Ed Schultz calling Rush Out!

[babsbunny]

Wants to debate Rush on the air, raise some money for our troops!

[ironman202]

1. won't happen. Like Bush, Limbaugh requires a stacked deck

[existentialist]

41. True that the offer will not be accepted.

But it is still good that the offer was made--publicly made.

[tavalon]

46. Much like Shrubya n/t

[K8-EEE]

2. Wow I Think That's GREAT!!!

Was just listening as well -- usually no fan of Ed's but I'm really warming up to the guy, I have to admit!

Since Rush uses Ed in his press releases, what excuse could he give to not debate him FOR THE TROOPS???

[babsbunny]

3. I just heard a toilet flush on Ed's show

then Ed said, "Let me take a Rush."

[Imagevision]

25. We should all call Rush and ask; why is he afraid to debate Shultz

[Qanisqineq]

26. I'd actually listen to Rush to hear his response to that!

are you volunteering to call? :D

[snowbear]

4. I'm listening to Big Eddie and he's cracking me up!

Said that "$50 million dollar a year Rush Limbaugh" is too concerned with poor Eddie way up there in the northwoods of Fargo and should worry about his own problems.. :rofl:

Evidently, Rush keeps cranking out press releases with Eddie's name in them.

I think Rush is worried about how fast Big Ed's show is growing compared his own when it initially launched. (Ed just quoted the stats between the two.. If it keeps up at the rate it's going, Eddie will take over Oxy-inhaler soon.. He already beat him in Denver and Miami)

~~~~ Rock on Eddie !!! :yourock: ~~~~

[Qanisqineq]

5. I just heard that

I laughed out loud when he said something about debating (paraphrasing) "as long as Rush's drugs held out".

[Booster]

6. Rush doesn't have enough drugs on hand to get through that.

[NewJeffCT]

7. Rush lasted what, a week on Monday Night Football?

and, that was with a friendly audience.

[Qanisqineq]

8. was it Monday Night Football or ESPN ?

Or maybe he tried both? :shrug:

[opihimoimoi]

10. 6.004 days Poof, he was gonesy

[OneTwentyoNine]

33. Never on MNF,only on ESPN for a week or so...

Maybe it was the Email I sent to ABC or the several MILLION others they probably received stating if Pillboy shows on MNF then I NEVER watch again. He wasn't hired,Dennis Miller was.

ESPN decided to buck the odds and go with that asshole and then cut him loose in a week or so--most likly over the Donovan McNabb smear that fatass did on him.

[garthranzz]

48. I think it was MNF

... he was supposed to add some "color" (oy!) and did - with a blatantly racist, football ignorant remark about Donovan McNabb. This from a supposed football fan and "expert." If it wasn't so disgusting, it would have been laughable.

[Qanisqineq]

55. no, that was definitely ESPN where he made the McNabb comment

I think it was ESPN he was on because I remember him commenting on all the different games going on. On Monday there is only one game :D

[Edgewater_Joe]

9. Rush Has A Bigger P***y Than Daryn Kagan

In other words, ain't gonna happen.

[kevinmc]

11. A High School........

Debating team challenged Limbaugh after he made some snide remark about them and he chickened out. If Limbaugh is afraid of HS Kids I doubt he would mess with an Adult.

[Gay Green]

40. I remember Oxycontin Boy making derogatory remarks about gay men and lesbi

lesbians on his nat'l radio and TV shows back in the 90s. Then a contingent from GLAAD (and others) confronted him on his TV show once merely by showing up in the audience. I heard he sweated bullets that time.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Bless you, Big Eddie! Wipe the floor with him!

[LSK]

13. i was just thinking that someone should do that

Randi or Ed should try to call Rush and debate him. I think Rush would run fast and hide from such a thing.

[Qanisqineq]

14. Ed vs. Rush & Randi vs. O'Reilly

Randi vs. O'Reilly because I would love to see her clean his clock with Bill telling her to "SHUT UP" all the time.

[snowbear]

15. Ohhhh ManNNnn... I would LOVE to see Big Ed debate Limpballs !!!!

I didn't catch him when he was on one of the weekend shows not long ago, but I heard he did an incredible job.

No way though that limpballs would show his lame-brain loyal listeners what a dim-wit he is if he went up against someone like Big Eddie Schultz!

BTW ---> Big Eddie and his producer are airing live from Crawford today!

Turn him on if you can! ~~~~ :grouphug:

[jean]

27. the reason Limbaugh's tv show never lasted, according to Franken

is because viewers had a chance to take a gooood look at Rush's fans in the audience, and could plainly see they were all dim-wits.

[Mad_Dem_X]

18. Randi would be awesome in a debate w/O'Lielly!

I just love when she sets those freeper callers straight on her show!

[Talismom]

19. Yeah, she'd give him a stroke! n/t

[Orion The Hunter]

16. Only way Rush will participate...

...is if there are free Oxycotin samples at the debate.

[Qanisqineq]

17. LOL

that's funny!

(either a lot of people are funny today or I am easily amused today. I keep finding such funny posts!)

[laugle]

30. It's funny, what about Peter Hackette calling

him a "fat ass drug addict", the guy has guts!!

[LiberalinNC]

20. Big Eddie would blow Limpball away!

I love big Eddie!

[Qanisqineq]

21. Did you hear Chris from the oil company?

Saying that the oil company could survive on $30 a barrel and they are basically just screwing us? (that was my understanding of what he said) That's less than half of what a barrel is now.

[snowbear]

23. Yeah... I heard him...

He started out giving Eddie crap saying that the footprint oil companies leave on the environment is basically nill..

But as he wound down his conversation, he did slip that comment in about how we're being screwed royally.

He said he'd say more, but "his buddies down there would kill him".. :eyes:

[OneTwentyoNine]

45. Funny thing,Oil went down about $3.00 per barrel today....

Not one fucking penny drop in the price locally. Its only funny because if it would have gone from $67 to 70 there would have been another .10-.15 jump in the price like its done for the last three weeks almost daily.

Nah,its not price gouging,screwing the customer,fucking us over. Its just good ole' capitalism at work.

[snowbear]

22. Wonder which one of these Rush likes best:?

I realize he now has a Pain Management Physician who is medicating Rush to levels adequate enough to where he no longer needs to doc shop.

But damn- with heavy duty Schedule II narcotics like Oxycontin, his liver is going to look like wet pudding before long (if his ticker holds out that long).. :silly:

The drug of choice he became addicted to will eventually take him down. Pretty sad, but no one will ever be able to say he didn't know the risks! :nopity:

[laugle]

32. And his hearing will soon be gone again....

[Catrina]

24. Big Ed has been so great

these past few weeks. He sounds a bit like Rush. I'm hoping a few confused ditto heads will tune into him by mistake and be deprogrammed accidentally.

He challenged Rush to a debate on Pay Per View and asked would we all be willing to send in $10 to watch him and Rush go at it. He said to let him know if we would.

Rush stinks on television. His other TV show failed also, several years ago. As well as the sports show.

He will NEVER debate anyone if he can't control the mike ~

But I think we should make a big issue out of this ~ force him to show his stupid followers how cowardly he is. Someone should make bumper stickers, it's time to drag these cowards out into the sunlight. I don't know why it didn't happen a long time ago. Ed would wipe the floor with him.

And while we're at it, Cindy should challenge Bush to a public debate on the war. She's right next door, the media is there. They go on the radio.

Btw, Ed had Cindy on the phone, but her cell phone kept cutting out. He's on his way to Crawford, and said he's very close, already in Texas!!

[jean]

28. Rush never interacts with his listeners does he? I mean like having

live shows or talking about fishing and hunting? Ed really connects to lots of people that way, I think - he comes across as pretty genuine.

[snowbear]

29. Big Eddie's producers don't screen their calls, and it's incredible...

How many freepnoids he has calling in daily just screaming their lungs out at him.

Ed let's them have their say..... then he comes back with an immediate counter response that leaves them looking like the fools they are!!

[jean]

34. they give them enough rope, all right. The threatening caller yesterday

scared me, though. I suppose all the shows get crank callers, threatening to 'give them what fer,' but I don't like hearing it. :scared:

[faithnotgreed]

31. thanks for the update

[LittleClarkie]

35. He seems to be calling her every day

today I liked it when he had the freeper vet on the line, and started shouting at him "You guys have no endgame! All you have is pie in the sky!"

Vet issues is why Big Eddie became a Dem, or at least they were what got him to thinking. So it makes sense that he blows his stack when it comes to veterans/wars and goes all out in covering someone like Cindy.

[AntiCoup2K4]

36. You can't have Schultz debate Limpdick on the radio!

Too confusing. They sound too much alike. If you can get this on TV, that might be different.

Or how about Mike Malloy vs Limpdick? Now THAT would be interesting. :evilgrin:

[Catrina]

37. Mike Malloy V Rush on Television!!!

That would be something to watch. I don't think Rush would last long.

I agree, it should not be on the radio. Ed said he'd like it to be on Pay Per View and send the proceeds to the troops. How could Rush refuse that challenge? Refuse to make money for the troops?

I hope Ed keeps challenging him ~ while Cindy has Bush hiding out in Crawford, Ed will have Rush afraid to answer his phone on the air, in case someone might slip through asking him why he won't 'support the troops' and debate Big Ed on television ~ :rofl:

[blondeatlast]

38. Okay, Rush--put up or shut up! I TRIPLE dog dare ya!

It's for the troops and you haven't got the guts to do it.

Hey, FR, call your favorite buttboy and challenge him to debate big Eddie. Have you got the nerve?

C'mon, Rush--I'll even stop calling you a chickenhawk if you'll debate big Eddie--radio or TV.

[LittleClarkie]

51. Ooooooh, skipped right to triple dog!

You must be serious!

:D

[blondeatlast]

57. Nope--big fan of "A Christmas Story."

:bounce:

[CatholicEdHead]

39. He has done this since his first day of his national show

And has mentioned this many times after that. Of course Rush will not take him up on the offer. Rush has ZERO Debate skills and Ed would wipe the floor with him.

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. Rush agree yet?

[chaska]

43. Wow, I was just going to post suggesting that our side do this...

The best way to get rid of that evil, lying coward is to challenge him and expose him for the p*ssy he is.

[KitchenWitch]

44. Does anyone else think that Ed Schultz's voice is similar to Rush's?

[Spiffarino]

47. I think because both are heavy and about the same age

Other than that, completely different. Rushnazi has a stereotypical radio announcer's voice; Ed sounds like a friendly coach or your favorite uncle. No comparison IMHO.

[LittleClarkie]

50. Ever so slightly Southern sounding. Rush doesn't have that kind of accent

And Ed never gets that pompous sound in his voice. That's one of the things that makes me wanna smack Rush, the lisp when he's talking about liberals or the way he pronounces Jesse Jackson etc.

Ed doesn't resort to that. He does yell at the occasional caller though, esp if he's got a freeper on the line. He fairly screamed at a freeper who was trying to justify torture, calling him unAmerican.

[Spiffarino]

58. I remember him giving hell to that torture apologist

It made me listen even more.

I didn't like Ed at first, thinking he was a bit of a fraud. How wrong I was. He is the voice of the hard-working, bridge-building, road-salting, truck-driving Democrat. He speaks to those the Democratic party leaders once counted on but now seem to have forgotten.

Ed is everyman. He's your mechanic, your grocer, your golfing buddy. He's the guy down the street. People like Ed can change more minds than a thousand Frankens or Garofalos. Ed's real.

[Cosmocat]

60. I agree ...

I like Franken/Garofalos and Rhodes ... I think they are dead on with a lot of their stuff ... BUT, pretty much everyone on Air America almost revels in being immature, and that just is NOT going to swing anyone knew in ...

Ed is DEFINITELY a guy they need ... As you noted, the rural guy, talking fishing and all ...

I REALLY find it intriguing, the thought of Ed going against Rush, and as someone else noted, Rhodes against O'Reilly ... I can't see how Shulz would not clock Limbaugh, who really is an idiot, and while O'Reilly knows his stuff, Rhodes does, too, and would not back down one bit from him ...

As noted, NEITHER of the two would line up for the fight, but it WOULD be worth pushing the issue, to have them be the ones who would be not stepping up ...

[Spiffarino]

62. Ed's got "real appeal"

Rush's problem is he doesn't care at all about facts. He has his talking points fed to him by Scaife's and Norquist's think-tanks. At $50 million per year, what does he need with facts?

Big Eddie isn't big on facts either, but the difference is he doesn't pretend that he knows everything. He simply approaches issues with moral clarity and common sense. It's a beautiful thing.

BTW, don't misunderstand me...I love Al and Janeane. I listen to them all the time and find them entertaining and informative. It's just that they speak to a far narrower segment than Ed Schultz.

As for Randi Rhodes, other than her talking over people too much, the woman can do no wrong. She cares about facts and is honest with her listeners when she isn't up on them. I just wish she'd get on a stage with Ann Coulter...Ann the Man wouldn't last ten seconds before she ran screaming into Hannity's arms.

[fujiyama]

63. It's funny

because I had seen a lot of people here bitch about Shultz but when I heard him for the first time a few months ago (right when the Rove story seemed to be picking up steam) I thought he was doing a great job.

I like Al Franken but his show often bores me and Randi just plain annoys me. I've heard Malloy only a little and liked him, but Shultz certainly has wider appeal.

[dxstone]

49. Wonder how that pos lives with himself day after day...

He won't take the bait though; he couldn't win under ANY circumstances, cuz he's holding NO cards; nearly EVERYTHING he says is a delusional lie...
What a blowhard... let's face it, nobody blows harder than Rush.

excerpt from my essay
Some Folks I Profoundly Distrust

Rush Limbaugh - To this day he remains one of the most amazing founts of misinformation out there, mostly because of the freakishly large blowhole located on his face-thing... he uses this aperture to spew poisonous bile in a wide semi-circle all around him whenever he feels threatened, which is always... though I realize that, from a biological view, he's quite a rarity, unique to nature, my wise primitive instincts make me want to club him like a baby seal, for the sake of everyone... and I know within my heart that he wants this too... somewhere deep inside that huge bloated exterior is a tiny little baby that no one ever loved enough, cuz it was such a hateful little shit...
(snip)

Other targets of my highly suspicious mind include the blivet**, Brit Hume and Tony Snow (as one entity, mind ya), Nazi Doctor Laura Schlesinger and The Good Folks at Nike... read the rest at
http://presidentevilonline.com/distrust.html

[w8liftinglady]

52. Ed Schultz is awesome

he replied personally to an email I sent him,when I know he must have received thousands.He is a great representative for our views.

[kick_them_hard]

53. Ed Shultz the coolest man on radio

Down to earth, smart as a whip.

[newyawker99]

65. Hi kick_them_hard!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[kick_them_hard]

66. Hello back and thanks

:toast:

[BeachBuckeye]

54. I challenged Limbaugh to debate me on my show two years ago

We've sent registered letters, hundreds of e-mails, made phone calls etc. Other than him mentioning our show as "one of the hundreds of Liberal programs that make up the dominant Liberal media" we have never had even one reply to our queries. No balls!

[GoSolar]

56. Wow!

Go, Ed, go!
:applause:

[mitchum]

59. When pigs come OUT of Limbaugh's ass...

plenty have already come in there

[gokar]

61. Limpballs makes 30 million/year, he won't chance being taken

down by Schultz who does not even make 1 million.

[flaminbats]

64. I believe it's a huge mistake to give Rush additional air time..

The airwaves are a public asset, which means they should not be bought and sold like a car or house. Unfortunately public air time is now treated as a private monopoly under the law, and this is why liberals should never mention Rush's name on the air! If we do..it should only be in direct reference to his many character flaws, not to challenge him honorably to debate or in reference to Clear channel.

Let Rush challenge Ed or Mike to a debate, but why provide this speedaddict with any free publicity? I have no problem with big Ed or Mike Malloy accepting a challenge to debate Rush, just don't let these neocons hog even more of the public airwaves than their dollars will allow!!