MSNBC‘s ’The Black Agenda’ – With Ed Schultz?
- Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:32am by
Mike Opelka
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Why why why is Ed Schultz hosting a special on MSNBC called ‘The Black Agenda?’
After watching the endless promotion for this program on the news/opinion channel, one can only wonder aloud, ‘Why is Ed Schultz, a big white guy with kinda-orange Boehner-like coloring, hosting a program called ‘The Black Agenda?’ For one thing, he hosted a similarly titled show last year. Wait – he CO-hosted that one.
Last year ‘The Black Agenda’ was a co-hosted special with Tamron Hall and Ed Schultz. Tamron still has a daily program on the channel, so why was she not invited back?
I am not alone on this one. Eric Deggans of the St. Petersburg Times is also raising the same question.
Lest we forget, MSNBC is part of NBC, the network that started their 2009 Prime Time season with the promotional slogan ‘More Colorful.’ The media website TVAddict.com took exception with this slogan and poked a little fun at the peacock with this fake, but accurate ad.
A few days after launching that campaign and having it roundly mocked when people started pointing out the relative monochromatic casting on the channel, NBC quickly rebuilt their website and eliminated all mentions of ‘More Colorful.’
Wrapping up, here is a staff photo of MSNBC’s very diverse on-air crew.
Yup, this is a place I would gravitate towards to be schooled on ‘The Black Agenda.’
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Comments (179)
MeteoricLimbo
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:57amwhy even bother entering the race contest. let them run it solo.
Report Post »martnee777
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:55amWhy is everything with liberal marxist all about race?
Report Post »Mrright33
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:55amOnce again the lunacy and hypocrisy of the suicidal liberal mind. Assuaging their white guilt by claiming an affinity for a group they give lip service to to deflect any envy that might come their way. The fear of being envied by minorities drives them to go through all these PR gymnastics to show that “see, we really are like you. we are not the rich, self absorbed, silver spoon, Ivy league, country club, talk behind your back when your not around haters you think we are. WE CARE ABOUT YOU.”
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:25amYou are right, of course. This is pandering at it’s best. And to think they did not have focus and study groups to determine “white host or black host” is just ignorant. Everything msnbc does is calculated and purposeful. Problem is their calculations just don’t add up….ever.
Report Post »BoyScout_Mom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:41amVery true… Apparently, Matt Lauer recently posed the following to Michele Bachman, on Arming Libyan Rebels: “Don’t you think providing weapons to the Rebels in the presence of Al Queda will only Demonstrate Our Compasion to Al Queda, and finally make them like us?” You know…. Heal the Waters… and the Planet?…
Report Post »Trenaway
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:55amMSNBC, throws blacks a bone so they can claim there not racist, while practicing it. Just because Ed calls conservatives racist everyday, does not make him a spokesperson for blacks. Now if it were Herman Cain, he would be a great spokesman for blacks.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:55amEddie isn’t black? What a surprise. Actually if I was black I would be really upset if a fat blowhard white guy who constantly looked like he was about to stroke out did a show about the black agenda as though he was black. My attitude would be that after slavery, after all of the years of discrimination, now you white folks want to lay fat boy Schultz on OUR doorstep? Enough is enough! He’s all YOURS. Don’t try to pawn this windbag off on us!
Report Post »Pezman
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:53amAgain. Keep people ignorant dependant and angry and you maintain your powerbase. Only thing here is, you already have 95%. Who else are you going to convince?
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:53amAnd the TEA party is racist because their make up is more like American society, and MSNBC is more closely diverse as the WI demonstrations.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:53amSo, ley me get this straight..Ed Shultz, the WHITE idiot of the left is going to proote the black message?’ I mean how hard is it to find a BLACK lefty???
No womder they call MSNBC Management Says No Black Commentators. The RACIST network…tsk tsk tsk Shame on you Whiteys…
Report Post »papatom48
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:52amWill someone please explain why there is a black and, by inference, a white agenda? Why isn‘t what is good for the country good for all it’s citizens? Oh, yeah, then sergeant schultz and his cohorts at MSNBC couldn’t drive a wedge between classes and races.
Report Post »Ballgame
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:52amLOL…..MSNBC is the big American melting pot of White Chocolate!!!
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:51amFinely some honesty coming from the left, except the subject should be ‘What the White Left plans on doing with their Black community”
Report Post »Unionman
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:51amCertainly they’re pandering to their large minority audience……not….you’d see more brothers at a clan rally.
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:50amLiberal journalists don’t seem to operate in the same reality as the rest of us. They think “diversity” means “more liberals”: http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/02/how-liberal-journalists-think.html As long as they don’t have conservatives, they think their demographics are fine.
Report Post »EnoughIsEnoughII
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:48amCome on guy’s….Clinton was the first black president!
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:16pmBack in the day, NBC was the first to have color in 1965.
Report Post »Bloody Sam
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:48amWhy does it matter what color skin is possessed by the on-air personalities on any network?
This country claims to want to leave racism behind but we are constantly reminded that “MSNBC has but one black on-air person”…”Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice”…”Ronald McNair, the first black astronaut”…and on and on and on.
What the hell difference does it make!?
A rhetorical question, to be sure. But sometimes I wonder what some people would do if it actually, really made no difference and when such distinctions were uttered, they were met with a cocked head and a stupified look.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:04pm(repost; reply to appropriate person)
@Bloody Sam,
“This country claims to want to leave racism behind but we are constantly reminded that “MSNBC has but one black on-air person”…”Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice”…”Ronald McNair, the first black astronaut”…and on and on and on.
“What the hell difference does it make!?”
This is true.
Race based concepts such as the “black community” claim to want equality, but they instead choose to set themselves apart by identifying themselves based on the color of their skin, and then get upset when we say “you people”; Do they see themselves as a group or not?
That’s not to say that every black person considers themselves part of the “black community”, but since a significant number of them do, referring to them as a group is a helpful generalization.
And they can’t have it both ways: Either the group wants to be recognized as a group (or class); or they want to be recognized as individuals whose color is absolutely irrelevant, and as not belonging to any class but the human race.
And in that they choose to hold to a race based group identity, they can never lose with the race card: Because any racism they engage in (e.g. Liberation Theology) will be spun as “cultural”, and therefore worthy of acceptance; and any attempt to deal with their chosen cultural identity will be spun as a focus on the skin color of their group, and therefore racist.
Learn to respond to accusations of racism by making the distinction between the choice of individuals or groups to identify themselves by the color of their skin, and the irrelevant fact of their skin color; and you will trump the race card.
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:30pmWow, I could not have said it better myself. Seriously. The identifying-as-a-group thing is perpetuated by some in the black community (aka the New Black Panther guy). Because obama doesn’t do what they expect him to do as a “black man”, he is called every name under the sun. Some of the younger black men seem compelled to “dress the part”, complete with saggy pants with underwear showing, big gold chains, hat on sideways. I fail to understand why someone desires to be a “stereotype”. I say if you want to stop being treated as a separate group, stop trying to separate yourselves. It’s holding you all back.
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:48amall i know is “da man” is holding me back and keeping me down.
hey bud, gotta lihjt?
Report Post »MikeinIdaho
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:47amWhy is The Blaze wasting valuable bandwidth on this idiot on that all-but-defunct Network? Who the heck cares? Nobody watches him or it because we’re all smarter than boxes of paperclips! And the few who watch them can’t read and so will not see anything on this site.
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:12amActually, while walking through the Hart Senate building a few weeks ago in Wash, DC, I happened to notice that in most of the Democratic Senators’ office waiting rooms, “that” channel of choice on the TV’s!
Republican Congressional offices in the Canon Building had CSPN on, thankfully!
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:39amI for one really like to know what the other side is up to. I say skip the story if it is a waste of time to you…
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:47amall i know is “da man” is holding me back and keeping me down!
hey bud, gotta light?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:45amCould this be used as an enhanced interrogation technique at GITMO? ” No, please turn it off, I tell you everything!”
Report Post »ds7
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:44ammulticulturalism has failed…
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:44pmAmen and Amen
Report Post »So
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:58pmBitterly failed.
And we haven’t found the bottom yet.
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:42amnoooo, thats not it….It’s because….a horse is a horse of course of course unless that horse is MR Edddddddddddd….
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:39amMr Potato Head (Schultz) is being racist.
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:22pmThat’s right! Anyone who keeps race in front of their eyes is the one with the problem.
Report Post »Those I hang around with are only concerned with the content of their character, not our color.
brntout
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:39amOh,now that show will really really really have no slant to it,right?I mean look who’s heading up the anchor.Gonna be a liberal whinefest i guess.Score one for reparationists.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:09pmThis show will take it’s place in the perceived, (by MSNBC), black agenda. It is a part of it !
Report Post »Annie Fields
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:39amWhen will liberals understand the unbelievable condescension of the phrase “black agenda.” The blacks I know have long ago stopped be insulted by it and just ignore it now… But it’s GOT to STOP.
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:55amAs long as the media keeps fanning the flames of black vs. white, there will be no progress in race relations. The people who make their living off the backs of a minority race problem, need to keep it as an issue in the publics eye. Most intelligent people understand what is going on and reject the manipulation by the so-called advocates for racial justice.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:06pmWhat Blacktooth said…….ya………………….
Report Post »matt708
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:38amhyprocrisy at it’s height
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:02pmWhat happened to the reply feature? All the comments got moved around.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:11pmI saw some color, pink, red, blue……
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:13pmLOL .. like Clinton being the first “black” President ….. MSNBC — where “talk” is cheap. Reality is no where to be found.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:24pmEd is such a joke. He reports on things that he thinks his lib followers will agree with, regardless that they are not true or may be offensive to blacks. It doesn’t help his ratings at all, but the schmuck keeps it up anyway. Only MSNBC could hire someone like this as they evidently have no standards on honor or decency.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:43pmMSNBC is like a kindergarten class that has been given a 6th grade project to complete without supervision. The poor little kids just wander around bumping into each other not sure what to do next. They don’t even know they are in way over their heads!
Report Post »jmmjr49er
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:44pmED is FirEd up. Tamron is a looker but not to bright. Ed brings his intellect and brilliant dialogue. Also, Ed played sports.
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:48pmIf there is any black agenda it is coming from the black panthers.
Report Post »WTH
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:37pmWTH is the black agenda? I thought we weren‘t allowed to associate race with today’s issues. I also didn’t realize that I should be aware of the white agenda and thought getting this country back on track was a colorless agenda. Now if they were talking about DOJ‘s Holder’s black agenda, then it might be worth watching, otherwise Schultz and Sharpton (Ed’s most common guest and expert in nothing) will just babble on about being owed something like they always do on Ed’s very very very low rated and viewed show.
Report Post »True2thereplublic
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:20pmI am going to say this again America is not about diversity it is about “FREEDOM” My ancestors did not come to this country cause there where Blacks in the south or Italians and Irish in the north.
They came here to be free, raise a family and to ‘PROSPER’.
Report Post »Everyone would benefit it they would start taking responsibility for there own lives get out there and work hard, and then stop listening to this blowhart and the others…..
exdem
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:50pmThey called it MORE COLORFUL because MORE COMMUNIST failed in the focus group.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:55pmHey they have a token black in the last set of pictures….. I have to say however ED is the WHITEST person in any of the groups..but when he looks in the mirror I think sees himself as COLOR..
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:07pmI have not watched this yet but that is a bad name. I hope it focuses on education and the prison system, which are infected with racism. reagan and clinton set blacks in this country back years, while the bushes ignored the problem completely.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:14pmWhat a dumbas*. In the next story on the blaze is farrakhan saying why they dont trust white people. Ed schultz is by far the dumbest man alive. Is he really that desperate to be liked? Ed youre a moron. You know it, we know it, and we laugh at you being used by the left. of course you think youre great because you get invited to lefty parties. FYI- normal hardworking Patriots wouldn’t be caught dead hanging with the losers you hold in such high regard. Of course then again running a “black agenda” program may actually get you some viewers.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 5:13pmThank God (oh, sorry…) that in post racial Obamamerica the Blacks (oh, sorry…) have Ed Schultz to put their agenda out there.
I have just had the best laugh! Really, true comic relief. Thank you MSNBC, for the “more colorful,“ for the ”lean forward,” for Mr. Ed.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:29pmSeems logical in a Re. Sheila Jackson-Lee way. The liberals and their acolytes have been setting the black agenda since their revered Woodrow Wilson.
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:23pmDoes it make me racist to admit that if Tamron Hall were talking about The White Agenda, I would still rather see her hosting it than Ed Schultz?
I don’t think it has anything to do with race, she’s just much better looking on a bad day than he could ever be on a good day.
Report Post »libbsrnuts
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:03pmApplying the liberal criteria, THEY MUST BE RACISTS!
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:57amEd’s just trying to impress his black mistress, according to Keith Olbermann… anyone remember him? LOL…
Our proof CNN Tea Party Poll is Bogus!
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Brasil2520
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:15amI went to all black schools, in New York City and in Brasil, I’ll tell you what the the real black agenda is:
1 – Take the white man’s job
2- Take the white man’s women
Yeah I said it, someone had to.
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