{"id":4789,"date":"2009-05-18T06:17:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T11:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2009-08-10T15:48:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T20:48:57","slug":"more-of-that-vaunted-liberal-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4789","title":{"rendered":"More Of That Vaunted Liberal Tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a big Michael Savage fan.\u00a0 Never have been.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes down to something between him and libtalker\/idiot Ed Schultz, I&#8217;ll cop to it; I&#8217;ll close ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Schultz is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/msnbc_calls_for_international.html\">calling for an &#8220;international Weiner ban&#8221;<\/a>, which is the kind of joke that&#8217;d lead to half an hour of junior-high-level tittering on Schultz&#8217; daily 180 minutes of hate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Thursday, May 14, syndicated left of center radio talk show host Ed Schultz, who has hosted <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/30031533\/\">The Ed Show<\/a><\/em>, a daily political talk program (6-7 PM ET) on MSNBC since April 6, devoted his regular &#8220;Psycho Talk&#8221; segment to Michael Savage&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having seen Schultz grow red-faced and downright unhinged in debating the cool, professional, civil Michael Medved (and equally unhinged the next day on his show, attacking <em>me<\/em>, the lowly MC), that whole &#8220;Psycho Talk&#8221; thing is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;you know where this is going, right?<\/p>\n<p>I digress:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With a caption over a photo of Savage that read &#8220;Pond Scum,&#8221; Schultz, who referred to Savage by his birth name, Michael Weiner, which he consistently mispronounced, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Oh, what a sweet irony we have here tonight in the Psycho Talk zone. [Savage] wants Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s help to get him off the UK banned list. This is the same guy who calls her a \u2018fraud,&#8217; a \u2018yokel,&#8217; a \u2018very dangerous person. . .&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now here&#8217;s an idea: Maybe I should send a letter over to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and say \u2018Dear Madam Secretary, Would you please encourage other world leaders to ban Weiner from their countries. . .&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re calling for an international Weiner ban.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Video of the segment can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21134540\/vp\/30752372#30752372\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that you&#8217;d want to.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote \/><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a big Michael Savage fan.\u00a0 Never have been. But when it comes down to something between him and libtalker\/idiot Ed Schultz, I&#8217;ll cop to it; I&#8217;ll close ranks. Schultz is calling for an &#8220;international Weiner ban&#8221;, which is the kind of joke that&#8217;d lead to half an hour of junior-high-level tittering on Schultz&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}