North Dakota 'Liberal' Starts Radio Show (Drudge Almost 2 Months Late With "Breaking News")

AP via Very Late Mercury News ^ | February 23, 2004 (Originally Early January) | DAVE KOLPACK

[PJ-Comix]

FARGO, N.D. - Ed Schultz was set to make his debut on his own national radio show when he suddenly got a nosebleed. Unfazed, he turned the blood into a prop.

"I'm so mean, there's blood on my sheets of paper," Schultz told his listeners, kicking off a project last month that some Democrats and other supporters have billed as a liberal alternative to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

[PJ-Comix]

Someone from Eds camp, took that old story and fed it to AP and they ran it thinking it was new.

Blowhard Ed must have been monitoring the FR (he's mentioned it before when I posted an article about him). A few days ago, I posted that Blowhard Ed has made almost NO NEWS after the initial BRIEF news about him early in January (when this article was originally published). Blowhard Ed must have told his PR flack to get him some publicity PRONTO. Since Blowhard Ed has done NOTHING of interested, his PR flack merely recycled this STALE news story.

[PJ-Comix]

You gotta be suspicious of Blowhard Ed when he is so vague about how many stations he's on and which ones they are.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

This isn't good for us in regards with the liberal radio network they're trying to set up. I wanted them to throw all of their money into that wasted effort, not have some early failures before their big one. Some libs are tired of throwing their money down a hole for nothing, like usual. This guy's failure could scare them off.

[goldstategop]

If liberals want to toss billions down the black hole of liberal talk radio, let em have it! They can't compete in the marketplace of ideas and they know it.

[pardon]

Bottom Line...Ed Schultz is not very good. He doesnt have it for a National audience. You cant fake it. You either have it or you dont. He isnt entertaining and
we know he is a conservative turned liberal hustler.
Thats why his show is doing so poorly.
THe National show has about 7 stations on..which is gross.It needs to get into large markets.The largest market, they had was Oklahoma City. They signed up and have PULLED OUT ALREADY.Not
happy with the show.
In comparison....Tony Snow of Fox just started a National radio show and already he has 40 stations signed up and 25 ARE MAJOR MARKET
CITIES!

[PJ-Comix]

The largest market, they had was Oklahoma City.

The good news for Blowhard Ed is that he still has Needles, CA. Most of the fun of watching Blowhard Ed going down the tubes is reading his lame excuses for why he is such a BIG FLOP. Blowhard Ed can be very creative when he is evasive.

[pardon]

Another thought is all of the publicity he has had since January! Incredible amount from all major tv networks, major news papers,at least 25 appearances
and worth many many thousands of dollars. And really not one station signing up from reading or watching it. The Minneapolis paper
has a huge article front page article on him, worth $100,000
easy and he doesnt have anyone on from the Twin cities.
This is the real telling story that it doesnt look very good for
Ed.
In a way its too bad. He a small guy from a small market trying to hit the bigs. Like a Rush. But,
Ed had too much baggage when he began. And he didnt come clean with his real background. You dont tell people you are a station manager and used to play pro football and have a Marconi award
when its all untrue. Plus he just turned liberal...obvious why he did. And so he comes across that way on the NATIONAL SHOW...fakey
mean, ego driven, hey you want to fight type of guy. A chip on his shoulder for sure and any caller who dares to take him on will be chopped at the knees. That kind of crap wears very thin in a hurry.
Plus his National listners are callers who seem to have a low IQ,
probaly jobless, welfare driven
but love to talk to Big Eddie, over and over again. That wears thin very fast. Where are the intelligent callers? The sucessful
people?THey dont want to go his show....theres no class...no reason...who in the hell is this ED from Fargo?

What is most surprising of all is here he has been given this incredible opportunity to go national and he does it so dumb and poor like. Anyone else would quick your other radio job and give it 110% and quit bitching and
get out and knock on radio station doors yourself.You cant do two fulltime jobs and be good at either one. He is resting on that
magic call letters of KFGO and their incredible ratings. Scared to leave as he knows he isnt that good and his ratings elsewhere
would be poor. Its his security blanket yet it also will be why
the national show will fail.

[Otto Krueger]

From the www.kfgo.com website, a list of Ed's stations:

KTOX / Needles CA
KNDK / Langdon ND
KBSR / Billings MT
KHDN / Hardin MT
KQLX / Lisbon ND
KQDJ / Jamestown ND
WAAM / Ann ARBOR MI
WSGW / Saginaw MI
KUGN / Eugene OR
WATA / Boone, NC
KBUR / Burlington IA

XM Satellite CH 166

The AP story -- a locally produced story moved on the national wires -- highlighted the recent Ann Arbor pick-up. WAAM is a 5,000 watt station at 1600 a.m. The only station of any consequence in this list is KUGN in Eugene.

What a joke.

[pardon]

On a 1 to 10.....with HIS background, with Jones Network
experience....thats a 1. Terrible.
Embarrassing. Funny.

Clear Channels KFGO also is in disarray putting up with ED and his ego and his morning show and now his national show and both shows are going no where.
The luckiest man in radio, Dan Michaels, fills in for ED as he has a contract through the end of the year and Clear Channel cant dump him without paying him so he does very little and mainly fills in for the star. But Michaels does a very poor job. He comes across as "I dont give a crap". As a immature rookie smartass. So he does the show no good, Ed meanwhile seems to be coming apart at the seams...saying meaner, dumber, stuff.
ED is gone AGAIN to Wash DC and promotes his Natl show and leaves his local show to Dan. Not good.
Something has to give soon.
KFGO has a contract with local -regional advertisers and Ed and his bus with the ads on the bus, that he get out and meet and talk to people all over North Dakota all the time. Since Ed went National...that bus hasnt moved from the parking lot in 4-5 months!Those advertisers are getting screwed.
Oh well, who cares, their ratings are up.....

[Otto Krueger]

I understand the above list of stations isn't accurate. He's not on in Jamestown.

Several stories talked about his Oklahoma City station. He's not on in Oklahoma City.

Ed is factually challenged.

[pardon]

So after millions of dollars in free publcity on NBC and others,
he is really on just 10 tiny stations. 10.
And remember its not the amount of stations that mean anything, its the SIZE OF THE STATIONS-MARKETS
THAT MEAN EVERYTHING.He is on tiny stations,....to be on 10 or 40 stations that are tiny means nothing. One large market station
can beat 40 tiny ones.
Rush was on 60 stations after 3 months and 40 were large market stations. Big, big, big, difference.
He will fail and the more he gets these free, democratic caused,
national publicity appearance's,
the more his ego will grow and his emphaty will disappear and he will
destroy himself with the way he runs his show and what he says. He will get out of hand. And the pressure will get to him big time.
And everyday we all will count the
the SIZE OF THE STATIONS HE IS ON.
How many tiny? 10. How many large?
0

[Otto Krueger]

KUGN isn't a bad station to be on, but otherwise, you're right. His stations are weak sisters. 5,000 watters, for goodness sakes. Hugh Hewitt had a funny observation about Schultz the other day:

The panel was an interesting exercise in quick wit, with Neal Boortz, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham and me put opposite Alan Colmes, Tom Leykis, a fellow named just "Lionel," and the great new hope of the left, Ed Schultz. If it was a fight, they'd have stopped it, and if the FCC fined non-sequitors, Schultz would be bankrupt.

Thanks to Southdakotapolitics for the link.

[Calvin Locke]

How many tiny? 10.

Limbaugh mentioned that the Perky one was beside herself today with this story.

The sound clip of the reporterette went something like "Reality check. Rush Limbaugh is on 600...and they [liberals]
hope to have Schultz on 40 by the end of the year."

[pardon]

There are what 30 radio stations in Minneapolis St Paul? None have Big EGO(not Ed) on. Why?

There are 15 stations in homebased Fargo and none have BIG EGO on Why?

His employer is Clear Channel, they own 1250 radio stations in the country and none have BIG EGO on. Why?

His own station KFGO in Fargo doesnt have his National show on.
Why?

No major markets have big EGO on. (yet Tony Snow , a liberal talk show host went National this week and he had 40 stations on..25 major.) Why?

Because they have heard him and they are not impressed with his style and experience. He has been a liberal for a year and now he wants to be the spokes person host for a national show? No way will they accept that.
But, he has the almighty guarranteed two year contract
at $200,000 a year plus his wife
on his fulltime employment for another $50,000, so regardless of how poorly he does and how tiny the stations are..the man earns a half a million from the democratic funded pot PLUS gets to keep his local job that pays him $150,000 a year. So this blowhard Big EGO
is having fun playing the game.