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46. "Ed Shultz was a blue collar, pro union hot head."

Ed Schultz was a former rightwinger who became a lefty but then later got roped into Putin-propaganda RT and became anti-Democratic party (like Cenk).

How Ed Schultz transformed from MSNBC lefty to the American face of Moscow media

December 20, 2016

By Paul Farhi

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In mid-2015, MSNBC handed Schultz his last paycheck. After six years on the air, the ratings of his daily program, "The Ed Show," were soft and MSNBC was going for more news in Schultz's time slot, not opinion. His daily radio show had ended the previous year.

So Schultz went back to his lakefront home in Detroit Lakes, Minn., and took stock. At 61, after a lifetime in broadcasting, he concluded he wasn't done. In early 2016, he returned to television, albeit in an unlikely place and role for a guy who once styled himself as a "prairie populist." He became the lead news anchor for RT America, the domestic network of what was once known as Russia Today, a globe-spanning multimedia organization funded by the Russian government.

Schultz, in other words, went to work for “Putie.”

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Fake online news, allegedly generated by Russian sources? Schultz, a North Dakotan who once considered running for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, thinks it’s all “fear and hype” by the American news media and a smear by the Democratic Party, especially Clinton. “If they [the American media] want to go after fake news, they can start with the Clinton campaign and their accusations” about Russian involvement, he said on a broadcast in September.