The Colorado Independent » ed schultz http://coloradoindependent.com News you can't get anywhere else Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:37:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Norton ‘ponzi scheme’ comment pulls down an MSNBC ‘psycho talk’ award http://coloradoindependent.com/48977/norton-%e2%80%98ponzi-scheme%e2%80%99-comment-pulls-down-an-msnbc-%e2%80%98psycho-talk%e2%80%99-award http://coloradoindependent.com/48977/norton-%e2%80%98ponzi-scheme%e2%80%99-comment-pulls-down-an-msnbc-%e2%80%98psycho-talk%e2%80%99-award#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:26:29 +0000 John Tomasic http://coloradoindependent.com/?p=48977 All it takes is a little Talking Points Memo magic. The Colorado Independent reported yesterday that Jane Norton told the crowd gathered at the Tea Party candidate forum in Colorado Springs Tuesday night that the nation’s social security system…

]]> All it takes is a little Talking Points Memo magic. The Colorado Independent reported yesterday that Jane Norton told the crowd gathered at the Tea Party candidate forum in Colorado Springs Tuesday night that the nation’s social security system was basically a ponzi scheme. TPM reported it this morning and TPM, of course, had video! Cudos. Democrats jumped on the latest Nortonism and now MSNBC’s Big Ed Schultz has put his own stamp on the story.

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The ED Show:

SCHULTZ: We found a Michele Bachmann clone. How about that? It’s the former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado. Norton is running for the Republican nomination for Senate. She went to a Tea Party event just the other day and I’ll tell you what, she fit right in. Here’s why.

NORTON: The federal government is fundamentally out of control. They are seizing control of things like car companies, banks, insurance companies, they are approaching areas of education the EPA and circumventing legislative processes. They are absolutely out of control. With regard to Social Security, it has turned into a ponzi scheme. The money that people pay into it should be there for when they are ready to retire.

SCHULTZ: She thinks Social Security is a ponzi scheme. Notice how that came kind of at the end of her big statement about how liberals are taking over America and we can’t turn this thing around. She just got on a roll and really got after Social Security, which has been the most successful and reliable government program for more than 70 years. Period. Now, watch out Colorado. The woman who wants to be your next senator sounds like she’s reading right out of the Michele Bachmann playbook. Norton is courting the crazy and so far it’s working. She is leading Sen. Michael Bennett in a hypothetical matchup. We’re going to keep an eye on this one in Colorado because anyone who calls Social Security a ponzi scheme belongs in psycho talk.

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]]> http://coloradoindependent.com/48977/norton-%e2%80%98ponzi-scheme%e2%80%99-comment-pulls-down-an-msnbc-%e2%80%98psycho-talk%e2%80%99-award/feed 15 MSNBC’s Schultz hits Bachmann for ‘slit our wrists’ psycho talk http://coloradoindependent.com/37001/msnbcs-schultz-hits-bachmann-for-%e2%80%98slit-our-wrists%e2%80%99-pyscho-talk http://coloradoindependent.com/37001/msnbcs-schultz-hits-bachmann-for-%e2%80%98slit-our-wrists%e2%80%99-pyscho-talk#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:41:03 +0000 John Tomasic http://coloradoindependent.com/?p=37001 MSNBC “Ed Show” host Ed Schultz took Minnesota U.S. Rep Michele Bachmann to task last night on a regular segment called “Psycho Talk,” in which he attempts to deconstruct egregious examples of right-wing hyperbole. Bachmann’s comments in Denver Monday…

]]> MSNBC “Ed Show” host Ed Schultz took Minnesota U.S. Rep Michele Bachmann to task last night on a regular segment called “Psycho Talk,” in which he attempts to deconstruct egregious examples of right-wing hyperbole. Bachmann’s comments in Denver Monday at an event hosted by the Independence Institute made perfect “Psycho Talk” fodder. Bachmann asked anti-health reform Americans to “make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing..[to do] whatever it takes” to make sure health reform legislation does not pass.

Video after the jump.

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]]> http://coloradoindependent.com/37001/msnbcs-schultz-hits-bachmann-for-%e2%80%98slit-our-wrists%e2%80%99-pyscho-talk/feed 1 MSNBC’s wackadoo Ed Schultz to host Broomfield Dems Dinner http://coloradoindependent.com/34425/msnbcs-wackadoo-ed-schultz-to-host-broomfield-dems-dinner http://coloradoindependent.com/34425/msnbcs-wackadoo-ed-schultz-to-host-broomfield-dems-dinner#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:00:31 +0000 John Tomasic http://coloradoindependent.com/?p=34425 He’s a liberal good ole boy and a cable TV throw-down artist ready at a moment’s notice to go head-to-head with Republican Party boss Rush Limbaugh. He’s Ed Schultz, host of MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” and he’s coming to ]]> He’s a liberal good ole boy and a cable TV throw-down artist ready at a moment’s notice to go head-to-head with Republican Party boss Rush Limbaugh. He’s Ed Schultz, host of MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” and he’s coming to Broomfield to host the local Democratic Party’s annual Carter Dinner, the local chapter’s “biggest annual fundraiser.” It’s another sampling of our infotainment cable-based multimedia always-on fundraising national-local political campaign culture. That’s Ed Schultz at the Carter Dinner in Broomfield. Mark it down!

There’s not really much more to say about this news. We do appreciate the Broomfield Democratic author’s use of the exclamation point after the name “Ed Schultz” (!) although the sincerity of that bold punctuation is called into question by the adjective couplets in the sentence directly below it:

The Broomfield Democrats invite you to the Carter Dinner. This is the largest annual fundraising event for the party and this year’s keynote will be given by MSNBC’s Ed Schultz!

Please join us amid the modern luxury of the four-diamond Omni Interlocken Resort.

Here’s Schultz doing a pretty good schtick on GOP Chairman Michael Steele. Steele got stuck a few weeks ago in a rhetorical trap set by his own strategist Alex Castellanos, who instructed Party leaders to scare Americans away from health-care reform by casting it as a risky, untested, dangerous “experiment.”

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