Can you imagine the cries of police state, racism, incipient fascism and fill-in-your-favorite-epithet if a conservative pundit—let alone a Republican president—proposed the massive insertion of US military forces into American inner cities for law enforcement purposes? But that’s precisely what Ed Schultz proposed on his MSNBC show this evening. Ed is apparently unaware that the use of the military for such law-enforcement purposes would raise serious issues under the Posse Comitatus Act. But beyond that, it would utterly distort the mission of our military, and provoke valid civil-liberty concerns. Schultz should try bouncing his brainstorm off the Joint Chiefs and see what kind of reception it receives. But hey, Ed announced on this evening’s show that he will be part of a Big Labor march on Washington in DC in October. Let that be a Dem pre-election theme: troops into Chicago! Here’s Ed at his detached-from-reality best . . . ED SCHULTZ: I woke up in Chicago, on my way to the Midwest, to a couple of truly disturbing headlines. In Chicago, in the Tribune, front page of the Tribune, here it is [holds up paper]: 4 Killed in Southwest Side Garage Shooting. And the Sun-Times: Put the Guns Down. This is what a gang leader says to his folks. More Americans were killed in Chicago last month than were killed in Iraq all year. Mr. President, I got a great idea as to where you can send those troops that you just brought home from Iraq. How about Chicago, Illinois and a bunch of other big cities in this country? It’s time we look out for our own backyard.
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Psycho: Schultz Wants Troops Withdrawn From Iraq Sent Into Chicago
Ve haf certain powers, Miz Maddow . . . In the midst of bashing Pres. Bush over Iraq this evening, Rachel Maddow’s mic went suddenly dead, forcing her MSNBC show to go to commercial. When she returned [and after paraphrasing a line from Macbeth], Maddow let it be known she was “such a conspiracy theorist” but didn’t dare tell the audience what she was thinking because “it would discredit me forever.” RACHEL MADDOW: Spreading peace and democracy. That was the third try at made-up reasons we invaded. How’s that worked out? It’s at that point that Maddow’s mic suddenly quit. For several moments, she can be seen speaking, with no sound at all. She begins to tap her mic, and a low-quality audio can be heard. MADDOW: Are we back? We’re not back? Well this is unusual. One, two, three, four, five. [Inaudible] conspiracy. The show had to admit temporary defeat, and cut to commercial. When it returned . . . MADDOW: Before I was so untimely ripped from the broadcast. It’s really weird: it’s not like I’m on a satellite feed or anything. I’m in my home studio, in New York. And what we lost was the hard-wired mic that pins me to the desk. It’s really weird: nothing like that’s ever happened before. I’m such a conspiracy theorist. I cannot tell you what I’m thinking right now: it would discredit me forever. But as I was saying before that thing happened . . . Rachel, we didn’t want to hit the red button, really. But on a night of national reconciliation, for you to have criticized Pres. Obama for saying a few kind words about Pres. Bush, then compounded things with your indictment of W’s war policy, well, our itchy finger just got the better of us 
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Mic Glitch Has Maddow Seeing Conspiracies
FORT BLISS, Texas | Speaking to troops Tuesday ahead of his evening address to the nation, President Obama said even though all combat troops are leaving Iraq, the U.S. mission there isn’t over, and he asked the country to unify behind his own troop-escalation in Afghanistan. Mr. Obama was at …
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Mission in Iraq is not yet over, Obama says
On Thursday, instead of showing the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, the network’s Washington DC affiliate, WUSA-TV, decided to continue with live storm coverage. The last time the CBS broadcast was preempted by local coverage occurred during the massive winter blizzards, which buried the region in a few feet of snow. The Evening News has consistently ranked third among the network evening newscasts during Couric’s tenure. During the week of August 2 , the Evening News was around 2 million viewers behind competitors ABC Worlds News with Diane Sawyer and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Couric is about to mark her 4th anniversary in the anchor chair. —Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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Rained Out: DC CBS Affiliate Preempts Evening News With Storm Coverage