Is that Ed in the canoe?
Posted on 10/17/2005 6:53:31 PM PDT by rface
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A talk radio host says his program, slated to debut on a Pentagon radio station Monday, was pulled to punish him for airing audio embarrassing President Bush.
Ed Shultz played an audio tape of Pentagon communications official Allison Barber helping troops in Iraq rehearse for their broadcast video teleconference with the president last week. Barber walked them through questions and their answers and warned them the president might ask questions not from the script.
The incident was widely considered an embarrassment to the White House, which appeared to be coaching soldiers for its own political purposes.
According to People for the American Way, Barber personally called Schultz -- regarded as a liberal in the world of talk radio -- on Monday to tell him his show would not be airing Oct. 17 after all.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman denied any connection between the Barber tape and the decision to cancel Schultz's radio show. He confirmed the Armed Forces Radio Network is looking to diversify its offerings - it currently carries conservatives Rush Limbaugh and James Dobson's Focus on the Family -- but said no offers have yet been made, including to Schultz.
However, the Fargo, North Dakota radio host received a letter from AFRN confirming the Oct. 17 debut, which was posted on the People for the American Way web site Monday.
The letter was written by Manny Levy, chief of the Radio Division for AFRN. Levy refused to comment to United Press International.
"AFN Radio has squared away everything on our end to begin carrying the first hour of 'The Ed Schultz Show' each day, beginning Monday, Oct. 17, 2005," states the Sept. 29 letter.
Levy added: "An awful lot of people in the government had (or tried to have) a hand in the program selection process that ended with the decision to add 'The Ed Schultz Show.'"
"I'm afraid the staff member got ahead of the decision," said Whitman.
Ed Shultz sucks....
Not to worry, this idiotic liberal lefty will have an audience of, none.
Is that Ed in the canoe?
I heard a couple of minutes of the lunatic moron Ed Schulz once and that was quite enough to tell me the guy is not playing with a full deck. There are people on the left who at least have interesting thoughts and arguments sometimes, but this guy is (unintentionally) hilarious in his vicious idiocy.
I think they SHOULD play his show....the troops need comic relief!
Now that there was funny and I don't care who you are or where yer from! Gittin' 'er dun....
I saw that little bit on the evening news and couldn't believe that that dumb broad reporter caught rowin' in 8" of water never broke sentence or flinched when those two guys came walkin' by. Just shows to go you, huh! There's a serious lesson to be learned hear.
NEVER TRUST THE DAMNED MEDIA...VERIFY AND CORROBORATE
I worked for a Fortune top 20 company. I spent 30 years dealing with outside companies. It was expected that before you went into a highly important mtg with a bigwig at the company or with an outside company that you would review your main points, at minimum, with your management. I normally spent about 100 million $ per year in Purchasing; we would put together our thoughts on the market prior to meeting suppliers leading up to the bidding period and practice our speeches a couple of weeks before we got started on our road tour to talk to all of them.
What the Prez is doing is absolutely no different than what happens in private industry and what any reasonable man would do in the same circumstances.
Dennis Prager has had an open offer for Mr. Shultz to debate him on this subject.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/column/dennisprager/2005/10/04/159247.html
But talk show host Ed Schultz, whose syndicated radio show is aired on liberal Air America, heard these remarks. He alerted fellow leftist David Brock, who then put the transcript of the Bennett dialogue on his website.
The Left and the world's news media picked up the dialogue and then announced that Bill Bennett had advocated the abortion of all black babies.
I guess that is what they call tripping over a dollar to pick up a nickel.
Duh!
This has an update to the story. The Senate debated on the floor yesterday in response to a fuss made by Ed Shultz who got the Senate to support his being heard on the AFRN. It was defeated -see vote
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00306
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