Ingraham Accepts Schultz's Apology, Asks Him to Return to Conservatism: 'Come Back Lost Sheep'
As NewsBusters has been reporting, MSNBC's Ed Schultz apologized Wednesday for his disgraceful comments concerning talk radio host Laura Ingraham.
On Thursday, Ingraham accepted Schultz's apology on her radio show, and after noting how her antagonist was once a conservative said, "Please come back lost sheep...We’ll welcome you back with open arms" (audio follows with partial transcript and commentary):
LAURA INGRAHAM: I told my staff I didn’t want to really discuss this today because we have really important stuff out there happening to our country and people suffering in this country – really suffering. And all you have to do is look at the news coverage of the Midwest ravaged by tornadoes. Read stories about people who are trying to find jobs in this economy, and that’s suffering. That’s, those are problems. What someone said about me on a show, vile not vile, I mean. To me, stuff is always said about me, right? […]
The more vile the thing that is said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn’t bother me at all. I heard about it yesterday during the show. I thought so little about it, I didn’t even mention it yesterday. I heard it before the show started, someone had emailed the website about it. And Ed Schultz said something about me on a show that was not all that nice, to say the least, it was pretty crude. And he apologized and I accept his apology. It seemed heartfelt. It seemed like he really wished he hadn’t said it, and I accept that apology. […]
So Ed, apology accepted. I wish him the best, I wish his family the best, and he used to be a conservative.
RAYMOND ARROYO: Really?
INGRAHAM: Yeah, Ed Schultz was a big conservative, and at one point last night, he really, you looked at him and you thought, “This guy’s a conservative.” Talking about his family, his grandfather…
ARROYO: Father of six.
INGRAHAM: Father of six, grandparents, kind of a strong guy, and somehow he went down this road of sad and really, really lost liberalism. We hope you’ll come back, Ed. Please come back lost sheep. We’re waiting for the prodigal son. We’ll welcome you back with open arms.
Yes, we'll welcome him back, but prior to that point, one has to wonder what happens to Schultz after he serves his one week suspension.
After all, those that have been following NewsBusters' coverage of this MSNBC commentator know that we've been warning our readers about this loose cannon, and wondering if anyone at his network is at all aware of the vile, reprehensible stuff he says about conservatives on almost a nightly basis.
Here are some recent examples:
And who can forget our favorite: "MSNBC's Ed Schultz Erupts: ‘Republicans Want to See You Dead!’
Yep, this man has been completely unhinged for years, and with Keith Olbermann gone, represents the most consistently vile and unashamedly hateful commentator on MSNBC.
Maybe folks at NBC, Comcast, and General Electric - who clearly have been ignoring Schultz's behavior for years - should spend his suspension week looking at footage of his work and decide if this is what they really want representing them.
If they need any examples of when he's clearly gone over the line prior to this episode, we'd be happy to oblige.
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Schultz is a scammer looking
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 4:08pm.
Schultz is a scammer looking to make a buck, he has no integrity or standards, left the can keep him, he isn't intelligent enough to be a conservative. We need to keep him on the left where he can do the most damage too them.
Depsite Laura's humorous plea for Special Ed's return . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 4:30pm.
. . . I think he's perfect right where he is. Conservatives don't need this counter-intellectual rants. Let 'im keep barking at the passing cars.
Da almighty greenback................
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 4:31pm.
I agree LAM, how does one guy from being a Conservative to the farthest throes of left of left nitwithood?
How does one make that trip?
Greenbacks perhaps?
Laura, gracefully and with a gorgeous twinkle in her eyes accepts the apology and skewers the fat fraud at the same time.
We could use her as our spokeswoman.
What about crazy larry?
Submitted by notinstl on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 4:44pm.
O'Donnell is as likely to have his head explode as anyone on msnbc....and could someone PLEASE tell mika to stop making faces? thanks in advance
Weeping for dollars, not shame.
Submitted by P. Aaron on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 4:47pm.
Don't care what the idiot does. He's slobberin' up because he realizes that his job is on the line & few would hire him elsewhere at the decent pay NBC is offering.
Ed's ideological shift was the recognition of a market opening
Submitted by OffTheLows on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 4:55pm.
Let's get real. He knew he was getting nowhere in a crowded talk radio field on the right and with a republican president in office, the opportunity was ripe for him to change stripes. If Randi Rhodes had anything right, it was that Schultz was/is a fraud.
he was never a conservative...ever
Submitted by scarletandgold on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 4:58pm.
he has allways been the opertunist he is now...he,s niether a conservative or a progressive...he sold his soul to who ever can pimp him out for the most money which is msnbc and whoever else owns his radio show....he,s a pitifull excuse for a man and an american....please stay where your at ed..we need you there.because a mope like you will allways land flat on your face...
To be honest . . .
Submitted by Lakewood Ed on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 5:02pm.
I would not want a conservative voice such as his.
It is better for us that he remains where he is.
Besides would you trust flip flip-flopper?
Schultz exposes the
Submitted by Van Halen on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 5:11pm.
Schultz exposes the woman-hating agenda of the Left.
Schultz gets suspended.
Ingraham acts in a classy way.
Win-win all around.
TEA!
He was a conservative?
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 6:36pm.
I dont want him back on our team-we got him down, now lets KNOCK HIM OUT! COME ON, ROCK, YOU CAN DO IT!
no such thing
Submitted by russedav on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 7:37pm.
In calling "ex-conservative" Schultz back to that "fold" dear Laura (and doubtless most in the historically and especially Biblically IL-literate west, including most professing "christians") fails to recognize what our historically and especially Biblically literate Founders knew: there's no such thing as the "liberal"/"conservative" divide secularists who improperly like to "use" Christianity for their inaccurate "mom and apple pie" image imagine. Our Founders rather knew what God Himself teaches in His Word, the Bible, that whatever is not of faith is sin, that excludes secularism and secularists. Romans 14:23. Jesus is The Way, The Truth and The Life and no one comes to the Father but by Him. John 14:6. Secularists need not apply unless they wake up to the erroneous nature of their fundamentals whereby those who supported McCain and those who supported the obamanation were indistinguishable from a Biblical standpoint. Our Founders ordered Bibles to be printed as one of their first order priorities in the newly created Congress. Our very different, antithetical priorities insure our fatal demise they promised us for abandoning God and His Word far more than theirs insured their rise. Only God can save us now.
Say WHAT?
Submitted by ckc1227 on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 7:44pm.
"We hope you’ll come back, Ed. Please come back lost sheep. We’re waiting for the prodigal son. We’ll welcome you back with open arms."
Yeah....I don't think so, Laura.
vile and reprehensible?
Submitted by alvin on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 7:49pm.
Not so (just the truth}:
Ed Schultz Asks Al Sharpton: 'If Obama Was White Would We Be Seeking His Birth Certificate?'
What is :
I think the president has a deep seated hatred of white people. Glenn Beck - note no suspension
Alvin
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 8:59pm.
So your opinion is that anyone that has a less than Messiahic opinion of Obama should be suspended? Secondly did Fat Ed get suspended for his question to Rev. Al? Suggest that you buy a box of straws. Will cut down on your grasping tremendously!
Alvin, Alvin, ALVINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 9:38pm.
How could one come to that sort of conclusion Alvin and the shitmunks?
Lemme see, 20 years in a race baiting, anti-jew church of a pastor that really hates this country.
Lemme see part two, "My grandmother is a typical white person" ????????
Lemme see part three "Some folks when the get frustrated, they uh, uh, h, uh cling to their guns and religion".....
Now genius, you were saying?
Lemme see part four, I BET MY NEXT CHECK, when we get to see Barry's college thesis it is anti-american and anti-white.
Why else pay millions to hide his and Mooochelle's?
We already know part of her thesis was anti-white folks.
Lemme see part six, "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country"...... OR, "America is a downright mean country"......
Consider yourself schooled brutally.
alvin is quite---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 11:28pm.
the comic.
MD
LAURA INGRAHAM is classy. Her
Submitted by amyshulk on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 10:09pm.
LAURA INGRAHAM is classy. Her "come back" was tongue in check IMO.
Ronald Reagan