Genius Envy: Ed Schultz Gets Tweaked by Rush
Well, someone is certainly "obsessed."
Last night, Ed Schultz on MSNBC’s The Ed Show, fell into a trap set by the object of his Genius Envy, Rush Limbaugh. In his Psycho Talk segment, Ed mocked Rush for saying on his radio program last Friday:
The media tweak of the day: Hitler put people in jail to lower the unemployment numbers. Another media tweak: that’s how Dachau started.
Ed either missed the words “media tweak,” or was too busy cribbing from the George Soros-funded Media Matters‘ earlier hit piece on the show. Everyone else took his words as a tip-off that Limbaugh made his statement in anticipation that it would lead the next round of infuriated media coverage. Rush even spent the next segment of his show joking with Snerdley about whether he should bleep his statement.
According to a Google search, most leftists resisted covering the statement, except Sgt. Schultz and Soros’s dumpster-divers. Each has its own reason. Soros pays well for a daily hit on Rush. Schultz is perpetually jealous of Rush’s position in Schultz’s chosen profession.
There is also the third factor in the Left’s coverage of Rush: the Left has no sense of humor. Paul Cooper here at NewsRealblog commented on the last time Rush pulled one over on the Left….
Just over two weeks ago, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews reported an outrage: Rush had knowingly quoted a bogus thesis supposedly written by Barack Obama. While in a fit of pique about Rush’s vicious intellectual dishonesty, NewsRealblog pointed out the obvious: it was a joke.
This is one of the reasons Schultz, Olbermann, and Matthews’ combined TV audiences barely equals that of Sean Hannity. And Ed Schultz, the Left’s (most recent) “answer to Rush Limbaugh,” is exposed by the man he so desperately wishes to emulate.
Stupid is as stupid does. Don’t underestimate the power of low-grade intelligence to produce the nonsense that is the liberal media. Schultz lacks an important faculty that really smart people have: The ability to recognize those who are smarter.
Trouble is most of Rush’s listeners take his word as gospel. An example of this is Limbaugh’s most recent trouble with the NFL.
What a dunce, my good sir, if you took the time to look into the real facts of the matter you would realize:
A) What Rush originally said a couple of years ago was, essentially accurate.
and
B) If most people were held up to such a standard people like Reid and his comments would never be able to be a stockholder in any significant enterprise, much less head of such a formerly august body as the US Senate!
Not only so, but for those who wish to make hay out of Rush's problems with substance addiction, let's not turn a blind eye to our coke snorting (smoking?) current occupant of the WH, who, btw, has never actually DENOUNCED illicit drug use!
tippy toppy, you must have missed all the apologies directed Rush’s way after it became apparent that Rush never said the things he was perported to have said. I think there were not just a few leftwing arseholes who were sweating out receiving a summons. I would have used the left’s favorite tool against them, the legal suit. Sued their sorry asses for everything they owned.
I think it's probably purported, but what the hey.
Confused postulating is synonymous with Ed Shultz and his fellow cronies.
@ Tar and Feathers
AMEN! I became an adult when I acknowledged there are people in this world who know more about some things than I do. The problem…culling through “the noise” and mentally acknowledging them. Self education is a lot of work.
THANK YOU Mr. Swindle…you know why!
And they grabbed the ball with both hands and ran full speed to the opponents goal post. Touch down. I think that it is time to bombard these looney tunes at MSNBC with a boat load of media tweaks and misinformation. The end result is funny and amusing to say the least.
Ed used to try and BE Rush on the old Fargo Radio Station, back in the day when I was on a PD of a small town in that area I used to listen to the idiot because he came on right after Rush, while I was watching the kiddies cross the street going back to school after lunch. At that time he TRIED to be conservative, but it just didn’t work because he would try and quote Rush and get it wrong.
Callers used to call him and give him particurlar hell till one day he simply switched horses and started to preach liberalism.
Well it never really caught on, he was sort of comedy relief for we who listened to Rush, we got a kick out of the idiot as he tried to be a liberal Rush Limbaugh.
Saddly one day someobody who counted heard this idiot and decided he would make a left wing Rush so began his rise to the top of the heap of idiots.
I still chuckle when I hear the idiot try to be a liberal Rush because I know he simply can’t make the grade no matter how hard he tries. Saddly much like the scarecrow he doesn’t have a brain.
Much like a parrot he repeats everything he hears that he thinks will make good echo politics and gets paid for it. Well I guess it proves that in America even the biggest idiot can grow up to be a news star.
Right-on Jerry. Schultz isn't so much a leftist as he is really, really stupid. After he tried to be a big hunter and accidentally shot his hunting dog, he really got the works from the Fargo folks. It didn't help that he started cheating on his wife who was a favorite media person in her own right. Schultz was a sports announcer at the beginning and he would really get a razing from the fans at NDSU football games. One time he came out of the pressbox steaming, trying to locate where a certain projectile that entered the pressbox had come from. NDSU fans so irritated him, hee, hee, that he switched sides and started supporting the UND Sioux. Oh, by the way, Schultz is not from North Dakota, he's from Virginia. He came to the Fargo area to attend college at Moorhead State (minnesota) also known as the Berkley of the North.
The claim, “NewsRealblog pointed out the obvious: it was a joke” is in error. The article about Obama was satire, but Rush reported it as if it were real (and then corrected it later0. So this excuse for Rush is fundamentally wrong.
Tip Top-
Most recent trouble?? They came to Rush and asked him to be an owner- than the godless trouble marker socialists treated him like trash. Than he exposed the nuts. I have followed Rush for awhile-and 9/10 times he is credible and no one is 10/10 times that is human. Again the biased socialist part of the NFL also have genius envy.
Absolutely no comparison. That is wrong-when you listen to Rush you know when he was joking and when he says that it is a “media tweak” there is no nuance. He is putting it out there for the dimwits to go with and make a big deal out of.
Once again Rush beat them with half his brain “tied behind his back”.
Tip Top,
One Rush Limbaugh is worth more than any million leftist “thinkers.” The left owns and operates all the major institutions of this country, but Rush Limbaugh has more impact and more authority than ALL of them put together.
The sad part is that Rush ought to be nothing more than an average pundit. In a perfect world, everyone in the media would talk just like he does.