Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The dishonest Ed Schultz again

Leftists are dab hands at misleading by quoting out of context
My WSB colleague and guru, the Talkmaster Neal Boortz, created a bit of controversy this past week over comments he made about shooting thugs in Atlanta.

The controversy actually blew up because of Ed Schultz at MSNBC who claimed Boortz was advocating the murder of urban youths in Atlanta.

There’s just one problem here. In both the screen shot and the accompanying audio, Ed Schultz doctored Neal Boortz’s quote. See, Boortz said those things, but in the middle there was this bit:

"You need to get a permit to carry that gun. And you do in fact need to carry that gun and we need to see some dead thugs littering the landscape in Atlanta. We need to see the next guy that tries to carjack you shot dead right where he stands. We need more dead thugs in this city."

The full quote is below the fold. But this is the relevant portion for purposes of Ed Schultz’s monologue and it is clearly references self-defense, not wanton murder of thugs.

This was a wholly dishonest editing of Boortz’s quote and his context, without even using ellipses in the on-screen text, to accuse Boortz of advocating murder instead of self defense.

Source

5 comments:

sig said...

Just the Left, as usual, re-writing history in the name of Political Correctness and their Liberal agenda.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Anonymous said...

Come on, Boortz is hilarious. I mean, who else has ever flustered "Papa Bear" on the air the way he did. It was one of the best moments on Fox News ever.

Anonymous said...

Fox News. Isn't that a comedy variety channel?

Anonymous said...

Schulz essentially considers all "urban youth" to be "thugs".

Anonymous said...

Wait, you mean they're not?