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MSNBC’s Ed Schultz On MA Election: “I’d Cheat To Keep These Bastards Out”

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On radio’s The Ed Schultz Show yesterday, the MSNBC host seemed to be feeling the heat of the impending Massachusetts election to fill the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy. Tuesday’s tight race — between Democract and state attorney general Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown — threatens a Senate seat that has belonged to a Democrat for over half a century. It clearly has Schultz feeling a bit antsy, as he spoke on his Friday show. “If I lived in Massachusetts, I’d try to vote ten times,” Schultz said.

Because of the unpredictable nature of special elections, usually plagued by low turnout, the results remain hard to predict. Schultz’s solution? Cheat!

“Yeah that’s right, I’d cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that’s exactly what they are,” he said. A Limbaugh-esque comment if there ever was one — and imagine the outrage should a top conservative have made a similar claim, joke or not.

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(h/t The Radio Equalizer)

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  • nwjw

    He’s an idiot…

  • Pat Doherty

    Considering there were about four articles based on something Limbaugh didn’t say, how many articles can we expect from what Schultz actually said?

  • germ

    Well I don’t think Glynnis or Tommy are working today, so I’d expect this would be the only one.

  • germ
  • TfT

    Pat – thanks for the laugh!!!

    And I snicker at this line in the article: “A Limbaugh-esque comment if there ever was on”….Despite Mr. Ed’s comment having nothing to do with Rush, mediaite just can’t let go of the maharushi.

  • germ

    Tommy has weighted in on Twitter… guess he thinks it is not a big deal – he thinks the Dems feel entitled to a “do-whatever-they-want” Presidency.

    @TommyXtopher: Again, never said Schultz was right to say it, but not that big a deal. He figures he’s owed at least 1 presidency, if not two (Gore, Kerry)

    about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

  • Joe Coscarelli

    To argue that this comment isn’t Limbaugh-esque is to underestimate Limbaugh’s effect on talk radio.

  • WaterLoo

    Clearly there’s no problem with this statement. If you will, please allow me to explain. You see, the conservative camp is the one with the majority who believe in things such as faith and moral values, NOT the liberal/progressive camp. Therefore, the conservative camp MUST live up to their moral values, BUT the liberal/progressive camp does NOT. One might call this a liberal/progressive advantage, BUT it’s impossible because liberal/progressive’s are the real true champions of fairness.

  • germ

    Waterloo:

    That would work but Schultz is speaking for the “Democratic” party, or Democracy, the system of everyone having a say in their vote. (It is no coincidence that our two main political parties are named after our political system: A Democratic Republic.) So yes, there is something wrong with his statement based just on that.

    Not to mention, there are no “Liberals” anymore. The term liberal came from “liberty” or “libertarian” which believe in true freedom, let one do what they want on the basis that it doesn’t take away from someone else’s “life, liberty, or their pursuit of happiness,” with minimal state intervention.

    What Shultz is stating is the definition of fascism. His quote shows his thinking (along with many progressives) that only the people he agrees with should have power and will do whatever necessary to keep that happening. There is a difference between ideological debate and stating that the other ideology is a “bastard.”

  • Fidoohki

    That’s just disgusting.

  • pyrope

    Precisely what we should all expect from the liberal idiots who infest our airwaves.

  • germ
  • Ted

    pyrope – Right, unlike those conservative parasites that have evidently made their way into your dumb ass brain.

  • germ

    Ted,

    Why do you always have to come in and attack people without bringing any substance?

  • dhg

    Supposedly the Dumbocrats want this man to run for congress so if he advocates cheating he’ll fit right in.The health care bill is one big cheat.

  • http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com LNSmithee

    Joe Coscarelli wrote:

    To argue that this comment isn’t Limbaugh-esque is to underestimate Limbaugh’s effect on talk radio.

    Oh…you’re through? I thought it was a joke. I was waiting for the punch line.

    Over the past two decades, Rush has said a lot of things on the air of questionable taste and accuracy, but if he had ever suggested that he would himself would engage in vote fraud, people like you would be beating him over the head with it every single day. Remember that liberals blew a gasket in 2008 when he embarked on “Operation Chaos” to get Hillary nominated for the Dems, but that was perfectly legal. It took a doofus like Schultz — who began as just another local Rush clone and ended up being America’s favorite anti-Rush — to say he would break the law out loud. You can’t blame Rush for Ed’s verbal diarrhea.

    So, I guess you’re serious, which means the real joke is you, Joe.

  • http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com LNSmithee

    germ wrote:

    Well I don’t think Glynnis or Tommy are working today…

    They’re probably registering to vote in Boston using a vacant building as a home address.

  • http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com LNSmithee

    Interesting that you switched the original pic of Schultz atop this thread to one with Rush captioned “Haitful,” which has ZERO to do with what Ed said.

  • germ

    Quick! Somebody hide this post! (It is now on the sidebar instead one of the “featured” posts) Although the O’Reilly post has been up for going on 24 hours compared to this post’s 8 hours (don’t know for sure – Joe updated the post and the time changed).

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    Like my fellow PATRIOTS here, I will CONTINUE to register my DISGUST with the writers of this blog until JUSTICE is done!!1 Sure I could go somewhere like RedState or the Fox Nation, where my VIEWS are SHARED by other Right-Thinking Americans, but I feel it is my DUTY to stay RIGHT HERE and CRITICIZE the SHAMEFULLY BIASED posts I am subjected to each and every day on this LEFT WING blog!!1 Surely if we all BAND TOGETHER and continue our criticism, DAN ABRAMS himself will call a meeting and fire Glynnis, Tommy, and the rest of the LIB LOONS!!1 We have the POWER, people!!1

  • http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com LNSmithee

    germ wrote:

    That would work but Schultz is speaking for the “Democratic” party, or Democracy, the system of everyone having a say in their vote. (It is no coincidence that our two main political parties are named after our political system: A Democratic Republic.) So yes, there is something wrong with his statement based just on that.

    People like Chris Matthews (who has no trouble calling conservatives “teabaggers”) get all twitchy and upset when people refer to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Party.”

    I’ll tell you why I call it the “Democrat Party” — because they don’t live up to their chosen “Democratic” name. Between the GOP and the Dems, only one party has instituted an two-tier system when they are nominating a candidate for President. There is no electoral college system within the nomination process for Republicans; whoever gets the majority of delegates assigned each candidate by voters at the polls wins the privilege of running on the GOP ticket. Not so for Democrats: Once the people’s vote is finished, there is still the possibility that “superdelegates” — Dem elected officials and party insiders who have presumably already voted in their own states — could swing the delegate majority to a candidate who was NOT the choice of the rank-and-file Democrats. Y’know, the poor schlubs who only get to vote once.

    This puts the lie to the idea that the Democrat Party is “the party of the people” — if the bosses of the party don’t like the direction in which its members are steering it, they have no problem saying “We don’t care who you want to nominate. We know better and will do what we please.” “Democratic”? My (insert party symbol here).

  • http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com LNSmithee

    L.N. Smithee wrote:

    “There is no electoral college system within the nomination process for Republicans;”

    I meant“There is no INCONSISTENCY within the electoral college system within the nomination process for Republicans…”

  • germ

    LNSmithee:

    Thanks! I forgot about the whole “SuperDelegate” debacle within the Democratic Party. They truly are the say one thing, do another party.

  • http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com LNSmithee

    Hey Spensen: I like it here. Y’know why? Because it upsets punks like you. You want an echo chamber? Go somewhere where I ain’t. !!!!!111

  • germ

    Just ignore him Smithee. Don’t feed the trolls.

  • timzank

    LNSmithee says:

    “They’re probably registering to vote in Boston using a vacant building as a home address.”

    Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a thread winner!

    That is comedy gold! And if they’re not doing that, they’re at least gassing up the vans and making the liquor & cig run for the election day alley trawl for voters.

  • felixw

    MSNBC host advocating voter fraud on national television? Even given the bias and propaganda tilt of MSNBC, this is beyond belief.

  • m

    Mediaite is a horrible, horrible left-wing website that serves the bias of Dan Abrams and his former-MSNBC colleagues by routinely smearing right-wingers, all a part of the typical liberal media who always attack conservatives and never goes after liberals.

  • http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com LNSmithee

    felixw: Schultz didn’t say it on BSNBC, he said it on his radio show. But don’t expect anyone on the net to call him out for it. They’re team players there.

  • shootfromthehip

    For “M,” whu said “Mediaite is a horrible, horrible left-wing website that serves the bias of Dan Abrams and his former-MSNBC colleagues by routinely smearing right-wingers, all a part of the typical liberal media who always attack conservatives and never goes after liberals.”

    Good. If you hate it so much, leave. And I disagree with your assertion. In fact, they are going after Ed from MSNBC on THIS VERY THREAD THAT YOU ARE COMMENTING ON.

    How much more of an idiot can you possibly be?

  • same2u

    Shootfromthehip,

    You don’t read the comment section here much. M is being sarcastic.

  • germ

    M was being facetious because of some commentators that make that claim on a daily basis. It is a much more balanced site on the weekends without Tommy and Glynnis posting their six articles a day (all attacking Palin, Rush, Beck or FNC) clogging up the site.

  • liberalontogeny

    Damn Teabaggers. They’re going to ruin everything!

    The MA Coakley-Brown Race Has Surprises

    Note: 40 second intro on video before the Damn teabaggers start to ruin it all!

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    YES!!1 LOUDER, Patriots!!1 We must NEVER REST until Dan Abrams calls a STAFF MEETING and demands that his staff CUT IT OUT with the LIB propaganda!!1 The more we COMMENT, the angrier we GET, the more we DEMAND that this site purge the LEFTIES from its ranks, the closer we come to VICTORY!!1

  • BJL411

    germ says:
    January 16, 2010 at 10:55 pm
    M was being facetious because of some commentators that make that claim on a daily basis. It is a much more balanced site on the weekends without Tommy and Glynnis posting their six articles a day (all attacking Palin, Rush, Beck or FNC) clogging up the site.

    ROFLMFAO OMG HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ROF LOL OMG LMAO !

    GOOD OLE STUPID AMERICANS!

  • http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

    I’ve only read this Ed fellow’s name on the various media websites and because I wondered if he was radio before television or vice-versa, I flipped over to his Wikipedia only to discover a big picture of a naked man.

    I’ve never before really thought a lot about Wiki. I knew that it’s user-generated and all that other nonsense, but apparently there’s not a mechanism to report a picture of a naked man, instead you have to learn their procedures for editing a page and it’s just not worth it to me.

    IOW: Until somebody else discovers it or they develop a “flag” button, I guess the image will live.

  • TfT

    Kelly O’Donnell Hopes ‘All the Talk We`re Doing About This Race Will Fire Up Democrats to Prevent a Loss’ in Massachusetts (h/t newsbusters).

    So, Ed says cheat, Kelly says we are on Coakley’s side and we will help her out.

    NBC/MSNBC – the place for propaganda.

  • ChrisNH

    Ahhh…the pure joy of seeing Lib yackers enraged at a time when the government of their dreams is in place. Schultz is a heart attack waiting to happen and I think it’s great. He and all the other Lib media hacks are totally apoplectic. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, but I’m thrilled that it is. Go Scott Brown!

  • KiKi

    I thought that Dem’s ‘digging up’ votes was pretty much a given. Glad to see it acknowledged by two MSNBC hosts. From Chris Matthews:

    “You know in the old days…if the Democrats faced this kind of a disaster in the works, you`d go back to your ones, the people you were sure are going to vote Democrat, and you`d make sure they got to the polling place,” Matthews told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Friday’s “Hardball.”

    “You`d get them lunch, you`d get them a car. You`d make sure they got there, and in some cases you`d be buying people to get them,” he continued. “But I hear talking to somebody today there aren`t people up there in Massachusetts like that anymore”

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