Ed Schultz Doctored a Neal Boortz Quote to Accuse Boortz of Advocating Murder


First Laura Ingraham. Now Boortz. I think Arbitron's ratings are giving Ed Schultz a complex.

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.

In fact, you can see this screen shot from the Schutlz show highlighting Neal Boortz’s controversial comment:

Ed Schultz Doctors Neal Boortz's Quote

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. In fact, when Schultz then interviewed a Hillary Shelton, Sr. of the NAACP about Boortz’s comment and Mr. Shelton brought up Boortz making the comment in terms of self-defense (around 11:02), Schultz jumped in and pushed the guy away from Boortz’s context and moved on to bashing the tea party movement.

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.
Here are Boortz’s full remarks:

You know what? I, for one, am tired of putting up with this crap. And you want to know why I moved out of Atlanta and only spend a couple of weeks a year in this town? That’s one of the reasons. Carjackings, violence, people getting shot. It’s ridiculous. This city harbors an urban culture of violence. And I want you to look around. You drive into the city. The railroad overpass is on the downtown connector covered with graffiti. And that– That is just an advertisement for everybody coming into this town that we really don’t give a damn about those who would screw up our quality of life around here. We really just don’t care. We don’t care enough to paint over graffiti on the overpasses that come into our city, advertising welcome to Atlanta, here’s some of our finest graffiti, from some of our finest urban thugs and their little gang signs. And pick up the paper tomorrow morning. Read about all the carjackings. Read about the innocent people shot for the pure de-hell of it.

This town is starting to look like a garbage heap. And we got too damn many urban thugs, yo, ruining the quality of life for everybody. And I’ll tell you what it’s gonna take. You people, you are – you need to have a gun. You need to have training. You need to know how to use that gun. 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. And let their — let their mommas — let their mommas say, “He was a good boy. He just fell in with the good crowd.” And then lock her ass up.


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Nobody saw it. It was on MSNBC.

mdyou (Diary) Monday, June 20th at 2:48PM EDT (link)

Schultz is a moron. Boortz is a minor god and must suffer idiots like Ed from time to time.

 

So what's new? Of course Schultz is filth,

johnt Monday, June 20th at 2:56PM EDT (link)

he wouldn’t be a leftist otherwise. A psychopath doesn’t have conscience, if anything Schultz doubtless thinks he’s being clever.
Again, what’s new? After the Arizona shootings look what these nasty germs did to Palin, while they could work their slime before being caught by facts, which to Schultz and the rest, are as rat poison to rats.
What eats at these beasts is the opposition to excessive political power, a sort of grand punishment to be visited on us all.
They should be patient, get their rabies shots, double dose for Schultz, we may not have long to wait.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

Schultz's Brain to appear on milk carton

kenineastman Monday, June 20th at 2:58PM EDT (link)

Boortz is right.

As for Ed Schultz, apparently he can’t think his way into or out of a controversy without cheating. Schultz wears a hat to warm his neck.

“Those who forget the past are doomed to vote Democrat.”

 

But wait, there's more!

Flagstaff (Diary) Monday, June 20th at 3:13PM EDT (link)

“I think Arbitron’s ratings are giving Ed Schultz a complex. ”

Ed has to learn to read before that can happen. And I doubt there could ever be anything complex about Mr. Ed. He’s just a horse from one end to the other.

Buffett Rule #1: “Tax rates don’t matter if you don’t pay your taxes”
– Unnamed tax adviser to Warren Buffett, Leavenworth, KS, 2011
Buffett Rule #2: “A parrot in every pot and two Volts in every garage”– Jimmy Buffett, at a seance in Margaritaville, 1977

 

People are getting tired of the violence

earlgrey (Diary) Monday, June 20th at 3:26PM EDT (link)

Even my mom expressed to me just over the weekend that she wishes there were more people out there with guns to take care of these thugs. Of course she has always been a Republican, but I have never really heard her express her opinions on guns before.

 

What about Neal's connection to Schultz?

ardvarkmaster (Diary) Monday, June 20th at 3:30PM EDT (link)

“I have to admit this. On a personal level I like Ed Schultz. He’s friendly, garrulous – and fun to be around. He’s a pilot too. Oh yes .. he’s called me a psycho on the air, but I’m a forgiving kind of guy. His wife Wendy is a delight as well. ” – Neal Boortz (this comment was on the Laura Ingraham quote)

If Neal can like a guy who will say ANYTHING for ratings, what does that say about Neal,

Does Neal really mean what he says on the air, or is he like Schultz saying what he must for ratings.

As a Libertarian, I find that Schultz is something I would be in a hurry to scrape from the bottom of my shoe. I hope Neal is not the same.

Am I crazy, or did I hear Boortz...,

derechista76 Monday, June 20th at 4:14PM EDT (link)

…a couple of years ago, say he and Schultz were friends and he would entertain having him guest host? I swear I heard him say this on air. It is so etched in my mind that I can’t listen to Boortz w/out recalling the statement.

 

It's the masochist part of moderates

johnt Monday, June 20th at 4:39PM EDT (link)

“oh, I don’t mind being spit on,” thing, Look what Obama gets away with in dealing with Republicans and how the respect they show him. If accurate Schultz is laughing up his sleeve.
Schultz is taken as legitimate news by the left loons, just as is Kos, etc. They take this stuff seriously, really believe for example what is said about Boortz, It is said to incite, deliberately. Schultz knows exactly what he is doing, and where it leads.
That makes him even lower contemptible scum.
Maybe he is trying for the leftist Scum of the Year Award. Lot of competition out there though.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

Timing matters.

gafisher Tuesday, June 21st at 6:07AM EDT (link)

If Boortz made that comment before Schultz’ media-sult meltdown it was probably just professional courtesy. If the comment came after Schultz let the lefty-loonies get to home plate, it was probably pity. In any case, Boortz was clearly referring to Schultz’ private persona, not the character he’s consented to play while walking the streets.

The comment was after Ed's Laura Ingraham comment

ardvarkmaster (Diary) Tuesday, June 21st at 11:35AM EDT (link)

And my point was that if Neal could like, as you say, “Schultz’ private persona” and his (Schultz’) chosen public persona is so reprehensible, how do we know that Neal’s public persona is not just that, a public persona chosen to create ratings? I know that if I knew some one who said one thing in public and acted different in private, I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw my car and chances are I wouldn’t hang around with them.

I want the person I hear on the radio to believe what they say, not just mouth the words for ratings.

Plus, how empty and devoid of principles do you have to be to say things in public simply for ratings?

 
 
 

Litter

Ron Estrada (Diary) Monday, June 20th at 3:33PM EDT (link)

I think he was just concerned about the mess left around Atlanta. Obviously, we’ll need the Atlanta Thug Corpse Removal System in place before we simply start dropping thugs all over the place. Good grief, have you ever been to Atlanta in the summer? Have a hear, you conservatives! By the way, would we be re-imbursed for our bullets?

Ron Estrada
www.michiganconservativeunion.com
Michigan Conservative Union

We've got gun buy-back programs.

blooch Monday, June 20th at 5:16PM EDT (link)

why not bullet buy-backs? But then you’d have to dig ‘em out of the thug. Ew. Maybe a Fed bullet voucher program on the front end would be more sanitary. And let’s get Milton County ramped up before we let Fulton County light the Metro Atlanta Thug Corpse Hauling & Expediting System.

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

 
 

This is really no different than just making stuff up.

Tbone (Diary) Monday, June 20th at 4:54PM EDT (link)

I would say that what needs to happen is class action suit against MSNBC and Fat Eddy filed on behalf of listeners for suffering from being misinformed by outright lying.

If the FCC is going to regulate broadcast licenses, then their should be a reasonable expectation of fundamental veracity.

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

Do you really believe that the FCC cares for the truth any more

davesinsanantonio (Diary) Tuesday, June 21st at 5:05AM EDT (link)

than Ed Schultz does?
Yes, there should be a reasonable expectation of fundamental veracity. But, you will be forever disappointed if you keep hoping the FCC will ever be part of it.

 

Keep the FCC out of this!

gafisher Tuesday, June 21st at 6:19AM EDT (link)

First, the FCC should be regulating nothing more than the proper use of a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum — not cable, not the web. Second, the day we give any government agency the power to define and regulate truth is the day we might as well just put the handcuffs on ourselves and our kids.

I want the FCC making sure WABC doesn’t interfere with WXYZ on my radio; pretty much anything more than that is overreaching.

Hear, hear!

seandparnell (Diary) Tuesday, June 21st at 4:04PM EDT (link)

The last thing we need is government-authorized ‘truth’ and punishment or censorship of anything falling outside of that.

Also, not a grammar/editing expert, but when you do what Ed did, you’re supposed to include an ellipsis (usually “…”) to indicate that you’ve left something out. Usually it’s done for brevity or clarity, or as Ed shows here, to create a false impression.

Sean Parnell
President
Center for Competitive Politics
http://www.campaignfreedom.org

 
 
 

Obviously,

blh1976 (Diary) Monday, June 20th at 6:13PM EDT (link)

NBC’s selective editing problems are network-wide.

Good One

edintexas Tuesday, June 21st at 6:55AM EDT (link)

Not exactly unexpected either.

What is "Unexpected"?

edintexas Tuesday, June 21st at 6:56AM EDT (link)

The creative editing at NBC, not blh1976′s comment.

Didn’t intend to leave that up in the air on my original comment. Sorry ’bout that.

Ed, I didn't even catch that until you "clarified." nt

yoyo (Diary) Tuesday, June 21st at 9:50AM EDT (link)

Nemo me impune lacesset
“No one will provoke me with impunity!”
=============================
Pukin’ Dogs – The Fighting 143
Sans Reproache
=============================
The ‘yoyo’ replaced my cigarettes January 22, 2006….

 
 
 
 

The whole concept of self-* is foreign to liberals

Finrod (Diary) Monday, June 20th at 6:44PM EDT (link)

Whether it’s self-defense, or self-restraint, or self-chastisement, or self-consciousness, self-criticism, self-discipline, self-education, self-employed, self-examination, self-resourceful, self-sacrifice, self-starting, self-sufficient, you name it, it’s like a foreign language to them.

The only ones that seem to make it through are self-admiration and self-centered and self-delusion and self-indulgent.

PETA and the ASPCA are pure evil. See here and here.

55555!

davesinsanantonio (Diary) Tuesday, June 21st at 5:07AM EDT (link)

You nailed it!!!

 
 

I don't even listen to Boortz, and knew it was BS

LNSmithee (Diary) Monday, June 20th at 7:52PM EDT (link)

I haven’t heard Boortz on the air since KNEW (San Francisco) dumped his show in the mid-’00s, but when I saw the clip on Breitbart.TV, I knew it was bullschultz, and that Mr. Ed was leaving out context to bolster the insane idea that Boortz was advocating murder of black men. I tried to find the entire clip on Boortz’s site, but couldn’t find one. I did note that the clips that were live on his homepage were interviews of Herman Cain. Funny how Schultz thinks a guy who wants white people to just start picking off black people would want to talk to a black GOP candidate for President.

One hilarious part of the clip: Schultz refers to “The View” co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck as “ultra right-wing.”

More coming about the Schultz fraud on my blog.

According to liberals, a black person who is part of the GOP

rickbull Monday, June 20th at 9:27PM EDT (link)

is a self-loathing black person and a racist, yet they are the same ones who will make the overtly racist comment that “the poor African-Americans in our ghettos can’t possibly be expected to support themselves, so we have to keep all the entitlements in place.”

WE ARE THE 53% (who actually pay taxes).

 
 

With Olby is back on the air, expect a contest for "Top Crazy."

minncon (Diary) Tuesday, June 21st at 7:41AM EDT (link)

Who will win? Her Ubermann or Sgt. Schultzie?

“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, “Well, what do you need?” -Steven Wright

 

schultz and Boortz ...

cam1 Tuesday, June 21st at 8:11AM EDT (link)

are syndicated for radio by the same company. Boortz says he is not going to let this die. It will be interesting to see how this goes. I’ll bet it will not bode well for schultz.

 

Ed Schultz...

leefox Tuesday, June 21st at 12:02PM EDT (link)

…has probably already deposited his MSNBC bonus check for this latest episode of left wing media journalistic integrity.

 

Many of you are missing the point

objective74 Wednesday, June 22nd at 12:48AM EDT (link)

The point is, we cannot be judge, jury, and executioners by shooting someone with a gun when they appear to be a thug, and jack us for our car. We must not take the law into our own hands and instead we must report the incident to the police department and let law enforcement handle it.

Mr. Boortz, should have encouraged people to work with law enforcement when being car jacked instead of encouraging people to take up guns, getting permits, and receiving training to possibly have the streets of Atlanta littered with dead thugs.

Many of us our not qualified to take the law into our hands, but the police and judicial system are qualified. The police department in Atlanta is doing a good job of reducing crime in Atlanta.

That might work for the omniscient but

morostheos Wednesday, June 22nd at 1:12AM EDT (link)

most of us don’t know in advance whether the thug is only there for the car and won’t harm anyone in the process.  For the non-omniscient, I recommend Boortz’s approach.  

And by the way, there is no uncertainty in whether they ‘appear’ to be thug or not.  If they are robbing you, they are a thug (regardless of skin color).  

 

In Arizona, if you try and jack my car or assualt my wife or me

mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, June 22nd at 1:24AM EDT (link)

you most likely WILL be dead. It’s the beauty of concealed carry laws. I’m legal, I never walk out the front door without a weapon. I will be happy to litter the streets of Phoenix with armed felons threatening me and mine. And I’ll sleep very well afterward.

Any time danger is seconds away, the police are just minutes away.

Of course I carry a gun. A cop is too heavy and too difficult to conceal.

Change

Cops are mostly unionized, too

aesthete (Diary) Wednesday, June 22nd at 1:41AM EDT (link)

That means exorbitant rates for subpar service even if you could find somewhere to stash him…

“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke

Not to mention the cost of donuts. nt

mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, June 22nd at 2:34AM EDT (link)
 
 

Not going to count on others for my families safety

gpclaw Wednesday, June 22nd at 2:05AM EDT (link)

Cops are only useful at solving crimes, not stopping them. It’s nothing against cops, but they can’t be everywhere all the time. In the time it takes them to get the call, and show up at the crime scene, it’s too late for the victim.

As far as I’m concerned, Boortz deserves a pat on the back for encouraging people to be responsible gun owners. It’s not just enough to own a fire arm, you need to know how to use it safely, and effectively. Part of fire arms training is learning how to be more aware of your surrounding, and avoid dangerous situations, so you can minimize the instances when you may need to use your gun.

 

The police: minutes away when you're seconds away from death or injury. (n/t)

Finrod (Diary) Wednesday, June 22nd at 4:10AM EDT (link)

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PETA and the ASPCA are pure evil. See here and here.

 
 

That might work for the omniscient but

morostheos Wednesday, June 22nd at 1:09AM EDT (link)

most of us don’t know in advance whether the thug is only there for the car and won’t harm anyone in the process.  For the non-omniscient, I recommend Boortz’s approach.  

And by the way, there is no uncertainty in whether they ‘appear’ to be thug or not.  If they are robbing you, they are a thug (regardless of skin color).