Ed Schultz, Irritated by Cold Shoulder From Al Franken, Labels Him ‘Most Inept Senator’
How sad when left-wingers turn on one another. Twice on his radio show this week, Ed Schultz's kneejerk bellicosity surfaced as he vented about Sen. Al Franken, fellow liberal and former Air America Radio host, opposing AT&T's attempt to buy T-Mobile. (audio clips after page break) Schultz first condemned Franken on Tuesday, ostensibly over the merger, though Franken keeping his distance from Schultz's radio and MSNBC shows comes across as the underlying basis for Schultz's anger. Schultz criticized Franken while talking with his producer James Holm about President Obama making another campaign trip to Minnesota (audio) — SCHULTZ: Well, he's got to make up for Al Franken, that's what he's got to do, because Al Franken is at odds with the Communication (sic) Workers of America and Al Franken voted to extend the Bush tax cuts. So I guess he's going to mop up for Al! HOLM: Maybe … SCHULTZ: Al who doesn't do media. This guy is the most inept senator I have ever seen in my life. I don't care if you liked him as a talk show host or not. I'm in the tell it like it is business. What is with this guy?! What's this strategy he has? HOLM: I don't know. Turns out Franken isn't the only Democrat keeping his distance from Schultz. So is New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, another target of Schultz's scorn on Tuesday. Here's Schultz describing a free public health clinic in New Orleans he attended on Monday, organized by the National Association of Free Clinics, and from which “The Ed Show” on MSNBC was broadcast (audio) — Where else are we going to go and find a thousand people that don't have health care that all have a story? Where are we going to go? You get 'em all collected under one roof, you tell the story and you know what? Yesterday, Mitch Landrieu, who is the mayor of New Orleans, we asked him twice to come on 'The Ed Show' last night and he wouldn't do it. Because he thought it was putting the city, I guess, in some kind of a negative light. Dude!
Posted by
on September 1, 2011. Filed under