MSNBC's Schultz and Guests Pine for Getting Limbaugh 'Off the Air'
On Monday's The Ed Show on MSNBC, host Ed Schultz and guests Terry O'Neil of the National Organization for Women and former Democratic congressional candidate Kristal Ball were unaccepting of Rush Limbaugh's apology for disparaging Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke, with Schultz suggesting that now is the best time to push Limbaugh off the air.
O'Neill claimed that there were "overtones of violence" to the conservative talk radio host's comments about Fluke. O'Neill:
Oh, absolutely he should be fired. ... Yeah, he should be fired. He shouldn't be on the air. ... When Rush Limbaugh decides to attack an individual woman in the incredibly aggressive way that he attacked her - and really also there were overtones of violence in this, in this ongoing three-day attack on Sandra Fluke. When he does that, he makes it impossible to have a serious conversation about these important issues. He should be off the air.
Moments later, Schultz seemed to cheer on the possibility of Limbaugh losing his talk show:
I have to say, I think his ratings are overstated, and I think you're going to see a lot about that in the industry coming up. I think this facade surrounding Rush that he is the big king and he is diminished dramatically. If there is a time to get him off the air, this is the push. I mean, if women in this country are serious about what they hear on the free airwaves of America, there's no better time.
Below is video of relevant portions of the Monday, March 5, The Ed Show on MSNBC:
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Righto there
Submitted by bobsmom on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 10:14am.
Ed, and your 2 androgynous bookends. Re the size of Rush's listening audience, and his ratings, let's give it 6 months and ask his former advertisers how's business. I think they'll have "misunderestimated" the stupidity of their complicity in the attempt to censor a conservative with a platform.
Well Ed...there you go again...
Submitted by txradioguy on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 10:16am.
ED SCHULTZ: And what do the Republicans thinking about? They're not thinking about their next-door neighbor. They're just thinking about how much this is going to cost. President Obama is going to be visiting Joplin, Mo., on Sunday but you know what they're talking about, like this right-wing slut, what's her name?, Laura Ingraham? Yeah, she's a talk slut. You see, she was, back in the day, praising President Reagan when he was drinking a beer overseas.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2011/05/25/msnbc-suspends-schul...
And yet there is no push to
Submitted by Bettendor on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 10:16am.
And yet there is no push to remove Mike Malloy from the air after the latest of even more disgusting comments (see the NB entry just below this one).
"You just don't get it." - Pa Grape
http://disciplebeacon.blogspot.com.
who listens to this fat fool?
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 10:20am.
Mr. Ed (the horse's @$$) is only jealous of how many listeners Rush has on any given day. No matter how he tries he will never come close. His mouth is much more vile then Rush's can ever be. To Mr. Ed (the horse's @$$) I say STFU. No one really cares what you say even when they listen to you. BTW, when are you going to be fired?
So the guy who called a woman
Submitted by NC Cop on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 10:27am.
So the guy who called a woman a slut and kept his job after an apology is demanding that a guy who called a woman a slut and apologized be fired immediately.
Only on the left does that make any kind of sense.
Again, I thank God that I never voted for a liberal or a democrat in my life.
He's all over the map as usual
Submitted by lesterwink23 on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 10:29am.
First of all, Rush isn't going anywhere. And even if that did happen, the idiots that occupy MSDNC's primetime lineup would be out of a job since roughly half of their programs are spent criticizing something he said. All of them, Sgt. Schultz and Prissy Matthews especially, are insanely jealous of his success and popularity and won't ever be able to get over it.
Secondly, which is it Schultz? One minute, Rush is the leader of the Republican Party (which we all know is complete nonsense) the next he's an overrated fool whose ratings are exaggerated.
No need to comment on the two cents chipped in by the hags at NOW; they exhausted their credibility and usefulness a long time ago
The worm can turn
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:14am.
Maybe Rush's 20 million listeners could call up MSNBC and demand the offensive Shultz be thrown out on his fat rear.
Overtones of
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:23am.
Overtones of violence????
Only in the fevered imagination of a liberal. Next they'll be calling it emotional "terrorism."
Liberals have abused and misappropriated the terms "violence" and "terrorism" so hysterically that they have made a mockery of the real things.
Yeah, I don't get that one either
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:44am.
And you're probably correct. After laying that marker down, it's an easy jump to calling Limbaugh a "domestic terrorist." No doubt it will be linked to racism before this is over. The Dems will find a black employee of a RCC hospital who has ten kids because her health plan doesn't pay for contraception.
I say let them rant. Liberals like Kirsten Powers are already distancing themselves from this theater of the inane. Most Americans will see this as absurdity.
Notice
Submitted by grammajane on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 12:00pm.
how fatso has to have 2 women with him to talk about Rush getting fired. He is trying to come across as being a good guy toward women when, he has said the same and worse then Rush, numerous times. Here in MN he is on the same time as Rush and has no listeners and that is why he wants Rush gone.
Dream on,
Submitted by nolefan2 on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 12:11pm.
Ed. I don't think Rush is going anywhere and even if he did..............do you you really think you would gain any listeners?????? A previous poster said you would have nothing to rant about and they are right. Without conservatives to bash, what on earth would you talk about? I can't imagine anyone listening to you because of your dynamic personality and charm. The fact is, you have the personality of a crocodile and no charm whatsoever. Watch out what you wish for.
My GOD
Submitted by chiefpayne on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 2:21pm.
the GALL of this man!
HE calls someone a slut and gets away with it...but when Rush hints that a woman could be a slut and apologizes for it JUST LIKE ED did, Ed says he should be off the air.
Why don't you look in the mirror for someone who should be off the air, ED
YOU HYPOCRITE!!!
ED SCHULTZ- HYPOCRIT!!
Submitted by Mrs. Vito on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 3:16pm.
The gall of this bloviating gas bag, and these equally idiotic women that appeared on his show. One of them was actually named 'Krystal Ball'!! What a misinformed bimbo she was. These people live in some weird parallel universe...
RALLY BEHIND RUSH!!!!!!
The stupidity
Submitted by Model850 on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 4:53pm.
Ed Schultz's boundless stupidity makes me call into question the judgment of the FAA and the DOT in issuing the idiot a certificate to operate an aircraft.
Having obtained one myself years ago makes me wonder if it is really that much of an accomplishment after all.
End This Conversation.
Submitted by giatn on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 5:19pm.
The right MUST stop letting Obama and his bots control the narrative.
This incident is not the national crisis the left is spinning and the right
must stop responding as if it has any merit. Ed Schultz joining the
uproar is truly outrageous, but who cares? He is always ridiculous.
Get back to high gas prices, continuing "green" scandals, Obama's
pretense of being pro-Israel, the enormous gap between Obama's
words and actions on most issues, the unconstitutional overreach
of unelected bureaucrats, Obama's love fest with Saul Alinsky, the
rise in health care costs, the lies about Obamacare, the backdoor
amnesty going on and the precipitous decline in deportations.
Please wake up and refuse to discuss Limbaugh again.