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		MSNBC's Ed Shultz named #3 least influential person alive. "The only reason people watch "The Ed Show" is they're working out in a hotel gym and they can't find a staff member to change the channel to ESPN" (mediabistro.com)		88
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Meatzilla

2011-11-25 08:19:37 PM

shanrick

2011-11-25 08:29:52 PM

The Rush Limbaugh of the left.

BravadoGT

2011-11-25 08:43:38 PM

shanrick: The Rush Limbaugh of the left.

RIght--if he had a few million people who tuned in daily.

Britney Spear's Speculum

2011-11-25 09:00:51 PM

His whole No on 2 thing really showed what an asshole he was. Standing up for workers rights, pssh, what a dick.

AdolfOliverPanties

2011-11-25 09:04:49 PM

Someone who is not influential made a list?

Bagelox-99

2011-11-25 09:05:52 PM

Ed has this promo where he says, "I need two shows." With his luck, he'd get half the ratings.

crab66

2011-11-25 09:24:02 PM

Douchenozzle.

fusillade762

2011-11-25 09:24:45 PM

So does that mean I'm more influential than Ed?

fusillade762

2011-11-25 09:26:18 PM

Apparently Obama is #25. Though you'd never know that from Fark's politics tab.

#1 must be subby's mom.

MrEricSir

2011-11-25 09:28:12 PM

They should just rename it the Rachel Maddow network and fire everyone else.

jake3988

2011-11-25 09:52:30 PM

MrEricSir 2011-11-25 09:28:12 PM They should just rename it the Rachel Maddow network and fire everyone else.
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I could go for that.

She's awesome. I hate everyone else :(

Poison

2011-11-25 10:03:52 PM

I'd have to put him at Number 1 since I have no idea who he is, what show he hosts, or what he talks about. Farkers-if I'm missing something, let me know.

Dwayne Bansey

2011-11-25 10:25:42 PM

Funny Thing... He doubled Anderson Cooper in the ratings last Monday.

Link (new window)

BarbadoSlim

2011-11-25 10:27:55 PM

To be fair GQ is ranked as #1 least influential publication in circulation.

Bartman66

2011-11-25 10:35:49 PM

HAHAHAHA.....
Like we really needed someone to tell us this?

Lando Lincoln

2011-11-25 10:49:35 PM

Yes, the Ed Schultz Show is just bad. Bad, bad, bad. It's a left-wing version of a typical right-wing show.

red5ish

2011-11-25 10:49:36 PM

GQ is a men's fashion magazine. Sounds like an oxymoron doesn't it? What sort of people work at a men's fashion magazine?

CigaretteSmokingMan

2011-11-25 10:50:16 PM

I'm number 2.

Go ahead. Pile on.

NeedleGuy

2011-11-25 10:54:38 PM

Poison: I'd have to put him at Number 1 since I have no idea who he is, what show he hosts, or what he talks about. Farkers-if I'm missing something, let me know.

Same here.

At first I thought the headline was talking about this guy:

Abner Doon

2011-11-25 10:58:12 PM

Poison: I'd have to put him at Number 1 since I have no idea who he is, what show he hosts, or what he talks about. Farkers-if I'm missing something, let me know.

You're not. He's pretty terrible; it's like someone noticed all of the terrible right-wing blowhards and decided the left needed a version too.

Benevolent Misanthrope

2011-11-25 11:02:52 PM

Abner Doon: it's like someone noticed all of the terrible right-wing blowhards and decided the left needed a version too.

THIS.

The Ed Show is without a doubt the most annoying knockoff of a Fox News blowhard show EVAR.

Gosling

2011-11-25 11:04:18 PM

The opening credits of his very first show showed volume bars as a design motif.

I knew exactly what to expect from that alone and didn't even bother with it. If you see volume bars in the design motif of a news or talk program, run. Run far away.

ELF Radio

2011-11-25 11:04:51 PM

Get your cel phones out!

I want to know what YOU think.

BarbadoSlim

2011-11-25 11:07:20 PM

red5ish: GQ is a men's fashion magazine. Sounds like an oxymoron doesn't it? What sort of people work at a men's fashion magazine?

Fabulous ...ah, people.

Skeptimystic

2011-11-25 11:19:38 PM

Ha. Love the quote in the headline.

Tickle Mittens

2011-11-25 11:44:35 PM

Abner Doon: Poison: I'd have to put him at Number 1 since I have no idea who he is, what show he hosts, or what he talks about. Farkers-if I'm missing something, let me know.

You're not. He's pretty terrible; it's like someone noticed all of the terrible right-wing blowhards and decided the left needed a version too.

Well, there is one thing I like about him, but it's conceptual, and possibly all in my head. He just looks like a person who was a reasonably good amature or semi-pro boxer like twenty years ago, and I get a sense that if the right person came on his show on the wrong night, he might beat them into a hospital bed. And there's a lot of people on the right I'd like to see that happen to, creating this kind of "gambler's chance" impression of a good mathmatically expected payoff.

JosephFinn

2011-11-25 11:56:43 PM

red5ish: GQ is a men's fashion magazine. Sounds like an oxymoron doesn't it? What sort of people work at a men's fashion magazine?

Men?

JudgeItoBox

2011-11-25 11:57:10 PM

I'd like to think that MSNBC's decision to move Ed to 8PM was the result of whatever miniscule clout Olbermann still has with them. Or some kind of huge favor from Lawrence O'Donnell.

If you haven't ~~been watching~~ left it on in the background lately, Ed's doing Nancy Grace's gimmick: the big, red "BREAKING NEWS" banner stays on screen constantly throughout the show.

The only reason this show exists is to provide the sole piece of evidence for the (R)etards' flimsy argument that MSNBC is the FOX News of the Left.

Sabyen91

2011-11-26 12:08:15 AM

Lando Lincoln: Yes, the Ed Schultz Show is just bad. Bad, bad, bad. It's a left-wing version of a typical right-wing show.

Not surprisingly he is an ex-right wing blowhard.

/He sucks

Sabyen91

2011-11-26 12:09:15 AM

red5ish: GQ is a men's fashion magazine. Sounds like an oxymoron doesn't it? What sort of people work at a men's fashion magazine?

Gay men are still men, you know.

Donnchadha

2011-11-26 12:09:55 AM

I would have thought that the least influential person alive would be some sort of housewife in Peroia, IL whose claim to fame was once thinking about a vacation to Chicago, but her husband never thought they had the money.

nvmac

2011-11-26 12:13:12 AM

Donnchadha: I would have thought that the least influential person alive would be some sort of housewife in Peroia, IL whose claim to fame was once thinking about a vacation to Chicago, but her husband never thought they had the money.

Sounds like one of the worst persons in the world to me.

/how dare she think

limboslam

2011-11-26 12:21:18 AM

Wasn't too familiar with Ed until I happened upon his show as he was (correctly) complaining how FoxNews is just a shill for the GOP. What really got my attention wasn't that he didn't acknowledge that MSNBC is completely in the tank for the Democrats, but flat out denied that his network was in any way even remotely pro-Democrat. Not even just a little. That was some good spin right there.

fusillade762

2011-11-26 12:33:16 AM

BarbadoSlim: To be fair GQ is ranked as #1 least influential publication in circulation.

Hey, GQ gave us this photoshoot:

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So I'd say they have influence... IN MY PANTS.

FlyingJ

2011-11-26 12:34:01 AM

Tickle Mittens I get a sense that if the right person came on his show on the wrong night, he might beat them ~~into a hospital bed~~ with an empty whiskey bottle
FTFY
Link (new window)

EnderX

2011-11-26 01:15:06 AM

jake3988: MrEricSir 2011-11-25 09:28:12 PM They should just rename it the Rachel Maddow network and fire everyone else.
==================================================

I could go for that.

She's awesome. I hate everyone else :(

Apparently Awesome means only giving half quotes and then having a smug smile believing only having guesses only who agree with you makes you the It Girl.........well yeah, then she's awesome.

Propain_az

2011-11-26 01:18:20 AM

Poison: I'd have to put him at Number 1 since I have no idea who he is, what show he hosts, or what he talks about. Farkers-if I'm missing something, let me know.

You are so awesome! GO OCCUPY!

DrBenway

2011-11-26 01:42:59 AM

Bad enough on radio, can't imagine how awful the television version must be. Who on the left appreciates this guy? He's an embarrassment.

Huck And Molly Ziegler

2011-11-26 01:44:31 AM

If the 4th least influential person and Mr. Shultz went out to dinner, would the 4th least influential decide where they'd eat? (Because the 4th least influential person would be a shade more influential than the 3rd least influential person.) (Then you'd have the second least influential person, and finally the first, or MOST LEAST INFLUENTIAL PERSON IN THE WORLD.)

drjekel_mrhyde

2011-11-26 01:47:04 AM

Please kiss

Shenanigans!

2011-11-26 02:03:44 AM

Tickle Mittens: Abner Doon: Poison: I'd have to put him at Number 1 since I have no idea who he is, what show he hosts, or what he talks about. Farkers-if I'm missing something, let me know.

You're not. He's pretty terrible; it's like someone noticed all of the terrible right-wing blowhards and decided the left needed a version too.

Well, there is one thing I like about him, but it's conceptual, and possibly all in my head. He just looks like a person who was a reasonably good amature or semi-pro boxer like twenty years ago, and I get a sense that if the right person came on his show on the wrong night, he might beat them into a hospital bed. And there's a lot of people on the right I'd like to see that happen to, creating this kind of "gambler's chance" impression of a good mathmatically expected payoff.

That would explain a lot...maybe he took one too many shots to the head?

JudgeItoBox

2011-11-26 02:06:42 AM

limboslam: What really got my attention wasn't that he didn't acknowledge that MSNBC is completely in the tank for the Democrats, but flat out denied that his network was in any way even remotely pro-Democrat. Not even just a little. That was some good spin right there.

And, almost immediately, my point is proven.

/"No John, you are the (R)etards"
//And then John herped where he derped.

fusillade762

2011-11-26 02:14:00 AM

DrBenway: Bad enough on radio, can't imagine how awful the television version must be. Who on the left appreciates this guy? He's an embarrassment.

Yeah. I'm as pretty far left as you're likely to find and I think he's an intolerable blowhard in the Rush/O'Reily mold.

Still want to know who GQ thinks is the #1 least influential person alive.

IlGreven

2011-11-26 02:25:37 AM

JudgeItoBox: I'd like to think that MSNBC's decision to move Ed to 8PM was the result of whatever miniscule clout Olbermann still has with them.

...And the only reason Rachel Maddow is still on is because George Soros has compromising pictures of NBC executives.

/Posts like that show us how Reynolds Wrap stays afloat in these troubled times.

DrBenway

2011-11-26 02:40:30 AM

fusillade762: Yeah. I'm as pretty far left as you're likely to find and I think he's an intolerable blowhard in the Rush/O'Reily mold.

That's what pisses me off the most. Hell, if I wanted to listen to a fat blowhard douchebag, Rush has got it covered and I can at least derive some small sliver of pleasure from mocking him (as he cries from the sting all the way to the bank, right?). Shultz is about as thorough an example of a "you're not helping" poster boy for the left as I can imagine.

Cosmk

2011-11-26 02:46:42 AM

Marrow is peerless. Ed, O'Donnel, and Matthews are at varying degrees painful to watch, much as I agree with their core beliefs.

O'Donnell just doesn't belong on camera. He's a great producer, but comes off as such a prick. Matthews might be tolerable if he took a regimen of downers. We'd a good muckracker, but has no depth whatsoever, at least with the content of his shows.

I'd love to see Thin Hartmann get a show Taking one of their places, and dial down his combativeness to zero and just talk ideas.

Cosmk

2011-11-26 02:47:34 AM

Cosmk: Marrow is peerless. Ed, O'Donnel, and Matthews are at varying degrees painful to watch, much as I agree with their core beliefs.

O'Donnell just doesn't belong on camera. He's a great producer, but comes off as such a prick. Matthews might be tolerable if he took a regimen of downers. We'd a good muckracker, but has no depth whatsoever, at least with the content of his shows.

I'd love to see Thin Hartmann get a show Taking one of their places, and dial down his combativeness to zero and just talk ideas.

Maddow. Stupid autocorrect.

Gosling

2011-11-26 03:13:39 AM

GoHomeAndGetYourShinebox

2011-11-26 03:16:59 AM

fusillade762: Still want to know who GQ thinks is the #1 least influential person alive.

Supposedly it's Tim Pawlenty.

Sgt Otter

2011-11-26 03:47:26 AM

fusillade762: DrBenway: Bad enough on radio, can't imagine how awful the television version must be. Who on the left appreciates this guy? He's an embarrassment.

Yeah. I'm as pretty far left as you're likely to find and I think he's an intolerable blowhard in the Rush/O'Reily mold.

I've pretty much only seen him as "yelling buffoon #8" that pops up in clips from time to time on The Daily Show. Where did this idiot come from?

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