Ed Schultz, propagandist, issues the most tepid and misleading of corrections
Ed Schultz of MSNBC knows that the Big Bold Lie sometimes works, even in this day of internet checking. But sometimes, alas, it doesn’t, and then in certain high profile cases you have to issue a correction.
Not an apology, of course. That’s not necessary. Besides, why should you apologize when you’re fighting for the Forces of Good against Evil, even if you don’t play fair?
And don’t explain what you really did. Just say enough to acknowledge that you somehow—no doubt inadvertently, unknowingly, and accidentally—made a regrettable error when you were actually unabashedly and deliberately lying though your “journalist” teeth:
My guess is that Ed’s job at MSNBC remains quite secure. What do you think?
Schultz: If it’s black, it’s good.
This reminds me of an atrocious and dishonest editing job that Andrea Mitchell did of an interview of McCain in the last presidential election.
These MSNBC people have no shame and apparently think Americans are too stupid or lazy to call them out on their lies.
I hope MSNBC goes out of business and that all their talking heads can’t find jobs elsewhere.
“Being a liberal means never having to say you’re sorry.”
Or something like that from Ryan O’Neal in Love Story.
His job is secure — he did exactly what they pay him to do.
Actually the pravda media are perfectly willing to issue corrections — because they know the damage is done. Perry is now “officially” a racist. Pundits can now take that as a given when attacking him. Comics can now dress up as Perry in Klan robes. It has become an Official Media Fact. Expect a Saturday Night Live routine about Perry being in favor of slavery and/or black genocide. You know, because those things are always funny.
Let’s see, screen goes blurry and sound cuts out at the EXACT MOMENT that Perry says “that debt”…. GEE! MAYBE IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!
MAYBE! The editors and producers and sound and tech file guys, and the kid would went to listen to Perry’s speech and recorded it with his super-duper fancy video camera… MAYBE! Every single one of those guys never heard Perry say “that debt” and completely, inadvertently, and totally by mistake- MAYBE they blurred out the screen and then cut the sound during Ed’s broadcast in a completely innocently done manner.
In the name of journalism.
And ALSO! Maybe my Aunt Frannie is a leprechaun who will fart gold coins if I rub her ears with a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich! Extra mayo!
And maybe not.
Schultz is an evil man; That sums it up.
Schultz must be skating on very thin ice. Thin ice isn’t a good place for a guy with his weight to find himself in August.
MSNBC supposedly “reprimanded” him for calling Governor Christie a “big fat slob”. Then he had a hissy fit because his show wasn’t being promoted the way he thought it should be. It was reported in the press that while he was arguing with the network execs he screamed, “I’m going to torch this f-ing place”. More recently, he called Laura Ingram a slut and MSNBC suspended him for a week.
I give him less than a year.
Dear Ed,
You should be unemployed. You are a big black cloud hanging over NBC’s business.
Baklava
Ed Schultz is clearly not the brightest pumpkin in the patch. Nobody of any consequence can take him, or MSNBC seriously.
I’d rather be water boarded than watch Special Ed.
I got a chuckle on that one Steve.
“Special” Ed Schultz — it does have that ring to it, doesn’t it?
I give him less than a year, Do we want to set up a betting pool, Neo? Put in so much for a month and a week where Special Ed will be empting out his desk into a couple of cardboard boxes and be escorted out by secutity?
(Hey, I’ve done that cardboard box thing, but not the escorted-out-by-security. Small company, couldn’t afford security for their firees — of which there were startlingly many. As an aside, be careful of those small companies which tell you as a new hire that they treat their people just like family: they mean an abusive and exploitative family, in my experience)
But it’s a whole new taste thrill, Ed — you can finally go out and be what you wanna be! Fly free, not-so-little-moonbat! Fly free!
If you set up the pool, Neo? I’m in for $1.00 at the second week in December, this year.
Ummm….wow.
MSNBC, along with the rest of the former GE entertainment assets, is now in transition to ownership by Comcast. This would be an appropriate time to drop a note to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and let him know what you think of this sort of thing. That goes double if you are perchance a Comcast shareholder.
Sure his job is secure. If MSNBC actually required people with character and a sense of decency they wouldn’t have employed Olberman for as long as they did.
This shill is not worth 1 calorie of attention. In a sane society he would be treated the same as a rabid raccoon.
What’s the difference between Ed Schultz and a bag of fresh manure?
The bag
What did Ed Shultz say to the nose picker?
That’s racist!