Ed Schultz Goes Way Off-Message

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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.

 


113 comments

  1. I’m still getting over Ed thinking he has a platform. Dude, Rush Limbaugh has a platform. Mark Levin has a platform. You have a diving board.

    $4 million a year? If I were the subscribers to Comcast, who owns part of this train wreck of a channel, I’d be going “oh hell no” next time the want to increase the rates to pay for Ed’s trips to the buffet line.

  5. Schultz just screwed up big time. Sirota’s gonna tweet one of his “air punch” pics.

    It’ll be too late then, Ed.

  6. Oh Please. Ed is a carney huxter. And he saw how Baldwin and Bashir got the ax. Who is going to pay that stupid half drunk slob $4 million a year? Damn strait he is going to tow the Network’s line. Ed’s kids need new pairs of shoes (or something like that).

  12. EBL, I’m going to sign up as your copy editor, if you’re not careful! “Huckster”, “straight”, and “toe the line”, if you please.

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