Genius Envy: Ed Schultz’s Next Target?
This series of posts is dedicated to the proposition that 90 percent of everything Ed Schultz, the host of MSNBC’s The Ed Show, does is motivated by envy (and the same could be said of the Left). Schultz has raged against his more successful colleagues Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and Glenn Beck. The folks at Politico give an indication of who Schultz’s next target may be: Bret Baier of Fox News’ “Special Report.” A side-by-side comparison with Ed’s direct competitor is damning:
Nielsen numbers show “Special Report’s” overall viewership is up 28 percent this December compared with last December, while competing programs that air at the same time — “The Situation Room” on CNN and “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” (now “The Ed Show”) on MSNBC — fell by 37 and 18 percent, respectively. “The Situation Room” averaged about 597,000 viewers this month, while “The Ed Show” averaged about 491,000 viewers.
Nielsen ratings are the measures TV (and radio) announcers live and die by, and the numbers prove The Ed Show has actually driven away a not insignificant portion of his network’s former audience. As Winston Churchill quipped about Clement Atlee, Ed Schultz has “much to be modest about.”
I have never understood how anything liberal announcers say can be considered commentary.
I have never listened to Air America, but considering what you hear from this loud mouth and others like him, I can imagine the vitriole spewed on that flagship. They are the problem, not the solution.
Who is Ed Schultz?
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Ed Shultz is a stupid idiot and a liar.
I so love myself now that I don’t have to waste time thinking of a nicer way to say things anymore.
Where is Swemson when we’re looking for him?
so Special Ed’s gonna go after Bret Baier? this should be fun to watch. Baier’s show is the best on Fox, partly because his panel includes the brilliant Charles Krauthammer, and partly because it’s good old-fashioned objective news reporting. good luck, Eddy!
I have never understood how anything conservative announcers say can be considered commentary.
I have never listened to Glen Beck, but considering what you hear from this loud mouth and others like him, I can imagine the vitriole spewed on FOX. They are the problem, not the solution.
My dear Cindy, obviously you ONLY listen to FOX…so for you may I inform you of the non-Fox coverage:
“I have never understood how anything LIBERAL announcers say can be considered commentary.
I have never listened to ED SCHULTZ [well I have but in this case I will pretend I do not], but considering what you hear from this loud mouth and others like him, I can imagine the vitriole spewed on MSNBC,etc. They are the problem, not the solution.”
Seriously, there is precous little straight news coverage, left (everything non-Fox) or right, that we are swamped by much commentary instead of news reporting. Brett Baier is equally news driven as most of the mainstream networks, and some non-network news, eg CNN. But since opinion sells, and the quality varies across the board and styles as well, calling one network vitriolic without including all the networks, instead of just admitting, that is what the state of news broadcast is these days, is very short sighted and intellectually dishonest.
FOX is total crap. You should watch the Movie OUTFOXED a very revealing DVD about the FOX News or as I like to think of it…THE Republican News Channel. It’s rightwing propaganda.
Come on. O’Reilly cuts off microphones to guests when he can’t get his way. Glen Beck is a total racist. Sean Hannity is an ass.
Look I understand the You “Rightists” need a “News Channel” that will tell you what you want to hear.