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Trying to blame someone—anyone—other than his man Barack Obama for the security meltdown surrounding NWA 253, Ed Schultz ran head-first without a helmet into American history tonight. Seeking to shift the onus onto England for not having alerted us about having denied young Umar entry into its country, Ed entertainingly claimed that the UK has probably been "our best ally since the country started." Um, Ed: "since the country started"? You mean, like, when we started the country in 1776? When we declared our independence from, and fought a war against, uh, you know. That same country that—more than a...

Here is video of Democratic strategist Bob Shrum praising Obama's "achievements." (Video)Shrum said that "we're going to look back on this year as the historic first year of a Presidency that changes the direction of the country" and said the passing of the "economic stimulus package" and "health care bill" will be "historic change" and is an "amazing set of achievements." Shrum said that Obama has "restored America's respect in the world."

Here is video of MSNBC's Ed Shultz being asked by Democrat Rep. Jim Moran "When are you going to run for the U.S. Senate." Moran said: "You know what I want to know, Ed? I want to know when you are going to run for the U.S. Senate. That's what I want to know. We need people like you in the Senate. We need to get rid of the damn filibuster and make it a more representative body. That's what we need, but you got to keep up the pressure for us, my friend." . . . (VIDEO)

Like an overmatched offensive lineman haplessly striving to stave off the onslaughts of a Pro Bowl defensive end, Ed Schultz's heroic but unsuccessful struggles with the English language continue. A couple weeks ago, fellow NewsBuster Jack Coleman hilariously documented the way in which Schultz has a penchant for calling others "stupid"—but regularly makes a mash of our mother tongue. On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz once again fought the good linguistic fight but was in way over his head. This time, his indomitable opponent was the word "emanate." The rascally verb turned up in a HuffPo blog Ed was...

The morning broadcasters, Jack Bishop and Rich Hancock, announced this morning that their organization,"Rational Radio" would be off the air as of Jan 1, 2010. Rational Radio leased this station 24/7 from the Multicultural Broadcast Corp. The rest of the local talkers on this station were discussing their plans thruout the day. Most of them trashing broadcast radio and corporations in general. They are claiming that broadcast radio is dead and Internet Radio is where it is at.

In a remarkable moment in last night's edition of The Ed Show on MSNBC, Ed Schultz got carried away and made a small government case against mandatory health care insurance. Perhaps channeling his former line of work as a Rush Limbaugh impersonator on the Right, Schultz said: The bill makes the insurance mandatory for all Americans. This mandate is one of the most unAmerican things, I think, the Senate has ever done. This isn't the same thing as mandating for car insurance or home owners insurance. I mean, there's nothing more personal than your body...Forcing people, by the way,...

Does Ed Schultz read my blog? I have long held MSNBC host Ed Schultz's erratic behavior stems from his political and professional status, envy at those whose careers surpass his. As David Swindle noted in the roll-out of this series, "Ben’s posts on Schultz are collected and all future articles will be collected here under the series name 'Genius Envy' a play on a well-known Freudian term." I came up with the name "Genius Envy" to highlight the way much of Ed's incendiary rhetoric seems to be rooted in his offended masculinity. I was gratified to see my thesis...

This series of posts is dedicated to the proposition that 90 percent of everything Ed Schultz, the host of MSNBC's The Ed Show, does is motivated by envy (and the same could be said of the Left). Schultz has raged against his more successful colleagues Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Glenn Beck. The folks at Politico give an indication of who Schultz's next target may be: Bret Baier of Fox News' "Special Report." A side-by-side comparison with Ed's direct competitor is damning:

More and more signs of discontent on the Left with President Obama continue to surface. Here is audio of a liberal caller to the Ed Schultz Show saying that he voted for Obama and been willing to work for him, but now says, "I can't even stand to see his mug." . . . . (VIDEO)

Looks like traditions of comity are coming apart . . First Al Franken refuses to give Joe Lieberman another minute on the Senate floor. Now Ed Schultz invites a guest on his show for the express purpose of taking shots at fellow MSNBCer Chris Matthews! On yesterday's Hardball, Matthews criticized the netroots who are trashing the watered-down ObamaCare bill. "I don't consider them Democrats," said Matthews, dismissing them as "troublemakers." Concluded Chris: "they get their giggles sitting in the back seat and bitching." On his show this evening, Schultz invited netroot-in-chief Markos Moulitsas on to fire back at Matthews. Not...

Thuggery for me, not against me. Ed Schultz has joined Howard Dean and others who believe the Democrats should kill this health care bill unless it contains a "public option." He had a brief, relatively tepid exchange yesterday morning with David Axelrod on Morning Joe and decided he was being persecuted. Ed opened his show last night saying: The White House -- ooh, are they a little touchy as of late? Desperate to sell what they are calling health care reform -- I don't buy it. They are trying to vilify now anyone who opposes it. That's what's happening...

Suggesting someone beat up a U.S. senator is not "hate speech" according to this man. Three full days after he wondered why no one had punched Joe Lieberman ("Traitor Joe," as he calls him), Ed Schultz of MSNBC's The Ed Show insisted no one on the Left had ever defamed the distinguished senator from Connecticut. Last night, Schultz asked former Republican Congressman Ernest Istook about Democratic infighting over the health care bill. Istook, now a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, replied things had gotten so bad that "if conservatives said the things about liberals that liberals are saying...

Here is video of MSNBC's Ed Schultz talking with a liberal panel about the revolt of Left against the Obama White House's Health Care Plan in the U.S. Senate. Schultz talked with Lanny Davis first, who has criticized the Left for revolting against the President and the Democrats' Health Care Bill in the Senate. Davis as much as made the case for just getting something passed now, saying "we can improve it next year." Schultz argued with Davis that the Obama plan is not standing up for the uninsured, but "for the insurance companies." He called the current plan a...

Leftists who decried the War on Terror now use the same terminology to describe center-Left members of their own party. On last night’s episode of MSNBC’s The Ed Show, Ed Schultz interviewed Katrina vanden Heuvel about President Obama’s “sellout” on the health care bill. Katrina complained Obama’s is “a White House which has emboldened the conservadems, people like Joe Lieberman” who “is now holding hostage” socialized medicine. She repeated the elocution moments later while appealing to “citizens who don’t want to be held hostage by the insurance companies.” Schultz thanked her for appearing, adding, “Always the truth coming from you...

Here is video of MSNBC's Ed Schultz telling Obama "your base thinks you're nothing but a sellout, a corporate sellout at that." Schultz said Obama has "carved out the most important elements of reform" and "the only people who like this current bill right now is the insurance industry." (Video)

Sen. Joe Lieberman opposes the current health care bill, so MSNBC's Ed Schultz has a solution: punch him out. On last night's episode of The Ed Show, Schultz asked Democratic Senator and way-too-frequent guest Sherrod Brown, D-OH: What is the feeling towards Joe Lieberman? I mean how do you, you know, go into a room without punching the guy out after what he's done to the progressive movement in this country? I mean, that's how I think a lot of people feel. What attitude, what attitude — is he still just a beloved, friendly, fraternal senator, or is he...

Here is video of liberals Ed Schultz and Arianna Huffington tonight blasting President Obama and the Democrats for not going far enough in their "Health Care Reform" plan. Both Schultz and Huffington are disgusted that Joe Lieberman appears to be driving the debate on Health Care. Huffington said she would not give President Obama a B+ as he gave himself on his performance. Schultz also talked with Joan Walsh about Howard Dean's call to "Kill the Bill." Obama has a lot of his base up in arms because they hate Joe Lieberman. Walsh went so far as to say, "I...

MSNBC is at it again, editing its transcripts to make Ed Schultz sound less crazy. Leftists complained -- falsely -- for years that Republicans questioned the patriotism of anyone who opposed them. On Monday's edition of The Ed Show, Schultz called Joe Liberman a "traitor" yet again -- so MSNBC changed this into a jovial reference to a grocer's chain. Schultz said Lieberman was one of the senators "cheating on the American public" by opposing a public option. After accusing the senator of economic adultery and playing a video clip of Lieberman saying the bill will not pass, Schultz...

The vast, racist conspiracy against Barack Obama is no longer limited to evil 9/12 protesters, Fox News, and those who utter the obviously racist code word "socialist." According to an MSNBC talk show host, it has spread to Wall Street, which is deliberately prolonging the recession to keep the black man down. On Tuesday night's episode of The Ed Show, host Ed Schultz asked NAACP president Ben Jealous if he agreed America was in recession because "there are maybe some institutions on Wall Street that do not want to see a black president succeed?" Jealous, surprisingly, disagreed. (See the...

Well, someone is certainly "obsessed." Last night, Ed Schultz on MSNBC's The Ed Show, fell into a trap set by the object of his Genius Envy, Rush Limbaugh. In his Psycho Talk segment, Ed mocked Rush for saying on his radio program last Friday: The media tweak of the day: Hitler put people in jail to lower the unemployment numbers. Another media tweak: that's how Dachau started. Ed either missed the words "media tweak," or was too busy cribbing from the George Soros-funded Media Matters‘ earlier hit piece on the show. Everyone else took his words as a tip-off...

Deep down, it's all about Ed. What's more pathetic than a less talented individual taunting a more successful person with his achievements? If that man flaunts an award that isn't exactly his. Last night on MSNBC's The Ed Show, Ed Schultz mocked a two-year-old clip of Bill O'Reilly in his “Psycho Talk� segment. Bill’s guest happened to be Ed Schultz, then a nationally syndicated radio talk shot host. In an example of genius envy, Ed pathetically blew up the tiny shot of a Peabody Award situated on a shelf behind him during the interview, circled it like a coach...

Here is video of MSNBC's Ed Schultz interviewing Louisiana Rep. Joseph Cao, the only Republican to vote for the House Health Care Bill. Schultz asked Cao "do you think you went with the majority in your district?" Cao answered "absolutely my district is 75% democrat, 64% minority, and we have a very poor population." Cao called his vote "a vote of conscience, a vote to serve the needs of my people down here in this district." Cao said that he has had some fundraisers canceled on him and some donors have requested their money back. Schultz asked him "is this...

Here is video of Democrat Rep. Barney Frank on MSNBC with Ed Schultz where he got angry with Schultz's attitude toward him and told him, "Ed, don't condescend to me." Ed Schultz told Frank that he should just admit that the Congress was wrong to give bailout money to many Wall Street firms, who now are giving out large bonuses. The exchange happened at the beginning of the video. Barney Frank tried to put it off on "the Republicans," and later Ed Schultz told Frank "you can talk about 06, 05 and everything else" but now you have "the White...

Disclaimer: we're talking politics here, not personal stuff . . . If there's a bigger sourpuss in Congress than Barney Frank, I wouldn't want to meet him. On MSNBC this evening, the dyspeptic Member from Massachusetts got into it with, of all people, Ed Schultz. You might think the two libs would make beautiful progressive music together, but what made this spat especially entertaining was that Barney found himself being attacked . . . from the left. The topic was the billions in bonuses awarded by Wall Street firms that had received TARP money. Schultz's beef was that Congress blew...

It’s On and IT’S MASSIVE– “Kill the Bill Rally” In DC! [Pics in URL] Thursday, November 5, 2009 Jim Hoft Ed Schultz sends these photos from the steps of the US Capital—–

When MSNBC gave Ed Schultz a nightly segment entitled "Psycho Talk," it was apparently in obedience to the truth in advertising laws. On Thursday night, the low-rated host of "The Ed Show" used that segment -- which is supposed to highlight over-the-top rhetoric from conservatives -- to call Rush Limbaugh "a racist, pill-poppin' radio guy." Schultz was outraged that Rep. Steve King, R-IA, had asked NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to apologize to Rush Limbaugh for denying Rush partial ownership of the St. Louis Rams while allowing Jennifer Lopez and Fergie to become co-owners of the Miami Dolphins after worse...

If you were a cable TV host whose audience size is obliterated by O'Reilly's, buried by Beck's, hammered by Hannity's and slam-dunked by Susteren's, would you really go around mocking someone else's ratings? Appparently yes, if you're Ed Schultz. The host of the miniscule MSNBC program went out of his way this evening to belittle the ratings of Dennis Miller's radio show . . . View video here.

Ed Schultz closes his eyes to history. While chiding Glenn Beck for his cherishing the U.S. Constitution, MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz repeated one of the most oft-repeated lies about the Founding Fathers: they considered blacks less than fully human. In an episode of "Psycho Talk," Schultz blasted Beck for saying "Progressives" believe individuals are the problem, and "in Samuel Adams's day, they used to call them tyrants. A little later, I think they were also called slave owners." Ed asked rhetorically, "Remember the three-fifths rule, where slaves counted as three-fifths of a person? It's in Article 1,...

Give Ed Schultz credit for something: on his MSNBC show this evening, he hosted an amusing smackdown between Barney Frank and Ralph Nader, perhaps the two most morose public men in America. For once, Barney was attacked from the left. The gist of Ralph's rebuke was that Frank hasn't gone far enough in regulating the financial industry. Frank was finally so provoked that he claimed/admitted that when it comes to regulation, Democrats are "trying on every front to increase the role of government." View video here.

Barack Obama likes to claim he believes in the free market, even as he lards his administration with what Hugh Hewitt has delightfully dubbed "Mickey Maoists" like Anita Dunn and Ron Bloom. But Ed Schultz has given away the game. On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz said of ObamaCare: "this is the first step toward single-payer. I admit that." View video here.

Here is video of Arianne Huffington on the "Ed Show" last night, where she explained to liberal Ed Schultz why she has written that Vice-President Joe Biden should resign from office if President Obama decides to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, as requested by Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Biden has opposed increasing troops to afghanistan, and isead wants more focus on Al-Qaeda in Pakistan. Schultz was disbelieving that Huffington would advocate this, and told her "We're talking about Joe Biden. We're not talking about Sarah Palin. Joe Biden is not a quitter." Palin is not a "quitter" simply because she...

As the Olympics head to Rio, unemployment edges toward ten percent, and Tehran barrels toward a nuclear weapon, the Left continues its “Question the Patriotism of Conservatives” tour ‘09. In one of the more unlikely scenarios of recent television history, MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” compared President Obama’s perpetual criticism of his country favorably against Rush Limbaugh. The episode was outstanding for its audacity and the light it shed on where the Left really pledges its allegiance. Shortly after slamming conservatives’ “lack of patriotism” and insisting opposition to Obama’s myopic focus on the Chicago Olympics “rivals Jane Fonda sitting on a...

In the misty past of ten months ago, dissent was patriotic, mass protests were a sign of passionate civic engagement, and the greatest sin any politician could commit was questioning someone’s patriotism. But that was America, B.B.O. (Before Barack Obama). Now dissent is potential incitement, middle American protesters are Swastika-carrying yokels, and disagreeing with a president’s decision to put his hometown above the well-being of troops in Afghanistan demonstrates a “lack of patriotism.� On Friday’s edition of MSNBC’s “The Ed Show,� Ed Schultz blamed Chicago’s first-round rejection, not on Rio or behind-the-scenes maneuvering, but on American conservatives who questioned...

Liberals like to style themselves as being above ageism, lookism, sexism and judgementalism when it comes to sexual predilections. But in one fell show, Ed Schultz managed to indulge in all of the above. On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz mocked: * 85-year old Phyllis Schlafly for her looks; * Dick Morris for the way he got his kicks; and * Liz Cheney as her "daddy's little girl." View video here.

Click to watch Ed's latest nationally televised lie. On last night's edition of MSNBC's "The Ed Show," Ed Schultz and his guest "exposed" a shocking scandal: the National Republican Congressional Committee is harrassing doctors and placing their names on ads opposing Democratic health care reform against their will. An NRCC group called the Physicians Council for Responsible Reform, they claimed, is listing random physicians on their propaganda without their knowledge or consent, "because they want to deceive the public." In typical MSNBC/Ed Schultz “reporting� style, it is a false smear designed to discredit the physicians who oppose ObamaCare, which...

[videos] MSNBC commentator Ed Schultz stated that Republicans want Americans to die, and they enjoy it when middle-aged women contract cancer. He then suggested that Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe should allow tumors to spread through her body if she ever gets cancer. Schultz also screamed, "The Republicans lie! They want to see you dead! They'd rather make money off your dead corpse! They kinda like it when that woman has cancer and they don't have anything for her..." After equating the GOP with the Cancer Caucus, Ed brandished a death wish against Olympia Snowe: "Now Olympia Snowe, I'm not wishing...

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...

Click to see Ed Schultz's unhinged meltdown. On the Wednesday evening edition of "The Ed Show," MSNBC commentator Ed Schultz stated Republicans want Americans to die, enjoy when middle aged women contract cancer, and then suggested moderate Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine should allow tumors to spread through her body if she ever gets cancer.Schultz, whose program runs between episodes of Hardball, began his program by discussing the story of a woman who came to a health care town hall meeting sponsored by Rep. Eric Cantor, R-VA. The woman told of her uninsured friend, a middle aged woman with...

Here is video of MSNBC's Ed Schultz talking about Rush Limbaugh's comments on a white kid that was beat up on a school bus and saying that he thinks Rush Limbaugh wants to start a "race war." Ed Schultz called Rush Limbaugh "the most hateful man in America" and a "druggster." Also in the video Ed Schultz gave his solution to the problem, that Obama should "bring these kids to the White House" and make it a "teachable moment." (Video)

Here is video of House Democrat Rep. John Conyers flatly saying he will not support any Health Care Bill without a "Public Option." Conyers says he wants a "single-payer" system (euphemism for Total Government Take Over of Health Care), but he will compromise and take a "Public Option." Conyers was talking to Ed Schultz and went even further. Conyers cites the "math" in the House, and bluntly says Obama "cannot get to 218 in the House without a "Public Option." . . . (VIDEO)

The Democratic Party, at least since the 1960s, has been a party known for love and openness. They want you to think their tent is open to all. They want you to think that they are all about freedoms and free speech. Well what happened to that party? Where has it gone? Now all I hear coming from the Left is the desire to silence dissenters and a plethora of name calling usually limited to fights on a school yard. When did the party for the people become the party of such mean people? Have you heard the names used...

Where has Ed Schultz been for the last eight years? Obviously not out with his progressive peeps. Otherwise he could not possibly have said what he did on his MSNBC show this evening: "I never saw anywhere in the news a Democrat carry a picture to any kind of a rally with a picture of Adolph Hitler putting them close to a characterization of President Bush. Never saw that!" Oh, really? View video here.

What would Jesus do? Well, Ed Schultz thinks he knows - that is on health care reform at least. Schultz, on his Sept. 2 MSNBC program, "The ED Show" told viewers he believed Jesus would vote for a government public option. That, he said, was to the dismay of some on religious right, or what he used the pejorative "Bible thumpers" to describe. "Now, I have been referring to the health care reform deal as the real moral issue of our time," Schultz said. "I believe Jesus would vote yes for a public option, but some Bible thumpers don't see...

Last night, MSNBC host Ed Schultz used his network's airways to hope Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-MN, would come on his show and commit suicide. As part of his appropriately named "Psycho Talk" segment, he featured Bachmann's unfortunately worded statement to a group opposing socialized medicine: "What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes." She intended to unite everyone opposed to government-imposed health care rationing against Democratic attempts to push through the public "option," but the thought of a...

Ed Schultz: "The Democrats are not united! You have a major division here in the Democratic party. The righties aren't causing this. The Democrats, and they're breaking off into different factions here. They're causing this problem. And the president can't seem to get all of his people on the same page after getting a mandate and winning nine Bush states! You've got the liberal left in this country that is seriously considering dumping support for Obama!"

By Mark Finkelstein | August 18, 2009 - 21:09 If Napoleon was right about not interfering with an [in this case political] enemy in the process of destroying itself, this could be a time for Republicans to lay low. According to Ed Schultz, the left could be on the verge of an anti-Obama crack-up. On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz said to the face of a senior admin official that the left is seriously considering dumping support for the president. Schultz's guest was reporter-turned-Obama-spokesman Linda Douglass. The point of Schultz's exercise was to hold Obama's feet to the fire...

"Sometimes I think they want Obama to get shot. I do. I really think that there are conservative broadcasters in this country who would love to see Obama taken out." So said liberal talk radio host Ed Schultz Tuesday. I kid you not. What follows is a YouTubed audio of these absurd comments along with a partial transcript (h/t our friend Brian Maloney):

One of the enduring myths of the Left is that it somehow represents the common man. Both objective data and public perception show the Democrats are a party of elitists who look down upon the unenlightened hayseeds residing in Jesusland. MSNBC’s Ed Schultz demonstrated this last night with his outrage over a new Gallup poll that shows 34 percent of Americans feel the townhall health care “protests make them more sympathetic to the protestors’ viewpoints.” Worked into a proper lather, Schultz spoke to Linda Douglass, White House Communications Director for Health Care Reform, Douglass was last seen in a video...

Here is audio of Liberal Talk Show Host, and MSNBC Personality Ed Schultz saying today about conservatives who oppose ObamaCare that they are "psycho" who he thinks "want Obama to get shot." Schultz is the lowest of a very low lot on the Left. This is what it has come to. The Democrats and the far Left in their party know they are now losing the hearts and minds of the American people on the Health Care debate. Now, the resort to what the always do: Demonizing those who dare to oppose them. The talking points this week have been...

Liberal radio talk show host says right-wing talkers and conservatives want to see Obama "get shot."