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Ed Schultz: My Respect For Bachmann Is ‘Through The Roof’ For Standing Up To ‘Right-Wing Hit Job’

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Last night, in an unlikely occurrence, liberal Ed Schultz strongly defended conservative presidential candidate Michele Bachmann from the recent “right-wing hit job” on her, and even admitted that he now respects her immensely for not being bullied by the establishment of the Republican party. The reported allegations that Bachmann “pops pills like candy” and suffers from incapacitating migraines was, according to Schultz, a non-story “so heavy on insinuation and light on specifics.”

Schultz admired Bachmann’s acknowledgment of the story and her immediate response to it:

“Michele Bachmann, I do not agree with you on anything. And I can say that my respect for you has gone through the roof in the last 24 hours. You were clear, concise, you stood up to it and you weren’t bullied by these people. The Republican establishment obviously fears this candidate.”

Instead, Schultz targeted attacks by Karl Rove and presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty on Bachmann as representing the “dirty pool hall of the Republican party.” Schultz suspects Rove questions Bachmann’s fitness because he will never support a Tea Party candidate, while Pawlenty is merely a “buzzard circling a carcass” who is too afraid to challenge Mitt Romney.

Overall, Schultz’s full-throated defense of Bachmann here, someone who he very clearly is no fan of at all (check out his recent description of Bachmann as “vile” and a “phony”), is proof that Schultz seems to be developing a desirable level of unpredictability that will continue to contribute to his show’s success.

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  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I don’t have much use for Big Ed, but he is correct about this. What T*rd Blossom and T-Paw have done to Mad Michelle is inexcusable. Revolting.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5V6VTQAVLARF7XXO47Z5OCZWM TangledThorns

    Heh, when 2012 comes and Bachmann is the GOP candidate the libs will use the migraines against her. 

  • gordonbloyershow

    Bachmann doesn’t need any help from Special Ed.

    Obama is giving ALL republicans the help they need.

    (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, pointing to a labor market that is struggling to regain momentum.
    Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 418,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday.
    Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims rising to 410,000 from a previously reported 405,000.
    “We’re just stuck in this trend between 410,000 and 430,000. Generally we’re just really not seeing any improvement but also not much worsening,” said Jeffrey Greenberg, an economist with Nomura Securities in New York.

  • Anonymous

    There is no doubt that Romney, Tim Paw, and Huntsman are the darling of elite and established GOP. Daily Caller is in line with the GOP elite and published the headache story. Bachmann handled it nicely by disclosing congressional medical records. Bachmann is and will be a thorn in the side of the establishment. She did not hesitate to align herself with the TEA wing of the GOP in 2010. With every disclosure and hit piece by GOP elite or the progressive liberal, she just gets stronger. The primaries are a long way off yet, I am a conservative, I will have no problem in supporting Bachmann.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, Ed Schutlz referring to a Conservative woman without invoking the “C” word.

    I guess Comcast told him there was new sheriff in town.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, Ed Schutlz referring to a Conservative woman without invoking the “C” word.

    I guess Comcast told him there was new sheriff in town.

  • Anonymous

    Barry never did release his medical records. I wonder what they say about him.

  • Anonymous

    Barry never did release his medical records. I wonder what they say about him.

  • Michelle

    Is this from The Onion?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I doubt it. All that will be necessary is to replay the snarky snippets from her Republican opponents.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    And, he hasn’t asked Mad Michelle to release hers. T-Paw and T*rd Blossom have. Last time I checked, they were Republicans.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Absolutely correct about the Daily Caller. And, the other matters.

  • Anonymous

    But Barry never released his- what is he hiding??

  • Anonymous

    Better Bachmann than Mittens, T-Paw, Huntsman, or any other RINO. She doesn’t have Steve Schmidt or Nicolle(The Mole)Wallace hanging around her camp, does she?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    The attacks on Mad Michelle? No, they’re from T-Paw, T*rd Blossom and other Republicans.

    Mika also complained about these Republican attacks on Mad Michelle this morning.

  • Cecelia

    “Overall, Schultz’s full-throated defense of Bachmann here, someone who
    he very clearly is no fan of at all (check out his recent description of Bachmann as “vile” and a “phony”),
    is proof that Schultz seems to be developing a desirable level of
    unpredictability that will continue to contribute to his show’s success.”

    Well, I’m sure that Bachmann would much rather be called racist and gay-hating, as well “vile” and “phony”, than to be called a pill-popper.

    Yeah, while efficiently drawing negative attention to two Republican pols from the lofty height of a high-horse, Ed shows himself to be one unpredicatable free-thinking dude, who doesn’t appreciate anyone else taking cheap shots at his targets.

    Ah… politicians and talking heads– why..any of them can be a moral colossus, the standards are so damn gut-wrenchingly low.

  • Anonymous

    LOL- But Mika stood silent over all the attacks on SP- she is your typical lib- a hypocrite!

  • Michelle

    Shocking that Mika would do that!  Well maybe not so much.  Of course liberals want a war between the R candidates.  If you are delusional to think the Big Ed’s transformation is genuine and not an attempt to stir the pot, then you’re about as bright and intellectually dishonest as I’ve always thought. 

  • Anonymous

    It seems Cenk Uygur has come clean about how MSNBC really operates. It turns out the White House got him fired. 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcMs20axt4o

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    But, did he ask Mad Michelle to release her medical records, or was it T-Paw and T*rd Blossom? Your sense of hypocrisy seems misplaced.

    Of course, the gutless T-Paw has now backed down. What a disappointment he is.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Paranoia thy name is Stonepark3.

    What attacks on the Half-Baked Alaskan? Mika has, in fact, been critical of a number of the personal attacks. Does she give HBA license to wreak havoc on the moral and ethical fiber of our nation? To make our nation a laughingstock in the eyes of the world? To spread ignorance throughout the land. No. She leaves that to you, Michelle-in-Utah and Sarah N. Italy. You are all very good at that.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NK5INRFELITZ3TS337HINC3VMM Adam

    I’m more concerned about Barry’s past cocaine use affecting his current mental state(maybe that explains his economic agenda) than Bachmann’s migraines.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    So, you’re suggesting maybe some Blood Atonement is in order for Big Ed?

    Whether liberals want a war between (I suspect you meant “among”) the Republican candidates is rather irrelevant. It’s happening without the slightest involvement by us. Do we enjoy it? Of course. Who doesn’t enjoy a dinosaur fight?

  • Anonymous

    Well, we know the President is addicted to cigarettes/nicotine, yet some in the press would like us to believe that Michelle Bachmann’s migraines and pain medication are a bigger issue and make her unfit to serve. I’m not buying that point of view no matter who is selling it, liberals or conservatives.

  • Anonymous

    What attacks on the Half-Baked Alaskan?”

    You just lost any credibility you may ever imagined you had.

  • Anonymous

    Irrevevant- Barry was asked during the 2008 campaign to release his records ; McCain released his , Barry did not!

    Case closed.

  • Anonymous

    Ed has a funny logic. Because she was unfairly attacked his respect grew for her? Dumb move within the GOP. Slam Dunk for Bachmann. Doesn´t make her political views anymore respectable. She´s a mouthpiece for big money interests and wouldn´t be able to draft any serious political effort on her own to save her life. It´s 2011 and she wants to get into WH  with an agenda of ignorance from the 19th century.

  • Michelle

    No, but the liberal media has.  Why didn’t they demand the same of Obama, Royal Dimwit.

  • Michelle

    And we know he liked(s?) the crack.  And people, crack is whack!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Whopper says:

    “Well, I’m sure that Bachmann would much rather be called racist and
    gay-hating, as well ‘vile’ and ‘phony’, than to be called a pill-popper.”

    The Real Royal Emperor says:

    As usual, you reduce everything to the ridiculous. “Pill popper” is a banal apologia for two (2) Republican men, T-Paw and T*rd Blossom, who were not at all concerned about pill popping. Indeed, pill popping seems to be much treasured amongst Republicans, to which witness Lard Limbaugh and others. These men were attacking Mad Michelle’s qualifications and suitability for office. Don’t deflect attention from that cynical opportunism, Whopper.
     

  • Anonymous

    It was MSNBC’s racism that caused Cenk his job. But you have to question Cenk’s veracity in that clip.

    He says “MSNBC told me I had to get good ratings.”

    Now everyone already knows that no show on MSNBC gets good ratings, so why would MSNBC put such a large burden on Cenk?

  • Cecelia

    She got those medical records out quickly.

    Hillary Clinton never achieved that when campaigning against Obama, but ulike the president,  Bachmann knew that if SHE had ABC’s Brian Ross declaring migraine headaches to be a potentially crippling illness, other media members were soon to follow.

  • Anonymous

    I never said Barry was a hypocrite and you obviously have a parochial understanding of the word “hypocrisy.”

    In fact, it means:

    hypocrisy 

    1. a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.”

    It can also mean condemning things that you yourself do, but that is just one meaning.

    Please get an up-to-date dictionary.

  • Anonymous

    JFK had Addison’s, FDR-polio- McCain cancer, Ike had heart disease, Jefferson had migraines that drove him to his bed.

  • Cecelia

    Oh, and attacking her suitablity and qualifications for office is reprehensible? 

    Then I’m afraid you’ve just passed judgment on yourself  Mr. “Mad Michelle”.

    I wish that was all that was happening to Bachmann here.  That is what candidates are supposed to do by means other than smearing cheapshots.

    In the meantime, you show yourself to be ever ready to cast aspersions from ANY angle.  Uncaring and absolutely  unashamed that you’re the picture boy for the same sort of behavior.

    What else is new, Mark.

  • Anonymous

    ….this coming from the “royal stalker”!  Wear your crown proudly there doofus.

  • Anonymous

    Can we get a story on this? Where “Freedom Loving” Tea Baggers bully a low key Move On chapter meeting and chase them out of a park?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RtvTS8Vmec

  • Anonymous

    Why are you defending her you mouthbreather? Who are you trying to appeal to? “Is she fit for office?” SHE DOESN’T BELIEVE IN SCIENCE lol… of course she isn’t… stop defending her.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    She can’t do worse than our Community Organizer!

    hahaha

  • Anonymous

    It’s what he does .

    Mark ?

  • Anonymous

    It’s what he does .

    Mark ?

  • Cecelia

    Well, then in the process, perhaps both you Schultz’ can spare the rest of us the nauseating forays into feigned moral outrage.

  • Cecelia

    Well, then in the process, perhaps both you Schultz’ can spare the rest of us the nauseating forays into feigned moral outrage.

  • Cecelia

    It’s a form of triangulation.

    Unfortunately, for them, Bachmann’s strange new defenders have spent most of their time denigrating both Mr and Mrs Bachmann.

  • Cecelia

    Worse.    It’s what he is.

  • Anonymous

    Bullied?

    hahaha

    Those people left on their own.

  • Anonymous

    Listened to it.  Nothing in what he said is what you’ve claimed.  Typical of the right. 

  • Anonymous

    You’re kidding right? No seriously it is a joke? LOL. The people got up and left. No altercations, no name calling and no bullying. Everyone was “low key.” If the tea partiers had reserved the park then the Move on losers had to leave. I have reserved parks lots of times and have had to ask the people to leave so we could start our party.

  • Anonymous

    For once I am agreeing with Ed Shultz. It is a non-story.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: MSMBC has a firing or two in the line up, then change shift slots with personnel then they start bloviating for Bachmann. Whats-up who around America is hiding some guilt or something worse? MSMBC?

  • Cecelia

     That doesn’t gib with the impression Uygur gives here.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/business/media/sharpton-close-to-being-msnbc-anchor.html

  • Anonymous

    Looks like they just didn’t want to stay in the presence of ugly negativity.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe their time was up and they had to go. Give it a rest already.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Would you please wake-up. “Some in the press.” BS, I say, “BS”. Some in the Republican party, notably T-Paw and T*rd Blossom, but others as well. Just a little honesty. Please.

  • Hugo Daun

    PSSSST!

    (The President is sensitive about his third nipple…pass it on!)

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You’re lying again, Michelle-in-Utah. You scarcely do anything else these days. THE DEMAND FOR THE RELEASE OF THE MEDICAL RECORDS WAS FROM T-PAW, A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE OPPOSING MAD MICHELLE, T*RD BLOSSOM, A REPUBLICAN/NEO-CON OPERATIVE, AND OTHER REPUBLICANS. Why is this essential, demonstrable truth so impossible for you to grasp? Why do you cling to and propagate lies.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Well, Whopper, all the media members who, in your paranoid delusions, are after Mad Michelle needed to do was replay the T-Paw an T*rd Blossom clips. The Republicans are the cannibals in this story, Whopper.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Well, Whopper, all the media members who, in your paranoid delusions, are after Mad Michelle needed to do was replay the T-Paw an T*rd Blossom clips. The Republicans are the cannibals in this story, Whopper.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Because I don’t go prostrate before Her Royal Jerky Chewer?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Because I don’t go prostrate before Her Royal Jerky Chewer?

  • thisexists

    Speaking of whoppers, how about saying your mother was born in 1935, and you graduated law school in the sixties?   

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Wrong again, Whopper. I wish Mad Michelle hadn’t released her records. She has some peculiar notions and some troubling policy positions, but unlike the Half-Baked Alaskan, I think Mad Michelle is a decent sort of person, largely ethical and upright, who actually believes what she is saying. What T-Paw and T*rd Blossom did to her is every bit as disgusting as you and your Birther friends did to President Obama  on the “Long Form”.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Both of his viewers were no doubt very disappointed in him.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Both of his viewers were no doubt very disappointed in him.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    There you go again, Whopper.

    There are two (2) perfectly valid ways to judge suitability for elective office: policy positions and a comprehensive view of how a candidate has lived his or her life. Yes, uprightness, decency, grace and a whole host of other attributes and lapses factor in. There is nothing wrong with considering how a man or woman has conducted his or her marriage. It is the most important commitment one makes in life. Serial divorcees, in my book, are automatically disqualified. Rudy! Newt. No! The most important undertaking in one’s life is raising one’s children. By that measure, we have some insight into the person.

    From all I can tell about Mad Michelle, she has had some obvious tests in her commitment to her husband. She stuck with it. I admire her for that. She has apparently raised some fine children. I admire her for that. As such, she crosses an important threshold, as do T-Paw, Willard, Sanitarium, Paul, Hunstmann and President Obama.

    From all I can tell about the Half Baked Alaskan, she has kept her commitment to her husband and, in light of her utter self-absorption, that is commendable. Even remarkable. She is a dreadful mother. That is inexcusable. She doesn’t get to pass through the door. Nor do Newt or Rudy!.

    But, remember, that only get a candidate through the door.

    I will apologize to you in advance. I know you find my high moral standards offensive, Whopper. 

  • guest
  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I think you’re impressive. Few gnats word process.

  • thisexists

    Can gnats do math?  Like saying your mom was born in ’35, and you graduated law school in the sixties?  

  • Anonymous

    A Democratic polling firm said President Obama’s already weak
    job-approval numbers are “worse than they appear” and he likely would
    lose the election if it were held today.

    For the first time in a
    year, Mr. Obama does not lead former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in
    Public Policy Polling’s monthly national poll on the 2012
    presidential race. They are tied at 45 percent, and Mr. Obama is
    losing among independent voters by a margin of 49 percent to 44
    percent.

    Worse for Mr. Obama, PPP said, the “vast majority” of
    undecideds disapprove of the president’s performance. The survey of
    registered voters was conducted July 15-17.

    “There’s a very good
    chance Barack Obama would lose if he had to stand for re-election
    today,” said Dean Debnam, president of PPP. “This is his worst poll
    standing in a long time, and he really needs the economy to start
    turning around.”

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2011/jul/21/poll-weakened-obama-would-lose-vote-today/

  • M Colins

    @ guest,  from your link that Obama released his medical records…

    “The Obama campaign decided to release this summary of Obama’s health status at this time to contrast with the long medical history of GOP presumptive nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Az.)”

    In and of itself this proves nothing about Obama’s medical record either way except that your characterization that Obama’s medical records as having been released is misleading.

  • Anonymous

    What was that? This?

    “All of the candidates, I think, are going to have to be able to demonstrate they can do all of the job all of the time,” Pawlenty told reporters. “There’s no real time off in that job,” he said of the presidency.

    Inexcusable? Revolting? You’re demented?

    That last one seems to fit.

  • Anonymous

    And, he hasn’t asked Mad Michelle to release hers. T-Paw and T*rd Blossom have.

    Cite, please.

  • Anonymous

    None the less, she is a WingNut nightmare – and needs to be exterminated from society.  A true Repoug.

  • Anonymous

    None the less, she is a WingNut nightmare – and needs to be exterminated from society.  A true Repoug.

  • http://twitter.com/Wallycrawler Wally Crawler

    Gawd he really wants her as da Candidate! Aaaaaahahahaaaaaa…

  • Anonymous

    nice, so you are the judge, juror and executioner now?

  • Anonymous

    The lot of them know not that they know not that they know not.   Duhh.

  • Anonymous

    I am not a fan of Bachmann but they are picking at her because she is a woman. This was done by the right wing of the Republican party also, Tucker Carlson and Carl Rove! Yuck.

  • Michelle

    Wrong!  Brian Ross did too, Royal Dimwit!

  • Michelle

    All you liberals have it ugly negativity and rage. 

  • Holistic

    Next Ed will be showing us how he walks on water.

  • Anonymous

    When and what was this essential, demonstrable truth? Where is Pawlenty’s demand?

    Why do you cling to and propagate lies, Kook?

  • Anonymous

    I can’t find your high moral standards at all, Kook.

  • Anonymous

    Another day, another left wing Nazi wannabe.

  • Anonymous

    Gee, was there a story there? Notice there was no violence, not even any shouting. If you hadn’t said as much I wouldn’t have known Move On was even there. Contrast this with leftist bullies like the SEIU goons who beat up a black Tea Partier for handing out flyers at a rally.

  • Anonymous

    I guess it’s possible if his mother was 10 years old when she had him.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Another call for killing, so typical.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    T-Paw as well.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    We’re still pretty upset about the slaughter of the “Gentile” men, women, boys, girl, infants and fetuses at Mountain Meadow.

  • Ccrazyhorz

    I don’t know about ANYONE else, but when someone gets a MIGRAINE, the medicine only lasts so long, and sometimes they can come back very POWERFULL, and it takes all the ENERGY/ZIP out of the individual. If she is getting medicine for them, then she must get them OFTEN… Usually when that happens, one DOES NOT want to be BOTHERED by ANYONE or ANYTHING… they just want to put theri head on a SOFT pillow. and SLEEP it away. So, Ed you can be through a cement roof, cuz that is how the head feels on a pillow. It is like putting your head on a CEMENT floor…if Bachmann is taking PERSCRIBED meds for her condition, those headaches/migraines must be DOOZIES… WELL, to that I would say, better her than me.

  • Cecelia

    Well, a few altar boys aren’t happy with having had the Catholic Church consider their innocence and mental health as being less important than protecting some pedophiles, either.

  • Cecelia

    “Ed has a funny logic”

    You aren’t kidding    HE can call her vile, phony, racist, and a hater of gays… but a pill-head… that’s just going too far!

  • Cecelia

     Oh, that makes so much sense.

    So, it’s  wrong to impugn Bachmann’s ability to the handle the presidency by suggesting that she has a condition that causes her pop pain pills, it’s just fine to call her insane.

    Everyone is aware that you use insincerity and mockery as a cover for philosophical insecurities, Mark.   Must you also reveal that they’re chiefly an indication of misanthropy too?

  • Cecelia

    In caps no less…  

    Just take the tact that this is true, because otherwise you’d never be defending her.

    That argument is so imminently believable and persuasive that you’ll have the whole of Mediaite condemning Pawlenty in  a heart beat.

  • Ganymede

    What I do notice is that MSNBC’s audience is growing and attracting more rightwingers because MSNBC’s pundits are collectively the best that any TV media company has to offer. I would bet that many more FOX-ites watch MSNBC than vice versa. Ed Schultz is a midwest progressive populist – the real deal. His Fox equivalent would be Sean Hannity, and Sean is impossible to watch because he’s so disingenuous. All that Schultz did is defend Bachmann from a stupid attack from the right who are rightly concrned that she’s even too extreme for them. We’re watching what looks like the implosion of the right. There are simply too much contradictions and definitely too much craziness. On top of everything else FOX will be damaged from the hacking fallout.Not a good time for the reactionaries.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t ya just love the hypocrisy of the left? Here is s guy who calls
    women the “C” word complaining that someone said Bachmann has migraine
    headaches, something she readily admits, and Shultzh is irate- “How dare
    you tell the truth about Bachmann?”

    And this sack of manure will be the first one talking about her migraines if she ever wins the primary.

    Again:

    A liberal is someone who watches an underage girl have live sex on a
    stage and worries about whether she is earning the minimum wage.

    A Progressive is the guy having sex with the underage girl.

  • Anonymous

    To  GUEST:  “Obama did release his medical records.”

    That’s a one page summary! Those are not his medical records!

    LOL

    McCain released over 700 pages.

    Are you always this ignorant?

  • caconservative

    Oh look, a new tactic. Feign admiration for your opponent be praising her for standing up to her own Party which suggests her party eats their own. OK, it’s not new but, to those who have not seen this spin before by the Liberal attack-dogs, they could take it for genuine admiration.

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