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We are proud to announce The Ed Show hosted by Ed Schultz will return to MSNBC starting Saturday, May 11 at 5 p.m. ET.
The Saturday and Sunday show will debut as a one-hour long program expanding to a two-hour format from 5-7 p.m. ET later this summer.
James Holm who is currently the Executive Producer of The Ed Schultz Radio Show will serve as acting Executive Producer of The Ed Show.
Karen Finney’s new program will also debut on May 11 from 4-5 p.m. ET. More information on that program will be announced in the coming days.
H/T: MSNBC
Chris Hayes will take over the 8 p.m. time slot on MSNBC in the next month, the channel is planning to announce on Thursday morning, hours after the current host of that hour, Ed Schultz, said he was moving from the weekdays to the weekends.
Mr. Hayes, a liberal intellectual who has hosted a well-regarded weekend morning program on MSNBC for the past 18 months, is a protege of Rachel Maddow, the highest-rated host on the channel. He will become the lead-in for her 9 p.m. program, “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
The change is predicated on the belief that MSNBC can win a wider audience with Mr. Hayes than it did with Mr. Schultz, a champion of the working class whose bluster didn’t always pair well with Ms. Maddow and the channel’s other prime time program, “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” Mr. Hayes, on the other hand, is just as wonky as Ms. Maddow and Mr. O’Donnell, and is a regular contributor to both of their programs.
Mr. Hayes’s promotion was described by people who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it had not been officially announced by the channel yet. Once it takes effect, Mr. Hayes, 34, will be the youngest host of a prime-time show on any of the country’s major cable news channels, all of which seek out youthful viewers but tend to have middle-aged hosts and a core audiencemade up of senior citizens. Of Mr. Schultz’s one million viewers last year, for example, only 249,000 were between the ages of 25 and 54.
Ms. Maddow had an average of 339,000 viewers in that key demographic. Usually cable news ratings work the other way — the programs earlier in the evening outperform the programs later in the evening. That’s partly why MSNBC sees an opportunity to grow at 8 p.m.
But taking over that hour is a difficult assignment for Mr. Hayes, given Bill O’Reilly’s commanding grip on the time slot. Mr. O’Reilly, the biggest star on the Fox News Channel, routinely doubled Mr. Schultz’s delivery of 25- to 54-year-old viewers last year, much to the chagrin of Mr. Schultz, who parodied his rival on a regular basis. The ratings imbalance at 8 p.m. helped to obscure the fact that MSNBC has, in prime time overall, crept closer to Fox in that age group.
Mr. Hayes is as eager as anyone at MSNBC to beat Fox, even if the two channels don’t actually fight for the same viewers. His metamorphosis from a writer at The Nation magazine to a broadcaster began several years ago when he was signed up to be a part-time paid contributor to MSNBC. He impressed executives at the channel when he filled in for Ms. Maddow in 2011, and in September of that year he was given his weekend morning show, called “Up with Chris Hayes.”
FULL Interview Scott Prouty, the man shoots 47% video defeats Mitt Romney, changes America History (by NewHotSport)
He is my new American hero!
Ed Schultz points out that the real voter fraud comes from Republicans (via Raw Story )
On Wednesday night’s episode of “The Ed Show,” host Ed Schultz listed off numerous actual instances of Republican-spun voter fraud schemes, mocking the seemingly perpetual paranoia many conservatives have about the community group ACORN, which doesn’t even exist anymore. He instead recalled…
(via Matt Taibbi on MSNBC’s The Ed Show: Hostess’ ‘Incompetent’ Management Killed The Company)
A little liquidation scare is no reason to mess with Twinkies, according to Matt Taibbi.
The Rolling Stone contributor told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Monday that workers and their “pensions and benefits” are getting the blame for the possible Hostess shutdown instead of the company’s management, who, he says, is actually responsible for the Twinkie-maker’s woes.
“Everybody likes Twinkies, there’s nothing wrong with the product,” Taibbi said. “The workers are doing a good job, they’re putting out a good product — it’s that management has been incompetent, and it’s unfortunate that the narrative has shifted all the blame to the workers.”
Taibbi’s assessment of the situation isn’t universal, with many people blaming the company’s demise on the American consumer’s changing tastes.
Hostess announced Friday that the company planned to liquidate and lay off all of its 18,500 workers, citing an ongoing strike that the company claimed was crippling its operations. On Monday, a bankruptcy judge ordered that Hostess enter into mediation with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, the group representing the striking workers, saying that he had “serious questions as to the logic behind this strike.”
The Teamsters, the other union representing Hostess workers, agreed to major pay and pension cuts in September in an aim to save the company and their jobs, even though they had already taken a hit during the company’s first bankruptcy.
“It’s part of this overall mythology that we have to blame the workers for wanting benefits and wanting a living wage,” he said.
Daily Kos: The MSNBC Crew of Justice Takes Down Scott Walker on Live TV!
I just watched what was - for me - the best moment of this lousy, angry, bunch of liars nominating this horrendous fraud was just now, on MSNBC!
Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Reverand Al Sharpton totally took over a floor interview with Governor Scott Walker in which they pinned him down on the fabrication that Paul Ryan told about how President Obama was responsible for the shutdown of the auto plant (GM, I think) that actually closed one month before he was inaugurated.
They kept hammering the Governor until he finally was so lost, he said that it was President Obama’s fault because the President promised to keep it open while he was campaigning. It ended with Rev. Al asking Walker if he meant that the President should have kept it open “retroactively?” And Walker said, “well, the truth is the truth.” It certainly is, Scotty, it certainly is!
On last night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Ed Show, Milwaukee Mayor and Potential Governor of Wisconsin Tom Barrrett targets incumbent Governor Scott Walker for the John Doe investigation and calls out the NRA smears against him.
Democratic Illinois Governor Pat Quinn appeared Wednesday evening on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” with host Ed Schultz to discuss Wisconsin’s disappointing job outlook since controversial Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker took office last year.
“Wisconsin’s dead last at job growth. Don’t listen to Scott Walker if you want to get jobs in your state. We sure haven’t listened to him,” Quinn told Schultz of Walker, whom the Democratic governor described as “an ideologue.”
“You have to honor the workers of our country, whether they work in the private sector or public sector. They’re the heart and soul of America and ‘made in America’ are my favorite words,” the governor later said, despite the fact that Quinn himself has faced heat from labor unions over his recently proposed reforms to state worker pension program.
Quinn jabbed back in a statement last week that “one would wonder what a governor with a terrible economic record could have to say about jobs and economic growth.”
Meanwhile, on his own future gubernatorial prospects, Quinn said this week that he plans to run for a second term and that he expects to win.
h/t: Huffington Post
Sean Hannity spent an hour on the radio today continuing to deny the many hardships faced by poor Americans — including hunger — by pointing in part to the prevalence of modern appliances and the abundance of cheap foods found on a health website to support his point. At one point he gave this advice to poor households, “Quit drinking soda and drink water.”
This was after spending the majority of his time attacking Media Matters and MSNBC for publicizing his original comments on the issue, when he insisted that “this idea that Americans are going to bed hungry” is not true because “you can survive” off such cheap food staples as rice and beans.
Hannity stated that MSNBC and host Ed Schultz were “lazy” for relying on a Media Matters item that highlighted Hannity’s comments to debunk his claim that millions of Americans aren’t going to bed hungry.
Fellow conservative talk radio host Mark Levin also called in to defend Hannity from criticism by similarly attacking Schultz. Levin stated: “First of all, Mr. Ed, that you call Ed Schultz, that guy looks like he eats for about three and a half people, doesn’t he?” Hannity replied: “Now, be nice. It doesn’t look like he missed a meal, I’ll say that.”
In reality, the poor in America face hardships in areas that deeply affect their lives, such as health, education, housing, and access to healthy food and legal services — regardless of their ability to purchase a microwave oven.
Sean HandTitty is an out-of-touch doofus!
H/T: MMFA
From the 09.06.2011 edition of MSNBC’s The Ed Show:
(via Teamsters President James Hoffa Blasts Fox News For Being “ Anti-Worker“)
