Ed Schultz, Former MSNBC Host, Dies at 64

Yahoo News ^ | 7/5/18 | Reid Nakamura

[Haiku Guy]

Political commentator and former MSNBC host Ed Schultz has died at the age of 64.

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[bgill]

Never heard of him. Never had MSNBC.

[Songcraft]

[I just caught that poem extension!]

He ain't like Fred.
Fred ain't dead.

[blackberry1]

Money and applause

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I think it was Mark Simone on twitter today who said that Ed Schultz never really was on the left, he was just playing a role.

Could be. But he wasn't a conservative either.

Maybe he was an old-time Democrat who recognized that people had to come across as more stridently opinionated than they actually might be in order to have careers as a media commentator.

Ed was too inconsequential to get angry about. Those who have to hate somebody would do well to focus on somebody more substantial and worth getting enraged at.

[LeoTDB69]

No comment except PING

I’ll come back and read the kind obits later.

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>Ed’s dead.<<<

>>>That’s what I said.<<<

I wonder if he died in Bed.

[erlayman]

Maybe because he left MSNBC only a few months into the campaign but I don’t think Ed was ever unfair to Trump ?? The only thing I remember him saying was that he would be the best candidate for job creation.

[DariusBane]

Ed was a good broadcaster. Talented enough to make a lot of money doing it. I don’t think he was a bad guy. Just a broadcaster who found a niche. Never thought he was an effective lefty. But fun to watch his hystrionics.

RIP.

[Pelham]

“Ed was too inconsequential to get angry about.”

Kinda what I figured. The only time I’d run across him was here on FR when people would mention him. AFAIK he was never carried on radio here in SoCal.

[moovova]

Ed's dead.

"That's what I said."

RE: Your Curtis Mayfield quote...

[princeofdarkness]

You mean sort of like Moaning Schmoe Scarburro?

[dfwgator]

Yep, wore out the grooves to that one back in the day.

[DarthVader]

Ed Schultz has assumed room temperature! Next topic!

[DarthVader]

Ed is dead!!

[UB355]

We in Wisconsin remember Ed broadcasting from Madison during the days of Scot Walker’s successful beat down of the public employee unions. Asshole.

[Postman]

To quote the Church Lady: Isn’t it just special that he didn’t die when he was, say, only twenty?”

[Postman]

Looking at Schultz, it appears he was very fond of eating roles.

[jmacusa]

Well thank God he isn’t going to be 65.