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!
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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.
Filed Under: Iraq, MSNBC, Middle East, Republican Hypocrisy, Republican Party, The House, Wingnuts
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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.
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.
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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!”