WTF is the matter with Ed Schultz

[Tx4obama]

Hey Ed,
Rahm Emmanuel did NOT call democrats/liberals "f'ing retarded".
Rahm was referring to an 'idea' that he thought was f'ing retarded.
The Rahm bashing needs to STOP!

Edited to add:
Excerpt:
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel earned a trip to the pillory this week after a Wall Street Journal story reported that he had used forbidden language last summer in a strategy session with liberal groups and White House aides. Emanuel, who knows his way around obscene, venomous, and cruel language called one idea presented at the session "Fucking retarded."
http://www.slate.com/id/2243728/

[Cattledog]

1. Rahm was a disaster.

[Peregrine Took]

28. Amen. n/t

[Horse with no Name]

2. Ed Schultz is fine

Rahm is a scumbag. Deserving of ANY and ALL criticism thrust towards him.

[tnlefty]

9. +1

and you used kinder words than I would have...I'd have thrown in backstabbing weasel for sure.

[tsuki]

20. +1

[polmaven]

18. even if it isn't TRUE?

:shrug: I didn't think that is what we are all about.

[Peregrine Took]

30. I couldn't agree more. Well posted. n/t

[boston bean]

3. Whose idea was f'ing r*t*rd*d? nt

[Tx4obama]

25. It was 'an idea' that came up at the weekly strategy session. n/t

[bluestate10]

43. During health care debates, a group of liberals meeting with Rahm

suggested that they would oppose health care reform vigorously because the bill as structured did not contain single payer. The former COS supposedly lost it and said that idea is fucking retarded. Except for his language, Rahm was right, the liberals were set to throw out the baby with the bath water because they were not getting everything they wanted. At the time I did not understand why liberals would behave that way until the race for governor in my state where the Greens were set to defeat an effective democratic governor and effective Lt. governor because the team did not give Greens all of their pet projects. The Greens were ready to elect a republican, f****** amazing, but other democrats and independents stepped up and buried them Greens and republicans on election day.

[Octafish]

48. You know who Rahm thought had real good ideas regarding health care?

His brother, the HMO shill.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. YOur memories and mine are different

he did call liberals fucking retarded... more than ONCE.

And Gibbs used the lovely monicker of Profesional Left.

[Tx4obama]

16. Please post a link. I added one to the OP to back the facts. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. Took all of five seconds

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/rahm-emanuel-retarded-comment-puts-offensiveness-spotlight/story?id=9738134

Rahm Emanuel "Retarded" Comment Puts Offensiveness in Spotlight
Advocates for Disabled Equate 'Retarded' With Hate Speech

54 comments By DEVIN DWYER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2010
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's verbal indiscretion -- referring to some liberal activists as "f**king retarded" -- has shined a spotlight on just how pervasive the R-word is in American conversation, and how offensive it can be for millions of Americans.


Advocates want White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to become a leader in campaign to end use of the word "retarded."
(ABC News Photo Illustration)
Emanuel apologized to members of the disabilities rights community this afternoon at the White House for comments he made during a closed-door meeting last August but not reported until last week by The Wall Street Journal.

Here is more

The friction was laid bare in August when Mr. Emanuel showed up at a weekly strategy session featuring liberal groups and White House aides. Some attendees said they were planning to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were balking at Mr. Obama’s health-care overhaul.

“F—ing retarded,” Mr. Emanuel scolded the group, according to several participants. He warned them not to alienate lawmakers whose votes would be needed on health care and other top legislative items.

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/01/26/rahm-emanuel-liberals-are-f-king-retarded/

I could find more, or is this enough?

He did... it became a matter even for Palin to call for his resignation but as I said, your memory and mine are different.

[Kweli4Real]

22. Suspect your memory is informed by ...

what was reported and repeated (over and over again) here; rather than, what he really said.

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. See above, for two stories (aka sources)

he did.

[Kweli4Real]

47. I'm sorry ...

All I see is someone reporting what someone said Rahm said. Seems a lot like that "professional left" flap that got so many non-professional, though leftist folks' panties in a bunch.

[Odin2005]

5. fuck Rahm.

[tnlefty]

46. Eeeew, no how, noway,

not even in my thoughts on a good day. Just yuck. Skin is is still crawling at the thought.:puke:

[Odin2005]

52. LOL!

:rofl:

[madrchsod]

6. rahm deserves what ever is being thrown at him.

unfortunately he`ll be running chicago/illinois in the near future.

[tridim]

10. Yes, as long as it isn't a lie, which this is.

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. Here

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/01/26/rahm-emanuel-liberals-are-f-king-retarded/

and here

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/rahm-emanuel-retarded-comment-puts-offensiveness-spotlight/story?id=9738134

He did. And we should not engage in revisionist history.

[tridim]

35. FDL is not a reliable source, and the other article has only a partial, out-of-context quote.

Which completely alters what he actually said.

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. There are plenty of more pages on the google

he did... let's not engage in revisionist history.

In fact here is more

http://reason.com/blog/2010/02/02/white-house-adviser-rahm-rahmb

http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/2010/02/fucking-retards-why-didnt-rahm-emanuel.html

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php/57531-Obma-Chief-of-Staff-Rahm-Emanuel-calls-Senate-liberals-quot-Fucking-Retarded-quot


http://www.zimbio.com/politics/articles/zFLVBtl8_m3/Fucking+Retards+Didn+t+Rahm+Emanuel+Apologize

http://www.gop12.com/2010/02/palin-wants-emanuel-fired.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel

http://jerseyshorereality.com/gossip/The-PublicApology-Dance-Rahm-Emanuel-Edition-Word-Choice-1483302.html

Just the first page of the google. Want me to go on?

He did.

[tridim]

7. He has perpetuated that lie dozens of times on his show.

I've emailed his show about the error and he just keeps doing it.

[DainBramaged]

27. Don't listen or watch? How often do you email Reich-wing shows about their lies?

:eyes:

[tridim]

33. I don't watch Faux.

It's embarassing to watch Ed perpetuate that lie (just like it was/is embarassing on DU), because he's better than that.

[DainBramaged]

54. OK, let's try this another way, he's on OUR side, give him a break

and if he isn't pure enough, change the channel! Purity will not win us an election, it hasn't since the 70's, and we've been on the defense ever since.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

Thank God someone is finally speaking out for Rahm!

/rahm

[Raine]

8. Ed is on point

and Rahm is nothing but a worthless POS.

[tularetom]

11. Rahm Emanuel was a disaster but his replacement will be SO much better

:sarcasm: for the so much better part that is.

[TheKentuckian]

12. Why does it need to stop, did he stop sucking ass?

[bushisanidiot]

13. Ed Schultz is a blowhard.

he's an alarmist reporter who doesn't bother to check facts before getting all worked up over anything and everything. unfortunately, that type of reporting is what gets ratings and it's why fox "news" is still in business. :P

[walldude]

14. Can't stand Ed or Rahm and

you're right. He meant no disrespect to people who held a different opinion than his, just their idea. That's why he used the term "fucking ret***s, because ideas are fucking ret**ds but people aren't.

You spin quite well. Nice work.

[Tx4obama]

15. Sorry but you're wrong. He said ''f'ing retarded'' , not retards

See the updated edited OP above.

[walldude]

21. I see. So that makes it ok. He's not calling me a retard

he's calling my ideas retarded. Yeah big difference.


She's not a whore she just has sex for money.

[Tx4obama]

24. It was NOT your ideas. It was 'an idea' at the weekly strategy session . n/t

[girl gone mad]

42. That changes everything.

Saying your idea is "f'ing retarded" means I totally respect you and value your opinions.

Whereas, saying you're an "f'ing retard" for having that idea would have crossed the line.

:eyes:

[Dappleganger]

39. No, he only meant to disrespect the retards, obviously.

As we all know they make excellent scapegoats for everything wrong in DC.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Ramulux]

17. Rahm Emmanual can go to hell

I feel terrible for the people in Chicago who will have to deal with this smug piece of shit as their mayor.

[Confusious]

19. Rahm Sucks the balls of whatever animal you wish

My personal opinion is rats.

[Bravo Zulu]

23. Big Ed is the man,

go Ed!

[DainBramaged]

26. Jeeze, we threw the baby out, can we throw out the bath water too now that Rahmy is gone?

Give it a rest.

[totodeinhere]

34. I love Ed. I especially love his passion. Do I always agree with everything he says? Of course not,

but Ed is a good progressive and he has a big heart.

[Raine]

50. I LOVE Ed too he really speaks up for the common

working man/woman and not just the intellectual elites that so many favor. Sometimes I think that's why he gets so much flack, it's the classism.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

36. The point was made

Along with the "professional left" comment by Gibbs as to exactly what that regime felt about liberals.

[Dappleganger]

38. Rahm bashing needs to stop?

Are you fucking kidding? That was the very first wrong pick the president made, and it was pretty much all downhill from there. If you love Rahm so much, fly to Chicago and go work on his campaign with the other DLC numbnuts.

[Bluenorthwest]

40. Rham is a weasle and a rude jerk

The fact that this President will preen about being a big Christian while surrounding himself with vulgar goniffs that use low language in not just a professional context, but in the White House, makes a display out of Obama's hypocrisy as well as Rahm's utter worthlessness.

[Change Happens]

41. Big Eddy is a big ASS!

[Richard Steele]

44. Fuch Rahm in his shrivelled little heart. He's no Democrat. And he said what he said.

nm

[AlabamaLibrul]

45. Fuck Rahm, fuck Bill "NAFTA" Daley. This WH has officially moved into the disaster zone.

end of transmission

[NNN0LHI]

49. Reagan Democrats like Ed have never been accused of being the sharpest tools in the shed

[mmonk]

51. Nothing.

With Rahm, plenty.

[meow mix]

53. rahm is a jerk fuck him

what a piece of shit.