Posted on 02/19/2006 5:45:43 PM PST by anonymous_user
Fargo might soon lose its only local presence in the national media.
Ed Schultz, who has been on television, radio or both in Fargo since the early 1980s, evolving from sportscaster to political commentator, is thinking about moving the home base for his nationally syndicated liberal talk show.
He says he’s been talking about the potential move with station managers in some of the top markets where he’s doing well, like WINZ in Miami and KPTK in Seattle.
Two main reasons Schultz may split: First, he wants to have better access to a satellite uplink so he can raise his profile by appearing on the talking-head circuit more often. He hopes the TV spots will boost the radio show. He also wants to move out of the studio he rents from KFGO, the station that dropped him in late January. He found out his work with the Fargo-based station was over on a 6 o’clock KVLY-TV broadcast.
“It was classless,” Schultz said from his studio in early February. “I don’t deserve to be treated like that after making them millions of dollars.”
(Excerpt) Read more at in-forum.com ...
What a wining, gutless liberal.
I'm surprised anyone outside Fargo knows who he is.
This guy takes "bitter liberal" to a new level :-)
I don't listen to him. He was to be the annointed demoncrat response to Rush.
Sounds like your run of the mill whining liberal, with his vast over estimation of his self worth.
"I'm surprised anyone outside Fargo knows who he is."
He is after Franken on Air America.
I've never heard the guy's show.
Sounds like it was completely appropriate... I have noticed his name showing up on the XM Radio talk lineup, but from what I've seen reported in the press, I don't see any good reason to actually tune him in. The radio world is filled to overflowing with talk hosts, and it's got to be someone special to motivate me to listen. From all accounts, this Schultz character is just a blowhard who doesn't have what it takes. XM Radio is full of self-promoting talkers just like Schultz that I just can't get excited over.
I'd contrast that with Hugh Hewitt, who for me was just another talking radio guy that I had never actually heard and never wanted to hear until I read a transcript of his interview of Lawrence O'Donnell last week - that transcript showed him to be a smart, competent, on-the-ball kind of guy, and not just another blowhard. So this coming week I will make the effort to hear his show, and if he lives up to what I've seen already, then he will have a new listener.
The putzes over at the DUmp were trying to talk him up as the Rush Limbaugh of the Left until they found out that he was the Fargo station's conservative voice before he went the other direction. Franken beat him out for the Err America headline slot, tho Schultz would have cost them at lot less. His first couple of years were hilarious. He had a rough time keeping the storyline straight.
couldn't be the message....
During his debut as the Red in the Red River Valley, listeners would call the show and really razz his derriere about being a turncoat, and a turncoat for money, at that. He'd be spittin at the microphone for awhile after each of those calls. I'm surprised he's lasted as long in Fargo as he did. Must have been the comic value.
The right is full up by the likes of Rush and Hannity so Schulz pretends to be a leftist who incidentally hunts, fishes, and drinks beer.
While there is no such thing, don't tell his audience, they'll believe anything.
He is on in my market. I'll listen to him on occasion. In his timeslot we have conservative talk guys who are local. I'll try ed's show when the local guys are wasting time on non-issues (such as a recent 'sex scandal' in a local boarding school, or a recent double murder)
Ed, while he doesn't grate on me like Stephanie Miller or Al Franken, is often misleading in action or omission. i.e. a caller once complained about the Kelo ruling and called it an artifact of a 'conservative' court. Ed of course did not bother to point out who ruled for it and who ruled against it (such as Thomas and Scalia).
Me either -- except back when he was calling NDSU football games and dodging whiskey bottles.
If he gets out of N.D., more people will hear him and then make it a point to NOT hear him anymore. Forget drawing ad revenue$ too.
Those of us who lived in Fargo for 35 years know all about "Special Ed". At first he was on WDAY as was Rush. He was nothing more than a Rush wannabe without the " brains tied behind my back" thing. He started as a backup to the local sports guy and then became the head sports guy on WDAY.
I could go on about his lack of any intellectual capability for some time but you will be able to figure it out in minutes just listening to him. Not an original thought in his head, ever. Just the typical liberal clone.
I wonder how much he bashed Cheney this week. Those of us in the know are aware that Special Ed shot and killed his own hunting dog once. Do you suppose he brought that up?
Ed Schultz is a typical liberal - colorless, humorless and ANGRY!
So you remember the whisey bottle incident too? Seems to me he pulled a "Franken" and went after the guy in the stands. Weren't there t-shirts made after that that said "Sorry we missed you Ed" with a target in the background?
Come to think of it he is a Franken clone; Hothead with no brains but tons of ego.
Schultz is a legend in his own mind. His audience is entirely psychotic Bush haters who have no grasp of any discipline. Eddie doesn't have to make sense or logic on anything, he just says "Bush crime family" and that is why Kyoto will work or tax cuts should be repealed. He can't make a dime on his radio business because his listeners can't get out of the asylums to patronize his sponsors. Solution, steal form a children's charity.
The C-C station bumped Michael Savage for Schultz (fwiw, I think Savage is borderline embarrassing; his occasional flashes of brilliance are not worth the time it takes to wade through all his boring personal dreck). The fact that they think Schultz is "balance" for Limbaugh means that either (a) they never listen to either show, or (b) they think all their listeners are retarded and will swallow whatever they stuff out on their airwaves.
Anyway,Schultz is a joke, a no-talent phony wannabe. Hopeless.
(steely)
No need to remember it, he's proud of it.
Schultz, 49, a former college quarterback and sports broadcaster, likes to be known as a fighter. He once bolted out of the broadcast booth while doing play-by-play for a college football game to chase down a fan who threw a whiskey bottle at him.
http://www.bigeddieradio.com/EdInTheNews/more.asp?ID=29
More about him and the altercation on an old Wikipedia entry.
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:CaAZIW6-qqsJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Schultz_Show
More Schultz background:
http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=20031030-022626-6858r
The Democrats are busy rolling out the red carpet for Ed Schultz, the Fargo, N.D., talk radio host anchoring the latest effort to establish a certifiably liberal presence on the airwaves beyond National Public Radio.
The new "voice of democracy radio," Schultz is getting high-powered backing. Democrats in Washington are raising money for the show while others have pledged close to $2 million over the next two years to get the effort off the ground.
"The Democrats are getting the tar beat out of them constantly by Limbaugh and Hannity, and they feel they don't have a platform," Schultz has said on several occasions. "The other side of the story is not being told."
It will be interesting to see if his backing holds up after Democrats, particular the pro-gun control and pro-animal rights crowd, learn that Schultz, a self-described big hunter, years ago shot and killed his own dog while on a hunting trip. Or how the American-Indian tribes who fill party coffers with cash from their casinos and other minority groups will react when they realize Schultz is the statewide radio play-by-play man for the "Fighting Sioux," the politically incorrect name of the University of North Dakota football team.
Glad to see he is heard in the town in which I was born, Langdon ND. I'm sure that the seven people that live there now can't wait to hear his world views in between crop reports.
I thought Franken was providing his services to AA free of charge?
Sounds like the same hype they were trying to buy when Franken and Godawfulho were to be their new saviors. If Franken can't get any audience, even with his name recognition, then Special Ed doesn't have a chance.
Not surprised - Howard Dean's 'truth value' has already been discounted to just a few pennies on the dollar.
After who, on what?
Tell that to my neighbor. He hunts or fishes every weekend. Loves his Miller Genuine Draft. And is a hard core lefty.
I was surprised, to say the least.
How's the ABM site doing, Guy? I was there almost thirty years ago. That hunk of concrete was impressive.
That was my first thought about him too when I saw the Forum article at my this weekend.
I wish someone from Fargo would dig up and post online the mid-'80s NDSU "Spectrum" with the editorial about Ed and his bird-grounding dog hunt. Classic.
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