MSNBC's Schultz Lectures Union Members Who Voted for Scott Walker
On Wednesday's The Ed Show, MSNBC host Ed Schultz took a condescending tone toward labor union members who voted for Governor Scott Walker in Tuesday's recall election in Wisconsin as he recounted NBC News exit poll numbers showing that a significant chunk of union voters supported the Wisconsin Republican.
A baffled Schultz relayed the numbers and recounted the decision of some union members to vote for Walker, using a mocking tone of voice:
Despite Walker ending collective bargaining for public employees, 27 percent of union members voted for this guy? Twenty-seven percent of union members said, "Hey, he's our guy. He's taken our voice away in the workplace, but he's our guy." Amazing.
He continued:
And 38 percent of union households voted for Scott Walker. That's even more amazing. I tell you, I don't understand it. I don't get it. This guy has gone after your wages, he has gone after your pension, he wants to limit your voice in the workplace. And union families in Wisconsin, you voted for him?
The MSNBC host then demanded that "you got to explain to the country and to your union why the hell you did that." Schultz:
If this is a smack-up time, so be it. You got to explain to the country and to your union why the hell you did that. This guy is after - he thinks you're the problem. He thinks that the budget is out of whack and you're the problem, and we're going to give tax breaks to corporations, and we're going to give tax breaks to the wealthiest Wisconsinites.
Schultz ended up invoking President Obama's assertion from the 2008 campaign that people in rural areas vote for Republicans because of a tendency to "cling" to guns and religion, and suggested that Obama was correct in his diagnosis of what he viewed as a problem that some union members vote for Republicans instead of sticking with the union line. Schultz:
There's some disconnect here that I think union membership in this country has to get at the war table and figure out what's the problem. What a minute. Wait a second. That's right. President Obama brought this up years ago on the campaign trail when he said folks in rural areas cling to their guns and their religion. And he was criticized for it. Example A right there.
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Yeah, that'll change their minds
Submitted by JeffC... on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 9:50pm.
Fat Ed gets on a TV network that no one watches and insults those Wisconsin Republicans who are forced to be in unions that send they money taken from them to their political opponents.
That'll scare them into voting for Obama in November. /sarc (as if it weren't obvious)
Does he really think union
Submitted by kg on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 9:55pm.
Does he really think union members that voted for Walker would even consider watching his show?
"DumbAssity of Dope"
There are probably very few
Submitted by blazermaniac on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:46pm.
There are probably very few Union Members that watch Special Ed. What a poor excuse for a man Schultz is.
This is getting pretty fruitless
Submitted by needle on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:00pm.
Statistically there is actually a chance that among Ed’s small audience there are a few Wisconsin union folk who actually watched Ed rant. Of course, most of those five or six people are union officials in a fetal position and sucking their thumb just now.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
I wish it were true nobody
Submitted by robjh22 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:31pm.
I wish it were true nobody watches, but his numbers are not that bad.
One reason the numbers aren't better is that he's always fussing at somebody, the viewers, Republicans, the corporations, the voters, now the union members. You switch over to O'Reilly and everybody has a good time while covering the same story, and he always ends on a high and happy note. It's like a party goin on over there.
You switch back to Ed and he ends like this: "I just got one more thing to say and everybody better listen to me, and it is that this Republican-corporate-Koch-Walker conspiracy is threatening to end the world !!!"
Who wants to listen to the gripy old bitter grouch? Worse than Olber -- no, I won't go that far!
Follow the money!
Submitted by ArcherB on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 9:23am.
Democrats have put laws in place that takes tax payer money and uses it to fund their campaigns. Just follow the money!
Tax Payers' Money -> Government -> Public Employees -> Public Employee Unions -> Democratic Party.
All of this money is forced by the way, with the exception of that last step. Tax payers must pay taxes, by law. Governments must pay public employees. Public employees, in many instances, MUST belong to the union and pay union dues.
Now eliminate all the middle men. What's left?
Tax Payers' Money -> Democratic Party
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Ascribe it to diversity
Submitted by needle on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 9:51pm.
You know, Ed, some people just don't see the world the way you do.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
oh yeah?
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:08pm.
I'm rural.
I'm union.
I'm voting for Romney.
And
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:02pm.
I go to church and carry a gun........
oh my
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:11pm.
That's a rough congregation you have there. And I just thought our occasional fistfights were bad.
lol Best to not take a knife to that church....
Submitted by Tim_CA on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:00am.
(And don't get too grabby with the collection plate).
oh my
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:39am.
The gun stays in the car, during the service
before I was disabled
Submitted by Mark81150 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 2:03am.
I was in a national union and always voted republican.. Many do, because we do not drink from the poisoned well of liberal indoctrination and can think on our own thank you.
What Ed the halfwit is saying is, out yourself so we can retaliate and make a bloody beaten example of you. Not every union R voter can risk that. The Teamsters and UAW are well known for their "enforcers". I was in the UFCW and didn't give a damn that the shop steward hated me. I refused to sign the card, giving the union a blank check to spend my dues on democrat politicians.. and the union demanded 100% compliance and made life Hell for the stewards who didn't control their people.
In the end the union took their pound of flesh from me.. but it was with an upraised middle finger I left their ranks. I have no regrets.. my family is doing OK now.. and that union is still shrinking.. so they can go to Hell on the freight elevator.
Mark, your story illustrates
Submitted by celator on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 9:31am.
Mark, your story illustrates the case in every non-right to work state. In these states, where you must join a union to work, an employee has two bosses: the union and the company. If employees show more dedication to the company, take the company's position in a situation, your name is mud, and your story shows that in a personal way. The unions want the union dues money and the heart and soul of union members, making union members feel like they were working in a union-based prison camp.
Insulting Union people.
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:22pm.
Ed's taking a big chance insulting union members, while performing in front of union stage hands! They don't like it when management insults their union brothers, even if their bothers are members of a different union.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
yup
Submitted by bannie52 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:56pm.
But will the condescending fat-head see outside of his narrow field of vision? nah...
He's not taking much of a chance Cobra
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:02pm.
He supports (and gets paid by) union thug bosses. Neither he nor they really give a rat's a$$ about the workers. Their concern is 1. how to keep their jobs, 2. how to further line their pockets, and 3. how to increase their power over both the union and their bought-and-paid-for politicians. It really is that simple. None of this has anything to do with philosophy or politics. It's greed, plain and simple. Power and money. Unions (with the help of their pet politicians) force their members to pay dues that the bosses spend any way they like. The unions, in turn, help elect/re-elect pet politicians. Politicians enact laws and regulations they and the unions benefit from.
Look what happened when Walker, as one of his first acts, eliminated to mandated forced payment of union dues. The union lost over half of it's members (and the commensurate amount of dues). They both (bosses and politicians) are feeling their mortality as they see their jobs and power evaporate. They are just about into full panic-mode.
And as a BTW: Hey Special Ed, if you happen to read this, the voters don't have to explain themselves to the nation, the union, and most especially, to YOU. You are an ignorant, loud-mouthed, hypocritical, ill-informed, vile, hateful, pitiful excuse for a human being. You are one of the few "people" on Earth I would'nt mind hearing has expired. You are not deserving of the space you take up nor the air you breathe. You waste gravity and fill vacuous minds with your idiotic rhetoric. Do the world a favor and just fade away.
I remember..
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:38pm.
I have over thirty years of union dues paying... because I had to. Just did my job and didn't complain. I often had a reputation for not being pro-union first. One day a die-hard union guy said to me, "If we didn't have a union you wouldn't have a job". "No" I says, "You wouldn't have a job but I would".
MidAmerica
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:00pm.
I applaud you!!
UAW
Submitted by mikebromo on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 11:55am.
In 1971 President Nixon made an Executive Order that Vietnam Veterans were the first to be hired so I went to Ford to get a job. I was a liberal back then and went to union meetings. Got tired of all the hate talk and sloth of some of the workers who were the most active in the union. Started voting Republican in 1980, when fellow UAW members ask me why I vote the way I do I say I vote for the the best candidate for the job, not for me.
Wonder
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:59pm.
how obama feels about the most repulsive. ugly and hateful person on this planet, quoting him? Bet old fatso is getting a lot of "heat" from his thug union members seeing that Walker won. Maybe all of Fatso's yelling and BS turned many members off and didn't want any part of this lower then lower piece of human debre.
Gotta love the line;
Submitted by olddog3006 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:10pm.
"tax breaks for the wealthiest Wisconsions"? They just can't help it!
Good Grief
Submitted by porgiefirefighter on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:14pm.
What a condescending jerk. He insults "rural" (you know, those stupid cheesehead) union members who are so backward they cling to their guns and religion. They are obviously not smart enough to think for themselves. They need the help of Ed and union leaders to run their lives. Uh oh, I just spilled some gun oil on my Bible.
Hey! Union members! With friends like Ed . . .
Ed Schultz
Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:16pm.
Geez.....Am I the only one on this site that thinks Ed Schultz sounds like "Tommy Boy" on his first sales pitch in this clip?
They Must be Reeducated!
Submitted by crimsonspark on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:21pm.
Yes, how dare people think for themselves and not toe the liberal line. It really got me when he said that those who voted for Walker would have to explain why they did it. Earth to Fat Head Ed-they don't have to explain squat to anyone! They're free to vote however they see fit, and believe me Ed, they're a lot smarter than you are and can see the writing on the wall. You may want to live in a craphole of a state and see it go bankrupt, but the good people of Wisconsin sure don't.
Special ed lives in a state
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:33pm.
Special ed lives in a state of terror, everytime he looks over his shoulder, the two ghostly spectors of current TV and obscure satellite radio appear closer, mocking him and taunting him," ed Al is waiting, Al is waiting".
<10% voted for their unions
Submitted by HelloDare on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:44pm.
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) indicates that less than 10% of currently unionized employees voted for the union in their workplace.
http://www.unionfacts.com/article/employee-rights/union-recertification/
Unbelievable.
Submitted by NeoKong on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:46pm.
He is actually on camera scolding people for how they voted.
A cable news network is actually admonishing people for not voting correctly.
What a disgrace.
MSNBC should have their license pulled for this.
Unions paid Schultz $200,000 in 2011
Submitted by HelloDare on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:49pm.
Ed Schultz Paid Nearly $200,000 By Unions in 2011, According to Labor Dept.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2012/03/09/ed-schultz-paid-nea...
Guns and Religion
Submitted by bannie52 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:54pm.
We wouldn't have to "cling" so tightly to the guns if the likes of you were not so dangerous to our Nation. As for the religion...get used to it!
Man the Harpoons!
Submitted by Tim_CA on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:55pm.
Does the great white whale not realize that "Republicans" are union members too?
The world Schultz advocates
Submitted by Semus on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:04am.
The world Schultz advocates is a world of lawless thugs and bullies, whether they're union members or not. In Wisconsin it was unions members acting like thugs and bullies when their sweet gig was threatened with reality. I saw examples on film, police looking the other way as people were asaulted and at least one case where the culprits were assisted in their getting away by the very policeman who was asked to help by the victims friends. If people don't want to believe this happened it did it was on film, and it isn't as though I wanted to see it. What happenedin Wisconsin this past year was disgusting and scary, a taste of the break down of society supported by people who're suppose to protect it. I think this is what was voted down by the majority in Wisconsin and I glad that a lot of union members saw this also.
There is a frightening lack of respect for the law is happening, Wisconsin is one example the contrived Occupy movement, politicians ignoring the rule of law or above the law are other examples. If this is continues society will be gone and it won't take long.
It goes to show how even in a
Submitted by trickle_down on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:31am.
It goes to show how even in a blue state a large percentage of union workers are busting their humps every day only to have part of their own paychecks working against them in the form of union dues. That bullcorn has to stop. Especially when those dues goes to a left wing cause that isn't even in the same state.
They don't get it
Submitted by Rasmus on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 2:10am.
Democrats and Ed Schultz keep missing one important point - union members are taxpayers also. Not all of them blindly follow the union bosses' orders on who to vote for, what to think, who to bully, etc. Many of them understand basic economics, and they know that the nanny state is not sustainable. At some point, no one is actually earning, the "rich" who are truly rich have left the state or country, and everyone who's left (including the taxpaying union members) is suffering. Economics 101, a course that should be mandatory for everyone prior to graduating high school, and which poor old Ed needs to take on a semi-annual basis as a refresher.
Spot on
Submitted by oldfart on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 5:32am.
The people of Wisconsin have figure out that Margaret was spot on the target.
Margaret Thatcher, in a television interview for Thames TV This Week on February 5, 1976. Prime Minister Thatcher said, "...and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They [socialists] always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them."
It has been popularly paraphrased in various forms:
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money [to spend]."
"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
"Eventually, socialists run out of other peoples' money [to spend]."
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_said_socialism_works_until_you_run_out_of_other_people's_money#ixzz1x69PvcyW
Ed Schultz
Submitted by oldfart on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 5:24am.
is a whore. This is a quote from Wikipedia: "In the late 1990s, Schultz claims a series of events changed his political views from the far right to left of center. One event was his mother's battle with Alzheimer's Disease, which began a long, slow decline of her mental health. Schultz found it frustrating trying to get her the services that she needed using government funds and/or without contributing to the medical care with his wealth".
Excuse me you self centered bafoon - you were upset that you had to spend some of your money to care for your mother?
I have no respect for Mr. Ed (a horse's ass) that since he had the economic means to do so - was upset he had to spend some of his wealth to care for the person that gave him life.
He objected to paying part of his own MOM's care?
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:33pm.
That certainly says a lot about him. Like his concerns are himself, himself and did I mention himself. Quite an emotional disconnect the overly obsessed ideologue has, and his fixation that union members must vote as ordered is right from the Democrat playbook introductory section on "managing groupthink".
My family paid for my mom's care in a nursing home long after she had exhausted her benefits because she would have wheeled herself out the door before she would have accepted Medicaid assistance. To her, and to those of us in her family, it was a betrayal to those who really needed it. That Ed was unwilling to pay for his own mother's medical care puts him one cut below sociopath.
Come on, "Special Ed" is
Submitted by John21 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 7:43am.
Come on, "Special Ed" is fighting for his big paycheck for this year. He is a bought and paid for shill for the union thugs. He provide the approprate cover, distraction and propaganda exercises for his money.
Of course, he would be upset that some of the union members didn't follow the political chosen road, they may decide someday to cast off the corruption and thugs and he would loss a big hunk of his bank account. Lets face facts without the MSNBC gig and the union money is pretty much unemployable.
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“Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” George Washington
In the tiny mass of primitive cells that is Schultz's brain,
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:23am.
every single person who is 'middle class' is also a union member.
And this moron is actually allowed to fly a plane. Scary.
Moron pilot
Submitted by Rukus on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 4:30pm.
"And this moron is actually allowed to fly a plane. Scary."
I'm sure it scares the hell out of the plane too!
Why would union members vote for Walker?
Submitted by Servo1969 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:29am.
It doesn't make sense, huh Ed?
Logically shouldn't they vote for themselves first and to hell with everyone else?
Why would union members vote for Walker?
Because they were thinking long term?
Because they're worried about their children's futures?
Because they realize the gravy train can't run forever?
Because they secretly desipise their union?
Because what's right isn't the same as what's easy?
Because there's a difference between selfishness and self-interest?
I'm a union member and a conservative voter.
Some things are more important than my own comfort.
Americans
Submitted by Joe W. on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:48am.
You see, Sgt. Schultz, SOME union members also happen to be great Americans who believe in self reliance and doing what is best for their community. Even though it may cost them some union perks and bennies. Unlike YOU, Fat Ed, many, many Americans feel this way. We are not greedy bastards like you and the henchmen that run the unions. May God Bless the voters of Wisconsin...union and otherwise, for sticking it to the boss man.
Union Bosses have their members best interest???? NOT!
Submitted by dscott on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 9:16am.
If that were true then why does Trumka support Obama's war on unions?
Obama's policies have directly hurt union membership via his anti-coal campaign. Why should any UMW member vote Democrat Mr. Trumka? Tell us Mr. Trumka are government issued food stamps a reasonable substitution for a job? IF not then you should have been roasting Obama for the past 3 1/2 years over his causing UMW union brothers to become unemployed by discriminating against their livelihood while lining the pockets of Obama's rich fat cat campaign contributors such as Solyndra.
Why Mr. Trumka should Local 99 and Oilfields Workers' Trade Union members vote for Obama when he cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline, cause coal fired electrical generation stations to shutdown and actively opposes all drilling for oil and natural gas even on private lands by making false accusations against fracking? All these jobs are being lost for the Green Agenda, and what jobs are union members getting in the green industry - bupkus.
Once again Ed Schultz demonstrates he knows nothing other than being a drone blindly following his leaders and he is surprised that union brothers are not blindly doing the same when their leadership refuses to listen to them. Trumka's loyalty is not to the union bother and sister, it's to the Democrat Party.
I guess...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 9:46am.
in Ed's world, or should I say, in Ed's 'collective' world, the union members, whether forced or not, should vote collectively like some kind of ant farm. Now, they should ask Rev. Wright about their collective salvation.
Hey ED
Submitted by chiefpayne on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 10:04am.
NO ONE has to explain a DARN thing to ANYONE why they voted the way they voted!
They chose Walker...and not even a Union THUG like YOU has the right to force them to either admit they did...or to explain WHY they did.
Brown shirts
Submitted by nogard on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 10:17am.
This POS almost sounds like he is agitating for the brown shirt union thugs to identify and "visit" the members who can be found to have voted for Walker. He has been told now that he would be an "effective" union leader. This all sounds eerily similar to the Gestapo, and I do believe he would love that job and "enforcing" "De Furor's" O's edicts.