During the “Psycho Talk” segment of The Ed Show on Thursday, MSNBC host Ed Schultz complained that Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown “has degraded women” as he highlighted liberal criticism of Senator Brown for a joke he recently made about Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. Schultz noted that Brown is the successor to former Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, as if to suggest that he were a disgrace to the former Democratic Senator. After introducing the segment by charging that the Republican Senator “is starting to hit below the belt,” the MSNBC host showed a clip of Warren taking a crack at Brown at a Democratic debate by declaring that she kept her clothes on during her time in college rather than pose nude to pay for classes. Then came a soundbiteof Brown being asked if he had responded to her jab at him, with the Massachusetts Republican joking, “Thank God,” that she had kept her clothes on. Schultz then brought up former Senator Kenendy as he accused Brown of having “degraded women.” Schultz: “So this is a guy who took over Ted Kennedy's Senate seat? And this isn't the first time Scott Brown has degraded women in public.” As if to suggest further evidence that Brown is tainting Kennedy's Senate seat, the MSNBC host then played the famous clip of Senator Brown teasing his daughters about being “available” during his victory speech in 2010. Schultz continued: Uh, yeah, Scott Brown might have gotten into a lot more trouble with his latest comment. The National Organization of Women and Emily's List have condemned his remarks about Warren and suggested that he drop out of the 2012 race. I don't think that's going to happen. For the guy who stripped for a magazine to take such a low blow at a female opponent is desperate psycho talk. Below is a complete transcript of the “Psycho Talk” segment from the Thursday, october 6, The Ed Show on MSNBC: ED SCHULTZ: And in “Psycho Talk,” tonight, Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown may be in danger of losing his Senate seat in that state. Polls are showing that he's running neck and neck with Democrat Elizabeth Warren. So the guy who once posed nude in a magazine is starting to hit below the belt. It all started with Elizabeth Warren's answer to this question during a recent Democratic debate in Massachusetts. UNIDENTIFIED MALE MODERATE IN DEBATE: To help pay for his law school education, Scott Brown posed for Cosmo. How did you pay for your college education? (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER) ELIZABETH WARREN, MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC SENATE CANDIDATE: I kept my clothes on. (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER) SCHULTZ: Scott Brown responded on a Boston radio show today. AUDIO OF UNIDENTIFIED MALE HOST OF RADIO SHOW: Have you officially responded to Elizabeth Warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off? AUDIO OF SENATOR SCOTT BROWN (R-MA), LAUGHING: Thank God. SCHULTZ: So this is a guy who took over Ted Kennedy's Senate seat? And this isn't the first time Scott Brown has degraded women in public. Remember what he said about his daughters during his victory speech last year. BROWN: Just in case anybody who's watching throughout the country, yes, they're both available. No, no, no. Only kidding. Only kidding. Arianna is definitely not available, but Ayla is. I can see I'm going to get in trouble when I get home. SCHULTZ: Uh, yeah, Scott Brown might have gotten into a lot more trouble with his latest comment. The National Organization of Women and Emily's List have condemned his remarks about Warren and suggested that he drop out of the 2012 race. I don't think that's going to happen. For the guy who stripped for a magazine to take such a low blow at a female opponent is desperate psycho talk.
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Continue reading …Matthews Compares Obama to a Clunker: Would You Buy This ‘Lousy’ Car Again Next Year?
October 6, 2011 No Comment
MSNBC's Chris Matthews used to get a thrill up his leg when he heard Barack Obama speak. After Thursday's pathetic presidential press conference, the “Hardball” host compared Obama to a “lousy” new car that ended up being
Continue reading …MSNBC VP Already Jazzed: 2012 Is America’s ‘Second Most Historic Election’
October 6, 2011 No Comment
David Barrington, MSNBC’s vice president for advertising sales, is bullish about his network’s financial picture, telling Broadcasting & Cable magazine that MSNBC’s revenue for advanced “upfront” ad revenue was up fifty percent. But the way the MSNBC VP characterized the election stood out. “To grow revenue by 50% will give you an indication as to the recognition among clients, planners and buyers that this is going to be the second most historic election in our country’s history ,” Barrington says. “There are a lot of interesting debates to be had, and this is the content you want to be around.” Is it “most historic” because it will the first re-election of a black president? Or the first defeat of a black president? It sounds like MSNBC is hyping (A). Or does Barrington believe it could be a Cain vs. Obama race? I highly doubt they think dumping Obama deserves the positive-sounding word “historic.”
Continue reading …After Five Weeks MSNBC’s Matthews, O’Donnell, Schultz and Sharpton Still Haven’t Reported Solyndra
October 5, 2011 No Comment
It is now five weeks since the solar company Solyndra declared bankruptcy. Despite the Obama administration lending this failed company $535 million dollars, and a growing scandal involving the White House, MSNBC's prime time hosts Chris Matthews, Lawrence O'Donnell, Ed Schultz, and Al Sharpton have yet to say one word on the subject. Even ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked the president a question about this matter during his ABC News/Yahoo online interview Monday. But the MSNBC prime time hosts, with the exception of Rachel Maddow who discussed Solyndra once, have thoroughly boycotted this story. Exactly how do the heads of MSNBC and parent NBC condone such overt bias in their prime time programming? Is this a “news network” or the president's propaganda arm?
Continue reading …MSNBC Features Activist Insisting That Preaching Against Homosexuality Like ‘Bullying,’ ‘Child Molestation’
October 4, 2011 No Comment
Preaching that homosexuality is a sin is “bullying” and akin to “child molestation” and must be stopped, argued Mitchell Gold of Faith in America on today's “MSNBC Live” hosted by Thomas Roberts. For his part, openly gay host Roberts failed to question Gold's assertion or to hold out that Gold's view may at best border on anti-religious bigotry (emphasis mine; video courtesy of MRCTV's Bob Parks follows page break): THOMAS ROBERTS, host, “MSNBC Live”: …[W]hen we talk about how kids bullying other kids need to change their own behaviors, when they see adults bullying other people, whether it be in their own state or around this country nationally, isn't that the message that they're paying attention to? I mean, they learn from us. MITCHELL GOLD, founder, Faith in America: Oh, I agree with you 100 percent. I mean, the bullying that takes place by adults. I would say this, that clergy people who stand at their pulpit and they speak about gay people as sinners and an abomination, that is bullying a young kid, and that is really, and I know this might sound exaggerated, but that is nothing less than child molestation of a child's mind. I know from writing this book ["Youth In Crisis"] and all the people that I talk to throughout my state and the country that it is devastating to a 14-year-old kid to hear their rabbi or imam or their priest or clergyperson say that they are a sinner and abomination. They're at a young, vulnerable age. They believe in the concept of sin and they think they're doing something wrong, when the reality is they are God's creation, and I'm here to tell them they are full and whole and wonderful and they will learn as life goes on that there are many, many people that feel that way. Roberts described Gold's organization as a “non-profit, civil rights advocacy group,” but a cursory review of Faith in America's website shows it's decidedly liberal politically and theologically, castigating the fight for “traditional marriage” as a “sin,” for example: The use of the term “traditional marriage” embeds in our minds and hearts a moral and religious stamp of disapproval on gay and lesbian individuals and that brings immense harm to their lives, their happiness and their well-being. Faith In America therefore believes the use of the term “traditional marriage” is without question morally unacceptable and equally sinful in the religious context.
Continue reading …Peggy Noonan Smacks Down E.J. Dionne: ‘A Leader Leads’ – Obama’s ‘Never Been Able To Do It’
October 2, 2011 No Comment
On Sunday's “Meet the Press,” Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne wheeled out the typical Democrat talking point that President Obama can't get anything accomplished because of Republican obstructionism in Congress. Not buying this nonsense was the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan who smartly responded, “A leader leads. Part of the president's problem is that he has never, from day one, been able to really pull in bipartisan support, either make Republicans afraid of him or want to follow him. He's never been able to do it” (video follows with transcript and commentary): E.J.DIONNE, WASHINGTON POST: Could, could I just say that a lot depends on whether Obama can hold the Republicans accountable for blocking this? And we–you can't–it's not some vague, “This can't get done.” There's a very specific obstacle–Harry Truman did a good job in 1948 at identifying the obstacle as Republicans, and that's what Obama has to do. We don't know if he can do it yet. REP. XAVIER BECERRA (D-CALIFORNIA): But his… DAVID GREGORY, HOST: Let's–Peggy, go ahead. PEGGY NOONAN, WALL STREET JOURNAL: A leader leads. MR. GREGORY: Go ahead. MS. NOONAN: A leader leads. Part of the president's problem is that he has never, from day one, been able to really pull in bipartisan support, either make Republicans afraid of him or want to follow him. He's never been able to do it. Part of the reason people are talking about Chris Christie is that he's in a Democratic state, he's a Republican governor, but he has made progress on deficits, spending, pensions, property taxes with a Democratic legislature. It's never an excuse that washes to say, “Oh, the other team, the other party are bad guys. They wouldn't follow me.” If you're a leader, you make them… REP. BECERRA: Well, then let's put the president's jobs bill on the floor of the House… MS. NOONAN: But if you're a leader, you make them follow you. Indeed. And as MSNBC's Joe Scarborough accurately noted regarding a similar charge by Dionne in a September 1 column : The President owned – OWNED! – Washington, D.C., in 2009 and 2010. Owned it! Fifty, at points he had a filibuster-proof Senate. He had a seventy-nine vote margin in the House. And E.J. Dionne, again with all due respect, he’s a nice man, but he was blaming Republicans then as well. At some point, E.J. Dionne and other people who celebrated the triumph of Barack Obama are going to have to turn the mirror on the man that they adore and realize that they’ve been writing the same columns whether this president was, had a filibuster-proof Senate or whether they had John Boehner as Speaker. Exactly. And now a month later, Dionne is saying the same nonsense on “Meet the Press.” Fortunately, Noonan was there to set him and the viewers straight.
Continue reading …Peggy Noonan Smacks Down E.J. Dionne: ‘A Leader Leads’ – Obama’s ‘Never Been Able To Do It’
October 2, 2011 No Comment
On Sunday's “Meet the Press,” Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne wheeled out the typical Democrat talking point that President Obama can't get anything accomplished because of Republican obstructionism in Congress. Not buying this nonsense was the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan who smartly responded, “A leader leads. Part of the president's problem is that he has never, from day one, been able to really pull in bipartisan support, either make Republicans afraid of him or want to follow him. He's never been able to do it” (video follows with transcript and commentary): E.J.DIONNE, WASHINGTON POST: Could, could I just say that a lot depends on whether Obama can hold the Republicans accountable for blocking this? And we–you can't–it's not some vague, “This can't get done.” There's a very specific obstacle–Harry Truman did a good job in 1948 at identifying the obstacle as Republicans, and that's what Obama has to do. We don't know if he can do it yet. REP. XAVIER BECERRA (D-CALIFORNIA): But his… DAVID GREGORY, HOST: Let's–Peggy, go ahead. PEGGY NOONAN, WALL STREET JOURNAL: A leader leads. MR. GREGORY: Go ahead. MS. NOONAN: A leader leads. Part of the president's problem is that he has never, from day one, been able to really pull in bipartisan support, either make Republicans afraid of him or want to follow him. He's never been able to do it. Part of the reason people are talking about Chris Christie is that he's in a Democratic state, he's a Republican governor, but he has made progress on deficits, spending, pensions, property taxes with a Democratic legislature. It's never an excuse that washes to say, “Oh, the other team, the other party are bad guys. They wouldn't follow me.” If you're a leader, you make them… REP. BECERRA: Well, then let's put the president's jobs bill on the floor of the House… MS. NOONAN: But if you're a leader, you make them follow you. Indeed. And as MSNBC's Joe Scarborough accurately noted regarding a similar charge by Dionne in a September 1 column : The President owned – OWNED! – Washington, D.C., in 2009 and 2010. Owned it! Fifty, at points he had a filibuster-proof Senate. He had a seventy-nine vote margin in the House. And E.J. Dionne, again with all due respect, he’s a nice man, but he was blaming Republicans then as well. At some point, E.J. Dionne and other people who celebrated the triumph of Barack Obama are going to have to turn the mirror on the man that they adore and realize that they’ve been writing the same columns whether this president was, had a filibuster-proof Senate or whether they had John Boehner as Speaker. Exactly. And now a month later, Dionne is saying the same nonsense on “Meet the Press.” Fortunately, Noonan was there to set him and the viewers straight.
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