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Ed Schultz Goes Way Off-Message

Posted on | December 13, 2013 | 113 Comments

The Angriest Man on TV™ gets paid big bucks for his act as a left-wing populist who hates Republicans like God hates sin. Alas, when it comes to the lowly wage slaves who haul the freight at his network, Ed Schultz sounds like more like Ebenezer Scrooge:

Ed Schultz decided to take a break from his normal act of ranting against Republicans today by raging against some fellow liberals who had the temerity to criticize him and other MSNBC hosts for declining to publicly take the side of union members in a dispute they’re having with the cable channel’s parent company, NBC Universal.
Schultz . . . lashed out at a report from Salon.com which mentioned him: “I become the target because I’m living good. I become the target because I have a platform. . . . They’re just out to take somebody down who’s got something they don’t have.” . . .
“I’m not going to lower myself to people who just have got employment envy, income envy, exposure envy, platform envy,” Schultz said, according to a Salon transcription of the show. . . .
Schultz also attacked an internet columnist named David Sirota in a way that could not be construed as anything but “punching down.”
“It’s interesting that you have had class envy on me for years, that you’re never going to be as big as I am. That’s what you’re all about, Sirota.” He reiterated his opinion moments later, calling Sirota a “loser.”

Wow, that’s weird. I actually agree with Ed Schultz: His critics are envious, and David Sirota is certainly a loser. But that message is not in sync with the egalitarian ethos of the Left, and Ed Schultz just exposed himself as a loud, phony, hypocritical plutocrat.

Did I mention Ed Schultz’s reported salary is $4 million a year? Anyway, now he’s got Mike Elk after him. Good luck with that.

 


Comments

113 Responses to “Ed Schultz Goes Way Off-Message”

  1. Suddenly, after pimping class envy rhetoric for years, Ed Schultz hates class envy | The Daley Gator
    December 13th, 2013 @ 10:29 pm

    […] Hypocrisy much Ed? […]

  2. Charles
    December 13th, 2013 @ 10:40 pm

    If you’ve got Ed Schultz on one shoe, and David Sirota on the other shoe, you’re going to have to clean the shit off your shoes.

  3. amyshulk
    December 13th, 2013 @ 10:51 pm
  4. cmdr358
    December 13th, 2013 @ 11:01 pm

    Ed Schultz is an evil,evil man. Doom on Ed Schultz.

  5. Dianna Deeley
    December 13th, 2013 @ 11:30 pm

    Oh, dear!

    Could that be more pathetic? I’ve seen adolescent girls with white belts who threw a sadder punch.

    But not often.

  6. KottersParadise
    December 13th, 2013 @ 11:33 pm

    LOL…Ed Schultz Goes Way Off-Message
    http://t.co/xDjLFDCjMx #p2 #stoprush #tcot

  7. rwindependence
    December 13th, 2013 @ 11:37 pm

    RT @LADowd: Safe to tweet before reading: “Ed Schultz just exposed himself as a loud, phony, hypocritical plutocrat” http://t.co/BoFJgIi2ag…

  8. Adjoran
    December 13th, 2013 @ 11:39 pm

    Not sure I buy the $4 million, unless it was a long term contract when he was signed or something. Schultz is only doing one show a week now. Only a few top TV stars make over $1 million a week. Why would they pay some guy more for miniscule ratings?

    The more I think about it, the less sense it makes, even for MSNBC.

    As to the union issue, a pox on both their houses.

  9. Steve Skubinna
    December 13th, 2013 @ 11:46 pm

    And I think you’re seeing one now.

    NTTAWWT.

  10. Go Figure, Ed Schultz Went Off On People With ‘Employment Envy’ | The Lonely Conservative
    December 14th, 2013 @ 12:43 am

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  11. Dungeonmaster Jim
    December 14th, 2013 @ 1:14 am

    MSNBC, the network preferred by the voices in my head.

  12. Dianna Deeley
    December 14th, 2013 @ 1:54 am

    But, but, but, you haven’t fixed it yet! *Pout* *Pout*

  13. Mcschweety
    December 14th, 2013 @ 2:51 am

    Ed Schultz Goes Way Off-Message http://t.co/wFgTsg9iWi

  14. arthur23
    December 14th, 2013 @ 6:44 am

    RT @LADowd: Safe to tweet before reading: “Ed Schultz just exposed himself as a loud, phony, hypocritical plutocrat” http://t.co/BoFJgIi2ag…

  15. mjhohio
    December 14th, 2013 @ 7:09 am

    RT @LADowd: Safe to tweet before reading: “Ed Schultz just exposed himself as a loud, phony, hypocritical plutocrat” http://t.co/BoFJgIi2ag…

  16. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 14th, 2013 @ 7:51 am

    It could be $400,000 and it would be way too much money.

  17. ReaganiteRepublican
    December 14th, 2013 @ 7:58 am

    Linked

  18. McGehee
    December 14th, 2013 @ 8:33 am

    This one may not even need bacon.

  19. Joe Dokes
    December 14th, 2013 @ 8:58 am

    o/t

    From October but the first I saw it. Whole thing is well worth watching but someone please tell me WHAT happens to her eyes at 5:35?

  20. Joe Dokes
    December 14th, 2013 @ 9:04 am

    I’ve heard both versions can be correct, “tow” (as in everyone pulls on a rope as required along with everyone else…each pulls his/her share of a load) as well as “toe” (as in the military, everyone gets lined up with the toes of their boots on the same line).

  21. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 14th, 2013 @ 9:15 am

    I thought it was tow as in pulling the barge (which is towing the line). But I will defer to Dianna, who I am sure also had excellent handwriting in addition to superior grammar and spelling.

  22. FredBeloit
    December 14th, 2013 @ 9:17 am

    Ed says he’s not a librul, he just plays one on TV. Four mill for low ratings. Good going MSNBC.

  23. fit4posts
    December 14th, 2013 @ 9:20 am

    1%er Ed Schultz, “I’m not going to lower myself to people who just have got employment envy, income envy”
    http://t.co/3LNl42tkcC

  24. Quartermaster
    December 14th, 2013 @ 9:49 am

    Toe the line is a military expression of ancient provenance.

  25. Quartermaster
    December 14th, 2013 @ 9:51 am

    Whatever it is, it’s too much.

  26. Quartermaster
    December 14th, 2013 @ 9:51 am

    Even the voices in my head prefer FNC.

  27. rsmccain
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:00 am

    RT @fit4posts: 1%er Ed Schultz, “I’m not going to lower myself to people who just have got employment envy, income envy”
    http://t.co/3LNl42…

  28. rsmccain
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:01 am

    RT @wsrs1: The funniest is Ed Schultz jabbering about his “platform.” Ed, six losers and your wife watching is not a platform. http://t.co/…

  29. instapundit
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:01 am

    RT @fit4posts: 1%er Ed Schultz, “I’m not going to lower myself to people who just have got employment envy, income envy”
    http://t.co/3LNl42…

  30. rsmccain
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:01 am

    RT @MrEvilMatt: Ed Schultz Goes Way Off-Message: The Angriest Man on TV™ gets paid big bucks for his act as a left-wing populi… http://t.…

  31. AblativMeatshld
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:02 am

    RT @fit4posts: 1%er Ed Schultz, “I’m not going to lower myself to people who just have got employment envy, income envy”
    http://t.co/3LNl42…

  32. JCCentCom
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:04 am

    RT @wsrs1: The funniest is Ed Schultz jabbering about his “platform.” Ed, six losers and your wife watching is not a platform. http://t.co/…

  33. dexybailman
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:04 am

    RT @MrEvilMatt: Ed Schultz Goes Way Off-Message: The Angriest Man on TV™ gets paid big bucks for his act as a left-wing populi… http://t.…

  34. JavierStealth
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:10 am

    Ed Schultz Goes Way Off-Message. Typical #Hypocrite Progressive http://t.co/RFvHhZohSf

  35. HankDesjardins
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:21 am

    RT @fit4posts: 1%er Ed Schultz, “I’m not going to lower myself to people who just have got employment envy, income envy”
    http://t.co/3LNl42…

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    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:30 am

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  37. mikepinkshoes
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:36 am

    RT @fit4posts: 1%er Ed Schultz, “I’m not going to lower myself to people who just have got employment envy, income envy”
    http://t.co/3LNl42…

  38. BonzerWolf
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:38 am

    RT @JavierStealth: Ed Schultz Goes Way Off-Message. Typical #Hypocrite Progressive http://t.co/RFvHhZohSf

  39. richard mcenroe
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:39 am

    You shoulda gone with “huxta”… keeping it real, yo!

  40. richard mcenroe
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:40 am

    “Toe the line” comes from bare-knuckle prize fighting, where a fighter too whupped to come up to the line in the center of the ring was disqualified.

  41. richard mcenroe
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:41 am

    O’Reilly’s target demographic.

  42. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:44 am

    Dianna would have made me write on the black board 100 times: “Poor spelling is not keeping it real.”

    How old school is that? I mentioned that ancient artifact of education: The black board.

  43. rmnixondeceased
    December 14th, 2013 @ 11:32 am

    It could be a nickel and he’d be highly overpaid …

  44. rmnixondeceased
    December 14th, 2013 @ 11:37 am

    Sorry, he’s busy preparing the popcorn for the next Charles Johnson meltdown over at LGF …

  45. tlk244182
    December 14th, 2013 @ 1:29 pm

    Racist!

  46. K-Bob
    December 14th, 2013 @ 1:34 pm

    Or you could just be happy to be properly dressed for events at the White House.

  47. K-Bob
    December 14th, 2013 @ 1:37 pm

    No, no, no, it’s a bowling reference.

    No, wait, it’s for the long jump.

    No, wait, it’s a reference to some of the lines barack spent his school years snorting thru a rolled-up dollar bill.

    Yeah, that’s the ticket.

  48. K-Bob
    December 14th, 2013 @ 1:39 pm

    Is that the dude that plays “Michael Savage” on the radio?

  49. richard mcenroe
    December 14th, 2013 @ 1:48 pm

    Why does that “punch” remind me of Tilda Swinton in “Constantine”?

  50. Adjoran
    December 14th, 2013 @ 3:56 pm

    Racists.

    The phrase of course originates in Africa, like jet planes and computers and everything else. Back in the day, the tribal king controlled all the tribe’s wealth and was known as the Lion of the Tribe. Members could borrow food or spices or a laptop, but they had to pay him back with something of slightly greater value or be sold to the Evil White Devils.

    Hence, it was a stressful condition “to owe the Lion,” which degenerated over time to “Toe de line” in Ebonics.

    Fortunately, under Common Core, every school child will learn this right after he learns the words to “We Love Obama.”