Shuster to Rep. Blackburn: <I>"When was the last time a New York Times ad ever killed somebody?"</i> UPDATED
By Logan Murphy Sunday Sep 23, 2007 7:31pm
Tucker substitute host David Shuster confronts Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) about the blatant hypocrisy of the Republican party when he asks about Rush Limbaugh's Senator Betrayus smear against Senator Chuck Hagel and all Blackburn wants to do is rehash tired slams against the New York Times over the MoveOn ad.
As Blackburn prattles on about the NYT betraying the public trust and making sweetheart deals, Shuster turns the tables on her and asks her to name the last soldier from her district who was killed in Iraq -- and what do you know? She had no idea what his name was, or even why she didn't know. Watch Blackburn stutter and get backed into a corner, with Shuster proving she cared more about making partisan hits than she did about the dead soldiers from her own district.
MSNBC, get that man his own show!
Download | play 
Download | play
Shuster: "Let's talk about the public trust. You represent, of course, a district in western Tennessee. What was the name of the last solider from your district who was killed in Iraq?"
Blackburn:"The name of the last soldier killed in Iraq uh - from my district I - I do not know his name -"
Shuster: "Ok, his name was Jeremy Bohannon, he was killed August the 9th, 2007. How come you didn't know the name?"
Blackburn: "I - I, you know, I - I do not know why I did not know the name..." [Snip]
Shuster: "But you weren't appreciative enough to know the name of this young man, he was 18 years old who was killed, and yet you can say chapter and verse about what's going on with the New York Times and Move On.org." [Snip]
Shuster: "But don't you understand, the problems that a lot of people would have, that you're so focused on an ad -- when was the last time a New York Times ad ever killed somebody? I mean, here we have a war that took the life of an 18 year old kid, Jeremy Bohannon from your district, and you didn't even know his name."
UPDATED: On Wednesday's "Tucker," David Shuster apologized for naming Jeremy Bohanan as the soldier from her district that was killed. He was actually from Bon Acqua, TN.
On Monday evening while guest-hosting the 6 p.m. evening hour, I conducted an interview with Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn. The congresswoman spoke at length about a newspaper ad that criticized General Petraeus. In what I believed was an effort to examine Representative Blackburn's priorities, I then asked her to name the last soldier from her congressional district killed in Iraq.
After that response, I identified who I believed to be that fallen soldier, a Tennessean killed in Iraq last month. But according to Pentagon documents, that young man came from a town inside a neighboring congressional district, not from Representative Blackburn's, and for that, I apologize for that mistake.
Login or Register to post comments.
Limbaugh's stupidity strikes again!
.....very sad and pathetic....but Shuster was awesome.......you really gotta love that!
D' OH, I should of known you would have this. Sorry, I linked it .....
She didn't even know his name? I bet if he contributed $5,000 to her campaign, she'd know his name....wait if he could afford to donate to her that would make him a republican chickenhawk and there's no way he'd enlist in the first place.
I'm starting to like this guy Shuster. This question should be continually asked to every member of congress. That way they would have to keep up with the names and families.
Wow. wOW, with an emphasis on ow, because that Repuke just got hurt.
I believe this is called:
PWNED.
That is a bit tough to know the kids name. Although she probably never cared to know his name. Maybe put her signature on a press leases when the news came out.
If he died the day of the ad that would be hardcore owning of her.
She's pissed. That was funny.
Marsha Blackburn, as I've written about other people of your republican party:
Go straight to hell.
"Everybody is concerned about the MoveOn ad." That's inaccurate, you filthy, lying, two-faced, hypocrite.
You use the young soldiers in Iraq for political opportunism. Are you also a chickenhawk? Did you serve in the military, or are you just another empty-headed talking head?
Good for David Shuster! I didn't know that we still had journalists who could ask hardball questions, and then ask them again when encountering only bullshit. I usually feel some empathy for the person put on the spot like, but not this babe!
Shuster p'wned her big time. Look how pissed she is at the end.
I'd still like Shuster or anyone interviewing any member of the whiner party to ask if they could stop crying for a moment and refute the content of Moveon's ad.
that's what you call a bitch slap........but she still snaked her way around it...
pwnage, agreed
Cythraul @ 7:
I Second that Pwnage.
Is there even one Republican who isn't an evil POS that couldn't care less about the American people? Why does anyone keep voting for these people? Is it simply because they've yet to feel directly the harm being done by these bastards?
Hey Blackburn!
I’m guessing there was a last minute renunciation of NYT's steadfast stand against all things familial, as the thoughts of missing out on all that birthday cake and chocolate ice cream too was the drool inducing straw that broke the camel’s back, sunny happy-face painted visions of party favors, bobbing for apples, and Chuckles the clown getting a might too familiar with your package. Face it Blackburn: You just couldn’t resist the lure of ingesting too many conservative hot dogs and the aural flatulance assault and obligatory vomiting of seemingly thousands of over-indulged red-state brats screaming Hosannas of glee as they hop like retard bats in one of those inflatable trampoline jump thingys. Yeah, you talk a mean game but underneath, you’re just a weak-kneed, pencil-dick "catcher" for discarded GOP dulled talking points, and that you never miss a chance for a little one-on-one with Chuckles, not to mention your unnatural fascination and troubling affability with the leather saddle horn on the pony ride. I heard Cheney saying the other day on Russert's wank-off that the old fishin' hole hasn't been the same since old you and Wade showed up. He was complaining how he developed this strange scent of latex in his nostrils, his breathing got labored, even after Tim unbuckled his tight pants, and I'm sure if asked, you'd claim you remembered little of what transpired. Wolf found you later that day face down in the salmon eggs. But I’m concerned about Wade, he seems to have turned over a new “leaf”, a peculiar nuance, if you will, that has rather disturbing undertones.
It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
The problem is, people who watch the show will still care more about the ad than the boy who died. It's just human nature. No one knew the boy. But everyone has a feeling about the ad.
GREAT AMBUSH! More, more, more.
C'mon, every good Republican knows that if you're not a billionaire, you're not worth mentioning. That kid did what people of his low station are born to do-- he protected her stock portfolio. Why would she bother learning the name of some dead peon when there are so many fake outrages to stir up... so much more money to steal?
With a rebel yell, WE CRY MORE MORE MORE
OOF
Thank God the present mutated Republicans were not in power on December 7, 1941.
This present crowd of the ignorant Bush and his handlers (think Cheney)
would have declared war on New Zealand and invaded New Zealand to take that country over and make it a base in order to move a step closer to Japan.
I've been watching "The War", on PBS. It sickens me to see how Republicans have ruined the country of my veteran father.
Shuster handled this interview well. He didn't attack her at all, was not rude, let her go on and on and on trying to use up time telling him how much e-mail contact she has with her constituent base in Iraq. Her hypocrisy and misplaced priorities came across loud and clear.
The sad thing is that if Shuster continues questioning guests like that, pretty soon he won't have any guests anymore. These people are media savvy and they're not going to put themselves in front of a host who's not willing to play by "the rules".
Totally pwned . . . Shuster FTW!
Wow, he went right for the jugular! I'm starting to like this Shuster kid more and more.
Yeow - I could see her wheels turning like sticking Shuster's wang into a gas fired oven get it red hot and then slam it with a hammer on an anvil
Strawberry @ 4:
Dang that's straight up righteous!
And yeah, I'll bet from today on every GOP congressman keeps the name of the last dead soldier from his district on a post-it note in his pocket. Just to make sure.
When is Tucker, I Love My Swanson Dinner, Carlson's contract up?
her expression at the end there -- i swear it's like she's got "jack-ass" embossed temple to temple across her forehead. hilarious.
Blackburn twisted herself into knots trying to rationalize why she did not know the name of that very young soldier who died in Iraq. She said that her staff is in touch with the military families on a daily basis. No doubt to try and somehow reassure those families that their loved ones died for some ambiguous noble cause instead of a lost cause. One wonders if her crack political team reached out to Gold Star families or Military Families Speak Out. I wouldn't bet the farm on that happening.
[...] Shuster to Rep. Blackburn: “When was the last time a New York Times ad ever killed somebody?” [...]
This David Shuster is getting better by the second. He puts Tucker Ann to shame.
I really don't mean this in a negative way....Tucker, besides being a right winger is just clueless. You can tell he is just phoning it in waiting for another non news sort of gig.
Jack Jett
President
David Shuster Fan Club
[...] See why at Crooks and Liars. Spotlight [...]
AbbeyHoffmansGhost @ 356:
That was crabs.
mongo @ 334:
If that were the case Marsha Blackburn would've been on her knees.
Jeanette @ 352:
Why are you allowing General Betrayus to smear the military? He is nothing more than a Bush tool like Colin Powell. They both wear a military uniform, but when it comes to dignity and credibility they have none. Why would you want the military associated with liars such as Colin Powell and General Betrayus. Is that what you want the military to represent? Isn't it your obligation to discourage liars from the military ranks? Why are you defending liars, especially when they are using the military as a means to hopefully disguise themselves as upstanding citizens. Powell and Betrays are nothing more than criminals and why you want them associated with the military is beyond reason.
Oh fuck, that was atrocious. Shuster is a liberal version of Hannity, LMAO.
Reply to: sr Says
Ian..if you do some research on Schuster you'll discover he wasn't enamored with Fox. Here's just one quote from an interview with him: http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2005/10/02/column.1002-SH-A3_CM...
sr
I actually DO remember those quotes now, I stand corrected. Thanks for making me aware :)
[...] Watch Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) recite her talking points on MoveOn/NYT/General Petraeus flawlessly… [...]
It is ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL that Rep. Marsha Blackburn (Republican Sock Puppet-TN) does not know the names of fallen Soldiers from her district. "We keep in touch with the families" .. Riiiiight! What she means is that she delegates this unimportant task to interns. No doubt she will kick some poor intern's ass for not providing her the name of the Soldier who was inconsiderate enough to die just before she had an interview with the AWESOME David Shuster.
bilhelm-X @ 322:
Correction: She is not a Senator but a Representative and still needs to be defeated in 2008.
The "Tucker" show is good when Carlson calls out sick.
[...] He completely smacks down a neo-con right here Shuster to Rep. Blackburn: “When was the last time a New York Times ad ever killed somebody?” [...]
notmoppingtoday @ 49:
I second this! Well said!
[...] you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Watch Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) recite her talking points on MoveOn/NYT/General [...]
[...] pass up, but I had trouble finding it on the Internet. I should have known just to go straight to Crooks and Liars. Tucker Carlson’s substitute host David Shuster interviews Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). She [...]
I think it is slightly ridiculous to expect someone to know the name of every soldier that falls in the war. Not to say that each and every life lost is a tragedy, because it is. Any life lost is a tragedy.
I would hedge a bet that most people on this blog do not know the most recent death in their hometown, let alone an entire district.
I do not agree with what most of the politicians are doing, I love this country too much for that, but I will not be hypocritical either.
Ken @ 321:
I understand the importance of pointing out the holes in these fool's ideologies, but I would prefer to do it in a manner that doesn't give them a stone to step on. Allowing the opposition and more importantly the non-politically motivated to dismiss these valid points based on the approach is the problem. The repubs are framing the MoveOn ad in this way because it's easy to sell the event as a "reach" because of the public (or the preceived public) preception of generals is apparently favorable (last few polls I've seen). Also the timing of the ad (which I know they can't really control unless they pay more the ad) was before he spoke. Sometimes the message is lost on people who don't understand or appreciate the delivery.
Like it or not, the people of this country are not all outraged (as they should be) and if we want the support of these less initiated, then we have to deliver the message better and with more integrity than our rivals.
It's the same reason that the show Crossfire didn't help anything. The "progressive" voices on that show were so funamentally unlikeable that it was tough to watch even if you did agree with them. Just think of the people on the fence and the people we need to reach to defeat any right-wing deathist next November. Thant's all I'm saying.
Excellent.
yes, senators should know who was killed from their district. they certainly haven't sent their sons and daughters there. so they better know who it is that is over there fighting for them.
I wonder if Shuster had read this prior to his interview:
"Two days ago the Senate had a chance to help get more of our soldiers home for longer periods of time -- but the measure failed. Yesterday they had a chance to set a timeline to start withdrawing troops -- but that failed too. And today, another measure that would've required a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq failed. Three chances to make a difference, lost. But instead of continuing to push on the most important issue facing our country right now, yesterday Congress spent their time debating and condemning a newspaper ad by an anti-war group.
Let's get some perspective here -- ads don't kill people -- wars kill people. And it is long past time to end this war."
Bill Richardson on Sept. 21, 2007 on Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gov-bill-richardson/ads-dont-kill-people-w...
That's Shuster: one of the few. The proud. The REAL journalists.
I couldn't agree more with Logan Murphy: get Shuster his own show!
[...] Shuster to Rep. Blackburn: “When was the last time a New York Times ad ever killed somebody?” By Logan Murphy of Crooks and Liars [...]
What a stupid twat.
[...] See the full thing here, on CrooksAndLiars.com [...]
[...] a little problem with Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-TN) MoveOn obsession (partial transcript via Crooks & Liars): Shuster: “Let’s talk about the public trust. You represent, of course, a district in western [...]
I like Shuster in this clip. I can't imagine anybody connected to Tucker Carlson being worth anything, but Shuster just made me cheer. We all need to be asking every senator and congressperson the same question Shuster nailed her with. (It should have been a no-brainer for her; jeesh, how politically shrewd do you need to be know the name of the last kid killed in your district?)
Her response shows no humanity. If I'd been caught in her spot, I'd have been floored and I would've shown it. I would have apologized to the dead soldier and his family, and I would have taken everything Shuster said to me without trying to defend it with that "we work closely with those families" crap. She didn't even have the decency to ACT ashamed.
And we let these people remain in office...
The stupid people in my district re-elected this disgusting woman in the last election. What an embarrassment! I have no representation in Congress. She spends all her time brown-nosing George Bush and doesn't give a darn what her constituents think or how many of them they kill in Iraq. When Dubya says jump, all she wants to know is how high.
[...] anyway, I think that David Shuster sums everything up very nicely when talking with Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). Shuster: “But don’t [...]
How many of you would know the names of the soldiers in your cities who have died in Iraq - without googling them? She was blindsided.
I'll grant you, she didn't have the interviewing skills to deflect the heat, but I don't fault her for not knowing that blessed kid's name.
Too bad I can't watch MSNBC in my area.
Comcrap decided to pull MSNBC off due to the analog channel crap. Why couldn't they pull FOX propaganda channel off instead?
Second, Shuster got his facts wrong. Members of Congress are notified about soldiers from their districts who died. But Jeremy Bohannon was not from Marsha Blackburn's district. He was from Congressman Tanner's district.
I just heard Shuster on the Ed Schultz show. A caller said it wasn’t fair to expect her to recall the name of the young man from her district. Shuster countered that he had also asked her if she even knew the number of people she had lost from her district. (He must have asked her off the air...)
He said she didn’t know.
Now you can argue about whether she should have known the name. But for a United States Representative not to know the NUMBER of people from your district to be killed in the war you’re voting for????????
Appalling.
You can't spell Republican without L-I-A-R.
Paul @ 387:
Jeremy Bohannon might not have been from her district but had she actually known the name of the last soldier in her district to pass away, she could easily have corrected him then and there. She didn't know and didn't care about anything but going on tv to express her fake outrage about the Moveon ad.
[...] is a short list of liberal bloggers who smeared Rep. Blackburn: Crooks & Liars, Oliver Willis, Fire Dog Lake. I hope they correct their mistake and apologize. Don’t hold [...]
Hey Neal we covered that now you can go find some traffic to play in dipshit.
Hey nonbeliever,
Now that you've covered my post up as well and Shuschter or whatever his name is has apologized you can all take back the 366 insults you threw out at the congresswoman. I'll bet that none of you will ever admit how embarrassed you actually were when you found out the soldier was not from her District. You wasted 2 days of your sorry life posting insults, you will never get that part of your life back and I think its a great thing to watch.
I'm out and I hope you post a response! I will check back in a few days to see if you've crawled out of your hole.
Neal.
Clowns,
Why did Shuster know the answer? (Granted, it was the WRONG answer, we know now, but still): because he had some staffer look it up for him, for the sole purpose of exploiting this soldier's death to pull a gotcha on this woman. This happens every time you libs pretend as though you give a damn about our fighting men and women--you end up betraying yourselves and looking like jerks. Don't believe me? Here's the response Shuster sent to the guy who tipped him off that he had his facts wrong:
The story was about blackburn's hypocrisy... it wouldn't matter whether the soldier's name was David shuster or Crazy Water. she didn't know the name, period.
Regards,
D
Read that and tell me Shuster gives a damn about the actual soldier beyond pimping him to get his own show. And the ultimate best is that you clowns are fellating yourselves over this guy Shuster, when if he still worked for Fox you'd be falling all over yourselves to call him Hitler or whatever. Losers.
I see the fascist tools are coming out of the woodwork now to defend Blackburn. Neal, I didn't cover up your post moron. No one "wastes" 2 days on any thread. Once again, had Blackburn been really acquainted with the families of fallen soldiers in her district, then she could've straightened Shuster out then and there. If you think the people posting insults in this thread wasted their time then aren't you doing the same by watching this thread genius?
i wonder what blackbum said to shuster afterwards? i bet she threatened his career and/or life.
just wait until the liberal media actually does become the liberal media.....can't wait to hear the repuglicans cry for 8-12 years.
I wish I had seen this! I haven't watched Tucker in ages, because I can't stand him.
Don't watch much of Timmah, either.
GO SCHUSTER!
Had that been Chris Mathews, he'd be still googly-eyed over her...Not my boy Shuster. That chick could be naked and he'd prove..."you're here to answer questions".
Very well prepared and calculated but that's the way it should be. Catch these pricks lying.
Sadly, he'll be hard pressed to get another Republican on again.
I agree, she was taken to task and lost big time, what a bi***. Deservedly. Another crappy Republican spewing crap and not answering the damn questions. Will it ever end???? You nice Americans are in big trouble.
I am reminded by this segment of the interview by Steven Colbert of Georgia Congressman Lynn Westmoreland (R) when Westmoreland says there should be the Ten Commandments in public buildings then Colbert asks him what are the Ten Commandments and the idiot can't say. That is par for the course for Republicans, they don't give a damn about the crap they put forward as they know it's all just smoke and mirrors to keep the public distracted. If the media was truly liberal, every day there'd be another idiot in office being exposed for the idiot they are.
Where was the Republican outrage over the favored rate that was offered by the Sinclair Broadcasting group for that propaganda film slamming John Kerry in the lead up to the 2004 election? Can't get a more favored rate than free.
Does this whole NY Times incident and how it is being pumped remind you of the Dan Rather GWB-Story?
Kudos to Schuster.
Ads and blow jobs appear to be the biggest evils in the GOP's puny little minds!
beautiful. everytime she said "I'm in close contact with ..." he should have said "but not close enough to know his name.... ineresting!"
Shuster was good in this interview, but the earlier segment on the Ahmadinejad speech was atrocious. For the most part it was all the Cheney wing of Bush Administration talking points just like the latest 60 Minutes interview. No real discussion of what Ahmadinejad really said.
I'll bet she didn't know Carlson wouldn't be there....surprise!
On topic: he should have a battery of questions:
How many people in your district have medical insurance?
How many children in your district will be affected if S-Chip is not renewed?
How have income levels in your district tracked national averages over the last 6 years?
etc.
Ask all the pertinent local questions and see if they know anything but Rovian talking points.
And as for you Cyclone, you seem to think the focus should be on Shuster but he's not a public servant is he? You right wing idiots never cease to amaze me. Get back to me when Blackburn DOES care enough about the fallen soldiers in her district to know one of their names and cares less about some stupid ad.
Cyclone perhaps he should have asked her what she says to the widows and surviving children of those soldiers who died thinking there really were WMDs in Iraq as Bush brain said. Perhaps he should have asked her what happens if the Shiites we support link up with their fellow Shiites in Iran. What then? What will this "noble war" have accomplished?
You bastards dont give a damn about anything except making excuses for the lies and war of G W Bush. If any Democrat had done the exact same thing you would be demanding his impeachment and even imprisonment.
You're nothing I haven't seen before. Thugs with flags and crosses!
Hey rightwing bottom feeders. Hey over here...
But Shuster's apology may have been premature. The tiny hamlet of Bon Aqua, Tenn., is where Bohannon lived in the months immediately prior to entering the Army. The Census Bureau places his home in Blackburn's 7th Congressional District.
He lived in Bon Aqua for "close to a year" immediately prior to entering the Army, said Tonya Taylor, 35, who permitted him to stay at her house while Bohannon was dating her daughter.
Bohannon grew up, was home-schooled and was buried in McEwan, which is clearly in the 8th Congressional District of U.S. Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn. But his last legal address was in Blackburn's district.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/sep/28/e28gotcha/
As it turns out, Bohannon's home of record was in Blackburn's district. Shuster had it right.
Now you can all take your fake outrage over Shuster getting the name wrong and shove it bastards.
Well said VietnamEraVet!!
[Deleted. Flamebait, lies-Sitemonitor]
[...] Does the human brain not function anymore? (Rep.) Blackburn had been invited onto “Tucker” ostensibly to discuss MoveOn.org’s “General Betray Us” ad. But Shuster, serving as substitute host for Carlson, suddenly sandbagged Blackburn with this “gotcha” question. [...]
No Poppy, you and the rest of your right wing ilk continue to be stuck on stupid. Blackburn was so well versed on the NY Times ad bullshit but couldn't name one soldier when asked because surprise, surprise she doesn't care. She had her talking points that she wanted to get out about MoveOn and that's that.
Shuster was right. The mouthbreathing morons that came on thinking Shuster was wrong are themselves proven wrong. You guys are batting .000 when it comes to being right on any issue.
Another thing, Kerry never called any troop stupid. If you think Kerry, a Vietnam veteran himself would call troops stupid, you're every bit the halfwit I take you for.
Come on and reply and tell me why Shuster was wrong even when he was right. You 30%'ers are good at circular logic.
[Deleted. Flamebait and bs-Sitemonitor]
[Deleted. Flamebait and bs-Sitemonitor]