fact. I don't see Republicans bringing up a person's race, it always seems to be people like you and the Democrat party.
Racism?
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:43am.
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/10/09/occupiers-of-the-day/ The OWLS look awful white, really , white to me. (sorry folks) If you click this link be prepared to have sunglasses on.
More Desperation
Submitted by CoolShades on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 1:24am.
Get used to this garbage from these political hacks masquerading as libtards with TV shows. This messaging is coming from the Obama campaign. And it's a beautiful sign of desperation.
On a different note: All these "Occupy Wall Street" folks look awfully familiar. Aren't these cats the same ones who protested the war, "illegal" wire tapping and water boarding for nearly eight years during the Bush administration? Funny how all those rallying cries have become so moot. I wouldn't be surprised if the DNC was sending out pizza's to them every night.
Special Ed sitting under the NBC News banner
Submitted by Texndoc on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 4:17am.
You don't think their are suits who cringe at this man sitting under a "NBC News" banner like that? I do. I bet he's warned not to do it again. "You're not on NBC News, bub. You're on MSNBC. Keep it that way."
Oops
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 6:10am.
I guess Ed is implying that the anti-TEA Party rhetoric coming from his side of the aisle is anti-white racisim.
Racism
Submitted by rusino on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 8:05am.
Has Mr. Schultz noticed reports of busing people of color to Wall Street because the demonstrators are too WHITE.
Mark wrote: "Serious
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:48am.
Mark wrote: "Serious question: if he ever had it, has Ed Schultz totally lost it?"
That's not a serious question, that's a rhetorical question.
Speshul Ed "Short Bus" Schultz "lost it" well before he was hired at MSNBC.
Wandering brain cell....
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:06pm.
Quick, put out an APB for Sgt. Schultz's single-synapse brain cell.
It was last seen wandering on the Interstate, playing in traffic and heard to be mumbling something along the lines of its being starved and all alone in Ed's vacuous cranium, dying from the solitary confinement and from having to listen to Ed's voice just drone on and on and on...
Poor thing. We can empathize with its plight.
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:13pm.
As is usually the case with guilty white liberals, there is a lot of projection going on here....
Oh, I get Schultz now. It's Human Racism.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:19pm.
The GOP hates EVERYBODY, no matter what color.
I Can See...
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:05pm.
Atlas shrugging from here. The rest of the wealth is going to be leaving this country, like, in a hot second. "Goodbye, Miss American Pie...that'll be the day that I die."
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html