Was Ed Schultz Slamming 'No Labels' Group - or Joe Scarborough

December 21st, 2010 9:39 PM
Sounded to me like Scarborough was the actual target. Perhaps you'll agree. Here's the easily angered Ed Schultz on his radio show yesterday, lashing out at the so-called "No Labels" organization whose most prominent members include fellow MSNBC pundit and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough (audio here) --

Kurtz Seems to Condone Schultz Calling Limbaugh 'Drugster,' Palin 'Car

December 21st, 2010 7:21 PM
Howard Kurtz on Tuesday published a surprisingly glowing piece about one of the most hate-filled commentators on television. In "Rush Limbaugh's TV Nemesis" posted at the Daily Beast, Kurtz even seemed to condone Ed Schultz's disgusting pet names for Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Chris Christie:

Sharpton: Rush Limbaugh May Have to Attend FCC Hearings to Explain 'Ra

December 16th, 2010 8:33 PM
Al Sharpton said Thursday he spoke to the Federal Communications Commission about holding public hearings next year that Rush Limbaugh would be forced to attend to explain so-called "racist" statements he's made on the air. Chatting with MSNBC's Ed Schultz, Sharpton said he had a "very good meeting on Tuesday" with FCC officials and that "some of the commissioners" were interested enough in…

Ed Schultz Producer's Advice to Obama on Handling CEOs: 'Put a Gun t

December 16th, 2010 8:16 PM
Agreed, certain people should not be allowed access to firearms. Here's an example of one of those people. On his radio show yesterday, Ed Schultz was talking with his producer, James "Holmy" Holm, about Obama meeting with 20 of the nation's top CEOs that day. Also mentioned in the discussion was corporations holding back on $1.9 trillion in capital reserves. Such is the context for this…

Ed Schultz: Obama Did Better Job Selling Bush Tax Cuts Than Bush Ever

December 15th, 2010 8:39 PM
As one of the liberal media members that have expressed feeling betrayed by the President's recent tax compromise proposal, Ed Schultz on Wednesday said Barack Obama did a better job of selling the Bush tax cuts than George W. Bush ever did. So dismayed by today's 81 to 19 Senate vote in favor of the measure was the host of MSNBC's "The Ed Show" that he asked Nation magazine editor Katrina…

Ed Schultz Cuts Off GOP Strategist for Calling Him a Liar About ObamaC

December 15th, 2010 10:59 AM
Ed Schultz on Tuesday abruptly ended an interview with a Republican strategist when she accused him of lying to his audience about the significance of Monday's ruling striking down the Constitutionality of ObamaCare's mandate to buy health insurance. When the host of MSNBC's "The Ed Show" said, "It’s not a big key element of the health care bill," sparks began to fly (video follows with…

Medved Schools Schultz and Press on Tea Party and Obama's Tax Cuts

December 14th, 2010 11:15 AM
Liberal media members opposed to President Obama's tax cut compromise plan have been making the case that it's hypocritical of the Tea Party not to be universally against the measure given its impact on the deficit. After Ed Schultz and Bill Press not surprisingly took this view on Monday's "Ed Show," Michael Medved gave them both a much-needed education on the subject (video follows with…

Ed Schultz Indifferent to Westboro Baptist Protests - Until Elizabeth

December 12th, 2010 10:55 PM
Now they've really gone and done it as far as Ed Schultz is concerned. Speaking with Schultz on his radio show Thursday, Schultz's producer James Holm described plans by members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., notorious for their protests outside funerals of American soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, to stage a similar protest during the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards…

Ed Schultz Scurries From Challenge by Quickly Bailing on Caller to Rad

December 10th, 2010 10:08 PM
A profile in courage he's not. Ed Schultz, the MSNBC pundit most likely to seek a career in professional wrestling, showed what he's made of during a call to his radio show Wednesday (audio here) --

Schultz and Sharpton Take Limbaugh's MSNBC-is-Racist Joke Seriously

December 8th, 2010 9:02 PM
Can two grown men really be this dumb, or is their hatred for conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh so blinding they wouldn't know sarcasm if it punched them in the face? As tough as it might be to believe, Ed Schultz and Al Sharpton actually took seriously Limbaugh's joke that media outlets criticizing President Obama's tax compromise plan did so because they are racist (video follows…

Al Sharpton to Meet With FCC to Get 'Racist' Rush Limbaugh Off the Air

December 7th, 2010 11:22 AM
Al Sharpton on Monday said that he's going to be meeting with representatives of the FCC next week about revoking conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh's license. On a special 9PM edition of the "Ed Show," the Reverend didn't mince words (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Ed Schultz Challenges Dem Congresswoman on Bogus Claim

December 4th, 2010 8:49 PM
My hat's off to you, Ed. You've restored my faith in the possibility of liberals occasionally seeing the light. Here's an exchange between Schultz and Rep. Donna Edwards of Maryland on Schultz's radio show Thursday --

GOP Strategist Scolds Crazed Libtalker: 'What a Joke, I Hope We Never

December 4th, 2010 10:48 AM
GOP strategist Ron Christie had quite a run in with libtalker and former Air America personality Lionel on Friday. By the end of their segment together on MSNBC's "Ed Show," Christie was so fed up with Lionel's rude behavior he scolded, "What a joke, I hope we never see you again" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

By MSNBC Standards, GE's $16 Billion in Bailout Loans Compromises NBC

December 2nd, 2010 2:34 PM
Do a media company's political activities affect the way its subsidiaries report the news? The folks at MSNBC sure think so. That channel's hosts have insisted ad nauseum that Fox News parent company News Corporation's political actives compromise the ability of Fox to report the news fairly and accurately. But MSNBC has, as I have noted before, shilled for policies that would enrich its…