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MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: ‘I Have Not Been Instructed to Tone it Down’
- Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:47am by
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After Keith Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC, some speculated that the anchor’s politically divisive and often combative rhetoric were to blame. In case you wondered whether the cable network had tried to muzzle its outspoken line-up, progressive firebrand Ed Schultz says no one has told him to tone things down.
“I will admit that sometimes my show gets to bar talk,” Schultz recently told Media Bistro, “but that’s how people talk.”
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Comments (88)
texasfarmer
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:18amHe needs to co-host with the Young Turds.
Report Post »Ron Budwine
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:01am“Genius may have its limitations,but STUPIDITY is not thus handicapped!”
Report Post »MightyBee27
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:59amYour daily tirades get you what little audience you do have to get a good laugh at the end of the day.
Report Post »SCREAMING DOESNT MAKE YOU SOUND SMARTER!
kens
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:50amHummm. Maybe when your new Comcast bosses get there ?
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:28amSince he is a communist at a communist network, why would anyone expect him to be toned down? All those people can do is hurl insults, innuendoes, lies, and moronic converstaion. We get that out of all of those people whether they are on msnbc or anywhere else. None of them are intelligent enough to come up with anything good or constructive because they are all destroyers just like obama.
Report Post »sjohn70037
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:12amAnd both of Ed’s viewers are OK with his tone. What an insignificant twit.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:48amInstead of asking you to tone it down they will probably just ask you to pack it up.
Report Post »sarg356
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:44amHe can beat wolf blitzer …….Wow!!! Good job.
Report Post »bbquizzle
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:50pm…dryer lint could beat Wolf Blitzer.
To quote William Shatner’s character from “$#*! My Dad Says”,
Report Post »“If it looks like manure and smells like manure, its either Wolf Blitzer or manure.”
bluzrider
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:43amI hope they never tell you to tone it down, I really want you to do your silly rants, so the rest of America can see you for what you are really are all about. Hate. Please keep it up. We still have a few more Americans to wake up and your helping us do that.
Report Post »cece959
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:38amOkay, then I’ll say it. Ed, you’re a 24 karat d*ck; tone it down.
Report Post »Richard Johnson
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:34amWhy would we want them gone, the Lefty’s eat themselves. The fun is watching all the wacko prime time antics and there goody, goody ranting about how the tea party needs to tone it down, hence good-by Keith O.
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:27am@ Ed “the talking jackass” isnt it time to make your way over to the glue factory?………
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:24amPerhaps he hasn’t been told verbally but, I’ll bet the “writing on the wall” is haunting him a bit.
Report Post »macwedge
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:22amIs it just me or does Ed Schultz favor Zbigniew Brezinski? Brezinski, for those of you who don‘t know was Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor.
“From Wikipedia: “In August 2007, Brzezinski endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. He stated that Obama “recognizes that the challenge is a new face, a new sense of direction, a new definition of America’s role in the world.” Also saying, “What makes Obama attractive to me is that he understands that we live in a very different world where we have to relate to a variety of cultures and people.” In September 2007 during a speech on the Iraq war, Obama introduced Brzezinski as “one of our most outstanding thinkers,” but some questioned his criticism of the Israel lobby in the United States.[20] In a September 2009 interview with The Daily Beast, Brzezinski replied to a question about how aggressive President Obama should be in insisting Israel not conduct an air strike on Iran saying: “We are not exactly impotent little babies. They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?” This was interpreted as supporting the U.S. downing Israeli jets to prevent an attack on Iran.”
Another progressive immigrant trying/wishing for the European way of life (chaos, riots in the street, etc.) in the United States.
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:13amDoes he need to be told to tone it down? Isn’t that something other employees on the network would already know by now?
Report Post »alrunner58
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:11amI find MSNBC and CNN more entertaining than the late night shows.
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:09amIf he were as reasoned in his approach to his daily show as he was to this interview more folks might actually tune in from time to time to hear an alternate opinion. It’s a shame for him that on his show he is usually anything but reasoned.
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:06amGag orders issued all around.
Report Post »BARBBILL
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:05amThis is an excellent example of why we do not need the FCC or any government entity getting involved in policing particularly the cable airways. However, I could submit a list for consideration to MSNBC of onair personalities to join Olbermann {maybe Schultz} on the unemployment lines.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:03amNote to Ed: Comcast is in the business of making money not supporting a Left Wing Freak Show like MSNBC. You just keep on being your good old lovable self, Ed, and maybe they’ll give you a nice buy out package too.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:00amPersonally, Nick, I find it interesting that ABC and CBS are busy with other projects and it seems to be MSNBC and CNN that have declared war on alternative news and political commentary shows. This is not to say that ABC and CBS don’t have their bias, but MSNBC flaunts it proudly as it spews forth the hate speech.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:59amBoth people that watch you are greatly relieved Ed.
Report Post »BreeZee
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:55amI bet Greta will still get more viewers in the ratings and Dink Cenk is THE WORST choice in the world. I hope Comcast looks at the total MiSNBC lineup and cleans the mess up. I watch CNN over MiSNBC and I can‘t stand most of CNN’s leftest crap either.
Report Post »Last night Hannity had Sharpton and Santorum debating, now thats fair and balanced!
historyguy48
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:59amThere is nothing wrong with the Communist News Network, if you think like they do. Karl Marx was a genius, guys like Jefferson, Franklin were idiots.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:51amAll three dummies that watch his show would be devastated if he toned it down. They believe in good solid marxist rehretoric coming from a pencil necked geek.
Report Post »If it wasn’t for the Blaze, who would waste their time watching this nonsense?
Gonzo
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:00amI agree, Ed reaches more people on here than he ever has on PMSNBC.
Report Post »GEW
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:30amWondering….by Glen Beck and Fox news giving these guys so much air time etc. is this making them more popular. Strange as to why they do this.
Report Post »Aarpy
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 5:54pmI also agree! I’d never heard of this joke until I tuned in here!
Report Post »YaDarnTootin
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:50amYou need to be!
Report Post »geminisailor
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:25amOh he has…that‘s why he’s defensive.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:20pmBeware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Report Post »George Bernard Shaw
G.W. Dobbs
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:50amOf course you have not been ased to “tone it down”; it is your ANGRY, HATE SPEECH that is so comedic people watch to see just how far your sorry @ss will go. Your ONLY audience.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:52amHe’s next LOL….
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:54amMaybe they want you gone…not toned down…they are just waiting for your replacement to show up.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:57amObama pivots and MSNBC falls all over themselves trying to do likewise but Ed Schultz will always be a stupid idiot. He can’t change that.
Report Post »gobluebuckeye
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:02amI am all for the left speaking. The more they talk, the more we understand how much nonsense is blindly accepted as law by our left leaning brethren.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:08amSorry Ed…hope you watched Glenn’s TV program last night…He DISPROVED that the shooting had ANYTHING to do with “heated rhetoric”…AS ALWAYS, he presented the case and used “documented history”…“I have not been told to tone it down”…after all, it’s MSNBC…the propaganda arm for Barry!
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:10amOlbermann wasn’t told to tone it down either, they just canned his sorry *ss if you didn’t notice fatboy Ed!
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:29amIn June 2010 Ed Schultz on his show called for Obamao to takeover and become Americas dictator. (look it up) That should tell everyone the true goal of MSNBC and NBC. We know that Soros owns the media and these networks hire self described Socialist and Communist to lie and distort and walk us into a dictatorial Government. Members of the CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE Caucus openly admire Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Che’ and Mao and these members of Congress are the ones that most often appear on his show. My question is where are the conservatives in this? Why arent they running ads showing this treason taking place in our government and media? If they dont get a backbone and start running ads and speaking out (most of the tresonous activity is on tape), they are just as guilty. The established Republican Party is on thin ice with the Tea Party and the public. Get a spine and turn this country around , while we still can.
Report Post »Mister President
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:50amI try to watch Ed, and he makes me laugh. I’ve heard him call Republicans and Beck and Tea Partiers “un-American” on numerous occasions. I cannot recall Glenn ever once calling Democrats un-American.
Ed is a pathetic, unfunny joke. He uses the very rhetoric and yellow journalism he accuses others of. His psycho talk segment is ironic. A psycho labeling others psychotic. Watching him is just like watching a very bitter, angry, failure of a man refusing to admit his failure, so that he can keep spouting off solutions and ideas and a philosophy that have been categorically disproved.
It’s actually kind of sad.
Report Post »bbquizzle
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:01amAttention Blazers,
If you notice Ed’s ratings have doubled over the past month, do not be alarmed. The massive uptick is merely the result of myself and my spouse watching our nightly dose of comedy. It does not, in any way, mean he is accumulating viewers. Only people like me who can’t help but look at a trainwreck.
That is all.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:16am@bbquizzle
Report Post »We too watch Special Ed. I always feel guilty that it might boost his ratings but I can’t stay away from the best comedy I have ever seen. We have taken it a step further and have family wagers as to when his head will actually explode on the air. I’m betting it will be next November when Bachmann or Palin win the presidential election. Imagine the sweeaty forehead wrinkles and face contortions with spittle flying at the camera as he screams that America hates the working , middle class by electing a Tea Party candidate.
Oh…. its going to be priceless I bet his highest ratings ever!!
ishka4me
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:03amWho is ed shultz?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 1:46pmI thought Obama called for “civility” .. Schultz knows that it is just for the RIGHT … Right?!
Report Post »One1
Posted on January 27, 2011 at 4:01amAll he did was talk about Fox. Most of the folks who watch him are conservative just to watch this clown stick his foot in his mouth.
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