Ed Schultz Last Wednesday: 'This Is An Ideological War...I Will Fight These [GOP] Bastards Every Night'
While folks in the media blame conservatives for violent rhetoric they dishonestly claim led to Saturday's massacre in Tucson, they continue to hypocritically ignore their own toxicity.
No finer or timely example occurred just three days before the shootings when Ed Schultz on the program bearing his name angrily said, "This is an ideological war. I say it on camera tonight here on MSNBC - I will fight these bastards every night at 6 o’clock" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
ED SCHULTZ: It’s all about taking down President Obama. They don’t want to create jobs. They’re not about that at all. And I’ll guarantee you, if you do see the numbers change, which I believe they will, you won’t hear Boehner or any of these new righties give one ounce of credit to the last Congress for fighting like hell for a jobs bill. This is an ideological war. I say it on camera tonight here on MSNBC - I will fight these bastards every night at 6 o’clock because I know what they’re up against. I know what they want to do. They want to take down American workers. They want to outsource jobs. They want to destroy the American dream. Concentrate the wealth to the top, and control minorities. That’s what they’re about.
About four minutes later, after interviewing Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wa.), Schultz apologized:
SCHULTZ: It is going to be a very passionate fight, and I just, no I haven’t had anybody in my earpiece since I started tonight, and management’s not saying I’m over the top. I just referred to the Republicans as a term I probably shouldn’t have used, but, I know what, they just infuriate me. I don’t think they’re honest brokers. I think they’re out to destroy unions. I think they’re out to destroy the working folk of America. I think they have nothing on the table for middle-class, the middle-class Americans out there who haven’t had the breaks that the top two percent has had. So, if I offended some of you by that term I used a few moments ago, I apologize. Maybe I’ve had too much TV.
As NewsBusters reported shortly after this occurred, Schultz was obviously referring to a December 20 piece by the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz:
“There are times I tell him he goes over the top and that TV is different than radio,” [MSNBC President Phil] Griffin acknowledges. “A couple of times he’s crossed the line. I said, ‘Ed, you ran down the field 100 yards and you spiked the ball. Don’t spike the ball!’”
In reality, since Jared Lee Loughner opened fire on a crowd in Tucson, members of the media including most MSNBCers have been spiking the ball pointing fingers at conservatives for their supposedly hostile rhetoric.
Schultz himself did so throughout his program Monday mentioning Sarah Palin's name seventeen times.
If folks are really concerned with violent rhetoric on television, maybe they ought to begin with Ed Schultz, for there is likely no more consistently over the top and virulent commentator on any national network.
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Kurtz is delusional.
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:04am.
“A couple of times he’s crossed the line. I said, ‘Ed, you ran down the field 100 yards and you spiked the ball. Don’t spike the ball!’”
Kurtz acts as if Schultz is annihilating the opposition with his razor-sharp wit on a regular basis, and should just be magnanimous in victory, instead of gloating.He's crossed the line a couple of times???? Hell, Schultz's whole modus operandi is lunatic rage.
That may be true
Submitted by sam12663 on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 10:56am.
If folks are really concerned with violent rhetoric on television, maybe they ought to begin with Ed Schultz, for there is likely no more consistently over the top and virulent commentator on any national network.
But then again, he would need an audience for someone to notice.
Oh oh! Looks like someone's
Submitted by Bruzilla on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 10:57am.
Oh oh! Looks like someone's been called in on the carpet and told he needs to get his numbers up or he'll be working for a free e-paper with Helen Thomas!
Hey Special Ed, Tell me how
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:03am.
Hey Special Ed,
Tell me how you are going to fight an ideological war if you don't have any ammo?
Scoob,
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 6:01pm.
Well, he could always sit on you.
:-O
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
spike the ball???????????
Submitted by Cyborg 0427 on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:04am.
This would leave a broad defination to the term. Sounds more like an idiot compleately showing his total ignorance while having his head up the collective liberal behind so far that this will be the only point of view he could possibly ever see. What i wonder is did he even attempt to show any real concern for any of the real victims of this tragic event? So far all I have heard is these liberal talking heads doing their best to make this Bill Ayers brainwashed moron the victim.
more like the streaker
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:17am.
He is not the player on the field but...the streaker who grabs the ball and runs in fenzied circles.
Disrupting the game and showing more then any one really wants to see.
Ed, If you'd only take the
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:23am.
Ed, If you'd only take the hand in your pocket with the hole in it out once in a while, you'd be way more convincing.
Barack_Must_Go.....
So let me see...............
Submitted by Patriot II on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 11:36am.
Isn't this the kind of brainless speech, this A.H. and other liberal maniacs accuse the conservatives of using and stirring up the nutcases? hummm hypocritical nutcase for sure!!!
RE: Ed Schultz Last Wednesday
Submitted by Popeyecpo on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 12:14pm.
I wonder if there is a common trend here lets see Olbermann, Krugman and now Schultz , wasn't there another man who held the hateful socialist/fascist views? The bunker mentality perhaps?
This is America and we shall depite the hateful attempts of the left have an honest discussion of politics and the lone wolf loosers will not change us. The left can continue to demonize the conservatives but this is good against evil. GOD knows the name of every baby that is martyred by the left. We know all the attempts to bash Judeo Christians and deface their symbols. The left is always trying to warm up the ovens. We know how the story ends and we win. GOD Bless America!!
Preaching to the choir
Submitted by alltoosimple on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 12:28pm.
It's pretty funny that he was apologizing to his viewer for using the word "bastard". I'm pretty sure his wife knows he is prone to salty language.
Ed couldn't fight his way out
Submitted by rwesley2.0 on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 12:32pm.
Ed couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag. This is embarassing to watch a grown man melt down like the Wicked Witch in TheWizard of Oz.
Nope, no violent rhetoric
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 1:16pm.
Nope, no violent rhetoric here, folks. Keep moving.
Eddie would be better off if
Submitted by celator on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 3:22pm.
Eddie would be better off if he did battle with the crazy monkeys dancing in his head, rather than with the GOP.
Speaking of crazy
Submitted by ckc1227 on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 5:53pm.
Does Ed still want to burn down MSNBC? And what's really scary if he is also a gun owner. Yikes!
Meanwhile, since no one watches your show, Ed, can it really be considered fighting? Guess you'll just have to beat on yourself.
Ed, outsourcing...hmmm, who
Submitted by ed gibbon on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 8:37pm.
Ed, outsourcing...hmmm, who was it again that pushed - rightfully in my view - NAFTA? Oh ya, wasn't it Bill Clinton::::::::Gore vs. Perot "debating" it on Larry King, perhaps it completely slipped his memory....
Bill Daley (is he a democrat...? anybody, is that right?!) now white house chief of staff:
In 1993, he served as special counsel to the President on issues relating to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). [6]In 1997, Daley became Secretary of Commerce in the second administration of President Bill Clinton, and he remained at that post until July 2000, when he resigned to campaign for the Vice President.
Shultz, he just doesn't realize that the world has changed and America must change with it, or fall into full decline. Must be tough for a guy that views Maxine Waters as mainstream...
Absolute FOOL
P.S. speaking of short term memory, I guess the democrats were doing all they could to help the last president succeed, right ED?...UTTER FOOL