Ed Schultz: 'Pretty Boy' Rubio Will Be 'Ugly' to Senior Citizens
On Thursday's The Ed Show, Ed Schultz warned all the senior citizens in his audience to not be charmed by Republican Senator Marco Rubio saving Nancy Reagan from a fall because, according to Schultz, the policies of the "pretty boy" will be "downright ugly."
Teasing his Psycho Talk segment, Schultz told viewers that even though Rubio "got some good press this week for saving Nancy Reagan from a fall" to be wary of him because "when it comes to the rest of the American senior citizens, Rubio wants to leave them high and dry."
(video after the jump)
The following is a complete transcript of the segment as it was aired on the August 25 edition of MSNBC's The Ed Show:
ED SCHULTZ,TEASING SEGMENT: Florida Senator Marco Rubio got some good press this week for saving Nancy Reagan from a fall at a Reagan Library event. But when it comes to the rest of the American senior citizens, Rubio wants to leave them high and dry. He's coming up in Psycho Talk. Stay with us.
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SCHULTZ: And in Psycho Talk tonight, Florida Senator Marco Rubio. He's on the attack against the Big Three. Now Rubio is an early favorite to take the number two spot on the Republican presidential ticket next year thanks to his Tea Party ideology and his pretty boy looks. But his policies are downright ugly.
During a speech at the Reagan Library this week, Rubio had this to say about programs like Social Security and Medicare.
(Begin video clip)
SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R), FLORIDA: These programs actually weakened us as a people. You see, almost forever it was institutions and society that assumed the role of taking care of one another. If someone was sick in your family, you took care of them. If a neighbor met misfortune, you took care of them. You saved for your retirement and for your future because you had to. But all of that changed when the government began to assume those responsibilities. And as government crowded out the institutions in our society that did these things traditionally, it weakened our people.
(End video clip)
SCHULTZ: I'll tell you what's weakening our people, political hacks like Marco Rubio, who want to get rid of social safety nets. Before Medicare -- check this out -- half of American seniors didn't have hospital insurance. Almost a third of Americans lived in poverty. But after Medicare was signed into law, the poverty rate among senior citizens plummeted from 30 percent to around 10 percent in just 30 years. And it's the same story with Social Security. According to the Census Bureau data, 20 million more Americans would live below the poverty line if Social Security did not exist. Forty five percent of senior citizens would be poorer. And in Rubio's state of Florida alone, Social Security lifts more than -- count it -- a million people out of poverty.
But these right wingers remain determined to dismantle the Big Three, no matter how many Americans suffer. For Marco Rubio to say programs like Medicare and Social Security weaken Americans is flat out Psycho Talk.
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Psycho Talk
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:16pm.
SCHULTZ: And in Psycho Talk tonight....
ROTFL.
As they say, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Schultzie, don't mess with Marco, he'd clean YOUR clock without breaking a sweat, fat man.
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Oh Special Ed
Submitted by theduck6 on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 2:41pm.
what's the over/under on the next time he steps on it and gets suspended AGAIN!
coming from Mr Croque Monseiur hmself!
Submitted by neutron on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 7:31pm.
WTAF? The delusional Sgt Schultze is making comments about how somebody's looks will scare seasoned citizens? GMAFB!
Fast Eddie Schulzie's face is much like a Mr Croque Monseiur, a French broiler-made version of a ham and cheese sandwich. Who the Sam Cheese is he to talk?
How does one spell JERK - S-C-H-U-L-T-Z
Submitted by iamsaved on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:21pm.
These liberal leftists scream that the Republicans want to fix the economy on the backs of the elderly and the poor. I'll tell you what's going to break the backs of the elderly and poor- this administration's attacks on our energy providers through executive fiat and EPA regulations. When they get done, the cost of our utilities will be so high, we'll be wishing for some modest cuts in social security and food stamps instead of having to pay the monthly electric and gas bills.
anyone
Submitted by kata on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:41pm.
who has watched this video (of Mr. Rubio) in it's entirety would know Mr. Shultz is lying. Parsing of videos in par for the course for this channel. All Mr. Shultz is doing is just vomiting articles from ThinkProgress anyway. I doubt he has a critical thinking bone in his body. His own person input on the matter - ad hominem attack! It speaks volumes to his inability to create an argument on his own.
Rubio's plan is to SAVE
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 1:41pm.
Rubio's plan is to SAVE Medicare and Social Security from destruction. If anybody is nuts it's Schulz who would prefer to bury his head in the sand on the matter.
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James MadisonEd Schultz edits again!!
Submitted by g00se99 on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 2:09pm.
Nice job cutting out the whole part where Rubio says that the US has to suck it up and pay for all the people that currently paid into SS expecting it to be there.
Ed Schultz is the worst kind of person I swear. And then they crap all over Breitbart over one incident inwhich its not even clear cut he did anything wrong. Anyone on the left that hears about these exposed lies yet still supports this loser is completely hopeless and immoral.
Did Rubio vote to steal five
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 2:20pm.
Did Rubio vote to steal five hundred billion dollars from Medicare, and to add thirty million people to the depleted funded medicare rolls, and did he vote for death panels to ration care to seniors? No, no, and no. If anyone deserves hatred from seniors it is the Congressional democrats who voted for Obamacare.
imagine fat boy
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 2:24pm.
inagine fat boy makin comments........does he still have a show or is it mika with a fat ed costumn on.....either way dumb is either fat or blonde especially liberals
pretty boy
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 3:51pm.
what would happen if a conservative applied the pretty boy title to some useless lib in congress? it would be fatso's lead story. comcast is the most pathetic excuse for anything good. fatso is the most uninformed jack-ass tv has ever put in front of a camera.
Schultz has absolutely no room to talk.
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 4:20pm.
He all but foisted that economic disaster known as Chairman Zero on the American public. Now that Carter II is the Imperial President, we can count on that master great plan of his to be more smoke, mirrors and enough platitudes to keep the White House spin machine busy until Thanksgiving.
How does Merlin's line from "Excalibur" go? "I am a dream to some and a nightmare to others!" Obama is a dream to superficial ultraliberal automatons and a nightmare economically.
Looks to me like old lardass
Submitted by KornKing on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 4:33pm.
is a racist??
Special Ed
Submitted by Brad90956 on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 5:01pm.
Hey Ed, instead of attacking Conservatives every night why don't you showcase Obama's accomplishments and tell your audience (all 12 of them) how he has helped the economy, the unemployment rate and national debt?
Oh, that's right, you can't...carry on.
This is all Special Ed and ilk have...attack, attack, attack because Obama has done absolutely nothing to help America. Sorry Ed, the American people don't trust or believe in your Messiah anymore...Election night 2012 is going to be fun.
And now more insipid nonsense...
Submitted by D2Boston on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 8:27pm.
from Special Ed Schultz...
Schultz's poverty facts are dubious
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:12pm.
They assume that if one removes Social Security, the wealth of ex-beneficiaries decreases. But it fails to account for all the $$ that those beneficiaries put into the pionzi scheme all their lives. Add that money back into their wealth, and the numbers improve.
THe Republican Plan
Submitted by pbthinker on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 9:32pm.
I hope the Republicans plan to put Rubio in charge of messaging. Chuckie Schumer is in charge for the Democrats, in the Senate, and everyone's favorite House Democrat, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, is in charge there and for the national party. If I want to win an election, I can't think of 3 people I would rather run against, those 2 and Obama.
I watched Marco Rubio's Q&A session, which was posted on Powerline along with the speech. Some people can give a good speech (although he doesn't need a teleprompter) but he can also answer questions off the cuff. His best asset is he believes what he says and he can explain it.
Someone needs to tell Schultz, he ran on this, in Florida and, in a 3 way race, got over 50% of the vote. Doesn't anyone pay attention at MSNBC? He didn't back away from any of this talk. He said he would vote to repeal Obamacare, and still won. Democrats win by not telling people what they'll do, Republicans run on ideas and win. I doubt Schutz understands that or Rubio but, as someone said in a different post, Rubio would clean his clock, just like he did David Gregory and Bob Scheiffer.
Calling Marco Rubio a "pretty boy" sounds like a...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 4:50am.
homophobic slur to me. I guess in addition to being a homophobe, "Crazy Eddie" must also be a racist for insulting a member of a minority.
Well, fair is fair. Conservatives are called racists for disagreeing with Obama's policies.
I know, I know. We shouldn't sink to their level.
I am a Senior Citizen and the only "ugly" person in this...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 4:49am.
story is "Crazy Eddie" himself.
MSNBC
Submitted by adamsmith on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 9:50am.
You have to give MSNBC credit. At least with Ed the Red you know they don't discriminate against retards and will give them a whole hour to be lying retards who love to take anything out of context to sway all the other retards who watch this retard. Glad to see they are EOE.