Ed Schultz Demands Nashville ‘Rednecks’ Write a Pro-Obama Song on Osama
On Thursday night’s edition of The Ed Show on MSNBC, “Ed Schultz threw down a threat-down on hawkish, jingoistic country crooners like Toby Keith and Lee Greenwood ,” wrote Adam Gold of Nashville Scene , “or as he called 'em, ‘fun-lovin', American rednecks in Nashville, Tennessee.” Schultz “put the Music Row machine on notice — jestingly expressing his hankering to hear a patriotic anthem lauding President Obama and the Navy Seals for toe-tagging Osama bin Laden.” You can tell Schultz was mocking patriotic country singers because he didn’t ask Steve Earle or the Dixie Chicks for their help. Ed wanted a “gutsy call” song: I mean, I think I can say that we — with tremendous confidence — that this was a brave mission based on a gutsy call by President Obama. I mean, all of us, except maybe one portion of America I'm waiting on. And that's Nashville, Tennessee. You remember these country western singers that just loved to make all these patriotic songs, Lee Greenwood and he's proud to be an American? Toby Keith, come on, dude. Give me a song, man. We took down the number one terrorist in the world. Does it have to be a Republican president all the time? Schultz then suggested country stars don’t like Obama because of his political party, his international upbringing, his Ivy League degrees,
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