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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Big" Ed Schultz, Drumpf and Putin bootlicker, hits a new low!
Schultz has done an about-face on Trump, too. After calling him a a racist and ridiculing his presidential ambitions in 2011, he praised Trumps political skills during the campaign and downplayed Russias role in his election. Still, none of that quite compares to the praise Schultz heaped on the president on Thursday, talking with reporters on CPACs radio row. I think hes pragmatic, and I think he wants to winhe wants to win for the little guy, Schultz said.
Schultz predicted Trump will go with the people on healthcare, speculating that the president might slow Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and criticized Democrats opposition strategy. They ought to be focused on saving healthcare, Schultz said. They ought to be focused on making sure we dont privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Thats where the Democrats ought to be. Instead, theyre chasing down scandals or theyre making them up. Im justIm a little disappointed in them right now.
Rather, Democrats are probably disappointed in Schultz. He used to be a warrior for the working classcables biggest critic of union-busting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who also spoke at CPAC on Thursday. MSNBC Chris Matthews even once told Schultz he should run the AFL-CIO. But like a disconcerting number of white-working class Democrats, Schultz found common cause with Trump after supporting Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primaries.
I dont agree with Trump on everything, Schultz said on the radio row. Though he insisted his personal politics havent changed, he embraced Trumps moral equivalence between the U.S. and Russia. Asked about the presidents remark to Fox News host Bill OReilly that America has a lot of killers and is not so innocent, he said, I think the president was spot on saying that. I mean, could we say that Barack Obama was a killer? Let me just state the facts. The rest of the world is a little mad at America right now for the civilians that have been killed in drone strikes.
Schultz praised liberal commentator Alan Colmes, who died Thursday, as a prince of a person and a great radio talent. He said the fact that Fox News had him in prime time was a real statement of how good Alan was and how much he was respected. Schultzs apparent opportunism isnt likely to bring him the same respect. He was a talk-radio conservative before he was a liberal, and his latest political persona is awfully convenient.
Schultz insisted that Russia has ever told him what to say on air, and that hes never even slanted a story to be more favorable to the nation. The perception is that were propaganda, and we simply are not, Schultz said. Which is worse: that he might be taking direction from the Kremlin, or that hes doing their bidding freely?
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/140860/ed-schultz-hits-new-low-cpac
I never liked that ----- of ---- ! I never trusted him. He was a right wing radio hack who went left in search of filthy lucre when he couldn't compete with the likes of Hannity, Savage, and Limbaugh. That clown used to mock homeless people. Google it. Now he's bloviating on Russia TV. The only constant in every one of "Big Ed's" incarnations is he bashed main stream Democrats.
dalton99a
(81,443 posts)We don't need instructions from this hypocrite,phony,Mfker we can do more than one thing at a time.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)He is not unlike some of the far left so called progressives.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)and got his radio show on Sirius. I hadn't seen him or heard him for awhile--cancelled my big cable TV for smaller and dumped Sirius but I thought Big Ed would always be there for Dems.
Gawd..................
Kahuna7
(2,531 posts)towards President Obama.
coco22
(1,258 posts)its never enough. Look at Kucinich.
hlthe2b
(102,220 posts)She had been suffering from ovarian cancer, as I recall. Not sure what effect that has on his seeming reversal and move toward blatant opportunism, but it may well be part of the story....
Regardless, he lost me long ago.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Trying to be the liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh.
The liberals (most anyway) don't want a Rush equivalent.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)CousinIT
(9,239 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)I was beginning to think I was the only one who questioned the progressive Russian Media connection: opposing Hillary and promoting Trump.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)What were they saying?
nycbos
(6,034 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Is no way to go through life, Ed.
get the red out
(13,461 posts)No one on RT is to be trusted.
Javaman
(62,517 posts)mcar
(42,300 posts)Shame on him.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)He was just bashing Democrats while acting as if he was on the left for the good of the party!!!!!
Don't ya know? He is genuine just like HA Goodman. Trying to make us better.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Both are impotent and irrelevant. They're provocateurs with a very limited appeal.
Not even "D-List" in the amount of respect or influence they have. He's a gadfly.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)The useful idiots who ran around proclaiming RT (and their pathetic lackeys) was the only news outlet that wasn't fake sure sound an awful lot like Donald Trump and his insane tweets.
I doubt that's a coincidence.