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Sean Hannity And Ed Schultz Locked In Feud Over Osama bin Laden

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After watching Sean Hannity‘s show on Fox News Tuesday night (or, more likely, reading Zeke Miller on BuzzFeed), MSNBC’s Ed Schultz took to his blog and accused Hannity of uttering, “the most deranged comment about President Obama ever uttered on the ‘Fair and Balanced’ network.” His crime? Hannity said that Osama bin Laden wouldn’t be dead if President Obama had his way. “And I think,” Hannity added, “that can be proven as well on tapes.”

Observe:

Schultz then fired off a missive to Hannity on Twitter, challenging his rival host to, “show his ‘tape’ proving the President didn’t want Bin Laden dead,” followed by the extra-long hashtag “#obamaderangementsyndrome.” Hannity responded by repeating the hashtag, then saying that, “even u can figure this out, he did NOT support gitmo, EIT, Rendition, without which no Bin laden.” He later accused Schultz of being desperate and in need of attention.

Schultz, however, may just be smart. It’s not the first time that he has gone after his competitors. But today, after kicking up a bunch of dust by attacking an anchor on a rival network — and getting Hannity to respond for all of his 242,000 Twitter followers to see (Schultz has about 37,000 followers) — he artfully noted (twice) that he will address this issue at 8 p.m., on The Ed Show.

And that, no matter what you think of Schultz, is what one calls “sticking the landing.”

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  • Anonymous

    Going after their competitors is pretty much the only time MSNBC ever gets noticed outside its own meager viewership.

  • Anonymous

    Media fight!

  • http://twitter.com/Fools_RushL_in Ray in Bowie

    Hannity fails to explain how these (gitmo, EIT, Rendition) policies “found” OBL, or better yet, why they failed to find him between 9/11/01-1/20/09. Bush in 5/02:   ”Who knows if he’s hiding in some cave or not. We haven’t heard from him in a long time. The idea of focusing on one person really indicates to me people don’t understand the scope of the mission. Terror is bigger than one person. He’s just a person who’s been marginalized. … I don’t know where he is. I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you.”

    Hannity’s a moron who specializes in situational ethics.

  • Anonymous

    Sean Hannity and Ed Schultz are political pundits, no one with a brain should take what they say as gospel 

    though just as an interesting observation to Hannity, Obama didn’t want Bin Laden dead? What does speculation in this instance have to do with anything, shouldn’t we judge our presidents by their actions not what may or may not be going on inside their head? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Ed Schultz has a show?

  • Anonymous

    And here is where the far extremes on both sides lose voters. Hannity is desperate to deny Obama  credit for anything at all, so he concocts this goofy theory. Why goofy? Because, assuming that Bush era intel led to bin Laden, it already existed before Obama ended EIT. Rendition is still going on and Gitmo is still open. So Hannity’s entire theory is trashed because it is based on a false assumption that no intel was gathered after 1/20/09.

    Schultz is just as wrong and goofy because he will say that no Bush era intel was used (the popular far left theory) which is way wrong. Obama himself credited Bush’s intel. Schultz is so desperate to deny that EIT worked that he will also make stuff up. He will also blame Bush for not going into Pakistan and Tora Bora and so on. Schultz’s theory is just as goofy and wrong and is also based on a false assumption that no Bush intel had value.

    Here is the problem with both of these chattering buffoons – killing bin Laden was a victory for all of America. All of us. Both parties, both extremes, the middle and everyone else. Idiots like Hannity and Schultz who persist in trying to wedge this victory are – in the words of Howard Cosell – “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.” What makes it worse is that they are only doing it to feed their wildly divisive partisan needs.

  • Anonymous

    Admittedly, I didn’t read the article, but I’m willing to bet “locked in feud” means it’s the most important thing in Ed Schultz’ life and Hannity barely cares.

  • Anonymous

    I agree – it was a victory for all of us.  Too bad Obama can’t admit that; he takes credit for the kill without crediting the policies and procedures put in place by the previous administration that he “inherited” and continued.  Obama needs to be a man about it, and not be a manchild….but unfortunately, Obama doesn’t know how to do that.

  • Anonymous

    Schultz trying to kick up some attention for himself – bwahahahaha.  Poor MSNBC, if they don’t talk about FNC, they don’t talk.

  • Centrist79

    I always found Schultz a lttle off center, but in fairness Hannity is even more off his rocker than Schultz.

  • labman57

    Defies all logic. Once again the clowns on FOX News demonstrate that they live in a reality distortion field.

    If Obama’s decision-making skills were as inept as those of Bush and Cheney, THEN bin Laden would still be alive.

  • Anonymous
  • Christopher West

    Hannity has the tapes, he just doesn’t realize that the president he is looking at is GWB in May of 2002.

  • Anonymous

    To be fair, he did credit the Bush administration when he announced it and still does when he references it. It is the rest of that side that refuses to credit Bush at all for it, which is just wrong.

    I remember when we could set the stupid politics aside and savor a victory as Americans.

  • Anonymous

    The important part of the clip is where he says the unemployment rate is coming down and Obama got Bin Laden. 

  • 12voltman1

    Sean Hannity has a show?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emma-Thomas/100003357377085 Emma Thomas

    Obama didn’t want to kill Bin Laden? How does this stuff get through any network? Hannity isn’t a very bright guy, is he? If he wants to attack Obama, surely the one thing he should not talk about is the one thing every half-sane person agrees is Obama’s clear success in taking out Bin Laden.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bee-Ruled/100001985815996 Bee Ruled

    Every time I look at a photo of Ed, it makes me hungry for a spiral-cut, honey-glazed ham sandwich.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_77LDUZTAI2KIDYH7OTJ2MURQ5Y PrinceO

    Then why complain when Obama keeps blaming Bush for the economic downfall for this country. And yes he gave Bush credit. Stop listening to talk radio and stop watching foxnews or at best vary your viewership. If you do the above you will hear both sides of the story, not FROM manufactured democrats on foxnews who keep bashing Obama. 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Yep
    I agree except I want to bash Obama.

    What would we do without you?

    manchild?
    say it.

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    It is not fair to beat up on a man-child like Hannity.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Then you must imagine a stuffed roast pig when you look at Limbaugh..lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Who is Ed Schultz?

  • Anonymous

    Fair? You’d like Tina to be fair? You’re not new here. You have to know that’s not going to happen.

  • huffnnoccupyn

     And if you’re not talking about MSNBC, you’re not talking.

    Which reminds me to remind you to stop talking about MSNBC. Thank you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bee-Ruled/100001985815996 Bee Ruled

    I’M the lightning – YOU’RE the rod.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXKYUPLRNWBGFFEIK4IRWIH2TI Brent

    Talk about tin foil hats. If this was a Hannity one time statement it’s still messes up, but he has said this more than once. I remember when Bush was in office Hannity had all of this insider information laying out whatever spin he wanted to use on any given day. This guy lives in his own head where reality doesn’t count. Just like the egomaniac Trump who claims his show has the best ratings. Heck he even bought his own Star on the Rock of Fame to prove it. Entertainment at its best.

  • Katechon Phosphene

    It’s 3 tiny paragraphs and a 30 second video. Deary me!

  • Anonymous

    Yes it is.

  • Anonymous

    Is MSNBC still on the air?  I thought they renamed it Current TV!

  • bill meyers

    Hatin Hannity. More insanity from the teabaggers.

  • bill meyers

    Problem is Tina, Shrub said that he didn’t care about OBL and wasn’t looking for him. It’s hard to follow a policy that doesn’t exist.

  • bill meyers

    Insannity. Insanitorum. Quak, quak, quak. Teabaggers flock to insane ideas like flies to dung.

  • Anonymous

    You must not be awake at 9:00 p.m.!  Sean rocks.  He is number 1!  Rachel Maddow eat your heart out (I think she has a heart?)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Remember Hannity didn’t want to go into Pakistan to get Bin Laden and attacked Obama during the 2008 campaign for suggesting it (as did John McCain during a debate), saying it would ‘endanger our ally,” the corrupt Gen. Musharraf, whose government hid out Bin Laden.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Fox News gets 2 million out of a population of 300 million.
    MSNBC gets 1 million out of a population 300 million. Hardly a runaway landslide indicative of a conservative U.S. that favors Hannity.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    But Republicans say that saying George W. Boosh had anything to do with anything post-2009 is ‘just blaming Bush.”

  • http://www.madcharles.com/ MadCharles

    It’s quite clear Bush got Bin Laden. What’s Ed’s problem? and why can’t he do his show on his skill and not ride on the coat tails of others like Fox or Rush or Bollings day after day after day ?….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    More proof that FOX viewers live in an alternate reality.

  • Anonymous

    You can learn all about him if you google “North Korea’s favorite American talk show host.”

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     If all of the media is left biased, and Hannity can only pull down 2 million righties, thats pretty sad,

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Fox News liars like Hannity keep the low IQ Conservatives/Tea Baggers/Republican very poorly informed. This is yet another proof of that.

  • http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

    MSNBC.  No talent.  No viewers.  No hope.  End of discussion. 

  • Anonymous

    When President Obama was asked by the “birthers” if he could produce Osama Bin Laden’s death certificate, he responded:  “The best proof that he is dead is that Acorn just registered him to vote as a Democrat in Chicago this morning.”

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Hannitty is factually correct.
    Obama voted against the procedures that enabled the killing!

    Period. Fact. End of story…although I’m sure we’ll be hearing a “Racist!” accusation somewhere or other, because that’s the Democrats calling card.

    Oh, that and their WAR ON RELIGION!
    heh-heh

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    This does not make you a racist. All of the low IQ Conservatives/Tea Baggers/Republicans are not racist.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    I love how conservatives think conservative ideaology triumphs over moderate and Democrat principles because Fox News has higher ratings.  If it wasn’t for senior citizens, Fox would be last in the ratings considering the average age of a Fox viewer is in their 60′s…..  and the average age of people who watch the Factor is 71.  

    The demo that cable and network outlets strive for is between 18-49.   And when Fox can bring those folks in, then I’d say conservatives have a point.  But until then, congratulations Fox, you are the favored channel amongst old folks homes and hospices.

  • Anonymous

    I know, but I had to at least say it once.

  • Anonymous

    It’s easier for ideologues to not have to think too much.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    On another note, anyone who watches these two buffoons, who to me, represent the extremes of both parties, and take their words as gospel, need to have their head checked.

  • Anonymous

    If President Bush had his way, we wouldn’t have invaded Iraq. I have the tapes.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Remember when Bush said he wasn’t concerned about Bin Laden, the man responsible for killing over 3,000 Americans? 

    Thank Dog for Obama.  He had the courage and fortitude to track down this scumbag and kill him in under 3 years.  Bush said he wasn’t concerned about finding  Bin Laden 6 months (March 2003) after the events on 9/11.

    Instead, his focus was on spending billions of dollars and sending hundreds of thousands of troops to Iraq, which we all know, had nothing to do with 9/11 nor did they have the capability to attack the US or our interests.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, it’s called Hogan’s Heroes-he was the German guard…oh..wait…wrong guy…sorry.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t the fact that Bin laden is dead make you wrong? If he wasn’t interested in going after Bin laden, he’d still be alive-but….since he was interested in going after him, now he’s dead. What am I missing? It doesn’t matter how he voted in Congress, as President he ordered Seal Team 6 into the compound…PERIOD.FACT.END OF STORY

  • Smack80

    Kind of like a cat fight, don’t ya think?

  • Smack80

    For actual news, I turn to Al Jazeera, 
    Ghida Fakhry rocks! I’ve never watched either of these guys and don’t intend to start. Somehow this reminds me of Jr. High and I didn’t like Jr. High.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Except for Eric Bolling there is no bigger lying weasel on Fox than Hannity.

  • Anonymous

     Actually the DOD said after the kill that President Obama ordered them to find Bin Laden on his first day in office and to take him out if they could not capture him, they reviewed all the info available, got info on a probable location and that it took them 8 months to nail down the location and confirm it thereafter under the tightness security they took ten months to train for the Capture/kill mission and that during that time at the Presidents order they excluded Pakistan from the loop, they told the Prsident that they were readdy and the President green lighted the mission and the rest is history.Also we now know that this information had been in the previous administrations hands but that they had not considered it reliable enough to risk provoking Pakistan  if they acted.
      Obama said he (Bin Laden) would be a priority and he pushed it and they got him. Campaign PROMISE kept.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Both, Schultz and Hannity are deranged. It’s because of clowns like them that politics is so polarized and nothing ever gets done. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BCCBAFODFB5MIUPZ5SUCB2JZQU Sary

    Hannity has always been a lying piece of shit.   Obama CAMPAIGNED on crossing into Pakistan and taking out OBL.

    McCain and Hillary said that was naive because they were allies of ours.

  • Anonymous

     Actually there is some question of Faux’s numbers as to viewers in that thee viewers are there at the begging of an hour and that within 5 mins. they lose 25% of them and by the 1/2 hour fully 50-55% have turned to another channel and that counting the ‘lets see what is on now’ crowd is how Faux reports such high numbers.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P27OZ7IRYVJ4W5MDA265QCQGKA Swfloridagal Gal

    I swear Fox pundits only speak to the dumb.  It seems that they are only ones listening to them.

  • Anonymous

    I think Hannity meant to say that Mr Bush had no interest in going after UBL which, of course, is borne out by the facts.

  • Anonymous

    Osama Bin Laden was killed by SEALS on the orders of President Obama. President George W. Bush couldn’t find him…

    …Deal with it Hannity!

     All you’re doing is making yourself dumb and ridiculous…

    On the other hand, dumb and ridiculous enhances your ratings.

    …Keep it up!

  • Anonymous

    Hannity is just wrong on this.  He has no tapes…it was a lie he was caught in.

  • Anonymous

    If you wanna’ get technical…on any given night, more than twice as many people know that Hannity has a show.  Numbers do not lie…but Libs do.  tee hee

  • Anonymous

    Especially since MSNBC is competing with a bunch of other channels that lean left, right?

  • Anonymous

    Nobody said anything about a “runaway landslide”.  This is exactly why I don’t even bother “debating” Lib/Progs here or anywhere for that matter.  Lib/Progs flat out make up sh*t, assign it to the other side, and then start arguing.

    Jester’s Rule Of Life #7-
    An Honest Debate Cannot Be Had With A Lib/Prog…Don’t Bother.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s a non-Junior High picture of Newt holding an old woman’s nose:
    http://static.hypervocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Newt-Hold-Nose.jpg 

  • Anonymous

    You Forgot To Post A Media Matters Link !!!

  • Anonymous

    “nothing ever gets done”

    Is anyone as sick of hearing this as I am ??  GovCo works best when they are on vacation…no damage done.

    The 10 scariest words you’ll ever want to hear - ”I’m from the government and I’m here to help you”  

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     
    Obama voted against the procedures that enabled the killing.
    - Google it!

  • Smack80

    That’s too funny!

  • batlcrewzer

    I have no intention of pursuing your BS claims. Norbit Peters is a one-eyed pedophile -Goggle it! See how that works? (lol)

  • batlcrewzer

    Teabaggers. No honor. No morals. No hope of winning in Nov. End of discussion for now.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXKYUPLRNWBGFFEIK4IRWIH2TI Brent

    Special forces were in place to take Bin Laden out while he was strolling over to Pakistan. They were told numerous times to abort the kill missions. This was within weeks and a few months after 9/11.
    Obama had the support of one person and said it was a go. His campaign promise was to kill Bin Laden no matter where he was and to destroy al qaeda wherever they are. He’s done a good job at it. Bush publicly STATED he was not concerned about Bin Laden. He doesn’t even spend time thinking about him… Probably cuz he was too busy in his War on Iraq.

  • Anonymous

    Hannity is a coward and he’s a two-face liar for pocketed his own charity money that was suppose to go to military family members.  

  • Anonymous

    One more stooge and the eye poking, slapping, and head bonking can commence. 

  • William Abraham

    Nothing quite like a wife-beating guy that backs down after picking fights in a bar as your spokesman. 

    Have you considered employing a full-on racist? Oh, right.
    Sharpton..

  • Anonymous

    SO! You and Hannity miss the larger point-when he was President he made the call that actually killed him. Using Hannity’s logic the 100 Senators in Congress that voted for or against action trumps the President that actually gave the order to conduct the raid? You, Hannity, and the right wingers have redefined convoluted logic.

  • 12voltman1

    Hannity’s Show has twice the viewers then any other show on TV on any given night.? Libs lie? Your so full of shit it is coming out of your ears.(With all due respect)

  • 12voltman1

    Got your nose!

  • 12voltman1
  • http://www.madcharles.com/ MadCharles

    I’m sure 25 million Iraq people liked being free. Sadly it’ll be all for nothing now that Obama has ruled.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    By the time Israel got Adolf Eichmann, he was a totally spent and ineffectual force.
    By the time Obama got Osama bin Laden, he was a totally spent an ineffectual force.

     

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/B72SX5GTVHS6B4C6AEVMNLQZC4 Bryan Farris

    Here’s the latest ratings:  why lookie here:  Fox News doubles up MSNBC in the 25-54 demo.  And Hannity beat Ed in the demo almost 3 to 1.http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/the-scoreboard-tuesday-february-7-2_b111415#more-111415

    You were saying???

  • Anonymous

    Why is FOX at WAR WITH AMERICA?  This constant attack on the office of the Presidency of the United States of America, is relentless.  This is about as irresponsible at you can get. Attacking the fine members of the Navy Seals, implying they were dupes in some grand conspiracy to over ride the President’s wishes by killing Bin Laden.  Is that what Hammity is saying?  Those people at FOX are about as low as you can get to the bottom of the barrel.
    What if anything do they broadcast that shines a ray of sunshine on the world.  Their like vampires, living in the darkness of negativity and slanderous comments dressed up as News, while sucking the emotional blood out of their viewers leaving them angry and misinformed. 

  • Anonymous

    Is that Tennessee front porch humor, or is this Bill O’Reilly bragging about his contempt for counter programming.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Sean Hannity….  Just another swine molesting right wing extremist who would not know the truth if it introduce itself to him.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PXKYUPLRNWBGFFEIK4IRWIH2TI Brent

    Yup, it was all Obamas fault they wanted Americans to get out of their Country after 8 years. Just for the record, Obama left on the exact same timeline Bush made. 

  • Anonymous

    And zillions of the rancid masses actually watch FOX for their intellectual food.

  • Anonymous

    No, knucklehead…I didn’t say that. Hannity has twice the viewers than Ed does…but you knew I meant that. So now who is full of sh*t?

  • Anonymous

    It is Irish humor.  My mother was born in Ireland!  Bill O’Reilly is also Irish.  We Irish have to stick together.

  • Anonymous

    Disqus generic email template….
    O’Reilly is loyal to the Queen.

  • Anonymous

    Ever notice how the clowns at Fox always run out of time when there’s a liberal tacking their skin to the wall!  All teatards think they’re really the sons and daughters of Christ.  What a bunch of narcissistic idiots.

  • Dale Hogue

    Now, that’s sad, but it’s the funniest thing that has been written on this subject today.

  • http://twitter.com/Netpyrat Constantin

    This has nothing to do with politics. Ed Schulz starts it and Hannity responds. Schulz viewers will watch Hannitys show to see more and Hannitys viewers watch Schulz. Media fight = Ratings boost = More money. Unfortunatly that’s how easy US-Cable “News” works. Want news on TV? Watch the BBC. And why are they impartial? You guessed it: TV Licenceing and no commercials.

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