Ed Schultz: ‘Damn Right I Would’ Give Money to Obama if MSNBC Would Let Me
- Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:25pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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MSNBC host Ed Schultz has made no secret of his support for President Barack Obama, but took it a step further Friday in saying he would “damn right” give money to the president’s re-election campaign if only the news network he works for would let him.
Appearing on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Schultz said the workplace bars him from such activities — as evidenced by Keith Olbermann’s departure from the network in 2010 after making political contributions to Democratic candidates.
“Because of Citizens United [Obama's] not going to be able to raise the kind of money that they are going to throw at him, so the president brilliantly is using the bully pulpit — ” Schultz said, referring to the landmark Supreme Court case that struck down limits on corporate spending in political campaigns.
“I’ve done my part, Ed,” Maher cut in to cheers, referring to his $1 million donation to a pro-Obama super PAC. “You’ve got more money than me, Ed. Just saying.”
After some additional back-and-forth, Maher said, “I think you should give some money.”
“They won’t let me. I can’t give money,” Schultz said.
“You can’t give money,” Maher questioned.
“Where I work, I’m not allowed to give money,” Schultz said. “I can’t give political money to anybody.”
“Even to the Super PAC?” Maher pressed.
“Not even to the Super PAC,” Schultz said. “I can’t give money. It’s the standards of practice of where I work. If I could, I would. Damn right I would.”
“No, I believe you,” Maher assented. “That’s right, I remember Keith Olbermann got in big trouble.”
“He did,” Schultz said. “I’m trying to keep my job.”
Watch the exchange below, via Mediaite:
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Comments (125)
manjodad
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:29pmIf he had any real convictions, he would donate anyway and suffer the consequences. However, like so many progressives, they all talk about what they would like to do and not what they really do. Kind of how they all claim to be for social justice as long as someone else, especially the government, is footing the bill.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 3:03pmWhat job you trying to keep Ed?? You were so happy to get the 8pm prime time spot…Too bad everyone‘s watching Bill O’Reilly…If they’re watching at all.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 6:41pmtypical lib-wad…capitalist with thier own money…socialist with OURS….but nice try comrade ed, now get back in the cage sweety, lemming patrol is in the hood…
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 7:22pmI feel sorry for his heart. How many more deranged, hate filled, obscenity laden rants can it sustain? Guy probably has a hernia every other month.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 7:34pmEd is such a little weasel.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 10:50pmQuit Ed, please
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 4:11amFortunately for Tea Party members, FOX is an openly political organization that doesn’t even claim to have scruples of this kind. This election season, they hired every single Presidential candidate as a “contributor.” That organization promotes Republicans 24/7, gives them free air time, allows them to fund raise on air whenever they want, and have other “contributors” on air, Like Dick Morris, who actively support political candidates and supports them on air as a paid contributor. Being a Murdoch political organization they have no scruples or journalistic ethics. They control the Republican message as tightly as North Korea controls their single TV station. Murdoch is being exposed in England though, and we see more of the same here in the US.
Murdoch, who calls the shots at FOX, is in serious trouble in England for his unethical businesses practices, and is now being investigated in the US.
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 6:12amEd makes me sick, nothing but a loud, shout over you liberal, that interrupts you after he asks a question because he is afraid that someone might hear the truth, he can;t handle the truth……..All liberals do this, they are afraid to let you speak for fear that someone will see your logic…..I’d like to smack him in his stupid mouth.
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 6:26amJ Z S = J ust Z ealously STUPID!
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 9:38amJZS – you can spin sh*t and flat out lie all you want, but every analysis out there shows FOX News as the least-biased and most balanced TV news source in existence. Stop lying to yourself to avoid facing reality.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 11:45amIf JZS lived in reality then he wouldnt be a liberal in the first place. So your question is mute.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:25pmDonate it to a fund for victims of the Obama administration,people who have lost their homes or businesses…caused by his destructive communist economic policy..
mils
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:48pmdon’t worry obama will take care of more money for the average citizen…. SOMETHING MOST OF US HAVE NOT HEARD OF THIS ONE….SHARING, EVER SHARING…
“Obama administration has focused on providing a $1 billion settlement, announced last month, for claims dating back more than 100 years,
Report Post »or, as The Independent Sentinel described it, “Obama Buying Native American Votes.”
EqualJustice
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:56pmHypocrites will give the DICTATOR a MILLION and not one red cent to a poor, HARD WORKING tax payer, trying to keep up with his mortage payments and the cost of living since the DICTATOR took over.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:25pmNO ONE watches and NO ONE cares about either SHULTZIE..
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:23pmThese people who get rich on American soil wants to destroy this country? Sounds strange to me, except for perhaps they want to quit while they got the loot and then leave others in the dirt.They must figure they can reign with to Obamaites. Move over and make room for someone else hogites, you are not the only ones in this country who like to collect the coins for our work. There are children growing up who are needing some Truth and some coins.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:21pmOh Go Ahead Ed Give obama Money…….. I Won’t Tell…. Promise!!!!!
Report Post »Kinnison
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:17pmEd, donate as much as you want to the Obama campaign. Since very few people listen to you or care about your opinions, it simply doesn’t matter. What are you going to do when Obama loses in November and you don’t have anyone to pander for? Good luck with your future career, because MSNBC as lost all credibility and is going down.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 7:49pmI used to hear Ed Schultz on radio when I got in the wrong area. Didn’t know who he was at first, but soon recognized his hateful voice and switched the station quickly. Couldn’t stand him then, why would I even venture to watch the crappy TV program he has?
BTW: Everyone needs to avoid all the show-biz types who are having another big millions fund raising for Obama. I‘ve learned that most of those people don’t stand up for me, so I’m not standing up for them with my money to go to their movies, or to watch them on TV. Bla-bla to them.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:15pmThere Right you can not fix stupid !!!!!!
Report Post »mpoconnor7
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 8:32pmWay to go, Special Ed.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:13pmYou think that with men who have money like Schultz and Maher that they could afford some new face parts. Those red halloween lips (even the candy ones) would work for awhile. Also there are the Gracho Marx (seem appropriate) glasses usually come with a good sized snoz that would not altert people to the change, but in a suble way, until the public got used to them. They could then have plenty left to finance some 3rd world country for a few years. If we got Michael Moore in the mix and got him a new junior highschool hat to go with his junior duds (how do they make his size?) he would have enough left to feed the junkies and buy dope for those in NY for a few years. Depending on if he did not decide to use this hugh stash up, then it could be a problem. I guess it goes back to them wanting to go down the street with a pan and spoon and bang the “drums” for Obbie. Good luck with that white boys.
Report Post »football lady
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:11pmBoo Hoo! All 5 of his viewers are weeping.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:09pmshocking….
real news from theblaze
Report Post »IDONTTHINKSO
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:01pmMr. Schultz, think of it this way. By not being able to donated money, just eliminates the middle man that handles your money as a payoff to you for telling all the lies about how great (which he is not) he is as our savior president!
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:27pmSchultz and other MSNBC pundits are putting their mouths where their money would be anyways… towards Obama’s re-election. So HE’S actually getting paid to be a commercial for Obama. No need for him or anybody else there to send a dime of their own money.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:01pmMaybe it is just me, but every time I glance at Ed Schultz, I think I am supposed to slip a quarter into those “lips?” and see what it does. Since he is collecting, if he could, for Obama, then I will have to forgo my curosity. Obbie is getting enough of our money and I could use those quarters for something useful like those little plastic encased toys that ususally hold some grand surprise for those who have everything but junk.
Report Post »Stewie
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:01pmIt‘s only a violation of the rules of conduct if you’re caught. Why the pretense of ethics and conscience all of the sudden? It’s funny when ******** have no choice but to follow and enforce their own rules.
Report Post »Zombee
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:58pmWho the heck watches this imbecilic Obamabot? Psycho “Ed” is the poster child for the mental disorder known as “Liberalism”. 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.
Report Post »CitizenHill
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:57pmMore proof that you just can’t fix stupid…!
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:54pmI think my “s” takes a vacation once in awhile. Probably just my typing. I even know to put a “s” on the end of most plurals. Maybe it will get better with time.
Report Post »Fitzzz
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:53pmEd the original Cheese Head, or Head Cheese, depending on how well you know him
Report Post »always makes me smile
blackyb
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:53pmI can hardly imagine the barfness of it: Bill Maher and Ed Schultz dirtying up the same page on my computer. It is a wonder it did not crash. If Ed Schultz had Bill Mahers nose his little thin, evil lips could not even been seen. When Schultz would open his big mouth he would likely strangle by sucking that huge snoz down his gullet. That would be news, then again you gotta have readers to have news effective.
Report Post »In the O.C.
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:52pmEddie is such a classless tool. HE can’t give money. But his wife can in HER name. And his FAMILY can in their names. Oh yeah, he can’t give any money. That’s a rip. I can’t believe this guy is still on the air. He is so unbelievably rude, obnoxious, insulting, low-class – well, words escape me. But that‘s the Left and that’s all they have. Idiots. Plain and REALLY REALLY REALLY simple, i.e. braindead.
Report Post »barnsy
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 3:15pmHe needs his head squeezed to drain some of that pus out of his brain!
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 10:07pmSpecial ED is a Ribbontrop/Goebbels hybrid idiot of the first order.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:48pmIf you happen to see Ed Schultz, just imagine him in a thong. He needs to be fire. He could probably pick up a job at the WH as some kind of gofer. His new reporting is so warped, he is in line for Louis Farakhans job as Bagdad Bob.
Report Post »pecosval
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:43pmHey Ed….quit your job at msnbc, no one listens to your program anyway. Then give ALL your money to Owebama, he really needs it. It is your duty as a patriotic American, you pos
Report Post »fishandpoi
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:58pm10-4!!! I wanted to be the first to post what you did.
Report Post »lessoneleg
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:42pmHey Ed, you can make a contribution to the Obama re-election team. Just as an individual. Anybody can Ed. But follow the rules.
Report Post »Except people. Ed doesn’t want to use his “personal bank account”. You see liberals like Ed like to use other peoples money to do their bidding.
This is the same mismanagement of government. Use other peoples money to promote and do stuff, but not from your stash.
blackyb
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:03pmSounds right.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:38pm“He did,” Schultz said. “I’m trying to keep my job.”
LOL thats funny
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:37pmThe gall at the very end hit the nail on the head…LOL!
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:32pmROFLMAOOO
STANDARDS of PRACTICE at LSD-GE-NBC????
Eddie? PLEASE stop drinking that KOOL AID!!!!!!
Eddie has more $ than Billy Mohal?
Again ROFLMAOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG 2012
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