Ed Schultz Touts His 'Town Hall Meetings', Fails to Disclose Hidden Co
June 22nd, 2009 12:47 PM
Twenty dollars here, twenty dollars there. After coming from thousands of people, it starts adding up.Anyone who listens to Ed Schultz's radio show or has seen him on MSNBC has almost surely heard Schultz refer to "town hall meetings" he moderates across the country.Schultz began organizing the gatherings during the '08 campaign and revived the practice earlier this year, holding more than a half…
Chris Matthews on Air America: McCain Hitting 'Idiot Button'; Mocks Pa
June 19th, 2009 4:29 PM
MSNBC's Chris Matthews appeared on Montel Williams' Air America radio show on Wednesday to slam John McCain: "I think McCain put his finger on the idiot button." The Hardball host fumed about McCain's criticism of how Barack Obama has handled the response to Iran's disputed election. He also unflatteringly compared the Senator to Sarah Palin. After getting a laugh from the Montel Across America…
Ed Schultz Finds 'Hate Mongering' Intolerable - Except His Own
June 15th, 2009 9:09 PM
Leave it to a liberal with a microphone to condemn a practice he relishes when not pontificating.A recent example -- Ed Schultz from one day to the next on his radio show last week.On Wednesday, Schultz had this to say about conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt urging Americans not to buy GM or Chrysler vehicles since they are now manufactured by largely government-owned "socialist" companies (…
Limbaugh: Obama's Control of Banks a 'Stealth Way' to Impose Fairness
June 5th, 2009 1:59 PM
Some in the liberal media establishment have decried discussion of the Fairness Doctrine, claiming the Obama administration's publicly saying it wouldn't pursue it removed the threat. However, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh theorized that President Obama may have another method to restrict content over the airwaves in mind. In an interview on Sean Hannity's June 4 Fox News…
Tamron Hall Justifies MSNBC Obsession With Rush Limbaugh
June 5th, 2009 12:15 PM
MSNBC’s Tamron Hall attempted to justify multiple stories on Rush Limbaugh supposedly comparing Barack Obama to Al Qaeda: "We have a right to cover people who are speaking out...Many people listen to this man, and we have a responsibility to report all sides and you can't try to duck and hide, throw the rock and then hide in the bush."Hall was responding to criticism by Republican strategist Alex…
Ed Schultz, Jihadist, Invokes Almighty in Wishing Cheney Dead
May 16th, 2009 2:32 PM
How about that, alleged comedian Wanda Sykes wasn't entirely off the mark in deriding a person from the media as the proverbial 20th hijacker. She just cited the wrong person.During one of his daily fulminations about former vice president Dick Cheney this week, radio and MSNBC host Ed Schultz appropriated the language of jihad.Here's what Schultz said on his radio show Monday, expressing a view…
Ed Schultz Reveals Inner Dolt in Gushing Over Wanda Sykes
May 14th, 2009 6:50 AM
Radio and MSNBC host Ed Schultz, he of hefty chip on shoulder when it comes to Rush Limbaugh, could hardly contain his glee over alleged comedian Wanda Sykes' criticism of Limbaugh at the White House correspondents' dinner.Sykes likened Limbaugh to "the 20th hijacker" on 9/11 for possessing the audacity to hope that Obama fails in bankrupting the nation or leaving America vulnerable to attack.…
FNC’s Beck: They’re Going to Silence Voices Like Mine, Bill O’Re
May 6th, 2009 7:48 PM
Call it an ominous warning, but Fox News Channel afternoon host and ratings sensation Glenn Beck on Wednesday cautioned viewers that government is strengthening its grip of power and is not going to stop at the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Beck declared on his May 6 broadcast the government is out of control, noting that Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests were a weekly…
Ed Schultz Guest Sen. Stabenow Touts Need for '9/12 Commission
May 3rd, 2009 12:42 PM
It's official -- Bush and Cheney are as evil as al Qaeda. Or so Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Democrat, wants you to believe.Chrysler just declared bankruptcy and GM may follow suit, Michigan's jobless rate remains worst in the nation, and its residents flee their state in droves.What better time to create what Stabenow calls a "9/12 commission," modeled after the 9/11 commission that…
Establishment Media Is Ignoring White House Threats to Chrysler's Non
May 1st, 2009 5:03 PM
UPDATE, May 2: ABC’s Political Punch reports that the administration is denying making threats. Uh-huh, Tom Lauria just made it up. My take: Horse manure. _____________________________________________If the Bush White House had engaged in anything similar to what's being described here (actually, Hank Paulson did; the question is how much Bush knew), there would be calls for impeachment. Maybe…
Ed Schultz Exploits Death of Daniel Pearl for Sake of Bogus Gitmo Abus
April 30th, 2009 10:10 AM
Back on April 9, radio host Ed Schultz boasted of his high regard for accuracy while telling listeners about his new television show on MSNBC --Where I work, they don't put stuff on the air unless it's accurate and they differentiate between opinion and fact. And in my world I think that's kind of important. On The Ed Show (Schultz's program on MSNBC), I'm not going to tell you something that I…
