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Progressive radio talk show host Ed Schultz went on The O'Reilly Factor (Why, Ed?  Why?) to give his views on the Democratic half of the presidential slate.  Never one to pass up the chance to bring up past stupidity, when the talk went to John Edwards, Billo brings up the ridiculous assertion he made when John Edwards was on that there are no homeless veterans.

ES: I think (Edwards') message is strong and he has tremendous conviction, but I think he needs a little bit more material than just the "Two Americas" talk, he got to get a little bit deeper...

BO: Well, we're still looking for all the veterans sleeping under the bridges, Ed, so if you find anybody, let us know, because that's all the guy said for the last three nights...

ES: Well they're out there, Bill. Don't kid yourself.

BO: They may be out there, but there's not many of them out there. Okay? So if you know where one is, Ed...

ES: Well, actually...Now, wait a minute...one in ..

BO: Ed, Ed. If you know where's a veteran, sleeping under a bridge, you call me immediately, and we will make sure that man does not do it. Is not there.

Ed should know that Bill would never allow him to complete a sentence that has facts in it.  After all, this is FOXNews, and facts aren't actually part of their demographic.  But here at C&L, I'll repeat BillW. from the earlier John Edwards post:

In 2006, approximately 195,827 veterans were homeless on a given night—an increase of 0.8 percent from 194,254 in 2005. More veterans experience homeless over the course of the year. We estimate that 336,627 were homeless in 2006. …

But I'm intrigued by Billo's challenge.  I don't know if he's speaking for Fox News or just using the royal "we", but I'd like to know how Billo plans to make hundreds of thousands of vets "not do it."   It shouldn't be too hard to find a homeless vet in NYC, where The O'Reilly Factor is taped.  Wouldn't it be great to have them show up to FOXNews HQ to thank Bill in advance for helping them?

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Air America Radio President Mark Green and progressive talk show host Ed Schultz (whose show appears on some Air America affiliates as well as on their XM Radio channel) went toe to toe on Hillary Clinton's whisper campaign against Barack Obama on Thursday's Hardball.

Mark Green was really horrible in this segment. He was snarky and dismissive toward Schultz--likely because of bad blood between Schultz and Air America than any difference in stance. He made a big deal about being neutral -- but defended Hillary Clinton and those in her camp who have been sniping Obama in recent weeks, using some low Republican framing. However, Schultz's point that the cheap shots are turning off younger voters can be shown by her dropping poll numbers.

In his main point, Green is right. This is what primary politics are all about and all of the candidates are guilty of it to some extent. Hillary's getting as much as she's giving. It just doesn't reflect well on her when her surrogates employ Karl Rove tactics (like insinuating blatant lies, like Obama may have been a drug dealer or Muslim) to play to voters' prejudices.

A great many C&L commenters have mentioned Randi Rhodes' speech to the 50th Anniversary party of "PEACE ACTION of Michigan" on November 11, 2007. It's 37 minutes long and worth every single minute. Thanks commenters and thanks very much, Randi.

Progressive radio hotties Sam Seder and Marc Maron are producing an as yet unnamed videocast at 11am Eastern this morning. The audio from last week, as well as the videocast for this week, are at the Sam Seder Show website.

Listen to the new song by "The Politnics"

It premiered on the Randi Rhodes show last month!

"I can't stop singing it," Randi said, on her radio talk show which is heard on Air America.

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