Video: David Shuster wonders whether Massachusetts voters have lost their minds
posted at 2:40 pm on January 18, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Because nothing says “objective journalism” like the assumption that supporting a Republican is a symptom of mental illness, via Newsbusters:
Maybe they’ve just recovered their wits, Mr. Shuster. Perhaps Massachusetts voters don’t want to have their choices dictated by the Kennedys, Barack Obama, Washington DC, and media outlets with axes to grind such as yours. That’s the sign of a healthy mind. The signs of an unhealthy mind? Dismissing the upsurge in anger among American voters in reaction to the radical Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda with giggly middle-school references to oral sex, and then getting shocked to discover that the only people you’re fooling is yourselves.
In any case, MS-NBC should really change their logo at the top to read “The Place for Democratic Party Politics.”
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SDarchitect on January 18, 2010 at 2:42 PM
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
SouthernGent on January 18, 2010 at 2:42 PM
David Shyster
Caper29 on January 18, 2010 at 2:42 PM
“Kennedy Seat”. Haven’t they gotten that particular message yet?
Steven Den Beste on January 18, 2010 at 2:43 PM
PLEASE KEEP THE $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ GOING TO SCOTT, He’ll need the $$$$ for certification.
OmahaConservative on January 18, 2010 at 2:43 PM
outstanding retort, Ed
John the Libertarian on January 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM
MSNBC. Always The Last To Know.
Cicero43 on January 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM
I despise this little punk with every fiber of my being and have for many years now…
TheBigOldDog on January 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM
I’ve been wondering the same thing about Shuster for quite some time.
Bishop on January 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Final ARG (American Research Group) poll is out… they had it +3 for Brown in their last one.
They now have +7 for Brown.
Interestingly, they show pretty much what all other polls show:
I want to believe, but I can’t. :(
Enoxo on January 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Shuster is shilling very hard for Coakley on twitter. He’s bashing Brown and pushing the “rape” mailer.
tetriskid on January 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM
If this goes as the polls are saying – I might actually choose to watch MSNBC tomorrow night.
It will be as fun as watching Dan Rather choke out “The Republicans have just taken over the House of Representatives” in 1994.
gophergirl on January 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM
“I have concerns about some of the language that is being used, because I saw this myself in the late ’70s in San Francisco. This kind of rhetoric was very frightening, and it created a climate in which violence took place.”
~ Nancy Pelosi, September 17, 2009, in response to America’s rejection of Obamacare
How far will the far left go to hold onto “Kennedy’s Seat”?
Roy Rogers on January 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM
M- mighty
S- sorry
N- no
B- brained
C- columnist
bluegrass on January 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM
Should I say that hopefully faith will turn to sight very soon?
kc8ukw on January 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Liberalism.
MB4 on January 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM
the meltdown has begun.
booter on January 18, 2010 at 2:46 PM
Schuester… is the third type of intellect…
Romeo13 on January 18, 2010 at 2:47 PM
Isn’t Davey Rocky Maddow’s girlfriend?
PimFortuynsGhost on January 18, 2010 at 2:47 PM
I think you can stop.
ncborn on January 18, 2010 at 2:47 PM
Way to go david! Your statements will make the MA voters for Scott all warm and fuzzy that they have lost their minds. The MA voters have more than enough brain cells to see what their country is getting from this bho and they do not seem to like it.
L
letget on January 18, 2010 at 2:47 PM
No bias here. Wonder who he is supporting? Gonna break out the good cigars tomorrow.
Tommy_G on January 18, 2010 at 2:47 PM
I think it is time for the tone deaf Dems, both in office and the media, to resuscitate the “We must pass this for Ted” line. It’s poll tested and it works!
stldave on January 18, 2010 at 2:47 PM
I am so rooting for a Copenhagen moment. Hopefully we can complete the trilogy tomorrow.
tommer74 on January 18, 2010 at 2:47 PM
Shuster is a flaming-ass idiot and fits in well at MSNBC.
rplat on January 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
- Charles Mackay
MB4 on January 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM
The British were probably wondering the same thing the day after the Boston Tea Party.
Massachusetts voters haven’t lost their minds–they’ve changed their minds. They want Change.
Steve Z on January 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM
Keep it up Shuster. You’ll do more than you know for Brown’s GOTV.
Weight of Glory on January 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM
Looks like Ed Schultz has a new Butt buddy.
ronnyraygun on January 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM
Awwww poor MSNBC Democrat mega-shill.
Somebody upset that Americans don’t like being “ruled” by people like you? And that they’re not just laying down and bending over for the Hope-n-Change ram rod of higher taxation, more regulation and idol worship of politicians with (D)s after their name as the final and unalterable judgment of their value to our collective lives?
Good. Let me taste your tears – the tears of unfathomable sadness.
Mmmmmm. Mmmmmm. Mmmmm. Yummy!
Good Lt on January 18, 2010 at 2:49 PM
Trilogy, after Virginia and New Jersey?
Steve Z on January 18, 2010 at 2:49 PM
Lost their minds? NO
Have finally come to their senses? YES!!
Dominion on January 18, 2010 at 2:49 PM
You know, Olberdouche is actually humorous sometimes when he goes on his mindless rants.
Shuster’s just a giant tool.
Red Cloud on January 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM
Wow. Openly snobbish and elitist pundit shoots self in foot. In normal times he would be off the air sharing a line somewhere with Ed Schultz.
dogsoldier on January 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM
Schuester is learning less and less about more and more and soon will know nothing about everything.
MB4 on January 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM
I can’t wait to witness many meltdowns, starting with the clown-in-chief, if Brown wins .
txag92 on January 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM
Of couse he’s pushing Marcia on Twitter with his fellow moonbats. They pay his grocery and house bills. Imagine having to depend on Twitter twats for your livlihood.
Marcus on January 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM
Hopefully it does. I’ll be happy come 11pm tomorrow to know that I’m wrong in my gut feeling, but I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that Massachusetts is going to elect a Republican Senator.
I’m anticipating a horrible upset by Coakley that is not seen in any of the polls. :(
Conservatives need to get out the vote if they’re in the region; volunteer to do door-to-door, to drive people in the now. If they’re not in the region, they need to volunteer to do phonebanking from home.
Enoxo on January 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM
They’re so yummy and sweet, you guys!
Are we on the verge of a humpbot sighting?
Red Cloud on January 18, 2010 at 2:50 PM
A mind is a terrible think to waste or not to have a mind at all is being very wasteful. How true that is.
- Dan Quayle
MB4 on January 18, 2010 at 2:51 PM
Oh yes! Fresh batteries in the remote in order to bask in the clenched jaw analysis. Be sure to enjoy Andrea Mitchell’s nasal overtones.
a capella on January 18, 2010 at 2:51 PM
Note to Media -
Congratulations on fooling enough suckers in 2008 to give your idealogical soulmates full power.
1 year is enough to see what an incredibly stupid mistake that was.
We’re in the process of cancelling our subscription- one race at a time.
jjshaka on January 18, 2010 at 2:52 PM
Yes, a free people is insane for wanting personal liberty instead of dictatorship.
Only a liberal could find insanity in that. Seems the asylum is run by the inmates.
Must be some kind of wonderful to hold some kind of moral high ground; must be great to elevate oneself to the position of deity.
Liam on January 18, 2010 at 2:52 PM
Separated at birth: David Shuster & Jsn Brady
Marcis! Marcia! Marcia!
miles on January 18, 2010 at 2:52 PM
No, just the living voters. The dead ones vote 100% democratic.
dhimwit on January 18, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Exactly. It’s been interesting watching them for almost year being dismissive of the millions of people out in the streets who’ve never demonstrated before, and discounting the political consequences of that.
It’s amazingly stupid behavior from the “educated class”. Funny thing is they never will get it. It’s beyond their ken. I’d have better luck explaining algebra to my Weimaraner mix.
juliesa on January 18, 2010 at 2:53 PM
I looked up “ignoramus” in the dictionary and this guy’s picture was there.
Metro on January 18, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Only two Trolls out today. Bradky and a concern Troll that shall remain nameless. Is “The Rod” holding an all day phone conference with them?
kingsjester on January 18, 2010 at 2:54 PM
I never thought of it that way. Good point I was thinking of The One going back to DC with nothing to show for his two trips to Copenhagen….hopefully he gets nothing from this trip to Massachusett
estommer74 on January 18, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Now that’s professional reporting.
David Zurawik, the media critic of the Baltimore Sun and no conservative at all, says that MSNBC is the most “journalistically-challenged” news organization he’s ever seen.
This is example #45,333 of it.
SteveMG on January 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM
And for legal challenges.
katy on January 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM
Banana Journalism for a Banana Republic.
EZnSF on January 18, 2010 at 2:57 PM
It is amazing that wanting to defeat the left (not just Obama) and not repeating the mistakes they made against Bush makes one a “concern troll.”
Weird.
Oh yeah, Shuster’s a fraud.
SteveMG on January 18, 2010 at 2:57 PM
What we’ve lost, is our patience.
MassVictim on January 18, 2010 at 2:58 PM
Nothing more needs to be said~
Ed~FTW!
HornetSting on January 18, 2010 at 2:58 PM
David ‘ImAMoron’ Shuster, circa 2010: “Have Massachusetts voters lost their minds?”
King George III, British Parliament, circa 1775: “Have Massachusetts colonists lost their minds?”
And the Bunker/Breeds Hill of 2010 is on the morrow…..
dmh0667 on January 18, 2010 at 2:59 PM
Only the Democrats in Massachusetts have lost their mind, the rest of the state’s citizens seems to be quite sane.
canditaylor68 on January 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Enoxo,
Close your eyes and repeat after me: BROWN WILL WIN! BROWN WILL WIN! BROWN WILL WIN!
Works every time.
singer on January 18, 2010 at 3:01 PM
Shuster- Oxygen Thief Extraordinaire
gsherin on January 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM
Massachusetts Voters Reply: “Who the &$%# is David Shuster?”
ronnyraygun on January 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM
I have a Monte Christo and a bottle 0f 16 yo Single Malt Isle of Jura ready for tomorrow eveenings festivities! One can only hope they will be accomponied whith an apoplectic anurism or two!
LCT688 on January 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM
This is really beautiful, in the end. If a Citizen doesn’t vote Dem, he’s nuts.
But the real nutcases are those who want so hard to deny liberty. They know only Marx, who was wrong about history as well as them.
Shuster is preaching only to his own choir. Independents carry the day, and the Dems have lost the Independents.
I’m waiting for the lib pundits to claim MA voters are stupid suckers who are too ignorant to know what’s good for them. Libs, after all, know what’s best, don’t they?
Liam on January 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM
I love how his mouth moves around like he’s got a hand up his butt and somebody is puppeting his mouth :-)
A great observation made on Red Eye once haha
Good Lt on January 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM
How long before Shuster starts calling the people of Massachusetts tea-bagging, racist, uneducated hicks?
I’m looking forward to it. If more of the Northeast got the “clinging to guns and religion” treatment, maybe they’d realize how uppity their elected officials have gotten.
hawksruleva on January 18, 2010 at 3:03 PM
He
‘s just pissed that people who don’t vote Democrat can’t be thrown into mental institutions under Obama Care for being “mentally disabled” and holding “wrong opinions.”
Yet.
Good Lt on January 18, 2010 at 3:03 PM
I wish that’s all it took. But this is Massachusetts–where over 100,000 dead people are registered to vote.
Enoxo on January 18, 2010 at 3:03 PM
“The tears of liberals are just water,” -Ancient Chinese Proverb.
Akzed on January 18, 2010 at 3:03 PM
Socialists never change!! Any and every loss is attributed to the fact either
(a) the voters were too stupid to properly understand the issue(s); or
(b) we must have failed to properly explain the issue(s)and thus our message didn’t get across.
However, Socialists are inherently incapable of accepting a 3rd alternative: The voters received and understood “the message” completely – then rejected it out of hand.
alwyr on January 18, 2010 at 3:04 PM
Reduce CO2 emissions. Tell Shuster to shut up.
hawksruleva on January 18, 2010 at 3:04 PM
If we have lost Massachusetts we have lost our Reich.
- Herr Obama
MB4 on January 18, 2010 at 3:04 PM
No he won’t, certification will be a matter of a rubber stamp…if it isn’t we will know about it.
Let’s now focus on getting the voters to the booth. The last 24 hours, money will do nothing, it is in the hands of the voters.
Have at it Mass. show us that you are independent and want to dictate your own political future.
right2bright on January 18, 2010 at 3:05 PM
Every election is unique, it has its own issues and “tempo”, but Brown looks to have run just about a perfect campaign.
A campaign that others should follow. If they do, I think we can definitely capture the House or Senate. If Obama goes to the center after this, he’ll alienate his liberal/left base. If he continues on the left, he’ll alienate the center and right. It’s a win-win.
But never underestimate the ability of the Republicans to blow things.
SteveMG on January 18, 2010 at 3:06 PM
The legal challenges coming his way, to prevent certification.
OmahaConservative on January 18, 2010 at 3:07 PM
In any case, MS-NBC should really change their logo at the top to read “The Place for
Democratic Party PoliticsObama Porn.”Gregor on January 18, 2010 at 3:08 PM
Me too. I never trust polls. And it will be a friggin’ disaster (i.e. ((mis))read as a broad mandate for Obama’s policies) now if Brown doesn’t pull it off.
exlibris on January 18, 2010 at 3:08 PM
This and this pass for normal in Shuster’s mind, while Scott Brown is a threat to all things decent.
Akzed on January 18, 2010 at 3:08 PM
The Place for Liberal and More Extreme Liberal Politics.
ny59giants on January 18, 2010 at 3:09 PM
NOT THIS TIME!
singer on January 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM
The burning question remains.
Who pimped out David Shuster to Marcia Coakley?
MNHawk on January 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM
if we elect Marcia Coakley we will have
ToddonCapeCod on January 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM
Of course he’s fused! In his head, he can’t possibly be wrong.
It’s typical of psychopaths and others also mentally deranged that they can’t possibly be wrong.
I recall Peter Jennings, a Canadian making millions here in the USA, saying WE had a temper tantrum in 1994.
Most people outside the US don’t grasp our concept of liberty; they don’t see how we refuse being told what to do.
In Russia, gays can’t have their thing in private while, here, what adults do in private isn’t government’s business.
The outside world, and lib Dems here, have no idea what we’re about.
And they have the nerve to say we’re stupid, that we’re bigots, and all else they slander.
Liam on January 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM
Schuster reminds me of a character from that 1960s cartoon show Clutch Cargo.
BuckeyeSam on January 18, 2010 at 3:13 PM
“The voters had a temper tantrum last week”… Peter Jennings 1994.
Jasper61 on January 18, 2010 at 3:14 PM
I like that picture with Scheister having his mouth agape.
Looking for a good teabagging, perhaps?
And no, I did not misspell his name.
drjohn on January 18, 2010 at 3:14 PM
“Has Democratic leaning Mass. lost it’s mind?”
That statement right there shows how quick liberals are to turn on anyone who doesn’t fall in line, even their own.
I was stunned when Indiana, Virginia and Noerth Carolina went for Obama but at the same time I understood why they did and the Republicans and certain Bush policies were to blame (not mention a lethargic McCain campaign). It was a learning experience for many outside the beltway conservatives and fortunately, from the sound of it, Liberals will not be learning the same lessons. They will continue to lose with an attitude like this.
Daemonocracy on January 18, 2010 at 3:14 PM
The Shuster pic is priceless. . . Either he’s
a Debbie or trying out for the muppets.
Texyank on January 18, 2010 at 3:15 PM
Schuster and his ilk should be happy. Soon they’ll have a Republican president and Congress to kick around again.
Rational Thought on January 18, 2010 at 3:17 PM
You have a great memory for “The Best Humble Pie Eaters” show. Sure will be nice for it to get a second run.
platypus on January 18, 2010 at 3:19 PM
You left out the letter “s”.
bayview on January 18, 2010 at 3:20 PM
The Left is committing political suicide. Revel in this time!
Opportunities abound. Now is time to talk to union members, to show how their beloved Dems are screwing them, too.
Talk to gays, not on orientation but how the Dem Party will make them poor as is also seeks to soak the ‘rich’.
Nobody ‘needs’ to make $40 an hour (as do some union workers but also as the libs say).
Hit all your lib friends hard, on the details they like throwing at us.
Just a few ideas, if you please.
Liam on January 18, 2010 at 3:21 PM
Dave overdosed on “Just for Men” and it’s affected his ability to reason.
jdflorida on January 18, 2010 at 3:21 PM
He a hater and a racist.
bessex on January 18, 2010 at 3:21 PM
I remember that! Blather almost needed CPR.
Liam on January 18, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Terrific. Post of the day if not year (it’s still early so don’t get too big of a head).
Facts, ideas, programs, legislation – Reagan redux.
Let the left wallow in their mud. They love it and it doesn’t work.
My “concern” is about winning.
SteveMG on January 18, 2010 at 3:24 PM
Oh, I don’t know. I have always heard that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome is a sign of mental illness..maybe the people of Mass. want a change.
Terrye on January 18, 2010 at 3:24 PM
It’s good to know who is infected …
tarpon on January 18, 2010 at 3:25 PM
you can shame a leftist loon into anything b/c they have no shame
Ris4victory on January 18, 2010 at 3:26 PM
All six of his viewers nodded yes in unison.
Mallard T. Drake on January 18, 2010 at 3:28 PM
Yesterday, on ABC’s This Week…a hateful liberal editor of the nation, more than once, referred to tea partiers, as teabaggers. To which, Tucker Carlson kindly asked her to stop, and showed just how disgusting, and absurd, and childish she was being.
Now this guy? Do they truly think insults, and hurling names, as if we’re on the playground, instead of the political ground is going to scare, intimidate, or convince anyone they need to vote the way the media dictates?
Get a clue MSM’s.
My bigger shock is that anyone is still watching these bozo’s.
capejasmine on January 18, 2010 at 3:28 PM
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