I love Ed Shultz!!!

[Sebass1271]

He is kicking ass in his OP Ed saying that now the spiness dems in congress can't whine anymore about the 60 votes. That he doesn't see Franken being bought by the special interests. That Franken WON the election by courting every single vote without the help of special interest groups. That OBAMA MUST come back and bring the change he PROMISED he was going to give us during the campaign and that NO MORE BULLSHIT!

He also said Imagine what the republicans would have done with a 60 vote majority that they (repubs) played hardball and said theyhad a mandate with 52 votes!. that it is time for DEms to step to plate and do what the american people voted them to do!

Ihave not seen such a truth telling anchor like this one BEFORE ON TV!!

BRAVO FOR ED AND FOR MSNBC!!

[Dr Fate]

1. LET THE EXCUSE-O-RAMA BEGIN!!!!! n/t

n/t

[Solomon]

21. Oh, I see. Obama can make them vote lockstep.

Okay. It's all about Obama and not the democrats. Nice try.

[Dr Fate]

22. I thought Harry Reid was the Majority LEADER. It's his job to get the votes....

...not to make excuses.

I'd love to see the President crack some skulls over this, but who said anything about Obama to begin with?

[shireen]

2. totally love Ed too ...

i wish his show was repeated later at night, not at 1 or 2 am. i don't get home in time to watch him at 6pm.

[namecallerholic]

7. TiVo. I DVR it just for the heck of it

[shireen]

17. can't afford tivo. nt

[davidwparker]

10. yeah. like at midnight, instead of Tweety -- who I no longer watch due

to cheerleading the war.

[Dinger]

3. Me Too (nt)

[Thrill]

4. Republicans walk in lock step. Democrats don't. Thats the big difference

[namecallerholic]

8. Democrats crawl in lock step on their way to bowing to their Republican masters

[O is 44]

18. The Dems need to remember

why they call themselves Democrats and start acting on the behalf of the American people instead of their campaign coffers. Senator Feinstein I’m talking to you.

[jefferson_dem]

5. Have to admit, I was an ed skeptic when I heard he got the gig.

Not any more... I really dig his "kicking ass and taking names" demeanor while still being respectful of his guests. Good stuff.

[senseandsensibility]

6. Ed has come a long way

He is not "handled" in any way, and just lays it out there. He is very refreshing.

[mzmolly]

9. He's becoming a very powerful, relatable,

progressive voice. :)

[Meshuga]

11. Democratic party is a big tent....

while the Republican party is a party of loonies, not a big tent.

But I do agree with big Ed 100%.

[aaaaaa5a]

12. Ed's show is really finding it's groove.

I wish it were doing better in the ratings. But it's still early.

[Sebass1271]

15. his ratings are not good?? this is really sad news for me

i believe we need big ed fighting for us there on msn daily. he is fisty deameanor is better than olberman and rachel.

I hope his ratings improve. I know msnbc will kick him out soon enough ife he is not producing which will be bad for US.

:cry:

[aaaaaa5a]

33. Here are the latest numbers as of yesterday

In the 6pm to 7pm time-slot....

HLN 341,000 viewers
MSNBC 542,000
CNN 807,000
FOX 1,840,000


We need to keep supporting ED!

[themaguffin]

34. it takes time generally to build an audience

Rachel started better, but she has a better timeslot and had Keith giving her support and she did Keith's show.

[zbdent]

13. Bush claimed a mandate when it was 49 Senators and Cheney ...

[Third Doctor]

14. I agree!

I've heard several dems complain about not having 60 votes. Now that they have them (depending on the health of two senators) there should be no more excuses... But we have a lot of conservadems in red states to worry about.

[chill_wind]

16. K & R. EXTRA good show tonight. n/t

[TheKentuckian]

19. Depending on the issue, we can struggle to get 50

Anybody that puts too much stock in having 60 in the caucus just wants to bitch or isn't paying attention. Hell, at least 10 (and probably more lie 15+) could be in a party with Collins and Snow and would be perfectly consistent, baring more resemblance to themselves than the majority of Democrats or what the Republicans have devolved into.

The real breakdown of the Senate is much closer to 34 or so to varying degrees liberalish Democrats, 6-12 moderates, like 17 old school Republicans (mostly in our caucus), maybe 4 real conservatives, and 33+ batshit reichwing loons.
In order pass anything even with 50 votes we must have all of the moderates and some of the old school Republicans. This is a coalition 60 not a party line in any real sense.

Some might call this excuse making but I call it reality. When most here are talking about "OUR" votes, those number in the 30's. WE have to start giving up and in to get to 40 and it is silly to pretend otherwise.

[avaistheone1]

20. I am a new Ed fan.

I have fallen in love with his kick ass attitude on health care. Go get em Ed!

[SeaLyons]

23. He says everything I'm feeling....

love Ed!!!!!

[EffieBlack]

24. I find a little of him goes a long way

I agree with him on most things, but I am really tired of the Howard Bealization of cable news. From 6 am to 10 am and then from 5 pm to midnight, MSNBC bombards me with deeply opinionated and often loud talking and bombastic "hosts" who don"t host a thing but instead spends 75 percent of their airtime telling me what THEY think about various topics - day after day after day.

I think this is a lazy, cheap way of running a network - since it takes work and thought to actually gather and present news.

I like Shultz, but I'm not interested in being harangued daily, even by people I like and agree with.

I'm really tired of it and now tend to just turn it off.

Enough already!

[Uzybone]

25. this needs to be an OP

I am not sure how much longer this type of channel format can be sustained. CNN and FauX began this crap, but MSNBC has decided to put it in hyperdrive. People can only take the constant arguing (with no real solutions discussed) for so much. I find myself watching less and less cable "news".

They all talk about the same issues time after time, the same damn guests and the same viewpoints repeated ad nauseam.

[aaaaaa5a]

32. You are in the minority.

FOX is having their best year ever. MSNBC, with their changing format is now beating CNN in prime-time.

[EffieBlack]

37. The fact that lots of people watch it doesn't mean that it's a good thing

It was crap when Fox did it and it's crap when MSNBC does it.

[GreenTea]

26. Right when progressive don't watch & support their own, rating go down-Republicans take their place

and yell and say see, liberal programs just can't make it on TV or Radio....We told you so....

Now given a shot with a few progressives on MSNBC & radio and people are always bitching...oh I don't like Rachel's personality, Olbermann is too egotist Bill Maher is so crude, I can't take much of ED it hurts my ears so I don't watch I'd rather surf, Stewart is too gross & offending....Oh Malloy, now he's too brash that's someone I just can't listen to when he tells the truth it's too mean & harsh for me...Michael Moore, oh, I just hate him, you see how he always twist things against the republicans, they aren't that bad, come on...

While the republicans have the lions share of TV & Radio over 90% you don't hear them biting oh I don't like Hannity, but I love Savage...Oh I just can't watch O'Reilly or listen to right-wing republican radio....

Progressives are fucking babies, bitching & complain because a liberal on TV isn't EXACTLY - EXACTLY what they want so they say fuck them I won't support them...spoiled fucking prima donas self obsessed who believe they only their opinion is important...and that must include me as well.

[LaPera]

27. Dude, you said a mouthful. You're on the money just a bunch of "spoiled" cry-babies.

[Sebass1271]

28. You ARE so RIGHT on point!!

I can't stand the people who don't support "liberals" on TV or Radio just because they "Hurt" their ears.

Give me a brake!.. Let's see how much their wallets, ears and life will hurt with a right wing neo-conservative every day spewing lies.

Even if i have chores and things to do around my house, I always turn the tv on during ED, Olberman and Rachel. I might not sit around to watch them every night but i know i am backing their fight!!

[aaaaaa5a]

30. Ha! My parents got a TV ratings book

I told them to make sure I filled it out. There is no way in h*ll, that book is going to leave my parents house with one FOX program checked off! We can't complain if we don't support our own. I think Ed is doing a great job.

[EffieBlack]

38. "I know I am backing their fight" - you pinpointed the problem

Television "news" isn't supposed to be about fighting and taking sides. It used to be a presentation of the news, not a daily food fight.

I find it very frustrating that, after a long day at work, I can't just come home and watch the news. Instead, I have no choices on television but so-called "news" shows that are really shoutfests that focus on one or two topics - topics that have likely been covered ad nauseum for the past several days and don't even constitute news.

It's a disgrace that every 24-hour news channel is filled, not with news or even anything enlightening or educational, but simply offers people a chance to hear the same people parrot their opinions back to them throughout the day and night.

[aaaaaa5a]

31. I hate the idea that "Morning Joe" does so well on MSNBC.

You would never see conservatives support a 3 hour liberal morning show on FOX. What's wrong with some of these people?

[EffieBlack]

36. This has nothing to do with "progressive v. conservative" or not wanting to support liberals

This has to do with the denigration of supposed "news" channels that have become nothing more than fora for ranting and raving by opinionated commentators.

Had you read my post carefully, you would have seen that I said that I actually agree with Shultz, et al. But just because I happen to agree with them does not mean that I want to listen to to them yell their opinion at me hour after hour day after day.

[LaPera]

29. Kick!

:kick:

[JimWis]

35. Did you see him tonight? July 1. He challenged any Republican

congressman to fly up to Canada with him, for the day, and check out the truth about their health system. He was really wound up tonight. And angry. Still pushing for the public health option.

[R. P. McMurphy]

39. +1