Say Anything Blog

I have lived in Fargo for 27 years.
Ed Schultz is a hustler. He is not very bright.
He is a cocky TV sports reporter.
A break came when Otter Tail bought
KFGO radio. They had no clue what radio was all about. But they offered him a large contract and he left WDAY and joined them. Otter Tail sold to Ingstad
a friend of Schultz and KFGOs General Manager Dick Voight.
Ingstad sold KFGO and other stations to Clear Channel for blue sky. Clear Channel did not know that Ingstad has given Voight and Schultz a huge guarranteed contract
days before they turned the keys over to Clear Channel.
Clear Channel does not give any employee those kind of contracts.Those two contracts run out at end of the this year.And they will not be given extensions or any contract like what they had. Also Ed Schultz ratings tghat used to be very high on the 27 share is no longer. They have dropped to
17 and down. Thats because WDAY has a conservative Talk show host of their own who is much better than Schultz.
So much so, thats why Schultz bailed out on being a conservative. And when he did this he lost many of his listners and is daily. Why would one of his loyal conservative listners listen to him now? They dont, but they do listen to his competition. And remember when he had high ratings there was no other talk show host in town! No wonder the high ratings. So thats luck and it made Schultz. He got cocky. His ego grew and grew. He says dumb things. Rips good people for no reason. Ruins peoples
character and reputations and laughs at them. That
cant last and sooner or later it will come back to bite you. Well, he has been bitten bad.
So he had to make a decision as his fall
was under way and he knew it.
So he invested first, money of his own than had his two liberal Senators from North Dakota help him find Democracy Radio who found Jones Network who found a Media
Production firm. So its a limited partnership of sorts with 5 partners. Ed being one.
He claims he will do both shows. His declining listsners, conservative turned “middle of the road”
news and views from 830 to 11. This is Clear Channels program and station and he is their employee. But he no longer will really work the normal 40 hours for them. But do his show and leave and go into his liberal studio’s for his afternoon show 2-5. He will become “another Ed”
than. All of his partners and people with money to invest
have insisted day one that he be the new liberal voice for them, us, the nation, period.
Already, this week he is calling himself a “progressive” trying to stay away from the “L” word. That tells one a lot, of what a fake ,he is. And he will tell one person one thing and lie to another and he thinks this is cute and entertaining.

But, as stated he is hustler...a manipulator. Senators Dorgan and Conrad and Daschle
need a liberal voice
in Washington DC and they are desperate.
He picked up on this and got them to take himn on as their savior. He used those fat ratings that he inherited when he came to KFGO. And like I said he had no competition so no wonder the ratings were high. But, he hustled and made the most of it again and it worked in his eyes. He now is NATIONAL. But, this will prove to be a
laughing disaster in the making. But, Ed
has nothing to lose here as he probaly
will be cut from KFGO. Why? Mainly because he is spoiled, no one dares to manage him
and he is a loose cannon. He goes when he wants, Takes personal days and time off when he pleases. Travels all over and has a huge expense account. He is not liked, respected by any other KFGO employee.
Most local advertisers and business firms do not like him.Even all of the sports folks in Fargo cant stand him ,as he is the sports voice for another University
75 miles away rather than the Fargo one.
All that and more, BEFORE, going national January 5.
So he will probaly work 15 hours for KFGO and Clear Channel a week and
expect to be paid as their best fulltime employee.That simply wont happen.As he goes into the liberal studio to do his afternoon show for three hours, he now is a employee of his limited partnership not Clear Channel. He will try to milk this opportunity for all its worth. But it wont happen. So he will be fulltime with a liberal netwrok and trying to be a middle of the road communicator. It will not work. And when his partners start riding him etc he will lose his temper and the war will begin. And remember
Clear Channel turned him down on this liberal network idea.His own employer.
With all of this going on its probaly why his play by play has become worse. He hollers on the radio. Not smooth at all.
Oh well, we shall see.
He also cant understand why, so many of us say negative things about him.
Thats because he has been obnoxious, sickening for many years. He has stepped on many many people feet. Rarely ever says, I am sorry.I am wrong. I made a mistake. So we tire of of him and simply dont like the man. And we bascially like everyone.
But it all comes back to, what goes around, comes around.

I just happened to run into this site.  date is 3/4/06..Obviously you were dead wrond as Schultz is going strong.