
…and they know who they are
The hot-tempered anchor of “The Ed Show” lost it during a phone call in the packed studio and slammed down the phone before exploding.
As astonished MSNBC staff members fell silent, Schultz glared around the room and yelled, “[Bleep]ers!”
A witness told us, “Ed was furious the network was running election-night promos and he wasn’t in them. He’d been arguing on the phone with marketing, then he slammed down the phone and exploded. It was like Mel Gibson had entered the newsroom.”
Fuming Schultz was immediately dragged in for a meeting with NBC News President Steve Capus and MSNBC President Phil Griffin following his Aug. 12 meltdown.
Our source added, “Schultz was told: ‘If you do that again, you are fired.’ He broke down crying.”
Sources say the hothead was pushed over the edge by MSNBC’s catering to bullying fellow anchor Keith Olbermann and its focus on golden girl Rachel Maddow.
A second MSNBC source said, “Ed never gets any attention and love, and he finally snapped.”
Schultz, who’s fronted his 6 p.m. show on MSNBC for 16 months, also doesn’t hold back on his radio show. He once told White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, “You’re full of [bleep].” And after Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck revealed a condition that may make him go blind, Schultz said, “It’s a travesty he’s not going to see the country he’s trying to destroy.”
A spokeswoman for Schultz and the network declined to comment on the incident but said, “The only thing that’s on fire are Ed’s ratings, and the only people crying are at CNN.”
……and then close it quickly as a way of saying “You snooze, you lose.”‘ Better to have a BSP.
In her newspaper column, Margaret Grey annually predicts how many people will die nationally from traffic accidents on Labor Day weekend. She is paid a bonus by the Dicklin Syndicate, the company that syndicates her column, if she comes within 10 or 20 because giving out accurate information means more subscribers and readers. But last year Margaret overshot the real number, predicting 600 when the actual number was closer to 500. Margaret tells Phil and his audience that while she doesn’t want people to die she is predicting 600 again this year and she wants the number reported accurately, not held down by MADD because it helps them get funding. And she wants Americans to quit dreaming and get back to driving the way they usually do…drunk and reckless. The following hour Phil is joined by Channel 19 news anchor Don Berman who talks with Phil about a series of specials planned on the Channel 19 news called “Stand Up For Yourself.” The series shows instances where typical Americans insisted on fair treatment from a business and includes a segment featuring Don himself. Don felt he “stood up for himself” when he got a waitress suspended without pay for two weeks because she brought him a Rueben sandwich with the words “And you must be the one with the extra cheese.” Don says he detected sarcasm in her voice, as in “Here you go fatso, here’s your extra cheese.” Don added it was also tough for him eating clam chowder while listening to the woman’s autistic child “bellowing in a corner.”
Your Name: David Bodendoerfer
Subject: Doug Dannger
Message: Can you replay the bit where Doug was tripping his interns on purpose?
Or
Can you tell me when you did that bit?. Maybe 7 or 8 years ago.
Thanks in advance even if you can’t. lol
David
Titus in Seattle wonders what day this bit aired. It is bost 2006 and therefore not yet logged. I remember doing it, I remember it was 08′ or 09′ but the date…man I just don’t remember…
….”and you must be the one that wanted the cheese….”? Find out tonight. The Phil Hendrie Show, 10pm PDT to 1am PDT, videocast starts an hour early
Classic Phil, The Phil Hendrie Show and the Mini-Podcast
Mr. Don Parsley, author of “A Mother’s Sin, A Son’s Regret, Hating Your Mother” joined Phil to talk about his self-published book and what inspired it. Parsely claims that he was going to invest in a Savannah bed and breakfast with some other gentlemen but when they called one of Parsley’s personal references, his mother Maureen Parsley, she told them about Don’s time on a “work farm in Wyoming for posssession with intent to sell of a controlled substance, marijuana” and his early release for good behavior. She thought she was doing Don a favor. But as Don tells it, that ended the deal. “She couldn’t keep her buffet-hole shut,” said Don. Later, Dr. Ron Tarner talked with Phil and his audience about Ron’s 13 year old son Dennis, soon to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world even though the boy has no sailing experience. That doesn’t matter, says Dr. Tarner. The boy will learn and be successful thus pushing the name Tarner ahead of Stephen Hawking’s in the world of science and discovery. “Hawking just signed an endorsement deal with Hoveraround but this will top that”