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Ed Schultz ordered by MSNBC to discontinue ‘Psycho Talk’

5:25 PM 01/28/2011
Steven Nelson
Associate Editor

MSNBC host Ed Schultz announced Thursday on his radio show that his “Psycho Talk” segment had been discontinued by MSNBC executives.

“I work for somebody,” said Schultz. “I don’t call all the shots.”

Following the abrupt departure of Keith Olbermann from the network, Schultz’s show on MSNBC was moved from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

“There’s probably people in positions that are a helluva lot smarter than I am and have decided that that’s what the way it’s going to be,” Schultz said in an uncharacteristically servile response to the decision.

On January 11, following the Tucson shooting, Schultz said that he had no intention of discontinuing the segment. “As long as they open their mouths over there on the right, we will continue to have the segment called ‘Psycho Talk,’” said Schultz.

Schultz has been on thin ice with network executives before. According to the New York Post, NBC News President Steve Capus and MSNBC President Phil Griffin threatened to fire Schultz in August following a newsroom rant. Schultz had reportedly said, “I’m going to torch this fucking place” in a fury over a lack of promotion for his show.

Tags: Ed Schultz, msnbc
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  • dick ray

    geez i guess that will really make his viewers angry (all 10 of them)

  • J L Fuller

    This man is a nut job. Even his boss said he is going too far. So why keep him?

  • virginiagentleman

    Sounds like the brass at nbc/msnbc finally grew a pair! Serously, hate speech has no place in America. Hate speech towards race, or any group simply means you have no true arguement and no valid points to make. Why people even bother to watch that mess is puzzeling to me. To many pols and talking heads spewing hate and division are in the limelight now. If we don’t watch or listen to them they will sink back into the sewage they spawned from.

  • american10

    Another classic of the vitriolic left spewing it’s vile rhetoric!!!! So Ed Shouted he was going to torch this F…ing place!!! That sounds like a Terrorist threat to me, why isn’t Ed Schultz in jail!!! Oh I forgot, he is one of them, he is above their laws!!! How much more visible does it have to be, before their followers can see, that they are the leaders of the confused state of minds that is prevalent amongst their listeners/followers!!!

  • pepito

    People like Ed “big mouth fatso” Schultz” and his ilk are out of control and should be harnessed, to lay the least. Rachel “she-man” Maddow is next on the list.

  • yogibray

    How do people like this get a tv show? He is absolutely the bottom ofmthe barrel. But I think criticism is his fuel to act uncivil… MSNBC should be ashamed!!

    • tinteardrop

      I think that the MSNBC lineup was a ‘loss leader’ for G.E. They traded favorable treatment from 0bama and gave 0bama an almost lascivious and fawning treatment from the shows they put on. Profit was not part of the equation.

      Now that the writing is on the wall from the new owners, profit must be in the offing. They cannot be profitable as they are because their ratings are abysmal and telling Schlutz that he can’t do ‘psycho-talk’ is not going to fix what’s wrong there.

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