Was That an Ed Schultz Segment or an SNL Skit?
- Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:36am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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How do you boost ratings? Ed Schultz has an idea. Invite a mild-mannered Republican on your show as a guest, pair him with a wild, shoot-from-the hip Democrat who doubles as a satellite radio host, throw them some political meat called “Bush tax cuts,” and watch them fight over it.
That pretty much describes the “Ed Show” segment from Tuesday night, when Ed hosted GOP strategist Ron Christie and Democratic radio host Joe Madison. All Schultz had to do was ask their thoughts on the tax cuts, sit back, and watch the segment degenerate into what on Saturday night would pass for an SNL skit.
Don’t believe me? Here’s the opening statement from Madison, where he calls for Democrats to take to the streets:
We ought to be in the streets. We ought to be jumping on these greedy Republicans who have the audacity to try to keep going what they had going on for the last ten years. Here’s what I would tell Republicans: okay, baby, it’s in your court right now. Create the jobs. And you’ve got 13 months to get these people off unemployment that you’ve held hostage…Ron is full of it. This is an attempt to just allow rich people to maintain their hundred thousand three hundred thousand four hundred thousand. Create jobs or shut the hell up.
It was all down hill from there (especially when Christie tried to reason with Madison):
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Comments (165)
Star Spangled
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:17amOh well , no one watches that show , I see more of Mr. Ed here than anywhere else .Once comcast takes over that network I think Mr. Ed will be sent to the glue factory .
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:15amThis is the kind of treatment we can expect from any media out side of Fox. There is no reason to go on these shows, our goal should not be to win arguments but to educate. There are better ways other than being shouted at to accomplish this.
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Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:12amHi
Report Post »Zaphod
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:10amI think this is all fine. In the marketplace of ideas, it’s very important that people like Ed Schulz have the opportunity to present their wares. The fact that no one is buying it (based on his ratings) gives us great comfort in knowing that few Americans actually buy into this tripe.
Report Post »WILLIAM E.
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:08amEd & Joe were losing there cool. They thought Ron would lay down & roll over. Nice job Ron !!!
Report Post »txpedrn
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:07amTop down, bottom up, and inside out. This is just more proof of their ploy. Funny how once you know what’s coming and what to expect…you recognize it immediately! No matter how they package it.
Report Post »rannan3
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:07amBut then came Rossiter…………….
For more than 40 years, he diagnosed and treated over 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases, both state and federal, as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist retained by numerous public offices, courts and private attorneys. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.
Rossiter explains with great clarity why the kind of liberalism being displayed by Barack Obama can only be understood as a psychological disorder.
“Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says Rossiter. “Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.”
“A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,” he says. “A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do.
And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which overregulates and overtaxes the nation’s citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do.”
Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:
* creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
* satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
* augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
* rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.
“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,” he says. “When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.”
* from the book — “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness,” written by Dr. Lyle Rossiter. *
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:13amEd and his liberal guest (Joe Madison) are truly neurotic and paranoid. May be they should be referred to Dr.Rossiter for examination. Any prescription pads hanging around? I’ll sign it.
Report Post »axxis 409
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 5:49pmThanks for the post! Ive been dying to find out what makes the
Report Post »“progressive” mind work! (or not, apparently) I knew there was more to it than an idea because their actions and words are way too irrational! where can I read more please tell me ….thanks again aaxis409
So
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:07amEd is a pompous simpleton. He is skilled in buffoonery.
Report Post »So
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:06amBuffoonery parading as politic commentary.
Report Post »SpklerMan
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:05amFacts mean nothing to the blind Dems. No class of people should have to pay more taxes than other class. We should ALL pay the same !!!!! I would not want to be forced into helping anyone!!!!!!!!
Report Post »dont_tax_me_bro
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:02amEven thought I appreciate the Blaze for calling out this POS show, I dont understand why the blaze gives it attention. Let it fail just like all of the other liberal talk shows. Dont give it anymore fire.
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:23amIf during normal times, this show would naturally fail- should have already. It won’t fail because it is being propped up. Like it or not, this is what the liberal left want you to hear. The FCC wants to remove networks that at least try to listen to all sides, offering the American people the opportunity to decide for themselves. This was so hard to watch- I wanted to yell at my computer. Why can’t they see that this was not a win for Republican politicians, but for all the people who took to the polls in November and voted the dems out of the house- otherwise, Obama would have carried on as he has done for the past two years allowing bills that the majority of the people do not want.
These are not normal times folks, and it scares me that ANYONE in the media would call on the people to take to the streets “jumping on these greedy Republicans.”
Report Post »rannan3
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:00amHave never watched The Ed Show —- NOW I see I haven’t missed anything worthwhile.
Ed didn’t interrupt the Liberal, but he sure did the Conservative.
IF that‘s his idea of ’ balanced discussion’ , he’s as warped as he appears.
ps. People did take to the streets, they were called the Tea Party.
Report Post »and it led to the Midterm elections , where hundreds of Dems. were FIRED !
heavyduty
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:59amCan’t say, I don’t do SNL. Haven’t for a long time.
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:58am1- Ed is an a$$.
2- Joe is a disgusting fool calling for class warfare and taking to the streets. This is the MOST inciteful hateful bullcr@p I’ve seen in a while.
3-Ron should have walked off the show. He was not even given the mic long enough to respond, they spoke right over him.
Meanwhile Napolitano is calling the right wing a terror threat. The right wing, so far, is using legal avenues to pursue their agenda. The right is turning to peace, the left is in a rage.
They are trying their hardest to get us lazy Americans off our a$$es and rioting in the streets. The heat is being turned up.
Report Post »mitt-bobby2012
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:55ami like ron and when he i on the ed show he makes them the libs dump great comedy show
Report Post »GeorgeWashingtonslept here
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:54amThese idiots seem to forget that WE THE PEOPLE changed the House……………..do I think that extending the Bush tax credits will create more jobs? I don’t think so,,,,,,,,,,,,I know that the Obamacare debacle is holding back businesses from hiring…………..hopefully in 2011 it will be reduced down to a mere cinder, leaving a few things that needed to be corrected with the H/I companies……..just my opinion of course.
Report Post »CHARACTER MATTERS
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:54amTypical left response. When they don’t want to listen to reason and discuss the issue, they simply drown out or shut off the conservative viewpoint.
Report Post »James
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:43am@CHARACTER MATTERS
They don’t listen, they have no reaso, they have no argument, their logic makes no sense, their agenda is a failure. Sadly, unless they change their phlosophy, this Sgt. Shultz type crap is the best they are going to be able to do. It seems like every day there is a clip of a bigger MSNBS train wreck than there was the day before.
If this were, in fact, MSNBC it would be the funniest that show has been since Eddie Murphy left. Too bad it is real people expressing their real opinions. I am actually a little scared people like this exist in the world, the only thing scarier is that they are paid to be on TV.
http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com
Report Post »urbanserf
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:52amhow is this still a station?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:14amBecause of your tax dollars! MSNBC is owned by GE who is getting billions of stimulus dollars. Your dollars and my dollars. Nice, isn’t it?
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:51amBy what moral authority do LibProgs claim the wealth of hard working Americans? Why is talking food off my table and feeding it to the those who will not work called “justice?”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:51amYou could run Gilligan’s Island opposite Schultz and beat his ratings.
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:51amLmao !!!
Report Post »James
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:39am@Gonzo
Yes but Gilligan’s Island was just a dumbe comedy show, not a dumb comedy show pretending to be news. It was actually funnier that MSNBC too.
http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com/
Report Post »gabbygirl
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:49amNo one saw it.
Report Post »postscript
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:30amI agree, his audience wouldn’t fill the bleachers of a high school football game… after all, this is only a fourth rate comedy show.
Report Post »crossdraw
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:47amAnyone else getting tired of these“Black” freaks blowing their illiteracy and idiocy in our faces? I think it’s time to call a spade a spade. Keep your blackness out of my face and I’ll keep my whiteness out of yours.
Marcobob69
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:37amI agree!
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:55amAgreed , they call us racist no matter what we say anyway…
Report Post »FellowTalkHost
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:46amEven after 9/11… these “cuts” created the second largest consecutive job growth and job creation in our nation’s history!
Oh, and please do put aside the fact the top 1% of earners pay 40% of all federal income taxes, and the top half pay 97% of federal income taxes.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:42amWhy would anyone from the GOP go on a loser show like that? They have to know they are going to be “set up” in one way or another, or in any case, attacked by the left. Wake up people and do yourselves and us a favor, don’t help boost their ratings. Just let them fade away, please.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:01amHe probably went on the show for either reasons of political masochism, or maybe he has just always wanted to appear on a show with Jabba the Hutt.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:27amIn that case, he is desperate and pathetic.
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:36amHe went on that fruitloop‘s show because he’s a nobody who’s trying to make a name for himself. Republican strategist? I’d never heard of the guy before the video.
Ed Schultz is an embarassment to this country. He’s a walking, talking litmus test for idiocy. If you watch Ed Schultz, you’re an idiot. Simple as that.
Report Post »James
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:36am@grandmaof5
I will never understand why anyone would go on there. These shows are not worth the time to watch, let alone be a part of. If it were not for sites like this, 90% of the population wouldn’t see any of this.
I think it is aeactly like an accident scene, horribel to watch, you know you shouldn’t watch but yet, you watch anyway. I feel bad after I see any of these clips.
http://crazyconservative,wordpress.com/
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:44amThis is Schultz’s usual set up. He poses as a “fair” moderator with progressive and conservative commentators. (I assume they are paid). Ed (being far left progressive himself) and the progressive commentator, naturally, are portrayed as winner of the debate. Right wing MO.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:46amOops.
Report Post »Left wing MO.
GeauxAlready
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:41amI just wish the Dems believed in abortion. Turds like Ed and his buddies would not be increasing our global carbon footprint………
crossdraw
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:49amIf you look at abortion from this angle it may not seem so disgusting. Abortion is a liberal thing which means lessliberals in the future. See! There is a silver lining to abortion. IT KILLS MOSTLY LIBERALS
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:52amOh, they do.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:53amThe Demos do believe in abortion! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »Mister President
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:54am“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
- Ronald Reagan, as quoted in the New York Times on September 22, 1980
Report Post »be heard
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:55amYou see this tactic over and over again. When the republican is answering a question just yell and scream so no one can hear their answer. They know the republican is right and they don’t want anyone to hear. Makes me wonder why they even ask a republican on if they don’t want to hear the truth.
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:47amThe repubs NEVER used unemployment as a bargining chip, you moron !!! All they said was How are you going to pay for it.. Isn’t that what you dems passed ? “pay as you go” Oh, only when it comes to unemployment, I see.. frED Shultztone is a fool.. He won’t even let Ron talk, as soon as Ron starts to answer and frED doesn’t like the truth, he cuts him off..
Report Post »Hayeksgirl
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:50amGeaux, I totally agree. I am also advising all progressives to make sure and eat lots and lots of GMO food. Follow your own advice proggies, abortions on demand, gmo food and gay marriage. Less spawn of Progs, the better.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:56amSorry, what a whimpy response to Ed and the commie. He was way too polite,,, Allow me on that show.
IT’S OUR MONEY!!!!
Report Post »kennycannon
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:24amHey my moms a crazy lib. She DIDN’T abort THIS staunch conservative/constitutionalist. ha
Report Post »Your Name Here
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:25amI’m all for “Post Partum Abortion” for people that have proven their total lack of any redeming qualities.
Report Post »Ed would be on that list as well as all the Pregressives. Topping the list would be Obama.
James
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:32amIt is harder to tell if these people are for real or not. I have wondered if I was watching SNL of few years ago but it seems they are getting worse.
There is no way anyone with a single funtioning brain cell can confuse any of this with news.
http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com/
Report Post »->Click For Brain Enema<-
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:41amI thought it was supposed to be the right inciting violence.
Report Post »nnaynnad
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 9:51amCan someone help me out here? Why does “The Blaze” give the “Ed Show” so much space? Almost daily there is some reference to Ed Schultz…Why? No one knows who he is so why make him a household name? Just saying…
Report Post »White Devil
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 10:57amConservatives need to STOP going on these neo-lib shows…period. They never let you get your point in, they are uncivil bottom feeders. Let them interview each other and be ignorant to what the majority of the country feels and believes. One more thing…obama is the first half white president.
pajamash
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:09amI thought the democrates had pushed us out of the ditch?
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:51amMy favorite part is where Christie tries to demonstrate where tax cuts have been a good thing historically, and both Ed and Madison freak out at the exact same time to try to shut him up. Christie was making a relevant statement on-point, and they could not allow him to finish. No room for opposing views on this network in any way, shape, of form. MSNBC is a complete joke.
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:13pmI think I heard Ron Christie say 7 words that whole time. What an effing JOKE ed schultz is… (disclaimer: capitalization of ed schultz’s name withheld out of pure disrespect.)
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:27pmUm, I’m 39 and my mom was a far-left dirty hippy when she had me in ‘71, and I turned into a good God fearin’ Country-lovin’ United States Marine.
Report Post »Good thing she didn’t abort THIS potential liberal…
Roger c Downs
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:27pmThey say that by using repetition, one will eventually convince people of your good intent and ideas and get your point across most simply.. Problem is that not only can it convince those open to manipulation by receiving something for nothing, but it can even more effectively strengthen opposition that is just becoming more and more justified to these very same previously attractive points of view.Point of proof was the more Obama tried to convince Americans of the benefits and net improvement of his health care overhaul, yhe more he made them wonder why he was repeating himself so often if it was so obviously a benefit.
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