Sitting in for MSNBC’s Chris “Obama makes my leg tingle” Matthews on the cable network’s Hardball program on Monday, April 6, award-winning David Schuster demonstrated why conservatives, and particularly members of the firearms community, have such disdain for MSNBC.
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Hosting an appearance by New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow, who had authored a piece headlined Pitchforks and Pistols that appeared in the newspaper April 3, and Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, Schuster immediately bared his rather partisan fangs and went for Gottlieb’s jugular.
Rather than allow Gottlieb time enough to breathe, much less explain his position or respond completely to a question, Schuster used the favored tactic of the demagogue: Interruption, sprinkled with obfuscation.
Some of the things Schuster demanded that Gottlieb explain were things that the gun rights leader had never said, nor advocated. Schuster tried to fluster Gottlieb first by challenging him to justify Fox talk jock Glenn Beck’s *alleged* remarks about so-called “FEMA concentration camps” (when, indeed, Beck’s program that very afternoon, broadcast at the same time as Hardball, was actually refuting internet reports of such FEMA camps), and by challenging Gottlieb’s statement that Barack Obama is widely seen as a divisive president.
As a prepared journalist, Schuster earns an “F.”
According to a just-published Pugh Research survey, Obama is rather polarizing. That’s not Gottlieb talking, but Schuster either did not like what he heard, or did not want his listeners to hear. Remember the adage about not killing the messenger?
For all of his hopes about bipartisanship, Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades.
On the other hand, not once did Schuster rudely interrupt or try to talk over what Blow had to say about his column, in which he tried to both marginalize and demonize American gun owners over concerns that the Obama administration at some point plans to take measures against gun rights.
They’re apocalyptic. They feel isolated, angry, betrayed and besieged. And some of their 'leaders' seem to be trying to mold them into militias.
Schuster challenged Gottlieb to offer evidence that the Obama administration is anti-gun. Before he was allowed to answer, Schuster again interrupted him and essentially called him a prevaricator.
Well, when one examines the facts, one will reach the quick conclusion that someone on that program was being, er, disingenuous, and it wasn’t Gottlieb.
Attorney General Eric Holder created a firestorm when he acknowledged earlier this year during a press conference that the Obama White House would like to renew the ban on so-called “assault weapons.” Maybe Schuster was on vacation that day.
But the other day in Jiutepec, Mexico, Holder told another press conference that the administration was pushing forward with a plan to block what have turned out to be remarkably exaggerated illegal gun shipments to Mexico. Holder, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, noted, “I don't think our Second Amendment will stand in the way of the efforts we have begun and will expand upon.”
I don't think our Second Amendment will stand in the way of the efforts we have begun and will expand upon.
So, perhaps Schuster could elucidate on that.
While he’s figuring out how to blame that one on gun owners, Schuster might consider offering an apology to Gottlieb for the shabby treatment, and he ought to also consider correcting himself on the allegation that Beck has been pushing some myth (rather than busting it) that FEMA is setting up “concentration camps.”
Uh…don’t hold your breath.
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Dave Workman you should be so totally ashamed of yourself for propagating more hate and division in this country with single-sided, slanted, dishonest, taken out of context views and reports (as should most of FOX news reporters--the lies spread by this network are outrageous and damaging and the only people that are believing them are undoubtedly those that are poorly educated and simply don't/can't keep up with what is/is not really happening--which you twist and turn.)
MSNBC is so far above you it isn't funny. Yes, the commentators do on occassion shut people off, Dems and Reps, for NOT ANSWERING THEIR QUESTION! Sinful Dave Schuster, how dare he want and demand a real answer from his guests....*sigh*
Thanks, Dave. Alan really held his own under attack.
Hey Dave - Watch Fox News and you will see the same poor substitute for journalism. Blow hard, demagogic hosts shouting over and interrupting the "opposition" guests while politely allowing the "ally" to make their case. Fox News, MSNBC, and even CNN are not journalism. They never were. There are entertainment channels. Remember that the next time you pay your cable bill and realize that Fox News is one of the more expensive basic cable channels.
Dave, you said it all and and the facts presented speak for themselves.
Sam, I guess you wouldn't understand a fact if it bit you on the behind, so your the one that should be ashamed.
What you don't realize is that Fox has more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined...entertainment or not. That can be interpreted to mean that in the next election cycle things surely will be different.
This is journalism??! David Schuster should be ashamed.
Next Election cycle?
Now That's FUNNY!
You're Living in a Democracy(Majority rules) now!
Guess what they Always end up becoming?
Olicarchy/dictatorship. DURRRRRRR!
Fallen asleep at the wheel there Pal?
I guess maybe that's the PROBLEM in this COUNTRY?
Of course/ Most Americans have a delusional sense of the true Political Spectrum.
They think there's a Left & a Right.
There's not, that's a paradigm.
There's Oligarchy/dictatorship on one side(Total government control)
And Anarchy on the other(No Government)Anarchy leads usually to oligarchy/Dictatorship.
Monarchy/potentates, Dictatorships are not really what they seem, because there's a group of people who hold up this 1 person.
Right now we're at the Democracy stage.(Majority rule/Unconstitutional)
No where in the USC or in any state constitution is it mentioned that Democracy is OKAY!
It is not it is TREASON!
WE are a Constitutional Republic.
And what these reporters did to Alan is TREASON/Treachery!
You can't really expect anything else other than horrid behavior from subhuman vermin like Schuster. His sort of misborn ilk seem to exist solely to mock humanity by their efforts to ape it.
I would call them treasonous, but what does their sort know of the human quality of loyalty?
Alan's a great guy & proud to have him in our corner... but have written him b4: ALAN, UR A NICE GUY. TOO NICE! DONT U KNOW WHY THESE PEOPLE INVITE U ON??? BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY CAN CHEW U UP...!! U KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT NICE GUYS? THEY FINISH...
in the Shower!
WE NEED AN "O' -Type" SPOKESMAN for the cause - NOT ALAN! 1 thing U GOT to give W.LaPierre credit for (even tho many malign the NRA): He DONT take no SH%#@!! Neither does our Guitarist Friend... Its time we get a Central Spokesman - or break off contact...
Things r 2 critical to be mealy-mouthing anymore!! "TERSE" is the word. TERSE!!!!!
David shuster is a moron, keep your head in the sand fool!Charlie blow also needs to get his facts straight. This government is spending us into generational debt.Crime will eventually skyrocket,what's wrong with being prepared to protect oneself and family. Thats what the libs fear the most.someone who actually says no.
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