What Ed Schultz should have said.
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Calls Radio Host Laura Ingraham A ‘Right Wing Slut’
TPM
Keith Olbermann defended Michael Moore’s comments about the killing of Osama bin Laden—and criticized former MSNBC colleague Ed Schultz—in an online “Special Comment” posted to Olbermann’s website on Thursday.
Moore has received a boatload of criticism for his comments on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” about bin Laden’s death. He said that the killing showed that “we’ve lost something of our soul here in this country…something that separates us from other parts, other countries where we say everybody has their day in court.”
One of Moore’s critics was MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, who earlier this week devoted a segment to the filmmaker’s comments, and said, “the intellectual liberal hand-wringing needs to stop in this country.”
In his “Special Comment,” Olbermann said that he also disagreed with Moore (who was just named as a contributor to his upcoming Current TV show), and supported the killing.
“What I object to is those who want to silence those who disagree with me,” he said. “Michael’s points are right-on…I believe, with great regret, that the pragmatic circumstances of keeping bin Laden alive outweighed, very narrowly, what Michael is addressing. But for him to then be accused of ‘intellectual liberal hand-wringing’ by a supposedly liberal commentator on a supposedly liberal television network, is outrageous.”
Olbermann compared the reaction to Moore’s bin Laden comments to the atmosphere in the wake of 9/11 and in the run-up to the Iraq War.
“Do we want to go back to the way the media was in this country eight years and four days ago?” he said. “That to question the honesty of those in power is to find oneself painted as unpatriotically questioning the troops? Because that is where Michael Moore’s critics would lead us. I want hand-wringing over exactly who a President gets to kill. I want liberals to question other liberals. If the official story deviates at all from the facts, I want the official story questioned.”
Well said, sir.
Not a big Ed Schultz fan but I did laugh when he referred to Fox and Friends Steve Doocy as Steve Douchey
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A new study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that health care was a “much bigger topic” for liberal hosts like Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz than for conservative hosts like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.
In a report to be released on Monday, the organization said it found that the liberal hosts spent 44 percent of their airtime talking about health care from June 2009 to March 2010, while conservative hosts spent 26 percent of their airtime on the subject.
”Health Bill Was a Focus for Liberal Talk Show Hosts
- NYTimes
Ed Schultz on Blanche Lincoln, unions, and the WH coward who hid behind Politico’s anonymity
RT @ggreenwald
How about, do you think MSNBC deliberately asks nonsensical, stupid, obvious, ridiculous questions?!?!
Ed Schultz looks embarrassed here, appropriately so.
