{"id":7715,"date":"2010-01-06T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7715"},"modified":"2010-01-06T13:52:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:52:23","slug":"a-modest-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7715","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

If someone who goes to a “Tea Party” is a “Tea Bagger”, then shouldn’t fans of Ed Schultz be called “scum baggers?”<\/p>\n

Apropos not much.<\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

Well, it was <\/em>apropos not much, until I caught this bit of late-breaking news; according to the HuffPo,\u00a0\u00a0Fast Eddie Schultz is thinking about running for North Dakota’s newly-open Senate Seat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MSNBC talk show host and liberal firebrand Ed Schultz is considering a run for Senate in his home state of North Dakota following the abrupt resignation of Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

The longtime talk show host, who was until recently based out of Fargo, North Dakota, told the Huffington Post that “there is a lot to think about” after he was approached by Democratic leaders in the state about a possible run. But the possibility is there, even if a decision is far off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A brief tangent:<\/p>\n

Dear Lord:\u00a0 If I say my prayers and eat my vegetables, can I please please please please please <\/em>watch Fast Eddie Schultz flame out against John Hoeven?\u00a0 Just once in my life?<\/p>\n

The MSNBC host, who has lengthy ties to the state, said he was called last night by Dorgan who, in a rather suggestive question, asked Schultz how old he was. Hours later Boucher was on the phone asking Schultz to consider a run for the Senate seat.<\/p>\n

“I asked him very point-blank if this was an official ask.” Schultz said. “He said, ‘Yes it is’. I’m flattered. I’m honored.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His “ties to the state” include time as a legendarily peevish sportscaster and, later, cut-rate Limbaugh clone who flipped his political allegiances about eight years ago, to the relief of conservatives everywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I MCed a “Debate” between him and Michael Medved <\/a>almost two years ago.\u00a0\u00a0 In it, he showed that if he weren’t allowed to bellow, bluster and wave his hands like a puffy, red-faced pocked Mussolini, he’d be overmatched in a battle of wits with Jessica Simpson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah.\u00a0 And he’s a dick.\u00a0 After my turn at MCing his “debate” appearance, during which I (like my co-host Matt Entenza) questioned both Medved and Schultz aggressively but civilly, he called me “Mitch Craig” on the air, and referred to me as an “a-hole”.\u00a0\u00a0 Not that being called names fazes me – puhleeze, I get worse from my own family – but it just shows you what a class act that intellectual flyweight Schultz really is.<\/p>\n

For the record:\u00a0 Fast Eddie Schultz is an ignorant, moronic blowhard; if intelligence and wit were gasoline he’d run out of gas halfway around the inside of a Cheerio.\u00a0 He actually is <\/em>as dumb, knee-jerk and hate-choked as the lefty cliche about talk radio would have you believe about his competition.<\/p>\n

Run, Eddie.\u00a0 Run.\u00a0 I dare you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If someone who goes to a “Tea Party” is a “Tea Bagger”, then shouldn’t fans of Ed Schultz be called “scum baggers?” Apropos not much. ———- Well, it was apropos not much, until I caught this bit of late-breaking news; according to the HuffPo,\u00a0\u00a0Fast Eddie Schultz is thinking about running for North Dakota’s newly-open Senate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7719,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions\/7719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}