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    MSNBC's Ed Schultz: ‘Obama Is Exactly Right to Take Action Without Congress’

    MSNBC's Ed Schultz: ‘Obama Is Exactly Right to Take Action Without Congress’


    January 28, 2014 - 1:27 PM

    By Melanie Hunter


    MSNBC Host Ed Schultz (AP Photo/MSNBC)

    (CNSNews.com) – MSNBC host Ed Schultz said Monday that President Barack Obama “is exactly right” to bypass Congress and take executive action on issues like the minimum wage. “President Obama is exactly right to take action without Congress, and he would be inept if he did not do it on the part of the progressive movement, because that’s what he ran on - hope and change. We done the hoping. It’s time for the changing,” Schultz said on “The Ed Show.”

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    Schultz called it “a moment of awakening” for the president.
    In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night, the president is expected to announce that he is raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $10.10 an hour by executive action, which means, without congressional approval. The minimum wage for federal contract workers right now is $7.25 an hour.
    As CNSNews.com reported Tuesday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said in the five years he has been in the White House, Obama has never “actively engaged to work with the opposition,” even though that’s what elected officials are supposed to do.
    “We have to reach our hand out, come up with compromise. But I don't see that from this White House," Chaffetz said.
    Schultz questioned how “forceful” the president will be in his State of the Union speech.
    “Mr. President, don’t let me turn the TV off tomorrow night. I want to see a different guy up there tomorrow night. If you can call out the Supreme Court on Citizens United, I think he can do just about anything at the State of the Union and keep it real interesting for the American people,” Schultz added.
    “President Obama can’t be blowing smoke this time around, ‘cause we’re running out of time. The hourglass has pretty much turned on his administration,” he said.
    “I know we’re only in 2014 with plenty of time to go, but this is how it’s gotta work,” Schultz said. “Next year, it’s all about the presidential.
    “So there’s only a window of opportunity for the president to get the attention of the American people, use the pen and actually do something, because legislatively, the Republicans aren’t going to give him anything. The American people are counting on the president to be forceful across the board,” he added.


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    In my opinion, MSNBC is just trashy,trashy,trashy. If I could have them removed from my cable line I would as it I have the station blocked along with all of the porn channels. I used the search feature on Uverse to look up the show White Collar and until I got the word caller put in I was appalled at the titles that displayed.

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    MSNBC’s top offensive moments, in the hosts’ own words


    1:15 AM 01/31/2014
    Chuck Ross
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    MSNBC has a history of accusing conservatives of racism and then backpedaling.

    On Wednesday, the cable channel’s official Twitter account sent out a message about an upcoming Super Bowl ad from Cheerios which shows a handsome interracial family at breakfast, suggesting “Maybe the rightwing will hate it.”(RELATED: MSNBC tweets about ‘rightwing hate’ for biracial families’ after mocking biracial family)

    Below is just a partial list of recent incidents in which MSNBC hosts or other affiliates made outrageous statements about conservatives which were then followed up with apologies, suspensions, or firings.

    In December, MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry and her panel of guests mocked a picture of Mitt Romney, his wife Ann, and their 21 grand children — one of whom is black. One guest on the show said that the picture “really sums up the diversity of the Republican Party.” Another said, “One of these things is not like the other.”

    Harris-Perry issued a tearful apology, which Romney later accepted. “I am deeply sorry that we suggested that interracial families are in any way funny or deserving of ridicule,”she said.

    Last November, daytime host Martin Bashir responded to comments made by Sarah Palin on the topic of slavery by saying that someone should treat her the way some slaves were once treated — by urinating or defecating in her mouth. After weeks of debate, Bashir eventually resigned.

    On his primetime show “All In,” Chris Hayes had a segment marking the 50th anniversary of former Alabama governor George Wallace blocking two black students from entering the University of Alabama. Hayes ran a chyron that labeled Wallace a Republican even though he was a Democrat.

    Hayes later apologized for the error on Twitter writing “This was a stupid, inexcusable, historically illiterate mistake. I should have caught it and apologize for failing to.”

    In August 2012, Toure, one of the hosts of MSNBC’s “The Cycle,” claimed Mitt Romney was engaged in the “******ization” of President Obama.

    Toure’s comments came in response to Romney’s statements that Obama’s campaign was one of “anger and hate.”

    Toure apologized the next day, saying that he should have used a different word.

    In April 2012, Hardball’s Chris Matthews walked back a comment in which he called the Republican Party the “Grand Wizard crowd,” an allusion to the Ku Klux Klan. Matthews recanted that characterization later in the same segment.
    Also in April 2012, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell came under fire for calling Mormonism an “invented religion.” He also said that Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith, “got caught having sex with the maid and explained to his wife that God told him to do it.”

    O’Donnell later apologized for his “insensitive phrasing.”

    MSNBC’s parent company, NBC Universal, was forced to apologize and was later sued by George Zimmerman for an inaccurate tape splice. In March 2012, NBC aired segments in which Zimmerman is heard saying of Trayvon Martin, the teen he was accused of murdering, “He looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.”

    But the full tape showed that a police dispatcher had asked a question in between the two sentences about Martin’s race. Zimmerman claims that the tape was spliced in such a way to make him seem racist. NBC Universal apologized and fired at least two employees.

    In December 2011, MSNBC ran a chyron that read “Romney’s KKK Slogan?” referring to Mitt Romney’s campaign theme “Keep America American.” MSNBC compared Romney’s pitch to a slogan used by the Klan in the 1920s. After the Romney campaign called MSNBC for a correction, “Hardball”‘s Chris Matthews issued an on-air apology.

    In August 2011, Ed Schultz accused Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was running for President, of racism when, during a stump speech, he used the phrase “big black cloud”. Schultz and his production team spliced together video footage to make it seem like Perry was talking about Obama, when in fact, he was talking about the huge national debt. Schultz said he regretted the error.

    Ed Schultz was suspended for a week in May 2011 after he called conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham a “right wing slut” on his own talk radio show. Schultz later apologized on his MSNBC show, saying he had used “vile and inappropriate language”.

    According to Variety, towards the end of 2013, MSNBC ranked 29th in terms of primetime cable television viewers. Fox News ranked 6th.

    http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/31/ms...nsive-moments/

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    Hey! Let's all start taking action without Congress. That means we can all ignore the laws and authority of Congress right? Let's roll on these traitors hard!

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