I've never been a huge fan of liberal talk radio host Ed Schultz. Not because of any of his views -- they seem to be pretty mainstream, for the most part. My problem is with his constant self-promotion. He's attacked bloggers as ineffective in the past, while pushing liberal talk radio as the be-all and end-all of lefty opinion. Never mind that few people on the left or right listen to talk radio of any stripe. To Schultz, the only medium worth a damn is talk radio -- specifically, his show. Newspaper columnists and magazine writers apparently aren't crap.That said, we all have reason to congratulate Schultz, who called John McCain a "warmonger" at an Obama event.
Ed Schultz, host of a nationally syndicated radio program, was warming up the crowd Friday at a $100-a-person fundraiser for the North Dakota Democratic party in Grand Forks when he tagged the probable Republican presidential nominee as a "warmonger," Schultz acknowledged in a telephone interview Saturday.
He said he has used the term many times on the air to refer to McCain because of his support for the war in Iraq.
"He voted for this war. He's a perpetrator of the war. He's an advocate of the war," Schultz said. "In my personal definition, that's a warmonger."
Team McCain took offense with this."I would hope that in keeping with his commitment that Senator Obama would condemn such language, since it was part of his campaign," McCain said. To his discredit, Obama did just that.
I say "discredit" because there are few words in the English language that describe John McCain so well as "warmonger."...
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