Posted on 09/25/2009 5:18:45 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com
As I reported yesterday, talk show host and MSNBC’s lowest rated host Ed Schultz Wednesday stated Republicans “want to see you dead,” “kinda like it” when women without insurance get cancer, and suggested Sen. Olympia Snowe allow cancerous tumors to spread through her body for two weeks before seeking treatment. Last night, he offered wimpy “clarifications” that neither apologized for his outrageous remarks nor clarified anything.
At one point, he made a defense out of his character, saying, “for clarification, those of you who watch ‘The Ed Show’ or listen to the Ed Schultz radio show, you know exactly who I am and you know exactly where I’m coming from.” Those who do either will recognize the splittle-flecked rage rant. Brian Maloney of Radio Equalizer has a small list of his meltdowns, including likening Rush Limbaugh to Adolf Hitler, calling Sen. Richard Shelby a “terrorist,” and becoming embroiled in a 2007 bar confrontation. Most recently, he invited Rep. Michelle Bachmann “to slit her wrist right here on ‘The Ed Show.’”
His clarification last night began:
Me either. Who is this Looney Tunes, anyway?
He never had it. He doesn’t even have 1% of Rush’s audience.
Thanks, AA, for pointing this out: the link to read the full post is: http://newsrealblog.com/2009/09/25/ed-clarifies-not-all-republicans-support-cancer-death/
There’s lots more good stuff there.
For some reason, FR occasionally drops this part of the post.
No he hasn’t earned a tenth of Rush’s audience, and neither has any other “Progressive” alternative they’ve tried: Jim Hightower, Mario Cuomo, Randi Rhodes, Al Franken, and now Big Ed.
It’s like I told an interviewer once, when he asked about the failure of left-wing talk radio: “No one wants to hear ‘America sucks’ three hours a day.”
It’s almost embarrassing the way Ed copies what he thinks Rush sounds like, though.
Your average big city has ten times more people than the amount of listeners to those shows.
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