Ed Schultz: Look For The Union Label
Aside from being a flagrant misogynist, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz is also a serial cheerleader for big union labor. Schultz likes to play at being a regular man of the working class in his support of their cause. He particularly likes to excoriate the evil, rich one-percenters who rake in bucks by gaming the system through duplicity and deceit. You know, people like, um, Ed Schultz. This from NewsBusters:
In fiscal 2011, Schultz received $190,000 from the Communications Workers of America for what the U.S. Department of Labor categorized as “representational activities.”
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Schultz also received $9,900 in fiscal 2011 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), putting his union haul for the year at almost $200,000.
This represented a fivefold increase over the $37,350 Schultz received from unions in fiscal 2010 — $15,000 from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), $14,850 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and $7,500 from the Communications Workers of America.
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For its fiscal 2010 payment to Schultz, the union characterized the payment as pertaining to “union administration,” according to Labor Department records.
The fiscal year before that, unions paid Schultz $42,500 — $17,500 from the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, $10,000 from AFSMCE, and $7,500 each from the Building and Construction Trades union and International Brotherhood of Boilermakers. All were for “political activities,” according to the Labor Department.
In fiscal 2008, Schultz was paid $22,304 by unions — $10,000 from United Steelworkers (for “union administration”), $7,304 from Air Traffic Controllers (“general overhead”), and $5,000 from Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 189 in Columbus, Ohio. (“general overhead” again).
Worth noting is that Schultz’s cable program on MSNBC, “The Ed Show,” debuted in April 2009 — and that union payments to Schultz nearly doubled from a year earlier.
As far as I know, MSNBC has never disclosed that Schultz isreceiving copious amounts of cash from union organizations while providing glowing coverage of – wait for it – union organizations. Which begs the question: why not?
I mean aside from the obvious, that Schultz deserves a free pass because is a man of the people, working diligently to protect the dignity and interests of the working class. He is, after all, one of them.
Lean forward, citizen; lean forward:
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