Ed Schultz has passed away.

[irisblue]

https://www.wday.com/news/4468792-ed-schultz-former-fargo-radio-personality-has-died?amp&__twitter_impression=true

From 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]

1. is it wrong to say

that I miss Alan Colmes far more than I will ever miss Schultz?

[nolabear]

4. Maybe not wrong per se but awfully soon.

Ed did weird things. I was shocked at his switch from progressive to conservative. But he’s dead and dead is a hard thing.

[mvd]

14. Hi

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]

19. How Ed Schultz transformed from MSNBC lefty to the American face of Moscow media

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-ed-schultz-transformed-from-msnbc-lefty-to-the-american-face-of-moscow-media/2016/12/20/320713f4-c322-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html?utm_term=.e03ec63e27f9

“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 Obama’s views on the matter or the consensus among American intelligence agencies about the extent of Russian meddling. Instead he went straight to Ed Schultz’s 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 Trump’s appointment of ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and Tillerson’s ties to Putin.


“Why is [Tillerson’s] 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. “Isn’t that a positive thing that he knows Putin?”

[kevink077]

27. He really changed

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]

21. Conservative might not be the best word. See the following 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]

23. He was a RWer to begin with,then he met Wendy....

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]

24. He was a conservative well long before he was a progressive (if he truly was ever).

[Coventina]

2. I was a huge fan, in the MSNBC days. (And Air America)

I would be heartbroken, if he hadn't gone all Putinista.

A very confusing legacy...

[irisblue]

3. I enjoyed his work then. Not so much after those.

[mountain grammy]

7. Yes, I liked his radio show

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]

22. I was in Madison when he broadcasted his show during the recall election returns.

I miss the man he was.

[bullwinkle428]

5. Natural causes at age 64? I hope the coroner tests for Novichok.

I'm not entirely kidding.

[uponit7771]

9. +1

[WhiteTara]

10. I was thinking the same thing.

[Tatiana]

17. This. At 64 years old?

Something was up with him. Very sad that he passed on this way.

[LisaM]

26. He was an old football player. I'm guessing it's something along the lines of a heart attack

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]

6. I liked his show before he went to the dark side.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Ed had his audience following the health scare of his wife, Wendy for a long time.

I can't believe Ed is gone.

Ed was part of Air America with Mike Malloy, Alan Colmes, and Thom Hartmann.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

25. I'll miss Big Eddie

R.I.P.

[CountAllVotes]

29. That's the Ed I remember

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]

11. RIP, "RT Ed"

Sorry your last couple of years were so sad and misguided.

[Different Drummer]

12. Used to love his show on MSNBC.

I never followed him after he went to RT.

[Tom Rinaldo]

15. Same here. n/t

[Adrahil]

13. Sorry he died while in service to an enemy. NT

[TeamPooka]

16. Ed would saything you paid him to say. nt

[BootinUp]

18. Sadly true, he doesn't have to worry

About pay now. RIP

[shanny]

31. He has said that he got far more editorial "direction"

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]

20. He heard you could make more money working on the other side.

Story of his life. And he committed!

[Wellstone ruled]

28. And that is the real story.

[DesertRat]

30. R.I.P. Ed Schultz

And only 64. That's a shame.

[shanny]

32. R.I.P. Ed