Ed Schultz: Sorry for deceptively editing that Rick Perry video
posted at 10:38 pm on August 16, 2011 by Allahpundit
Via Larry O’Connor, who notes that Big Ed didn’t apologize for the bogus racism charge that the bowdlerized clip was meant to illustrate. Indeed. That was my point in the earlier post — that the “dog whistle” smear is unfalsifiable no matter how much context is offered in the accused’s defense. That’s why Schultz really is sorry, I’m sure, that he didn’t air the unedited clip in the first place. It would have done nothing to hurt his “argument” because his “argument” is really just an assertion predicated on stereotypes about southern conservatives. Perry’s a racist because he’s a Republican from Texas who doesn’t like Obama, ergo “big black cloud” is a veiled racial slur no matter what Perry was ostensibly talking about at the time. QED. Again: Fourteen more months of this. Day in, day out.
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“Apology accepted, Captain Needa.”
Doughboy on August 16, 2011 at 10:41 PM
The atramentous hue of the inflammatory rhetoric from the roseate lips a stygian hue doth raised…
Would that such acheronian discourse refuse to take on piceous affront…
They, themselves hath harvested the sloe to which they raise the cavilous interrogative…
‘Tis they whom the countenance of the pitch must infuse said exposition…
catmman on August 16, 2011 at 10:42 PM
Here’s the thing about Ed Shultz and the MSNBC gang: unlike Levin and Ingraham and Limbaugh – when they arrive for work, their script is handed to them. He could be handed a cheesecake recipe and he’d read it on air.
Marcus on August 16, 2011 at 10:42 PM
Leftist = liar.
itsnotaboutme on August 16, 2011 at 10:42 PM
So is he going to put himself in timeout again?
disa on August 16, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Has any network had to apologized more than MSNBC?
Maybe they should investigate why this happens.
Yeah, like that’s going to happen.
Hey, Allah, how about a video compiling all the Maddow, Schultz and MSNBC apologies.
hepcat on August 16, 2011 at 10:44 PM
And what? You thought they were suddenly going to be civil?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
UnderstandingisPower on August 16, 2011 at 10:44 PM
This wasn’t deceptively edited, they knew what came after that. This was designed as an out and out lie to get a reaction from the usual suspects and I’m sure it did. Luckily, it was on the Ed show so no one saw it, but the fact remains this wasn’t an edit it was a blatant attempt to call a Southern Republican from Texas a racist and it was done. The apology doesn’t change the facts in this case and there should be serious consequences for this.
I know, since Schultz is a liberal there will be no consequences, but there still should be.
Vote Republican and only be called a racist one more time.
bflat879 on August 16, 2011 at 10:45 PM
I hope he doesn’t go off this air this time.
Just wear a dunce cap for the rest of his time there.
hepcat on August 16, 2011 at 10:45 PM
This guy makes Ron Burgundy look like Walter Cronkite
catmman on August 16, 2011 at 10:45 PM
“Now that’s funny right there. I don’t care who ya are.” – Larry the Cable Guy
Robert17 on August 16, 2011 at 10:45 PM
All 3 viewers have reportedly forgiven him.
Bishop on August 16, 2011 at 10:46 PM
hey Ed, how many times does your Fat face have to be on TV apologizing for grotesque behavior on your part? It’s like Greg Gutfeld’s comedy bit on Red Eye where he says something ridiculous, acts like he means it, and then immediately follows it with an official apology.
Daemonocracy on August 16, 2011 at 10:47 PM
Cronkite was a deceiver and a leftist. So Ed’s just like Cronkite.
darwin-t on August 16, 2011 at 10:48 PM
I wonder if it had anything to do with half dozen complaints I filed over at MSNBC?
Knucklehead on August 16, 2011 at 10:49 PM
What have the last 30 months been?
Aquateen Hungerforce on August 16, 2011 at 10:49 PM
And no one thinks it’s racist to assume that a white person from the South is a bigot? You’re automatically a racist because you have a Southern accent? We need to start calling these people out for their racism. It’s much more apparent on their end.
texabama on August 16, 2011 at 10:51 PM
That was not an apology.
It was not the inclusion of “black cloud” that was the problem. It was the fact that Schultz called it a racial slur. That was not addressed in the so-called apology.
hepcat on August 16, 2011 at 10:52 PM
So they recruited a couple.
Good for them.
Electrongod on August 16, 2011 at 10:52 PM
Probably had an effect in 2008. Not next year. Average Joe isn’t going to accept being called “racist” just because he thinks BHO is a failure as POTUS.
tgharris on August 16, 2011 at 10:53 PM
Only Republicans from the South. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter get a pass despite their Southern accents.
Doughboy on August 16, 2011 at 10:54 PM
As the old saying goes better to ask forgiveness than permission, especially if you accomplish all you could have wanted with the “error”. These people are despicable.
Cindy Munford on August 16, 2011 at 10:55 PM
MSNBC are making Obama’s cortege, the bus as hearse tour, look/sound like the 2nd coming. They have no clue that it’s going. It’s fun, fun, fun to watch.
The field might change, but it is lots of fun to see Perry attacked from the left, and from the right. The Bushes front, Perino and Rove, look and sound quite indignant tonight. Meh!
Schadenfreude on August 16, 2011 at 10:56 PM
Who made the call? Griffin? I certainly doubt it. Is this coming from in house at MSNBC or higher up Comcast? It would like to know who told Schultz to clear up his so called “mistake”. His producers knew what they were doing when they edited the clip and cued it up. Who told them to walk it back?
Dr Evil on August 16, 2011 at 10:56 PM
You actually think it will end someday Allah? What happened to that glass half empty guy? Did you get lucky last weekend?
bluemarlin on August 16, 2011 at 10:56 PM
Who is this Ed Schultz person? Is he someone important?
SlaveDog on August 16, 2011 at 10:57 PM
Just a regular on the Muppet show.
Electrongod on August 16, 2011 at 10:59 PM
Whereas Walter Cronkite looked the part of the ‘voice or America’ or whatever it was and Ron Burgundy being a caricature of the TV news anchor; Ed’s ridiculous act as a news man makes Burgundy appear like a Walter Cronkite…
I thought the comparison and sarcasm was apparent.
catmman on August 16, 2011 at 10:59 PM
Griffin doesn’t respond to viewers, he’s above that. But if someone above him put pressure on him, he might have told Schultz to walk it back. Isn’t Schultz the same one that called Laura Ingraham a filthy name?
Dr Evil on August 16, 2011 at 11:03 PM
Keep slobbering over this phony, Hot Air.
iamse7en on August 16, 2011 at 11:05 PM
Mr. Schultz is a phony? Get out.
SlaveDog on August 16, 2011 at 11:07 PM
Throughout the history of our country, newspapers never made any bones about being partisan for one party or another, and many of them would often include the name of their party in the name of the newspaper. No one minded. It was expected. However, in the last 50 years or so mainstream media has made a big deal about their objectivity, and speak of this objectivity as if it was sacred and immutable, an attribute imprinted into their journalistic DNA.
That’s what bothers me: the hypocrisy of it, the sheer brazen dishonesty they practice when they preach impartiality while smearing the opposition with the worst slur–’racist’–our society can muster. Schultz knows he is a liar, knows he is a hypocrite, knows his non-apology apology is unmanly, for lack of a better word, yet does it anyway. How can he do that? I tell a malicious lie or make an unfair attack and my conscience beats me half to death until I make it right, and I am far from a saint. I just can’t get my head around people like Schultz.
troyriser_gopftw on August 16, 2011 at 11:08 PM
Pfft. This crap is never going to end. There will always be another election they’re feeling desperate about just around the corner.
Buckle in; it’s turbulence from here on out.
Kensington on August 16, 2011 at 11:09 PM
What does that have to do with this particular topic? Like him or dislike him, Ed Schultz did him an injustice, did he not? FYI, I am from Texas and Perry does not have my vote at this time but I can see he was wronged here!
bluemarlin on August 16, 2011 at 11:11 PM
What a dick.
angryed on August 16, 2011 at 11:12 PM
Ed Schultz is sorry
JohnGalt23 on August 16, 2011 at 11:12 PM
He should have said “purple haze,” but then that would offend the Oompa-Loompas.
Glenn Jericho on August 16, 2011 at 11:12 PM
Who’s Ed Schultz? He has viewers? Oh, he’s that guy who’s a raving lunatic that I surf past when switching channels.
TulsAmerican on August 16, 2011 at 11:17 PM
They are like Joe Biden they say such stupid stuff that no one takes it seriously. But, it does have an effect. They bank on guys like him to get away with it. They always throw these guys out there to do stuff like this.
tomas on August 16, 2011 at 11:20 PM
Nope. It was my reverse psychology. I registered as Bitter Clinger and begged them to continue to call everyone who disagrees with Obama a racist.
txhsmom on August 16, 2011 at 11:21 PM
I won’t mind. The plummeting ratings will make me smile. Hell if they want to set fire to their already impaired credibility then so be it. Honestly the big three nightly news is mostly watched by the elderly. The young prefer cable news and online sources. The harder they shill for Obama the harder they have to list to the right to gain viewers after Obama is gone…
Theworldisnotenough on August 16, 2011 at 11:26 PM
And Jimi fans, myself included.
Bishop on August 16, 2011 at 11:26 PM
MSDNC says any despicable thing, and then “apologizes” if it blows up too badly, while at the same time demanding that the other side be squeaky clean, or be proven racists.
Use the other side’s standards against them while ignoring any yourself. Sound familiar?
There is a reason the US media loves Obama – they went to the same school and studied the same agenda.
drunyan8315 on August 16, 2011 at 11:37 PM
Ed’s a mendacious muppet-in-a-suit, and he’s fooling nobody. He’s only sorry he got caught.
OhioCoastie on August 16, 2011 at 11:52 PM
Welcome to Sarah Palin’s world. Perry doesn’t get any passes just because he’s Perry.
theotherone on August 17, 2011 at 12:10 AM
And where are the calls to tone it down…?
Seven Percent Solution on August 17, 2011 at 12:15 AM
Fat Eddie apologized because he got caught.
GarandFan on August 17, 2011 at 12:26 AM
Well, Perry and Republicans do need to call them on this stuff whenever it occurs, if only to force the media to be less flagrant about it.
But Ed Schultz can apologize and flagellate himself in Times Square, it won’t change the fact that he is a lying leftist propagandist hack. It’s who he is, what he is, he can never change.
Nor can MSNBC change who they are for hiring the likes of him, Olbermann, and Maddow in the first place. They knew exactly what they were getting.
Adjoran on August 17, 2011 at 12:26 AM
If they use Civil War era history as reason for their kneejerk now, why can’t we, as the abolitionist Party, legitimately call them members of the slaveowner Party?
I know, I know…geographical ties are somehow more indicative of ideological consistency in matters of the heart.
anuts on August 17, 2011 at 12:28 AM
Even normal people can sometimes bend the truth. The difference is that liberals can never do anything else BESIDES that.
What people have to understand is that, to collectivists, propaganda is not just a means to an end. Propaganda is the end toward which all of liberalism is aimed.
Collectivism begins and ends with collective THOUGHT. Everything else – from insanely idiotic economic theories to flamboyantly racist social “reforms”… even when they get to the point of building concentration camps — those are all tools designed to create uniformity of thought.
What the liberal media do is not just a lie, it is The Big Lie. Those things are no more alike than a mushroom is like a mushroom cloud.
logis on August 17, 2011 at 12:29 AM
Who is this turd and who cares?
Mason on August 17, 2011 at 12:32 AM
Sorry. I checked out this guy and discovered that he has a cable TV show. I still don’t know why anyone listens to him but nonetheless I’d encourage him to eat poo.
Mason on August 17, 2011 at 12:40 AM
He’s on MSNBC, so I think he’s already there.
AZfederalist on August 17, 2011 at 12:43 AM
ABC’s coverage was even more falsely edited.
ABC really has to be called on this. Charles Gibson’s hit job in Sept 2008 with Sarah Palin was full of this stuff, and no more so than the first question, which “quoted” her from a speech in church, but left out a few key words in the middle that changed the innocent context into something that looked like she was saying the War in Iraq had God on their side.
Sarah asked, sceptically, if the quote was accurate. Charles looked down and said it was and showed her a doctored video with the same words left out. Palin came up with an excellent response, but it was total journalistic fraud. Gibson should have been fired, yet ABC got away with it nearly scot free.
Aardvark on August 17, 2011 at 1:02 AM
A very good friend of mine was born and raised in MS. One of the smartest people I have ever known. He said the one thing that used to irritate him was how people assumed he was ignorant because of his southern accent. And he has a doctorate and is published. His children are a pediatrician, jet pilot for the AF and the other a jet instructor at Top Gun and at one time in the astronaut program.
Having lived in the east, I know that they come at you with pre-conceived ideas as soon as they find out where you were born and raised. Anything not on the east coast in some of their minds is illiterate.
Voter from WA State on August 17, 2011 at 1:42 AM
Gee Ed… You’ve acted like a huckster for Obama over the past couple years… You’ve lied, done some unfair name calling and generally thrown mud at anyone who disagrees with your beloved Messiah… So… Mr Schultz… F* off . Take your lame ass to a high place and jump.
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RalphyBoy on August 17, 2011 at 2:01 AM
He’s only sorry no one took the bait.
Schultz is a stage door barker, guaranteeing six of the sixteen girls dancing are real virgins. Amusing, perhaps believed at first, then stale and tiring after the third shrill call.
itsspideyman on August 17, 2011 at 2:06 AM
Does anybody really care what this pile of goat dung says or thinks? We all know what he is and and just consider the source.
rplat on August 17, 2011 at 2:06 AM
I am from MS, don’t have an accent (grew up on the Gulf Coast, where we had a wonderful mix of military from all over the country), and have heard some pretty depressing opinions about us when they thought I was from north of the Mason/Dixon line.
I hold out though that most Americans have diverse cultural upbringings but are much the same people, and when thrown together for whatever reason get along well.
The worst thing to me is guys like Ed here play to our worst bias, and forment us/them anger (I don’t want to say hatred), and they do it for a reason; to keep the majority separated in cultural lines. It’s why they want to paint the Tea Party as racist; the ideas of fiscal responsibility and the rule of the constitution is something that most Americans of all stripes could find common ground. This is something that hucksters like Schultz can’t allow to happen, or he and many of his friends will be having to grab their hats in a hurry as they’re ridden out of town on a rail.
itsspideyman on August 17, 2011 at 2:15 AM
More: ‘Ed Schultz Should Be Fired for Deceptive ‘Black Cloud’ Video Edit Alleging Rick Perry Racism’.
Donald Douglas on August 17, 2011 at 2:20 AM
“Courage Ed, courage.”
/Dan Rather
Left Coast Right Mind on August 17, 2011 at 4:04 AM
There’s a red cloud hanging over MSNBC (as well as most MSM propaganda mills)
There must be a page in Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals that says:”If you’re not apologizing often, you’re not doing it right!”
Don L on August 17, 2011 at 5:16 AM
And like Pavlov’s dog, whenever a Republican speaks, a left-wing hack cries racism.
xblade on August 17, 2011 at 5:38 AM
Where are the squishys on this one? Oh, they are busy condemning Rick Perry.
peacenprosperity on August 17, 2011 at 7:12 AM
THIS
cmsinaz on August 17, 2011 at 7:23 AM
yepper
cmsinaz on August 17, 2011 at 7:23 AM
Like I said, Shultz is “that
RADIOTV slut!”All fake apologies all the time: The Ed Shultz Show….
Sherman1864 on August 17, 2011 at 7:23 AM
These are grown men. “NEWS” men. They know exactly what they’re doing and they’re not sorry. They’re despicable liars. Get the anchor guy to tell the lie and invite guests to agree with him and hope no one will be the wiser. Except that guess what Jowls? There are a lot wiser men than you, as you’ve just found. Again.
scalleywag on August 17, 2011 at 7:37 AM
Gonna be a bad election, with the lamestream lying, Oblame0 Lying, Democrats lying, gonna be bad,
tarpon on August 17, 2011 at 7:40 AM
yepper…real nasty
cmsinaz on August 17, 2011 at 7:46 AM
that’s why i want a fighter out there who will take them on..enough of their crapola
cmsinaz on August 17, 2011 at 7:46 AM
Ed who?
crushliberalism on August 17, 2011 at 7:54 AM
I bet Perry drives a pickup truck too.
vcferlita on August 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM
Step 1: Do whatever it takes to make a conservative look bad
Step 2: Apologize for the least nasty part of it
Step 3: Repeat
Aronne on August 17, 2011 at 7:58 AM
How many times is this guy going to have to apologize before even MSNBC gives him the boot?
Grace_is_sufficient on August 17, 2011 at 7:58 AM
until they can find another hack to take over his show…..maybe jonathan capehart?
cmsinaz on August 17, 2011 at 8:01 AM
Their text book is dedicated to Satan, master of lies, sultan of spin.
IowaWoman on August 17, 2011 at 8:17 AM
Here is the thing about this nonsense. It is not going to work because it smacks of desperation and the American people are sick and tired of feeling guilty over something they did not participate in. As far as most Americans are concerned they will think that since we elected a black president race is now irrelevant. And these contortions to try and make race relevant will only irritate and annoy people.
Ed Schultz and his ilk are likely to do more harm to Obama then good. They are giving themselves a black eye*.
*Careful analysis of the above comment indicates obvious prejudice towards black dress shoes. Why else would I use the phrase black eye?
NotCoach on August 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM
In terms of actual viewership, MSNBC is a cable access channel. It makes itself an easy target on purpose.
The only reason it exists is to deflect flack from the “serious” propagandists.
logis on August 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM
The segment after Eddy (Haskall) Shultz apologized for his racist clam on Gov Perry’s depiction of the fiscal crisis facing U.S. he continue to try to make a racist issue out of it.
Why cannot Mr. Shultz stay in the real character he epitomizes , Sgt Shultz, of Hogans Heros fame. “I know nothing, saw nothing, and heard nothing Col. Klink”
MSGTAS on August 17, 2011 at 9:30 AM
That wasn’t an “error”. It was a LIE.
Murf76 on August 17, 2011 at 9:58 AM
Back in the day, there were almost always two newspapers coming out of any major city. One from the left, one from the right, and each unashamedly so.
The common man who considered himself informed would read both papers, so as to have both sides of major issues represented, allowing him to decide for himself what he believed. Those competing papers also provided built-in fact-checking for each other, demanding good standards of reporting by being able to beat each other up when a mistake or an unethical screed was published. A natural balance was very real.
As TV news became more prominent, the Walter Cronkites, Tom Brokaws, Dan Rathers and Peter Jennings’s became the trusted voices of reporting. The newspapers whose editorial position matched them became more favored, more popular, while the conservative papers lost circulation.
Then bring on the forerunners of today’s George Soros, big money liberals who bought out the weakened right-leaning papers and merged them into the existing, stronger liberal rag, or dissolved them altogether.
And slowly, incrementally, with only one “voice” to read, the less informed public began like a herd of lemmings to drift to the left.
That in turn paves the way for people as ridiculous as Schultz, Olbermann, and O’Donnell to be on TV today and be viewed with something better than the pure contempt they deserve. And creates Americans who would sooner defend the opinions and shenanigans of an Ed Schultz than an Andrew Br-r-r-rEITBart.
Freelancer on August 17, 2011 at 10:03 AM
Ed Schultz IS the biggest mistake his mother ever made.
volsense on August 17, 2011 at 10:06 AM
Lemme get this straight. Rick Perry won 38% of the Latino vote last time, but he’s a racist? Is that the story MSNBC is pushing?
Also, I really contest the characterization that I’m picking up a lot of places that Texas is some homogeneous red state. I lived there right after moving out of Massachusetts – and live in Utah now. Of the three states – TX, UT, and MA – Texas is by far the most heterogeneous politically and every other way. The idea that Perry is a guy who does not know how to appeal to a diverse cross-section of voters – or who wins elections by blowing racial dog whistles – is ludicrous.
Y-not on August 17, 2011 at 11:16 AM
Every slur, every lie, every sneer is just going to make me (and a whole lot of other Americans) more and more determined to vote Republican. I, for one, am sick and tired of being insulted by these dim bulbs who think they’re so much better than all us flyover-country “tearrorists”.
Keep it up, flying monkeys. And have your @$$ handed to you on November 6, 2012.
RebeccaH on August 17, 2011 at 11:22 AM
It’s a shame, a shame that someone has to actually listen to him to uncover those shameless deceptions.
I would bet half of his viewership are conservatives catching his errors…
right2bright on August 17, 2011 at 11:29 AM
All Perry has to do is play over the video of people evacuated from New Orleans after Katrina disaster. Those folks were happy and appreciative and were thanking Texans for all their help. Perry was Governor of Texas, and he had a lot to do with helping the evacuees – people coming out of Louisiana were all different ethnicities, they all got treated the same. The MSM has a short attention span. They made a big deal out of George W Bush’s response to Katrina while appearing to ignore Perry’s response. Texas stepped up, and it was under Perry’s leadership.
Bill O’Reilly is right the MSM is big, dumb, and lazy.
Dr Evil on August 17, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Another non-apology apology.
“Mistake” – my left foot!
It doesn’t matter. Every empty racism charge gets us closer to it completely losing its weight as an epithet.
Keep up the good work, Ed.
Pablo Snooze on August 17, 2011 at 2:10 PM
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