Ed Schultz Wonders if Anderson Cooper Is Behind Putting Him on GQ‘s ’Least Influential People‘ List Because ’I’m Kicking His A**’
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Last week The Blaze reported that both President Barack Obama and MSNBC host Ed Schultz made GQ magazine’s upcoming “25 Least Influential People Alive” list. But while some who made the cut might think the list frivolous and take the satirical insult with a grain of salt, others, like Schultz, are taking their ranking very seriously — and are looking for someone to blame. In Schultz’s case, that person is CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
In an on-air rant captured by Radio Equalizer and transcribed by Newsbusters, an enraged Schultz wondered if Cooper — who Schultz called a “little nice guy” who runs with the “GQ crowd” — was behind the list, and suggested that Anderson is jealous because Schultz is “kicking his ass” in the ratings.
“Now, since, I know that Anderson Cooper floats around in that GQ crowd. I don‘t know if he’s behind it or whether their publicist at CNN or, but let me just say, I’m kicking his ass…”
Let’s just go to last week … Let’s go to last Monday night. Last Monday night in the demo, 25-54, my number was 184 (thousand). Anderson Cooper’s numbers was … 136! Now in total numbers, total viewership, my number was 940. Anderson Cooper’s was 429! In the business, that’s called getting your ass kicked! Not that I would do that. I guess Cooper’s just a nice little guy.
The “Ed Show” host ferociously added, “When some snotty-ass Upper West Side writer throws in GQ magazine that nobody watches ‘The Ed Show,’ dammit, I’m going to respond to it. Because it‘s a lie and it’s false.”
Interestingly, Schultz admitted that he could never beat rival Bill O‘Reilly’s ratings — not in 25 shows, nor in 2,500 shows.
“Look, I can‘t beat O’Reilly in 25 shows, OK? I might not beat him in 2,500 shows. But if I’m not influential, which is fine, I can take the little cheap shot and everything else, but don’t go around printing lies, OK? GQ is printing lies about ‘The Ed Show.’”
Schultz, who referred to himself as “your favorite fat talk show host” said that “if you do a cable show, you have a radio show, whatever, if you‘re fat and you’ve got red hair, look, they’re going to pick on you.”
Making sure to get in one last dig, Schultz also delivered the following zinger to his viewers and GQ:
By the way, I’m very influential. You can go ask the governor of Ohio and it won’t be long before you can ask the governor of Wisconsin. So kiss my ass, GQ.
Listen to a portion of Schultz’s rant below courtesy of RE:
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Comments (179)
Unix
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:28pmWho cares what Mr. Ed the talking horse says or thinks? More like a horse a@@ of course, he’s Mr. Ed. The big headed (literally) liberal socialist baffoon, or as bug bunny says, a maroon!
Report Post »RJO
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:25pmMutton Head (former Big Fish in the HUGE metropolitan area of – Fargo, ND)…yeah right has a total audience of what?
“Let’s just go to last week … Let’s go to last Monday night. Last Monday night in the demo, 25-54, my number was 184 (thousand).”
Hmmm. 184-thousand what? People? Highly unlikely, Butt-Head must also be including assorted animals (within the viewing household) his ex-wife Maureen (who he cheated on – oooops, did I let a cat out of the bag? When Butt-Head is critical of unsubstantiated allegations against Herman Cain, remember that little morsel of news…and by the way Maureen proved it) and inanimate objects that resemble an “Ed Head.”
So Mr. Butt-Head is “kicking ass?” A 50-thousand spread is kicking ass? By the way, these numbers are for the ENTIRE country.
Irrelevant Dweeb.
Oooops one more Butt-Head Ed morsel. When he lived in good old Fargo, he often hunted in the fall – as he still does apparently – well, Ed Boy shot his dog that he took hunting with him. Why? He didn’t come on command fast enough for the blow hard.
Yuck.
Fargo’s gain is NBC loss – among many, considering their putrid numbers on the main network and on the Progressive Prostitutes network – PMSNBC.
Report Post »RJO
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:32pmForgot to mention – when Eddie Boy shot his hunting dog…..he didn’t miss. My guess is that he left Rover where he died – to decay.
Class act….ooops sorry, didn’t mean to type “CL” – Ass Act.
This dough boy is going to milk his current setup in media as long as he can – at any expense of whatever small amount of integrity that he has left. Wait – he has no integrity. That was sold a long time ago, along with his soul.
Cretin….oops sorry again – Concrete-Head Ed.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:53pmWhat a pathetic loser!
Report Post »Rashomon
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:02amI think Ed meant very flatulent.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 10:03amVery funny since I don’t even know who shultz or cooper are!
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 11:03amYes Eddie Munster, you’re a legend in your own mind.
Report Post »Jinglebob
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:57pmYes it was Anderson Cooper, yes it is so. He did it.
Report Post »sermaus
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:23pmI wonder who those 184k stupid people are?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:41pmI wondered the very same thing .. sounds kind of high ;-)
Report Post »wellhangingchad
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:03pmWho is this guy? Never heard of him before. And I used to be a liberal before I grew up. Those viewers must be all of the tv sets in the whitehouse and congress tuned in to whatever channel he is on.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:21pmI believe Ed counts the American Gerbil population.
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 11:11pmMy guess is out of the claimed 184,000 viewers that watch, 183,497 are paid to watch as part of the media such as FactCheck, GBTV, and the like. Others are involved in a study on stupidity in broadcasting as part of a thesis. Then you have the catatonics that are rolled in front of a TV as part of their therapy, unfortunately it has an adverse affect and the poor SOB’s will never get better. The rest are family and friends and with that I wouldn’t be surprised if they turn on their TV’s and go watch a real show in another room.
Report Post »zorro
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 9:54amAt least half of them are conservatives laughing at this loon. I‘m glad they watch so I don’t have to.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 3:36pmMost must be people who just left the TV on after a previous show. Cooper may be liberal but he’s orders of magnitude better than Ed.
Report Post »toomuchgovt
Posted on December 2, 2011 at 7:35amThe TV at the gym with channel changer, the doctor offices, the hotels and people who left their TV on and the family pet stepped on the remote and the channel changed to MSDNC.
Report Post »robmerrill88
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:22pmWow. Shultz thinks he is being attacked because he is fat and has red hair. No. He is on that least influential list because he is a fricken idiot.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:45pmHe says he’s very influential (in his mind only) cause he knows a Governor? Big deal, I know my governor too, but it doesn’t make me think I have any influence. ha, what a jerk that Ed jerko is.
Report Post »muzikant
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 10:25pmThat idiot thinks he is influential because he assumes that the unions prevailed in beating the anti-union bill in Ohio this last election – that they prevailed because of his show. and that Gov. Scott Walker of Winsconsin will be recalled because of the “influence” of his show.
Report Post »Mtroom
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 12:53pmIt‘s the same with all of these bozo’s…Just as Obama is trumpeting numbers from somewhere…Black and white numbers aren’t the only thing in play here…Don’t care how many watch…If I watch does that mean he has influenced me? It’s not a number, it’s response to what you say..I can stand in front of a million people and say what ever I please, boy that sure is some big numbers…Doesn’t mean I influenced them…Some just don’t pick their heads up out of the book.
Report Post »football lady
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:21pmSo is Shultz is saying 184,000 NOBODIES are watching his show?
Report Post »FREDD The WILSON
Posted on December 1, 2011 at 7:44amDough Boy needs to keep his name in the news any way possible to show himself he is actually relevent. It would be easier just to buy a mirror
Report Post »Armyof One
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:16pmIs kicking his ass from last place in viewership to……the other last place in viewership, really an asskicking?
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:23pmWhen you can barely stand on your one leg, how can you kick azz? You are so pathetic.
Report Post »ambrosia
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:16pmSounds like Eddie boy is, backhandedly, slurring gays as he’s slamming Cooper-
thought his Liberal “nitwork” was above any &all bashing.
It‘s not only that you’re fat & a redhead that turns people off-
it’s that your face has all the appeal of a Pork Rind
and a Porcupine has a better “hairline”
than whatever is happening on top of your leaking dranium-cranium.
Truthfully,
Report Post »the fact that you were even put on the list of the least “influential”
makes you a wee bit influential-
in retrospect, G.Q. should have left you off completely,
so lick your wounds, Romeo Roadkill…….all is not lost !
sandy21957
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 9:19pmYou’ve defamed pork rinds. Must apologize.
Report Post »PATRIOTGRUNT
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:14pmThere is nothing worth commenting on here.!!!!!!!
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:18pmLol, Lol,Lol,Lol. You have to love it when this man (?) opens his trap.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:25pmHey Eddie Chultz: I can tolerate Anderson Cooper, when I have to watch him, YOU I cannot tolerate at all. How’s them apples?
Report Post »Mr.ManZ
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:13pmBet cooper was having hot flashes over Schultz manlyness. ………
Report Post »Blitz
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:11pmEd has a self inflicted head wound. Maybe he should try standing up and let it air out.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:06pmSounds like this GQ rating really struck a nerve with Schultz!
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:04pmlol Schultz is the laughing stock of all the networks, why he hasn’t been fired is beyond me. His ratings are pitiful and I don’t even think he could gain viewers if he offered to pay them to watch.
Report Post »flrick
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:08pmI’m still waiting for that fat idiot to have a massive coronary on air. That would be TV worth watching.
Report Post »wheels
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:12pmNo Ed, no you’re not…you’re useless, worthless & pointless…there, Ive said too much, go back under your slimy stone
Report Post »Mess23
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:03pmIt is a race to the bottom. WINNING!!! Good job Eddie
Report Post »buzzwombat
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:02pmI think the number of liberals in the Fargo/Moorhead area can be summed up as low. After all Occupy Fargo had six people
Report Post »Remeber we is fly over country.
Ed was a fool on a small stage and now he’s a fool on a big stage.
unclemike1776
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:58pmSargent Schultz knew more, and he “knew nutzzzing!”
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:58pmBoth are useless libs that are not on my Christmas list. They are, however; on my %$#@ list, of course. Ole pig eyes and the gray ghoul.
Report Post »PJL
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:56pmHe, he. Ho, ho. What a dweeb!
Report Post »littleQueenie
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:55pmwho cares about either one of those jokers.
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Blaze – how bout reporting on some real news?
momrules
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 8:08pmThe Senate will vote tomorrow on the National Defense Authorization Act and Nigerian Christians are being slaughtered by Muslims. CAIR is demanding Feds investigate blog BARENAKEDISLAM because of hate speech and WordPress shuts down the site.
And more, and more news that needs to be put out by the Blaze.
I agree with you Littlequeenie…….Ed Shultz”s hurt feelings aren’t important.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:55pmWHO is this LOON?
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:54pmShultz is too stupid to be influential. His influence begins and ends with the most ignorant and leftist of the populace.
Report Post »FaithfulFriend
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:53pmAt least his skin is thin. Whodathunkit.
Report Post »rifradio
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:53pmIt would be the first time that Schultz has kicked anyone’s a**. He’s had a radio show in the North Dakota/Minnesota market for years and his claim to fame was a bar fight he got into years ago. And if I remember correctly he whined around it and gave the impression that he lost. He still has a radio show out here from what I understand, but caters to the Fargo/Moorehead area mostly. That area is the liberal stronghold here and not very large at that. No, as with most liberals, it’s someone elses fault not his. What a DICKWEED!!!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:51pmHe ought to be happy that anyone’s paying the slightest bit of attention to him.
Report Post »sermaus
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:51pmNo, Mr Ed, you are really not influential at all, the original Mr. Ed, the talking horse, was much, much influential
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:52pmAnd way smarter too.
Report Post »imsteph
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:55pmand probably less flatulent!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:44pmLunkhead, you are a blithering idiot. In the real world you would be on welfare. I guess you must have an MSNBC altar in your basement. If you don’t…you should.
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