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Ed Schultz On Being Named One Of The ‘Least Influential People Alive’: ‘Kiss My Ass, GQ’

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We have to guess that, when the editors of GQ put together their delightfully evil list of the “Least Influential People Alive,” they were just waiting, salivating, for some sort of reaction from those whose delicate egos they so callously bruised. Enter Ed Schultz. GQ included the liberal pundit on their list, asking readers, “Do you watch The Ed Show on MSNBC? Of course you don’t. No one does.”

Well, it would appear that Schultz is not too happy about that. And thinks it might have something to do with Anderson Cooper. Because, obviously.

RELATED: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, Tina Brown Among GQ’s 2011 ‘Least Influential People Alive’ List

Here’s what the host had to say about his inclusion on the list:

And, you know, look. You do a cable show, you have a radio show, whatever. If you’re fat, you’ve got red hair, look, they’re going to pick on you. That’s the way it is. And I’m ok with that. Just spell the last name right.

Now, I know that Anderson Cooper floats around in that GQ crowd. I don’t know if he’s behind it, or whether their publicist at CNN… Let me just say: I’m kicking his ass.

By the way, I’m very influential. You can go ask the governor of Ohio, and it won’t be long before you can ask the governor of Wisconsin. So kiss my ass, GQ.

I’m going to try to work “I’m big in Ohio” into conversation fairly soon. You?

Have a listen to Schultz’s show, via Radio Equalizer:

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  • Anonymous

    He’s a jerk for sure, but a list or a magazine poll means nothing.

    In the sixties, Good Housekeeping Magazine’s readers voted Cronkite “The Most Trusted Man in America”.

    Even now, you’ll hear Cronkite referred to that way. Total nonsense. Half the readers probably looked at the picture of Walter and thought he was Walt Disney.

  • Michelle

    I got news for you Ed, it ain’t because you’re a fat redhead that no one takes you seriously (including your dog).  The funniest part is he seems surprised by it. As I’ve always said, a main trait of liberals is being prone to delusions. 

  • Anonymous

    What an evil man.  What sort of “person” would demand such a torture of free people…”Kiss my ass…”  How vile.

  • Anonymous

    Hook, Line and Sinker.

  • Anonymous

    Looking on the Interweb, on this very website, a very wise man said the same thing:

    Apostrophe jones 1 year ago

    Cronkite is referred to as “the most trusted man in America “. This was the result of a poll by Good Housekeeping magazine in the sixties . This legend was repeated until it became ” fact ” . ” When the legend becomes fact , print the legend . ” The TV news choices were very limited for a long time , but no more . Jonah Goldberg has nailed it , as usual . http://www.mediaite.com/online/lats-jonah-goldberg-applauds-new-journalism-for-moving-past-cronkite-era/

  • http://twitter.com/Bennybombom Ben

    “As I’ve always said, a main trait of liberals is being prone to delusions.”

    …………..

    *drink*….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    You’re displaying the clearest case of projection I’ve seen in a while.

    So you have that going for you at least.

  • SNAPTIE: “Occupy Pepper Spray”

    Sgt. Schultz knew more, and he “knew nutzzzing!”

  • Christian Bruun

    I am a liberal Dem who is very pro-Union and I can’t stand Schultz. He is just a loudmouth demagogue who often has n o idea what he is talking about and does more damage than good to the cause

  • Anonymous

    GQ should ask the governor of Wisconsin after goes crying back to the Koch Brothers in Jan.  

  • Anonymous

    somehow i dont believe you

  • Anonymous

    What a loser. Have a drink Eddy & go slap some women around.

  • Centrist79

    He did fine in Ohio.

  • david r

    That’s telling ‘em, Ed.  You are now an Honorary Texan, as in, “You know you’re from Texas when your mother doesn’t take the cigarette out of her mouth when she tells the police officer to “kiss my ass.”

  • Christian Bruun

    What do you not believe?

  • Anonymous

    Rather than Anderson Cooper, if anyone had anything to do with him being named the on the list of least influentail people it would be Mr. Ed himself.  He is such a nobody that he is desparate just to be in any periodical.  It is no wonder why only people who watch and/or listen to his show are supporters of women being beaten, i.e. liberals.

  • Christian Bruun

    Yes because it was Schultz who defeated the god awful anti-Union bill. Please. That bill was going to get destroyed at the polls with or without Schultz.

  • Anonymous

    That’s funny. Is there a collection of those like “You know you’re a redneck if….?”

  • Anonymous

    This is just wonderful. Schultz is just dreadful.

  • Anonymous

    Sgt. Schultz = poster child for birth control

  • http://twitter.com/WorldDivider Mark Prior

    Yeah, no need to get worked up over some dumb list in GQ.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, Alex?

    “Now, I know that Anderson Cooper floats around in that GQ crowd.”

    Gay slur/reference by Mr. Schultz?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bee-Ruled/100001985815996 Bee Ruled

    When a drunken, spiral-cut-ham headed Ed Schultz trips and falls in the forest, no one is aware, thus, it doesn’t make a sound.

    -Somewhere, a union hall is missing its number one idiot-

  • Anonymous

    If someone had to kiss his ass, wouldn’t they require whale sized lips?

    And since when is Anderson behind anything?

  • Anonymous

    It’s actually a list of the people whom the GQ writers are jealous of.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, Trevor, we all aspire to be more like Sgt. Schultz…..lol. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    good reply

  • Anonymous

    You should look at the list.

  • Anonymous

    Why look at the list?  This forum is talking about Sgt. Schultz.  I guess we could talk about Obama since he is also on the list.

  • Anonymous

    If it a list of people who people are jealous of then I guarantee Kim Jong Trevor is not on the list.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing about what you said makes sense.

  • Anonymous

    You’re sure witty.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LAX473BJP4PO2ZW67CBFALQUMA STARVNMARVIN

    I am a democrat, union worker, 28 years until disabled in 1998, a viet nam era veteran, Ed Schultz supports the unions.  I do not believe the unions are to blame for this economy, and the unemployment problem.  The real reason people are out of work, is our own government. Our unions need to change their focus and direct their movement to the government regulations.  OSHA, EPA,  These agencies are the reason our Coal Mines, our timber industry, auto workers, steel mills, and such are shut down.  Companies can not compete with other countries that allow factories to operate.  This is still one world, it is ok to pollute in China, Brazil, India, on and on, but the USA aint going to let it happen.  So we cut our nose off to spite our face.  Hurray for all we are finally going to start slaughtering horses again.  that is just a start.  Lets drill more oil, cut more timber, do away with cataletic converters on our cars, refine more oil, put more monkeys in space, and make more chemicals to spray on our corn fields. I have always voted democrat and voted Obama in 2008, but held my nose when I did it.  He will not get my vote in 2012.  Let the working people rule again, and support our companies, and wall street,  who cares how much a ceo makes,  I will work for the union scale.  nuff said

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMIKH2YFVNOIFEHIABNQA2MUNY Zona

    If you like this list, think about his…the number one guy they listed was Huntsman.  He was number one.  Oh and they listed Obama.  This is the same guy they named man of the year twice, now he is on this list.  How does this work anyway? 

    Oh and Tamara..of Tia and Tamara.  Really?

  • Anonymous

    I like Ed!

  • Anonymous

    Uh hoh geez…. Ed tells GQ to kiss his ass as if anyone cared what he said.

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t make sense to you because you are illogical.  You can’t help it, you’re a liberal.  

  • Michael J Keane

    As a liberal, I watch Maddow all the time, but I also watch Fox and O’Reilly and Hannity, and I listen to Limbaugh and Levin on the radio (770 here in NYC). As much as I find Limbaugh and Hannity and Levin to be repulsive, I’d rather listen to them than Ed Schultz. I can’t stand the guy, even though I agree with much of what he says. He’s the definition of a blowhard. I just can’t.

  • Anonymous

    There were people that supported Palin that didn’t like the OH bill. It had nothing to do with Ed.

  • Anonymous

    Would you like to share what Democratic candidate the WI Dems will run? :)

  • Anonymous

    There in the process of picking them out now.  

  • Anonymous

    John Boehner is on this list.  The people at GQ are jealous of him?

    Ok . . . . .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Antenucci/15502485 Chris Antenucci

    LOL.  He’s jealous that Anderson Cooper actually has some intelligence.  But wow what an ego, he thinks he had some influence on the decision in Ohio.  They voted down Kasich’s plan because the unions bombarded their tvs with ads saying the republicans don’t care about our workers.  Most people who voted against the plan don’t even know who Ed Schultz is.  Maybe he should share his hosting duties with Al Sharpton, since both of them combined have about the same brainpower as Anderson Cooper.  Ok that was an insult to Anderson sorry.  

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    The one post conservative hiding under a new moniker .

    The reality is setting in .

  • http://www.facebook.com/jimhunt James Hunt

    You’re mad cause no one listens to you.

  • Anonymous

    Ain’t nobody on planet Earth wants to kiss the big ol’ rosey red ass of the overfed redhead, Ed Schultz.

    Yo, Ed, do you remember Glenn Beck and you had that contest over who’d have the biggest rally in Washington DC, just before Glenn left FOX News? You know, the one where about 50 (X’s) times more folks showed up at Beck’s and they all cleaned the place up before they left and your little group of about 10,000 left the biggest mess Washington DC had ever seen? Yeah, you remember. ROTFLMAO.

    Ed, ol’ boy, not only does nobody watch your BS show, nobody gives a rat’s ass.

  • Anonymous

    @roldwell:disqus …..Саn`t bеlеivе…..Му аunt is mакing $ 59 реr hоur оn hеr соmрutеr. Аftеr bеing lаid оff 9 mоnths аgо, shе nоw еаrns mоrе thаn $5000 а mоnth. Аll frоm hеrе……http://alturl.com/6pdxb

  • 越飞

    I believe it was unions (I have been union, too) who demanded safer working conditions, and OSHA is a result of union political power getting government support for safe work conditions.
    As for other nations polluting now, they are also paying the price and learning the lesson in bad air and water. China signed the Kyoto Pact that requires cleaning up that mess, but we did not. China is now leading the world in “green” research, and using government funds to do it.
    India’s greatest ever pollution problem was the result of an American company’s carelessness.
    There is profit to be made in making and selling “air cleaners” and “water cleaners” for factories. These things cost you, the consumer, less than one penny for every $10,000 you spend.
    How did you become disabled? Was it work related? It probably would have been if it were not for the safety regulations.

  • 越飞

    It is definitely the red hair. Nobody likes red hair on a man.
    Or is it that we confuse him with Chris Mathews?

  • Anonymous

    This guy’s crying out for help. I feel for him.

  • Anonymous

    Fat, Red Hair, No Talent.
    Plus, he is uglier than a bucket of Sh*t!

  • Anonymous

    “The 25 least Influential People Alive” title of the list makes no sense

    So does he have less or more influence than those who did not make it to the list at all?

    Can Levin or Hartmann draw 175,000 people to a rally in the washington mall?

  • Anonymous

    Another Poster That Doesn’t Know How To Play The Drinking Game !!

    *DRINK*

  • Anonymous

    “Му аunt is mакing $ 59 реr hоur оn hеr соmрutеr Аftеr bеing lаid”

    You’re on the wrong site buddy !! 

  • Anonymous

    GQ better hope that Ed doesn’t know where their building is !!

    “I’ll torch this f***ing place” – Ed Shultz. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jamie-Murphy/1788049486 Jamie Murphy

    Now Ed making himself “Less Influential” even more after that rant… (P.S. Condé Nast are the publishers of GQ, not Time Inc.)

  • Anonymous

    Ed need to smile more, like me.

    Maybe a ass kickin’ cheer him up

  • Anonymous

    well well well…i get to blast a democrat….ed shultz aint worth a flip to me….i refuse to watch his show these days…hes claiming credit for what happened in Wisconsin now huh???…NEWS FLASH ED : Dems DID NOT take over in Wisconsin….they lost in the recall elections…REMEMBER???…you were doing you show there nightly for weeks, proclaiming yourself a hero of the movement…when the dems failed how did you react Ed????…..YOU TOOK TO THE AIRWAYS AND LAID THE BLAME ON PRESIDENT OBAMA DIDNT YOU???….I disagree with the GQ poll though ED..YOU DO HAVE INFLUENCE…..you influenced democrats to boycott voting and 2010 and led the way for a republican takeover of the House of Reps…YOURE A RIGHTWING HERO ED….CONGRATULATIONS

  • Anonymous

    GQ included the liberal pundit on their list, asking readers, “Do you watch The Ed Show on MSNBC? Of course you don’t. No one does.”
    Great line, and true.  He should stop whining and be glad he’s got a national cable TV show right now.   I’m sure Olbermann would switch places if he could….

  • Anonymous

    Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed.  I ain’t gonna kiss your ass.  Besides there’s no room anyway (despite it’s massive size) with all those sucking SEIU leeches firmly planted there.  As my avatar suggests, I have no use for tools for the SEIU.

    As for the Wisconsin b.s..  You lost cheering on Kloppenberg.  You lost the recall of Senators and you’ll lose this baseless recall attempt of Walker.  The signature gathering is rife with fraud and you know it too, Ed.  They aren’t turning in signatures until the last minute because they want to use all the time to gather at full steam ahead knowing that a huge number are going to be disqualified.  Why freak out the union brown shirts gathering signatures 6 weeks before they’re due with the knowledge that their hard work has gone for naught?

    You suck Ed and you’re insignificant, deal with it.

  • Anonymous

    Promise to pull your head out of it first? 

  • Anonymous

    Ed the way to respond to something like this is one show that you are influential through evidence two react in a mature and reasonable way and three not do things that prove you push people away from you unless they are drinking the same kool aid.

    Instead you make GQs case.Why would anyone who makes an ass out of themseves be influential?

    In fact isn’t it time for you to act so ridiculous that MSNBC is forced to fire you?I’m sure there’s a slot on Current with your name on it.

    It would fit-the least influnential on the least influential network.

    By the way,you should be glad about this article.Imagine what would be going on if you had influence,people influenced by you would be a scary thing.

  • Michelle

    Stick a tamale in it, Mooch.

  • Anonymous

    You are truly one big A hole…

  • Anonymous

    The main trait of conservatives is being prone to delusions. You’re the ones who have imaginary friend in the sky…

  • Pablo

    “So kiss my ass, GQ.”

    GQ to Ed: “We don’t have that kind of time, Ed.”

  • Anonymous

    Unions also got greedy when they decided that lug nut specialists needed to be paid $40 an hour. Or Garbage men $70,000 a year.

  • Pablo

    And pole and rod and fisherman and boat, from the looks of things.

  • Anonymous

    Ed, your ass is as irrelevant as you are.

  • Anonymous

    Says Mr. asshole.

  • Pablo

    It’s about time somebody called him a teabagger.

  • Anonymous

    Cronkite was a liberal pig- he lied about the Tet offensive and convinced America that it was losing the war when in fact the Tet offensive was a massive loss for  N Vietnam.

  • Pablo

    China now leads the world in greenhouse gas emissions and coal fired plant construction.

  • Gloves P. Donahue

    When Ed hauls ass in his Smart Car, it takes two trips.

  • Anonymous

    tsk tsk.  a little testy, aren’t we?

  • Anonymous

    hello

  • Anonymous

    Wrong again…

  • Anonymous

    Awe…poor Special Ed got his feelings hurt…whaaa

  • Pablo

    Can Levin or Hartmann draw 175,000 people to a rally in the washington mall?

    Will the unions bus them in? Will the Communist Party USA be sponsoring?

    Do you really think Ed Schultz was the draw for this? http://tinyurl.com/3774xln

    Really?

  • Anonymous

    It takes a real Man to blame Anderson Copper for his problems , and ED nobody cares about your stupiud shows. GQ was right does anyone really watch the ED show? not really, except for the white house viewers

  • 越飞

    Agree.
    China leads in both ‘cuz China is growing faster than anybody else. I saw the soot collecting like “regular” dust would in most parts of the world. China has enormous sandstorms every year because it cut too many trees, mishandled water, etc. China has a long way to go in improving, just like it has gone a long way toward becoming fully capitalist.
    Are you against all coal fired plants, or do you believe there can be “clean coal” energy?

  • 越飞

    Yes. Two unions in particular. The UAW and the USW. Not all unions are bad, just like not all corporations are bad. Are all politicians bad? Let’s just say some are much worse than others.

  • Matt Kurlander

    Meow! Saucer of milk for Mr. Schulz?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    If Ed Schultz was really that insignificant, GQ would not even have been mentioning him.  Get a clue folks.

  • Anonymous

    Ed Schultz kicking Anderson Cooper’s ass is the TV News equivalent of being the most sober bum on Skid Row.

  • Anonymous

    Who actually reads GQ these days?  When I was a teen, the only guys that read GQ were guys who thought they were GQ and walked around trying to be Rick Astley.

  • Anonymous

    Excellent lame response.
    Link please!!

  • http://twitter.com/MerryMarjie MerryMarjie

    Thanks for your opinion, Tom.  Any thoughts on where I might confirm your assumptions?

  • Anonymous

    Fat Eddie’s response sure seals the deal on the GQ claim.
    Tell a liberal what a moron he is and he will show you what an asshole he is.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, the irony.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    Ed is giving cedibility to GQ and I agree Ed isn’t influential from the poll I really doubt that governors of Ohio or Wis would say you are influential.

  • Anonymous

    “Kiss my ass, GQ.”  We KNOW that wasn’t on the PrompTer.
    How do we know?  Ed didn’t stumble.

  • Anonymous

    Unions represent workers in negotiating contracts with employers, subject to approval by the rank and file workers, who if you checked, you will discover that wages today are at the same level as they were in 1979, while those “lug nut specialists” you insultingly deride, have increased productivity by 475%, increasing profits for the 1% beyond their insatiable thirst/greed for more. bUt hey, that’s capitalism, even Sanitation workers with say 18 years working a tough job in all weather, perhaps 8-10 hours of overtime, is paid 70k in wages..picking up after your ungrateful ass blackflon. Stop licking the boots of your boss, go thank that Sanitation worker, that union  Postal mail deliverer, union nurse who cares for your family in an ICU or delivers homecare, union teacher who cultivates our children’s development..You stupid, ungrateful prick.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tonykoch1 Tony Koch

    this man is suck a piece of filth…… man i can’t believe he gets a mike each day and tv show…..

  • Pablo

    I’m mostly against ignorance and/or misinformation. And I’m wondering where all that stimulus cash we spent on our Green Economy went, but then I remember how much of it Democrats pocketed and then I believe I’ll have a drink.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you! 

    Just because a pundit is a member of your own party doesn’t mean you have to like him.

    I can’t stand that guy. He’s just as obnoxious and arrogant and angry and pigheaded as some of the kooks on fox ‘news’. 

  • Anonymous

    That’s actually pretty funny

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S65KIYTVFNSXPQMJJ423P2577E EJ

    consevative pricks

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S65KIYTVFNSXPQMJJ423P2577E EJ

    conservative a**holes

  • http://twitter.com/gme11 Gail Evans

    I had the pleasure of meeting Ed (maybe 6 years ago). At the time he was doing both his local MN show, AND his new national show, back to back.  In that short time, he now has TWO national shows.  No influence?  Think again.

  • Anonymous

    I like Ed because he tells it like it is and shows both sides.And the DEMs did not lose in the WI recall, ProObamaAgenda. Ed keeps it real with FACTS that can be researched if you know how to do research.  Unlike Fox News, Limbaugh and the rest of in that group,at least he’s not spewing lies and misconstructions and misperceptions of the truth.
    Keep up the good work Ed!

  • Anonymous

    You can find them in the military records.

  • Anonymous

    Ed Schultz is a fat blowhard. Why won’t he answer one simple question. Does his businesses employ union worker? I doubt it.

  • Anonymous

    you mean that fat prick is a wife beater?

  • Anonymous

    Yup.

  • Anonymous

    Ed would be wise to stop the Name-calling! What is he 14 years old for God’s Sake??? No one pays attention to him! Grow up Ed!!!

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