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Defending Obama Deal, Schweitzer Won't Call Released Prisoners Terrorists
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 06/02/2014 6:04:50 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

You really have to watch Brian Schweitzer in action to get just how much of a blowhard he is. By the end of his appearance on today's Morning Joe, even Mika Brzezinski seemed mortified by the antics of her fellow Democrat. And Bill Kristol's expression of utter disdain for the former Montana governor was worth the price of admission alone.

In the course of his appearance, Schweitzer--defending President Obama's deal for the release of US soldier Bowe Bergdahl--declined to call the five senior Taliban members released either terrorists or war criminals. Even the Daily Beast, in the person of reporter Eli Lake, has called the five "some of the worst of the worst," and "considered [by the Pentagon] to be a high risk to launch attacks against the United States and its allies if they were liberated." When talk turned to domestic politics, Schweitzer dabbled in some anti-Ted Cruz birtherism, repeatedly alluding to the Texas senator's birth in Canada.

View Schweitzer's clown act on the video after the jump.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Montana; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bergdahl; bobbergdahl; bowebergdahl; brianbergdahl; brianschweitzer; gitmo; montana; morningjoe; taliban

1 posted on 06/02/2014 6:04:50 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Blowhard Brian Schweitzer won’t call released Taliban prisoners terrorists. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 06/02/2014 6:05:53 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He has admitted where his sympathies lie.


3 posted on 06/02/2014 6:24:00 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What a jackass!

It’s not often Mika looks embarrassed by a fellow Democrat.


4 posted on 06/02/2014 6:29:39 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Glad he’s no longer the Governor of Montana.

What a schmuck!


5 posted on 06/02/2014 6:37:08 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Old Brian is just a trained Democrat Chihuahua. He yaps on command from his Democrat owners in the hope that they’ll throw him a treat.

Yap, Brian, yap!


6 posted on 06/02/2014 6:52:50 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Just curious - was Schweitzer’s wife [born in Canada] the child of a parent who is a US citizen?

I think Ted Cruz’s father was a naturalized US citizen [or was it his mother who was a US citizen?]. At any rate one of Ted’s parents was a US citizen.

Is Brian Schweitzer saying these things because he intends to run for the presidential nomination of the Democrat party in 2016?


7 posted on 06/02/2014 7:07:00 AM PDT by Gumdrop (~)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Schweitzer Won’t Call Released Prisoners Terrorists”

To the Rat party the only terrorists are patriotic Americans who peacefully oppose OBozo. They see the poor Taliban captured as just innocent goat herders racially profiled by the evil American military.


8 posted on 06/02/2014 7:18:12 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Schweitzer looks like he’s getting ready for an open mike night at Butte comedy club..


9 posted on 06/02/2014 7:19:57 AM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: Gumdrop
Not to fire up the Vattel league, and this has nothing to do with the term natural born citizen.

There are two ways to be born a U.S. Citizen with no requirement to naturalize. The legal terms are Jus Sanguinis, by blood, and Jus Soli, by place. Sen Cruz is not a naturalized citizen because at the time of his birth the laws of this nation allowed his mother's citizenship and past residence status to qualify him. If one thinks Barak Obama was born outside the US, then one would have to establish his Mother's residency inside the country because she was so young when he was born.

The rest is up to debate, if you want to start citing 17th century Swiss bureaucrats.

10 posted on 06/02/2014 8:32:28 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I was just at the taping of Letterman. Tonight he calls them “Taliban soldiers”.


11 posted on 06/02/2014 4:45:15 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I think if the people of Toronto or Montreal (never can keep them straight) want to find their mayor, he lives in MT now.....

I would love the see the requirements on qualifying to become a member of the Democratic party!!

Watching The Five tonight, Dana brought up a topic that would be in the next segment that caught Bob by surprise and she was curious to see how he would respond to it and even he expressed no knowledge of what the subject was, he proceeded to defend it. It was astounding how they can bluff their way through - WITH fellow democrats but not with people who use their brain!


12 posted on 06/02/2014 6:05:56 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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