Ed Schultz Reprimanded By MSNBC - Again!

[DToTheJ]

Just weeks after the president of MSNBC reprimanded Ed Schultz for threatening to "torch this [expletive] place" over an on-air promo dispute, the early evening host received a similar warning after dismissing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as "a cold-hearted fat slob" to his viewers:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser...r-calling-nj-gov-cold-hearted-fab-slob_b32660

Not looking good for "Big Ed."

 

[Bengalsfan]

Wish Eddie would follow through with his promise to burn down the place....but would anyone know?

 

[FreddyE1977]

Maybe he should change his theme music to "Burning Down the House".
Preferably the Whitesnake cover version.

 

[LKellerIII]

Just weeks after the president of MSNBC reprimanded Ed Schultz for threatening to "torch this [expletive] place" over an on-air promo dispute, the early evening host received a similar warning after dismissing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as "a cold-hearted fat slob" to his viewers:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser...r-calling-nj-gov-cold-hearted-fab-slob_b32660

Not looking good for "Big Ed."

Uh...isn't Ed a bit corpulent, himself? While I don't necessarily agree with his assessment of Christie, I don't think charging somebody with being "cold-hearted" is particularly over the line. Keith Olberman makes the same kind of statements all the time, but his invective is generally a bit less personal, so he can get away with it.

By the way, if you look at early American history, commentators in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (who mostly wrote pamphlets and in periodicals, of course) were far more brutal, and make Hannity and his ilk look like pantywaists. (Sorry, I couldn't resist using a word from that era).

Politicians like John Adams and Jefferson were accused of being "monarchists" and "traitors," "conceited," and of being literally "insane." "Whoremonger" was used often.

And those commentators didn't hestitate to poke fun at their enemies' less attractive physical attributes. John Adams' political enemies referred to him as "his rotundity" - a bit more poetic than "fat slob," I guess...but it means the same thing.

 

[DToTheJ]

...I don't think charging somebody with being "cold-hearted" is particularly over the line...

And that's exactly why I assessed that things must not be good for Mr. Schultz at MSNBC if the network president had to come down on him again over that comment. Compared to the meanest of slurs, this was grade school bully rhetoric.

 

[DToTheJ]

Maybe he should change his theme music to "Burning Down the House".
Preferably the Whitesnake cover version.

I prefer something from Great White... :-X

 

[Mark Giardina]

Is there anyone left watching that network to give a damn?

 

[MsMusicRadio]

Is there anyone left watching that network to give a damn?

I watch it exclusively for political news which should surprise nobody. Maybe that is why they brought up Lawrence O'Donnell as a kinder more suave liberal progressive. Ed does get carried away, but certainly is totally tame compared to Beck and Limbaugh.