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MSNBC's Schultz Blames 'Special Interest Money' for Walker Victory

By Brad Wilmouth | June 05, 2012 | 23:52

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Shortly after MSNBC called Republican Governor Scott Walker as the winner of Tuesday's recall election shortly after 9:50 p.m. during the Rachel Maddow Show, a subdued Ed Schultz gave his initial reaction.

Conceding that the "disappointing" results signal that "it's going to be a tough one" for Democrats in November, he went on to blame Walker's fundraising advantage for the Republican victory. Schultz:

But this is also an opportunity for the Republicans to gain a great deal of confidence that, when they outfund the opponent, it can make a difference. We are looking at almost a $27 million advantage that Walker had over Tom Barrett, and this sets the template for the Republicans and certainly tells the right wing in this country that, if they can outfund their opponent, they've got a real good shot at winning.

He then contended:

Scott Walker could very well be indicted in the coming days, I mean, he is definitely a challenged candidate. And this state does not have a surplus, and they were able to get that message across to a lot of people to the point where you had national media figures who were saying that the state has a surplus, so a lot of fudging going on, so to speak. And it's really surprising. But when you've got the money, and you can buy the message, you can convince a lot of people that you're on the right side of the issues, so it's going to be really a fight for the Democrats here in November. No question about it.

Schultz had begun his analysis by holding out hope that it might still take the counting of absentee votes to decide the election:

Well, in many respects, it's to be expected considering how much money was thrown at this race. You know, MSNBC is calling it for Walker. I think it's awful close, and there's a lot of absentee ballots that are still out, and it's going to be very, very close, down to the wire.

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The MSM's loss of their monopoly...

Submitted by Guapo Diablo on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 11:58pm.

...it really makes Ed's butt hurt.

Good old ed.

Submitted by craig1304 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:30am.

I was waiting for Ed to have an attack of apoplexy on air when the results came in.

It's also too much trouble for him to mention all of the outside people not only at Barrett's headquarters but also at the state capitol when the bru-ha-ha started. The mean old republicans get all this outside money which according to the MSM is a no-no but it's ok for Democrats to bus in people to occupy the state capitol.

Gotta love the Dems

Submitted by LinTaylor on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 2:48am.

Can't win an election through thug tactics and throwing money at the problem (their favorite solutions!), so they try to find a back door, in this case talk of indictment against Walker for the "crime" of not knuckling under to union pressure.

And of course, because there's NO WAY any SANE person would vote for a Republican, there HAS to be something underhanded involved, like buying their way to victory.

The recall alone was a victory!!

Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 6:51am.

Twitchy has this tweet from AFL-CIO....

Win or lose, Scott Walker has joined ignominious company in suffering the humiliation of a recall election. 3rd ever. #wiunion

Spin, spin, spin!

Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:30am.

I notice the left is spinning this election in Wisconsin and saying Walker spent $34 million while Barrett only spent about $4 million.

Didn't Barrett actually spend about $60 million?

They are excluding all the union money, and some of the DNC money, spent on this election.

Conclusion? Walker bought this election, and Democracy has ended.

(Thanks to whoever posted that link earlier)

Americans keeping their own earnings is a Civil Right! Demand your Civil Rights!

And the free

Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:40am.

Positive press,

Seek Truth, Defend Liberty

Ed and MSNBC hitched their waggon

Submitted by c5then on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 8:07am.

To the Unions who hitched their waggon to defeating Walker.

They lost.

MSNBC spent many hours a day for months supporting the recall effort and giving free airtime to the Walker opposition in any form it took. I have no idea how many millions of dollars that has cost NBC and Comcast, but it is significant.

And with all that publicity and spending, it still amounted to nothing. I heard a blurb (i don't know where this morning) that Walker won the recall election by a bigger margin than he won the regular election two years ago. If that is true, that would be even MORE devestating to the democrats and unions than just the loss itself.

Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!