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Ed Schultz Asks If Bush Would Have Exploited Bin Laden Death ‘If He Was Able To Get Him’

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by Tommy Christopher | 1:41 pm, May 12th, 2011

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On Wednesday night’s The Ed Show, host Ed Schultz “went to work” on accusations by “Slant-head(?)” Sean Hannity and Rush “The Drugster” Limbaugh that President Obama is using the killing of Osama bin Laden as a campaign tool. His nightly text poll question, “Would Bush have used bin Laden’s death in campaigns if he was able to get him?”, may have been worded to rub it in a little, but the answer is doubly self-evident: Bush exploited his failure to get bin Laden, and his old team is exploiting bin Laden’s death now.

For the uninitiated, The Ed Show is like a Drinking Liberally meeting with cameras, chock full of so much liberal red meat (like the casual nicknamery above) that Schultz has to keep a USDA inspector on the set. One of the highlights of each show, though, is Ed’s text poll, which features questions that actually manage to be the exact opposite of an unanswerable Zen riddle. With typical results in the 98% range (98.2% last night), the polls are not so much an opinion gauge, but a way to measure how many liberals can’t manage to correctly send a text message.

Last night’s question was no exception, but as he sought to make the obvious case, he hit upon the real question that he should have been asking. Amid the deluge of Youtube clips of Republicans exploiting terrorism during the 2004 campaign, Schultz referenced remarks that Dick Cheney made at the time:

According to The Washington Post, Cheney stated, “It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on November 2nd, we make the right choice.” Cheney continued, “if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit [by terrorists] again.”

Cheney predicted “that we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we’ll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind-set, if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts and that we are not really at war.”

Ed also notes the fact that the Kerry campaign “never really responded to it.”

In fact, the Kerry campaign rarely responded to anything, as if they, too, were afraid to “switch horses midstream,” even if that horse darts toward a waterfall. The question Schultz should be asking is whether Team Obama will let them get away with it again.

The Republicans are launching a two-pronged (and enormous-balled) attack on President Obama, on the one hand siphoning credit for bin Laden’s killing, and on the other, accusing him of “pounding his chest” by…well, by having a schedule?

The response by the Obama administration has been notably, and perhaps necessarily, meager, but the fact is, while President Obama has a tough needle to thread to not be seen as exploiting this for political gain, he damn sure better figure out how to keep it from becoming a political liability. The mainstream media has been all too willing to hold hands and say “We all did this,” but really, the Bush administration deserves credit for this the way Mario Mendoza deserved a batting title. Sure, he swung at a lot of pitches, too, but he didn’t hit very many.

Ed really ought to be asking if the Obama administration will repeat Kerry’s mistake.

Here’s the segment, from Wednesday night’s The Ed Show on MSNBC:

Dick Cheney, Drinking Liberally, Mario Mendoza, Osama bin Laden, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity

The Lantern of Truth

Ed Schultz Asks If Bush Would Have Exploited Bin Laden Death ‘If He Was Able To Get Him’

Would Ed hijack a Krispy Kreme truck if he noticed the keys were in it ?
The Lantern of Truth

Will Thug Rapper Common keep a boombox in his White house office as Rap Czar ?
The Lantern of Truth

Would King Obama send a predator drone to bomb Glenn Beck if he could get away with it ?
notsofast

We will never know, but we sure know Barry is, Ed!
TeaPartyPatriot

“Ed Schultz Asks If Bush Would Have Exploited Bin Laden Death ‘If He Was Able To Get Him’”

Sargent schultz stoops so low even even tries to smear bush with a MADE-UP, NON-EXISTENT SCENARIO !!!!

I’m beginning to understand just how dumb a person has to be to watch this buffoon.
joe7

IDK Bush isn’t President. Hasn’t been for years now.
http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

“The Republicans are launching a two-pronged (and enormous-balled) attack”
-TC

No need for the GOP 2012 Southern Strategy?
Liberal Tormentor

The only way people know what is said on A-MESS-NBC is because Mediaite feels the needs to report on every stupid, idiotic word out of their collective mouths.
brownsound

Hey Tommy. Is it racist to point out that the prez likes basketball or is it racist to omit it? Which is it? Or are both racist?
notsofast

Ed, I know the question you really want to ask is ” If Bush exploited UBL’s death, would that be racism? All lines are now open, America.”
notsofast

brownsound said:
Hey Tommy. Is it racist to point out that the prez likes basketball or is it racist to omit it? Which is it? Or are both racist?

If you are white and say it, it’s racism. If you are not white and say it, it’s OK.
Liberal Tormentor

Since you asked, Brownsound:

Race-er and Mediaite Editorialist Tommy Christopher Has Trouble Keeping Dog Whistles Straight

http://bigjournalism.com/klarrey/2011/05/11/race-er-and-mediaite-editorialist-tommy-christopher-has-trouble-keeping-dog-whistles-straight/
Dem4Ever

Eddy Eddy Eddy…you’re a tripped out alcoholic. Here, rummy, here’s buck. Go get yourself another bottle.
Harry Flashman

Babbling fool.

If he runs off at the mouth with all this idiocy when he’s sober, I’ll bet he’d be a real fun guy to be around when he’s had a few.

A middle-shelf intellect with a top shelf self image.
brownsound

Liberal Tormentor said:
Since you asked, Brownsound:

Race-er and Mediaite Editorialist Tommy Christopher Has Trouble Keeping Dog Whistles Straight

http://bigjournalism.com/klarrey/2011/05/11/race-er-and-mediaite-editorialist-tommy-christopher-has-trouble-keeping-dog-whistles-straight/

Good job on the link. I think Tommy needs to be outed as often as possible.
Barack Must Go

Why don’t you kiss George W. Bush’s ” real ” American ass you big un – American pussy you.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

Liberal Tormentor said:
Since you asked, Brownsound:

Race-er and Mediaite Editorialist Tommy Christopher Has Trouble Keeping Dog Whistles Straight

http://bigjournalism.com/klarrey/2011/05/11/race-er-and-mediaite-editorialist-tommy-christopher-has-trouble-keeping-dog-whistles-straight/

WOW!
Liberal Tormentor

If I “disappear” brownsound, you will know why.
brownsound

LOL, I have a feeling that might happen to more than just you
notsofast

Liberal Tormentor said:
Since you asked, Brownsound:

Race-er and Mediaite Editorialist Tommy Christopher Has Trouble Keeping Dog Whistles Straight

http://bigjournalism.com/klarrey/2011/05/11/race-er-and-mediaite-editorialist-tommy-christopher-has-trouble-keeping-dog-whistles-straight/

The one thing truly surprising in that story is that the author is so ingenuous to actually think a lib like TC would not be a flaming hypocrite.
TrumpPalin2012

Bush exploited the hell out of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq and that mission never WAS accomplished uner his watch. Everyone on the right has what I call “Bushzheimers Disease”. They don’t remember shit.
Harry Flashman

Speaking of blathering MSNBC droids…..

Once in a while I get this pop-up advertisement for Lawrence O’Donnel and I’m wondering just what happened to his shoulder.

He’s sitting at a table of sorts, leaning forward with a thoughtful look on his face, and his shoulder span is about what my little sister had – in the eighth grade. What a girly man. Just sayin’.

And I won’t even bring up that pencil neck.
notsofast

TrumpPalin2012 said:
TrumpPalin2012 says:
May 12, 2011 at 2:39 pm TrumpPalin2012(Quote)

Did you change your name again Ted/Garth/Dirk/RRK/Sam M? how many times have yo been banned, son?
brownsound

TrumpPalin2012 said:
Bush exploited the hell out of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq and that mission never WAS accomplished uner his watch. Everyone on the right has what I call “Bushzheimers Disease”. They don’t remember shit.

Nevermind the FACT that the sailors on that ship created and displayed the Mission Accomplished banner, because the specific mission they were tasked with was completed. Don’t let the facts get in the way of perpetuating an ongoing lie. Now go get your shinebox
Zandandido

Oh you mean how Obama and Democrats are doing it with the budget issue?
Zandandido

TrumpPalin2012 said:
Bush exploited the hell out of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq and that mission never WAS accomplished uner his watch. Everyone on the right has what I call “Bushzheimers Disease”. They don’t remember shit.

Obviously is wasn’t good for Bush to do it, buuuttttttt for Obama to do it, is just fine. Spin, spin, spinning like a toilet flushing! Thanks Toilet Flusher.
Barack Must Go

TrumpPalin2012 said:
Bush exploited the hell out of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq and that mission never WAS accomplished uner his watch. Everyone on the right has what I call “Bushzheimers Disease”. They don’t remember shit.

Oh we remember you alright you little shit . It’s just that YOU don’t remember so good no more causin you keep on a changin your friggin name every 15 minutes.

You’re just the opposite of us ” real ” Americans. You change your name at least once a day, but have been wearing that same pair of stinking underbritches you whole crumby life.
tatboy

Ed Schultz Asks If Bush Would Have Exploited Bin Laden Death ‘If He Was Able To Get Him’

So if we’re asking hypothetical questions, how about…

How often does Ed beat his wife?
Has Ed ever touched his childern in the wrong way?
Does Ed like to be spanked by his tranny hookers?
Does Ed use autoerotic asphyxiation while watching gay porn?

I think people want to know these things.
Probably NOT wrong

Fat Eddie should for now and forevermore or for at least as
long as someone is dumb enough to give him a TV show refer to
Obama as the “Korpseter” in keeping with his cutie little nicknames>
TfT

So that is why we got the Dana Loesh called a mdiaitestaffer a bitch story!

I waas wondering why that made headlines here, now we know. That was quite some article she wrote about Tommy .
Cecelia

Well, the irony is that you have a situation where during his candidacy and after his election, the president talked about dismantling many tools intelligence gathering.

He didn’t just talk about it, but pretty well used the same sort of rhetoric about these things that one tends to find in ACLU fund raising letters.

However, stronger heads (and reality) prevailed on almost all fronts, and Robert Gates talked Pres. Obama out of making prisoner abuse pictures public.

If Big Ed wishes to ask hypothetical questions about who would be doing what in a situation where Bush got UBL, he can start by asking himself just how many “questions” and inconsistencies he’d be ranting about on that occasion.
Liberal Tormentor

Switch to decaf, copypaste.
Zandandido

Liberal Tormentor said:
Switch to decaf, copypaste.

If he even knows what decaf is.
Cecelia

TfT said:
So that is why we got the Dana Loesh called a mdiaitestaffer a bitch story!

I waas wondering why that made headlines here, now we know. That was quite some article she wrote about Tommy .

Had no idea! Looked up Loesh’s work and read the bit about the Huckabee “dogwhistle” when describing the president as playing baseball, as compared to Trump’s dogwhistle when identifying the president with basketball.

Quintessential! Thanks for the hilarious perspective!
Cecelia

Opps. Loesh didn’t write about Tommy’s varying-depending-upon-what-sport-is-being-referred-to… racist and ‘othering…’ dogwhistles, Ken Larrey did.
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

Remember America!

Democrats will allow thousands of YOU to DIE before they’ll waterboard a known terrorist!

Is that a higher level of moral reasoning?
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Lolwut

TrumpPalin2012 said:
Bush exploited the hell out of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq and that mission never WAS accomplished uner his watch. Everyone on the right has what I call “Bushzheimers Disease”. They don’t remember shit.

To be fair, I’m not sure it will ever be accomplished. Some thug will rise up as soon as our embassy is the only presence left. I have an ex-Iraq vet friend who left the army and became a private contractor for an armored, non-military shuttle around the green zone. He carried an M-18 in his lap. In the green zone. This was 1 year ago. Mission accomplished? Mkay.
Mas Liberty5

First off it was the CIA and NSW warriors that got UBL. Bush and Obama are nothing but chicken-hawks. Giving a team thumbs up or down is not the same as being on a direct action team that is actually risking their lives. I wonder if obama or bush would have been so quick to authorize this mission if their daughters were at risk.
Rio

TrumpPalin2012 said:
Bush exploited the hell out of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq and that mission never WAS accomplished uner his watch. Everyone on the right has what I call “Bushzheimers Disease”. They don’t remember shit.

This is what your brain looks like on koolaide.

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Rio

notsofast said:
Did you change your name again Ted/Garth/Dirk/RRK/Sam M?

Sheesh, was it the avatar that gave it away? Good grief what a, fill in the blank______________. and have fun with it.
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