Comedy Gold: Fast Eddie Responds to Being Named One of the Least Influential Persons Alive
[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here. Or by Twitter @AaronWorthing.]
I admit that I don’t like Ed Schultz. I have written before that my theory was that
the entire Ed Schultz routine is an act anyway. He has decided to be exactly what the hard left imagines Rush Limbaugh to be. Not that Limbaugh is all those things, but there are enough on the hard left who believe that he is those things that they think Schultz is simply fighting fire with fire. But I cannot believe that Schultz is so deluded as to actually believe what he is shoveling. He is like Alan Grayson, a carny barker pretending to be a flamethrower.
So I got a good chuckle the other day when Ed Shultz was ranked by GQ as the third least influential person alive (Obama was the twenty-fifth). Of course these lists have no objective measurements involved and indeed Fast Eddie almost surely isn’t the least influential person alive. For instance, don’t you figure that the crackhead sitting on the back of your bus talking to the voices inside his head has less influence? But no one has even heard of that guy, so this is more the least influential people that you might have heard of at least in passing.
But none of that takes away from the sheer comedy gold when you hear Fast Eddie respond to the story. Seriously, go listen to it, here, and then come back. You’ll thank me.
It’s hard to know which is the funniest part—when he blames prejudice against redheads or asserts that Anderson Cooper is behind it all. It’s a conspiracy, I tell you! A conspiracy!
By the way, Eddie, you big fat idiot… influence is not a matter of ratings but of people watching and believing you are right about something. So a guy like Anderson Cooper could get less ratings (if he gets less ratings), but be so strongly watched and trusted by politicians or other media types that he still has a greater influence. And in your case I am convinced that 90% of your audience is people from organizations like Newsbusters who are paid to watch with the DVR running in case you say something stupid. Or at least stupider than usual.
[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]
I suppose you could say that a person could be influential in a negative way, too. They call these anti-precedents, that is examples of what not to do or think. A classic example of that is the argument that the civil rights movement was inspired in part by our collective horror at the holocaust.
Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 12/1/2011 @ 5:26 amInfluential enough to get under your skin.
Spartacvs (da2b4e) — 12/1/2011 @ 5:38 amspurty
yes, dishonest idiots do irritate me. *stares at you*
Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 12/1/2011 @ 5:41 amSpvrty’s just confirmed he’s a Schultz viewer. Who woulda thunk it!
Colonel Haiku (d838e0) — 12/1/2011 @ 5:48 amShultz isn’t my favorite either Aaron, he’s not in the same league as Rachel Maddow for example.
But he’s certainly no worse than the host of dishonest idiots at Fox, O’Reily, Hannity, Cavuto or the morons who present Fox & Friends. I think your ‘useful idiot’ radar is fine tuned to discriminate on a partisan basis. Just saying.
Spartacvs (da2b4e) — 12/1/2011 @ 6:07 amWell yesterday, he had on Jesse La Greca, and Robert Greenwald, the very pinnacle of fail, then
narciso (87e966) — 12/1/2011 @ 6:20 amI went back to the psych episode, which was more realistic.
Well they do know how to mine the free range crazy, and yet be obsequious toward the President, at the same time, that’s a gift of sorts.
narciso (87e966) — 12/1/2011 @ 6:25 amRachel Maddow is in a league?
which one?
EricPWJohnson (8a4ca7) — 12/1/2011 @ 6:34 amMorning Joke is more entertaining, like a ‘paint by numbers’ SNL or Monty Python sketch.
narciso (87e966) — 12/1/2011 @ 6:39 amThe A league for journalsts Eric.
Nobody on Fox gets anywhere close, given the corporate culture that emphasizes advocacy over journalistic integrity.
Spartacvs (36f17a) — 12/1/2011 @ 7:10 amspurty
lol, so rachel maddow is not an advocate? bwahahahahahahahah!!!
Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 12/1/2011 @ 7:21 amSpartcus
Maddow isnt a Journalist, sorry, she’s a commentator.
I know its difficult to see the distinction – but a journalist writes and reports the news and a commentator general makes stuff up – however its been blurred especially at MSNBC
I agree Hannity is a clown, O’Reilly is a closet liberal but fakes the independent bit as he knows his audience and his ratings depend on it – but Maddow
Also her educational background is public policy and politics – not journalism
EricPWJohnson (8a4ca7) — 12/1/2011 @ 7:30 amNo, she’s neither, more of what one might called an administration mouthpiece, as her the White House visitor’s log dump shows
narciso (87e966) — 12/1/2011 @ 7:37 amHow did you keep from bursting into flames when you typed that?
JournoLista, perhaps.
[block quotes added for clarity. –Aaron]
JD (318f81) — 12/1/2011 @ 7:38 amSpurty
seriously, after accusing me of bias, you just showed yours, big time.
Btw, regarding corporate culture, you do know that MSNBC represents two separate corporations, microsoft and NBC, right? oh, but they are corporations on your side, so that is okay.
Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 12/1/2011 @ 7:41 am#2 is hilarious! This is a troll who went away/got moderated/banned after being a jerk many times. No worries, there are other trolls who like to try to irritate people around here.
But I have always said that our progressive friends project onto others what they feel themselves.
So we at last know why Sparticvs posts here. Same reason for that silly Kman twit (apart from his boicrush on Aaron).
Funny, funny stuff.
Simon Jester (927690) — 12/1/2011 @ 8:01 amRachel Maddow is in a league? which one?
Comment by EricPWJohnson — 12/1/2011 @ 6:34 am
— Sappho Sisters Softball
— A League of No Bones
— Short back & sides
— Definitely the National League. They allow the “pitcher” to use a certain shaped object.
Icy (75814f) — 12/1/2011 @ 8:11 amShultz isn’t my favorite either Aaron, he’s not in the same league as Rachel Maddow for example.
— Give him credit for trying, anyway. Certainly his mangina made it a close call.
Icy (75814f) — 12/1/2011 @ 8:16 amI love how spartac says Rachel Madcow is a journalist.
Dohbiden (ef98f0) — 12/1/2011 @ 8:24 amShultz isn’t my favorite either Aaron, he’s not in the same league as Rachel Maddow for example.
— Can’t you just imagine Sparticles sitting there in his tighty-whiteys, staring in rapt fervor as Madcow launches into one of her patented six-minute rants at the start of her show? Repeating herself ad nausea, ramping up the intensity as she leans toward the camera, every word punctuated by a “I can’t believe the Feds haven’t gone to arrest the right-winger that I’m bashing,” arrogance. And there’s little Spvrty, living up to his nickname.
Icy (75814f) — 12/1/2011 @ 8:27 amBob Beckel has more self-awareness than Ed Schultz. That is both true and sad.
Icy (75814f) — 12/1/2011 @ 8:30 amO’Reilly is a closet liberal but fakes the independent bit as he knows his audience and his ratings depend on it
— EricPWJohnson beclowning himself? Again?
It must be a day of he week that ends in “y”.
Icy (75814f) — 12/1/2011 @ 8:34 amIf he called OReilly a populist blowhard, that would be more accurate.
JD (0388c1) — 12/1/2011 @ 8:46 amI’m a bit confused as to how this is or would ever be possible.
forgedaboutid (5cd8bb) — 12/1/2011 @ 9:08 amWAit for it, number 32, the larch;
http://www.youtube.com/user/toddfein#p/a/u/1/HhkDhnUY9xU
narciso (87e966) — 12/1/2011 @ 11:23 amFor instance, don’t you figure that the crackhead sitting on the back of your bus talking to the voices inside his head has less influence? But no one has even heard of that guy, so this is more the least influential people that you might have heard of at least in passing.
Actually the crackhead is more influential, you have to worry about him robbing your ass to get more crack. Fast Eddie you can turn off.
peedoffamerican (ee1de0) — 12/1/2011 @ 5:57 pm