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Saturday, April 05, 2008

Ed Schultz Calls John McCain A Warmonger

Hope and the spirit of unity was alive and well at last night’s North Dakota Democrat convention.

Obama was introduced by North Dakota’s three-man Congressional delegation, whom he greeted as friends, Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan and, as Obama called him, “Ed Pomeroy.” Rep. Earl Pomeroy gave Conrad a sheepish grin at the joke.

Radio talk show star Ed Schultz warmed up the crowd, attacking Sen. John McCain as “a warmonger,” before Obama arrived in the room.

Obama thanked Schultz, saying he was the “voice of progressive radio,” and someone “who knows a little bit about sports.”

Schultz insults the man most North Dakotans will undoubtedly vote to put in the White House come November (given that North Dakota hasn’t voted for a Democrat President in decades), and Obama thanks him.

Is anyone surprised that this happened?  That the North Dakota Democrats - almost entirely funded by out-of-state money - would hold an event that’s so clearly out of step with the majority of North Dakotans?  An event that, frankly, would have been more at home in New York or San Francisco than Grand Forks?

They might be, but they shouldn’t be.

This is no small insult, either.  Warmonger?  That’s a nasty charge, and certainly far beneath the squeaky-clean campaign Obama claims to be running.

Update: You’ll notice the Fargo Forum video of Obama’s speech at the convention last night picks up after Schultz’s insult.  Guess the Forum wants North Dakotans to have the story.  Just not the whole story.

Comments

Avatar for brad

Ed Schultz is an idiot.  His voice has always been for sale and everyone knows it.  I am not voting for McCain, but I completely respect the man and agree with him on many issues (not immigration)...he is not a War monger

brad on April 5, 2008 at 09:38 am

The Hot Air post makes the semi-apt comparison to Bill Cunningham, the Ohio radio host, who kept referring to Barack Hussein Obama. Using Obama’s middle name is a classless joke, unnecessary and distracting, but it’s not the same as saying John McCain enjoys war. In any case, McCain repudiated Cunningham. Will Obama repudiate Schultz?

Pomerdorgrad on April 5, 2008 at 10:30 am

And what’s the “Ed” Pomeroy stuff? Is that a joke? How? Maybe he just got the name wrong.

Pomerdorgrad on April 5, 2008 at 10:32 am
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Well, at least Obama didn’t call him a “clown” as Pomeroy did of President Bush.

halatbis on April 5, 2008 at 10:43 am
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Better a warmonger than a surrendermonger. 
None of those four are worthy enough to lick dogcrap off the bottom of McCain’s shoe.

Diggs on April 5, 2008 at 12:49 pm

Regulars here know exactly where I stand on J. McCain. So they will grasp the significance of me saying that there is not ANYONE on the face of this planet that has the least justification or right to call John McCain a warmonger. None.


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2Hotel9 on April 5, 2008 at 01:10 pm

Yeah no doubt I would rather be a warmonder than a defeatocrat.


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goon on April 5, 2008 at 01:20 pm

When a warm-up host for McCain mocked Obama by using his middle name, John McCain personally rejected the insult and rebuked it’s author.

When Ed Schultz calls Senator McCain a warmonger, Obama thanks him and later has a surragate slap Schultz on the wrist.

Character matters… and now we know which one has it.


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THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT TWO THINGS: WINNING THE WAR ON TERRORISM AND SAVING THE SUPREME COURT.

pparets on April 5, 2008 at 01:43 pm

I bet Ed apologizes. Conrad or Dorgan will get him on the phone, tell him in no uncertain terms that he hurt his benefactors, the Senate Democrats, with the rhetoric and it’s time to say something like, “In the heat of the moment, I let myself get carried away. I have great respect for Sen. McCain...” Ect.

Predicted 3:40 p.m., Saturday.

Pomerdorgrad on April 5, 2008 at 01:54 pm

I’ll put a fin on that!


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2Hotel9 on April 5, 2008 at 02:21 pm

Thank goodness you don’t have opposable thumbs to take my money, 2Hotel9. Here’s a quote from Ed Schultz:

“He voted for this war. He’s a perpetrator of the war. He’s an advocate of the war,” Schultz said of McCain today in an interview reported by the Associated Press. “In my personal definition, that’s a warmonger.

From The Swamp blog.

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Schultz suffers from a family disease, the dreaded Alzheimer’s. He was a failure at football in the Canadian League, a failure as a sports broadcaster and an all around boob. The only success he had in life was runner-up to Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre as North Dakota’s #1 “Enemy of the State”. His disenchantment with the Republican Party came because they turned him down for his bid to run for elected office and he holds a grudge for his own failures, which are too numerous to mention. Typical Obama supporter, rhetoric over substance and too dumb to know the difference.

Fred Satkin on April 5, 2008 at 04:50 pm

“He voted for this war. He’s a perpetrator of the war. He’s an advocate of the war,” Schultz said of McCain today in an interview reported by the Associated Press. “In my personal definition, that’s a warmonger.

Ummm, wouldn’t that fit Hillary as well?



Those who think the party or the country, will be “taught a lesson” by handing the levers of power over to the liberals will learn a lesson, but it will be at the expense of our country and her liberties. And there are no guarantees that the party or the country will come out stronger, more conservative or better positioned to win elections against the incumbent liberals.

Proof on April 5, 2008 at 04:51 pm
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I wonder if Schultz will apologize or is he just another chicken dove?

Nocomme1 on April 5, 2008 at 05:36 pm
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Thankfully Ed Schultz does not speak of the majority of North Dakotan’s (myself included).  We recognize Ed for what he is - big mouth, loud mouth, pops off on a regular basis.  It is amazing how his career has taken off since his radio program.  I like Ed much better when he was just the sports announcer in Fargo. 

About his comments concerning John McCain - Hilary voted for the same war, didn’t she?  Ed needs to apoligize but he will not - his ego would not allow him to do that.

Dee Tarbell on April 6, 2008 at 09:03 am
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i cant believe he even articulated it, even if he does believe it. you dont think mccain had plenty of time to decide if war was justified while he was being tortured? shame, shame, shame. he’s a patriot and a hero.

Todd on April 6, 2008 at 10:51 am

Although I disagree on McCain with a few issues (immigration and global warming) I have to say that this is ridiculous.  McCain is not a warmonger.  The argument that McCain would keep troops in Iraq for 100 years is ridiculous.  He is only be president for 4-8 years if he is elected.  Nice try libs.



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dougee on April 6, 2008 at 01:14 pm

dougee.  I followed this lie about the 100 years last week.  We also still have troops in:  Japan, Germany, Korea, Kuwait and about a dozen or so more places.
France still has troops in Germany!  There is quite a difference between stationing troops and having an embassy than being engaged in active combat.
If that were true, then we have had troops in America for 200+ years!


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Chief RZ on April 6, 2008 at 01:21 pm

Dougee, I am not sure how that one got so far blown out of whack, first off 100 years is a long time and I am not sure how McCain could be blamed by that one? The fact that the dems keep using it makes me believe they are must more desperate than they appear.


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goon on April 6, 2008 at 01:26 pm

Despite the fact that we all know what McCain meant by this, he would have well advised not to make that statement; it served no purpose. Better to say, as he has on other occasions, that “we’ll stay there until the job is done“.

It would not be far from the truth to say that most liberals probably don’t know we have troops stationed in many parts of the world. Rarely do they let their observational skills go beyond the contemplation of their naval.


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laydownSally on April 6, 2008 at 02:37 pm

Yeah, I was flipping through the channels one day and stopped by Morning Shmo on msnbc and they were asking a political analyst if the attacks that Obama were putting towards McCain in regards of the 100 years statement were true.  When the guy said that the attack was completely unfounded the two losers went nuts.  I thought they were going to try to beat the crap out of the guy!



A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

dougee on April 6, 2008 at 02:52 pm

Ed Schultz is a thug… and a bully.  And like every other bully, he is, at heart, a hypocrite and a coward.

Four years ago, Schultz and the rest of the smug Left were singing the praises of John Kerry and his demonstrably faux heroism.  Now, confronted by a real military hero, Schultz, who is all mouth with nothing to back it up, calls McCain a “warmonger.”

There are plenty of issues over which Schultz could have criticized McCain.  That he chose instead to resort to petty name-calling merely demonstrates that Schultz’ intelligence and his courage are as insignificant as his mouth is large.


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on April 6, 2008 at 04:42 pm
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McCain *is* a warmonger and a hypocrite.
Mr. Straight Talk’s campaign is run by lobbyists and McSame marches in ridgid lockstep with President Bungle. He hasn’t a clue about economics or running anything as complex as a daycare center. Once Obama wraps up the nomination and turns his sights on McCain, the jig will be up. Mr. Maverick is now backing away from ‘maverick’ (quote/unquote) because he knows he is nothing of the sort. He prefers to known as ‘a great American’ now. What a joke. Because he has undergone torture 50 years ago he is a great American? Anything else? Or is that it?
Bomb, bomb Iran, the Iranians are training Al Qaida, the economy, er, uh, yeah that’s money or something.

Good luck. A pathetic default candidate but the best the GOP could cough up after Rudy, Mitt, and Mutt moved on. What a line-up. This is the saddest array of presidential candidates the GOP has ever put forward and the final result is the super-under-qualified McSame as their final disasterous choice. The amusing part is that the GOP knows it and they are trying to make do with the twit they have left over.
McSame has less than a snowball’s chance in hell of occupying anything more than a seat on a bus tour to the White House.

Barbara Ann on April 7, 2008 at 05:51 am

Barbara Ann is projecting her feelings over Barack “God Damn America” Obama and Hillary “Wait ‘til you hear this whopper!” Clinton!



Those who think the party or the country, will be “taught a lesson” by handing the levers of power over to the liberals will learn a lesson, but it will be at the expense of our country and her liberties. And there are no guarantees that the party or the country will come out stronger, more conservative or better positioned to win elections against the incumbent liberals.

Proof on April 7, 2008 at 06:09 am

Good luck. A pathetic default candidate but the best the GOP could cough up after Rudy, Mitt, and Mutt moved on. What a line-up. This is the saddest array of presidential candidates the GOP has ever put forward and the final result is the super-under-qualified McSame as their final disasterous choice.

And yet the DNC will be hard pressed to defeat him in November. I have seen some polls that have him leading or tied.


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goon on April 7, 2008 at 06:40 am

Barbara Ann,

After McCain’s remark that economics wasn’t his strong suit, perhaps some response from his leftists opponents such as you is to be expected.  But the simple fact remains that neither of the Democrat candidates have given any indication that he or she has a clue where economic policy is concerned.  Nor, for that matter, have you.

There is little question that the nation’s economy is slowing, as partisan hacks like you are quick to point out.  But I have yet to see even one liberal try to explain how raising taxes, as promised by both of the Democrats’ economics illiterate candidates, will actually improve our economy’s growth.

If you are going to blast McCain’s proposed economic policies (assuming you actually know what he is proposing!), don’t you think you should be able to offer some viable alternative?  Raising taxes on personal incomes, business profits, capital gains, dividends, estates, and the cost of hiring additional workers via increased Social Security and Medicare withholdings certainly isn’t going to improve our country’s economic growth or increase the number and quality of employment opportunities available.

What the idiots on your side propose is the economic equivalent of using leeches to drain the blood from a patient with the flu.


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on April 7, 2008 at 06:52 am
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Barbara Ann, figures you could mess this all up. Let’s see John McCain Prisoner of war for how many years and oh yes he is the best the GOP can dig up… How many years was Obama a prisoner of war or how about our bullet dodging Hillary. And let’s not forget about Obama’s lapse of memory for 20 years with his Racist pastor Wright.
Before you throw around smut you better check out your own back yard first....

And to address your foolish warmonger comment who would be better able to appreciate the Horrors of War then someone who spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war....

Just the facts on April 8, 2008 at 08:19 am
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