This is a ...what ever happened to... question. What ever happened to Ed Schultz. I miss his style.

[Augiedog]

[madaboutharry]

1. He works for RT.

Schultz is a hack.

[blake2012]

3. He was an important voice back in 2004 time frame

But I agree he is not anywhere near a progressive.

[NurseJackie]

12. Agreed. Good riddance.

[yallerdawg]

51. As a Senator Sanders (I) supporter...

his deep commitment and anti-Hillary rhetoric took him to the 'darkside.'

We lost a lot of old "friends" that way.

[Hortensis]

53. Right down the rabbit hole.

Don't expect most of those people to ever find their way out. From what I've seen from brief peeks from a safe distance, they're not happy in their lost world, but not about to go seek the light.

While we're on this unfortunate topic, it'd be worth noting Schultz's profound dishonesty and lack of honor and trustworthiness. These are key traits in most people who go this way.

[HipChick]

2. Ed Schultz? really?

He showed his true Rethug colors..

[Augiedog]

7. I clearly didnt know what direction he had wandered off to. Goggling him gives a sad, dark

departure from what I had known. He was a union supporter of grand expression . That was my hook on him. RT is a shade off. And supporting tRump is disturbing at best.

[PatSeg]

41. He turned out to be a major disappointment

It wasn't just RT television, as a number of well known liberals had shows on RT for awhile. It turns out the Schultz never really stood for anything, just a big, loud mouthpiece. It is too bad, as he was a great voice for unions at one time.

[PatSeg]

42. Okay, here is where he finally lost me for good

What the heck is Ed Schultz doing at CPAC?

"Full disclosure: the Russians did not tell Hillary Clinton don't go to Wisconsin," Schultz said.

He applauded Donald Trump, saying the president isn't "bought and paid by anybody." Schultz said Trump used "a different vernacular" when communicating with voters and simply "outworked" Clinton on the campaign trail.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/23/media/ed-schultz-cpac/index.html

[EffieBlack]

48. He lost me with his "I'm with the guy who showers AFTER work, not before" schtick

Pushing the tired GOP frame that anyone who doesn't wear steel-toed shoes and a hard hat is an "elite" who doesn't matter.

[PatSeg]

49. Oh yes

He got predictably theatrical. I couldn't listen to him a lot, as the yelling was too exhausting. He was in a constant stage of outrage. Now it appears it was all an act.

[DangerousRhythm]

54. Oh god.

I could never quite get behind Ed because it felt to me like he was trying to be the Rush Limbaugh of the left, with his loud, anger schtick and just his general style. I never trusted him. This, though, is just blatant. Jeez. I can't believe I hadn't heard this before. So much horrible stuff is going on from day to day that this didn't even register as a blip on my radar, which is nuts.

[PatSeg]

56. Yeah

I remember thinking of Ed as "the Rush Limbaugh of the left" back when he was on MSNBC. Too much anger and yelling. I could only take him in small doses, but I did like his support of labor and unions.

I can understand missing a lot of things this past year, we've been bombarded with crazy on a daily basis. I feel like I am in a constant state of shock. Sometimes, it feels like it will never end.

[RandySF]

4. He went nuts and joined Russia Today

[catbyte]

5. He's a shill for Russia Times or Today or whatever RT stands for.

[IMG][/IMG]

[AJT]

6. He began his career as a rightwing radio personality

and has gone full circle......back to his roots.

[SHRED]

8. I asked him on his Twitter feed...

"Shouldn't you be registered as a foreign agent?"

No response.

[Hoyt]

9. He played football when they wore those worthless leather helmets.

[IADEMO2004]

10. A small man inside. Loves lucre above all else.

[Demsrule86]

11. He is a Republican and a Trump supporter. He fooled people...works for RT.

[WhiteTara]

13. He's at re-education camp in Russia. nt

[lkinwi]

14. He was our support during Act 10 in Wisconsin.

Then he went to the dark side. So disappointing.

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. I find this all really odd. He had Mike Papantonio and Norman Goldman on often -

both clearly liberal/progressive/Democratic/left wing.

His Wikipedia page doesn't note anything about him veering back right after his leftward swing.

Funny to see this post as I was just pondering him the other day, wondering what happened.

There seems to be no clear answers (aside from his presence on RT).

[Mr. Ected]

16. He succumbed to a fatal case of capitalism

The Russians bought him.

[EffieBlack]

17. He was a phony who rode a wave until it didn't work for him anymore

Then he went back to his roots.

[lunasun]

18. You do not wanna know

[ConnorMarc]

19. Are you saying Big Ed is now a Republican?

I know he's over at RT now, but is he a confirmed Trump-supporting Republican now?!?!?!?

Say it ain't so!!!

[standingtall]

44. It is worse than that

He sides with Trump and the GOP over Democrats even though he still gives lip service to progressive policies because that is what his boss Putin wants. He is a traitor.

[Wellstone ruled]

20. He started out in Right wing Radio in Western Minnesota and

tried being a fake Liberal,but to many caught on to his fakery and then went back to his roots,a washed up Right Wing Ding Bat.

Sad to say,old Ed fooled a ton people along the way,never the ones who really knew him.

[spanone]

21. he went to the dark side....

it's show business, baby!!!!!!

[DownFromTheMountain]

22. Was talking with the wife about this a year ago.

Don't see anything here really illuminating...where did he go? Rumored to run for a Senate seat, then it seemed that the idea got scrapped instantly..then the RT career. WTF with RT.. Larry King, Jesse Ventura, Thom Hartmann, and the Conservative Sports Caster that went "lefty"...oh...and the short stint at MSNBC too.. soooooo....he ends up as a minor figure coming out of the Air America time; a plant from the beginning, or, turned with the usual methods?

[underpants]

28. He's a pro talker

Was right wing then went left now on RT. He's made a living out of it though.

[ConnorMarc]

23. I Refuse To Believe IT

I listened to Ed e-ve-ree-day for years.

He was my favorite host in msnbc.

I loved his style of delivery.

I felt that he was the best, post Olberman that gave O'Reilly a run for his money.

I want to believe Ed has just temporarily lost his way.

Yes, I'm aware he used to be a rightwing host before, but no way a rightwinger could "fool" people that long and with such arguments.

If he's gone back to Republican, it's probably due to him genuinely losing his way.

[blogslut]

24. Some people have ideologies that evolve. Others wet a finger and stick it in the air.

Ed is the latter.

[Bucky]

50. I'm not sure "the air" is where he stuck it

The wind is blowing back toward common sense and away from "cash out to whoever will pay me"

[no_hypocrisy]

25. You decide.

Here are some of Ed's youtubes:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC74VHgJTqFXXsmcbffHyYiQ

[oberliner]

26. Works for Putin (and has been doing so for several years now)

How Ed Schultz transformed from MSNBC lefty to the American face of Moscow media

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-ed-schultz-transformed-from-msnbc-lefty-to-the-american-face-of-moscow-media/2016/12/20/320713f4-c322-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html

[Botany]

27. I was taken in by him too but in the end he was a con man

But he has his houses, businesses, private jets, and fishing lodge.

[Cha]

29. What the heck is Ed Schultz doing at CPAC?

But Schultz may have been warming to Trump even in his more liberal MSNBC days. In the spring of 2015, Schultz praised his business acumen. Trump reacted the way much of the political world responded to the news that Schultz was going to CPAC.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/23/media/ed-schultz-cpac/index.html

[BumRushDaShow]

30. READ THIS

POLITICUSUSA



Mon, Feb 27th, 2017 by Rmuse
Opinion: Fake Liberal Ed Schultz Pimps For Trump at CPAC

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Schultz has performed a one-hundred-eighty degree turn on Donald Trump as well. After calling Trump a racist and ridiculing his political ambitions a few short years ago, this week he praised Trump’s skills during CPAC and “downplayed” Russian Vladimir Putin’s role in interfering with an American election to install a friend of Russia in the White House. Schultz’s embrace of Trump is obviously a requirement to land a gig with Russia’s state-sponsored American television network, Russia Today.

During his appearance at CPAC, Ed Schultz could not heap enough praise on Trump despite harshly criticizing him when Schultz pretended to be a liberal on MSNBC. On Thursday while talking with reporters on “CPAC’s radio row,” Schultz said this about his boss Putin’s puppet in the White House:

“I think he’s pragmatic, and I think he wants to win for the little guy. [Trump] will go with the people.” And, Schultz said Trump will slow the Republican Congress’ efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Then Schultz went full-on Trump and railed against the Democrats’ efforts to oppose the hateful Trump and Republicans’ agenda saying:

“They [Dems] ought to be focused on saving healthcare. They ought to be focused on making sure we don’t privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. That’s where the Democrats ought to be. Instead, they’re chasing down scandals or they’re making them up. I’m just—I’m a little disappointed in them right now.”

<...>

https://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/27/opinion-fake-liberal-ed-schultz-pimps-trump-cpac.html

To quote and excerpt of Malcolm X (via Denzel's amazing performance of this speech in the film) -

[Docreed2003]

32. Seeing that makes me sad and infuriated

I listened to his radio show for years...he was the lead in to Mark Thompson on Sirius/XM Progress. I was one of many who were taken in and "bamboozled" by his act...I'm actually more mad at myself than I am at this fake liberal!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

33. I used to listen to him too on SiriusXM

even when he had to briefly leave MSNBC due to his wife's medical issues and that is the only place to hear him. I do like Mark Thompson (although I wished they hadn't moved his slot because he is now on at the same time as Joe Madison, who is on SiriusXM Urban View). Also listened to Hartmann, TYT, Stephanie Miller, and Bill Press (when he was on).

But oh well... TYT was the canary in THAT coal mine.

[Docreed2003]

43. Yep

It took a while to get used to Mark in the am, but I love it now...I listen to Joe Madison on the XM app. The newest lineup on Progress is overall really great, love Mark, Stephanie, Michelangelo, and Dean. I can't stand TYT.

[dembotoz]

31. I miss him as well. Guess he learned if he was gonna feed the kids

He had to switch sides.
Question would be was it him or our pathetic support of lefty talkers

[BumRushDaShow]

35. He was billed as "the Rush Limbaugh of the left"

and I think at the time, a loud, no-holds barred progressive talker was in demand. I.e., the only "surrogates" who could get dings in before him were the Carvilles and Rendells of the world, who could slide in a nasty quip that cut to a GOPer's core (or even Democrats' too).

[Generic Brad]

36. His voice sounds very much like Rush Limbaugh's

Not saying they say the same things, but his inflection, enunciation, and delivery made me always think he was imitating Rush's speaking style.

[BumRushDaShow]

37. I've always said the same about Alex Jones too...

I think it is also the type of microphone they use that seems to emphasize the growl too.

[MineralMan]

34. He's busy shilling for the Russians.

[Blue_Tires]

38. He turned to the dark side...

[NurseJackie]

39. The way he talks reminds me of Rush Limbauh. Something about...

... his accent, maybe? (Are they both from the same state/region?) Maybe it's just his cadence and tempo... or perhaps it because they're both baritones... or maybe because they both use similar phrases and idioms.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

40. I never liked him, in any of his incarnations.

[Vinca]

45. He went to the dark side. It's all very bizarre.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

46. My guess? Russian kompromat.

Pretty much explains his new employer and point of view.

[nini]

47. He was /is a Russian plant

fuck him

[Thunderbeast]

52. Self-centered loudmouth.....Trump Light

When Air America stations had to replace AL Franken, Thom Hartmann got the covered 12-3 (Eastern) time slot in most markets. Schultz was furious. He spent months screaming about how he deserved the chance to out-shout Rush Limbaugh.

His brief gig at MSNBC received underwhelming ratings. Eddy retreated to radio, and gravitated toward his anger instead of conviction. Full of himself, the man seldom did his homework and often spewed fake facts. His research team was abysmal. It was the perfect recipe for a right-wing hack.

Sorry Eddy. You lost me ten years ago.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

55. I miss Ron Reagan on MSNBC