Wrong Yet Again, Ed Schultz - It is Illegal for Teachers to Strike in Michigan
MSNBC action hero Ed Schultz is really on a roll.
On his cable show Monday, Schultz claimed that federal tax revenue declined in the seven years following the start of the Bush tax cuts in 2001, a patently bogus assertion demolished by NewsBuster Noel Sheppard.
All of 24 hours later, Schultz stepped in it once more with his revisionist history of federal spending over the last two decades and was again eviscerated by Sheppard.
On his radio show yesterday, self-proclaimed working class hero Schultz showed that his shabby disregard for accuracy also extends to labor union laws, specifically those in Michigan. Here's what Schultz had to say (audio) --
The attack on labor continuing now in the state of Michigan, I see. The House Committee righties on education throwing out couple of bills aimed at just sticking it to teachers who strike illegally. Michigan Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, is considering that they might have to do a walkout because they've been treated like garbage by the right wingers in that state. There's a bill introduced by a dude named Bill Rogers, a righty in Michigan, who would allow for a teacher who strikes to have their teaching license suspended for two years or revoked altogether! He pointed out that the Detroit Free Press that students can get expelled for breaking rules. Are they breaking the rule by striking? I don't think so.
"I don't think so," Schultz claims. More accurately, Schultz doesn't think, lest it threaten his rock-solid certitude of always being right.
But as even that right-wing rag The Huffington Post reports, alas, it is illegal for teachers to strike in Michigan. From a HuffPo story on Wednesday --
Even though teacher strikes are illegal under state law, Republican lawmakers say strikes handled at the local level often go unpunished, the Associated Press reports.
Are you breaking a rule, Ed? That you are -- by your incessant braying about deceit from Republicans when honesty is not a standard you apply to yourself. As you pointed out last night on "The Ed Show" -- "There are lies and then there are facts." (audio)
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All I can do is laugh....
Submitted by nonncom on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 12:59pm.
Does anybody actually watch this clown?....I realize that Jack is paid to watch Shultzie, but surely they can't pay everybody.....
Apparently the Rachel Maddow crowd sticks around for ED
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 1:02pm.
His viewer numbers have gone way up, now that he is not following Tingles.
MSNBC gets their "facts"
Submitted by kg on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 6:44pm.
MSNBC gets their "facts" [sic] from DailyKOS.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Is that hazard pay?
Submitted by needle on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 7:55pm.
"I realize that Jack is paid to watch Shultzie."
Boy, you couldn't pay me to do that.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
There is actually a chat room
Submitted by topdog729 on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 4:52pm.
There is actually a chat room with live video lol you should check it out, not so much to watch Ed but to see how moronic his following is! lol http://www.justin.tv/rockinroosters21
Schultz is Biff
Submitted by Prowler-Getz on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 1:06pm.
Schultz is the current incarnation of Biff from Back To The Future. He starts out as a self agrandizing local bully, but ends up as just another toady.
Ah, that gives new meaning to ...
Submitted by CO2Maker on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 1:13pm.
Ed "I hope my face doesn't freeze this way" Schultz gives new meaning to the word "edify." As in, NOT!
Just remember folks, ED stands for erectile dysfunction.
Action Hero?!?! Heh.....
Submitted by 98ZJUSMC on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 1:43pm.
Yeah.....bloviating, blithering Blubberman.
with Kung-Fu grip grub hooks.
"Blubberman, strange non-sequitur from another world."
You got that right.
Where's the management?
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 4:20am.
How many bosses have you folks had that would let you get away with continual lying, or repeated instances of being wrong when you should have known better, or temper tantrums on the job? I suspect that nearly all of us wouldn't have lasted more than a couple of weeks if we performed as badly as Ed Schultz does on his job. If I were an investor of NBC/MSNBC, I'd be up in the face of Ed's immediate "superiors" to straighten him up or give him his walking papers.
Having said all of that, I am aware that the left wing agenda is the driving force behind NBC/MSNBC and that Ed's lies and misrepresentations are just the "quality of character" that fits their requirements. Is that how Comcast and the investors wish to be represented? Did Comcast buy a lemon deliberately? -bidn-
Ed Schultz.. to the point that..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 3:10pm.
Let me put it this way. It's getting to the point with Ed Schultz where it difficult to believe that anything of note that he utters is actually fully truthful. Oh, occasionally there may be a smidgin of truth in perhaps a portion of what he is speaking on, but even then, is it in a truthful context?
(;~/ gary
The House Committee righties
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 4:48pm.
The House Committee righties on education throwing out couple of bills aimed at just sticking it to teachers who strike illegally.
Which part of the word "illegally" does Ed not understand???
Illegal, smillegal
Submitted by needle on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 7:51pm.
Illegal has been so long associated with wetbacks that Special Ed simply thinks it is a good thing.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Correction
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 5:19pm.
Jack, just wanted to point out a small error in the article:
But as even that right-wing rag The Huffington Post reports....
Oops. : ^ D
Perhaps Jack was being sarcastic?
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 5:34pm.
I read it that way....but hey, that's just me.
My best friend in High School once inscribed my yearbook..."Dear Sarcastic Blonde [Real Name]. And no, I'm NOT kidding. :)
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Possibly
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 5:44pm.
I didn't really consider that angle. Re-reading it I suppose it could have been sarcastic. It just kind of jumped out at me.
Why is inflection so damned hard in the written word?!? ; ^ P
No se
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 7:52pm.
Had it been Noel, I'd have known it was sarcastic, but I suspect it's just a matter of knowing our bloggers. :)
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I guess it's safe to assume Noel is no-longer on Red Ed's...
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 5:34pm.
...Christmas card list.
LOL - And I am sure he is all torn up over it, too.
Ed sure is having a bad week. Hell, I almost feel sorry for him over the fact that MSNBC can't find at least a few interns who are Internet literate (or literate, period) enough to do some even half-assed research on something as simple as this.
Too bad. :-^)
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Schultz for Brains
Submitted by West Covina on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 6:07pm.
How much longer is this coward going to be on the air. A bully with no wisdom nor intelligence.
A bully with no wisdom nor intelligence?
Submitted by needle on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 7:44pm.
In that case he will be there as long as MSNBC can pay its electric bills.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Schultz
Submitted by batcat on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 11:13pm.
I'd call shultz a moron, but that would be an insult to morons.
The world according to
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 11:16pm.
The world according to ed:
Spring water doesn't freeze.
Living on a mountaintop is warmer because you are closer to the sun.
Letting 10lbs. of air out of each tire will lighten your car and save gas.
Fire cannot melt steel.
Every movie hollywood produces is true, it not, then how did they think of it?
Idea
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 11:33pm.
I suggest in the future, NB drop posts regarding Ed Schultz and replace them with an alteration to the masthead that reads:
NewsBusters
Exposing & Combating Liberal Media Bias*
*Except for Ed Schultz, Who is so Dumb,
We Can't Take Him Seriously Enough to Bother with Covering Him
Great idea Chris
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 11:48pm.
Plaster THAT on the trucks.
Big dumb Ed is so stupid, we feel it would be taking him at advantage to report his thoughts!
Are they breaking the rule?
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 1:06pm.
"Are they breaking the rule by striking?"
No, Ed, they're just breaking the law. How DARE the "righties" try to codify punishments for breaking the law! That's so Fascist of them, correct?
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.
Comcast's Reputation
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 4:05pm.
This clown and his colleagues at MESSNBC have to be tarnishing Comcast's reputation. How much longer before they have to do something about this laughing stock. Olbewan Kaboombe is lonely.
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http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html