Ed Schultz, liberal talk radio host, on CSPAN: Anyone ever heard him?

[wyldwolf]

Has a national syndication deal.

[wyldwolf]

1. Says he doesn't screen calls...

[La_Serpiente]

2. That's awesome

that's why CSpan is good and popular.

[wyldwolf]

3. ooooh.... he's on Clear Channel... so he obviously makes a profit!

But will Clear Channel have "editorial control?"

[La_Serpiente]

4. I like this guy already

he's antagonistic.

[Terwilliger]

5. I haven't, but he's COOL!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Terwilliger]

6. and Lamb doesn't like him!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. I Think Lamb Tries To Be Fair

Everything about him including his demeanor screams Republican but I do think he tries to be fair....

[The_Gopher]

43. he was asking legit questions of the guy, and the guy balked

[Skittles]

44. yeah

but he looks constipated while "trying" to be fair

[corarose]

48. Do you remember the time when Lamb cleared the phone lines

Before all of the calls were against Bush?

[pruner]

7. I never heard of him before

but I like what he's been saying so far

[Q]

8. We need more like him...

...willing to defend Democrats against the Neocon onslaught.

[NewJeffCT]

50. Hartford CT area...

We have an afternoon guy on WTIC AM 1080 by the name of Colin McEnroe that is pretty knowledgeable and also has a very good sense of humor, plus he is fairly liberal - though, I would not call him far left. He's pretty good from 3-6 on weekdays following Rush from noon-3.

It's a pretty powerful station, so you can pick it up from a distance...

[LittleApple81]

9. somebody talking about BBV!

very good statements!

[Mari333]

11. Shultz just blew him off

sheesh. Get a clue, Shultz.

[pruner]

12. the caller was good

Schultz's response was to pretty much blow him off like he was wearing a :tinfoilhat:

[NicoleM]

10. Yeah.

He used to be a conservative until about a year ago. I have no idea why he has moved to the left. I suspect it might have something to do with the fact that he wanted to run for governor of ND and the incumbent is a Repub.

[metis]

13. Ed Schultz

I've heard him and he's great!

[bearfartinthewoods]

14. oh brother

he was just asked if there is a difference between lieberman and dean and he replied

not really....

[La_Serpiente]

16. Hmmmmmm.........

I will wait for what else he is going to say. However, I am "hoping" that he won't tow the DLC line.

[wyldwolf]

23. And if he does...

...that would still be better than no democratic line at all.

Of course, Randi Rhodes has some syndication thing going on, too.

[bearfartinthewoods]

24. don't hope for too much

let's see...dashcle is setting this up. they guy has been a life long conservative until lately. he doesn't see a difference beteen Dean and Lieberman and never heard of BBV.

the good thing is what he said about giving voice to the dems.
if that's all we get, then that's still good.

[pruner]

17. his conversion to Dem reminds me of Dennis Miller's conversion to Repub

both appear to driven by what's best for their careers.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

He Has A Good Delivery And Everyman Demeanor Though.....

He's not scary....

[NicoleM]

20. Word.

I think people should not get too excited about Ed. I don't think he is who they want him to be.

[bearfartinthewoods]

41. aaaargh

he said he just bought limbauh's show for his own station and wants him to succeed. i'm afraid the bottom line is top dog for this guy.

[Bandit]

49. When was Miller ever a Democrat?

As far as I know he has always been conservative.

[Sperk]

18. who do we call to get this guy on in our city?

phone numbers anyone?

[HootieMcBoob]

33. rather than try to get him on...

you should try to get a real liberal on. Randi Rhodes is trying to get her show syndicated. She's also on a clear channel station. She sure as hell would be able to tell somebody what the difference is between liberman and dean...she's not a republican in democratic clothing. Here's some information on getting her syndecated:http://therandirhodesshow.com/iwantmyrandi.html

[RC]

42. Please take him. He's yours.

[qanda]

19. Sounded like a centrist Rush Limbag to me.

I had to turn him off, because he was getting on my nerves. The self promotion and middle of the road crap was annoying me to no end.

[La_Serpiente]

22. Here are some questions I have about him:

Is he for gun control?
Was he for the Iraq war?

I want to listen to more from this guy.

However, I think he needs a better understanding of the issues. He didn't really know about the DIEBOLD thing.

[bearfartinthewoods]

27. one of the first thing he said was he was a dem that loves guns

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. kick

[sventvkg]

25. Why did he get one and NOT Randi Rhodes????????

She has been # in her market for a long time..She does have a tendancy to talk over guest but she is good nontheless..

[wyldwolf]

28. Randi has one...

http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/iwantmyrandi.html

[markus]

26. All about Ed Schultz, live from Fargo ND!

Ed has been a fixture on local talk radio in Fargo for quite a while. He did the local college sports, tried to get the radio announcer gig for the MN Vikings, and has had a foksy, every-guy call in show in the mid-morning time slot forever.

He was dyed-in-the-wool GOP when I first got here. I called him once in a fury the day before the 2000 election, when--under cover of news--he did a two hour remote from the state GOP pre-election rally. I actually thought of filing an FCC complaint, since it was so transparently a boosterish, radio remote. Advertising, in a word. Free to the GOP.

He had a falling out with the state GOP, and has come over to the Dems. He even hosted a reception for the "Century Club" ($100+ givers to the state party) as his home a few months back.

He is not a Liberal's Liberal. He is an avid sportsman and would be very anti-gun control. He was supportive of the war. He is, in every sense, the poster child for the souther/midwestern moderate Dem.

He reminds me ideologically of Chris Matthews. He's more interested in a good controversy than anything else.

He's probably about the best Clear Channel could managed to keep the regulators at bay.

I believe he is, at heart, a populist. He wants to stick up for the little guy. Its hard to be GOP and do that.

The caller who pointed out he doesn't know that much about Diebold, for example, is probably correct. He's got a big step to make to move up from parochial concerns to national concerns, and he's going to need a staff of the sort the right wingers have to keep him informed.

I've mostly been away from the board, but would hope that the woman with the PR agency, and people like myself (former Hill press flack and journalist) can possibly step up and help brief him on progressive matters.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. He Seems Ok To Me.....

Very matter of fact


Very unpretentious....

Very middle America

Very unthreatening but not in a namby pamby way like Alan Colmes...

[NicoleM]

31. Ed Schultz

has a very, very high opinion of Ed Schultz.

[bearfartinthewoods]

35. that's pretty obvious but it's sort of necessary, isn't it?

you have to have ego to talk into a mic for hours on end.

[NicoleM]

39. Maybe.

But it becomes very tiresome in a short period of time. I think you can have a successful talk show without being an arrogant jackass. That's one of the reasons I quit listening to him last year. It wasn't so much his then-conservatism, it was that he couldn't stop talking about how great he is.

[bearfartinthewoods]

45. gotcha

i thought maybe the 'hard sell' was due to trying to max out a national opportunity but if he's like that all the time...ugh.

me thinks he's a gallegher clone. gallegher is very big on himself too. i hate that guy as much as limbaugh.

[RC]

30. Ed is a local blowhard.

Long on opinon & short on facts.

[LittleApple81]

32. Who is Mona Charen? n/t

[leetrisck]

36. Right wing gas bag, call in, call in

I call so often they recognize my voice and you're supposed to wait 30 days.

[LittleApple81]

38. This woman is awful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[leetrisck]

34. Never heard of him, but really enjoyed

listening to him. I think of Brian as being fair but just the tone of his voice, the questions and the look on his face this AM made me think Brian didn't like him.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

37. I Didn't See It...

Everything about Brian Lamb including his demeanor and past connectios scream Republican but he does try to be fair...

[The_Gopher]

40. he had NO IDEA what the issue is with computer voting fraud

seemed to dismiss the caller who brought it up, had no sense of what the problem is with touchscreen voting.

whatever though.

[el_gato]

46. he's probably a phoney

and won't go where we need to go

[joanski01]

47. I wouldn't be so critical

of this guy. He said he was not going to have an "all politics" show. He is someone Senator Bryon Dorgen thinks might be able to get into national broadcasting so the other side can be heard. Ed Schultz said over and over that this is about having a "debate". If he's a blowhard - fine. That's was Limbaugh is. Schultz is supposed to be our attack dog. This guy is NOT running for president. I thought he was great, and I'm going to e-mail Senator Dorgan and thank him for pushing this guy.

[NicoleM]

51. Before you thank anybody

you should know that Schultz probably isn't going to be "our attack dog." I don't believe that he's made a full conversion from conservative to liberal, and I don't trust his motives. He said on C-SPAN that he was a conservative Repub until 1998. I was listening to his show regularly last year and he was still pretty conservative. He may be a registered Dem now, I don't know for sure, but I think he's more of a moderate than a liberal. And I think the only way he's going to get more liberal is if he decides it pays well. Right now, he can't afford to go too far to the left because his ND-area audience is very conservative.