Ed Schultz Vows He'll Cheerlead for Wall Street Protests Every Night on TV
Uh, is this intended to help or hurt?
Liberal radio talker and MSNBC rodeo clown Ed Schultz, ever prepared to join a left-wing lollapalooza regardless of merit, is promising he'll provide plenty of unpaid ads for Occupy Wall Street. (audio clips after page break)
Here's Schultz vowing to do this on his radio show Friday --
And I got news for you -- these folks, they ain't going away. They are not going away. 'Cause this is what the working folks are talking about. This is what the cabbies in New York are talking about, this is what the cabbies in Washington are talking about, this is what the truck drivers are listening to, you know, this is what the construction workers are doing over a lunch break.
They're hearing this stuff and they're seeing it on TV. And I'm going to put it on TV every night. I'm going to put it on TV every night until the last protester goes home and, you know what, this is going to be a story until the next election. And these folks are not going to disengage. They will be there.
How curious indeed that for all his bloviating about Occupy Wall Street, Schultz has broadcast "The Ed Show" from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan only once since the protest began a month ago, and his radio show not at all.
Perhaps significantly, "The Ed Show" that aired from Occupy Wall Street on Oct. 5 did not go well at all, with Schultz being jeered as a "corporatist" for much of the hour by protesters behind him.
The hostility toward Schultz that night was so nasty that James Holm, a producer on Schultz's radio show, lashed out at the protesters the following day on the radio show (audio) --
These people were attacking Ed Schultz for being a corporatist. Give me a freakin' break! This is the only show that talks about union issues every single day. This is the show that spent a year and a half fighting for health care in this country. This is the show that talks about school teachers and firefighters and policemen. And these punks -- and I'm going to use that word again -- they're punks, have the audacity to sit there and call us corporate media, you can go straight to hell! And if I, if you happen to have seen me on TV last night, we were in, on the verge of a riot. And I wasn't mad because they're attacking Ed. What I'm mad about is they're hurting their own movement.
Ah, when lefties disagree. Not a pretty sight.
Nice to see that Schultz plans to be with the Wall Street protesters in spirit, seeing how it didn't go so well when he joined them in person.
Clearly it hasn't occurred to Holm that Schultz might well have been jeered as a corporatist because he works for MSNBC, whose parent company, NBC Universal, is nearly half-owned by GE -- which paid no federal income taxes last year. Here's how this was reported by the New York Times on March 24 --
General Electric, the nation's largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010.
The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States.
Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.
In other words, GE falls squarely within that wealthiest one percent that the so-called 99 percent find so repugnant.
The flea party squatters in Occupy Wall Street are proving helpful for Schultz and other MSNBC hosts in distracting attention from GE's tax dodge, Obama's failed presidency and genuine news such as the Solyndra debacle, in favor of a made-for-media, flash-in-the-pan distraction.
(h/t, Brian Maloney at The Radio Equalizer)
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Good grief!
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 7:54pm.
I hope he isn't going to be wearing a cheerleading skirt!!
Wasn't there a movie about him?
Submitted by TheHistorian on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:01pm.
Didn't he wear a tu-tu (Ed's wpould be a 4-4) in a Disney movie? Fantasia?
Dennis Prager
In the words of the great Vernon Wormer …
Submitted by JeffC... on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 7:56pm.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Jeff, that's slander!
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:17pm.
You don't know for sure that he drinks!
just maybe
Submitted by jimtrees on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:13pm.
Well, he is Irish. That pretty much makes it about a 99% chance that he drinks.
Is that what Obama meant when
Submitted by okie-pastor on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:09pm.
Is that what Obama meant when he said "I'm Fighting for the 99%?"
One of the great lines from that movie
Submitted by Jack Coleman on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:19pm.
Right up there with Bluto telling his deflated Delta brothers that it wasn't over after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
Ed is the useful idiot
Submitted by dr-go on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 8:21am.
that both sides need.
this sort of doublethink
Submitted by kata on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 7:57pm.
is the hallmark of a good liberal.
So when the commies come for this baffoon's airplane...
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:01pm.
...what's he going to do?
Flee to his spread in Canada?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
taking off the mask
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:18pm.
Real Americans will tire of this Wall Street story real quick. If they haven't already. Nobody where I work pays it any attention. It's just more background noise to the discord in the country. It only makes a challenger to obama more attractive because voters will want relief from the bickering politicians.
The amazing thing is that obama benefited in 2008 from all the discord the media whipped up against George Bush. Voters bought obama's BS that he was a centrist and would fulfill his promise to bring us all together.
Now obama wants to win reelection by sowing discord and increasing anxiety in the country. (he just can't get rid of his Alinsky community organizer roots). If you look at the 2008 obama with the lofty rhetoric, the halo around his head before a worshipful audience and then contrast that with the 2011 version that is mean, thinned skinned, sarcastic and plainly deceitful.
What is plain is that the 2008 version of obama is the one crafted by marketers. This next election is presenting the real obama. Had this obama emerged in 2008 President McCain or Clinton would be running for reelection.
He's A Moron, At Best
Submitted by Bourbeau on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:19pm.
Ignore him and his stupidity.
Ed ya gonna wear your pom pom
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:23pm.
Ed ya gonna wear your pom pom dress.
He
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:23pm.
can cheerlead all he wants. No one watches his show, in fact, his show doesn't even make the viewers list, that Druge prints, on his Web-site.
With friends like Ed Schultz
Submitted by Reaver on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:35pm.
With friends like Ed Schultz who needs enemies?
Ed
Submitted by shadowman on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 9:33pm.
Comments like this MORON makes has to make even the most intellectual of the extreme left want to throw up. If you asked each one of the people at the occupy sites what they're there for you would get a different answer.
We Conservative and all hard working Americans need more so called broadcasters like Ed to show the world the moronic of our political left.
It pays to get out of the studio now and then
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:01pm.
I find it hilarious that the OWS protesters called Ed Schultz and company what they are: corporate media. Note the producer's reaction to the hostile "punks" that were encountered: "What I'm mad about is they're hurting their own movement."
He's hurt because they thought they'd be welcomed among the proletariat, only to find that they are viewed as fat cats. So he's offering a vailed threat in the form of "Don't bite the hand that puts you on TV, because we can show your darkside instead."
Keep the ball rolling, OWS. It's great theater.
Uh hoh my god....this is to good to be true.
Submitted by NeoKong on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:03pm.
The poor guy is grasping at straws hoping beyond hope that the OWS creeps are going to stop the oncoming political wipeout that is going to bulldoze the last little pieces of the Obama administration in to the dustbin of history.
By this time next year he is going to be under the supervision of a doctor.
Yeeewww....
Submitted by bfrank on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:07pm.
Ed in a short skirt with pom-poms?
Occupy Wall Street partying with Ed & all his rowdy friends....
Submitted by bfrank on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:13pm.
the Nazis and Communists.
http://anp14.com/news/archives.php?report_date=2011-10-16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZrV7VhxoWk
I'm happy I've never listened
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 10:44pm.
I'm happy I've never listened to his mindless rants. Scratching my ass is a better use of my time.
I listened once with no
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 6:23am.
I listened once with no protection. I was in the hospital for a week afterwards.
Ed will cheerlead but he
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:29pm.
Ed will cheerlead but he won't give them a dime, he is too greedy. He spends much of his time blubbering about how much he has and how unfair it is that Rush has more. Ed is in it for Ed.
Yea, Ed, that's real impressive.
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:31pm.
So, Ed, you plan to cheerlead the Occupiers from your corporate owned studio on your corporate sponsored show? Yea, that's showing solidarity with them, isn't it?
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.
You can't bring up the poor
Submitted by okie-pastor on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:49pm.
You can't bring up the poor by tearing down the "rich"
It boggles the mind how these MSM people proclaim they want what is "fair" and they portray themselves as morally superior. They scream they only wish to punish the sin of greed but do so by riding on the sin of anger
The American left wants socialism! "If you make more $ than me you should have it taken from you, if you won't allow it to be taken from you then you should go to jail.". Or beheaded if you ask roseann Barr.
It's easy to be generous when you spending other peoples money!
The following quotes should be posted to your facebook
"You can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong"
"you can not bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift"
"You can not lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down"
"You can not further the brotherhood of man by citing class HATRED!"
"You can not build character and courage by Taking away mans initiative and independence"
"you can nit help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves"
- Abraham Lincoln
hey ed
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:50pm.
please do us a favor and spend ALL your time down there. That way we won't have to hear your stupid remarks that NewsBusters show every night. It will be a grand vacation for all of us. You claim you are all for these guys? Please don't take a dump on the squad cars while your're at it, like your buddy protesters do
Was that a direct quote? 'I
Submitted by Slyrr on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:53pm.
Was that a direct quote?
'I VOW I'll cheerlead for wall street protests every night!'
He trolling for an audience.
Submitted by Texndoc on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:58pm.
Maybe he can have a t-shirt and balloon giveaway, too. Like Shuster did before they cancelled him.
I Predict....
Submitted by Fredy on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:29am.
Ed will abandon his pledge when the OWS turns it's silly eyes on Obama and the Democrats. That will be the day Ed runs for the hills and blames 'third parties' for co-opting the message.
Please Ed go down there again
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 1:22am.
I'll beat your fat ass into the pavement.
How much money does he make?
Submitted by jhauger on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 7:41am.
Surely more than he needs and probably enough that if he were a conservative, there would be a demand from the So-So Unwashed for him to share the wealth.
Ed should stay focused on racism and not swerve off the road.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 8:34am.
Especially with his new movie coming out this November and all.
I just realized something... I'm part of the 1% too
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 8:56am.
that is the 1% of my kind that didn't vote for Obama... yeah me, Cain, and Macho Sauce lol
As the Mercury falls
Submitted by Ashrak on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 9:45am.
and the snowflakes fly, they will go.
And unlike the TEA Parties, the Occupy will having nothing to show for it but the creation of millions of dollars of government spending taxpayers money cleaning up after them.
Clog the courts? Nah, that isn't what they are doing. COSTING the taxpayers MORE MONEY by force of action, as opposed to taxation, is the "clogging", the courts are but one example. Ed's rants are another. Clog the airwaves and television screens with mindless rants, so folks have no idea what the heck the lines are. Notice, terrorists do the same thing with battle lines.......Imagine that.
Hmmmm
Submitted by telecaster on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 11:44am.
Ed Shultz as a gaseous, liberal cheerleader of leftist lunacy.....who'da thunk it?
Ed better move up to some
Submitted by TerryWest on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 12:30pm.
Ed better move up to some bigger pom poms because the majority of country is not paying attention or more importantly relating, even with the sales champaigning from the leftist media.
Ed's train of thought
Submitted by Model850 on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 4:23pm.
Poor Ed's train of thought can't run longer than about thirty seconds before it derails.
He begins: And I got news for you -- these folks, they ain't going away. They are not going away.
Thirty seconds later he says: I'm going to put it on TV every night until the last protester goes home.
So which is it Ed? Are these folks not going away or are they planning on going home sometime?