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

  5. Oh, dear!

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

    But not often.

  6. 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.

  15. 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).

  16. 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.

  23. “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.

  25. 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.

  30. 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.

  33. 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.”

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