Ed Schultz on Walker Win: 'Not Going to be an Easy Night for Many Broadcasters Who Are Liberal'
In response to the news that Republican Governor Scott Walker won his recall battle in Wisconsin Tuesday, MSNBC's Ed Schultz spoke a truth that should be a total embarrassment for the entire journalism industry.
"This is not going to be an easy night for many broadcasters who are liberal" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
ED SCHULTZ: This is not going to be an easy night for many broadcasters who are liberal. This is not going to be an easy night for this broadcaster. To say that I’m shocked and stunned is pretty much an understatement. But I also think that it is a real warning to Americans that money is now infiltrated into our political system like we have never seen before, and the ruling by Citizens United is now a real message to every American.
It is going to take an insurmountable amount of effort on the ground for the progressive movement and the Democrats to do what they need to do in 2012. And this is also a real message to local politics that this money will filter down, and Citizens United will affect federal and state elections over time.
Isn't it amazing that folks like Schultz weren't at all concerned about the money in politics in 2008 when Barack Obama spent more than any candidate in history?
And isn't it also telling that folks like Schultz are never concerned about all the money labor unions spend on Democrats in elections across the fruited plain?
But now that the playing field has been leveled, money in politics is destroying the country.
Maybe more importantly, given this man's total advocacy for the defeat of a duly elected governor since this recall effort first began, are the folks at MSNBC, NBC, and Comcast going to finally realize that this is not a journalist, and he has no business anchoring a program for a so-called news network?
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My God, Ed's face in that
Submitted by LinTaylor on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 11:50pm.
My God, Ed's face in that last pic...it looks like someone peeling off a bad rubber mask of Al Gore.
It is going to take an
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 11:52pm.
It is going to take an insurmountable amount of effort on the ground for the progressive movement and the Democrats to do what they need to do in 2012...
I sure as hell hope so! And I hope conservatives make them spend and spend and spend, and drive them deep into the ground
Ahhh, the brilliance of special ed:
Submitted by Diesel on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 9:17am.
""""It is going to take an insurmountable amount of effort"""" ---Meaning, they won't be able to do chit!
LMAO at the stupidity of the left!
Lean Forward all you Progressive Pukes!
Hey, Ed!! Is Baracka going to resign now?
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:00am.
After all, there'll never be another dem president. You told us so. So, why don't you prevail on Baracka to quit now, before he spends all that evil money he's collected?
Because "money is now infiltrated into our political system like we have never seen before", right? So tell him to stop collecting money.
Maybe more importantly...
Submitted by Guapo Diablo on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:06am.
"Maybe more importantly, given this man's total advocacy for the defeat of a duly elected governor since this recall effort first began, are the folks at MSNBC, NBC, and Comcast going to finally realize that this is not a journalist, and he has no business anchoring a program for a so-called news network?"
I think this will happen when we no longer see fat guys at buffets.
'Not Going to be an Easy
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:11am.
'Not Going to be an Easy Night for Many Broadcasters Who Are Liberal'
<Scratch, scratch, scribble, scribble.>
'Not Going to be an Easy Night for Many Broadcasters Who Are Goonion-Supporting Communists'
There, I fixed it for you, you fat, disgusting, freedom-hating, anti-American commie puke.
Up yours, Red Ed.
Sideways.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:46am.
Perfect comment. You hit all angles.........even sideways!! Love it
grammajane,
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:56am.
Despite the fact that I have become somewhat edgy around here over the last couple of years (okay, make that A LOT edgy), there are still times when it is fun being me.
LOL - And this is one of those times. :-D
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:09pm.
Don't ever stop being edgy!! I have quoted your remarks many times and always get a laugh
Ed the Fat Pig
Submitted by mmilesll on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:16am.
Walker's slaughter of Barnett is a wonderful thing. Wonder how Ed, the pos is going to handle this. Maybe he will be so upset that he will run away from broadcasting and do a job he is almost qualified for, front counter at Burger King
Burger King Employees
Submitted by ronljl on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 2:17am.
You do realize that you have maligned all the kids that work behind the counter of BK and all other such purveyors of cow flesh. Most of these kids are trying to earn a little money for a few hours of their days traded in exchange for suffering though hours of having to put up with people like ol’ Ed here. It's bad enough have to serve such an intellectually stimulating person as Ed Schultz, but to be stuck with an over blown a** as that for hours on end at work. God forbid!!!
Fatso
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:17am.
said Walker will be indicted in a few days on the Real Politics web. What would he be indicted for?
A Freudian slip, since Dan
Submitted by robert108 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:20am.
A Freudian slip, since Dan Rather just told us that broadcasters aren't liberal.
Bulging veins
Submitted by craig1304 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:26am.
I was waiting for Ed to have an attack of apoplexy on air when the results came in.
Ed "POS" Schultz
Submitted by minky on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 1:05am.
Leave it to "Special Ed" to conclude that the will of the Wisconsin voters was thwarted by evil corporate money. What a sorry-ass punk!
Rachel
Submitted by robjh22 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 1:56am.
Anybody catch Maddow's show? She spent 10 minutes telling the audience that she was prepared to go late into the night covering this election. They apparently had a whole retrospective planned in anticipation of a successful recall. So what did they do? They ran with it because they didn't have anything else ready.
"It started with a surprise stripping of union rights, after the unions agreed to everything Walker asked for. But he said, no, that' not enough. I want you dead. And so Then there was a demonstration of a few hundred people in the snow. Then it grew. And grew! And grew!!!"
Each over-dramatic statement punctuated with another freeze frame of a growing lynch mob inside the state house like it was Gandhi throwing the British out of India.
Then there were the inevitable aspersions cast on the supreme court and the Citizens United case.
I'm sitting watching and wondering ... "and? So? Rachel, don't you know a lead balloon when you see one?"
It's over. Eat some crow and admit MSNBC helped to get those dumb crowds of thugs all worked up over nothing, beating their stupid drums and tambourines and blowing those hideous plastic horns. Yechhh!
For some reason I missed her show. Now, how could that...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 3:26am.
have happened?
Oh, I remember now. I have programmed my TV to skip the channel MSNBC comes on so I don't accidentally watch it even for a few seconds while channel surfing up and down the dial.
Ed Schultz has every right anchoring a program on a
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 2:22am.
network that has committed to a hard Left Progressive ideologue agenda. What else would you expect from a network that takes it's marching orders from Media Matters.
Remember what Phil Griffin, the President of MSNBC stated: 'I Don't Care About Journalists'
If you don't make the mistake of believing that MSNBC is a credible news organization, you won't be disappointed.
The purpose of MSNBC is not
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 2:45am.
The purpose of MSNBC is not to evangelize socialism to the unbelievers. The purpose of MSNBC is to be so absurdly and openly far to the Left that the regular Leftwing outlets (i.e. the ones that actually believe they are disguising their bias) will look middle of the road and reasonable. After being exposed to the absurdity of Schultz, Maddow, and Matthews "they" hope you will find the propagandists outside MSNBC like Anderson Cooper, Pierce Morgan, and George Stefanopolus much more reasonable and willing to consider.
The other goal is to make people believe that Fox is just the MSNBC of the right and therefore just as absurd and unworthy of respect.
(*) And, yes, when I wrote "they" I really did mean a "they" as in a bunch of puppeteers in a secret and smoky room pulling the strings on how to properly manipulate the public. I used to believe the leftwing media was like Al-queda where numerous independent elements were loosely working together to promote a specific agenda, but after seeing various elements of the media almost instantly blame Sarah Palin for the AZ shooting I realized there must be a coordinated effort going on here. Besides, it's not in a lefty's nature to think independently: they are collectivists by nature so they'd naturally seek out and create a power structure to obey.
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Rusty....Well said. To prove your point that
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:56pm.
"the other goal is to make people believe that Fox is just the MSNBC of the right", Drudge has a link to another Leftist Politico story titled The worst night on cable news. The Politico reporter, Dylan Byers, attempts to make the case that both MSNBC and Fox News are partisan ideologues, and that "Fox News was blatantly rooting for Gov. Walker." Only CNN was fair and balanced. Byers wrote of CNN's coverage:
CNN nonpartisan? Yeh, sure.It is a simple story. The good guys win and the bad...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 3:20am.
guys lose. Now if this repeats itself in November we will all be winners!
For once Special Ed™ is correct
Submitted by OxyCon on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 3:34am.
MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, CNN, PBS, NPR, NYT and WaPo are on suicide watch.
Jump! Jump!
Submitted by MikeB on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 6:26am.
Jump! Jump! Jump!
Buwahahahahaha!
Public Funding of Elections
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 5:18am.
I never watch Ed Schultz, except on nights like this when I can watch him eat a big sh*t sandwich. Schultz had Jessie Jackson on his show, and they were both calling for public funding of elections. Too bad they didn't have a balanced voice on his show that could have pointed out that we have had public funding of elections for a long time, but that public funding only supports the Democrat party. Public sector union dues, paid for by taxpayers, go directly to support Democrat candidates. You can't get more publicly funded than that.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
I'd be worried if I was Ed,
Submitted by DeclinesToState on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 5:41am.
I'd be worried if I was Ed, he was bought and paid for by the Unions and could not sway people with his irrational rants and Chris Matthews like slobbering..... any decent man would give the money back....
Decent? Man? DTS, you are
Submitted by MikeB on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 6:29am.
Decent? Man? DTS, you are talking about Ed Schultz here. Neither decency nor manhood are relevant factors when discussing Special Ed or prissy Chrissy.
Agreed
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:40am.
The man brags about his Canadian Dude Ranch and his private jet, and how he'll do what the hell he wants with his own money, while he tells others what they should do with theirs.
So we can add "shame" to the list of attributes that Ed lacks.
I think the right helped their ratings
Submitted by woburn828 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 6:46am.
Next weeks headlines: CNN and MSNBC see bump in ratings on election night. Yes, those of us on the right wanted to watch heads explode and we were not disappointed. I knew what Fox would report, the numbers and the outcomes. The left was reminded again they have no juice, no pull on voters.
The Jersey!
Submitted by Unsane on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 7:27am.
Screw the media, what I want to know is where the jersey the Shahinshah gave to Gov. Walker is at. If I were Walker I'd wave that thing around a bit.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Money 'evil?' How about Obama's $1b 'war chest?'
Submitted by ChrisNH on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 8:34am.
Well before Obama started to fail at everything he said and did, Leftists marveled at the $1 billion war chest he would amass for the general election. This was seen as such a tremendous milestone, they crowed, proof of his popularity, policies, and his vision. Now, however, 'money' is a bad thing. Mostly because Leftists want to declare that Walker's victory was all about money, and because their beloved Obama has not come close to that $1 billion war chest himself. People 'know when to fold 'em,' it would seem.
War chest
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 9:15am.
If we could place a value on the 'in kind' advertising done by the media for Obama then the $1 billion would be inconsequential. How much would it have cost for the four minute Bill Clinton campaign ad alone? But not only the air time but the free opposition research and spin.
If it comes down to an issue of Obama needing money - he still has his friends from overseas and the thousands who can, in a quasi- anonymous fashion, use credit cards on-line (not sure how that works but I know there was an inability to properly track the donations during the last election - especially because per donation they were of minimal amounts.)
Schultz still alive?
Submitted by adamsmith on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 8:57am.
Damn it!!!! I so hoped he'd pressure out at 450/320 bp and literally have his fat head explode on air....I guess now I have to wait for November 6, when the Commie-in-Chief gets the Big Pink Slip.......Ed, eat more salt, eat more fat, move as little as humanly possible....More Potato Chips and Ice Cream Big Guy. Let's get that pressure higher and higher, ya fat Commie Pinko.....
I'm just wondering...
Submitted by richflanj on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 8:59am.
if Chris Matthews' thrill up the leg has become a numbness in the collective MSM's left arm.
Better have paramedics standing by at MSDNC for the next week or so...... Naaaa, maybe not.
Not an easy night, huh Ed???
Submitted by Ozconservative on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:01am.
You think this is bad, wait until November!!
Here's hoping that poor Ed
Submitted by NMEwithin on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:25am.
Here's hoping that poor Ed pulls a Keith Olbermann and completely implodes over this...I bet he will. His Liberal brain can't wrap itself around the fact that the majority of Americans disagree with them...
Keep in mind that regardles of the number of times
Submitted by Rush Fan on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:19pm.
Ed Schultz implodes, he is imploding on a faux news network that promotes imploding.
boo hoo
Submitted by ohio granny on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 10:27am.
As Michelle Malkin says boo freaking hoo. Not everyone is crying, some of us a celebrating !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But OK For Soros To Give Millions!
Submitted by vixen on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:03am.
As if we ever had any doubt about Ed being unbiased! It's funny that big money is fine when it's rolling in for Barack Obama from Hollywood, Michael Moore, or any of the front groups of George Soros... And it was great when Bill Maher gave the Obama campaign a million dollars which was kept even after his continuous bashing of conservative women... yet somehow it's sinister for Republicans to raise a lot of money.
How can the commentators of MSNBC sit there and forget to say this was an affirmation of the people's choice for the governor of their state? The Democrats and progressives pushed for this waste of time and money in Wisconsin. The people looked at the FACTS concerning what Walker has done since he was elected. When presented with the truth and solid performance, they made sure he stayed in office, which was what they voted for the first time.
Broadcasters? Liberal?
Submitted by misterbee241 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:57am.
But I thought they were supposed to be impartial and objective. Ok, I'm being sarcastic.
Shocked and stunned?
Submitted by lgeubank on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:00pm.
All together now:
There's a tear in my beer,
And I'm crying for you dear.
You are on my lonely mind... [Boo hoo, sniff, gurgle, slobber...]
(I'll bet that Ed Schultz is one nasty drunk.)
ED SCHULTZ: "This is not going to be an easy night..."
Submitted by Tiger184 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:43pm.
.....for many broadcasters who are liberal. This is not going to be an easy night for this broadcaster."
Oh, you mean unlike 2008 when you and your libtard cronies were dancing, drinking and celebrating - in the face - of everyone that didn't vote for Barack Hussein Obama??
Boo hoo, Schultz.