Ed Schultz Rips Limbaugh With Lies About Wisconsin: 'Wrap Your Fat Ass In The Flag'
MSNBC's Ed Schultz was in Madison, Wisconsin, last week predictably showing solidarity with protesting public employees.
On Friday, the "Ed Show" host badly misrepresented Governor Scott Walker's budget repair plan in order to bash conservative talk radio star Rush Limbaugh at one point asking, "Hey, Rush, why don’t you wrap your fat ass in the flag?" (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):
ED SCHULTZ, HOST: Welcome back to THE ED SHOW in Madison, Wisconsin. It’s time for the Takedown. Bottom feeders? Free loaders? Those were words used today to describe our teachers, our nurses, and all of these hard working people standing right here with me tonight. Ironic, considering those words came from a guy making 50 million dollars a year. Yet Rush Limbaugh said today, "we are either on the side of the Wisconsin protesters or we are on the side of our country." He played a few sound bites from some of his fellow Americans here in Madison and he mocked them. Here it is.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: We have a montage here, protesters whining about what they want.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I’ve been teaching for over 25 years and I deserve respect for what I do. And I don’t deserve to have my rights taken away.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Walker wants to take away my rights and everybody else’s rights.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We’re making history. We’re making change. It’s necessary.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is like the ‘60s all over again.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think we’ve lost the sense of democracy. I feel like what people in Egypt are fighting for right now, that is exactly what I feel like I’m fighting for right now.
LIMBAUGH: What an absolute idiot. It’s a crying shame that this -- this -- this glittering jewel of colossal ignorance is teaching students, comparing this to Egypt. Most of us are more mature than to run around whining -- I want this. I want my dignity. I want my respect. And I want my this. And I want my health care. Well, go earn it. It’s not about what you want. In your case, it’s about what can be afforded. Trying to make themselves out to be oppressed. Not in Egypt. Bunch of people who feel entitled to be free loaders.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SCHULTZ: So, Americans, we are at a crossroads in America. We now have come to the conclusion from the conservative right, admitted by the Drugster himself, that if you want health care, if you want a pension, if you want some guarantees, education and protection in the work place, that you’re a freeloader. Did you know that? Did you know that you’re a free loader? Did you know that all of these Americans are free loaders? Did you know that?
Actually, that's not at all what Limbaugh or most folks on the right are saying.
Wisconsin, like so many states, has a budget deficit. Of course, Schultz lied about that on his program Friday telling his audience their state has a surplus, but that's just the beginning of the dishonesty on display.
Much of the state deficits around the country are caused by exploding costs associated with employee benefits packages negotiated by various unions. In order to balance these budgets, governors and state legislatures must be able to address employee compensation or there is no way to fix the problem.
In Wisconsin, as a result of years of the unions there negotiating absolutely spectacular contracts, public employees currently pay virtually nothing for their healthcare plans and their pensions. To assist him in balancing his state's budget, the newly-elected governor, Scott Walker, wants to increase the employee's share of the cost to a level that would still put it far below the national average for public employees and even further below the national average for private sector workers.
But the public employees in Wisconsin don't want that, and instead have left their jobs, and in some cases the children they're paid to educate, to gather at the Capitol to protest.
This, in the view of Limbaugh and others on the right, makes them freeloaders, for they are refusing to make even modest personal contributions to help solve the budget crisis in their state.
To put this in further context, Wisconsin's MacIver Institute one year ago reported that the average Milwaukee public school teacher's total compensation when benefits are included is over $100,000 (h/t Michelle Malkin). Yet these folks are refusing to have any increase to what they contribute for said benefits.
Not surprisingly, Schultz doesn't care about any of that, and would rather excoriate those on the right that are actually telling the whole story rather than acting as advocates for the protesters:
SCHULTZ: I’ll tell you what bothers me about the conservative right. They told us on 9/11, we will never forget. They told us on 9/11 that we’ll be together, that we’re Americans. They wrapped themselves in the flag. And Limbaugh was right in the middle of all of them saying, we’ll never forget. You remember those hats? New York Fire Department? Do you remember those brothers and sisters? Now, didn’t they go into the Towers to try to save fellow Americans?
Well, you know what? Limbaugh thinks those people today are freeloaders. Yeah. Yeah.
Schultz was either lying again or demonstrating staggering ignorance of Walker's plan. As the Associated Press reported Monday, and as most people following this battle other than Schultz know, police, firefighters and state troopers are exempt.
Other than supporting their fellow union members, police, firefighters, and state troopers have absolutely nothing to do with this budget battle. Nothing.
Despite this immutable fact, Schultz dishonestly included them in his defense of the protesters.
As I asked Saturday, "Are there any consequences for blatant misrepresentations at MSNBC, or is it standard operating procedure?"
Apparently it's the latter, for Schultz, armed with out-and-out falsehoods, continued his attack on Limbaugh:
SCHULTZ: Now, maybe it’s understandable that a guy who tried to go to college but dropped out wouldn’t respect teachers. But I will say this tonight to America: if you want to follow the Limbaughs and the Becks of the world, and you want to turn your back on firefighters, you want to turn your back on police officers, you want to turn your back on nurses, you want to turn your back on brothers and sisters who have stood in solidarity to fight for the middle class in America, is that -- is that wrapping yourself in the flag?
No, wait a minute. No, no, no. The conservative right in this country, they say you’re nothing but a bunch of free loaders. That’s what they say.
Hey, Rush, why don’t you wrap your fat ass in the flag on Monday?
Actually, the question should be, "Hey, Ed, why don't you read Walker's bill Monday?"
Alas, as we learned during the healthcare debate last year, liberals don't like reading bills. They'd rather just pass them or comment on them without any real knowledge of the contents.
Schultz's employers must be so proud of the ignorance on display on their network every evening.
(H/T Mediaite)
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Heh
Submitted by Jamson64 on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 11:45am.
Schultz talking about fat. Now that is funny.
NB is tearing Schultzie a new one. Nothing more to add.
RIP IT OPEN
Submitted by Tomorama on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 11:47am.
Chris Christie and this guy Walker are my new heroes, many of us are on their sides as this scab is being exposed for what it is, WE the people who PAY their salaries etc, etc are tired of them getting a far better deal than ANY OF US GET.
Pay you're fair share and I have no beef at all, well besides the fact that too may of the "workers" don't really work... Not all, but too many.
As for Special ED, FAT, Ed, while you are reading Walker's bill, why not look in the mirror and check out the rolls and "Drugster" wow, how childish and petulant of an MessNBC genius NOT.....
that giant sucking sound....Ed's show
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 11:47am.
I realize it's only MSNBC but really.... is this the best they can do to fill air time with? There are old syndicated reruns available of popular entertainment shows that would get higher ratings so there must be a decision by corporate that this drivel is somehow important to air in spite of the loss of revenue.
Never fear. Reruns of shows
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:01pm.
Never fear. Reruns of shows like NCIS, Law and Order: SVU, and CSI are eating their lunch on USA. When MESSNBC showed Lockup in the place of Ed, it almost tripled his ratings. It beat Gretha on Fox-something Ed has never been able to do
MA
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:00pm.
I just finished watching the coat of paint dry on a table and then double checked MSNBC. The table was far more interesting.
where is the lib angst over this "Government shutdown?"
Submitted by merly1 on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 11:54am.
and, even worse, it spilled over into school shutdowns.............................the Schultz's and his ilk really have no limits to their hypocrisy, exemplified I guess by his fat insults. Newt and Repubs were brutalized and blamed for the 1995 govt shutdown, but isnt WI clearly a govt shutdown by one party on the run--to a spa no less? Where is the outrage?
Limbaugh vs. Schultz
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 1:13pm.
Usually I would pass on commenting about these two bastions of outrageous ideology fight each other,, but in this case, Limbaugh has it right.
Once again...
Submitted by NeoKong on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 11:58am.
An MSNBC host openly insulting someone by name in an attempt to pick a fight in hopes that his name will be mentioned by someone who actually has ratings. If Rush Limbaugh spoke Schultz's name on his show more people would hear it than in a whole month of MSNBC shows. The guy is a joke.
Fat Ed-250,000 viewers give
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:08pm.
Fat Ed-250,000 viewers give or take 1000 or so. Rush-last I heard it was around 20 million. MESSNBC cab brag about one thing. They are beating Oprah's network and Owl Gore's Current.
Noel
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:11pm.
An eight minute clip of the Ed Show? I'm sorry I don't have the intestinal fortitude for that much Ed. Thanks for posting the transcript!
Agreed. 8 minutes?
Submitted by Texndoc on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 3:22pm.
I always click on the MSNBC videos. Under 2 minutes usually gets viewed by me. Can not stomach 8.
I'll say it
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:28pm.
they are freeloaders.
Unions have been the downfall of production in this country and the main reason so many jobs are shipped overseas. How is it possible that it's cheaper to the consumer for companies to manage their production from the US while their product is produced in Asia and shipped across the Pacific for distribution in the US? Labor costs. Why are there next to zero electronics produced in the US? Labor costs. Why did the Japanese auto manufacturers gain such a foothold in the US? Labor costs. And on and on and on it goes.
And public unions are the absolute pinacle of greedy freeloaders. They work x number of hours and are paid by their neighbors. They get sick and go to the doctor and their neighbor pays the co-pay. They retire at 50 and their neighbor pays their pension. And in many cases, their work effort is far below that of what would be expected or required in a private firm. Public unions are composed of far too many who would otherwise fail to land a position in the private sector, or are taught to be less productive once within the union.
Of course, there are no absolutes -I'm sure there are good, hard-working and productive Americans within the public union umbrella, but you can bet they're secretly pretty pissed off for carrying the load.
Yet again
Submitted by Doktor Riktor V... on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:29pm.
... the new "civility" as shown by the neomarxists sets the tone.
Close, Dok.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:42pm.
Except there ain't nothing "neo' about these marxists. They are cut from the same rotten cloth as their forefathers in the movement.
And can you believe lard ass says to Rush, "wrap your fat ass in the flag?" That's like me calling someone else "worthless!" Nobody can touch me on that count (no brag, just fact).
Big Man on Campus....
Submitted by adamsmith on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:36pm.
He's a friggin cheerleader for the freeloaders. This is journalism? So much for civility on both sides,huh Ed? I catch a couple of minutes of this freak show every so often waiting for him to have an on-air stroke. If they took a blood sample of this fat POS, it would be pure Wisconsin cheddar......communist douchebag......
That blood sample would also
Submitted by Diesel on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 5:24pm.
That blood sample would also include cheap scotch & milwaukee's best ice.
Freakin' alky was soused in public, inciting people (idiots) to riot and the worthless madison po-po just stand there.
To hell with you badger fools. You just ruined the packers superbowl for me. Morons!
BTW, if unions are so damned great, why isn't every job unionized?? Oh yeah, there wouldn't be enough suckers....I mean taxpayers, to pay for it all.
"Freeloaders"
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:40pm.
Actually, government monopoly freeloaders.
Institute a system of vouchers where the citizens of a local community can send their children to the school of their choice. Let the "public" school system compete with the private or charter schools for those tax dollars. When that system is in place, we'll no longer have teachers who have plead guilty to prostitution being placed on paid administrative leave. And we can look with pride once again at the teaching profession and not view these unionized, government monopolized jobs as freeloaders of a failed educational system.
*As a follow up, the teacher involved in this case has resigned from her job, thank goodness.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Two Comparative Measures
Submitted by Caringwhiteguy on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:47pm.
I'd like to put one of those calipers they use to measure body fat on Rush and then on Sgt. Schultz. Then I'd like to have both of them take an IQ test.
Let's see, when you expect
Submitted by fitzfong on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 1:28pm.
Let's see, when you expect the productive, private sector class of your state (most, including single people, childless married couples, the elderly and families with children enrolled in private schools, who receive absolutely no "benefit" from the public schools) to almost entirely subsidize your gold-plated health care plan, your pension and your highly distorted salary, what would Special Ed call you, a patriot? Freeloader is actually a kind term for what these greedy, entitled thugs are. They exist not to produce, but to consume the productivity of others...they're PARASITES. And if they succeed in their grift, they will bleed their host, the State of Wisconsin dry and move towards an even bigger host...the rest of the country.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
If Ed wrapped HIS big butt...
Submitted by nkviking75 on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 1:35pm.
If the Sarge were to do what he told Rush to do, he'd need one of those flags they stretch out at ballparks before games.
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Get your sick-chit, Special Ed
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 1:45pm.
There are numerous quacks handing out fraudulent medical treatment notes to striking teachers to justify their use of sick days to shut down schools. Fox News filmed one of them giving one to a Fox staffer.
Since Schultz is on the scene, he should get a note from one of the quacks dated "21st Century."
This Is Like the 60's All Over Again! Said a Protester!
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 1:57pm.
I have said before and I will say again! Liberals are still under the effect of whatever drugs they took in the 60's. How else can you explain them being so out of touch with reality?
It is 2011 people -- get with the program!
Your RIGHTS?????
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 2:22pm.
I don’t deserve to have my rights taken away. Walker wants to take away my rights and everybody else’s rights.When the HELL did health insurance and a pension plan paid for by someone else (the taxpayers) become RIGHTS???
This is a "moron chip" problem.
I don't know what 'rights'
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 2:27pm.
I don't know what 'rights' these people have that are being taken away, and I'm not sure about the 'respect' that they feel they haven't been given, or any of those other complaints........maybe they should talk to their union bosses. Here in Hawaii, I think there are secretaries and other office workers over at the teacher's union that are making more money, with more perks, than the teachers - who are out at the schools doing the REAL work - are making. And with the 'furlough' days that have been going on here, I would bet that the teachers and other government employees are feeling it in their paychecks - but I doubt if the unions are.............
And, of COURSE you knew that the Make-It-Up-Media just HAD to figure out some way to compare this to Egypt, or Bahrain, or Libya.......................they're probably HOPING that the cops, or the army, would come in and shoot someone - that would solidify their whole story.
As for Shultz............ahhhhh, why bother...........the guy is a moron. Like the other poster said, measure body fat, then measure intelligence.................it'll be quite a contrast.
Gratitude Noel!
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 2:33pm.
Thanks for reporting on "Sgt." Schultz"s latest rantings. I refuse to listen to him or Rachel "Esn. Will Crusher" Madcow because I have discoverd that I can not get that time back once it is spent. It also makes my head hurt realizing that there are people getting paid to spout such misinformed stoopidity.
Ed has his fat ass wrapped in
Submitted by Cowboy on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 2:51pm.
Ed has his fat ass wrapped in a hammer and sickel flag with a crescent moon. He's just confused again... pretty much a daily thing...
What ever they're for, I'm against
Submitted by Diesel on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 4:34pm.
MSNBC's Ed Schultz was in Madison, Wisconsin, last week predictably showing solidarity with protesting public employees.What more proof does anyone need to know that public sector unions are indeed the enemy?
Schultz shows himself to be a
Submitted by tampamom25 on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 4:49pm.
Schultz shows himself to be a typical liberal.....no valid arguments, no rational case to make, so I'll get loud, tell lies and call names. I know you have to report this stuff, but I sure get tired of the left and their temper tantrums when they don't get their own way. The teachers that walked out should be fired and bravo Gov. Walker for standing up under the pressure while you're trying to save your state!
Schultz Talks to Obama's Professional Freeloaders
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 5:09pm.
I am originally from Indiana and none of the people who Ed Schultz talked to sounded like they were from Wisconsin to me. Did Obama truck them in or did MSNBC?
Ed, you are the vanguard of a new breed.
Submitted by Mike Bratton on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 5:37pm.
You're the poster-child for people who don't have the fortitude to talk tough face-to-face, but will wail like a professional wrestler face-to-camera, or face-to-computer screen.
--Mike
Desperate times
Submitted by Bob K on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 8:34pm.
call for desperate mesures. He is trying to bump his ratings in order to stave off his removal from the MSNBC Cavalcade of D-Bags. Give it up Eddie and surrender to the inevitable.
Special Ed whose non-union,
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 8:52pm.
Special Ed whose non-union, fly by night construction company survives by leaching off the stimulus bill.Specil Ed the exploiter of canadian indians at his canadaian gay dude ranch. Special Ed who invests his money in foriegn countries. Special Ed the loud mouth alcoholic wife beater. Need I continue?
Can someone please explain to me......
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 9:42pm.
......how collective bargaining, by public employees benefits me, the public, whom those employees, by virtue of their employer, serve?
**
Side note, this is rather interesting.......
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/02/dems_have_boxed_themselves_i...
Executive Order 13522
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 9:53pm.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/obama-p...
No chance Ed
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 10:57pm.
Does Ed Schultz seriously believe that Rush Limbaugh is even going to acknowledge his comments? Most likely, Limbaugh will totally ignore the guy so he does not help Sargent Schultz's ratings. Some California legislator wanted an apology from Limbaugh a few weeks ago and Rush completely ignored the guy. Good luck with that Fatty Ed.
Flag Big Enough?
Submitted by tvhall on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 11:19pm.
Where would you find a flag big enough for Ed to wrap his ass in the flag?
Why triple Ed's exposure by
Submitted by Cowboy on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 11:23pm.
Why triple Ed's exposure by writing about him at all? Let him disappear like just another fart in the wind...
I love Lucy...
Submitted by wizardjr on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 3:05am.
I'll bet 'I Love Lucy' reruns would triple the viewer number in his time slot.
"Oh my, what a maroon." - B. Bunny
Toys?!?!?!?!
Submitted by catnamedjake on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 9:57am.
Ed looks a lot like Burgermeister-Meisterburger from "Santa Claus is coming to town". Were Rankin/Bass phsychic?
Ed Schultz, pathological
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 10:45am.
Ed Schultz, pathological liar. The sooner he is off the air, the better. He's an embarrassment to the human race. Schultz has wrapped his fat ass in some flag of socialism.