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Ed Schultz and MSNBC’s Sewer of Hate
Defining media deviancy downward: Are Brokaw, Williams, Lauer, Roberts really proud?
Ed Schultz, Phil Griffin, and MSNBC.
A revealing relationship, yes?
With NBC, Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, Matt Lauer, and the parent company of Brian Roberts’ Comcast all in the mix, a very revealing relationship.
You have to wonder, are these guys really proud of what’s going on here? Really?
And how many cats are holding the usually voluble tongue of “conservative” Joe Scarborough?
But first, here’s another NBC story. A telling one. Particularly considering the presumed standards of Tom Brokaw, Brian Williams, Matt Lauer, and Brian Roberts. Standards that have now apparently been abandoned faster than some celebrity wannabes ditch husbands.
The story?
The President of NBC was in trouble.
Rumors had surfaced of drinking binges at the Beverly Hills Hotel. When his boss showed up at NBC’s Burbank studios, the NBC president looked disheveled, unsteady, the pits.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was Mexico.
At an NBC affiliate gathering, the network president’s condition, evident throughout, became the talk of the meeting. Things got worse when the man returned to NBC’s New York headquarters in Rockefeller Center. The drinking continued — and suddenly, the string had run out.
Summoned to his boss’s office in a moment of sobriety, the meeting was both brief and brusque.
The President of NBC — a popular and well-respected man in the television industry — was fired. Out. Done.
A press release was issued, stunning his industry peers, and making no mention whatsoever of the real reason for the NBC executive’s abrupt departure beyond the usual bromide of his desire to pursue other interests.
The firing caused an internal uproar at NBC. When the parent company board of directors meeting took place there was a furious battle. The fired president’s supporters were enraged at the callous way such a distinguished career had been terminated. There were threats of resignation from prominent and powerful board members.
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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Marc Jeric| 3.22.12 @ 7:01AM
It has been clear to this former refugee from a communist hell that our MSM (ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, NY Times, Wah. Post, Boston Herald, LA Times, Newsweek, Times, AP, Reuters, etc.) act as Mulah Obama's Agit-Prop Office quite undistiguishable from the communist parties A-P Offices in defunct communist states.
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.22.12 @ 8:49AM
Look. It's very simple. We've got a Lying, White Hating, Jew Hating, Punk, Faggot, in the White House, who HATES this Country. And, everybody knows that the Lying, White Hating, Jew Hating, Punk Faggot rots from the head, down.
(I woulda called him a Muslim, but since FOX NEWS does that 24/7, already? I don't wanna pile on.)
Every Leftist Dictatorship has a Propaganda Minister, who feeds the Official News Organs of The Leader, with there SCRIPTS. (Like Media Matters, and NBC.) Every Leftist Regime puts out its LIES. This one does it in a Torrent, rather than the usual Trickle. Most Dictatorship like to keep it close, so as to gently push any "Fence Sitters" over to their side. This ABOMINATION is Pedal to the Metal - Blatant Bald Face BIG LIE - morning, noon, and night.
SIEG HEIL!
Look at Jay Carney as he weaves his Tangled Webs, each day, before the White House Press Corps. (The "p" is silent, for all of you with your noses up the White Hating, Jew Hating, America Hating, Punk Faggot's half Black Ass) He shuffles and he squirms. Sweat covering his Lying Face. He never looks comfortable. Perhaps he still retains an ounce of CONSCIENCE? I wonder how he sleeps at night.
If we had a REAL MEDIA, that actually did its JOB as the Watchdog of our Liberties, instead of playing the part of the Lapdog for this White Hating, Jew Hating, America Hating, Punk Faggot, maybe Jay Carney wouldn't sleep at all.
As far as the MSNBC piss-ants are concerned? Nobody watches them. DRed does. Alan does. Wang Chung (or whatever his stupid name is, and why do I give a sh*t?) does. And Purp does, with his pants off, a bottle of hand lotion, his Crushed velvet picture of the Punk Faggot in his Loin Cloth, holding a spear, with his Fat Ass Uppity Wookie Looking Wife kneeling beside a Cheetah, and sporting an Angela Davis Afro on her head, and candles lit all around the room. (Is that Barry White, I hear in the background?)
If I was a Republican Leader? I think that I would have something to say about NBC having their "NEWS" casts dictated to them from a Non-Profit 501c3 organization that has Violated all of the Requirements set forth for 501c3 TAX FREE STATUS. I think that I might have some Network Heads up before a House Committee, giving them an ANAL PROBE with a Boxing Glove, if you know what I mean. (And, no Alan. It's not that.)
Actually, if you ever did "accidentally" land on any of these Left Wing Democrat Talking Point Stations (especially MSNBC) it can really be one of those "Teachable Moments" that President Punk Faggot, is always talking about.
I've written, many times, how EVIL does not show itself with a Punch in the face. No. It manifests itself as a Whisper in an ear. It's as subtle as it is, relentless.
You don't believe me?
Look at Sling Blade Joe in the Morning. He used to be a proud Conservative, representing the Redneck District in the Florida panhandle. A proud member of the Class of 1994 Conservative takeover of the House. Would you know that, if I didn't tell you? Is that who you see, when you "Accidentally" turn on his Show? He's been "TURNED". And, unless anyone knows of a Seed Pod, lying next to his bed, he's been turned by the Siren's Song whispered in his ear.
"Joe. You can have it all. Money. Your own show. You can be RELEVANT, again. You can gain the whole world."
I understand that Fat, Stupid, Pig Faced, Misogynist, Lying MFer: ED SCHULTZ, used to be a Conservative. "Ed. Money, Power, Influence, Relevance, your own show, if you just do as I say."
"Bill Clinton. RENOUNCE your Pro Life Stance. I will give you women to expose yourself to. Women to Molest. Women you can RAPE. A Fat Intern to keep your Cigars, and other things, WET for you. I'll even throw in the Presidency, and make sure that your Fat Pig-faced Wife gets a job that'll take her all over the world, so you don't have to watch her get UGLIER by the minute, with each passing day."
Al Gore used to be Pro Life. Mario Cuomo used to be a good Catholic. Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden used to be really, really, Smart. (Okay. I made that last one up.) The point is this: We have become ROME, just before the Fall. We have not learned from History, be it Ancient or Recent. We are heading for the same Fate, that every Republic before us, has succumbed to. Greed, Corruption, Lies and Propaganda. NERO sits on our throne, married to Marie Antoinette, and advised by a Chorus of Rasputins.
We have become a Nation of two Warring Camps, and with every utterance of the Punk Faggot in Chief, we become more divided.
If he is re-elected, we will not stand. Israel will be no more. The Western World, as we know it, will disappear, as it did in ATHENS and in ROME.
I think they call it: "The Circle of Life of Great Empires".
And, now it looks like it's Our turn.
oolong chang| 3.22.12 @ 9:08AM
Attention, Jeffrey Lord!
The above poster, Timothy L. Pennell, is scarier than anyone the Left can produce.
You say that MSNBC's a Sewer of Hate? Looks to me like you've got a sewer of hate right here on Am/Spec. Or make that "Sewer of Paranoid Stupidity."
And no, I do not like Rev Al one bit, nor do I read MSNBC.
But many of the posters on this blog are hate-filled bigots of the worst stripe.
Le Cracquere| 3.22.12 @ 9:24AM
I'm no fan of several posters here, but in TAS's defense, said posters aren't on their payroll. And short of the most draconian kind of moderation, it's hard to keep things spotlessly classy.
For years now, this site has endured the rhetorical stylings of some poor mental case convinced that the "eugenics police" is out to deionize his tinfoil hat, leach his precious bodily fluids, and send a space probe to his dentures. The fact that he's still going strong suggests to me that the site is VERY lightly moderated, and that being a frequent poster here is no evidence of TAS approval.
Julian| 3.22.12 @ 12:28PM
Yes, you are right, but oolang chang is also right in calling attention to the vicious, hate-filled rantings of Mr. Pennell. They are unworthy of ANY decent human being.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 1:19PM
Oh, boo-freaking-hoo. Cry about it some more, why don't you. You people are pathetic.
Ret. Marine| 3.27.12 @ 7:00AM
Someone here, who always responds to the comment section of this site, e-mailed me recently and had this to ask of me, where have you been lately, I miss your opinions, I liked the straight foreward thoughts, and miss hearing from you, I responded in kind with this, this site has turned into a political food fight, of which I'll have no part of. I used to think this site was for the informed, lately however, I have been convinced, IT'S A WASTE OF MY TIME TO TRY AND EXPLAIN WHAT MOST ALREADY KNOW, this site has become another, bitch. bitch, bitch and lie some more site if you are not already convinced already. Later dudes and dudets. Good luck.
Oldefarte| 3.22.12 @ 1:47PM
As the old saying goes......THE TRUTH HURTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mimi Mayes | 3.23.12 @ 1:27PM
Sorry, maybe vicious and hate-filled, but factual. I wouldn't use his words, but it's apparent that Obama does hate whites, Jews, and this country. And he is a punk, and probably gay. The truth hurts, I guess.
Liberal Reader| 3.23.12 @ 9:38PM
What makes you think Obama hates whites and Jews?
And what makes you think he's gay?
Weird criticisms these.
squalis| 3.22.12 @ 9:33AM
A shame you can't sift through the comedic editorial comments to understand the truth of what is written by TLP.
carnot| 3.22.12 @ 9:44PM
bingo.....
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 10:07AM
Cry us a river, you baby. You can't handle your own medecine? Go to a different site. Like none of the words Pennell used have EVER escaped YOUR flapping lips. Get over your self-righteous indignation. Its old, hypocritical & tiresome.
I love regressives who kvetch about "foul language" while listening to Bill Maher, John Stewart & others. Did you like Eddie Murphy before he was "family Eddie?" George Carlin? Richard Pryor? Cheech & Chong? Robin Williams? Ron White? If your answer is "yes" to any of these guys, then shut the hell up about what Pennell writes.
oolong chang| 3.22.12 @ 12:12PM
If you think the semiliterate diatribes of Timmy, the playground bully of AmSpec, is amusing, then you, like Timmy have a dirty, little juvenile sense of humor.
The credibility of the contributors to AmSpec is dimenished by angry, foul-mouthed, dumb, hysterical, name-callers like Timmy.
He makes AmSpec look . . . well, redneck . . . as many on the left believe us to be. Yes, Pennell is a repulsive representative of the Left's stereotype of readers of AmSpec.
When you read him you hear the voice of a fat redneck, and you imagine the image of his bloated face with tobacco juice drooling from the corners of his twitching lips.
Erma| 3.22.12 @ 12:15PM
Right on!
A terrific description of the decrepid Timothy L (Lucifer, perhaps?) Pennell!
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 12:27PM
If you're not a member of the left, posting your false flag tripe here, then I'm the Prince of Israel.
Spare me your self-righteous indignation. If you think it makes you look bad, take your easily offended ass to another site, you cry baby.
squalis| 3.22.12 @ 1:06PM
Where would he go, he certainly can't go to HuffPo, MSNBC, MoveOn, NY Times, etc, etc, being so sensitive and all
Anthony| 3.22.12 @ 1:00PM
oooh, oolong has just exposed him/her self by employing one of the left's favorite perjoritives for conservatives......redneck...fat redneck....tobacco juice drooling...... twitching lips.....
You lefties are so predictable.
If Tim makes TAS look redneck, what do your favorite morons at MSLSD make you look like??? Or Bill Maher?
Forget Tim fool, deal with the issue at hand, the corrupt leftist LSM.
Oh by the way, you better pray that the only things we "rednecks twitch" is our lips.....get my drift??
J. Parker| 3.22.12 @ 1:36PM
I think the characterization is on target. When you talk like a redneck, then readers think "redneck"!
2323| 3.22.12 @ 1:39PM
" punk faggot"
Like Al Sharpton, this adolescent taunt is the best Timothy can do.
He calls the president a "punk faggot." What an intelligent utterance.
Erma| 3.22.12 @ 1:41PM
As you would expect, many posters on here are coming to Timimothy's defence. Proves oolong's point splendidly.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 2:42PM
What? That he & you are overly sensitive sissies who're hypocrites who act like you've never uttered a curse word in your life?
Again, get over yourself with your faux piousness & self righteous indignation. Your hypocrisy stinks to high heaven.
carnot| 3.22.12 @ 9:48PM
nonsense. if you can't catch on to a characature of the media and the Left...that's your limitation.
Chalkdust| 3.24.12 @ 12:04PM
Finally!!! Someone gets it. Well done carnot.
Chalkdust| 3.24.12 @ 12:15PM
Hear! Hear! TLP. I'm a big fan of your posts, which will do as gunfire for the moment.
Norm Klevens| 3.22.12 @ 10:19PM
The a hole has no point.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 1:40PM
Oh, so coarse language is the sole province of "rednecks?" Not comedians, military men, tradesmen, chef like myself, & every other normal person who doesn't feign self righteous indignation at reading or hearing a (GASP) CURSE WORD?
Get over yourselves.
Butch| 3.22.12 @ 1:50PM
Thanks, Anthony. You beat me to it.
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 1:46PM
You couldn't be more wrong, semiliterate diatribes???
TJP is more literate than you'll ever be. Dirty, juvenile sense of humor, and you call him the voice of a fat redneck?? Tobacco juice, drool, twitching lips? No playground names there, oh no. No bias intended either, I'm sure.
And don't insult Tim and then say "us" kimosabe. What mean we? You may be a member of the "cocktail party GOP." I am not. I am a member of Timmy's club. We're a tad crude, occasionally offensive, deliberately or not, it depends, but we will tell it like it is. And if it ain't purdy, then we'll tell it ugly, just like it is.
The credibility of contributors to AmSpec?? Like Clint, Vtwin, Purp, and . . . you? Thanks, I'll lump myself with the likes of Timmy, and anyone else who knows there is absolute truth, absolute lies, absolute good, absolute evil, we have the gift of discernment and the grace to know which is which. And you? Just keep slandering Timmy and chanting the tolerance mantra and we'll see you at the final Jubilee.
Oldefarte| 3.22.12 @ 1:49PM
Again.....THE TRUTH HURTS!!!!!!!
Mimi Mayes | 3.23.12 @ 1:40PM
Here it is -- redneck. You may not be so politically incorrect in this country to call someone a jihadist (might offend), but rednecks and Christians are fair game. Especially when you can't argue the point.
beebop2| 4.15.12 @ 5:09PM
Your "reasoned" condescention is not doing your side any favors.
I am a cured life long Democrat ... courtesy of the fine folks at places like Huffington Post where -- apparently -- the first female president wasn't nearly as "historical" as the first mixed race one was. I have been called more disgusting, hatefilled and vulgar names by the party that thinks of itself as "progressive" than I thought possible. So? Keep it up. Every time the people who call themselves "journalists" at the likes of MSNBC open their mouths, another Republican gets her wings!
Alan Brooks| 3.22.12 @ 12:33PM
Pennell doesn't like tyrannical govts? tear down those Confederate Civil War monuments in Dixie- all of 'em.
Frekki| 3.22.12 @ 12:49PM
Come on down and try ,Yankee.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 1:23PM
Yeah, I mean, why would we want to remember history. Good OR bad. You like buring books too, Brooksie?
Mike Hawk| 3.22.12 @ 1:29PM
Comrade Alan is no Yankee.
Oldefarte| 3.22.12 @ 1:51PM
Yankee Pig, remember the words of Heston concerning MY COLD DEAD HANDS??????
Zolofto| 3.22.12 @ 7:22PM
What exactly was "tyrannical" about the Confederacy?
CincoPeso| 3.22.12 @ 7:58PM
Nothing. As usual, the lefties show their ignorance of history and their propensity for being on the side of tyranny and dictatorships. The South was guilty of buying slaves (that Northern shipowners brought to them). But they also believed in states' rights and limited government. Hardly the tyranny of the North and our federal bureaucracy.
Cuffs| 3.23.12 @ 2:08PM
Your point being?
bill| 3.22.12 @ 10:31AM
What an obvious set-up. Please try to be at least a little more subtle.
loulou| 3.22.12 @ 12:06PM
ooh--oolong is scared.
Of course oolong doesn't read MSNBC, the little scared twit.
seedickrunseesallyrunafterspot| 3.22.12 @ 1:44PM
May I add to the juvenalia:
loulou rhymes with poopoo
This is about the level of communication on this blog.
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 1:52PM
Then grab your little rubber ball and go home, back to the mommy state and its babysitters. What brings you to TAS anyway. Nothing of subtance on your leftie blurbs? Go home, nobody wants to play with you here.
"loulou rhymes with poopoo"? WTF is that?
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 1:53PM
*substance
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 4:20PM
So who's sticking a gun to your head to stay here? Its not like you've displayed any intellectual acumen under ANY of the handles you've used to post your nonsensical screeds.
Oh, that's right. You're a regressive. You people just like to kvetch just to hear yourselves kvetch.
Oldefarte| 3.22.12 @ 1:46PM
Actually OC, IMHO this blogger is a bit too restrained in the above description of the asinine nature of liberalism/progressivism. We need to return to the non-PC world of calling a spade A SPADE!!!!!!!
Charie| 3.22.12 @ 4:39PM
You're right about the first part but then he's only posting on a blog, not spilling his hate from a microphone where even the sparse audience of MSNBC is probably a hundred times more than see TimPenn's post. And I'll bet he isn't making anywhere near the money that old sewer mouth does.
beebop2| 4.15.12 @ 5:15PM
Don't flatter MSNBC. The most attention they get is on conservative blogs.
ronnie| 3.22.12 @ 5:22PM
Hey oolong if the above poster were a democrat leftist commie he would be have said to just be blowing off steam.....dude is just mad....like me. But I won't call him names that just brings me down to the level of a democrat.
beebop2| 3.23.12 @ 5:50AM
Never been to Huffington Post or the lefty blogs, I see. Sigh. You lost me when you attempted to align Spectator with the thinking process of those who post here .... but? Then again, you lost me when you posited that the only way to "think" is your way. Move along to Media Matters or Politico. You'll like them just fine.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 10:17AM
Timothy L. Pennell, our very own conervative Richard Pryor, with truth woven thoughout! And I LOVE me some Richard Pryor! Well done, as usual, Mr. Pennell. I LOVE your writing!
To the point of your post, I offer these 2 famous quotes from "Famous Men of the Left":
"It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion."...Joseph Goebbels
"The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this."...Lenin
Seek| 3.22.12 @ 4:47PM
Bad parallel. Richard Pryor was genuinely funny even at his most remorseless. Timothy Pennell is merely threatening. Al Sharpton circa 1990 comes to mind.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 7:53PM
"Threatening?!" Seriously? C'mon, Seek. Look, I could care less about foul language. I'm the son of a career Navy officer & an 8 year veteran of fine dining kitchens. There's NOTHING I haven't heard, & not too much I'm bothered by. And while there's a time & a place for everything, & a time to stow the galley tongue, I hardly think that somone venting their passons about how they feel is one of those times. The appropriately placed profanity helps to make a point sometimes. Other times, it can show exasperation.
I can only speak for the way I write. Most times, I don't need to swear, even though I may be crass/sarcadtic/crude in ridiculing people. However, I will when I feel as if it'll add sone emphasis to what I'm saying.
I just think everyone needs to chill about being so easily offended by things like foul language. You don't have to read it, watch it, or listen to it if you don't want to. But many of those kvetching about how Mr. Pennell writes say/have said the same things at some point. And it reks of self-righteous indignation.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 7:56PM
"...reeks..."
skip| 3.22.12 @ 9:21PM
It reeks of intentional deception by those who don't want to discuss,
that since the prickly dithering idiot liar in chief of downgrade and really pathetic and despicable speeches,
silver bullet economic stimulus,
silver bullet shovel ready jobs,
silver bullet dig out of the ditch,
silver bullet national credit rating reduction,
silver bullet deficit cut in half no later than 1/20/2013,
silver bullet Guantanamo closure no later than 1/23/2010,
silver bullet medical insurance,
silver bullet green energy,
silver bullet preferrable higher gas prices,
silver bullet world peace,
silver bullet global cooling,
silver bullet receding ocean levels,
silver bullet intercontinental rail,
silver bullet personally honoring veterans in attendence for the lives they sacrificed for the nation,
silver bullet corpsmen,
silver bullet Austrian language,
silver bullet 57 states,
and silver bullet fundamentally flawed Constitution transformational yes we can hope and change replaced Bush,
the debt of the nation has risen $6 trillion,
without a federal budget,
gas prices have risen 150%,
and the unemployed increased 4 million to 23 million,
all this that they want to avoid discussing,
for some strange reason.
mmercier| 3.22.12 @ 11:12PM
I kind of like Penell
This is a nasty little spat... makes me want to spend more time here.
I love apoplectic leftists. My last hobby.
beebop2| 4.15.12 @ 5:17PM
If you think Tim is threatening then perhaps you still have the capacity to understand why we hate what the 0bama administration has done to this country.
Jack in Wi.| 3.22.12 @ 11:17AM
MSNBC is just playing to a demographic, just like Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are. I used to listen to Limbaugh for many years. He was quite honest in calling himself a guy who does a lot of comedy on political stuff, and is playing to a demographic, not being served. It is was quite natural for him to use the political ideas that were his own. He is just like numerous leftwing comedians, who use their biting wit to back up their comedy.
Schultz isn't very funny or intelligent but he does have fans. Frankly I think we all would be better off if we could do our own thinking and study the issues by reading a wide range of material. Since a I mostly turned off political theater on cable and talk radio, I get less upset and more informed. There is still life if you turn off the TV and Radio.
Dmac | 3.22.12 @ 11:49AM
What Schultz does is fan the falmes of division and hatred in this country. By lowering the conversation of politics into the sewer he does a dis-service to all Americans. Adults can have a conversation without resorting to name calling. Professional journalist are expected to keep themselves above the fray.
The problem we now have in this country is that our news networks like to mix opinion in with the NEWS story.
The three major networks will continue to lose viewers as long as the promote division. They do it with their news, and they do it with their ever increasing sexual programming at all hours of the day and night.
Mimi Mayes | 3.23.12 @ 2:00PM
The problem with the news networks has gone way beyond bias. It's total, unabashed LYING.
Citizen Jerry| 3.22.12 @ 1:33PM
Playing to a demographic? I didn't know there were that many crazy people running around loose.
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 2:00PM
Please.
How else did a community organizer, with no birth certificate, born of a Commie mom and a foreign Muslim Dad, born who knows where, whose college records cannot see the light of day, with no former romances in his past-whatsoever, come from nowhere, (rumored to have been mentored and funded by some serious Marxists), and become the President and Commander-in-chief of the greatest nation in the modern world??????
And you didn't know there were so many crazy people running around loose?
And he may yet win another term???? And you didn't know? WTF do you think got him elected???
seedickrunseesallyrunafterspot| 3.22.12 @ 3:18PM
Lord, Lord, Lord . . .
Pennell posts under many names.
Same voice under many monikers.
Hate, hate, hate.
Hate, Mr. Lord! It's right here under your nose.
No wonder that traditional Republicans have deserted TAS by the thousands. We're too dignified for this rubbish.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 4:25PM
You're no more Republican than your marginally documented "president," troll. Go pitch your false flag horse crap somewhere else. No one's buying it. And apparently, YOU'RE not "too dignified." You're here, posting your insipid tripe.
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 4:33PM
Cocktail Party GOP. . . have at it. It's all yours.
"We been told, God done warned us, Jesus coming soon." Eric Clapton
Mimi Mayes | 3.23.12 @ 2:06PM
You sound like a member of The New Castrati. Have you had a checkup lately? Maybe it's Low T.
beebop2| 4.15.12 @ 5:22PM
You have a very narrow definition of "hate." It appears to be limited to anything with which you disagree. I believed for years that dems wanted more discussion. They don't. They want you to believe them and they will enforce it at any cost. I can tell you what I hate: what people like you have allowed to be forced on the working American.
Oldefarte| 3.22.12 @ 1:55PM
What Shultz does is typical of liberals/progressives and that is to .....LIE hypocritically!!!!!!!!!
carnot| 3.22.12 @ 9:56PM
and how do you validate that what you are reading is accurate and authoritative? pls...I have seen enough of your posts to know better.
IzeHavitt| 3.22.12 @ 1:06PM
Tim, For the sake of further clarification, these same whisperings in the ear were made to Jesus of Nazareth when He was tempted by the devil himself. But He thankfully refused. So NBC and MSNBC's situation reveals to us a most unfortunate truth: these people have sold their souls. And they must be identified for who they really are: they are not merely political liberals, but they are the latter day children of the devil. Just like the scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees of old, they have sold their souls. They call evil, good; and good, evil. They are guilty of loving money and power, which, is not only the root of all evil ,but is idolatry. They are also the accursed. And, from a political perspective, they are the enemies of the Constitution of The United States. They are a cancer on the body politic.
diogenes| 3.23.12 @ 9:46AM
Mr. Pennell, you are clearly a lunatic. Possibly you sustained a head injury, or you may have organic brain disease.
Your inability to express yourself without profanity and your evident psychopathic rage is a sign that we really do need Thought Police, or at least a squad of SWAT Psychotherapists on call 24/7 to bust down your door and give you an emergency injection of Haldol.
beebop2| 4.15.12 @ 5:25PM
Frankly? That people like you see a need for "Thought Police" or a squad of "SWAT Psychologists" says more about you than anything Tim has ever written here. You sound like you would have been quite happy in Hitler's Germany. You sir a not an American.
diogenes| 3.23.12 @ 9:56AM
Does not one get the irony of the comments of Tina B, T Pennell and Con Def?
Here we are ostensibly reposnding to Lord's article about vicious diatribes by Ed Schultz, and in repsonse we get diatribes from these three nincompoops and their ilk. Amazing.
Oldefarte| 3.23.12 @ 10:37AM
We conservatives are all lunatics [and the degree of same equates to our individual age] from being forced to listen to and be sujected to the outrageous progressive-liberal radicalism within our lifetimes. It's amazing that we're not all in straightjackets from the very least of exposure/imprisonment to/from the likes of the Kennedy BS etc. Additionally, their HYPOCRACY is ludicrous and asinine [one only has to investigate the activity of Teddy's involvement with his nephew-Smith in Palm Beach's AuBar as evidence of same]. This blogger's accurate cynacism is refreshing and medicimal if nothing else to his readers!!!!!!!
James Eliasen| 3.23.12 @ 9:06PM
If someone took Mr. Ed out and did him in, how much would the IQ of the USA be raised? I would think that it would be quite a large amount.
George F.| 3.27.12 @ 11:04AM
Mr. Pennell. You are obviously a hate-filled far-leftie trying to pretend you are a rightie in order to degrade the right. We are not fooled.
LeoInTheWoods| 3.22.12 @ 12:56PM
Sir, you have missed the nail. Progressivism is what Hitler practiced, from genetics (eugenics) to the Hitler youth to socialist economics. Pretty much everything in the progressive platform is the same, with the exception of Nationalism.
Imagine the hubris of those that think that Hitler went wrong in making people porud of their hom country, rather than in siezing all this control of the people and using it to his whimsy.
Seek| 3.22.12 @ 4:49PM
Hitler practiced racial nationalism as Wagnerian opera. His "progressivism" was incidental, not central, to this overarching vision.
Calvin| 3.22.12 @ 7:16PM
Seek is of course racially obsessed. Now she seems defensive of "progressives" while in the past sounding conservative in the David Brooks kind of way. Seek is typical of her type and incapable of being very clever. We get you and its time to change your name.
seedickrunseesallyrunafterspot| 3.22.12 @ 2:04PM
From today's NC news:
A blogger for conservative NC think tank The John Locke Foundation is being asked to explain why she illustrated a story on President Obama's position on North Carolina's proposed marriage amendment with an altered image of Obama in chains and high heels with a bucket of fried chicken.
Is this the kind of thing Timothy and many of the rest of you would guffaw over?
Talk about hatred!
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 2:26PM
Next thing ya know they'll have his picture on a T-shirt that says, "some village is missing their idiot." No respect for the office.
beebop2| 4.15.12 @ 5:28PM
But you probably had no issue with the image of BHO appearing where the stars would normally be on an American flag? Your outrage is soooooo limited and you seem to have a pathological obcession with the American south ...
albert constantine jr.| 3.22.12 @ 7:01AM
The only difficulty I have with the premise of Mr. Lord’s well-researched editorials on the hypocrisy and misdeeds of the Left in general, and MSNBC and Media Matters specifically, is that they seem to contain the presumption that these players are capable of shame. Experience seems to suggest otherwise.
Von Mises Jr.| 3.22.12 @ 7:14AM
Joseph Goebbels said "If you repeat a Big Lie enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." Is this not the creed of MSNBC and their mission and strategy?
Some will sell their souls to the devil for power and money. The express to hell is available for those with eyes to see.
Teaghan| 3.22.12 @ 8:00AM
But Von, they don't believe in Hell, Heaven, Christ or God. Then believe in themselves and the state. No rules, just power and money.
Von Mises Jr.| 3.22.12 @ 9:23AM
Got me there Teaghan. Can't argue with that!
Aces and Eights| 3.22.12 @ 7:27PM
Just because they don't believe in Hell doesn't mean they are not on the bullet train heading there.
breanna| 3.23.12 @ 11:32PM
Nail on the head!
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 10:19AM
Von:
See Goebbels quote above in my response to Mr. Pennell.
Von Mises Jr.| 3.22.12 @ 11:49AM
Chef, Timothy and you are patriots.
Lenin would have shut down the internet already with all the stupid and contradictory words of Obumer floating around before an election. But this is not the USSR yet.
Russians never properly understood property rights or freedom being harangued throughout history by the Monguls, Peter "the great," Catherine "the great" and socialism in Europe. That is why they accepted the Bolsheviks, Soviets and now Putin. We had Washington, Jefferson and Reagan. Somebody should explain this to the Obumers.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 2:50PM
You honor me, sir!
And you're absolutely correct about Russia. And the rest of Europe for that matter. Europeans have ALWAYS had "masters" of some sort or another, be they members of a nobility or an overreaching gov't.
Europeans who criticize America & self loathing Americans (like regressives on LSDNBC & the idiots here who wet their pants over Tim's "bad" words) don't get that. Its still called the American "Experiment" for a reason.
IzeHavitt| 3.22.12 @ 1:09PM
By the same token, if we repeat the Truth often enough, people will eventually come to believe it. So don't lose your nerve, America. Speak the truth, which is The Word of God. Remember, in God We Trust.
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 2:03PM
Woot, woot! well said Ize.
breanna| 3.23.12 @ 11:33PM
AMEN!
seedickrunseesallyrunafterspot| 3.22.12 @ 3:20PM
Looks to me like there are many Goebbels on this blog. Have you read their evil comments?
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 4:36PM
Go away. You have the fragrance of a . . . a troll. Shoo.
Drunken Sailor| 3.22.12 @ 4:53PM
You Troll have the fragrance of F*ckewe, one of liberal visitors that pens under many names. I thought you lefties preached tolerance? And don't try to convince me your a conservative. You're petty attempts at straw men and feigned indignation give you away.
Redatheart| 3.22.12 @ 8:48AM
Rush is nearly always right and has a sophisticated monitoring of his percentages to prove it, but one big, big mistake he's made is that he didn't buy NBC before Comcast did. Imagine a world where Rush owned NBC? The evening news would again contain news instead of Left propaganda and non-stop attacks on anyone disagreeing with them politically. Over at MSNBC, so-called 'hosts' such as Schultz and Maddow (what's hospitable about their vitriol?) would be standing in line waiting hoping to get sub spots on NPR or vying for anchor jobs at Al-Jazerra. Evening sitcoms would not be vehicles designed to destroy the moral core of the American family and once again, fathers would be elevated to positions of courage, leadership and respect in their TV families instead of being idiots that aren't fit to raise their children. The Weather Channel would once again report on the weather instead of trying to push a political Leftist climate agenda. Advertisers would be limited to those that purely want to advance the advantages and benefits of their products rather than slur, insult or demoralize our intelligence. Gone would be commericals of men shaving each other's backs to try and convince everyone to run to the nearest govt. run mental health facility. Dramatic and tear-jerking ad's about govt subsided failures such as the Chevy Volt would be relegated to the lesser viewed stations. Imagine......
albert constantine jr.| 3.22.12 @ 9:57AM
I think generally, though, Rush has tried to pursue successful ventures as investments. Whenever I see the cable news station's ratings posted, Ed Schultz seems to be battling Chris Matthews for a bottom slot, which is usually 1/3 to 1/4 of Fox viewership for the same time slot.
Joellen| 3.22.12 @ 7:30AM
This article should be required reading for all in the USA. I am certain Rush, Mark Levin & Hannity will read article today during their shows; I hope FOX News does the same. Excellent work Mr. Lord.
Mick Hawk| 3.22.12 @ 8:30AM
Rush and Levin already know all about Sgt. Schultz, they will recommend this to their listeners as I will recommend it to my friends. BTW, that corpulent load of venom should learn how to tie a decent knot in his tie instead of that unbalanced thing he has (looks like a slob anyway).
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 10:21AM
Yeah, he does. If for no other reason than to keep his foreskin from suffocating him.
Mike Hawk| 3.22.12 @ 1:28PM
I thought his big long wide belt held that in place.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 2:51PM
Well played, Mike!
:-)
Mimi Mayes | 3.23.12 @ 2:17PM
Visualize these faces: Al Gore, Alec Baldwin. Bob Beckel, and Ed Schultz. All have greasy, puffy faces with small beady eyes, greasy hair slicked back, generally with a scowl on. Also each is overweight. Famous Lefties - separated at birth?
oldfart| 3.22.12 @ 7:34AM
I really don't know ANYONE who watches NBC or MSNBC anymore. As a matter of fact I am going satellite to get away from NBC's parent company Comcast.
Blech Drosek| 3.22.12 @ 7:44AM
Hah, so I see we can blame the Jews for creating the NBC network that is contributing so much to the downfall of America. Where are the Cossacks when you need them?
Bobloblaw| 3.22.12 @ 8:23AM
I see JackinWI and Clint found a new playmate
Clint| 3.22.12 @ 6:38PM
Uh Oh !
BibiBlowblaw, Plays His Dog Eared Anti-Jew Card On Tea Party Clint.
Oldefarte| 3.23.12 @ 10:43AM
You mean instead MEDIA MATTERS CLINT, right????????
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 10:23AM
Yeah, a Jew who escaped the pogroms & who served his nation in WWII as an indespensible aide to Ike. What a nefarious guy. I wonder if you ever took the time to stop cooking meth to ever serve your country.
Where's Hugo Stiglitz when we need him for guys like you?
Dmac | 3.22.12 @ 11:55AM
Blech,
Your remark is why conservatives get called "racist and biggots". Knock it off.
Oldefarte| 3.22.12 @ 2:02PM
Probably correct, since Jews are intent upon increasing their intellect through higher education and most probably are partially repsonsible for NBC's creation; BUT we can also credit no doubt the Arab Muslims for creating our current presidency and the current staff of MSNBC anchor persons, huh??????
richard ryan| 3.22.12 @ 7:57AM
Take a good look at Ed Schultz ladies and gentlemen. He is the kid in school who was teased and beaten on a daily basis. Now, he has grown up to be bitter and hateful of the country that allowed the abuse. To him, the happiness, success, and prosperity are the enemy.
DTOM| 3.22.12 @ 8:39AM
little richard,
So, you are saying, it's not Ed Schultz's fault?
Yes it is! Because if being teased and "beaten" on the playground is justification for his brand of hate, please tell us what the survivors of Hitler's and Stalin's death camps can justify? They were really physically harmed, starved, and almost murdered. Not to mention the majority of inmates who were murdered.
You are confused - there is NO excuse or justification for uncivil behavior, NONE. Excusers are enablers. Are you an enabler? Your excuse is complicity with the likes of Schultz. We know about your type. You just want to sound reasonable. But you are either confused or mendacious, which is it?
Don't Tread On Me...
richard ryan| 3.22.12 @ 9:14AM
No, I'm not giving him a pass- he's a despicable SOB and I'd like to slap him around some myself. Just making fun of our victim mentality here in this country.
DTOM| 3.22.12 @ 10:35AM
Jus' making sure...
Old Soldier| 3.22.12 @ 9:34AM
I'm shocked his nasty mouth hasn't earned him more recent beatings. If he spewed this vile against a normal man and / or his wife on the street, we would get his teeth punched down his throat.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 10:24AM
And rightly so!
Dmac | 3.22.12 @ 11:57AM
And in some states it would be legal to physically shut his mouth if he called your wife a filthy name.
Petronius| 3.22.12 @ 4:47PM
Bring back dueling.
O.F. A.N. A.S.S.| 3.23.12 @ 1:40AM
We sheep second this excellent idea reestablishing individual personal accountability among the collective.
Then we sheep can call dibs on fckewe and challenge that sheepshit lipsmeared sheep sodomizer.
Ovines For
A Nation
Ammo Strafed Skies
Bill Husssein O'Stalin| 3.22.12 @ 8:17AM
Fear not.
A new development is taking place where current news sources are being rapidly replaced by new news sources.
NBC, ABC, CBC and even MSNBC and CNN will have a hard time ahead.
Their product is being rejected by the public and their central news planning will soon be replaced by many new sources.
Ironically, if it wasn't for fat bastards like Ed Schultz with his rabid mentally, they may have had a chance for survival.
Oldefarte| 3.23.12 @ 10:46AM
True true true! Their advertising revenue is drying up faster than Solyndra's governmental funding!!!!!!
Ralph Novy| 3.24.12 @ 10:59PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Wrong!
It's the smarmy, smug "pseudo-liberal" bastards like Brian Williams who may have done them in.
Dan Rather never did learn from Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow the fundamental lessons of journalistic honesty and integrity.
Bobloblaw| 3.22.12 @ 8:22AM
What is amazing about the US media is their willingness to become tools of the Democrat party. At least in the USSR, people at Pravda were threatened with gulags or death if they didnt report things the state's way. In the USA the MSM has voluntarily given up their pursuit of the truth to support the state.
Mick Hawk| 3.22.12 @ 8:31AM
Ed Schultz = Keith Olberdork without the charm.
Gr0w1er601| 3.22.12 @ 10:46AM
Ouch!!
Oldefarte| 3.22.12 @ 2:04PM
And without Keith's agricultural university degree!!!!!
Ralph Novy| 3.24.12 @ 11:02PM
Amazing.
I, instead, would say "What is amazing about the US media is their willingness to become tools of the Republican Party."
And I'll bet I can marshal more facts to support MY position than you can YOURS.
Put up or shut up.
Awlhattin O'Kaddle| 3.22.12 @ 8:35AM
This Beady Eyed Hand Grenade, Ed Schultz, gets the best ratings on MSNBC.
I watch him because I want to witness the day his head explodes.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 10:44AM
What's up, my friend? Welcome to the fray!
Awlhattin O'Kaddle| 3.22.12 @ 11:06AM
Hey Dar !
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 2:07PM
Hey, Awl.
I like you already.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 2:53PM
Ms. Tina:
Awl is a buddy of mine from WAAY back. He used to be a Townhall regular for a long time. He's now joined the fray over here, as have some of my other TH friends, like Resist We Much, Buck 'O, Devil Dog & Georgetwin. They're all good people!
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 4:45PM
They give me reason to smile, always a good thing. God bless youse, and keep da rest of us encouraged.
And Timmy, never let up. You are one funny guy. When I get to heaven, before or after Our Lord comes back, I'm gonna look you up. Your use of the vernacular is truly at the level of art. Keep looking up.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 8:02PM
My Dad was also a Picasso of Profanity. I have NO PROBLEM with how Mr. Pennell writes either. I don't know if Mr. Penell is a vet, but he sounds alot like an old salt.
Oldefarte| 3.23.12 @ 10:51AM
Think he indicated he was in the Air Force. Again, THANK ALL YOU VETERANS FOR YOUR MILITARY SERVICE!!!!!
Bill| 3.22.12 @ 9:15AM
Ed Schultz is Obama's "Joseph Goebbels."
Brian Mc| 3.22.12 @ 2:47PM
You give him way too much credit, Bill! Goebbels ran the 'show'. Can history recall any Nazi broadcasters outside Herr Goebbels? I would put Schultz in their league, which would be kind to say the least.
Le Cracquere| 3.22.12 @ 9:33AM
I've got no time for MSNBC, but this is kind of apples & oranges. I think a Robert Kintner would be shown the door at NBC today, just as he was decades ago. A network president is responsible for different things than the "talen ..." hee hee hee! Can't do it. Sorry. ... from the "on-air personalities." The Sharptons and Schultzes aren't directly charged with top-brass responsibilities, and their lack of character has no comparable DIRECT effect on the bottom line, NBC jobs, and programming as a whole.
I agree with Mr. Lord's sentiments about NBC, but am not sure that the Sarnoff anecdotes are relevant to the MSNBC misadventures.
Julian| 3.22.12 @ 12:30PM
You are being much to reasonable for this site. But thanks!
Anthony| 3.22.12 @ 9:55AM
Well not to worry Jeff, the L.A. City Council is about to pass an ordinance outlawing sexist and racially sentitive words on the radio, so the 20 0r so folks who listen to Rev. Notso Sharpton won't have to be offended any longer !!!
I wonder why the bright bulbs on the L.A. City Council stopped at talk radio, why not T.V. and cable, afterall, the City Council can pass any moronic ordinance it wants.
I bet Gloria Allred is the attorney for the City of L.A. Only this lefty goose-stepper, in fashionable, expensive high heels, would advise the City Council that this absurdity would pass constitutional muster. She has the same understanding of the Constitution as Professor Obozo.
This is why our society is spiriling out of control and why things are going to get dicy real fast.
Oh by the way, Rev. Notso Sharpton will be attending a rally as feature speaker today in N.Y. concerning the death of a young black man.
MSLSD will not only not repremand him for doing so, they will air portions of his statements throughout the day and on his show.
The Left are totally unhinged and out of control.
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 2:08PM
Rev. Notso Sharpton? LMAO.
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 2:19PM
Ah, Rev. Notso gets his nose in again. Orlando struggled to convict Casey Anthony only a year ago and was faulted for making a hasty case without enough evidence. She walked.
Now the city of Sanford, near Orlando, hesitates too long to do anything in the way of arresting a neighborhood watchman, who killed a young man who had broken no laws. The pendulum swings. This could become a long, hot summer in Florida.
I remember a summer in Los Angeles, once, when I was 15, and the people grew restless for a certain justice. It was 1965, and soon, Watts was burning. I don't want to see that happening here, Stay away Rev. Notso, and God bless America.
Brian Mc| 3.22.12 @ 2:54PM
Sorry, Tina...it's already in the cards. The alien is already gearing up for martial law. We'll be lucky if elections have not been cancelled by mid-August. Things are coming to a head so quickly and might we hope for a resignation to save the Republic or, would that be asking too much? If the elections do go through and we lose, we lose; if we win...we lose. Might it be too late to right the ship? This country has never required our prayers more than now.
Dmac | 3.22.12 @ 3:37PM
Brian,
What our country requires is good men to do something. You know, the same thing those crazy kids from first 13 states did 235 yrs ago.
We all know what happens when good men do nothing, Evil takes over.
Tina B| 3.22.12 @ 4:47PM
Hear, hear.
Awlhattin O'Kaddle| 3.22.12 @ 3:45PM
Sharpton is trying desperately to spin this as a black/white thing. Any other time, he tries to spin that Latino's are fellow minority's.
Sharpton has already gotten people killed with his Racialist Rabble-Rousing.
Tonight's rally could turn ugly.
Then again, maybe we'll get lucky and Al will finally get caught up in a fracas and get his nasty ass kicked.
Jack London| 3.22.12 @ 6:02PM
If you recall Sharpton was nearly stabbed to death in Bensonhurst.
Clearly this is a 'black thing' at least - the watchman had been warning his neighbors about blacks. And if you also recall, things don't change in this country unless people protest.
Earth| 3.23.12 @ 3:00AM
The whole planet recalls you are an idiot every time you post.
The whole planet is in protest of this.
Mimi Mayes | 3.23.12 @ 2:31PM
I believe Mark Levin is responsible for that oh-so descriptive name.
Georgetwin| 3.22.12 @ 10:03AM
"NBC has traded the standards of David Sarnoff for those of Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton, Phil Griffin and Media Matters."
And they tally their ratings by a show of hands.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 10:40AM
You KNOW the General is doing cartwheels in his grave over what his life's work has become. Like the legacy of Dr. King, which was highjacked by Jessie "Hymietown" Jackson for the leftists, while Dr. King's body was still warm, so has the General's. Its just plain sad to see what the regressives have done to once proud institutions & movements.
Susie Q| 3.22.12 @ 10:04AM
Mr. Lord's excellent article left out Spits Matthews, who is almost giddy in his reveries of imagined self-relevance and self-importance.
As for Tom Brokaw and Matt Lauer, the word journalist is a bit generous. After all, these guys got their starts flipping pancakes and interviewing long-forgotten starlets on The Today Show.
Bill| 3.22.12 @ 10:28AM
I never watched MSNBC.
Awlhattin O'Kaddle| 3.22.12 @ 4:29PM
" Know Your Enemy "
I don't know who said it, Bill, but it sounds like good advice. (You gotta see this clown Schultz, to believe it )
Bill| 3.22.12 @ 7:13PM
Ed Schultz is a pathological liar.
Oldefarte| 3.23.12 @ 10:53AM
Yes indeed............HE'S A LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE/DEMOCRAT!!!!
Les| 3.22.12 @ 10:31AM
With all due respect Mr.Lord,I think you are giving MSNBC too much attention. They can't take down Rush. Not even close. The best thing to do is ignore Schultz and their ilk. Everyone else has.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 10:48AM
I agree with you to a point. LSDNBC has given EVERY one of their targets a full & painful cavity search. I look at Mr. Lord's 3 articles on this subject to be the same thing. And its been VERY informative to see how all the dots are connected.
Vern Crisler| 3.22.12 @ 10:51AM
I confess I've never listened to Ed Schultz, primarily because I never listened to MSNBC (except when it first started). My reason for not watching it, not even sampling the headlines from MSNBC is, Keith Olbermensch. Never could stand the guy.
Citizen Jerry| 3.22.12 @ 10:51AM
One quibble with this one. I wouldn't associate names like Brian Williams or Tom Brokaw or Andrea Mitchell with legitimacy. Like their counterparts at Mess-NBC, they're partisan hacks and members of the Democrat steno pool.
cuban pete| 3.22.12 @ 11:18AM
The only thing worth watching on TV is sports with the sound turned off.
The last thing I watched on network television was some episodes of "Taxi".
About sixty years ago my family had the first television on the block. I spent many hours watching but it is a habit that can be broken.
Instead of watching television in the evening I get enlightened by the commentary at this AmSpec site and others.
Anthony| 3.22.12 @ 11:21AM
I think it was lefty media hack Joe Klein, of Time Magazine, who, when asked to explain the media's horrible handling of the Duke lacrosse case, sniffed, " the facts were wrong, but the premise was correct".
This has been the sin quo non of American journalism for decades.
jeannebodine| 3.22.12 @ 11:36AM
Beautifully written, heartbreaking as it is.
Buck Ofama| 3.22.12 @ 11:44AM
Given the low ratings I know for a fact BSDNC has, NBC must be bleeding money to subsidize their shit. I wonder how long that can go on.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 1:37PM
Hopefully not long, although Daddy Collaborator Bucks (Soros) does have deep pockets!
James Davenport| 3.22.12 @ 12:20PM
Mr. Lord
This article is a poor piece for me. Normally your columns are generally good but this one…well. To me you do not make the transition from NBC of the past to the NBC of the now, it is confusing for me. It starts with a good recount of a man but simply devolves to NBC is bad.
Mick Hawk| 3.22.12 @ 1:24PM
No help for the stupid if you can't comprehend the message.
Bill| 3.22.12 @ 1:01PM
Ed Schultz is a male prostitute.
Mike Hawk| 3.22.12 @ 2:19PM
More like a Eunuch
Dipesto| 3.22.12 @ 1:21PM
Maybe not one of the major sins of msnbc, but I watch morning joe once in a while, and have noticed that when the gang once in a while get to discussing the doings of past presidents Mika gets a prim sour look on her face when the potus inventory gets to Mr. Carter. I assume that talking about Jimmah will get to her own father's foreign affairs doings, so Joe moves on to something else.
Jack London| 3.22.12 @ 1:44PM
So what. Schultz is a foul mouthed man of the left, Limbaugh a foul mouthed man of the right.
But it's worth noting that Schultz was a foul mouthed man of the right until he saw what the right was doing to our country.
And he did give the union speaking fees to charity.
Mike Hawk| 3.22.12 @ 2:20PM
Would you care to give one example of Rush??? Bet you can't. But then you've never listened to him anyway.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 2:56PM
What "foul" words has Rush ever used?
Jack London| 3.22.12 @ 5:54PM
Oh do keep up man. Limbaugh and other right-wing shock jocks have a long history of sewer talk - just look at Limbaugh's racist remarks. Or Hal Turner - jailed for inciting the murder of judges.
By the way, how is that whore wife of yours? The AmSpec boys want a piece of that ass for subsidizing that ass. When you going invite them round?
Con Chef (NB) | 3.22.12 @ 8:20PM
So do you care to list all this supposed "racist" language, or are you just flapping your gums as usual?
My wife is fine. See, unlike Ms. Fluck, she's married & not asking for a Catholic group to pay for her birth control. If people don't want to participate in whatever health plan or buy whatever insurance for those reasons, they can buy from someone else. What you & your government fellating ilk want is for it to be MANDATED, BY GOVERNMENT, to be provided for by ALL insurers FOR FREE. And now they've told SELF FUNDED insurers the same thing.
Go schtup your MaoBama blow up doll, douchebag, & don't worry about my wife.
Jack London| 3.23.12 @ 6:30AM
No,I don't, I just make stuff up or repeat what my controllers tell me to.
Mike Hawk| 3.22.12 @ 8:34PM
Come on Jack. Quotes, transcripts...don't have any, do you?? That's because there aren't any.
Rich D| 3.23.12 @ 7:46AM
Now Mike, such requests will only scare Jack off.
Owen K| 3.23.12 @ 9:58AM
Now now Jackie, lets not be just another bitter liberal or an Ed Schultz disciple.
Oldefarte| 3.23.12 @ 11:00AM
Limbaugh and his brother simply TELL THE TRUTH [WHICH HURTS]; whereas Shultz etc is a typical LYING LIBERAL-PROGRESSIVE-HYPOCRITICAL MORON [that is manipulated by his White House handlers]!!!!!!!!
kwan| 3.22.12 @ 2:08PM
The CDC has issued the following warning: Listening to more than 3 minutes of the Ed Schultz show is known to have caused apoplexy, tardive dyskinesia, thoughts of committing suicide, demon possession, schizophrenia, Tourette syndrome, dysphoria, dementia, and paranoid psychosis. Anyone exhibiting signs of the above mentioned maladies while watching the Schultz show should be immediately restained and given a 500cc shot of Thorazine and then transported to the nearest psychotic wacko control center.
Mike Hawk| 3.22.12 @ 8:35PM
Are you describing Schultz or his whacko listeners??
proud and purple| 3.23.12 @ 5:21AM
The maximum daily dose of Thorazine - chlorpromazine is 1000mg orally and at least 75mg im :)
Oldefarte| 3.22.12 @ 2:15PM
May Jeffrey Lord NEVER HAVE MERCY! Great one indeed! IMHO, I feel that Shultz etc of MSNBC only proclaims what liberals/progressives think in general [but historically don't have the guts to proclaim and instead only say under their breath]. Correspondingly, I think that the current president is only doing-acting/saying aloud what previous liberal presidents/politicians/Democrats have been doing/saying under the carpet awareness of the general public. MSNBC is their parent company and related networks' COMING OUT OF THEIR POLITICAL CLOSETS [or in-your-face-isms]!!!!!!
MarkR| 3.22.12 @ 8:43PM
This is an excellent history leson. History? For liberals history starts today. They look at life like Pol Pot did in Cambodia- as the destruction of everything that came before and the belief that before they came on the scene the world was in a perpetual dark ages. I personally believe the MORE gutter mouthed and destructive these people become the more people are going to turn away. The seeds of their own destruction are within them. People like this self destruct. In November 2012 the beginning of the end will begin for this group. Like 2010 the times are a changin and they have bitten off more than they can choose. The average American has had enough. I know people who used to watch this crap and they are filled up with disgust. Bye Bye MSLSD your days are numbered.
POST Americzn| 3.22.12 @ 11:49PM
---Decades stale sideshows!
Putting aside today's items on Samsung and
other companies latest spyware 'enhanced'
tvs, PCs and applicances---
UH------, GOOGLE (ie NSA/DARPA) is censoring
GENUINE reportage daily, and all this just weeks
off from the memory holed likely murder of Andrew Breitbart.
The country's been hijacked.
-------------THE REPUBLIC HAS FALLEN------------
We stand in need of a RETRO-active
IMPEACHMENT of our last 4 CFR-Red China
handover op administrations.
We are surely within a few years of
going into boots to the ground, USURER
'managed' receivership a la Greece.
Remember kiddies, once this thing is
fully installed and operative ---there will be
NOTHING to stand in its way.
Remember further Stalin, Hitler and MAO
were NEVER overthrown by their people.
Remember further that on so many levels
---'their' people are NOW running the show.
---WHO has time for MSNBC?---it's time to move!
Time to LAY HOLD the traitors at the top.
------------------------HUAC/ Nuremberg 2012-------
Todd Powers| 3.23.12 @ 12:33AM
Back when the Winter Olympics were in Torino, Italy, I was looking forward to the skiing and hockey. The Olympics had been going on for over a week when I realized they were on NBC. When I finally tuned in, it was nothing but curling. I missed the Olympics because I never watched any of NBC's programming, so I never knew what was happening. Interestingly, no other network was covering it. True story.
POST American| 3.23.12 @ 1:03AM
'-----there will be NOTHING to stand in its way.
-----------NOTHING----------.'
-'ENDGAME'
documentary online
Putting aside the foreign born Obama,
and reckoning the other foreign born
operatives of the Globalist EUGENICS
age-enda ---Josef Stalin --Beria
---Adolf Hitler --DeValera ---Napoleon ---et al
As we, just now, learn that, over in France,
NON---French born 'CALM---ME' --'Czar-COZY'
---is BANNING the courageous ALEX JONES
in the wake of that country's latest,
all but t-shirt franchised, false flag terror set up----
ALLLLL of this just weeks off from the
likely MURDER and 'disappearance' of
Andrew Breitbart ---and the shut-down
moves against, such as he is, Limbaugh.
"When the Globalists are brought to
justice and their crimes are brought to light
---it will be bigger that Hitler --Stalin
---even MAO."
WHO said that?
Betina| 3.23.12 @ 4:51AM
Just another Russian Jew emigrating to America at the turn of the century and who became part of the cabal of socialists who have wormed through the old republic to turn it into a Bolskevik state. How many millions brought their socialism and Marxism with them to impose it on America? One of the worst wave of immigrants to settle here, they brought their warped politics with them and for generations now the average American has suffered.
Tina B| 3.23.12 @ 7:40AM
Betina, if it is any small comfort, when my daddy migrated from Eastern Europe after WWII, he brought with him an abject hatred for Communism. He taught it to me, and I have taught it to my kids and their kids. Then, in a public school classroom, for thirty years up until last Oct. I was able to share, with the help of any Cuban, Chinese or E. European student's shared experiences, the travails (make that evils) of the Communist systems at work in the world today.
It was heartbreaking, though, that of all my close friends who were history teachers, not one taught this to their students. Not one. I taught maths, and students were always asking me about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in other countries. The brighter the kids were the more questions they kept asking. In Florida, we were taught we could answer any qqq students might ask. This lead to some wonderful discussions. And not to worry, Libtardos, I taught math well enough for my students to go on to some great successes in the world, loving both math, and their country. I thought that this was all in the job.
nathan| 3.23.12 @ 8:02AM
Interesting exchanges.
Let's start with the stated rules of this page. What is expressly prohibited. "Profane, bigoted, grossly impolite." What are we all called upon to be? "Respectful."
Okay. What the owners of this site are saying is that profanity in all its forms, IE cursing is prohibited. TJP and his many supporters may not like that, but when you come in here and post comments, you agree to post according to the rules of the site. Their site their rules. If the rules are unacceptable, you can obviously go to other sites with different rules. The same thing with name calling like "faggot" and other such terms. according to the rules here that is expressly prohibited. Comparisons to Richard Pryor are interesting but as applicable to this site, irrelevant. Coh Chef I get your point, but given that profanity, bigotry, and gross impoliteness is prohibited, why should those who object to such behavior be told to leave by you? Should not those who engage it that behavior in direct violation of the site's code of conduct go some place else? It's not being "self righteous" to insist that everyone play be the rules put forth by the site owners is it? There are plenty of sites on the net that have looser standards. TAS has made it clear what their standards are. What is wrong with people insisting that those standards be upheld.
Would you and Tim and others explain why everytime you post, and see explicitly what the standards for this site are, you all see no reason to abide by them? Why you feel you are exempt from those standards that are clearly spelled out above the "submit" key? Others make their points without profanity, without bigotry, without being grossly impolite. Why can't all of us do so?
I don't see any exceptions to the rules for this site. Show me where it says here that no profanity unless you are making some great marvelous point. No bigotry unless you are emulating Richard Pryor. I don't see that here. And if there are no exceptions, then perhaps, perhaps it needs to come to an end and all of us need to play by the same rules. Perhaps?
Mimi Mayes | 3.23.12 @ 2:41PM
Another Low T. the remedy is called Androgel and you'll need a prescription.
Tina B| 3.23.12 @ 9:07AM
Nate, may I call you Nate?
I have always been a rule stretcher and sometimes a rule breaker. And if I did the crime, I did the time. . . so to speak. I have so enjoyed reading posts and posting at TAS for the last 2 years, and I have learned greatly from those posting in the way of politics and history and faith and much more. Most of this from people who swore on occasion. Some of them swore with great facility and humor and made me laugh out loud. Tim is certainly one of them.
As to the rule breaking, I became a better teacher because I understood the rule bender/breakers more than most. The bottom line is, if you get caught, can you take the consequences. If you can, and will, you too can become a rule bender/breaker. This fantastic nation I live in was apparently founded by men who were willing to break Britain's rules and create some new ones to live by. I don't know about you but I highly respect their rulebreaking ways and am truly grateful to them for being so inclined.
On a much lighter scale, I respect Tim's humor and use of the vernacular, to make his salient points. You have made a point as well. With no humor and little to recommend it other than to my ex-school administrators. Some of whom didn't like it when I broke their rules either.
diogenes| 3.23.12 @ 9:39AM
Ed Schultz is a semiliterate thug, a would-be tough guy aping what he perceives to be blue-collar attitudes. Al Sharpton is beneath notice. Chris Matthews is simply an intelligent man with an odd view.
But, if it is OK for Fox to allow Ann Coulter to sling mud and Rush Limbaugh to call someone a "slut", where is the difference?
However,
Oldefarte| 3.23.12 @ 11:04AM
The 'difference' is that Rush's conscience allowed his to APOLOGIZE for his errant remark, where Shultz and company of dispicable liberal/progressive Democrats never do same!!!!
Owen K| 3.23.12 @ 9:52AM
Great article. Thanks for this rundown on the History of the once proud network NBC and how it and MSNBC have degraded into nothing more than a hate spewed propaganda machine.
Canadian Conservative| 3.23.12 @ 11:27AM
I thought Timothy Pennell was just exercising his constitutional rights as a comedian. I'm sure Bill Maher is a big fan of his except for the big words. Go Timothy. The truth will set us free...but only if BHO is defeated in the next election.
nathan| 3.23.12 @ 1:08PM
Canadian Conservative:
Read the First Amendment carefully, something most people don't bother to do. "CONGRESS SHALL PASS NO LAWS . . . " The First Amendment is primarily a restriction on the Federal government, not private entities. Take for example the website at your place of employment. Telling you what you may and may not post on that site is not an infringement on y0ur First Amendment rights. Should you say something that they have stated up front is inappropriate, they have every right to fire you.
The same with TAS. They are a private entity and none of us have a First Amendment right to post anything we want in violation of the terms they set forth. What if for example someone what to say something completely pornographic? Would THAT person be exercising their First Amendment rights? On some sites they would. But not here.
Comedy is in the eye of the beholder is it not? Not all of us enjoy Eddie Murphy when every other word is F this and F that. For some of us that's highly offensive. As Con Chef said maybe we should leave then. Except according to the rules of the site, no I don't have to leave when such words are "explicitly prohibited.
Tina I get your point. But go back and read the Declaration of Independence very carefully, something again most people don't bother to do. Everyone is familiar with the second sentence. We hold these truths to be self evident that all me are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights . . ."
But go further. Jefferson made it clear WHY they were engaged in that rule breaking as you described it. He made it clear that when a government reduces its people to a state of despotism they have not only a right but an obligation to act against that government. Furthermore you should not take that action lightly.
Now madam explain to us if you will that TAS asking the people post here to be civil, to refrain from bigotry even if to some people such bigotry and profanity rises to the level of comedy for some of you, how does TAS asking us to not be grossly impolite and be respectful rise to the level of reducing the people on this site to state of "despotism"? Really? You really want to make that comparison?
(Why I have to give history lessons I do not undestand.)
Again, the rules for posting on this site are clearly laid out. Show me the ambiguity here, show me the exceptions here. Show the no bigotry unless you're being really funny exception. Show me the no profanity except when others find it really cool exception.
And this goes to a larger problem doesn't it? Far too many "conservatives" think the rules only apply to the "other" guys. If the other guys do it they're the bad guys. If we do hey we do for the best of intentions. When a cop does "enhanced interrogation" on a suspect, that's fine because the suspect is a bad guy. He has to be a bad guy because why else would the cop have arrested him? Except in far too many cases the "bad guy" is innocent.
Unless the laws are illegal and immoral we don't get to choose which ones we obey. Unless the rules are illegal and immoral we don't get to pick and choose those either. That's really what real bad guys do, not us.
Tina B| 3.23.12 @ 2:27PM
On the contrary, I do get to choose the ones I will obey, and when I choose, I may suffer the consequences of my choice to break the law(s). If Tim, who I find funny and you find offensive, gets the boot, temporarily, from posting on TAS, I am sure he'll put his big boy pants on and get through it. And if and when he posts again, and I get the good fortune to read it, I will laugh and you won't. You'll complain, and who will be the worse for it?
Liberal Reader| 3.23.12 @ 9:32PM
Mr. Lord,
As always, this is a really interesting and informative essay.
I've never been interested in MSNBC, although I don't share the distaste for Rachel Maddow that many conservatives express. But Ed Shultz surely is a jackass, and I agree he should have been fired for several rash and off-color remarks.
I will say this: I enjoyed hearing you on local Wisconsin radio a few months back, and I listen to NPR. I know many conservatives think it's biased; I don't, and I think it has good shows. The cable news channels seem like junk to me.
POST American| 3.23.12 @ 11:37PM
----------------------FINAL WORD----------------------
Just weeks off from the 'disappearance'
from the --somewhat--- GENUINE figure
of Andrew Breitbart. . .
ebonystone| 3.24.12 @ 2:10AM
David Sarnoff as a hero of integrity? Ha, ha, pull the other one. Sarnoff was a ruthless, egotistical rat who used any means available to smear and destroy his rivals. Just ask Edwin Armstrong.
capatolistmom| 3.24.12 @ 2:07PM
Mr. Lloyd, Great Article!!! What an incredible story. The "journalist" at NBC should be ashamed. How they could disgrace such a once wonderful name as NBC? But I think because of them and their "partners" at ABC and CBS we have gotten FOX - who out positions them and markets them 3-1!!! So there is still hope for our great country!! Just stop watching them and they will go away!!
Sponsors go were there are viewers - no matter how much intimidation the left tries to impose!!! SO just keep watching FOX and listening to RUSH it really "gets m good" - viewers as are facts - tough to argue with!!!
TycheSD| 3.25.12 @ 3:07PM
Everyone knows that the pronounced leftward tilt of MSNBC evolved as a response to Fox News and their advocacy for the Republican Party and neoconservatism.
danshanteal| 3.25.12 @ 3:33PM
NBC is now controlled by Comcast which in turn is controlled by the Roberts family. I blame them.The ratings came out last week and showed all these MSNBC characters are performing in a mediocre manner. So wouldn't economics kick in and require changes from the top down? Money talks, you know and the Roberts understand that.
Joe Nuts| 3.25.12 @ 5:31PM
Attention Lefist commie punk rats, etc, etc.
Be afraid, very afraid. A million hoodies are coming to your neighborhood and they don't care if you voted for the idiot in the whitehouse. Have a fearful night.
Leonard Gilbert| 3.30.12 @ 12:32PM
Isn't Ed Schultz a buffoon?