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Guess Which Big Time MSNBC Host Just Parted With Their Time Slot…

Mar. 14, 2013 8:01am Jonathon M. Seidl

Ed Schultz, the boisterous and bombastic MSNBC host, has parted with his lucrative 8pm time slot on the left-leaning networks. Instead, his show will now air on weekends (two hours on both Saturday and Sunday).

Schultz announced the move on his Wednesday show, saying he “volunteered.” But even the Huffington Post isn’t buying it: “Schultz presented the move as one he volunteered for, though previous reports have suggested that MSNBC was looking to replace him.”

In fact, the New York Times suggested last fall that Schultz’s shows was at risk of being moved in favor of some fresh blood — that according to NBC sources.

“I raised my hand for this assignment for a number of personal and professional reasons,” Schultz contended on Wednesday. “My fight on ‘The Ed Show’ has been for the workers and the middle class. This new time slot will give me the opportunity to produce and focus on stories that I care about and I know are important terribly to American families and American workers.”

“I’m going to be here at MSNBC for a long time,” he assured. “I’m not going anywhere.”

As for the reason for the change, HuffPo suggests it’s not necessarily numbers, as the host was the second highest-rated in February. Rather, it might be that the network is tiring of his antics:

The change may be one of tone rather than numbers. Schultz’s ratings have been solid — he was the second-highest-rated host on the network in February — but his barnstorming, Midwestern, labor-friendly brand of populist liberalism has come to look more and more at odds with the increasingly elite and wonkish tone taking hold on the rest of MSNBC. The network has spent its last year grooming hosts like Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry and Ezra Klein, all of whom bring a far different approach to their work than Schultz.

“It’s an exciting time for MSNBC, and I’m looking forward to having Ed’s powerful voice on our network for a long time,” NBC president Phil Griffin said despite the speculation.

Thursday will be Schultz’s last weekday show. The weekend assignment will start in April. No replacement has been named.

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spmcintyre
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:11am
Perhaps he is just moving to a more competitive time slot in order to try to figure out how to add a third hour to the show.

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coalfired
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:06am
He will probably end up with a job at the White House! He could take over for Carney.

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lessoneleg
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:06am
This is a socialist send off for Ed to either accept his fate or walk to Aljezeera TV.

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justasurvivor
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:03am
The only exciting time there could ever be at msnbc is if they started telling the truth.

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elosogrande
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:01am
He’s a talent-free stiff. Combine that with the fact that he’s just as stupid as the rest of the anchors at MSNBC, and you have to wonder why Comcast didn’t promote him.

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bandi9
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:58am
your fight has been for yourself, your tired ideas, and for the unions that pay you, you bag of trash

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deedsundone
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:57am
It is obvious that Sgt. Schultz is going to be brain storming with Morning Joe on how to revive Joe’s three hour radio show that has been on hiatus since 2010. And MSLSD wonders why they have a credibility gap. No one can just say “management moved me to weekends”.

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carhouse
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:52am
Hopefuly Mr. Rachel is next tio get the boot

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rochrealtor
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:51am
Geez…I can’t watch him then…that’s when I clean my toilets!! Sorry Eddy.

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noslave
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:48am
expect JOYLESS BAYINGWHORE to fill the slot,an even more rounded communist propaganda 24/7 station than before??

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SkunkWorks
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:41am
Everybody forgot about Erza Klein and his JournoList:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList

Look at all the reporters on the list and now look back in time to how they reported stories about people on the right. They were using the same dirty lie tactics they thought of during their Journolist forum conversations.:
JournoList contributor, Spencer Ackerman of The Washington Independent, stated “If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares – and call them racists”.[13]
Ackerman was also quoted as saying, “find a right winger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously, I mean this rhetorically.”

Now Erza Klein has a show on MSNBC and many of his guests are people from his JournoList.

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OneTermPresident
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:39am
” I’m looking forward to having Ed’s “propaganda” voice on our “propaganda network” for a long time,” NBC president Phil Griffin said despite the speculation.

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Arc
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:38am
Actually MSNBC needed someone to spell the security guard on weekends. Convenient huh???

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pookieamos
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:30am
Ed is an insane , whacko pig . It’s no wonder some Americans are whacked out when they watch him, Mathews and Madcow.

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VetMike
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:27am
If I had ten lifetimes I couldn’t list all the things I’d rather do than watch MSNBC.

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demsrtraitors
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:25am
such a shame so many innocent children in the world with cancer and yet this hateful loudmouth American traitor is still running his trap., where is the justice?

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- YourVoiceMatters
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:23am
  It happens when justice turns in to judgement ….there is not justice equal to what they have done to their country over decades…It is equal to a chavez (sp), whom I imagine now understands the difference (if he could come back and elaborate!) But being so ingrained in their own self-serving mantra, people at msnbc are incapable of anything else…including all laim stream media…they walk unscathed by their own actions…justice happens when all things being equal and liberty reigns unsullied! Judgement (Just desserts always comes at the end) is when you have run the course you’ve chosen and you have sealed your own fate…Face it, Justice does not exist when the blind fold has been removed! Ed merely has outlived his usefulness to that which he sold out to years ago! Judgment comes when he meets One who is just and he faces Ed’s own void…before Him…Whether we witness it remains unclear…either way Mr.Ed’s focus will not be on his audience but his destined fate…a choice Mr Ed chose for himself and tried to bring you alongside with his big mouth…and the mouth that roared will not be able to even give a defense….
  
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Listen_then_think
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:23am
Ha! never even heard of Ed except on GB.

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batteredtaxpayer
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:19am
They just don’t last do they?

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AnAmerican111
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:18am
What, MSNBC eliminating one of their best LIAR’s?
Moving Eddy to the weekends……………
Who cares?…………..

MSNBC or Cartoon Network….one in the same

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rosegrower
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:16am
““My fight on ‘The Ed Show’ has been for the workers and the middle class. This new time slot will give me the opportunity to produce and focus on stories that I care about and I know are important terribly to American families and American workers.” – Uh, Ed. Those programs will be showing when NO ONE is watching television. But I guess it will be easier to get your numbers up when your primary competition is the Weather Channel and a host of infomercials (altho’ I bet the Bullet and the Abdoer will rate higher.)

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Southernsoul
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:14am
No replacement has been chosen yet? Maybe they decided that ‘dead air’ would pull in better ratings.

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sURFNmADNESS
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:13am
Yet another idiot joins the land of “who?”.

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FastJimmy3
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:10am
Blowhard, probably needed more scotch time…..

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nilo
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:04am
Ed who?

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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:00am
Ed is one of the most disgusting people on TV. He is just as nasty and obnoxious as that other low life Keith Olbermann. The last thing I heard about Keith is he was meandering through central park in a trench coat.

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