Ed Schultz "The Voice of the Left!"
Schultz comments on on the Norm Coleman, Al Franken race with a callers great question.
He was "betwixed" after a caller put him on the spot.
Schultz was commenting on incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's legal challenge re: questionable results of a recount that reversed his initial narrow victory and put Democratic challenger Al Franken, formerly of Air America Radio and "Saturday Night Live," barely ahead (click here for audio) --
SCHULTZ: A three-judge panel in Minnesota, US Senate election dispute, will allow electronic media coverage of the trial (laughs) Judges are hearing the first arguments tomorrow, excuse me, today when lawyers for Al Franken seek dismissal of the election challenge filed by Norm Coleman. They say, Norm, you don't have any material. What the hell you talking about? We've had the most open recount in the history of an American elections (sic) and he's still whining about it.
Stan in Minneapolis, you're on The Ed Schultz Show. Good to have you with us.
CALLER: Yeah, well being from Minneapolis area, I can comment on Norm Coleman's trial and in a lot of precincts there were actually more votes (inaudible) than were registered voters, Ed.
SCHULTZ: Say that again. There was somebody calling in on you. Say that again please.
CALLER: There were more votes cast that there were registered voters in Minnesota.
SCHULTZ: Well why didn't they find that out in the recount?
CALLER: They did. They know that.
SCHULTZ: OK, so Al is still in front.
What, you got a problem with voting fraud?
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it appears from Schultz's initial reaction to the caller -- "Well why didn't they find that out in the recount?" -- that he considers more votes cast than actual voters voting potentially troubling. All of a sentence later, and armed in the interim with an awareness this could be true, Schultz doesn't see it as a problem in the least. And what a coincidence, the candidate Schultz wants to win is the one on top.
Picture, if you will, Schultz as a lawyer defending an accused bank robber. The prosecutor points out that the defendant has much more money than he's ever earned and can't account for where it came from. Schultz's retort -- OK, so he's still wealthy.
Schultz comments on on the Norm Coleman, Al Franken race with a callers great question.
He was "betwixed" after a caller put him on the spot.
Schultz was commenting on incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's legal challenge re: questionable results of a recount that reversed his initial narrow victory and put Democratic challenger Al Franken, formerly of Air America Radio and "Saturday Night Live," barely ahead (click here for audio) --
SCHULTZ: A three-judge panel in Minnesota, US Senate election dispute, will allow electronic media coverage of the trial (laughs) Judges are hearing the first arguments tomorrow, excuse me, today when lawyers for Al Franken seek dismissal of the election challenge filed by Norm Coleman. They say, Norm, you don't have any material. What the hell you talking about? We've had the most open recount in the history of an American elections (sic) and he's still whining about it.
Stan in Minneapolis, you're on The Ed Schultz Show. Good to have you with us.
CALLER: Yeah, well being from Minneapolis area, I can comment on Norm Coleman's trial and in a lot of precincts there were actually more votes (inaudible) than were registered voters, Ed.
SCHULTZ: Say that again. There was somebody calling in on you. Say that again please.
CALLER: There were more votes cast that there were registered voters in Minnesota.
SCHULTZ: Well why didn't they find that out in the recount?
CALLER: They did. They know that.
SCHULTZ: OK, so Al is still in front.
What, you got a problem with voting fraud?
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it appears from Schultz's initial reaction to the caller -- "Well why didn't they find that out in the recount?" -- that he considers more votes cast than actual voters voting potentially troubling. All of a sentence later, and armed in the interim with an awareness this could be true, Schultz doesn't see it as a problem in the least. And what a coincidence, the candidate Schultz wants to win is the one on top.
Picture, if you will, Schultz as a lawyer defending an accused bank robber. The prosecutor points out that the defendant has much more money than he's ever earned and can't account for where it came from. Schultz's retort -- OK, so he's still wealthy.
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