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Ed Schultz went after Sen. Orrin Hatch in his Psycho Talk segment for his little screed this week saying that the poor need to "share some of the responsibility" for shrinking the debt. TPM has more on that.

Dems Go After Hatch For Saying Poor Need To Do More To Shrink The Debt:

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is going after Sen. Orrin Hatch for saying that the poor need to "share some of the responsibility" for shrinking the debt.

"The top 10 percent are paying 70 percent of all income taxes. The top 50 percent pay something like 98 percent of all income taxes. Fifty-one percent don't pay anything," Hatch said.

"Democrats say they [the 51 percent] pay payroll taxes. Well, everybody does that because that's Social Security. They pay about one-third of what they're going to take out over the years in Social Security," Hatch said. "Obamacare -- a family of four earning over $80,000 a year -- gets subsidies. Think about that. That's what we call the poor?"

"Republican priorities are completely out of whack and Orrin Hatch's comments prove that point," DSCC's Shripal Shah told TPM.

"It's bad enough that Republicans are doing everything they can to protect tax breaks for millionaires and special interests, but the fact that the Republican idea of shared sacrifice means going after the those who are struggling the most is completely reprehensible," Shah said.

As I already pointed out here, Joshua Holland did a great job debunking last year why saying that the poor in this country don't pay their share in taxes even if they don't pay any federal income taxes is bunk. I wish Ed Schultz had made that point in this segment as well, but he didn't.

Maybe anyone that is on Twitter can make Ed and his staff aware of that fact on his feed at @WeGotEd.

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Well, it looks like someone at MSNBC decided it was alright for Ed Schultz to bring back his Psycho Talk segment after they pulled it some time back under the guise of wanting their broadcasts to be less inflammatory and that being used as an excuse to show Keith Olbermann the door.

Ed knocked Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, otherwise known as the Brown-Haired Guy Who Isn't Steve Doocy if you watch Colbert for their ridiculous claim on Fox & Friends that Donald Trump might have been a serious presidential candidate for 2012 except for the fact that he wasn't treated fairly in the media. In their world, the evil liberal media attacked poor old Donald when he didn't deserve it and ruined his hopes for another fake presidential run.

Trump was never a serious candidate and the media sadly gave him way too much air time so he could get his ratings up for his show on NBC. But the crew over at Fox & Friends think that somehow he wasn't given enough time on the air to defend himself from the countless hours he was given on the air to look like a raving mad racist nut job who will say anything whether he believes it or not to get attention.

As usual, it's upside down world at Fox. These people apparently have lost the capacity to be embarrassed by the fact that they look like complete buffoons every morning, day after day, on a network that has the audacity to call itself a "news" channel.

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Well, it looks like Turdblossom isn't too good at doing right wing radio during his stint filling in for Rush Limbaugh, but that wasn't going to stop Bill O'Reilly from goading him that he should have gotten more money for his three hour appearance for which he was paid $1,650 to sub for Limbaugh for three hours. That means they were paying him the pittance of $550 an hour for his time. Who knew substitute propaganda paid so much?

I'm not sure where Bill got his numbers from on Limbaugh's salary, but if they're right the $550 an hour they paid Rove was a pittance in comparison. Isn't it wonderful that these millionaires are pretending to speak for every day Americans and what we're going through? I'm just not quite sure how Rove is going to get by with only making as much in a couple of hours as most families make in a week. I guess he'll manage somehow. In the mean time he can cry about how underpaid he was for his time along with Bill-O on ClusterFox.

Ed Schultz whacked him for how terrible of a job he did filling in for the Drugster as he likes to call Limbaugh. It's too bad more Americans can't make Rove's "princely sum" for their time as well. I guess if the rest of us just figured out how to latch onto that gravy train that's called right wing radio all the problems with our economy would be solved. We can all be rich and no one will ever have to actually work for a living any more and we can all earn our living like Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove shoveling the latest bullshit to anyone who's willing to listen.

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Transcript from Ed's show below the fold.

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Ed Schultz hits back at Bill-O for saying that MSNBC lies every day in his Psycho Talk segment with, a highlight reel of Fox anchors lying.

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Ed Schultz makes Rush Limbaugh fill-in Walter Williams the subject of his Psycho Talk segment for his comments about discrimination and women.

Limbaugh fill-in Williams downplays discrimination, equates it with being discriminating in choosing wife

Rush fill-in Williams tells caller: "I believe in keeping wives under control"

What a guy. Perfect replacement for Limbaugh... "fill-in the crank" indeed.

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John Stossel makes Ed Schultz's Psycho Talk segment for this nonsense from our friends at Media Matters.

Stossel calls for repeal of public accommodations section of Civil Rights Act

KELLY: Rand Paul is a libertarian. You are a libertarian. He is getting excoriated for suggesting that the Civil Rights act -- what he said was, "Look it's got 10 parts, essentially; I favor nine. It's the last part that mandated no discrimination in places of public accommodation that I have a problem with, because you should let businesses decide for themselves whether they are going to be racist or not racist. Because once the government gets involved, it's a slippery slope." Do you agree with that?

STOSSEL: Totally. I'm in total agreement with Rand Paul. You can call it public accommodation, and it is, but it's a private business. And if a private business wants to say, "We don't want any blond anchorwomen or mustached guys," it ought to be their right. Are we going to say to the black students' association they have to take white people, or the gay softball association they have to take straight people? We should have freedom of association in America.

KELLY: OK. When you put it like that it sounds fine, right? So who cares if a blond anchorwoman and mustached anchorman can't go into the lunchroom. But as you know, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 came around because it was needed. Blacks weren't allowed to sit at the lunch counter with whites. They couldn't, as they traveled from state to state in this country, they couldn't go in and use a restroom. They couldn't get severed meals and so on, and therefore, unfortunately in this country a law was necessary to get them equal rights.

STOSSEL: Absolutely. But those -- Jim Crow -- those were government rules. Government was saying we have white and black drinking fountains. That's very different from saying private people can't discriminate.

KELLY: How do you know? How do you know that these private business owners, who owned restaurants and so on, would have said, "You know what? Yes. We will take blacks.

STOSSEL: Some wouldn't.

KELLY: We'll take gays. We'll take lesbians," if they hadn't been forced to do it.

STOSSEL: Because eventually they would have lost business. The free market competition would have cleaned the clocks of the people who didn't serve most customers.

KELLY: How do you know that, John?

STOSSEL: I don't. You can't know for sure.

KELLY: That then was a different time. Racism and discrimination was rampant. I'm not saying it's been eliminated. But it was rampant. It was before my time, before I was born, but obviously I've read history, and I know that there is something wrong when a person of color can't get from state to state without stopping at a public restroom or a public lunchroom to have a sandwich.

STOSSEL: But the public restroom was run by the government, and maybe at the time that was necessary.

KELLY: But that's not what Rand Paul said. Rand Paul agreed that if it's run by the government, yes intervention is fine. He took issue with the public accommodations, with private businesses being forced to pony up under the discrimination laws.

STOSSEL: And I would go further than he was willing to go, as he just issued the statement, and say it's time now to repeal that part of the law

KELLY: What?

STOSSEL: because private businesses ought to get to discriminate. And I won't won't ever go to a place that's racist and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

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Ed Schultz takes a well-deserved whack at Bay Buchanan for saying that President Obama has "dummied-down" the Supreme Court with his pick of the former dean of Harvard Law School Elena Kagan -- especially after she said this about her brother Pat's girlfriend Sarah McQuitter, right after McCain selected her to be his choice for Vice President.

Buchanan: John McCain has made a remarkable decision. It was quite... look... in fact it's brilliant. She has one accomplishment after another, all of which are very much on a president...

King: So you have no concerns about her being president.

Buchanan: Not only am I not concerned. She is extraordinarily qualified.

There are plenty of reasonable objections one might have to Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court. Implying she's dumb isn't one of them. Ed, when you guys get her hack brother to take his cot out of the MSNBC studios (where I suspect he lives other, than his weekly hike over to the PBS studio to scream at Eleanor Clift), you'll have some room to talk about CNN.

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Victoria Jackson makes Ed Schultz's Psycho Talk segment for this -- Victoria Jackson Sings 'There's A Communist Living In The White House' At Tea Party Rally:

SNL alum Victoria Jackson appeared at a Tax Day Tea Party rally today in Washington D.C., and serenaded the crowd with a song apparently titled 'There's A Communist Living In The White House.'

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April 14, 2010 MSNBC The ED Show

On the April 13 edition of Fox News' O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly told Sen. Coburn: "You don't know anybody on Fox News -- because there hasn't been anyone -- that said people will go to jail if they don't buy mandatory insurance." He added: "We researched to find out if anybody had ever said you are going to jail if you don't buy health insurance. Nobody has ever said it. What it seems to me is you used Fox News as a whipping boy when we didn't qualify there ... you were wrong to do that, Senator, with all due respect."

OH REALLY?

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Ed Schultz Psycho Talk for March 23, 2010 featuring Glenn Beck -- Beck compares health care reform to Flight 93 on 9/11, Pearl Harbor, Chamberlain meeting Hitler, and Hindenburg and Carl Paladino -- More Proof That Republicans Care Nothing About 9/11.