For good measure, Schultz announced that he’s “wishing” Dick Cheney winds up in jail. 

Earlier in the show, Rhode Island Dem Senator Sheldon Whitehouse—the man who was elected because in some parallel universe Lincoln Chafee wasn’t liberal enough—claimed that Dick Cheney is sounding the alarm about the Obama admin’s weakness on terror because he’s trying to influence the future jury in his criminal trial.  Right.  Appearing later, The Nation’s Katrina Vanden Heuvel naturally thought that made perfect sense.

VANDEN HEUVEL: I was interested in what Sen. Whitehouse said earlier in the show, where he talked about Dick Cheney traveling the country on this torture tour. It’s almost like a defendant trying to work a jury.  I think Dick Cheney is concerned about prosecution.

A bit later, MSNBC’s Carlos Watson weighed in.

CARLOS WATSON: And that’s why I think [Cheney] could risk more serious scrutiny. I still don’t think he’ll end up in jail, but much more serious scrutiny.

ED SCHULTZ: Well, you never know: that’s what I’m wishing for! I don’t know about anybody else out there.

At the very end of the show, came this exchange between Michael Medved and Schultz.

MICHAEL MEDVED: I think what we have done, is we have given the enemy very specific information about harsh interrogation that did prove, according to most of the people who were directly involved, useful in guaranteeing our security.

SCHULTZ: But Michael, that is to try to gain the moral high ground and show the rest of the world that there is a better way and people can live side-by-side without butchering one another.

I don’t see how Schultz’s statement can be interpreted other than as accusing the Bush administration of “butchering” people.