Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Ed apologizing and handing over to Thomas Roberts for

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » General Discussion Donate to DU
 
malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:01 PM
Original message
Ed apologizing and handing over to Thomas Roberts for
tonight.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
LLStarks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:02 PM
Response to Original message
1. This is painful to listen to, but it has to be done. nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:02 PM
Response to Original message
2. He offered to resign MSNBC
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TTUBatfan2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:02 PM
Response to Original message
3. Indefinite leave of absence without pay...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:12 PM
Response to Reply #3
22. Just like Olbermann. Ed ain't coming back...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
TTUBatfan2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:16 PM
Response to Reply #22
23. Sadly I think you are correct...
:-(
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:19 PM
Response to Reply #23
25. that was my worry, but official statement is one week...
So, I think they realize they can't can another progressive right now without all hell breaking loose.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
adigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:03 PM
Response to Original message
4. What are some of the things Morning Joe has said???
What about Rush with "Barack the Magic Negro"?? Are they kidding? OK, it was inappropriate, but to take him off the air by suspending him? That is BS.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:05 PM
Response to Reply #4
11. I was saying the same thing
The Racebaiting, the mysogyny, but only Dems get suspended.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:03 PM
Response to Original message
5. What he did was bad! When do Repugs who say vile things
about Democratic women get suspended? Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz suspended, Right Wing not so much.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
adigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:04 PM
Response to Reply #5
9. It's OK to call Chelsea Clinton, about 12 at the time, a dog
Rush Limbaugh wasn't taken off any airwaves. I can't count the racist and sexist things Repubs have said, no repercussions to them.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:03 PM
Response to Original message
6. It was, after all, a very unkind thing that he said.
Not to Laura Ingraham, but rather to members of that group to which he compared her.

:P

:patriot:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:07 PM
Original message
Funny how ReTHUGS can say anything
but liberals are called on everything
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:03 PM
Response to Original message
7. I may be a sap, but he had me in tears.
Edited on Wed May-25-11 09:06 PM by hlthe2b
I hope his suspension is brief.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:03 PM
Response to Original message
8. Good for him
Even though I agreed with him. But I would call her a tool.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:05 PM
Response to Original message
10. That's quite the mea culpa.
Not one of those non-apology apologies ("I'm sorry if anyone was offended"). The word "slut" really was inappropriate (as awful as Laura Ingraham is); sometimes Ed does go off the rails a bit. But at least he's apologizing, for real, instead of weaseling.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
RoccoR5955 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:06 PM
Response to Original message
12. Pullease! Give me a freakin' break.
It's okay when Rush, or Hannity, or O'Reilly, or the NY Post, say that kind of crap about people on the left, but it's not okay. Well, I guess now that Comcast owns MSNBC, or maybe Ed wants a show on Current?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:06 PM
Response to Original message
13. That was a heartfelt apology. Nice job Big Ed!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:07 PM
Response to Original message
14. Very good apology
He looked like he wanted to cry.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
lob1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:08 PM
Response to Original message
15. I guess I'm the only one here who doesn't know what
Ed said. I have no idea what he's apologizing for.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
601Liberal Donating Member (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:12 PM
Original message
He called Laura Ingraham a slut
I just looked it up myself because I wasn't aware of it until now. At least he's being stand up about it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Bravo Zulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:09 PM
Response to Original message
16. It was a slip of the tongue,
in the heat of battle!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:09 PM
Original message
Cyberburp. n/t
Edited on Wed May-25-11 09:11 PM by Cleita
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:09 PM
Response to Original message
17. Well, he was big enough to apologize.
I hope he doesn't leave permanently. However, although no woman including Laura Ingraham deserves to be called a slut, she isn't so sacrosanct that she shouldn't be called a lying tool for the right wing and Heritage Foundation shill and mouthpiece. I think I will email M$NBComcast and tell them that.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DianaForRussFeingold Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:10 PM
Response to Original message
18. Wow, that is one big heartfelt apology!
:hug: We all can learn from that kind of sincerity. Kudos to Ed... :loveya:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:10 PM
Response to Original message
19. I hope he comes back some time in the future. I must say, his
appology sounded like the most sincerre I've ever heard. It is quite amazing how the RWers seem to get away with saying even worse things about Dems than what Ed said and there's no appology, no reprimand, no nothing! I don't WANT to be like them, but I'm getting pretty tired of the hammer only hitting one side too!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
sasha031 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:12 PM
Response to Original message
20. Ed is one the best best things the Dem's have
he speaks in a language that everyone understands.

this sucks...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:12 PM
Response to Original message
21. I have no idea what he said, but MSNBC put out this statement saying Ed would be gone for 1 week
without pay:

25 May 2011 5:51 PM
STATEMENT FROM MSNBC REGARDING ED SCHULTZ



STATEMENT FROM MSNBC REGARDING ED SCHULTZ:

MSNBC management met with Ed Schultz this afternoon and accepted his offer to take one week of unpaid leave for the remarks he made yesterday on his radio program. Ed will address these remarks on his show tonight, and immediately following begin his leave. Remarks of this nature are unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

http://www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com/Content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=5024&NewsAreaID=2&ClientID=7
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
klook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 09:17 PM
Response to Original message
24. He should have called her a "right-wing asshole"
because that's what Laura Ingraham is.

It was a mistake for Schultz to use the word "slut," even though I doubt he meant it in a misogynistic way (just as those who call right-wing shills "whores" apply the term to male and female toadies alike).

Now let's watch as all the right-wing blowhards suddenly become feminists for a week and jump to her defense.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 11:12 PM
Response to Reply #24
26. Asshole is a terrible thing to call someone.
Calling them "right wing" is even worse!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon May 06th 2024, 08:55 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » General Discussion Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC