MSNBC’s 6 pm host Ed Schultz and his dumb, boring show have never really seemed to fit the cable news network, and today he finds himself in the New York Post for going crazy at MSNBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Center a couple weeks back. This story is made all the better by the fact that the New York Post, despite being disgusting and hateful all the time, apparently does not believe in printing swears. “As astonished MSNBC staff members fell silent, Schultz glared around the room and yelled, ‘[Bleep]ers!’” Oh no! Bleepers! Who still uses a “bleeper” these days? It’s 2009!
MSNBC talk show screamer Ed Schultz had a meltdown in the network’s 30 Rock newsroom, shouting at staff, “I’m going to torch this [bleep]ing place.”
The hot-tempered anchor of “The Ed Show” lost it during a phone call in the packed studio and slammed down the phone before exploding.
Somebody bleeped him on his bleeper, which is only for urgent calls, but it wasn’t urgent.
A witness told us, “Ed was furious the network was running election-night promos and he wasn’t in them. He’d been arguing on the phone with marketing, then he slammed down the phone and exploded. It was like Mel Gibson had entered the newsroom.”
So this meltdown had high production values, you’re saying?
Fuming Schultz was immediately dragged in for a meeting with NBC News President Steve Capus and MSNBC President Phil Griffin following his Aug. 12 meltdown.
Our source added, “Schultz was told: ‘If you do that again, you are fired.’ He broke down crying.”
Aww, he was weeping. Or, [bleep]ing, rather. [NY Post]
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“It was like Mel Gibson had entered the newsroom.”
Especially embarrassing was when he hollered “But you should blow me first!” at Rachel Maddow. Uh, Ed, newsflash, Rachel don’t swing that way.
Fucking Ed Schultz.
He’s easy to get mixed up with Dylan Ratigan, as both their shows suck worse than Olbermann. That’s a high level of suckitude.
[re=646441]gurukalehuru[/re]: Bleeping Ed Shultz. There, bleeping fixed it for you.
And Mel Gibson? Did Ed start ranting about Jews?
Who the hell is Ed Schultz, and why does anyone care?
No one cares.
Who watches MSNBC anyway?
Bleeping MSNBC…does anyone watch them anymore?
And Bleep you, MsNBC for BLEEPing our Eddie. You ought to BLEEP BLEEPing Joe BLEEPing Scarborough for just BLEEPing being alive! Him and his BLEEPing little BLEEPore Mika BLEEPszinski..
Dear Wonkett, please put a NSFS when you link to those sites, I always end up down the rabbit hole of sad when I read the comments. Tnx.
He also hates it when you play a goddamn upbeat tempo tune right before he’s gotta do a goddamn dead dog dedication.
The only purpose served by CNN, Faux News, CNBC, MSNBC, ETCNBC, is to provide fodder for “The Daily Show,” and only Stewart’s writers should be watching. Ed has a great face for radio and hair to match — and he is no Dutch. A strange resemblance to the late Dan Rostenkowski, but seems to lack Rosty’s cunning.
Ed, things good be way worse. You could be like poor Brian Williams, eternally stuck in a corner on the Wonkette page, smiling bitterly as you stand two feet deep in Katrina waters.
Aw, give Ed a break. He’s just frustrated because self-promotion is the way he’s clawed his way to the top, and now that he gets called on the carpet for self-promoting, he’s frustrated. It’s just so frustrating.
And even though his show might be boring, he’s one of the few in the MSM that really stood up for national health care, or at least a public option.
[re=646464]BlueStateLiberal[/re]: Little do you know that as soon as you click over to another site from this one and aren’t looking, Brian climbs up and gives the high hard one to Jenna.
After Ed had his meltdown at 30 Rock, thepoor page Kenneth got stuck with the job of calming him down; while the writer Frank tried to get him to blow up again, lauging.
As he left 30 Rock, a red-faced Ed Schultz was also heard to exclaim, between body-wracking sobs, “I can’t read! I sign my name with an X! I once tried to make mashed potatoes with laundry detergent! I think I voted for Nader! NADER!”
Ed would be great if he had charisma.
He’s done very well for lacking it. However, for using bleepers, I happen to know that NBC uses bleepers all the time. In fact, whenever the executives need to get a stiffy before screwing over scripted shows and opting for cross-promoted reality shows starring pregnant dwarf real housewives who aren’t smarter than a fifth grader pimping your ride, they call a bleeper.
[re=646474]JMP[/re]: [re=646475]Extemporanus[/re]: Please ask my permission before you beat me, Kenneth.
Jeepers, weepers, where’d you get them BLEEPers?
[re=646481]Extemporanus[/re]: For a second, I thought I was beaten by [re=646472]Baldar T Flagass[/re] until I realized which Jenna he meant.
Do libtards really need a counterpart to Rush Limbaugh? No we fucking don’t, because we don’t take orders from nattering numskulls who blow angry fart bubbles out their jibbering word holes. Ask Air America (fail).
Ed shot his dog!
Ed shot his dog!
Ed shot his dog!
Ed shot his dog!
(He really did shoot his dog Red, way back in the day…)
[re=646492]WarAndGee[/re]: “we don’t take orders from nattering numskulls who blow angry fart bubbles out their jibbering word holes. Ask Air America (fail)”
Srsly. I don’t want to listen to you ramble for an hour to learn what I could have gleaned from a blog in less than ten minutes. There’s no value-add there.
Damn people, Ed is really pretty ok for friggin cable teevee news. As noted above, he was pretty much the only dude with a news show that actually talked about the public option and the health care bill in working class terms and supported it. I kinda like that we have at least one hot-headed guy on our side, a guy who looks like he could take a punch and then hit right back.
Yeah, now I suddenly feel like a ‘tard for not hating Ed. Guess I didn’t get that memo…
I don’t hate Ed either, but I had to quit watching. He’s like the only guy on leftish TV that gives Heidi Harris face time. There are many good reasons for not giving her face time, and none that I can think of to not not give her face time. At least when Rachel trots out Unka Pat, she bats him around a little, like a kitten with a toy. A hot, lesbian kitten with a toy.
If I could post a picture to describe how I feel about Ed, it would be this one.
[re=646470]snoidoid[/re]: [re=646504]Gorillionaire[/re]: [re=646515]Tar and Feathers[/re]: Ed Schultz might command greater respect for his well-intentioned, pro-Progressive, Obama-prodding jeremiads if they weren’t so often dripping with spittle-soaked, counter-productive hyperbole of the “Just like Bush!” and “Not the change we were promised!” variety.
Also — and I quote — “He broke down crying.”
Unless Ed Schultz cries fists — of fury or otherwise — that doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy who “could take a punch and then hit right back.”
Wait what the fuck did he even call them? Cabbie Slashers?
“Our question tonight on the Ed Show: Who has been a Democrat longer? Text A for Ed, B for Huffington, C for Wait a sec! Ed was a Republican???”
[re=646489]JMP[/re]: Ya know, you just might be on to something there.
Ed Schultz is rather well-suited to take over the role of Dunder Mifflin’s dunderheaded mid-level regional manager (and Jenna’s boss!) when Steve Carell leaves the show at the end of the season.
The non-stop Bret Favre jokes alone would make for can’t-lose comedy gold!
(Also, upon further reflection, I’ve determined that I actually beat you — we both posted at the exact same time, and the only reason your comment appeared first is because I actually made the effort to Google an on-the-nose quote. Suck it, [bleep]er!)
[re=646454]SayItWithWookies[/re]: [re=646497]Maus[/re]: [re=646449]thefrontpage1[/re]: Cue theme song to “Mr. Ed Show”…
[re=646494]MC_Bob[/re]: As Goebbels once said, “Besser Ed als Red!”
You know, sometimes you try to create a liberal version of Glenn Beck and you end up with…a liberal version of Glenn Beck.
Feh. I watch this one every night instead. Loads more laffs.
Fuck Ed Schultz. My favorite scene was him on Rachel Maddow’s show practically crying when the results of the Arkansas primary were coming in and showing Blanche Lincoln winning easily. No that I’m a Blanche Lincoln fan, but that blowhard had spent months telling everyone that would listen that she was going to lose because she didn’t support the public option.
One of the things I find most infuriating about Limbaugh is his tone of voice and his cadence, which is ridiculously condescending. Schultz has nearly exactly the same delivery, and I can’t listen to him for more than thirty seconds without wanting to hurl my TV out the window, no matter what he’s saying.
I watch the Newshour, then BBC World News (dumbed down for) America then I watch MSNBC so, yes, I’m one of those people. But I don’t watch Ed or Dylan Ratigan because they are annoying and both have time slots that should have gone to my pretend boyfriend, David “You’re Welcome” Shuster. Since he’s nowhere to be seen on the teevee, owing to his own stoopidness, it’s a good thing my other pretend boyfriend, Matthew Morrison, is easily available. Guess I just have a thing for men named Shuster.
Ed Schultz strikes me as someone that MSNBC put on, in between the 5 PM East Coast Time Edition of “Hardball” and the 7 PM Edition of the same show…two hours of the man that Wonkette commentators like to call “Tweety,” because of his curiously intense shade of yellow hair. Schultz strikes me as the kind of “plain-talking,” not particularly photogenic t v personality that is supposed to represent the ordinary people of, let’s say, Scranton, Pennsylania. (I don’t know why I picked that, except that it got a lot of play on air time when people still cared about where Joe Biden came from.) If the Age of Obama has been compared to an out-of-touch Versailles monarch’s court, then Schultz represents the other side of the spectrum. Maybe execs at MSNBC felt he was necessary, because Maddow is too exotic (though brilliant) and Tweety/ Chris Matthews a bit too prone to over-emoting (“A thrill goes up my leg whenever….”)
What? No one offers up a hankey for that big snot bubbler?
Its the narcissistic Beckerhead Syndrome.
The talking heads actually begin to
believe their morning constitutional smells of roses.
The olfactory is fickle! Here! Here! Easy!
I have followed this nut case since he was in college. He was a local tv sportscaster here in Fargo, ND, and a radio personality. This guy is nuts!!! He will say anything to further his career. He was a flaming republican,and then one day he met his second future wife at local watering hole.And then he became a left leaning loon. Just a word of warning to everyone at msnbc,can you say going postal! This guy is a hunter and outdoorsman, so watch your back.
i haz a disillusioned
He’s originally from Virginia and wasn’t much of a hunter until he moved to NoDak.
And he, in Cheney-like fashion, shot his dog.
His local hunting/fishing shows were well filmed and edited, though.
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