With An Angry Sputter
By Mitch Berg
Ed Schultz bags out on one of his radio shows:
Its been an interesting couple of months in Ed Schultz news, which is never usually an interesting news category unless you find men who consider shouting insults to be keen political analysis to be interesting
I don’t, as a rule – but when Schultz is involved, you have to handicap a bit.
First Schultz and his North Dakota rival Scott Hennen (full disclosure: I guest host for Hennen and have my own show on his station) announced a partnership whereby Schultz would host a morning show on Hennen’s recently-acquired AM station in southeast North Dakota and debate with Hennen himself once a week on Hennen’s morning show.
This sparked a great deal of criticism of Hennen which I never quite understood. I understand that a lot of people don’t like Schultz (including many on his own side of the political divide), but as far as Hennen goes what’s wrong with debating with the other side?
The whole “if you talk with the “enemy” some of it rubs off on you” school of thought is something that irritates the piss out of me when it’s liberals doing the whinging. It doesn’t bother me any less among conservatives.
Anyway, last week during the Hennen vs. Schultz debate Schultz got so angry he hung up during the program.
If it was anything like last year’s “debates” between Schultz and Michael Medved, I’ll bet it didn’t take long. Schultz wasn’t Medved’s intellectual peer. He isn’t Hennen’s equal. For that matter, Tonya Harding outmatches the guy.
Then Schultz pulls the plug on his radio show on Hennen’s station. We can at least be glad that Schultz didn’t get so angry that he got drunk and punched a girl (as he’s been known to do) but even so that seems like a sissy move.
Sissy? Perhaps.
“The move of a guy who is trying to fight way above his intellectual weight class”? Definitely.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:54 am
Yeah, Medved’s a genius, like for example the time he said, “I don’t believe Christianity requires you to love your enemy.”
Slinging insults never gets old here on SiTD, or so it seems.
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:50 am
Didn’t Shultz used to live next door to you, teh Peevee? In the house that he bought from T Boon Pickens, right?
Or was it the one on the other side; the one that Steven Jobs uses as his summer home?
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:51 am
I don’t know, Peeve.
A jackass could easily quotes a genius out of context. In fact, you’re pretty good at quoting regular folks out of context… I suspect you’re just as good at that sort of thing with geniuses.
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 am
lets keep in mind that peev believes Richard Nixon was President in 1975 (from his blog) and that Joseph Conrad wrote The Heart of Darkness about the US Military involvement in Viet Nam (again from his blog)
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:10 am
Schultz is right in line with liberal mentality. Case in point, I had a “conversation” with my Aunt’s husband (a retired Mpls PS teacher and die-hard DFLer) in which I stated I had little use for his city of MPLS. He asked why, and I told him mainly because of the people running it.
I used the 10 $50,000 drinking fountains as an example. He asked me what I had against public art. Should they plow the Sculture Garden under?
I told him I believed public funds should be spent on utilitarian things.
He called me an asshole, got up and walked away.
Liberal debate at it’s finest.
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:33 am
Don’t forget to included the $180,000 promotional budget for the drinking fountains. So the actual cost is closer to 68,000 per fancy water fountain.
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:30 am
While up in NoDak earlier this year, I caught some of Ed Schultz radio show (I think he had just gotten his gig on MSDNC). The topic was health insurance and Ed was reciting, without any further insight, reflection or thought, points that you could and do get from just about any lefty website or dominant media culture outlet. A caller, who identified himself as a person working in the insurance industry, came on and Ed welcomed him to the show and then proceeded to trash the insurance business. Later in the call, Ed remarked that he/his radio production/show is set up as an independent corporation with he and his wife being the sole employees. Because of this, he has to pay for his health insurance out of his own pocket. Due to his (Schultz) spouse’s preexisiting condition, he winds up paying thousands of dollars each month for health insurance and he and all of “us” need some relief out here. Ed went on and on about he and his wife’s situation and how much they have to pay and it isn’t fair, even though he has the money, that he has to pay these thousands of dollars out of his own pocket each month. The caller asks Ed – “Well how much do you think you should pay each month?” Then Schultz launches into the guy – “How dare you personalize this and make this about me?” As Bugs might say – what a maroon.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:12 am
Yeah, Medved’s a genius, like for example the time he said, “I don’t believe Christianity requires you to love your enemy.”
Context, my friend. Context.
He was talking about exactly what “love” meant when dealing with an enemy that was trying to kill you and yours, IIRC (AIPD).
Slinging insults never gets old here on SiTD, or so it seems.
Well, it can – but on the other hand, in the case of Ed Schultz, insults are generally accurate.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am
Please do plow the sculpture garden under, if it will mean an end to “public art” waste.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:27 am
He was talking about exactly what “love” meant when dealing with an enemy that was trying to kill you and yours, IIRC (AIPD).
Medved also made the very accurate conclusion that while we are required to forgive, the offender has to first ask to be forgiven. Otherwise it is a waste of time.
Of course this does not address the the decision to take offense in the first place. Attitude is everything.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:44 am
“He asked me what I had against public art. Should they plow the Sculture Garden under?”
The Sculpture Garden is funded through an endowment, and by voluntary contributions, along with earned income through ticket sales etc.
That’s how public art should be funded.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
LOL
Now Peeve’s going to need to admit that I’m right… which he is loathe and afraid to do.
If he actually does he’s going to be sooo peevishly peevish, his pernicous side won’t calm down for hours.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Master of None said:
“The Sculpture Garden is funded through an endowment, and by voluntary contributions, along with earned income through ticket sales etc.
That’s how public art should be funded. ”
I agree, and I think the sculpture garden is pretty nice, but I would definitely sacrifice it to the end I mentioned (not that I think the end is achievable by that or any other means). *shrug*
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:24 pm
The thing is I never mentioned the Sculpture Garden. It was a really lame strawman presented by an amatuer. It was the over-arching principle I was trying to address. When Minneapolis is whining about all of the LGA it’s not getting from the state, it’s blowing a half milllion bucks on 10 drinking fountains.
Just questioning liberals drives them batshit crazy (see Peev).
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I love it when a commie prick proves my point:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/09/02/obamas_green_jobs_czar_van_jones_republicans_are_aholes.html
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:29 pm
“put another nail in the coffin of the idea of Isreal” – penigma 01.13.09 – 9:01 am
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:40 pm
At least he didn’t chuck a chair at him. Like our junior asshole Al Frankenstein did to Medved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEj7vit4G74
http://freedomfolks.blogspot.com/2005/10/why-al-franken-should-not-hold.html
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:09 am
Schultz is indeed a dullard and a bully, and not very bright either.
I’ve always wanted to like him, for his chutzpah mainly, but he’s just the “liberal” version of Sean Hannity really.
At least Keith Olberman’s Steven Colbert schtick is funny as hell.
Who does the Right have who’s as funny? (besides Dick Cheeeeny’s Dick Cheeeeny routine).
Sorry about the digression; carry on…
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I used the 10 $50,000 drinking fountains as an example. He asked me what I had against public art. Should they plow the Sculture Garden under?
Next time, tell him that you couldn’t possibly care about any sculpture garden- because you’re either not an Art History major nor know the background knowledge of each and every piece of “art”.
That’s what college professors tell me when I complain about the Red Guards smashing things up left and right during China’s Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution.