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Dick Cheney’s Bribery Charges Leads To The Most Hysterical On-Air Debate Ever

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News broke yesterday that Nigeria plans to file bribery charges against officials from several foreign companies, including most notably, former Vice President Dick Cheney, culminating in an arrest warrant being transmitted via Interpol. This was the topic of discussion today on MSNBC’s The Ed Show , with liberal commentator and former Air America host Lionel and Republican strategist Ron Christie , who went at it at level that is rare for even cable news programming.

Predictably, Mr. Christie suggested that the charges against were politically motivated, though he did take them very seriously. Lionel immediately — and just as predictably — dismissed Mr. Christie’s dismissive comments of the original charges. See where this is going?

What you may not expect is just how quickly the discussion devolves into an absurdly hysterical debate, including lots of clenched and exasperated exclamations like “excuse me,” “oh please,” “what a baby” and “I’m done with you sir!” Watch the freak show from MSNBC unfold below:

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  • SmartAlec

    Ron Christie is the man!! The lib-jerk Lionel shows why Air America is no more. Who could listen to that annoying voice?

  • DorkyMcForky

    Wow, that white guy was really annoying, and that black guy was really prissy.

    This show is a joke. And Ed Shultz is fat

  • tatboy

    Freak show is just the words I was thinking… but then I always think Freak Show & MSNBC. Like PB & J.

  • SmartAlec

    DorkyMcForky said:
    that black guy was really prissy.

    Ron Christie is one smart sumbitch and can handle his own against ANY lefty in a debate. I don’t agree with your “prissy” evaluation, I think it’s more articulation and intelligence.

    I do agree however that the show is a joke and Ed is fat. No one can argue with that.

  • milynily

    If Cheney died tomorrow, these fools would want him prosecuted from the grave, please, get a new whipping boy!

  • Big Eddie

    Lionel ? Like Cher ? No last name ? Sounded like Joe Pesci .

    Three minutes is all Big Eddie could take of that chicken crap .

    At least Dick Cheney is not accused of coin mutilation .

  • murf

    Mr.Christie destroys Sgt Schultz and his guests on a weekly basis .

  • Jelperman

    milynily said:
    If Cheney died tomorrow, these fools would want him prosecuted from the grave, please, get a new whipping boy!

    No, but I hope they use a wooden stake and cut off his head so he can’t suck more human blood.

  • SarahP

    Big Eddie said:
    Lionel ? Like Cher ? No last name ? Sounded like Joe Pesci .

    Three minutes is all Big Eddie could take of that chicken crap .

    At least Dick Cheney is not accused of coin mutilation .

    Big Eddie is chicken shit. You’re tired of Lionel and Cher and you have some lame user name like Big Eddie?! LMAO!!

  • murf

    Jelperman said:
    No, but I hope they use a wooden stake and cut off his head so he can’t suck more human blood.

    Yeah you’re the biggest vagina here.

    Does you’re macho avatar make up for your coward tendencies ?

  • Thelonious Funk

    I wouldn’t anticipate a pardon from Obama.

  • SarahP

    murf said:
    Yeah you’re the biggest vagina here.

    Does you’re macho avatar make up for your coward tendencies ?

    This is hilarious. Did you done gradiate the 6th grade? LOL

  • murf

    SarahP said:
    This is hilarious. Did you done gradiate the 6th grade? LOL

    You tell me TRRK ?

  • Elaine B

    Well the fact is Chaney will probably never go to trial for what he has done. Sad fact but true. Not that he doesn’t deserve it and not that he isn’t guilty of the crimes he has committed but for the simple fact that the law works differently to the goober rich then it does with everyone else.

    Now for SmartAlec, DorkyMcForky and tatboy. Are you guys a bunch of high school kids learning how to blog and learning about politics at the same time? If not, you sure as hell sound like it.

  • SarahP

    murf said:
    You tell me TRRK ?

    I’m sorry your comment was so obviously juvenile and stupid I thought you absolutely had to be kidding; either that or you’d have to be an uneducated hick. So, did you done gradiate the 6th grade Jethro? LOL!!

    Keep em coming Jethro!!

  • George C

    Elaine B said:
    . Are you guys a bunch of high school kids learning how to blog and learning about politics at the same time?

    Kudos ! You got the name right . They say the fourth time is the charm . Good for you for keeping at it .

  • Nacho

    My cousin Vinny is on the case.

  • murf

    SarahP said:
    I’m sorry your comment was so obviously juvenile and stupid I thought you absolutely had to be kidding; either that or you’d have to be an uneducated hick. So, did you done gradiate the 6th grade Jethro? LOL!!

    Keep em coming Jethro!!

    No irony in that comment ..nope … Have fun .

  • SarahP

    murf said:
    No irony in that comment ..nope … Have fun .

    Oh come on Jethro, you gotta do better than that. LOL!!

  • murf

    SarahP said:
    Oh come on Jethro, you gotta do better than that. LOL!!

    Nah, to entertain you , would be to think you were worth it..

    Later ;)

  • SarahP

    murf said:
    Nah, to entertain you , would be to think you were worth it..

    Later ;)

    That’s more like it.

  • sticks

    SarahP said:
    Big Eddie is chicken shit. You’re tired of Lionel and Cher and you have some lame user name like Big Eddie?! LMAO!!

    I would’nt be making fun of peoples user names, considering you are a guy using SarahP… FFS !…

  • Elaine B

    Hey Gorge C, Put a shirt on!

  • Jelperman

    murf said:
    Yeah you’re the biggest vagina here.

    Does you’re macho avatar make up for your coward tendencies ?

    Nah, a coward would insist on bringing garlic and stuffing Count Dickula’s mouth with communion wafers before driving the stake through his heart and cutting off his head.

  • George C

    Elaine B said:
    Hey Gorge C, Put a shirt on!

    LOL ! Lotta vowels , those are always the toughies .

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Reality check for libs: Not now, not ever. Don’t get your vulva’s all puffed up, because it’s a nothing story.

  • david r

    Same old MSNBC bullshit. Invite someone on the show and talk over them. “Lionel” looked like he developed a short in his vibrating butt plug.

  • ChrisNH

    The word most often used in describing liberal media hacks is the word ‘former.’

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    SarahP said:
    I’m sorry your comment was so obviously juvenile and stupid I thought you absolutely had to be kidding; either that or you’d have to be an uneducated hick. So, did you done gradiate the 6th grade Jethro? LOL!!

    Keep em coming Jethro!!

    Only took em tree (holds up 4 fingers) yurs

  • Elaine B

    Mr.Papcock,

    Reality check for you, most tea potter’s don’t know their ass from a hole in the grown. Your proof.

  • Patrick Henry

    murf said:
    Mr.Christie destroys Sgt Schultz and his guests on a weekly basis .

    Murf, thumbs up on the new avatar!

  • Patrick Henry

    SarahP said:
    Did you done gradiate the 6th grade?

    Uh, no, that would be you.

  • Patrick Henry

    murf said:
    SarahP said:
    This is hilarious. Did you done gradiate the 6th grade? LOL

    You tell me TRRK ?

    I’m thinking maybe Ted.

  • Patrick Henry

    SarahP said:
    So, did you done gradiate the 6th grade Jethro?

    Uh, no, that would be you.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Elaine B said:
    Mr.Papcock,

    Reality check for you, most tea potter’s don’t know their ass from a hole in the grown. Your proof.

    A hole in the “grown”? “Your” proof? WTF, man? Are your going out of your way to be stupid? Are you some sort of conservative plant trying to make libs look as fucking dumb as possible? Jesus Christ, if you’re going to try to call people stupid, try not to show your extra chromosome, okay?

  • Patrick Henry

    Elaine B said:
    Mr.Papcock,

    Reality check for you, most tea potter’s don’t know their ass from a hole in the grown. Your proof.

    Absolutely hilarious!

  • JoeRemi

    You douchebags do realize no intelligent person bothers to comment here anymore, right? You’re all a bunch of assholes. Every one of you. The segment was funny, btw.

  • sticks

    JoeRemi said:
    You douchebags do realize no intelligent person bothers to comment here anymore, right? You’re all a bunch of assholes. Every one of you. The segment was funny, btw.

    Aww, whats wrong ?… Did Mommy find your porn ?…

  • Elaine B

    Nice come back for a jerk. But the fact is Papcock, your a real idiot!

  • Patrick Henry

    JoeRemi said:
    You douchebags do realize no intelligent person bothers to comment here anymore, right? You’re all a bunch of assholes. Every one of you. The segment was funny, btw.

    Uh, didn’t you just comment?

  • Patrick Henry

    Elaine B said:
    Nice come back for a jerk. But the fact is Papcock, your a real idiot!

    Again, absolutely hilarious! There is “your” and “you’re” and the person that says “most tea potter’s don’t know their ass from a hole in the grown” doesn’t know which is which.

  • murf

    Patrick Henry said:
    Murf, thumbs up on the new avatar!

    Ha, thanks it’s only temporary though , the dehyrated urine-yellow colored crown is a bit much.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    david r said:
    Same old MSNBC bullshit. Invite someone on the show and talk over them. “Lionel” looked like he developed a short in his vibrating butt plug.

    I, for one, find it hilarious how Fox incorporates what libs say into their talking points. For the last 5 years, Fox News has been notorious for it’s newscasters talking over people they disagree with.

    Do some research.

  • kabmn00

    Hey Eddie,

    Did he beat his ex-wife like you?

  • kabmn00

    Ed Shultz = wife beater = dog killer

  • Elaine B

    Patrick Henry says:

    Elaine B said:
    Nice come back for a jerk. But the fact is Papcock, your a real idiot!

    Again, absolutely hilarious! There is “your” and “you’re” and the person that says “most tea potter’s don’t know their ass from a hole in the grown” doesn’t know which is which.

    So I didn’t type you’re and your having a laugh about that? Well excuse me jerk off, who died and mad you the Grammar Police! BFD

    You can call the “Tea party” just about any thing you want and I prefer to say “Tea Potty” or “Tea Bagger’s” myself.

    I can say anything I damn well please. If you think I am going to double check my typo’s or grammar before I post…. nope, ain’t going to happen.. This is just a stupid blog and I am not that anal…… like you.

    If this is how you get your jollies… ok laugh it but and have a great time.

    “Patty the Grammar Patrol-er” I think this fits you better then Patrick Henry .

    Or “Anal One”

  • BlackWidow

    SmartAlec said:
    Ron Christie is the man!! The lib-jerk Lionel shows why Air America is no more. Who could listen to that annoying voice?

    Ron Christie is the ONLY blaxk person that made ir obvious that he wants to be white. His new book is

    “Black in the White House, Life Inside George W. Bush’s West Wing.’ Ron Christie,

  • BlackWidow

    Oh my bad this was about Cheeeeeeney as Tweety loves to pronounce his name. He is going anywhere. His health is very bad and there probably is not enough time to do anything.

  • BlackWidow

    Patty the Grammar Patrol-er” I think this fits you better then Patrick Henry .

    Or “Anal One”

    I know I made typos Patty

  • George C

    BlackWidow said:
    Oh my bad this was about

    It’s funny when septuagenarians forget how old they are .

  • Patrick Henry

    Elaine B said:
    Patrick Henry says:

    Elaine B said:
    Nice come back for a jerk. But the fact is Papcock, your a real idiot!

    Again, absolutely hilarious! There is “your” and “you’re” and the person that says “most tea potter’s don’t know their ass from a hole in the grown” doesn’t know which is which.

    So I didn’t type you’re and your having a laugh about that? Well excuse me jerk off, who died and mad you the Grammar Police! BFD

    You can call the “Tea party” just about any thing you want and I prefer to say “Tea Potty” or “Tea Bagger’s” myself.

    I can say anything I damn well please. If you think I am going to double check my typo’s or grammar before I post…. nope, ain’t going to happen.. This is just a stupid blog and I am not that anal…… like you.

    If this is how you get your jollies… ok laugh it but and have a great time.

    “Patty the Grammar Patrol-er” I think this fits you better then Patrick Henry .

    Or “Anal One

    I must have struck a nerve. You can call me whatever you like, I don’t care. It is funny when someone acts so high and mighty and says someone else “doesn’t know their ass from a hole in the grown” shows they aren’t so smart after all.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    Nigeria charging someone with bribery? That’s rich. Considering Nigeria is one of the most corrupt places on the planet. That is just like Iran decrying human rights abuses in the US. Give me a break.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    All you have to do is pay a bribe in Nigeria to get the case thrown out.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Ron Christie is such a total fraud. Lionel can be annoying but that was fun.

  • Ivan in Phoenix

    Lionel must be Special Ed’s extra-crazy uncle or maybe he is Ed’s life coach or a former mentor.

  • roxsteady

    You’ll note that Christie who is prissy and cross eyed never answered the question? Christie gets his ass handed to him each time he’s on Ed’s show and he is a whinny little bitch. Indeed, why did Haliburton pay fines if they wewre innocent? Oh, and if you want to talk annoying voices, try that inbred hillbilly from Wasilla. By the way, Cheney looks like the Cript Keeper. He’s clearly dying. So?

  • WHarropson

    I wonder why more people watch FOX… not.

  • goldmind

    I know a lot of Dick’s…who is Cheney related to?

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Nigeria plans to file bribery charges against officials from several foreign companies, including most notably, former Vice President Dick Cheney. All the others must have been democrat left nuts!

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  • bigbrainbrad

    nice voice, Lionel

  • CraiginJersey

    No bigger douche bag on TV than Lionel.

  • TfT

    I’m going to disagree with Colby – there was no debate. Lionel interrupted and ranted, even to the point where Ed essentially told him to SFTU, so props to Ed for that.

    Funny? Not.

    Waste of time? Yup..

  • The Lantern of Truth

    roxsteady said:
    You’ll note that Christie who is prissy and cross eyed never answered the question? Christie gets his ass handed to him each time he’s on Ed’s show and he is a whinny little bitch. Indeed, why did Haliburton pay fines if they wewre innocent? Oh, and if you want to talk annoying voices, try that inbred hillbilly from Wasilla. By the way, Cheney looks like the Cript Keeper. He’s clearly dying. So?

    BlackWidow said:
    Oh my bad this was about Cheeeeeeney as Tweety loves to pronounce his name. He is going anywhere. His health is very bad and there probably is not enough time to do anything.

    JoeRemi said:
    You douchebags do realize no intelligent person bothers to comment here anymore, right? You’re all a bunch of assholes. Every one of you. The segment was funny, btw.

    Jelperman said:
    Nah, a coward would insist on bringing garlic and stuffing Count Dickula’s mouth with communion wafers before driving the stake through his heart and cutting off his head.

    And these are the intelligent liberals .

  • Probably NOT wrong

    CraiginJersey
    Did you miss the other segments with
    Alan Grayson, Liz Winstead (God, what a SKANK) and
    Ed Hisownself?
    Four douchebags in one night.
    But fewer than usual!

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Elaine B said:
    Nice come back for a jerk. But the fact is Papcock, your a real idiot!

    Yeah, “your” a real idiot, too! :)

    Public schools piss me off. All kids these days know how to use a condom, and how to wrap their ass around some other guy’s dick, but can’t spell their way out of a paper sack.

  • notsofast

    Lionel? Lionel?

    You have to be kidding- his expiration date was 20 years ago as was Ed’s.

  • notsofast

    SarahP said:
    This is hilarious. Did you done gradiate the 6th grade? LOL

    Says the 1st grade graduate.

  • notsofast

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    And these are the intelligent liberals .

    Those are the best and brightest the libs have to offer.

  • Judge Mental

    That “Lionel” guy is really special.

    JoeRemi said:
    You douchebags do realize no intelligent person bothers to comment here anymore, right?

    I have to agree that the number of intelligent posts here seems to have declined precipitously as of late. Did one (or more) of the MSNBC “personalities” mention Mediaite recently? It seems there’s a new crop of left-wing haters who come here to display their ignorance, and then crow about their intellectually superiority.

  • sarainitaly

    wow, lionel is a perfect example of what it’s like when trying to discuss things with certain commenters on this site…

    we feel your pain Ron Christie, we feel your pain.

  • JamesA1102

    sarainitaly said:
    wow, lionel is a perfect example of what it’s like when trying to discuss things with certain commenters on this site…

    Sara (who loves America so much that she lives in a foreign country where she benefits from government healthcare) is the last person to be complaining about certain commentors on this site.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    JamesA1102 said:
    Sara (who loves America so much that she lives in a foreign country where she benefits from government healthcare) is the last person to be complaining about certain commentors on this site.

    Sounds like Italy’s the place to be, man, by your reckoning. Maybe you should consider moving there, or somewhere in Europe where most Americans came from because their forefathers thought it sucked.

    Sara is an American in Italy, maybe she’s going to school there, there could be a thousand reasons.

    I can’t speak for Sara, but I’ll tell you this. After living abroad for several years back in the 70′s and 80′s, I felt like kissing the ground when my plane landed in San Francisco. You can take a shit on America all you want, but as the old saying goes, the test of a nation is what would happen if the imagined gates were opened, would you see a stampede going out, or coming in?

  • sarainitaly

    JamesA1102 is a sexist, misogynistic, liar who has spent months and months personally attacking me and my life, accuses me of living in Italy because I don’t love America, accuses me of being racist and many other lies, and after MONTHS of enduring his personal insults and attacks, I teased him about his obsession with Planet of the Apes, and he actually said it was RACIST, and I quote, “One thing that you’re missing here. Since President Obama won the election, planet of apes has become a code word used by right wing bloggers regarding minorities in politics and government. Glenn Beck has even used this term. This is not about some old movie, it’s about using a term that is demeaning to minorities.” And actually had the nerve to say, “obsession is when you do a web search on someone screenname to try to find weapons to use against them just because they disagree with you.” despite his months of using personal information about me to attack me, all because someone told me he ran a fan site for POTA, and I went to try and find it, and see who was the person who has been insulting and attacking me for evah. AND he continuously leaves comments in the threads that have NOTHING to do with the topic, but serve only to attack me personally.

  • writer

    sarainitaly, the left is the caring and compassionate side. I’m sure he means it in a good way.

  • JamesA1102

    sarainitaly said:
    JamesA1102 is a sexist, misogynistic, liar who has spent months and months personally attacking me and my life, accuses me of living in Italy because I don’t love America, accuses me of being racist and many other lies, and after MONTHS of enduring his personal insults and attacks, I teased him about his obsession with Planet of the Apes, and he actually said it was RACIST, and I quote, “One thing that you’re missing here. Since President Obama won the election, planet of apes has become a code word used by right wing bloggers regarding minorities in politics and government. Glenn Beck has even used this term. This is not about some old movie, it’s about using a term that is demeaning to minorities.” And actually had the nerve to say, “obsession is when you do a web search on someone screenname to try to find weapons to use against them just because they disagree with you.” despite his months of using personal information about me to attack me, all because someone told me he ran a fan site for POTA, and I went to try and find it, and see who was the person who has been insulting and attacking me for evah. AND he continuously leaves comments in the threads that have NOTHING to do with the topic, but serve only to attack me personally.

    Sara (who loves America so much that she lives in a foreign country where she benefits from government healthcare) didn’t like that her hypocrisy was being exposed so she became obsessed and started doing web searches to find weapons to destroy those that disagree with her. This is best that she has come up with, which is pretty lame, and just exposes her nastiness, elitism and racism.

  • The real Royal Gnome

    JamesA1102 said:
    Sara (who loves America so much that she lives in a foreign country where she benefits from government healthcare) is the last person to be complaining about certain commentors on this site.

    I disagree JamesA1102 ( who is apparently so uber Nationalistic , I shudder to know his views immigration).
    I believe JamesA1102 (who loves the Planet of the Apes so much that it has become a creepy obsession that rules his adult ) saras comment directly addresses the post .

  • JamesA1102

    The real Royal Gnome said:
    I disagree JamesA1102 ( who is apparently so uber Nationalistic , I shudder to know his views immigration).I believe JamesA1102 (who loves the Planet of the Apes so much that it has become a creepy obsession that rules his adult ) saras comment directly addresses the post .

    Define creepy obsession and explain who doing a web search on someone’s screenname is not a creepy obsession.

  • The real Royal Gnome

    JamesA1102 ( who loves the Planet of the Apes so much that it has become a creepy obsession ruling his adult life) , teh Google says the seach took .29 seconds. I think that we can both agree that pales in comparison to a life time spent pouring over the minutae of what even the most understanding Trekkie would call retarded.

  • felixw

    MSNBC will cover Dick Cheney, but not a whisper from their hosts about the $16 billion in secret government funds for their parent company. That’s a news story they won’t cover. Nor will Mediaite, which looks pretty craven in this instance, huh?

  • JamesA1102

    The real Royal Gnome said:
    JamesA1102 ( who loves the Planet of the Apes so much that it has become a creepy obsession ruling his adult life) , teh Google says the seach took .29 seconds. I think that we can both agree that pales in comparison to a life time spent pouring over the minutae of what even the most understanding Trekkie would call retarded.

    A lifetime??? Can you prove that?? And why is doing a Google search of anyone’s screenname acceptable regardless of how long is takes?

  • George C

    JamesA1102 said:
    A lifetime??? Can you prove that?? And why is doing a Google search of anyone’s screenname acceptable regardless of how long is takes?

    I have to prove NOTHING . My observations are just as valid and grounded in reality as your musings are .

  • Mr.Papshmer

    sarainitaly said:
    JamesA1102 is a sexist, misogynistic, liar who has spent months and months personally attacking me and my life

    It doesn’t matter Sara. I’m not exactly a gentleman, I have a foul mouth and I’m not shy about using it, but over time, I have noticed that you’re a lady. When libs attack you for whatever reason, just remember, they’re libs, and it doesn’t matter.

  • JamesA1102

    The real Royal Gnome said:
    I have to prove NOTHING . My observations are just as valid and grounded in reality as your musings are .

    Exactly what are your observations?

    And you still haven’t explained why is doing a Google search of anyone’s screenname acceptable and not a creepy obsession. And while you’re at it explain how taking the screenname that mocks the screenname of another poster is not a creepy obsession either.

  • CAconservative

    Lionel, is a two-drink minimum hack, that hasn’t got the chops to make it to the big show. That’s why he’s on the ED (the talking horse) show using the standard gimmick of talking them down, instead of, a dialectic discourse using adult behavior.

  • stoogedudes

    You know, as much as I disagree with Ron Christie and agree that he is a Cheney shill, I found myself thinking throughout watching this video that if I was Christie, I would have told Lionel to STMFU. I have to disagree with Tft, Ed didn’t go far enough. If I was Ed, I would have temporarily cut Lionel’s mike to let Christie get his sentence across.

    Although, I do agree with Paul Westlake that this was very entertaining to watch.

  • CraiginJersey

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    CraiginJersey
    Did you miss the other segments with
    Alan Grayson, Liz Winstead (God, what a SKANK) and
    Ed Hisownself?
    Four douchebags in one night.
    But fewer than usual!

    Jeez, you’re right. Plus, there’s always #1 douche bag every night’s worst person in the world Keith O.

  • StewartIII

    I GUESS “LEAN FORWARD” DOESN’T MEAN GOING FORWARD, IF MSNBC IS STILL WHINING ABOUT CHENEY AND HALLIBURTON.

  • felixw

    The news comes out this week that MSNBC’s parent company took $16 billion in secret cash from the federal government, and hid the fact for two years. But instead of reporting on this, the MSNBC hosts run stories about Haliburton stuff from years ago. Yep, that’s how they practice “journalism” at MSNBC.

    You couldn’t make this stuff up.

  • JamesA1102

    felixw said:
    The news comes out this week that MSNBC’s parent company took $16 billion in secret cash from the federal government, and hid the fact for two years. But instead of reporting on this, the MSNBC hosts run stories about Haliburton stuff from years ago. Yep, that’s how they practice “journalism” at MSNBC. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

    GE is a major defense contractor. You’re right there should be more about this reported in the media.

  • notsofast

    stoogedudes said:
    You know, as much as I disagree with Ron Christie and agree that he is a Cheney shill, I found myself thinking throughout watching this video that if I was Christie, I would have told Lionel to STMFU. I have to disagree with Tft, Ed didn’t go far enough. If I was Ed, I would have temporarily cut Lionel’s mike to let Christie get his sentence across.

    Although, I do agree with Paul Westlake that this was very entertaining to watch.

    This is the first time I have ever seen Christie kick someone’s ass and it was funny.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    …just remember, they’re libs, and it doesn’t matter.

    …because, of course, everyone know libs aren’t even human. Shit, why do you guys even let us live? Shouldn’t you be organizing militias to wipe the world of our foul influence? Isn’t genocide the next logical step? What’s the holdup? Time’s a wastin!

    Idiot.

  • puck30

    Lionel

    Failed at WABC77 in New York (a 50,000 watt blowtorch)

    Failed at WOR710 in New York

    Failed at WLIB 1190am in New York

    Failed at WWRL 1600am in New York

    Failed on his own show on (old) CourtTV

    Is he still doing those 2 min rants on WPIX11??

    What’s next? Stand-up at Bananas Comedy Club on Long Island?

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    felixw said:
    The news comes out this week that MSNBC’s parent company took $16 billion in secret cash from the federal government, and hid the fact for two years. But instead of reporting on this, the MSNBC hosts run stories about Haliburton stuff from years ago. Yep, that’s how they practice “journalism” at MSNBC.

    You couldn’t make this stuff up.

    This is the fucking point I’ve been making about conflicts of interest in commercial media all along. It happens in ALL media. They ALL cover for the bosses. Felix is confused by MSNBC because it’s liberal in primetime, but owned by conservatives at GE. Not reporting on GE isn’t “liberal bias,” it’s conflict of interest, which is why LIBERALS were against relaxing media restrictions that allowed for massive consolidation in the first place. There is no commercial media outlet that isn’t a walking conflict of interest. Not one. People like Felix cherry-pick only those instances that fit with the “liberals are always bad and evil and wrong” narrative, but it’s not that clean and simple. Conflicts of interest are not uniform, and sometimes the big boys even fight amongst themselves, but for the most part, this conflict of interest is commercial, not political. Felix desperately wants to frame all media as partisan and false except Fox, which is perfect and true. Consider the source, then consider the truth.

    [throws old shoe at feral cat... again!]

  • murf

    notsofast said:
    This is the first time I have ever seen Christie kick someone’s ass and it was funny.

    Keep watching , he does it at least once a week .

  • felixw

    First, Rachel Maddow devotes numerous segments to Ugandan politics. Now Keith Olbermann focuses on a court case in Nigeria. I think this represents a trend. And these are the same TV hosts who won’t even whisper the current employment and GDP figures in the US, or the casualties in Afghanistan (more US soldiers killed their this year than in all the previous years combined), or a whole host of equally critical news info.

    The reasons are pretty obvious, aren’t they? Because Obama has created such a disaster in the US, they need to turn their attention far, far, far away to avoid the stories that reflect poorly on their fallen idol in the Oval Office. In other words, most of the important news of the day they can’t mention ON PRINCIPLE. (The operative principle here is spinning news to favor the Democrats.) Hence an idiotic story such as this one — which is what we have come to expect from Mr. Olbermann and this blighted and benighted network.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    felixw said:
    First, Rachel Maddow devotes numerous segments to Ugandan politics. Now Keith Olbermann focuses on a court case in Nigeria. I think this represents a trend. And these are the same TV hosts who won’t even whisper the current employment and GDP figures in the US, or the casualties in Afghanistan (more US soldiers killed their this year than in all the previous years combined), or a whole host of equally critical news info.

    The reasons are pretty obvious, aren’t they? Because Obama has created such a disaster in the US, they need to turn their attention far, far, far away to avoid the stories that reflect poorly on their fallen idol in the Oval Office. In other words, most of the important news of the day they can’t mention ON PRINCIPLE. (The operative principle here is spinning news to favor the Democrats.) Hence an idiotic story such as this one — which is what we have come to expect from Mr. Olbermann and this blighted and benighted network.

    You’ve gotten a lot better with the thesaurus lately, kitty. But your analysis is just the usual self-serving, self-aggrandizing, conservative paranoia, as usual. You believe absolutely everything you read as long as it make liberals look bad. You are one naive puppy! You must live a very sheltered existence.

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    Pardon me, one naive kitty! ;-)

  • PBerg

    WOW—-all you rightie haters with your tongue in your cheeks—trying to defend Dick Cheney, who for YEARS before he even became VP—was corrupt, was the leader of PNAC trying to get Clinton to invade Iraq, is a yellow Chicken Hawk POS—-Yet you STILL defend him !

    I pray for the day that Bush and cheney are brought up before th World Court, and found guilty of War Crimes of the highest order ! To watch the two of them frog marched out of there—would make my life complete!

    I am trying to find a Nigerian fund to donate to—–to help them get this going ! Cheney and bush better have no plans to ever leave the USA soil again—-they are the two most despised men in the world. Talk about your American Terrorists !!!

  • PBerg

    hey Paul Westlake—-You sat for EIGHT long years while Bush:

    Caused the largest recession since the great Depression
    cut stock market in half (from $14,000 to $6600)
    created the least amount of jobs of any Pres in history, Lost the most
    Took a surplus, and turned it into largest deficit in history
    Largest spending of any President in history
    Put trillions on a Chinese Credit card and killed 4300 US boys for a LIE
    Made us a laughing stock in the eyes of the world.
    He installed TARP & AIG bailouts
    He was on TV begging for amnesty for illegals for cheap labor for his corporate buddies. Pulled 2500 Nat.Guard off Mexican border for invasion to Iraq.

    And NOW you have the balls to say that Obama is detroying the country? Get a clue, you dumb jerk. don’t like it??? MOVE !!!!!!!!

  • dahni

    Anyone surprised that msnbc would join with Nigeria in a lawsuit against an American Vice President? Nigeria is going to a new low, though, in consorting with msnbc. lmao

  • puck30
  • felixw

    Paul Westlake said:
    This is the fucking point I’ve been making about conflicts of interest in commercial media all along. It happens in ALL media. They ALL cover for the bosses. Felix is confused by MSNBC because it’s liberal in primetime, but owned by conservatives at GE. Not reporting on GE isn’t “liberal bias,” it’s conflict of interest, which is why LIBERALS were against relaxing media restrictions that allowed for massive consolidation in the first place. There is no commercial media outlet that isn’t a walking conflict of interest. Not one. People like Felix cherry-pick only those instances that fit with the “liberals are always bad and evil and wrong” narrative, but it’s not that clean and simple. Conflicts of interest are not uniform, and sometimes the big boys even fight amongst themselves, but for the most part, this conflict of interest is commercial, not political. Felix desperately wants to frame all media as partisan and false except Fox, which is perfect and true. Consider the source, then consider the truth.

    [throws old shoe at feral cat... again!]

    You can rant about Fox, but nothing Fox (or any other media outlet) has done comes close to taking $16 billion in secret cash from the government, while your news operations never mention this fact. We are talking $16 BILLION here. Can you imagine what would happen if Murdoch took $16 billion from any government entity? The Democrats would hold Congressional hearings, and it would be on the front page every day for weeks.

  • SmartAlec

    JoeRemi said:
    You douchebags do realize no intelligent person bothers to comment here anymore, right? You’re all a bunch of assholes. Every one of you. The segment was funny, btw.

    But, but, but…didn’t you just comment here?? That makes you an unintelligent douchebag asshole! Now that’s funny.

  • SmartAlec

    BlackWidow said:
    Ron Christie is the ONLY blaxk person that made ir obvious that he wants to be white. His new book is “Black in the White House, Life Inside George W. Bush’s West Wing.’ Ron Christie,

    Glad to see you noticing skin color again when it’s not important. Real racists always show their true colors

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    PBerg said:
    hey Paul Westlake—-You sat for EIGHT long years while Bush:

    Caused the largest recession since the great Depression
    cut stock market in half (from $14,000 to $6600)
    created the least amount of jobs of any Pres in history, Lost the most
    Took a surplus, and turned it into largest deficit in history
    Largest spending of any President in history
    Put trillions on a Chinese Credit card and killed 4300 US boys for a LIE
    Made us a laughing stock in the eyes of the world.
    He installed TARP & AIG bailouts
    He was on TV begging for amnesty for illegals for cheap labor for his corporate buddies. Pulled 2500 Nat.Guard off Mexican border for invasion to Iraq.

    And NOW you have the balls to say that Obama is detroying the country? Get a clue, you dumb jerk. don’t like it??? MOVE !!!!!!!!

    Um, you have me confused with someone else, or my sarcasm has you confusing me with something I’m not. I’m just gonna let that one go.

    But any righties who want to try to refute that, good luck! LOL!

  • http://twitter.com/pewestlake Paul Westlake

    felixw said:
    You can rant about Fox, but nothing Fox (or any other media outlet) has done comes close to taking $16 billion in secret cash from the government, while your news operations never mention this fact. We are talking $16 BILLION here. Can you imagine what would happen if Murdoch took $16 billion from any government entity? The Democrats would hold Congressional hearings, and it would be on the front page every day for weeks.

    You asshole, felix! That money came from the Federal Reserve, the INDEPENDENT Federal Reserve!

    - http://www.propublica.org/article/general-electric-tapped-fed-to-borrow-16-billion

    “GE publicly disclosed in late October 2008 that it had entered the Fed’s program but did not reveal the extent of its borrowings.”

    And it all started in conversations between GE’s Immelt and Bush’s Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson!

    - http://www.propublica.org/article/paulson-general-electric-immelt-financial-crisis-022010

    “In his book, Paulson takes credit for helping to persuade Sheila C. Bair, the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which runs the program, to change the rules and allow in financial institutions like GE. By last June, the FDIC was guaranteeing more than $70 billion in GE debt, much of it the short-term commercial paper companies use for operating expenses.”

    You are SO fucking desperate to turn anything into a liberal conspiracy it has literally warped your senses. Of course GE is going to try to keep its media arms from reporting on this too much, if at all. That’s why media concentration, which liberals warned against from the very beginning, is such a bad idea. THAT’S what the whole point is here, not some paranoid delusion of massive liberal conspiracy machines dominating every aspect of American life. What a totally fetid ass you are!

    [throws old pots and pans at feral cat on fence]

  • CraiginJersey

    You folks find something or someone from the Bush years that can, in effect, cancel out or mitigate something in the Obama administration. Paulson was a despicable human and I don’t care who he worked for. Most of these fat cats float between the 2 parties it’s easy enough to hate them all equally. The essence of the Independent voter.

  • BigLeagues

    Uhhh, Colby Hall, sir . . .

    This is why labeling people ‘Liberal” or “Conservative” or “Right” or “Left” is not doing your readers a service.

    Lionel is NOT a Liberal. He is a Libertarian and practical realist. He was famous during his run on WABC Radio back in the 90′s for his trademark phrase ‘lock and load’ a reference to his belief that anyone concerned for their safety should be trained and carry a firearm.

    He is one of my all-time favorite commentators because it wouldn’t have mattered if it were the President he was up against. He slices through the BS and gets to the heart of an issue, often with off the cuff humor. He even released a stand-up CD about 10 years ago – full of political and social observations – and it is hysterical.

    For anyone who thinks he is annoying, I can understand that sentiment if this is all you saw – but his talk show really is entertaining and informative.

  • lris

    Jelperman said:
    Nah, a coward would insist on bringing garlic and stuffing Count Dickula’s mouth with communion wafers before driving the stake through his heart and cutting off his head.

    Sooooo…………been a sociopath for long?

  • noah_fing-whey

    Is that guy with the beard Joe Pesci?

  • iby

    This hypocrisy is what Nigerians don’t understand.You label us a corrupt vile people that wants to subject US citizens to terror.We are struggling to combat pervasive corruption foisted on us by two decades of dehumanizing poverty and illegitimate military rule.Military class that colluded with foreign oil coys like shell oil to destroy our environment,murder citizens,rape our women steal our dignity.You preach democracy and rule of law.we want that too.Global energy coys reap billions from the land every day and do business with the corrupt class.Dick Cheney was involved in corrupt practices and has quickly settled out of court.If power relations were switched do you think it would have ended this way?If America wants to demonstrate her leadership in the world she should stop paying lip service to ending corruption and make details of the case public including the settlement.How can the small people of the world fight giants that steal from them?Enough of the double standards…scams are wrond whatever part of the ocean divide.

  • Tedderman

    While CEO of Halliburton, Cheney did 23.8 million in business with Saddam Hussein. Sanctions were in effect at the time and Cheney should have been prosecuted. But in this country if you’re of a certain political persuasion you can defend the corruption of your leaders. Cheneys’ retribution awaits him in the next life. Ice road truckers and Ron Christie are a bunch of pussies! Lionel Rocks!

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