{"id":4926,"date":"2011-05-26T02:01:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T09:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2011-05-26T02:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T09:01:35","slug":"schultz-attacks-right-wing-propagandist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/26\/schultz-attacks-right-wing-propagandist\/","title":{"rendered":"Schultz Attacks Right-Wing Propagandist"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the absence of Keith Olbermann, I have frequently used videos from Ed Schultz.  Although I consider him a step down fro Keith and Rachel, I appreciate many of the strong stances he has taken, especially on labor issues.  Therefore I am sad that Ed has been suspended for one week, at his own request, because of his verbal assault against Laura Ingram from the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, aka Fox.  At least his apology was clearly authentic, unlike those Republican \u201cwhoever may have felt offended\u201d non-apologies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"26Schultz\"<\/p>\n

It takes a lot to move the needle in the angry, angry world of talk radio, but Ed Schultz did just that when he referred to fellow host Laura Ingraham as a \u201cright-wing slut\u201d and \u201ctalk slut\u201d<\/a> on his syndicated show Tuesday. The Internet rose up in revolt Wednesday but thus far no comment from lefty host, who also has an MSNBC show. Ingraham, via Facebook [right-wing propagandist delinked], quipped she \u201cwas surprised to learn that Ed Schultz actually hosted a radio show\u201d and tut-tutted about \u201cmen who preach civility but practice misogyny.\u201d<\/p>\n

UPDATED 7 p.m.: Schultz suspended from MSNBC for a week. In a statement just released from the cable channel: \u201cMSNBC management met with Ed Schultz this afternoon and accepted his offer to take one week of unpaid leave for the remarks he made yesterday on his radio program. Ed will address these remarks on his show tonight, and immediately following begin his leave. Remarks of this nature are unacceptable and will not be tolerated.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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For Ed to call her a \u201cslut\u201d was wrong.  Had he substituted the word(s) propagandist, talking head, purveyor of hate, or even liar, he could have justified it and still fallen far short of the insults commonly leveled by Fox sheepherders against Keith, Rachel, and especially Barack Obama.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here is Ed\u2019s apology.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

I believe him and look forward to his return.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the absence of Keith Olbermann, I have frequently used videos from Ed Schultz.  Although I consider him a step down fro Keith and Rachel, I appreciate many of the strong stances he has taken, especially on labor issues.  Therefore I am sad that Ed has been suspended for one week, at his own request, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}