Bachmann, Palin, Shultz on Wingnuts of the Year List

Totally agree with these choices, including Alan Grayson and Ed Schultz, wingnuts on the left. Shultz drives me batty and people who get their news through a filter such as Schultz, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann or Michelle Malkin, aren't being informed, only entertained. Rachel Maddow is one of the exceptions. Though clearly on the left, Maddow skillfully uses reporting to back up her commentary.

Sampling of the finest America has to offer: Wingnuttiest of wingnut conspiracies. Obama wants to bring in terrorists to blow up gas stations. Funny stuff:

David Axelrod vs. Ed Shultz

In this Morning Joe video, David Axelrod takes on Ed Schultz, who gets snippy.

Schultz, earning his cred with the left most, says the insurance companies are playing a shell game. Why is it that the left and the right always argue "shell game" without explaining what exactly the shell game is.

The entire insurance industry is just pretending to hate healthcare? How is the insurance industry playing a shell game? Why would the industry bother? Did all the insurance leaders gather and plot to deceive?

It's a lazy talking head kind of accusation, one that doesn't include any kind of reporting that would prove that.

Axelrod talks about Lieberman and Dean.

I always forget that Howard Dean is irrelevant in one way--he's not in Congress. He can't vote. But his opinion matters.
In her tsk tsk voice, Peggy Noonan asks Axelrod: why are you losing the left, right and center? Axelrod has a really good answer. The administration doesn't think of the nation in political terms. I'd say Obama has lost the left and the right.

Progressives and wingnuts are unmovable as far as ideology. If things aren't done their way, they pull their support. They don't compromise much.

I don't think Obama's lost the center at all.

Most Americans aren't political. If you've ever seen Jay Leno's Jaywalking, you realize that we need annual civics refresher courses. Most people only have a surface level understanding of politics and government. Last night, Leno had a group of 20 somethings on who couldn't even name the vice president. That kind of ignorance is dangerous.

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Step Right Up Watch the Democrats Implode

Ed Shultz is right about one thing-- the democrats are behaving like ornery children and need someone to whip them into shape because they don't have the wherewithal within their ranks. But that's all Shultz is right about. Shultz sets about scapegoating Rahm Emanuel. Rahm and Timothy Geithner both get scapegoated as demon seeds. Shultz goes haywire with some of his left-most liberals friends. I'm tired of people mocking blue dogs and "conservadems." They're democrats. Get over it. Tom Harkin sets Schultz straight:

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Schultz and Grayson Take Turns Blowing Kisses

My antennae is raised. There's something that bothers me about Alan Grayson, the new hero of the left.

But McCain is A Warmonger

ed schultz, a radio show host in north dakota, said john mccain was a warmonger and the republicans went phony ballistic. hello. mccain prefers the method of war to solve problems. that would be a warmonger. he sang a song about bombing iran. i can't imagine for a second that obama-- not a warmonger-- would sing about bombing a country.

mccain still has an old-fashioned mindset, that war is a good option, that human beings will be human beings and that means war. and isn't mccain running on his war credentials. he is a veteran and knows how to fight a war. that's just about all we've heard from him.

obama, on the other hand, has never supported the war and sees more enlightened ways of dealing with iraq and other nations. that would be the opposite of a warmonger.

then the story went on to say that calling mccain a warmonger was the equivalent of talk radio show host bill cunningham using obama's middle name to evoke fears that somehow obama is a terrorist. sorry, not the same. not even close.

how silly is this story? is this the best the republicans can do?

But Mr. Schultz, a fervent supporter of Senator Barack Obama, may have gone too far late Friday when he called Senator John McCain “a warmonger.”
Mr. Schultz, whose program is syndicated nationally, made the remarks while revving up a group of Obama supporters at a $100-a-head fund raiser at the North Dakota Democratic Party’s convention in Grand Forks. As soon as the Republican National Committee got word of the attack, it issued a statement lambasting Mr. Schultz and calling on Mr. Obama to repudiate the characterization of the presumptive Republican nominee for President.
“Enough is enough,” said Robert M. Duncan, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. “Senator Obama has an obligation to speak out and publicly reject and denounce — not applaud — the shameful and contemptible remarks made by his surrogates.”