Ed Schultz calls for cheating in Massachusetts U.S. Senate Election…?
I’ve been tracking this the past few days to see what sort of legs it would have and it seems like there are some legs. Cheri Jacobus blogs on The Hill about something Ed Schultz said last week…
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz apparently doesn’t believe in this whole “democracy” thing we’ve got going on here in the United States of America. You know — where citizens get to vote for their elected officials and the one with the most votes wins? (Please don’t bore me with the “Gore won in 2000″ whining. He didn’t. In fact, it was his choice to go for a manual recount only in four cherry-picked Florida counties where he thought he might do best, rather than a statewide recount, because he knew Bush beat him in Florida.)
On Friday on his radio show, Schultz said he would be willing to cheat in Tuesday’s Massachusetts special election to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s seat in order to keep the seat in the Democratic column. The race is in a dead heat, but Republican Scott Brown seems to be surging as Martha Coakley (D) stagnates. This, in the most liberal state in the union!
Schultz: “I tell you what, if I lived in Massachusetts I’d try to vote 10 times. I don’t know if they’d let me or not, but I’d try to. Yeah, that’s right. I’d cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. ’Cause that’s exactly what they are.”
January 18, 2010 at 12:55 pm
I saw this statement.
My thoughts.
What a dumb thing to say.
This will be replayed over and over as proof Liberals cheat.
I know he’s frustrated but how does making a stupid comment like that help?
January 18, 2010 at 1:10 pm
I saw this discussed on all the Sunday shows. Ha. Just kidding. It’s Ed Shultz, a liberal, not Rush, a conservative.
January 18, 2010 at 1:16 pm
It is fun to watch the meltdown over at MSNBC over the Mass.election and the prospects that their beloved Obama will be handed a big defeat tomorrow…you have Big Ed calling for voter fraud,Chrissy Mathews trying to remind Mass Voters that Brown isn’t Catholic,Davy Shuster freaking out and asking if the voters are nuts.plus KO calling him just a nude model.
I wonder if the MSNBC gang are catching on that when they started the “Teabagger” crap to try to diminish the Townhall /Tea party protest movement that it would backfire on them bigtime like this? LOL!!!!
Oh and I’m not counting my chickens before their hatched..I know very well that Marsha..oh I mean Martha Coakley(whoops pulled a Patrick Kennedy there)could still win..after all they have sent SEIU members in and I’m sure they made sure to park a few cars around the state that can be used to “find’ uncounted ballots if needed.
January 18, 2010 at 1:35 pm
^ Mr. Kennedy is e campaign veteran and knows very well how to get names right. So his flub of Ms. Coakley’s name was intentional.
January 18, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Patrick Kennedy is the dumbest Kennedy and often acknowledged as the dumbest member of the House.
Al, why do you think Patches would purposely flub her name?
January 18, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Ed…Ed…Ed…
Gosh, to be totally honest, Ed Schultz is just not a smart guy. He seems to pander to the far left, and his show, at times,are very cringe-inducing. His personality works far, far, better in a radio format then in a TV Show format. Also, he seems a lot more comfortable in the interviewee position than the interviewer. I wish that MSNBC would just keep him as a contributor and replace his show with “The Daily Rundown”–a show which has really grown on me.
January 18, 2010 at 3:31 pm
I think it was someone on Red Eye who said that the election was so close, it was in the “margin of ACORN”!
How true.
January 18, 2010 at 4:04 pm
ACORN has nothing to do with this whatsoever. SEIU members voting for the candidate they support and canvassing/phone banking to remind Democrats to vote for the candidate they support? That is called democracy.
I am no fan of Schultz. I think this kind of commentary is terrible for liberals and progressives (of which I am one). I really hope Coakley wins, but the voters will decide.
January 18, 2010 at 4:08 pm
“SEIU members voting for the candidate they support and canvassing/phone banking to remind Democrats to vote for the candidate they support? That is called democracy.”
What about beating people up who don’t agree with Obama is that also democracy?
January 18, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Hey alin,
The SEIU are just a bunch of sweethearts, aren’t they? They just want their democratic right to vote. NOT!!!!!!
What does it mean when Andy Stern states that they need to “pull out all the stops”? Will he be playing organ in a church or something?
Read this and get back to us: http://michellemalkin.com/2010/01/15/beware-seius-purple-army-marches-on-massachusetts/
January 18, 2010 at 4:18 pm
What about beating people up who don’t agree with Obama is that also democracy?
It was the ‘democracy’ practiced at my high school.
January 18, 2010 at 4:22 pm
realreal – I don’t think that Ed is pandering to the far left…..he is one of them. Not that that’s a bad thing, just sayin’.
January 18, 2010 at 4:34 pm
bushleaguer-
Sorry, but Ed has always been forming his political opinions throughout his entire life from others around him.
He was first a staunch conservative on every issue, then he married his wife and became a strong liberal (apparently he has some breakthrough moment). It is just hard to believe that a person can go from being Right on abortion, taxes, government, health care…etc..and just absolutely change there position.
Then there was that time he said he believe Dick Cheney “…wanted U.S. to get attacked” to score political points, and when Joe Scarborough pressed him on it, he said he believed that because of all the callers in his radio show. Huh?!?
January 18, 2010 at 4:35 pm
realreal, sounds like Ed’s a chameleon, doesn’t it?
He ranks right up there w/Chrissy and Keith.
January 18, 2010 at 4:55 pm
“pull out all the stops”
I read the MM article. Looks to me like she says they will spending lots of money and providing help in getting out the vote; just like supporters on the Rupublican side. MM’s view seems to be: on the right that support is democracy on the left its’s stealing the election.
January 18, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Real, I went through that transformation. I was an evangelical Reagan Rightie turned moderate-liberal by the time Bush 1 was in office. It’s not unusual for ‘born agains’ (Ed refers to himself as such) who carried the politics of their church to question them later.
January 18, 2010 at 5:10 pm
missy-
I wouldn’t categorize Ed with Chris and Keith. Ed is an Air America radio star–he has people that he must please, the far-left liberals.
I think that is the reason that O’Reilly couldn’t succeed with his radio program–he is Conservative–but not a far right conservative (like Limbaugh, Hannity & Boortz).
On the other hand, Chris Matthews is right on some issues, but left on even more issues. He is tough with most people, on Hardball, that is why neither Liberals or Conservatives like him.
And Keith, is just Keith. He has always been a Liberal, and since 2007 he has really owned it (speaking of his Cable Show).
January 18, 2010 at 5:13 pm
I think Mr. Kennedy believes she’ll be defeated tomorrow and intentionally flubbed her name so to distance the Kennedy brand from her. In as much he said, “Well, we really don’t know her so it’s not our fault if she loses.”
January 18, 2010 at 5:20 pm
joeremi-
Absolutely. Of course that there are those who change their politics over time, most people do, but Ed seems to form his political opinion just by someone talking to him. I listen to his radio show and his position on the current health care bill changed call by call. When someone calls and says that it is a horrible bill, he agrees. A couple days later, a caller started reading off all the positives of the bill, and he seemed to change his own opinion on the bill, and that day on his show (MSNBC) he changed from attacking the Bill to “Pass the Bill-in whatever form” side.
Don’t take me wrong, I am a liberal, and I just think MSNBC can find smarter liberals to speak for me. Someone more like Maddow, or just put a straight news show there.
January 18, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Real:
Wikipedia has a short explanation of Ed Schultz’s evolution from conservative to liberal if your interested. Trying to get his ill mother health care and meeting his wife played major roles in the conversion. It’s worth a read.
I agree with most of his politics but don’t care for his cable show; too bombastic for my taste.
January 18, 2010 at 5:28 pm
I haven’t watched his show but have listened a few times to his radio broadcast. Even after reading Ed Schultz’s bio and significant opinions, I still can’t tell where his personal centre is. I wonder if his opinions are genuine or does he just manufacture this stuff cheaply for his retail market.
January 18, 2010 at 5:32 pm
@Fritz
Thanks for the tip—I’ll check it out.
Your line: “I agree with most of his politics but don’t care for his cable show; too bombastic for my taste.”
That was the root of my point. I totally agree with his politics, I like his radio show, but the “Dick Cheney wants America to get hit”, and President Bush was the “worst President ever!” is just too much for me.
January 18, 2010 at 5:35 pm
@Al
“I wonder if his opinions are genuine or does he just manufacture this stuff cheaply for his retail market.”
-I don’t want to question whether Ed’s political opinions/motivations are false or not. That can be said about almost every Political Personality. I just believe he is easily influenced.
January 18, 2010 at 5:53 pm
I just believe he is easily influenced.
Also known as having an open mind. I think it’s a positive.
The switch on support of the health care bill is common among libs, notably Howard Dean. The initial anger over the public option being pulled turned to “Let’s get what we can and improve it later.”
January 18, 2010 at 6:08 pm
-genuine or manufactured-
I wonder but don’t know the answer. Lots of people change their minds on issues but for most political opinion heads – from Chris Matthews & Lou Dobbs to Sean Hannity or Pat Buchanan – it’s fairly easy to tell where they are rooted. For Ed Schultz, not so easy.
Don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Maybe it’s just a thing.
January 18, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Al: Ed evolved his politics in North Dakota not exactly a bastion of liberalism. He is a hunter/fisherman, a big sports fan, and very pro union. These are all associated more with working class lefties as opposed to the more academic liberalism of most left leaning television commentators.
I know; there are other exceptions.
I think this is why his loud, brash style grates on some television viewers, like me, but not his talk radio listeners. To me he’s not all that far, socially, from the tea party types he rails against.
January 18, 2010 at 6:59 pm
^ Makes sense, fritz.
January 18, 2010 at 8:07 pm
real real, nice to talk to you. I’m sure we disagree politically (you’re a liberal, and I am very conservative), but I appreciate your polite response to my post. That doesn’t always happen around here (although many people here are fairly civil).
January 18, 2010 at 8:15 pm
missy-
Right back at ya’.
January 18, 2010 at 8:43 pm
(although many people here are fairly civil).
Not me!
January 19, 2010 at 11:28 am
So… to recap… is Ed sort of like the liberal version of Hannity? Seems to be a nice guy but his passion for his points gets the better of him sometimes? I’ve never watched his show – I’m still at work when it’s on! – and it sounds like I’m not missing much if I’m looking for something balanced…
January 19, 2010 at 11:39 am
Meggie, I think that’s a good comparison. His show shares another trait with Hannity’s: No one on his side of the aisle admits to liking it. My theory is that righties leave Fox on, lefties leave MSNBC on, and both shows run while the viewers leave to comment on blogs for an hour.
January 19, 2010 at 11:50 am
Ah… now it all makes sense! Thanks!
However, I must note an exception: I’m in the Southeast, so I’m actually checking/commenting during my lunch break every day… way too much going on at my house at night to watch much tv or get on the internet… I have TWO teenagers!
January 19, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Two teenagers. Bless you my child. One crazy 15-year-old makes me thankful for limited fertility.
January 19, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Laural:
Yours is right between mine… 16 and 14. Sorry to hijack this thread, but the “joy” of living with teenagers is something that I’m really glad to know I share with someone else here…
January 19, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Ed Schultz = Wacky teenagers. Not that far off.