MSNBC, currently operated by right-wing owned Comcast Corporation (the largest cable operator, home internet service provider, and third largest home telephone service provider in the United States) — announced Wednesday evening that Ed Schultz is going on one week of unpaid leave as a result of calling loony bins right-wing talker Laura Ingraham — a ‘Right-Wing Slut.‘

Schultz was slamming Ingraham for her hypocritical criticism of President Obama for drinking beer in Ireland while a tornado was destroying Joplin, Missouri.

Said Schultz:

“And what do the Republicans thinking about?” Schultz said. “They’re not thinking about their next-door neighbor. They’re just thinking about how much this is going to cost. President Obama is going to be visiting Joplin, Mo., on Sunday but you know what they’re talking about, like this right-wing slut, what’s her name – Laura Ingraham? Yeah, she’s a talk slut. You see, she was, back in the day, praising President Reagan when he was drinking a beer overseas. But now that Obama’s doing it, they’re working him over.”

My man Schultz has crossed swords with his employer before. Page Six reported in August that he threatened to “torch this [bleep]ing place” after MSNBC failed to include him in election-night promos. Sources said that MSNBC brass threatened to fire him if he repeated the outburst.

A month later, TV Newser reported that he was reprimanded by MSNBC brass for calling New Jersey Governor Chris Christie a “cold-hearted fat slob.”

And, on Feb 27, 2010 Ed said he would like to take the heart of former Vice President Dick Cheney — who was recovering from his fifth heart attack — and “rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him.”

LOL!

He will return on June 6th.

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What’s Ed apologizing for? For calling a “spade a spade.?” I think he should have called her a “Right-Wing Hermaphrodite Nazi Talk Slut.”

Ingraham has a history of racism and media harlotry.

Examples include:

On page 32& 63 of her racist screed “Power to The People,” Ingraham asserts that true Americans are white, christian, southern and republican.

In 2008 while discussing Al Sharpton‘s visit to the White House Ingraham said: “I hope they nailed down the valuables,” an obvious reference to a racist black stereotype.

Racist Black Stereotypes

Back in 1986, Laura Ingraham, and then boyfriend, were both editors of “The Prospect” — which worked tirelessly to limit minority admissions to Princeton University. Additionally, Ingraham was a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton — a racist group that opposed affirmative action designed to increase minority attendance at the Ivy League institution.

Laura Ingraham was also the Editor of the ultra racist Dartmouth Review. During her tenure, articles were printed promoting KKK members- hanged African Americans — defending slavery and contributing to the stereotypes of the way black people speak. [ READ MORE ]

In May 2008, Ingraham insinuated that “Obama’s success” was proof that “racism is minimal” in America. Really?

During the senate confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor — Laura Ingraham attacked the Judge on the “Today Show.” Speaking with the show’s co-host Matt Lauer, Ingraham stated that Judge Sotomayor would use her “racial identity” when judging cases. Ingraham’s justification for this accusation was a piece Judge Sotomayor wrote for the Berkelely Review. She took Sotomayor’s 15 year career and bundled all of it into one essay — consistent with the shortsightedness of your typical racist. The fact is that when judging more than 50 cases, Judge Sotomayor ruled there was discrimination just three times. [ READ MORE ]

Marc Lamont Hill vs. Laura Ingraham (Part 1)

[ Part 2 ] [ Part 3 ]

Media Matters For America has a boatload of incriminating videos featuring Ingraham.

Yes, Ingraham is a racist right-wing SLUT alright! A Horse!. I wonder what the brass at MSNBC hope to achieve by silencing ED while at Fox vicious racism is flung around 24/7.

[ LAURA INGRAHAM ON PA ]

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   By: Robert Parry
Robert Parry Writes: What the Hell Happened to Keith Olbermann?

Though Olbermann hosted MSNBC’s top-rated news show, “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” he disappeared from the network with only the briefest of good-byes. Certainly, the callous treatment of Olbermann by the MSNBC brass would never be replicated by Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing Fox News toward its media stars.

At Fox News, the likes of Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity have far greater leeway to pitch right-wing ideas and even to organize pro-Republican political events. Last November, Olbermann was suspended for two days for making donations to three Democratic candidates, including Arizona’s Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded in the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson.

Now, with Olbermann’s permanent departure last Friday, the remainder of MSNBC’s liberal evening line-up, which also includes Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Lawrence O’Donnell (who will fill Olbermann’s 8 p.m. slot), must face the reality that any sustained friction with management could mean the bum’s rush for them, too.

The liberal hosts also must remember that MSNBC experimented with liberal-oriented programming only after all other programming strategies, including trying to out-Fox Fox, had failed ? and only after it became clear that President George W. Bush’s popularity was slipping.

In nearly eight years at “Countdown,” Olbermann was the brave soul who charted the course for other mainstream media types to be even mildly critical of Bush. Olbermann modeled his style after legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow, who stood up to excesses by communist-hunting Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, even borrowing Murrow’s close: “Good night, good luck.”

But MSNBC’s parent company, General Electric, never seemed comfortable with Olbermann’s role as critic of the Bush administration, nor with the sniping between Olbermann and his Fox News rival, O’Reilly, who retaliated by attacking corporate GE on his widely watched show.

In 2009, the New York Times reported that GE responded to this pressure by having GE chairman Jeffrey Immelt strike a deal with Murdoch that sought to muzzle Olbermann’s criticism of O’Reilly, in exchange for O’Reilly muting his attacks on GE.

Olbermann later disputed that there ever was a truce and the back-and-forth soon resumed. But it was a reminder that GE, a charter member of the military-industrial complex and a major international conglomerate, had bigger corporate interests at play than the ratings for MSNBC’s evening programming.

So, too, will Comcast, the cable giant that is assuming a majority stake in NBC Universal, which controls MSNBC. The Washington Post reported on Saturday that sources at MSNBC quashed speculation that Olbermann’s departure was connected to the Comcast takeover, which was approved by federal regulators this week.

Media Orphans

The troubling message to progressives is that they remain essentially orphans when it comes to having their political interests addressed by any corporate news outlet. While the Right has built its own vast media infrastructure ? reaching from newspapers, magazines and books to radio, TV and the Internet ? the Left generally has treated media as a low priority.

Though some on the Left saw hope in the MSNBC evening line-up, the larger reality was that even inside the world of NBC News, the other content ranged from the pro-Establishment centrism of anchor Brian Williams to the center-right views of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough to CNBC’s mix of free-market extremism and corporate boosterism.

While gratified to be given a few hours each night on MSNBC, the Left surely had nothing to compare with Murdoch’s News Corporation and its longstanding commitment to a right-wing perspective on Fox News and News Corp.’s many other print and electronic outlets.

As I wrote in an article last November, “Olbermann and the other liberal hosts are essentially on borrowed time, much the way Phil Donahue was before getting axed in the run-up to George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, when MSNBC wanted to position itself as a ‘patriotic’ war booster.

“Unlike News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, who stands solidly behind the right-wing propaganda on Fox News, the corporate owners of MSNBC have no similar commitment to the work of Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz.

“For the suits at headquarters, it’s just a balancing act between the ratings that those shows get and the trouble they cause as Republicans reclaim control of Washington.”

Those corporate priorities also were underscored in the pre-Iraq invasion days when MSNBC dumped Donahue, then the network’s biggest draw. But Donahue had allowed on some guests critical of Bush’s planned war.

After the invasion in March 2003, MSNBC’s coverage was barely discernable from that of Fox News, with both networks superimposing American flags on scenes from Iraq and producing pro-war promotional segments showing heroic images of U.S. soldiers being welcomed by happy Iraqis (with no scenes of the war’s carnage). [See Consortiumnews.com's "America's Matrix."]

The ongoing significance of America’s media imbalance is that it gives the Right enormous capabilities to control the national debate, not only during election campaigns but year-round. Republicans can deploy what intelligence operatives call “agit-propaganda,” stirring controversies that rile up the public and redound to the GOP’s advantage.

These techniques have proved so effective that not even gifted political speakers, whether the savvy Bill Clinton or the eloquent Barack Obama, have had any consistent success in countering the angry cacophony that the Right can orchestrate.

One week, the Right’s theme is “Obamacare’s death panels“; another week, it’s “the “Ground Zero Mosque.” The Democrats are left scrambling to respond ? and their responses, in turn, become fodder for critical commentary, as too wimpy or too defensive or too something.

The mainstream media and progressives often join in this criticism, wondering why Obama let himself get blind-sided or why he wasn’t tougher or why he can’t control the message. For the Right and the Republicans, it’s a win-win-win, as the right-wing base is energized, more public doubts are raised about the President, and the Left is further demoralized.

Like Clinton before him, Obama has reacted to this political/media landscape by shifting rightward toward the “center,” further alienating his liberal base. Many on the Left respond by denouncing Obama as a sell-out and deciding to either sit out elections or vote for a third party.

This dynamic has been instrumental to the Right’s political victories over the past three decades even as those policies ? from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush ? have worsened the lives of middle- and working-class Americans.

The sudden disappearance of Keith Olbermann from television is another ominous omen that this dynamic will continue.

Keith Olbermann Signs Off His Final Countdown

David Shuster: “There Is A False Equivalency” Between Olbermann And Fox Rhetoric — Beck Has “Inspired” Acts Of Violence

British MP Tom Watson To Glenn Beck: “You Are A Bigot”
Watson: Glenn Beck “Has Been Broadcasting Anti-Semetic Messages For A Number Of Months”

References:

1. Was Olbermann’s Abrupt Departure From MSNBC Part of a Corporate “Shakedown” Precipitated by the Comcast/NBC Merger?

2. End Of WingNuts?

3. Olbermann Split Came After Years of Tension — Underlying the decision to part ways with Keith Olbermann were years of behind-the-scenes conflicts

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The Crackpot Gap: Boon To Dems, Danger To America — We’re not dealing with “extremism in defense of liberty,” we’re dealing with extremism that defies the constitution. Republicans are being fueled by a so-called “enthusiasm gap” but their biggest worry leading up to the midterms should be the “crackpot gap.” [ READ MORE ]

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[ The Newt Gingrich File ]

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Gingrich pandering to birthers: Ed Schultz calls out Newt Gingrich for his latest statement on President Obama’s alleged “Kenyan anti-colonial behavior.” Rep Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) and former Bush speechwriter David Frum join the Ed Show.
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Reference:

1. Fear-Mongering, Witchcraft and Now Masturbation: The ‘Dark’ GOP Has Lost Its Mind and is Unfit To Govern.

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California Republican candidate declares “hunting season” on Democrats; Ed Schultz points out the hateful rhetoric still spewing from members of the Republican Party.

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Huffington Post: Ed Schultz made an impassioned plea for health care reform Wednesday during an on-location shoot at a temporary free clinic in Hartford, Connecticut.

Schlutz told of unemployed and under-insured Americans waiting for treatment and diagnoses to save their lives and told Congress to act. He noted that Connecticut passed a statewide health care reform bill that included a public option–only to have it vetoed by the state’s Governor.

Schultz also called Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman a “coward” and invited politicians to visit the clinic and see how badly reform is needed.

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American’s Still Want Health Reform

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Need For Health Reform Grows:

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GOP Healthcare “Scum-Bags” ….

MediaMatters: Fox News still falsely comparing health care reform legislation to Canadian system — Fox News has seized upon reports that Canadian Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is seeking medical treatment in the United States to criticize health care reform, claiming that his medical decision casts doubt on the Canadian system and that the Democrats’ health care reform legislation would “change our system to be more like Canada’s.” In fact, the health care legislation proposed by both the House and Senate is not modeled after the Canadian single-payer system and maintains the majority of the private health care industry. [ READ MORE ]

Limbaugh falsely claims Dems’ health care bill “puts people in jail” for not having health insurance

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