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Lib Radio Host Ed Schultz Admits Using ‘Fake Callers’ Coached by Congressional Dems

Mar. 9, 2011 7:04pm Meredith Jessup

In trying to get his progressive talk radio show off the ground at the start, host Ed Schultz candidly admitted Wednesday to using fake callers to fill air time. In addition, Schultz admits congressional Democrats helped coach callers on what to say:

h/t Radio Equalizer

Schultz’s shocking admissions comes as a George Soros-funded publication baselessly accuses conservative radio titans Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck of the same practice. As we reported Tuesday, all three hosts flatly deny the accusations.

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matinva
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:53pm
Another HUGE ‘I told you so’ for Rush. How long has Rush been saying, “Any time you hear liberals accusing conservatives of doing something, you can bet they’re up to their eyeballs in it.”?

‘Nuff said. Special Ed is a fraud, as are most liberals.

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- ILUVJESUS
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:34pm
  True. They knew that this was coming so they fired a lie off the bow.
  
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LiveNation
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:53pm
Well, how else would they know to cast the acqusation. I’d bet that anything the left has accued, has been tried by the left.
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psycodad36
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:52pm
surprised only that he fessed up,what would he be able to do ,as in performance that anyone would willingly pay to see or hear,except(spooky dude).all liberalism is a lie.they need to lie to get what they want,and that is YOUR subserviance.
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Diane TX
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:50pm
Great news!

WI Republicans pass anti-union bill by striping out financial parts! Ha! The unions are going nuts!
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- R. Wirz von Urikon
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:45pm
  Yeah!!!!!!!!
  
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- Don
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:26pm
  Good!!!
  
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- Tea-Bone
  Posted on March 11, 2011 at 3:10pm
  yee-haw! Let’s all git out an shoot our guns in th’ air!
  
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Smug
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:48pm
Truth be told he’s still paying people to call in. Why else would anyone give this piece of work the time of day.

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- Don
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:24pm
  Wow! Your really kind, piece of work. Come on you can do better than that. He is a bottom feeder at best.
  
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tinydd
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:48pm
Nothing to say on this waste of good air.
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kc_chiefsfan
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:47pm
Wow! And I had such high hopes and respect for Mr. Ed. This shouldn’t surprise anybody since no one even knew who he was at the beginning and nobody is really listening now! This just goes to show that everything the Left accuses the Conservatives of, THEY HAVE/ARE ALREADY DOING IT!
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LadyLibertykicksASS
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:45pm
I’d really love to know Who the Congressional Democrats were; that were doing the coaching !!!!! Wouldn’t that be a stick of dynamite up someone’s keester…..LOL….. It could happen…karma has a way of working things out….Gotta love it.!!!!!
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rwsasinger
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:42pm
SHOCKING!!!!! OH NO…progressives are liars? My world now has no meaning.

This is too funny…He’ll get kudos from his lame ass friends….Shyster Shultz.

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Restored One
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:41pm
He has to hire callers because no listens to him. Guess what Ed, nobody stills listens to you. If it were not for the Blaze, you would have nobody replaying your gibberish.

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- Mainer forever
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 6:37am
  This is very true. I don’t ever listen to him. The ONLY time I see him is here on the Blaze. I don’t even play the video b/c he is so irritating to look at and irritating to listen to.
  
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BoilitDown
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:41pm
Ed has never made any secret of the fact that he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I didn’t think he’d be dumb enough to admit this fraud. Clearly, they assume Rush, Hannity and Beck are engaging in the same sort of phony politics they themselves use. “Projection”
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ThmsMgnm
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:41pm
Back in the old days of the Soviet Empire it was said that the CIA would frequently learn what the KGB was up to…..by reading or listening to what the Soviet Leaders alleged the CIA to be doing.
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LadyLibertykicksASS
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:40pm
You couldn’t pay me to talk to MR. ED….Must have cost them a fortune to pay off all those fake callers…LOL Liberals are such idiots!!!!
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Rickfromillinois
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:40pm
That explains it! I wondered who would be stupid enough to call this blabbering blowhard idiot, now we find out that they were paid and the Dems were directing them what to say. Ed you are a fat tool.
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N34W118
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:40pm
What a complete moron ……………

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Diane TX
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:40pm
Libs always accused others of doing wrong because they figure if they do it, everyone else must be doing it. A few days ago they accuses Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh of doing this.
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CURMUDGEON
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:39pm
Boom… Fail soros and your minions!! How does Ed live with himself?? Or, is that the source of the anger he exudes on air, being unable to escape himself and the lies he propagates.. I have never been so happy to not be somebody..

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N34W118
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:39pm
What a moron.

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Toastery
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:38pm
Ed you have got to be joking! Soros is going to be pi@@ed that you let out one of the LibSoProCommie crowd’s secrets! But, we all knew you couldn’t make in a legitimate world in alegitimate way!
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- Restored One
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:42pm
  He wont get paid tomorrow.
  
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poverty.sucks
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:36pm
One way to end an actors career.
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Daniel4
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:36pm
And what was it in this article that should surprise us?

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Contrarian51
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:36pm
Shocking admission? Well, I guess we could be shocked that he admitted it, but not that he did it.

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BigBouy
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:35pm
Still no callers Ed.

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- Tnredneck
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:31pm
  I called his show recently to see if he would let a conservative speak. I was shocked at how fast I got thru. The call taker seemed excited to actually have someone call. Of course he cut me off after I made a point and then he made a wise crack about how racist people from Tennessee are. No wonder his ratings stink.
  
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ElaineA
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:33pm
Is anybody surprised?

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- excelizen (a goal, not a title!)
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:51pm
  yes I am shocked! Why have we heard from the rest of them.. Janine Garraffalo(sp) etc…
BigBouy
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:33pm
What a surprise-not!

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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:36pm
  I thought Rush and Glenn were doing fake callers? Next we’ll find out fake callers were calling in to NPR. Liberals are crashing!
  
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- Islesfordian
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:44pm
  Yeah. Generally when the libs make an outrageous accusation, as they did about Rush, Glenn and Sean, it is because they do it themselves.
- Showtime
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:57pm
  You know what they say–
  He who points a finger has three more point right back.
  
  Gotta love karma!
- Resolved
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:58pm
  It would take coaching to get people to spout the kind of nonsense Ed airs on his show. I’m usually pretty forgiving of Liberals, though they disagree with me, I understand that many of them genuinely believe in their causes, they just don’t realize there’s an agenda behind it. But this guy gives Good Liberals a bad name.
  
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- Stuck_in_CA
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:58pm
  We all know the Left always does the things they accuse us of doing. Just another example of their indecent behavior.
  
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- spod
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:59pm
  Special Ed says, “I’ll be brutally honest, we did it. I don’t know if we (ever) paid the phone bill, but it’s somethin’ we did.”
  
  Special Ed… honest?? FAT chance!
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:23pm
  Maybe we aught to TROLL call his show and give him an ear full and tell him BYE bye…
  
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- paperpushermj
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:45pm
  It’s Show Biz Folks
  
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- Ruler4You
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:47pm
  A ‘scripted’ program is what is called a “show.” It’s fantasy. It’s make believe. But it’s also a good indication that intellectualism is the one thing being avoided. Just like Charlie Sheen.
- watchtheotherhand
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:21pm
  The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives.
  
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- HUGGINGMYBABIES
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:34pm
  Ed pays for everything…..I wonder if his “women” are coached by Pelosi or Waters???
  
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- beekeeper
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:39pm
  Really, Ed Schultz, the Bellicose bad boy of Liberal Talk Radio had Senators prep their interns to call in to his show to make the host look good…
  
  I’d like someone to find out who and when elected officials “pitched in” to help “old Ed” out
  
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- Tony
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:43pm
  Liberal talk show hosts and Democrat politician never accuse conservatives of anything they themselves aren’t doing. They think it will keep the conservaives from trying it.
  
  Interestingly Ed revealed that his liberal callers need to be provided with “talking points” and a democrat politician to teach them how to read the card. Conservative callers create their own “talking points” because they know and understand the issues and would never trust a politican on either side to tell them what to say or think.
- JD Carp
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:52pm
  Everybody knows you are a phony cardboard cut out.
  
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- drbage
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 10:27pm
  Oh my gosh and I thought that only VP Biden was an adherent of the “open mouth, insert foot” policy!
  Things must be shaking more than we think on the East Coast. Sibelius admits that they are double counting the revenue/expenditures in Ocare; Clownitano downs another imitation of deer in the headlights. Keep on asking the questions and they will trip over their own tongues!
  
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- FrankSpeak
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 10:32pm
  Maybe he’s worried about an expose revealing it.
  
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- drphil69
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 10:35pm
  This is standard operating procedure for libs, accuse conservatives of what they’re actually doing.
  Unfortunately, this works all the time on about 40% of the sheeple.
  
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- teachermitch32
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 10:38pm
  Interesting! I don’t recall needing any coaching or conservative edumacation to call into a talk show. and the libs need coaching. Really pathetic.
  
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- CultureWarriors
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 10:41pm
  Gee, who-da-thunk-it! Not only is Ed a loser with almost zero audience, he’s a fraud too! Ed makes Charlie look sane! Bam Losing!
  
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- CatB
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:12pm
  I said if they say something is being done by the other side .. it is what they themselves are doing .. it is called PROJECTION … A TYPICAL LIBERAL TACTIC!
  
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- restorehope
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:25pm
  The real question is why Mr. Ed admitted so readily to doing it? Wonder if O’Keefe is ready to spill the beans on him, and this is Ed’s preemptive confession to soften the damage?
  
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- exdem
  Posted on March 9, 2011 at 11:54pm
  Theres a reason Special Ed came clean. Maybe O’keefe has another expose’…. maybe on MSNBC…
  
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- Caffeinated Texan
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 12:48am
  Sergent Schultz needs to hire and coach callers for his show. Not enough people actually listen to it to fill up a callboard.
  
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- Jayk Signal
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:24am
  Well over 80% of the liberal commenters on news sites are paid. A majority of the liberals who post on conservative sites are paid. It wouldn’t surprise me if all of Sgt Schultz callers are paid in one form or another … maybe not all by him, but I’m sure Soros/Stimulus/SEIU dollars make it happen somehow.
  
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- IowaWoman
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 4:33am
  now it comes out. This is why they accuse Rush, Sean, and Glenn.
  
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- *************************
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 4:42am
  Ed “madman” Schultz … spilling the beans … really a Conservative plant? Hmmm …
  
  “They lose me right after the bunker scene.” -Adolf Hitler, Blazing Saddles
  
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- avenger
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 6:31am
  they are truly desperate creatures…..
  
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- drkmagneto
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 6:48am
  What an anti-climactic surprise! Sgt. Schultz had fake callers. Well, that goes along with the status quo on MSNBC, with Maddow reporting fake stories.
  
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- Uncle Crusty
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 7:41am
  Just another example of the big lie! Progressives are an underhanded, cheating lot, who will lie their arses off to show a point – this is the danger folks. When they lie like this, it sways opinions based on falsehoods, it divides our people, it is a cancer on our society! Progressives are one celled amoebas, brain dead animals, and for their crimes against this country may pay dearly for their dishonesty, and outright treason! Save the Constitution, stand up and speak your mind, to HELL with PC and progressives – they BOTH STINK to HIGH HELL!
  
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- Tomr
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 8:24am
  Even using fake callers, nobody knows who fat a$$ Ed is.
  
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- GODSAMERICA
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:08am
  Is soros going to wind up bringing down the lib wackos by accusing the conservatives of doing things which is forcing those same lib wackos to wind up admitting that they are doing it instead of Glenn, Rush, Sean and the others. The truth shall set us all free!
  
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- expatinontariocanada
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:13am
  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..yet again, and again, and again…you can bet the ranch that the LIBS/Progressives are doing EXACTLY whatever they’re accusing others of doing. EVERY STINKING TIME!
  
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- michael48
  Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:00am
  evidently ..Dems oral utterings are from anal orfices….the DEM-COMS have absolutely ZERO credibility….(D)=Dangerous…..
  
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