Keystone Supporter Ed Schultz Now Opposes

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Good on you Eddie!

Yes Big Ed is clumsy and was a RW'er but when he is willing to admit a mistake let's embrace that change.

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"Let me give you an absolute tonight. Something you can really hang your hat on. … The aquifer is feet deep. Not thousands of feet deep. I mean feet deep over this this territory in Nebraska. This pipeline if it’s constructed just like every other pipeline, it will leak. It’s an absolute. It will leak. … So the question is this, America. Do you want to risk — does the President of the United States want to risk damaging the aquifer, and I’m talking about irreversible damage. This isn’t something the oil companies will be able to come in and fix the aquifer. No. When that oil, if and when it does get in there, now what are we going to do? You are going to make void the farm economy in this part of the country. That’s the risk.

Mr. President, say no to this project,” Schultz said. “I turn this night on this program, I was wrong, but after researching both sides and listening to all the experts, I don’t think America needs to take this risk.

This is the land of the American people who are concerned about their future,” Schultz said, “who are concerned about carbon emissions, who are concerned about their stability.”

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/05/3368171/keystone-ed-schultz-oppose/

[LiberalAndProud]

1. That's good, but he's extremely late to the party.

Maybe that gives him greater credibility for some.

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2. He has done this before

I don't consider him a "Lefty" like he likes to call himself but a turn around is good in the MSM world.

[Ilsa]

3. Happy to be the 5th Rec. nt

[bullwinkle428]

4. It took him weeks to get on board with OWS a couple of years back.

I think he personally bought into the whole "dirty hippie" demographic pushed by the MSM, and he wasn't comfortable with the idea that it was tied into economic inequality.

I think a steady diet of speaking with, I'm sorry, but people smarter in many ways than him, like John Nichols, Mike Papantonio, Katrina VanDenHuevel, etc., finally brought him around into realizing how important the movement was.

[hatrack]

5. Finally!

Setting aside the fact that there are places in Nebraska where you can't dig fence posts without hitting the aquifer, it comes down to a simple fact.

Human beings can live without natural gas (and have done so for hundreds of centuries).

They can even live without electricity (and have done so for hundreds of centuries).

But they cannot live without access to clean drinking water.

And yes, I know this makes me a neo-Luddite or whatever. Fine. Flame away. I don't care, because it's true.

[onehandle]

6. He was being a journalist and devil's advocate.

Ed is the King of MSNBC.

[The Straight Story]

7. If it were a muslim country wanting to run a pipeline through there

The RW would be talking about possible terrorism to our water supplies and so on. Why give them a new target that is hard to monitor and defend, so on and so forth.

Putting in danger for money though? No biggie.

[GoneFishin]

8. He deserves some credit. Many other public figures would rather eat a crap sandwich than change

their stance on such a volatile issue.

[babylonsister]

9. Agreed. nt

[freshwest]

10. Also. He was man enough to admit he was wrong and on the air, too. n/t