MSNBC's Ed Schultz Asked to Run for Byron Dorgan's Senate Seat

[TheSarge]

MSNBC's Ed Schultz has been officially asked to run for the Senate seat North Dakota's Byron Dorgan (D) will be vacating at the end of this year.

Dorgan surprisingly announced at his website Tuesday that having served in Congress for 30 years, he would not be seeking re-election in November.

Speaking with MSNBC's Alex Witt Wednesday, Schultz divulged that he had been officially asked to run by North Dakota state's House Minority Leader Merle Boucher (D)

ALEX WITT, HOST: We're going back to Ed right now because you got a pretty important phone call, and what did they ask of you, the Democrat Party?

ED SCHULTZ: Well, last night when Sen. Dorgan was talking to me, he asked me how old I was. And I went, "Uh-oh!"

WITT: This is not for a birthday card.

SCHULTZ: Yeah, I did get a phone call this morning from Merle Boucher who is the House Democratic Leader and he asked me to consider to run for the United States Senate seat in the state of North Dakota. I asked him very point blank, "Is this an official ask?" He said, "Yes it is."

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/01/06/msnbcs-ed-schultz-asked-run-dorgans-senate-seat

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Yes, please.

[Chris_]

Well.....they managed to get Stuart Smalley elected in Minnesota, I guess they figured why not??

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[TheSarge]

If Ed does end up running Lord knows there's a mountain of soundbites that can be used against him by the GOP.

Ed Schultz continued the network's vitriolic attacks on average Americans protesting the direction of their country by calling Party goers "the wingnuts of America."

He also excoriated Rep. Michele Bachman (R-Minn.) for saying the GOP should embrace the Tea Party movement by claiming, "You would be redefining the Republican party as ignorant and hateful"

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/01/06/ed-schultz-tea-partiers-are-ignorant-hateful-wingnuts

On Tuesday's The Ed Show, MSNBC host Ed Schultz fretted that NBA players who own firearms are setting a bad example for impressionable young people who may be inspired to emulate their athletic heroes and purchase guns of their own as he called on NBA commissioner David Stern to impose a rule that, "If you want to play in the NBA, you can`t own firearms because with the visibility comes the responsibility..."

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/01/06/msnbcs-schultz-recommends-nba-players-be-banned-gun-ownership


And then there's this little jewel of bipartisianship:

"The Republicans lie! They want to see you dead. They'd rather make money off your dead corpse. They kind of like it when that woman has cancer and they don't have anything for her."

[Oceander]

Oh, man!  This is just too good to ask for!  Talk about a Christmas present that would just keep giving and giving and ....!

Please Ed, run.

[littlelamb]

It would be fun to see what kind of things the GOP can pull out on him

[NHSparky]

I saw his interview with Keef Overbite the Speed Sputterer last night.

Christ, those two were about to do a ghey sixty-nine when I managed to flip the channel.

Uh, Ed?  There's enough shit on you that you wouldn't get elected dog catcher in Minot.  Don't bother, man.