Piers Morgan Refutes Wasserman Schultz Calling Walker 'Extremist': 'The Reality Is He Won'
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has made ludicrous accusations against Republicans before and the media have failed to admonish her, but CNN's Piers Morgan stomped on her argument on Wednesday night that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's policies were "extremist."
"If you keep calling him an extremist but you accept that he won, what does that say about the people of Wisconsin? Are they all just a bunch of mad extremists?" Morgan challenged Schultz. [Video below the break. Audio here.]
Schultz laughably tried to spin from Gov. Walker's victory in a recall election by noting that the state senate will probably be controlled by the Democrats – even though more seats are up for election this November and the legislature is not scheduled to convene before then.
And Morgan challenged her other claim that Walker was punished with an expensive recall election for his "extremist" policies. "You could argue, of course, that Scott Walker's probably thrilled that he had to go through it now because it's made him a national superstar," Morgan told her.
A transcript of the segment, which aired on June 6 on Piers Morgan Tonight at 9:37 p.m. EDT, is as follows:
[9:37]
PIERS MORGAN: So I don't know if you were listening to Donald Rumsfeld there, but he concluded that the only possible reason President Obama didn't go down to Wisconsin to try and win this thing is because he knew he'd lose. Your thoughts?
Rep. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D-Fla.), DNC chair: Well, I wouldn't -- it's not really surprising that the Secretary would say something like that. The President deployed his entire machinery, grassroots machinery on the ground in Wisconsin, 40 offices, more than a million and a half dollars, our key neighborhood team leaders and volunteers. And we put an unprecedented effort of grassroots into this recall.
We came up short, but at the same – of the ultimate goal, which was to make sure that Governor Walker couldn't adopt his extremist policies and continue to hurt middle class and working families. But we did apparently succeed in flipping the state Senate. The state Senate is likely now to be controlled by the Democrats.
And so we're going to be able to stop Governor Walker from being able to really continue to pursue those extremist policies. So ultimately we were at least in part successful. And we're – what we demonstrated, Piers, was that Democrats are not going to just lay down and allow the middle class and working families and workers to get run over when an extremist governor has run amuck like Scott Walker does –
MORGAN: You keep calling him this great extremist who everyone apparently, is terrified of and everything else, but the reality is he won. And he won pretty convincingly. So the only people laying down, it would seem to everybody else, are the Democrats on this. So how are you claiming some kind of weird victory out of all this?
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Well there's nothing weird about flipping the state senate. Last year, there were recalls of state senators that were put on the ballot and there were recalls last night. And as a result of those victories, the state Senate has gone from being Republican to very likely being Democrat now. And really I'm certainly not going to call it a victory. Like I said, we lost the actual recall of the governor, but –
MORGAN: Let me just jump in there. I mean, that is my point. If you keep calling him an extremist but you accept that he won, what does that say about the people of Wisconsin? Are they all just a bunch of mad extremists?
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: No. What it says is that voters look at a recall very differently than they look at a straight-up election. And if you look at the exit polling, about 70 percent of the voters that cast ballots yesterday were uncomfortable in some way with the actual recall of a governor.
So while they didn't like his policies, they didn't think that they were comfortable with a recall. At the end of the day, I think if you asked any Republican governor in the country if they would trade places with Scott Walker for the last year, and if they would, if they had it to do it over again, take the same steps that Scott Walker did and had to go through a full recall and raising $31 million –
(Crosstalk)
MORGAN: You could argue, of course, that Scott Walker's probably thrilled that he had to go through it now because it's made him a national superstar. It's revved up his party. He's the hero of the hour. So I would imagine he's thinking, bring on the recalls. Let's move on to something else –
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: No, I can't imagine that he would be saying that. And that more would – most governors in the country would trade places with him having to raise 31 million dollars, and really having to spend the last year defending policies that were --
MORGAN: We will agree to disagree. I suspect Scott Walker's chuffed to bits tonight.
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This was Piers? Wow!
Submitted by JeffC... on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:45pm.
I'm sure someone from CNN sent him a memo, but I'm not sure if Piers got it or didn't get it.
Go ahead, Debbie--insult Wisconsin voters. Give the Romney campaign some video to use in ads.
I was thinking same thing
Submitted by dmacleo on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:48pm.
kind of odd huh?
Will the real "extremists"
Submitted by lotr on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:02pm.
Will the real "extremists" please stand up?
(Hint: It ain't the Wisconsin voters).
Watch out Governor. It would
Submitted by NCfairandbalanced on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:52pm.
Watch out Governor. It would seem to me as well that you would be feeling pretty good right now, but you're not. You know why you're not, Governor? Because Debbie says you're not.
You got it Governor? Again, let me repeat. You do NOT feel as good as you and others think you do about this, because Debbie doesn't think so. 'Nuff said.
Well Who Knew ?
Submitted by IFishThereforeIAm on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 4:52pm.
I was laid off my job a week ago and two days ago I got really sunburned. I've been somewhat depressed and in a lot of pain. I should probably call Whatshername-Schitz. I may find out that I'm actually very happy and my skin is as cool as a mountain breeze.
I'm sorry to hear that, IFish
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 5:13pm.
I do love your SN though.
Little Debs wouldn't know an extremist if she looked in the mirror.
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Well as far as Debbie "does D.C." goes
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:54pm.
I think that FINALLY SOMEONE told her to SHUT THE HELL UP! I mean Morgan did. He took the crap she was spreading and threw it back in her face... That it came from Piers was suprising... I am sure she didn't think that would happen!
Apparantly even a twit like
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:55pm.
Apparantly even a twit like LongWalk/ShortPiers can be irritated by a bigmouthed gumflapper like Whasshername-Schlitz.
As the saying goes...
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:10pm.
Even a blind squirrel accidentally finds a nut once in a while.
Even..
Submitted by gwalt on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:18pm.
.... a blind squirrel finds her nuts!
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
The best term to descibe DWS
Submitted by Scrap Iron in Texas on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:01pm.
The best term to describe DWS is Blithering Idiot.
She sounds kind of agitated that Walker Won
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 5:21pm.
Kind of like this guy (who is the genius behind the "Hitler Finds Out" vids?).
BEVERAGE ALERT.
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That is hysterical J!!!
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:44pm.
"We only have one place left to go........Sacramento, those imbeciles will give them free hookers and cocaine if they believe it is for the children"....LMAO!!!! Thats my home State for you!!!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Sacramento was the icing on the cake, BEG
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:54pm.
My favorite part. There's also another good Hitler vid....Hitler Finds Out Obama Ate His Dog.
Sneaky cats!
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I love her
Submitted by fivestring_assassin on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:05pm.
she's the gift that keeps on giving
Agreed
Submitted by inquiringmind on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 2:47pm.
Agreed
President Obama didn't go DOWN to Wisconsin?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:05pm.
Has Morgan ever seen a map of the US?
He might have been mixing
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:31pm.
He might have been mixing that up with Boy Baraka's crude, lewd, and rude joke about Mooooooooooochelle's push-ups, which was enough to make me almost vomit first thing this morning, and I haven't vomited in many many years!!!
But apparantly Boy Baraka has gone DOWN in Chicago, and that's in a northern location, although it's south of Wisconson.
SoL~LOL
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 2:11pm.
Well, maybe O was in Canada, hiding.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
I see what you did there...
Submitted by inquiringmind on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 2:49pm.
SickofLibs, I see what you did there...
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:06pm.
Her name is a mouthful, her logic is aschew, her hair is a natty frizzle, ... and she don't mind lying to you. What a fitting & pathetic POS for the DNC chair.
aka waterboy schultz
Submitted by russedav on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 2:00pm.
What an appropriate chair/rep for the DemoNazi party, Sergean Schultz. I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing! Except that compared to her, Ditsy Debbie, the "real" Sergeant Schultz of Hogan's Heroes fame was an absolute genius!
It's hard to imagine how the relatively reputable party of Scoup Jackson could become such a lunatic gang of degenerate, lawless & fascist baby butcher (www.blackgenocide.org) obscenities as to have her for DNC chair.
So, let me get this straight
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:11pm.
Wisconsin voters chose not to recall this "extremist" governor whose policies are stepping over the middle-class because they're "uncomfortable" with recalls?
Well, she's a fast talker who can get in a multitude of talking points in the shortest amount of time. I'll give her that much. It must be the only reason they keep this illogical ditz on.
Piers wants an audience.
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:17pm.
Do ya reckon ol' Piers has awaken to the fact that his liberal tunnelvision is what has caused his nonexistent audience dilemma? Piers, if you will "common-tate" & interview without your blatant liberal slant, "fair-minded" people may take you a bit more serious. But, I doubt it. This was probably a fluke.
You know he only won because
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:17pm.
You know he only won because the people of Wisconsin don't understand how "extreme" he really is.
Either that or they threw a tantrum because Barrett tried to upset the status quo.
Liberals know the truth. The facts are a conspiracy.
Finally
Submitted by octavioj on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:28pm.
I have been waiting for one of these people in the media to challenge these people's assertions that this or that politician is an extremist or bigot or stupid. People voted for these politicians to be elected. They demean the people who voted for them. Call them misguided, say they were misinformed. But do not call the people stupid.
For someone with an intellect
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:44pm.
For someone with an intellect that is taxed to the max when judging juggling acts, it's amusing that even Morgan failed with be swayed with Ditsy Debbie's latest brain fart. It's a shame that Joy Behar's show was canceled because she could have taken refuge with the red-haired bobble-headed dimwit.
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Oh, you NBers, you just don't get it
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:52pm.
Debbie schooled Piers, boy did she. What no one gets, what no one can do as well as Debbie can, is to apply the Wasserman Test to all things political.
this failed recall has Liberals in one hell-
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 2:10pm.
of a panic.
Folks who drank the KOOL AID- are now throwing up the KOOL AID
This is going to be fun
She also said those Bad Republicans out spent the Liberal-
How much BS is that.
when a county is 119% above in votes
no fraud??
being outspent and fraud in full bloom-the gov still got the votes
PANIC
dumby debby dumby can't decide which is more appropriate...
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 3:31pm.
You did call this a bellwether for the election in November. Of course now the story changed. Tell us dumby, how do you expect anyone to trust a single word you utter when you change your position when events have not gone the way you stupidly and smugly expect?
Now we have proof
Submitted by ArcherB on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 3:32pm.
To Democrats, balancing the budget is "EXTREME!!!"
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara
The Obama team
Submitted by milootoole on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 3:35pm.
The Obama team-- spent so much time trying to figure a way to make this a racial thing that they were late to the game.
Obama said,"Can you make Trayvon Martin a child in a Wisconsin school or say that George Zimmerman supports Walker?"
The Obama team
Submitted by milootoole on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 3:35pm.
The Obama team-- spent so much time trying to figure a way to make this a racial thing that they were late to the game.
Obama said,"Can you make Trayvon Martin a child in a Wisconsin school or say that George Zimmerman supports Walker?"
Say Cheese
Submitted by IFishThereforeIAm on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 5:03pm.
I'm surprised the Obama Administration didn't accuse Walker of interfering or downright banning the production of black cheese.
Pass Her Around
Submitted by IFishThereforeIAm on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 4:57pm.
Put a leather jacket and some torn up jeans on DWS...and she'd look just like the girl who gets passed around by an outlaw biker club like a joint.
Please provide a warning next time
Submitted by American.Patriot on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 10:24am.
I just spewed coffeee all over my laptop....
LMAO
Agreed, that could have used a beverage alert.
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 1:17pm.
But, 99% of biker gangs are far more discerning on who gets passed around.
On Wisconsin! On America!
Submitted by berlet98 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 5:57pm.
On Wisconsin! On America!
The debacle of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s recall, an exercise in futility and political partisanship, may be over but, as predicted here, by a million other blogsites, and on Fox News, the liberal, literal, weeping and gnashing of teeth have just begun.
In the aftermath of conservative Republican Walker soundly trouncing liberal Democrat Tom Barrett on Tuesday, thereby proving that intelligent voters realize that the Wisconsin is in dire economic straits, liberal Dems have erupted with a cascade of phony charges and threats.
Hurling unsubstantiated allegations that the GOP stole the election, that dastardy rich outsiders unduly influenced the electorate, that union members were bought, that money and not a deep-rooted sense of fiscal responsibility determined Tuesday’s outcome, Big Labor and its civil service lackeys resorted to every possible ploy to defeat Walker.
And they failed.
After shamelessly undermining the democratic process by lodging every slander short of alleging that Walker had fathered a Jesse Jackson-John Edwards-type love child, the Left was united in condemning the closely-monitored election as a fraud.
And they failed.
Wait, they did try that love child canard and it, too, flopped.
Liberals in the Badger State and in Obama’s mass media reacted to the taxpayer repudiation not by graciously accepting defeat but with an amazing display of sour grapes and continued defamation.
In two exceptional examples of disturbed hyperbole, foul-mouth leftist Ed Schultz on Obama’s MSNBC actually predicted Walker could face a criminal indictment “in the next several days” and at least one tearful Barrett supporter called Walker’s win “the end of democracy” and moaned, “democracy died tonight” on CNN.
Democracy hardly died Tuesday . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=25185.)
The gift that keeps on giving....
Submitted by nw_pa on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:31pm.
Gee, I hope Little Debbie stays as head of the DNC for a long, long time.
Thanks Debbie.
Debbie
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 11:13pm.
Isn't she on the bad side of Barack? Thought I read something that he's really not to happy with her. Maybe Piers was doing a hit on her for BO and Michelle.
Joy Behar got cancelled? What channel was she on cartoon network?
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
Poor Debbie Collagen Washerwoman
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 11:19pm.
She killed her cat...
Beat her pathetic husband up...
And still found her vile rhetoric unacceptable to an ass clown like Putz Moron?
Get used to it, piglet. It's going to be a long year.
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Debbie and all other dems, please define middle class
Submitted by MichMike on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 8:54am.
Are middle class familes any of the following:?
High school diplomas with no special skills making double or triple the state and national average compensation. Are those middle class families?
How about the same, people with no particular or in demand skills with pensions approaching or exceeding
$ 100,000 / year. Are those middle class families?
Workers who get more time off, by a factor of 2 or 3, compared to the people who pay for them. Are these middle class families?
Could the democrats please finally define for the rest of us the following:
What is "rich"? Is that based on income and if so what would that income be? Is it based on net worth and if so, what would that value be?
What would middle class be for income, assets, and pension (including free health care). What would those values be?
And just for clarification, what does gay marraige mean? Asside from gaining access to the same state contract as hetro marriages, does it require that all other private and public entities treat them the same as hetro marriages? Please define this for the population.
No reply from debbie
Submitted by MichMike on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 9:18am.
When the left speaks of the "middle class" they are speaking of union members. Let's examine the democrat's treatment of the non-union middle class.
College Tuition - has gone up at twice the rate of inflation every year for the last 40 years. Milk would cost $ 17.50 / gallon if it had gone up at the same rate, average rent would be $ 3,300, average income $ 225,000.
Inflation- the massive printing of money has already brought quite a bit of inflation with MUCH more to come. This will impact the middle class more than anything else.
Regulation - more than 300,000, each adding costs that the consumers pay for.
Taxing - the government taxes virtually everything, but the left wants you to focus on a minute amount of tax money they want (but it never comes in) from the "rich", who of course they never define.
Tort Reform - everything - EVERYTHING - costs more because of our legal system promoted and protected by the left. The rest of the world laughs at us over this.
Public Schools - no vouchers, must protect the teacher's unions, so you middle class folks go where you are told even though the schools produce no results.
I could go on and on. They say middle class, they mean unions. The rest of the middle class are only interesting for tricking to get their votes.
Debbie, you and your ilk are scumbags who hate the poor and minorities and only like those unwashed union types because they keep you in power.
Wisconsin union membership
Submitted by American.Patriot on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 10:34am.
has fallen about 40% since Walker changed the rules and made union membership optional. That is what has these people pissed off.
70 percent solution?
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 1:09pm.
"And if you look at the exit polling, about 70 percent of the voters that cast ballots yesterday were uncomfortable in some way with the actual recall of a governor."
The Democrat have been floating this "70 percent" number since the recall failed, but they never bother to explain how, if 70 percent of the voters thought that a recall was wrong, Walker didn't get 70 percent of the vote. Almost half of the voters voted to remove Walker, even though 70 percent of those, if one goes by the exit polls, thought a recall was wrong. They though a recall was wrong yet they voted, unsuccessfully, to recall him anyways. How does one explain this? It's obvious that someone, actually a lot of "someones," is badly misinterpreting the exit polls, just like Debbie is. Yet they keep using them, don't they?
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Submitted by GG_NB on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 1:15pm.
Down with exit polling. It is just being used as another tactic, IMO.
Let's vote and wait on the results!
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
In MIchigan, the "recall" of Gov. Snyder
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 1:31pm.
has been called off.
The biggest laugh was this group of disgruntled libs claimed their effort was "non-partisan".
Michigan Rising had this to say on their web site, "As of June 4 we have 2,079 signatures counted on 655 petitions. That does not include the weekend soft count from Hart Plaza and any count reported from Grand Rapids, which could add an estimated 500 signatures, and the weekend’s unprocessed mail-ins, which could bring the total to 4,000 signatures. Our Benchmark number for June 1 is 200,000 signatures. In the first 30 days, we have collected less than 2% of that number". That said, the minimum needed was 1 million signatures. And, they thought they could only muster 500 from Hart Plaza(Detroit) and Grand Rapids? Bwa-ha-ha. If they did manage to collect 500 from those two locations, 456 would have been from Detroit.
So, they're going to "re-define" themselves as "Occupy this Governor"? Terrific, just what we need, more Occutards.
That's pretty funny
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 1:55pm.
Oops.
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Occupy Gov. Snyder?
Submitted by GG_NB on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 1:53pm.
Geez, that sounds a lot like stalking. And although I realize the group probably will use several other means than the actual definition of stalking, Michigan does have some of the toughest laws on the books in this country on stalking (and widest range of what stalking means). So if they go too far...
Poor Gov. Snyder though.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
I think he can take it, GG.
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 06/08/2012 - 9:51pm.
I know a couple of the MSP troopers on his protection detail, I doubt he'll have any problem.
Of course, the Capitol Police are dependent on the Lansing PD for assistance, and Mayor Bernero is an ass, he loves him some Occutards,
When there was a protest at the Capitol, the Lansing PD was called for backup and to transport some prisoners. They ended up not transporting because the Chief invented a new policy, apparently at the mayor's behest, that LPD would not assist in arrests at the Capitol and the arrestees could not be lodged at the Lansing City Jail.
So, in sucking up to the unions, the mayor has damaged the working relationship between the LPD and the MSP. But, solidarity with the AFl-CIO, UAW, Teamsters and the SEIU was far more important to the ass then anything else.