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https://www.wday.com/news/4468792-ed-schultz-former-fargo-radio-personality-has-died?amp&__twitter_impression=trueFrom wday article, entire story
FARGO - Longtime broadcaster Ed Schultz has died. He was 64.
Sources tell WDAY-TV in Fargo that Schultz died of natural causes.
Schultz started his broadcast career in TV and radio in Fargo in the early 1980s, including time as sports director at WDAY.
He went on to host a show at MSNBC and most recently worked for RT.
musette_sf
(10,184 posts)that I miss Alan Colmes far more than I will ever miss Schultz?
nolabear
(41,915 posts)Ed did weird things. I was shocked at his switch from progressive to conservative. But hes dead and dead is a hard thing.
I feel sad about losing Ed. I know he went to RT, but what did he get conservative about? Relations with Russia? I was not following.
MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)Good evening, friends, Schultz boomed on his program one recent evening before swiftly segueing into the alleged hacking of the presidential election by Russia. Schultz skipped the latest details, such as President Obamas views on the matter or the consensus among American intelligence agencies about the extent of Russian meddling. Instead he went straight to Ed Schultzs view of the matter: This has become a lifeline for Clinton supporters in an effort to reverse the outcome of the election. . . . In the meantime, the story has entered the arena of outrageous.
Schultz quickly threw to a recorded package, in which RT America reporter Alexey Yaroshevsky wondered how long the spiraling downfall of sanity over hacking in the U.S. media would continue. Until the public sees forensic evidence, if such exists at all, these accusations should carry as much weight as online humor, Yaroshevsky reported.
Next up: A Schultz-led panel discussion of Trumps appointment of ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and Tillersons ties to Putin.
Why is [Tillersons] business relationships and successes with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the business world and in the energy industry, why is that a negative on Capitol Hill? he asked the panel, almost pleading. Isnt that a positive thing that he knows Putin?
kevink077
(365 posts)It was heartbreaking to watch who was a champion for working people as little as 3-4 years ago take such a hard turn right. I wondered how he died.. natural causes seems pretty vague ..RIP Ed.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)People are summing it up better than I. I got the feeling he wanted to be the voice of the working guy but that got all skewed.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)She pointed out to him the pain and the suffering most Americans go through while the rich get the breaks. It made an impact on him to the point he became a Dem/Progressive.
So you lose your TV gig and POOF your values change back to the values of Bush/Cheney and now Trump?? I NEVER will................
themaguffin
(3,805 posts)Coventina
(26,874 posts)I would be heartbroken, if he hadn't gone all Putinista.
A very confusing legacy...
irisblue
(32,829 posts)mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)and when he went to Madison, WI. I do feel sad about this. He was part of my life for a while.
very confusing legacy.
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)I miss the man he was.
bullwinkle428
(20,626 posts)I'm not entirely kidding.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Something was up with him. Very sad that he passed on this way.
LisaM
(27,759 posts)or high blood pressure. If it had been the Russian nerve agent, he would have been frothing at the mouth and had experienced delirium.
He also didn't seem in the best of shape.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)I can't believe Ed is gone.
Ed was part of Air America with Mike Malloy, Alan Colmes, and Thom Hartmann.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,780 posts)R.I.P.
CountAllVotes
(20,854 posts)Cause of death unknown, age 64. Not that uncommon these days. Lots of boomers aren't living real long I've noticed.
RIP Big Ed.
BannonsLiver
(16,162 posts)Sorry your last couple of years were so sad and misguided.
Different Drummer
(7,532 posts)I never followed him after he went to RT.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)TeamPooka
(24,156 posts)BootinUp
(46,925 posts)About pay now. RIP
shanny
(6,709 posts)at MSNBC than RT. They didn't want him covering Bernie, or TPP and--in his opinion--fired him for it. So apparently he wouldn't say "anything you paid him to say." If he had, he might still have been at MSNBC. But that doesn't fit the narrative around here.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Story of his life. And he committed!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)And only 64. That's a shame.