Wonder why Ed Schultz is all about Lieberman? Here it is...

I've been telling you on this site some time, Ed is ALL about getting Hillary elected.
He just said it himself, just now on the radio; Lieberman's position on the war parrallels that of Hillary.

This is, as Ed likes to say: ALL ABOUT THE MONEY. That is where'd Ed's backing come from...one doesn't have to look far on the internet to read about how he may be tied to Hillary.

So, he must tout Lieberman. If he can get us to accept Lieberman's positions, then he thinks when the time is right that we'll accept Hillary's as well.

Still don't believe it? Keep listening. ALL HILLARY ALL the TIME. That's WHY we are being fed the Ed Schultz show.

Guess I'm not missing much. I can get my blood boiling just wathing the whore MSM.

that was full of unnecessary vulgarity and reeked of arrogance. I have not listened to him since.

If he keeps promoting LIEberman and Hillary, then more and more people will simply turn him off.

"This is, as Ed likes to say: ALL ABOUT THE MONEY. That is where'd Ed's backing come from"

So he's paid for his views? Is that what you are saying? That he is in some way benefiting financially from Hillary and/or Lieberman?

"...one doesn't have to look far on the internet to read about how he may be tied to Hillary."

So how may he be tied? We like links, not assertions.

The Ed Schultz Show
(02/02/2005 ) Ed Schultz in Seattle Post-Intelligencer ... most interesting of the liberal talkers because he's a former Republican and is running against ...

http://www.bigeddieradio.com/EdInTheNews/more.asp?ID=15
The Ed Schultz Show
First up will be The Ed Schultz Show, which premieres on 15 stations, most in the Midwest ... The former Republican first came to North Dakota on a football ...

http://www.bigeddieradio.com/EdInTheNews/more.asp?ID=24
Say Anything: Re-Thinking The Ed Schultz Show - North Dakota's ...
This is a man who considered running on the Republican ticket against Earl Pomeroy and who frequently had former Republican Governor Ed Schafer sit in as a ...

Ed Schultz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Schultz's "KFGO News and Views with Ed Schultz" radio show was very similar to ... Interestingly, Schultz pondered a run as a Republican for the US House ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Schultz

Its not some kind of secret that he used to be a republican...he's said it on the air many times.

many do not know he was republican...i did not post an opinion only links to the fact that he was republican and that he almost ran for office as a republican..make you own choices..and determination..

i am not in the business of making decisions for you or anyone else...

and i did not post my opinion...thats my business..

fly

You posted that in response to someone asking for evidence that he is somehow paid for his views. So he used to be a republican...what exactly does that prove?

with facts being posted??

its a fact..simple as that..if you want to make something of it, take it up with someone else...

i posted a fact..nothing more and nothing less...

last time i looked, this was a board we help each other out with informing and facts...

i do not play with facts..i simply post them...

you take it anyway you want, but do not put words in my mouth, or do not look for creating an agenda.....where there is none...

i posted simply the facts..

you prove whatever you want..i will not prove a damn thing to you or anyone else..where i have nothing to prove...

i posted simply facts..

fly

and you replied with a fact that had nothing whatsoever to do with the subject? Seems kind of strange.

This is a discussion board, you know...I simply was asking for you to elaborate, but if you want to get all crazy on me, that's fine too I guess.

I know where he's coming from and I can disagree with him without bashing him on DU. I disagree with all of the hosts on progressive radio at about the same rate (except for maybe Thom). It is a popular thing to bash certain people here - I guess that's why I'll never be a good rah-rah person - I choose not to participate. If he is supporting Lieberman, then I disagree with him - but I'm not going to stop listening to him based on that.

He's part republican, part Dem. Don't forget, he was a conservative talk show host for what? 20 years? That's a little hard to erase....

In Sweden, they have an old saying, "You can wash the leopard, but his spots won't come out".

I'm not sure if Ed even knows where he stands on a lot of these issues. He's like a Grab Bag from both parties. He takes a few here, a few there....and what do you have?

is that he may be able to convince some republicans to vote democrat because they relate to him.

We need all the votes we can get.

But when I used to, he would always get these callers who are either very military or rural and tell him that he is the only reason they ever vote democrat.

Rush Limbaugh is 10 times worse than Bill O'Reilly.
Ed Schultz is 1,000 times better than Bill O'Reilly.
Jerry Doyle is 1/2 as bad as Rush Limbaugh.
Randy Rhodes is 100 times as good as Ed Schultz.
Stephanie Miller is 1,000 times better than Ed Schultz.
Rachael Maddow is 999 times better than Ed Schultz.
Jerry Springer is 1/2 as good as Stephanie Miller.

So, obviously the answer is to give Margaret Cho her own radio show, replacing Ed Schultz.

It's simple algebra.

as is ms. garofalo

... that Hartmann is the brightest jewel in the modest left-radio crown.

MIKE MALLOY!!!

MIKE MALLOY!

MIKE MALLOY!

I have never listened to Ed Schultz, but I gained a good impression of him due to some of the posts that I read on DU.

.... around here, the perfect is not only the enemy of the good, it's a screaming, mischaracterizing, shit-flinging banshee enemy of the good.

Folks, like Ed or not, radio talk like his show is a lot more likely to open minds than say Mike Malloy, who I love but face it the center is going to hate.

Not a liberal by any means, but not a conservative either

I don't like him

Dem Party. I think DLC may be the answer. Schultz is not Air America, but can be heard on some of the same stations that carry some of the Air American hosts?

If he is getting better guests than Air America - I'm ticked.

He's not my favorite because of the yelling and there are as many egotistical 'I's' as Imus. He is so hot on himself. There is way too much politics to learn about - I'm not interested in all the fishing, sports, and stuff.

But, if he stands up better than the DLC representatives when appearing on network propaganda shows, than we've got to keep him as long as he doesn't pull a 'Leiberman' on all of us.

I JUST HOPE THERE IS NO THIRD PARTY FORMING - or is it four with the splits in the Republican Party. Just so we don't have a Nader style deflation by Novmeber.

I'm amazed that so many people run in the center of nowhere.

He has a mix of callers phoning in, and I enjoy listening to their viewpoints. Ed can get egotistical sometimes, but overall his show is very good. But am I an "Ed Head"? No.

It's the same thing with Al Franken, Mike Malloy and Sam Sedar. Randi Rhodes is great - she really does her homework. However, none of these commentators has ever worked in public service in D.C. in the Federal Government, nor have they done time at The White House and Capitol Hill, so they can only offer an opinion.

(The same thing goes for those blowhards on the right - the only time Limbaugh comes here is to stuff his face at some dinner, or to get his marching orders from the GOP cabal.)

BTW, I was listening to Ed's show on June 7th when he was discussing the Bilbray/Busby race. He mentioned something about Congressional and Senate staffers flying out to California to phone bank for Bilbray. Here's the E-mail I sent to Ed:
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Subject: CA-50: Boots on the Ground
Date: 6/7/2006
To: ed@edschultzshow.com

Ed, did I hear you say that House and Senate staffers were in CA-50 yesterday working on Bilbray's campaign? If so, they're in violation of the Hatch Act, and should be punished accordingly.

The Hatch Act specifically states that Federal employees cannot:

1. Use official authority or influence to interfere with an election

2. Solicit or discourage political activity of anyone with business before their agency

3. Solicit or receive political contributions (may be done in certain limited situations by federal labor or other employee organizations)

4. Be candidates for public office in partisan elections

5. Engage in political activity while:
a. on duty
b. In a government office
c. Wearing an official uniform
d. Using a government vehicle
e. Wear partisan political buttons on duty

Link to the Hatch Act:
http://www.osc.gov/ha_fed.htm

Congress is in session. Why were these Congressional staffers working on a campaign?

Love your show!

Somehow I doubt it given that many staffers work on campaigns.

I think it is illegal to use the office to campaign directly though(ie: use stationary, funds etc)

my understanding that the Hatch Act is applicable to everyone who works for the Federal Government, with the exception of political appointees.

Congressional and Senate staffers are not appointed by the President. Therefore, they are subject to the Hatch Act.

...he/she is a bad democrat

:eyes:

That's just messed up! Schultz, for whatever reason out there, has every right to back Lieberman - so does any other democrat out there. We may disagree with that choice but isn't that what democracy is all about?

So Ed Shultz supports Lieberman, what's the big deal? According to the last poll, so did half of the democrats in CT. I don't agree with his position on Lieberman, but guess what, he doesn't agree with mine either. We're in the same party and we don't agree on something. Great! Now let's find something useful to rant about instead of devouring our own.

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case here most times

He is an admitted ex-Republican who didn't like the direction the party was taking like many ex-Republicans. I wish they would work on kicking the neo-cons and Christian dominionists out of their party and leave ours alone. I believe this is why we have a DLC wing in our party today and they are diluting what liberal stands for. This is why people believe there is no difference between the parties. Well, if they are dominated by conservatives, that's true.

Here's the gist of it: Randi and Ed were invited to a meeting at a BIG WHIG Democrat's home in NY. She said there was a house full of BIG NAME Dems at this meeting. They offered her and Ed big bucks to speak for the Dem/DLC party on the radio. Randi wanted to be free to say anything she wanted, good or bad, about the party so she said NO and turned down the deal, Ed ran with it. He IS speaking for the DLC wing of the party and getting paid to do so. He's a whore.

I think they may be the same people who support Lieberman.

No.

Like most moderates they depend on headlines, guests, some Internet, passages from a few books and a few other sources they seem to "trust"...

But they don't read many books...I think Ed would rather be fishing than reading some of the fine political books that are necessary to jump past that disgusting, middle of the road, no ideology of their own, do just enough of what other people want and say, fence sitting fucking moderates...who would even actually vote for a republican if enough money by the pug was spend to convince them they were the better man...

Hence, no strong ideology.

so I am grateful for whatever he can do. Better him than limpballs or insanity.