Near Bar Fight - Ed Schultz vs. Koolaid Rightie - Newspaper Story

[RamboLiberal]

Local and national liberal radio talk show host Ed Schultz nearly came to blows with a California Republican donor during a heated exchange about the war in Iraq Saturday night at a bar near Detroit Lakes, Minn.

Schultz, who spent 45 minutes of his local show Wednesday defending his actions at Hotel Shoreham on the shore of Lake Sallie, said a man approached him inside the bar and wanted to talk about politics and the war in Iraq.

Schultz said the man and a woman with the man, both of whom had been drinking, would not end the conversation despite Schultz's repeated attempts to do so.

"Finally, I put my beer on the bar and put my finger in his face," Schultz told listeners of KFGO's "News and Views" morning radio show. "I told the guy, 'I didn't come here for this.' "

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Nagle, president and CEO of a privately held health-care company, donates regularly to the Republican Party. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Nagle donated $21,420 to candidates and the party during the 2006 election season.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=49419§ion=homepage

Here's forum article Ed was referencing - http://www.in-forum.com/News/articles/177344 - BTW Ed says the 3 newspapers that are featuring the story are owned by a Big Rightie.

Glad he didn't - but too bad Ed didn't cold cock this guy! BTW Schultz claims much of this story is crap - like the part where he cocked his fist.

Oh and I find it hard to believe that a koolaid drinker like Nagle doesn't know Schultz is no longer a conservative broadcaster. I wonder if he wasn't trying to setup Schultz.

[HughMoran]

1. Kick some righty ass Ed

lol - funny story no matter how you slice it...

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

2. Could hear it in his voice

during his show today on AirAmerica, although he didn't mention the incident when I was listening. DID hear him sort of singing the praises of Ron Paul during the recent debate . . . I s'pose you need to be able to respect your opponents . . . Paul apparently spoke forcefully against the Iraq War.

[JDPriestly]

3. Ed Schultz, we love you, but you should apply the Randi Rhodes rule:

Don't discuss politics if anyone (including yourself) has been drinking alcohol.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Nagle is lucky he didn't get his head knocked off for calling Ed's wife a "f@#$ing c@#$".

[RamboLiberal]

5. Info on William Marcil the Forum Communications Owner

running these stories on Schultz. Sounds like the Richard Mellon Scaife of the North Country.

Incumbent Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer appears to be picking up endorsements right and left in her re-election bid: in a single week, she nabbed the nod from the Bemidji Pioneer, the Daily Globe in Worthington, the West Central Tribune in Willmar, and the Duluth News Tribune. And so does her ticketmate, Republican Jeff Johnson, who is running for attorney general: within days, he got noteworthy endorsements from the Detroit Lakes Tribune and the same Willmar and Worthington papers as Kiffmeyer.

But what looks like a Republican groundswell surging across rural Minnesota can be explained more simply: all seven editorials expressed the political preferences of one man, a practice that's more common than you might expect.

William C. Marcil is the president and CEO of a media mini-empire that owns the Fargo-Moorhead Forum, all the newspapers mentioned above, and around 30 other publications--not to mention a half dozen printing houses, three broadcast stations and an internet service provider. But when it comes to political endorsements, the company name, Forum Communications, is a bit of a misnomer: endorsements aren't determined through open debate and discussion by members of a local editorial board; they're decided upon by Marcil in his Fargo office and emailed to papers in Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin.

Brad Swenson, editorial page editor of the Bemidji Pioneer, confirmed the policy in an interview yesterday. "Technically, it's part of the job. He owns the paper, he can say who gets endorsed," he says, adding, "Personally, in a lot of those races, I'm not voting that way."

http://www.minnesotamonitor.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=673

[LTR]

6. Nice to see Big Eddie actually mingles with the common folk

Ever see Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, etc. leave their ivory towers to go out in public and shoot the shit with the 'little people'?

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2007/09/ed-schultz-fight-club.html

And for your amusement, a little DU blast from the past, about a well-known radio conservojock who behaved like a complete ass in a restaurant:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4845697