Ed Schultz Explains Why He Doesn’t Have Republican Guests: “I’m Sick Of ‘Em!”

MSNBC‘s tough-talking Ed Schultz discussed on his radio show this past week why his television show never features any Republican guests. Yet whether it’s because Schultz is sick of them, or they were never fond of him to begin with is unclear, since Schultz offers up both possibilities as explanations for his show being dominated by only liberal guests.

Schultz claimed:

You do not see Republican senators on The Ed Show on MSNBC. I don’t want ’em! I don’t want ’em and I’m getting sick of righties on my show anyway. I’m getting sick, I mean, we might have 2011, there might not be any freakin’ righties. I’m sick of ’em!

Later in the audio clip you can also here an additional explanation:

Of course, I don’t put right-wing people on that are of any significance . . . ’cause they won’t come on the program. And I don’t want to talk to ’em anyway.

Although maybe there is a way for both of these statements to be entirely consistent with one another. Maybe Schultz is sick of the “freakin’ righties” precisely because they won’t come on his show. And given how Schultz refers to some conservatives with schoolyard taunts (like cold-hearted fat slob or psycho-talkers), it’s a wonder why conservatives would not want to be a guest in Schultz’s house after demonstrations of such hospitality?

Listen to the clip below from Schultz’s radio show:

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