Ed Schultz's Sub Lumps in Conservatives with Mao Zedong and People Who Wanted to 'Murder' Galileo, Copernicus
By Tim Graham | July 01, 2011 | 23:39
When Ed Schultz takes a vacation, the guest hosts may be even weirder. On MSNBC, it's been the Al Sharpton Hour. On the radio on Thursday, it was conservative-bashing trial lawyer Mike Papantonio. The man was on such a tear about textbook revisions in Texas that he was comparing conservatives to Mao Zedong:
The GOP teabag-type conservatives are pushing education in the same kind of direction that Mao Zedong pushed China when he wrote history, rewrote the history, changed the history of China by destroying books and terrorizing intellectuals who disagree with his crazy, cryptic, conservative view of the world. See, conservatives don't, Mao Zedong was the ultimate conservative. He was afraid of everything.
But Mao may have been too modern an inspiration. Minutes earlier, the Tea Party was just like medieval people who wanted to "murder" Galileo and Copernicus:
So the same conservatives back then, who were called Tories, are really no different from the same conservatives we have today that call themselves teabaggers. They only can accept what they know. ... Understand, it was the same kind of inflexible, frantic bunch of social political conservatives who wanted to murder Galileo. They wanted to murder Copernicus. Because those two men had ideas that were different from the world that conservative knew. And now we're only a thousand years later and we have the same conservatives in charge of the idea that change is terrifying.
It's only natural then that the hero of the Texas textbook activists was "Red-baiting" Joe McCarthy:
Their conservative hero that they want to put into children's books, their conservative hero that they want to demand are (sic) in textbooks, well he ruined the lives of hundreds of decent scientists, writers, actors, politicians, clergy. He created a Cold War hysteria that dwarfed the Salem witch hunt. And God knows, teabagger conservatives love hysteria.
Since Papantonio's so enjoying the "teabagger" moniker, perhaps we should ask that when Papantonio unfairly bashes conservatives, can we call it a "Pap smear"?
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This is the same Mao Zedong
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 11:49pm.
This is the same Mao Zedong that was on a Christmas ornamant at the White House..........or that was one of the 'heros' of one of Boy Barry's commie appointees???? Or is this a different Mao???
Mao's "conservative view of the world?"
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 7:25am.
Once again, MSNBC's lack of historical knowledge and understanding leads them into embarrassing analyses. Mao' revolution brought forth a radical and lethal new Leftist ideology that applied any extreme measure necessary to eliminate the voices of dissent. It's easier to draw parallels between Mao and the AGW zealots, or between Mao's rewriting of history and the revisionist history intorduced to our own schools.
But that won't keep the idiot from mocking the gaffes of Palin or Bachmann.
Thanks for bringing that up,
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 7:43am.
Thanks for bringing that up, Gal; that's exactly what I was thinking!
I have no doubt that Stalin and Lenin will soon be recast as conservatives.
Who controls the language controls the argument.
mb, speaking of controlling language...
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 9:33am.
isn't that what political correctness is all about?
Exactly:
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 10:41am.
Language is the first casualty of the left.
where's Halperin?
Submitted by MidAmerica on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 11:49pm.
I think we have found another d**k.
If I am not mistaken...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 11:55pm.
Ed Shultz's most famous pic is of him, with a finger pistol to his own head.
Picture
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 11:58pm.
Was that picture of Ed before or after, he shot his dog??
Halpern, suspended for calling Obama a Dick:
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 12:01am.
A Substitute host (for a man that was himself suspended for calling Laura Ingraham a slut, then apologized, then basically retracted it) who makes a reference to testicle sucking. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!
Attention to the Board of Directors of Comcast: Does this brand of TV make you proud that THIS is now yours? If so, then you are about as sick as the people you currently employ. Your company disgusts me to the point of no return. I am cancelling my comcast service and finding another provider. I just cannot go on with being a paying customer of yours to which your corporation will allow this kind of garbage to be aired on tv. I will NEVER come back to you again.
I got a bone to pick with the
Submitted by MightyMouth on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 12:16am.
I got a bone to pick with the subs. For example, BOR has Juan Willams stand in for him. That should tell you alot. As a matter of fact the standins tell you more about the host than the host tells you about the host. If you get my meaning. I.E. does Hannity have Juan fill in for him? Does Rush have some ex-AirAmerica dropout stand in for him? No!
Many years ago...
Submitted by tvhall on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 10:20am.
Rush had a liberal sub - as an experiment. There was a firestorm. Rush never did it again!
Huh?
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 12:28am.
Mao liquidated all of whom he considered the bourgeoisie, and anyone else he considered a threat to his socialist/communist dogma. Along with intellectuals and capitalist he murdered by starvation those he considered undeserving of life. He was anti-capitalist, anti-religion, antiestablishment. He was anti-family and a collectivist. He destroyed government orthodoxy at every level to centralize authoritarian rule and created a dictatorship second only to Stalin. He murdered millions and stole private wealth at will. How does one cast that murderous, atheist communist pig as like a conservative?
Anita Dunn, Ex-White House Communications director
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 12:57am.
under this president hails Mao as one of her favorite "philosophers".
"Show me your friends and I will show you your future"
The left always disowns the most radical on their side.
Submitted by apf2 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 7:41am.
They say the NAZIs were from the right, completely ignoring that they were National SOCIALISTS. The NAZIs demanded absolute control of every aspect of life, public and private, from the books one could read to the speech one could make. They controlled all aspects of economic production. That is pure Leftism.
This mental midget calls one of the most murderous persons in history a conservative in an effort to move this obvious communist killer to the right hand column. Maoism is the very definition of one of the most violently intolerant currents of communist thinking and practice. He said so himself. He is a hero to many on the left and abhorred by all who love liberty, almost exclusively those to the right of center.
This is nothing more than the typical leftist practice of changing history so that the bad guys always come from the right and those on the left are only filled with good intentions for humanity. (Of course they somehow find room for those that would virtually erase humanity from the planet in order to save it).
For all their supposed intelligence, the left is so full of logical fallacies, contradictions, proven lies and falsehoods and just plain old fantasy, that it is incredible that so many are stupid enough to follow them.
Exactly ap...
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 7:59am.
Nazis are the left's embarrassment as they one embraced fascists especially Mussolini and Franco.
Yeah they are right wing alright. They're slightly to the right of their murderous heroes Stalin, Zedong, and Guevera.
Papantonio forgets that his liberals follow the fascist doctrine of population control of minorities, i.e. eugenia, which led to legalization of abortion.
These people are so out of touch that they do not realize their own history.
gmaniac1
Submitted by well99 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 8:21am.
Some on the left have tried to play off Pol Pot as right wing.Even though he was a communist.
Really well?
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 9:59am.
Geez they seriously have no shame... Pol Pot made commies like Mao look like a pacifist.
I tell yah trying to keep up with the merry go round of liberal lies is tiresome.
I think I need a power nap;)
gmaniac1
Submitted by well99 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 10:16am.
lol...I kid you not.Yup I agree.They really must think people are stupid.
Oh I definitely believe it but Pol Pot?
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 2:33pm.
I could see Hitler or Mussolini but a straight up murdering commie?
I don't think even a snake oil salesman such as James Carville could put that past anyone. Hmmm the libs must be desperate lol.
They divorce themselves from their history...
Submitted by apf2 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 9:41am.
They divorce themselves from their history while at the same time trumpeting the "success" and promise of their ways.
This is not intellect it's delusion.
Ha ha ap and ain't that the truth!
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 10:01am.
I'll quote one of their celebrity heroes by stating "DELUSIONAL!!!"
Well, I had to stop watching the first night!
Submitted by ironhead4099 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 12:40am.
I usually watch Special Ed at least once a week, just to see what dombass statement comes out of his mouth, but.......
I stopped watching this nonsense after about 5 mins of the first one with Rev. Al.
This was like one of those commercials that just annoys the hell out of you, because they are so STUPID! Same thing with "Crazy Al", this stuff was like one of those local commercials that hawk products with $100 spots, at 3am!
In Rev. Al's case
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 12:54am.
If he hosted a show at 3am, it would be an infomercial trying to shakedown some company for their injustices.
Oh brother
Submitted by well99 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 1:28am.
You really have to wonder where they get these people.
Sick
Submitted by hydrodynDM on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 1:53am.
Wow.
I'm thinking you could have put "(sic)" after just about every drooling utterance that this moron managed to mouth in this puerile diatribe.
"When Ed Schultz takes a
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 2:37am.
"When Ed Schultz takes a vacation, the guest hosts may be even weirder."
Of course they're weirder. They lack Schultzie's eloquence, intellect, and top broadcast professionalis.... oh, I can't make myself go on - even if it is sarcasm....
"Hungry Ghosts" by Jasper Becker How Mao starved 50 Million
Submitted by Avitar on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 3:54am.
Is Ed Shultz suggesting that is Obama's goal? I would like to think that this is just Ed Schultz way of say that he knows nutzing nutzing. We have already seen the problems progressives have mastering history when how little they knew about Paul Reviver’s Ride came to light.
After all everyone who wanted to kill Galileo, Copernicus did not live at the same time. Galileo they wanted to kill him because he had a mouth on him and was the Rush Limbaugh of his day. I'm not sure that anyone wanted Copernicus dead until he actually was dead. He arrange for publication of his most significant work to be done after he had already died.
Avitar - repeated your point
Submitted by PeskyDane on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 7:34am.
Avitar - repeated your point about Copernicus within the context of my post below... didn't mean to be redundant.
Maybe it his way to rebrand himself as a centrist...
Submitted by apf2 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 7:47am.
If his guests are even more absurdly wacked out leftist/socialist/progressive/humanist/environmentalist idiots they he must hope to appear more balanced and to the center.
Even so he fails. He only places himself squarely in the center of these idiots--Mao was a conservative--yeah and Obama earned the Nobel prize after only a month on the job!
Collectivism
Submitted by Simplicity101 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 4:06am.
Mao pushed the communist party didn't he?
Is not communism another type of socialism/collectivism?
Doesn't socialism/collectivism aim at SHARING the wealth and SPREADING it around?
Hm...Wonder if any of our politicians said anything like that recently...
Its OK To...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 6:25am.
"Since Papantonio's so enjoying the "teabagger" moniker, perhaps we should ask that when Papantonio unfairly bashes conservatives, can we call it a "Pap smear"?"
Why is it OK to constantly smear us with such a filthy term as "teabagger" yet Mark Halpern gets suspended for calling Obama a d*** [I think a p**** would be more appropriate!]?
I'm really to the point that I'd like to take this fight to the streets and kick the living **** out of the filthy scumbags. I'm losing my Christian principles quite rapidly when it comes to these jerks. Call me a name like that to my face and I'll feed you a delicious knuckle sandwich!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
If anyone calls me a teabagger................
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 12:30am.
I return the favor and call them an Obama Rimjobber. That shuts them up.
I usually just tell them
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 1:16am.
"Yeah, I'm a teabagger. Just got done with your mom. She thinks 'tttheeyy'ree ggreeeattt!'"
That usually shuts them up as well.
Please indulge me while I
Submitted by PeskyDane on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 7:31am.
Please indulge me while I play "What if Sarah/Michelle/W had said that..."
They only can accept what they know. Imagine that. The tea-partiers are actually knowledge based and are reluctant to make things up.
They wanted to murder Copernicus. Copernicus did not publish until he knew he was near death. No one wanted to murder him.
So the same conservatives back then, who were called Tories... political conservatives who wanted to murder Galileo. Hmm... didn't know the Tories (Torys?) made it over from the American colonies to Rome to take over the persecution of Galileo. Wonder how the Pope felt about that? Wow - think about the logistics involved for the "Tories" to go back in time 140 years to carry out their attempted murder of Galileo. Imagine the blind hatred that motivates a group of people to go back in time and kill someone who is already dead.
Special Ed really is the gift that keeps on giving.
I've never understood the whole "teabag" slur thing.
Submitted by JohnMcGrew on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 7:51am.
Like many "conservatives", I've had liberals retort that my opinion was basically worthless because I was just another "teabagger", as if it would somehow offend me and would diffuse any arguments I have made.
I'm neither homosexual or homophobic, and still don't even know the exact meaning of the term beyond understanding that it's a reference to some sort of gay sex act. (And I really don't care to know, thank you very much) So why do they think that calling me a "teabagger" would somehow personally offend me or otherwise get under my skin, or would even somehow cause other people to regard my opinion as any less valid than theirs?
Beyond the obvious hypocrisy of why it is okay for liberals to use obviously demeaning and offensive slurs against people they obviously "hate", what purpose does repeatedly slinging this clearly misdirected term serve? If it does anything, it demonstrates how utterly clueless liberals are about conservatives, how they feel and what they think. Or if they do know better, it only demonstrates the contempt they have for their own clueless audience. It's as if none of them actually know any "conservatives", what they think and believe. Could they really actually be that clueless?
In order for propaganda to be effective, you must know your enemy. They clearly do not.
As far as I can tell, it only makes them look shallow, hateful, vacuous, ignorant, insensitive (to one of their favorite identity groups no less) and just plain dumb.
Because when it comes to
Submitted by PeskyDane on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 8:23am.
Because when it comes to libtards, you are dealing with children. Think about who they put up front - all children. Different kinds of children, but children just the same. Ed has his tantrums. So did Kieth. And Rachel? Think Miranda Kosgrove in School of Rock. Relentless, pathetic pleading to be thought of as smart. Maybe it was that whole American at Oxford thing. Did it leave scars? I don't know.
It really is childish.
Submitted by JohnMcGrew on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 10:47am.
When I see such behavior, it reminds me of the whiny weasels of grade school. Their tactic is to whine until they get their way, which people usually tolerate because they just get tired of dealing with them.
John I see the same thing as
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 11:58am.
John I see the same thing as you.I grew up in the 50's and 60's and have numerous times compared our current leaders to this small chicken group of people. Little wieners whom need someone else to do their bidding, as they are too weak to stand on their own two feet.
John check out this site of
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 6:23pm.
John check out this site of the Daily beast..the weenies are talking.... please read some of the comments...here they are all grown up and talking.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/30/obama-pleases-liberals-...
Yes everything that I hear
Submitted by Bhaal on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 8:29am.
Yes everything that I hear progressives tagging conservatives with is actually what they are guilty of themselves. Ignorance, bigotry, unanbashed hatred. Look at the treatment of the Palins or Bachmann, anything goes.
That IS their main conceit
Submitted by JohnMcGrew on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 10:46am.
These people are simplistic and shallow. Their self-imposed ignorant isolation of intellect allows them to believe that everyone else is just as shallow as they are, even though they don't know that they are, and this arrogance leads them to assume that they are somehow smarter and more noble, Rather sad, really.
Time for the TEA acronym to go, it's Taxed Enough Already
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 12:21pm.
More than one liberal ( I never listen to the news, it's depressing ) I've talked to, did not know what TEA meant.
NO Joke...
Try it sometime it's an eye opener.
O'bama 0% capital gains @4:58 and so much more.
A Trial Lawyer?...
Submitted by iveseenitall on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 12:31pm.
I grew up believing lawyers are intelligent people. Boy, was I wrong. This fellow turns the truth on its head. He's wrong about history, he's illogical, he's irrational,he's immature,he's biased, he's hateful--- and yes, he's arrogant in his ignorance. True-- quite sad.
Hey, he's a modern "liberal" adolescent in an adult's body.
BTW---What a spin about the Tea Party! Afraid of "change"? No---simply afraid of the complete economic collapse which is right around the corner. This guy Papantonio is a fool.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal" (progressive)
Trial Lawyers:
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 3:51pm.
Mike Papantonio & John Edwards = Left wing Progressive Slime cut from the same mold.
We call it a "drug holiday".
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 11:58am.
Periodically, we taper down or discontinue a patient's medications if personal, clinical or other considerations merit this decision. For example, a kid out on summer break may have the ADHD medications withdrawn if below a certain age. We also use the drug holiday concept to re-adjust medications when the patient has not been adherent to the regimen.
In Mikey's case, perhaps his psychiatrist is trying to switch him over from one regimen to another. The overlap, where we taper one and start the other, is also a drug holiday. That's a highly probable reason for Mikey's revision of history--and the fact that he is a moonbat liberal to whom the inconvenience of history does not apply.
Liberal revisionist history
Submitted by deadeyedan on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 2:06pm.
The "Pap smear" (thanks, Tim) need look no further back than the early Seventeenth Century (not "a thousand years") for Galileo's observations, nor much further back than that for the Copernican Revolution.
Liberals would have wanted Galileo and Copernicus dead; were they not, after all, devout Catholics?
Liberalism - government of the people, by the theories and for the ideologists - deadeyedan
Who's Galileo?
Submitted by nkviking75 on Sat, 07/02/2011 - 3:31pm.
You might remember that Iowa State University (an institution that once employed my mother) denied tenure to a professor who believed in intelligent design. And one of the common "arguments" when someone dares to question Global Warming is, "That's not scientific!".
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