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Ed Schultz held no punches back when he went after Hugh Hewitt's idiotic call for a national boycott of all GM and Chrysler cars because he calls them "socialist companies."

A pair of right-wing radio hosts says there's only one choice for conservatives angry about government involvement in the auto industry: Boycott GM. "Nobody wants to support an Obama company," Rush Limbaugh told his audience Friday, citing a poll showing that 17 percent of Americans backed a boycott of GM.

"Every dollar spent with GM is a dollar spent against free enterprise," conservative talker Hugh Hewitt wrote online last week.
"While it's not surprising that Rush Limbaugh would root for the failure of a national institution for partisan political gain, it is surprising that the other so-called leaders of the Republican party are silently going along with him given how many hard working Americans rely on GM for a living," said DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan.

So far, there is little evidence that the government's involvement is turning off buyers. In bankruptcy for the entire month of May, Chrysler had its best sales month of the year.

Ed hits the Grassley nail on the head. Why are Hugh Hewitt and Rush Limbaugh trying to destroy the American automotive industry? What about the families that need these jobs to survive? Will Hewitt and Limbaugh support all the families this child like boycott could affect?
Schultz is calling for a boycott of the Salem radio network.

Ed: Conservatives, are you out of your mind? Do you know how many Americans have lost their jobs in manufacturing? Do you know how many American families are being affected, their livelihoods are being drilled because of this recession and what do they do, they push back on the American families that are doing the absolute best they can to build a great product...
What do you say we just kick the American worker in the teeth. What do you say we just give all the money to Wall Street. Let's just take their health care, let's take their education, let's take their jobs. Let's just genuflect to the Hugh Hewitts of the world.

We know where Hewitt's heart resides. His love of CEOs and fat cats that prey on the working class to finance their palaces. And the media slobbers over Hewitt every time he writes a mindless book, but we never see a liberal on TV who releases one. Where's Will Bunch, where's Eric Boehlert, where's David Neiwert? All three have excellent books just release, but they are almost no where to be found on cable news. Why the silence of liberals? Anyway, it was good that Ed kicked Hugh in the head today.

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Ed Schultz slams Hugh Hewitt for his article at the Washington Examiner: Just say no to Government Motors and Obamacars. Give 'em hell Ed!

January 23, 2009 News Corp

The Cowardly Lion was the first one off the blocks. "How Sarah Palin Won the Election... And Saved America"
Let's hope he jinxed her and McCain like he did the Mitster. Remember, he did write a book about Romney...

Big Media Ezra has more....
(h/t Atrios)

Also take the PBS Poll: Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as VP. It's been freeped.

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I'm a big CSpan fan, don't get me wrong, but there are moments like this one from Washington Journal that chap my hide, because the nature of the program doesn't allow for anything but the uninterrupted and unchallenged spewing of unmitigated bovine excrement.  Of course, that's the format that Hugh Hewitt works best in, and this is a prime example of Hewitt's fact-free hackery.  

Caller: Good morning. Hugh, they used to carry your show here in Jacksonville, 50,000 watt station that the circumference of that station attract 2 million voters or 2 million listeners, I should say and they dropped you and Michael Medved the same day. And they...we refer to it down here as "hate radio" that station is just...they never attract over 2,000 listeners at one time at any given moment. They eventually put you on over time delay at night. And you had less than 200 listeners, according to ratings done in the paper. But you know, you right-wing radio people days are over with the average person. We're well aware of your hate-spewing you do against strictly Democrats, strictly Democrats. And it's all over but the crying. Read the polls. Read the polls, [croons] it's all over but the crying....good morning, Hugh.

Hewitt: Good morning to you. I do regret that they had a format change in Jacksonville and we lost our Jacksonville audience. You can still pick me up in Orlando, Tampa, Sarasota, Pensacola and 120 stations across the United States. They're all listed at HughHewitt.com. And the good news for the people of the great city of New York is that we go up in New York in August. It's the 6th or 7th most listened to radio show in the United States. I'm glad that it's growing-not falling-and I think that in fact, center-right conversation of the sort I do, for example, eight consecutive weeks with EJ Dionne, the wonderful left-of-center liberal columnist for the Washington Post, about his book Sold Out, isn't hate talk at all. It's conversation about the most important issues. And in fact, the characterization of conservative talk radio as "hate talk" is always a giveaway that the left doesn't really want to engage in the issues, because if you talk about these issues, if you talk about the appeasement policies of Senator Barack, if you talk about the "don't drill" Democrats and their indifference to the cost of gasoline and the toll it's taking on middle-class America. Americans note this, it's a fundamentally center-right country, and I do not doubt for a moment a lot of the left wing wants to silence conservatives on the radio, they want to silence...they don't exist in network television, so they don't want them to go there. But it's not going to work, because I think ultimately the folks who listen and hear and are persuaded by a comprehensive, collegial, civil conversation as such that happens on conservative talk radio every single day want to keep it there.

Cowardly Lion say what?  There are no conservatives on network television?  It is to laugh.  When you have Charlie Gibson near in tears over the unfair advantage of being a candidate that many people want to donate to in lieu of his man McCain and Brian Williams tossing softballs over Bush's reading list while ignoring that he ignored Katrina victims and all the networks refusing to admit complicity in light of Scott McClellan's revelations, are we really expected to believe the "liberal media" meme? 

And let's talk about that wonderfully "civil" conservative (which is, by definition, not center-right, you genius) talk radio: You know, the kind where Ingraham berates a caller, Sussman tells a caller to prove he's not a Muslim by saying "Allah is a whore.", advocating death for the editor of the NY Times, or calling for riots at conventions.  And that just took 15 seconds of site searching.  Yeah, you guys are incredibly civil.

Cheney vs. Cheney via Eschaton
On Hugh Hewitt's show:

HH: Vice President Dick Cheney, welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show.

VP: It is good to be on here.

HH: Today you brought attention to John Kerry's plan to wage a more 'sensitive'
war on terror. What do you think John Kerry meant when he said 'sensitive,' Mr.
Vice President?

VP: Well, I'm not sure what he meant (laughing). Ah, it strikes me the two words
don't really go together, sensitive and war. If you look at our history, I don't
think any of the wars we've won, were won by us being quote sensitive. I think
of Abraham Lincoln and General Grant, they didn't wage sensitive war. Neither
did Roosevelt, neither did Eisenhower or MacArthur in World War II. A sensitive
war will not destroy the evil men who killed 3,000 Americans, and who seek
chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons to kill hundreds of thousands more....

...[later]...

HH: Will the Najaf offensive continue until that city is subdued even if that
means a siege of the Imam Ali shrine?

VP: Well, from the standpoint of the shrine,

obviously it is a sensitive area,
and we are very much aware of its sensitivity. On the other hand, a lot of
people who worship there feel like Moqtada Sadr is the one who has defiled the
shrine, if you will, and I would expect folks on the scene there, including U.S.
commanders, will work very carefully with the Iraqis so that we minimize the
extent to which the U.S. is involved in any operation that might involve the
shrine itself.

 

nuff said on the sensitive issue!