If you were a cable TV host whose audience size is obliterated by O'Reilly's, buried by Beck's, hammered by Hannity's and slam-dunked by Susteren's, would you really go around mocking someone else's ratings?
Appparently yes, if you're Ed Schultz. The host of the miniscule MSNBC program went out of his way this evening to belittle the ratings of Dennis Miller's radio show . . .
Schultz's snide comment came during his Psycho Talk segment.
ED SCHULTZ: Psycho Talk tonight, let's see, we're one day away from the scariest night of the year, and we've got our very own fear-mongering Hallo-weenie, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. He must be really feeling threatened these days, because both houses of the Congress have got a health-care reform bill with a public option. He's falling back on the old, discredited lies. He went on the very low-rated Dennis Miller radio show the other day.Actually, Ed, the scariest nights for you are when the TV ratings come out, revealing that not only is your audience a paltry 16% of Bill O'Reilly's, but that you get soundly beaten by the likes of Nancy Grace, Larry King, Anderson Cooper and even Campbell Brown.
Mote, meet beam.
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Heck... Schultz's ratings
October 30, 2009 - 19:17 ET by bigtimerHeck...
Schultz's ratings would be beat by Sham-Wow commercials...played back to back for an hour.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Hey bt
October 30, 2009 - 19:51 ET by jdlybrandNice 'Slap Chop'!
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
jdly... Laughing as well
October 30, 2009 - 22:06 ET by bigtimerjdly...
Laughing as well regarding your comment...
Nothing like the... but wait.... 'Slap-Chop' addition is there?
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Slap chop!
October 31, 2009 - 04:18 ET by RukusLOL! The "You're gonna love my nuts" guy beats Special Ed it ratings! LOL! : )
Gary
POLITICS: poly (many) + ticks (blood sucking parasites)
I'm convinced this guy WANTS
October 31, 2009 - 07:30 ET by notonmywatchI'm convinced this guy WANTS the free advertising. He picks people that he thinks will respond.
DON'T give it to him.
DON'T.
If no one talks about his psychosis/show, it doesn't exist.
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Schultz has a segment
October 30, 2009 - 21:27 ET by motherbeltSchultz has a segment called Psycho Talk???
I thought that was the name of his show!!
Lol mb... It should
October 30, 2009 - 21:36 ET by bigtimerLol mb...
It should be...no title would be more fitting.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Pulitzer Prize
October 31, 2009 - 18:15 ET by Jerry MackI am going to E-Mail Bigtimers comment to Fat Ed.
Ratings?
October 30, 2009 - 19:27 ET by richb313Ratings to the uninformed can be very misleading. First Dennis is syndicated on Westwood One. They have pretty good distribution but lack many larger markets. If the ratings were only measured by total listeners it does not take into considerstion how many radio stations carry the show. A better measure would be Market Penatration where the listeners are compared to total Market. The Market is not all Radio listeners but the target market. Then you see how much of that targeted market is actually penetrated or how many of those listeners had a chance to hear the commercials.
Ratings like many things used to measure the performance of any particular show is greatly misunderstood by most people. I wonder how much Market Penatration that Mr. Schultz has compared to Dennis Miller. Since CNN is available in all markets his total numbers may be larger but are meaningless. It is Market Penetration that the people who pay for the ads are concerned about. I tried to get access to data but could not find it, anyone have a link to the actuall numbers?
Eddie wanting so badly to
October 30, 2009 - 19:33 ET by GregEEddie wanting so badly to mock the ratings of someone he disagrees with, and he found one and had to use it. Dennis Miller's now gonna be "his boy." Look for more mention of DM.
Eddie, the kid on the playground who isn't the bully, not really liked, scopes the place for weeks and finally finds a kid he might be able to beat up so he swoops in.......lol
This is too silly to even comment on...
October 30, 2009 - 20:10 ET by FuzzlenutterEd Shultz is simply an ill-tempered loser who wants to be someone...anyone. It doesn't matter...
Fuzzle... You hit the
October 30, 2009 - 20:13 ET by bigtimerFuzzle...
You hit the nail dead-on the head.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Fat, dumb and stupid
October 30, 2009 - 20:51 ET by obageegeeis no way to go through life son....
Thank you, Dean Wormer
October 30, 2009 - 21:40 ET by tim413Did Flounder grow up to become Ed Schultz? I've said it before but it bears repeating: Mr. Ed looks like a union enforcer dressed up in a suit and sporting a professional haircut.
Stop federal judges from foisting their notions of "fairness" on the States. Amend the 14th Amendment! - tim413
tim... As to what you've
October 30, 2009 - 21:57 ET by bigtimertim...
As to what you've said before...you surely are correct.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Forget TV ratings, let's go apples to apples.
October 30, 2009 - 21:02 ET by Mike BrattonEd, you want to put your best radio ratings up against Miller's worst?
Hey, I'd put my ratings up against yours, Ed, and I'm not even on the radio these days!
--Mike
www.thebrattonreport...
Mike... Lol...you'd
October 30, 2009 - 21:05 ET by bigtimerMike...
Lol...you'd win... hands down!
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
relative
October 30, 2009 - 21:12 ET by goldboughHe must have meant "very low" relative to Rush Limbaugh.
Slow-going Feud?
October 30, 2009 - 21:21 ET by BarkerI recall hearing Dennis Miller crack a few jokes on Schultz about a month or so ago. It may be that the Pony Express Media just delivered that 'news' to Ed, hence his comment.
It ain't over 'til the fat lady cries uncle, with Ed Schultz filling both those bills.
Stay tuned..........
Scenes from a mauling
October 30, 2009 - 21:24 ET by CO2MakerThis morning, I watched out the kitchen window at a feral cat in my back yard playing with a field mouse for about 10-15 minutes, dropping it, letting it run away, stalking and pouncing on it, until finally it killed the mouse and ate it.
Reminds me of another scene I'd like to watch: Schultz and Miller in a live 20-minute Texas steel-cage talk-radio head-to-head, no rescue verbal beat-down. I'm giving Ed "I hope my face doesn't freeze like this" Schultz about five minutes trying to grok Miller's obscure cultural allusions until he realizes Miller has cut him deep, wide, and continuous. The last fifteen minutes will be like watching the cat have its way with the mouse.
C02... Now that would be
October 30, 2009 - 21:26 ET by bigtimerC02...
Now that would be priceless....and it would be exactly as you describe.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Make PPV
October 30, 2009 - 21:51 ET by richb313Make it a PPV event and we could raise some signifigant change. I would pay to see it and I am sure there would be alot of others.
rich... Oh yeah! Talk
October 30, 2009 - 22:02 ET by bigtimerrich...
Oh yeah!
Talk about a money-maker.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Schultz vs. Miller
October 31, 2009 - 03:07 ET by sarge329Until I had read this article, I had never even heard of this Ed Schultz. However, we have fortunate in that our cable provider has not insulted us with MSNBC, the TV version of Air America. The main difference between those two is that at least MSNBC has funding. Schultz sealed his fate by signing on with MSNBC. Your allusion seems unfair because the mouse had a chance. Schultz, well,..... .
MILLER TIME...
October 31, 2009 - 06:45 ET by danybhoyThis is 1 verbal fight that will be all 1 way traffic. Miller won't even break a sweat in crushing Special Ed, he'll insult Ed with something that will go over Ed's head & he won't understand the joke.
Maybe Ed needs to be told about not getting into a verbal pissing match with an actual comic, & a very good 1 at that.
"...How blind can you be, don't you see...
...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."
Nightwish
?
October 30, 2009 - 22:00 ET by rjwest21Delusional. Miller's ratings are fine & he's up to over 200 stations, IIRC.
One way to improve your ratings Ed
October 30, 2009 - 22:10 ET by obageegeeClimb in a mylar baloon and have your wife call 911.
"911 ...what is your emergency?"
October 31, 2009 - 07:02 ET by helyanwe911 would put her on hold .
Besides, the only way that any balloon would ever leave the ground with Ed in it would be if it was lashed to a gazebo with anchor chain and somehow got snagged by a MH-47E Chinook.
No,wait! If he did his silly,inane show from the gazebo he could probably lift and sail the damn thing straight through the mesoshpere somewhere above Svalbard.
If Shultz did became Ballon
October 31, 2009 - 07:49 ET by Jack BauerIf Shultz did became Balloon Blob...
The sky would be filled with missiles trying to puncture the apparatus carrying that giant blubbery blowhard.
He climbing
October 31, 2009 - 10:04 ET by richb313The last time I heard he was in just over 100 stations but that was over a year ago.
I Never Thought I'd Say This: I Like Miller Better Than Schultz!
October 30, 2009 - 22:20 ET by The7SticksOr is it "I like Miller Light better than Schlitz"? I just don't know what happened. I actually though for a couple of years that Ed Schultz made sense, but then he went New York on me. It's like he's a completely different personality from when he was still broadcasting from Fargo. He now just sucks. I've also listened to Miller's show for same amount of time (I'm listening to it as I write.) and, every now and then, I get pissed off over something he says or buys into, but for the most part, I find him an amiable bloke. Especially with his gags and his sidekick Sal. I always get a trip out of "Shoot The Antenna!" or "Antwerp! Aha!". Of course, my favorite is Phil Hendrie, so no offense, but Hendrie's the one who rocks most.
7s... Glad to hear of
October 30, 2009 - 22:24 ET by bigtimer7s...
Glad to hear of your enlightening. ;-)
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Schultz is a schlub
October 31, 2009 - 07:17 ET by CO2MakerSchultz comes across as, well, what he was--a radio sports announcer--who's got the political bug and channels too much televangelist frenzy amped up with caffeine or speed or something.
Rush stands apart from all the others, all of them. What sets him apart--and what no one else has come close to emulating--isn't his encyclopedic knowledge of politics (which he has), or his extremely articulate delivery (which he does better than anyone else), but it's his humor, his sense of the absurd, and his over-the-top self-promotion which is always delivered with a wink that tells us he's kidding, at least just a wee bit about "on loan from God" and "tied behind his back," etc.
By comparison, Ed "I look like a televangelist car saleman" Schultz flops around like a fish on the pier.
I have to agree
October 31, 2009 - 08:30 ET by doug1950Rush's humor is sophisticated and more often than not the left just does not get it and get insulted long before the end of the joke or parody simply because they do not like him or what he stands for. Many times liberal politicians and what passes for comedy from left leaning comedians falls flatter than a flitter but the audience brays like jackasses anyway (Letterman has made a lot of money for just this kind of audience). They don't always get those jokes either but laugh anyway because the rest of the crowd is laughing. They think they are suppose to laugh, so they do. Often they will say something and absolutely NO one gets it and they have to announce, " it was a joke". When you have to say it was a joke, it wasn't a joke or funny.
Back to Schultz. He is a dunce and is desparate for acknowledgement, even if it is negative. Classic bully behavior and tactics. The fat, sweaty, red faced blivet who craves attention because something is lacking in their own lives.
It is really kind of a pathetic. Schuster is basically the same only I find him to just be a snotty like weasel on top of everything else. Neither are very smart or articulate so they substitute brains with BS and false bravado..
Sgt Schultz..
October 31, 2009 - 13:20 ET by BuzzySorry but flops like a whale on the pier is more like it.
I thought of a whale
October 31, 2009 - 14:13 ET by CO2MakerBut they wash up on the beach and don't really flop. And I just couldn't imagine any fisherman hauling one up onto the pier!
Here's a really gross thought: Schultzy on the pier, flopping around like a fish, in a Speedo.
There. Try to get that image out of your brain!
Wasn't Schultz involved in
October 31, 2009 - 08:17 ET by BuxomAnnieMcGreggorWasn't Schultz involved in some sort of advert for undergarments a few years back? You can't expect to wield much liberal political influence with that resume gem hanging over your head. On second thought... being both lib show host and undi-pitch man have a great deal in common as they both provide cover for sphincters.
We retort, you decide!
Undergarment ad?
October 31, 2009 - 15:55 ET by CO2MakerYou're thinking of Joe Namath. Or maybe Perez Hilton?
My cat has better ratings than Schultz
October 31, 2009 - 09:52 ET by nolotrippenMy cat has better ratings than Schultz
“It is almost impossible to distinguish a politician from a gangster.” (Will Durant, 1931)
Let's see now.....
October 31, 2009 - 10:14 ET by Patriot IISchultz says 16 per cent belittle Dennis Miller.....hummm 16 per cent belittled Moses.....to what effect? They were swallowed up by a gigantic chasm.......and by the way 16 per cent is about 4 times Schultz's ratings isn't it LOL Wow...thats a gigantic chasm ha ha
Besides, is anyone hearing?
October 31, 2009 - 11:03 ET by neighbIf one uses the age-old question about the tree falling in the woods...
If the Round Mound of No Sound, Ed Schultz makes some disparaging remark about anybody while vomiting his bilge on MSNBC--AND NO ONE IS WATCHING--is he really speaking???
Buffoons who live in glass
October 31, 2009 - 18:26 ET by Chris NormanBuffoons who live in glass out houses shouldn't cast....
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.