Thursday, July 5, 2018

Ed Schultz January 27 1954 -- July 5 2018

Dead at 64.

Theres' a list of sources to choose from if any more information is necessary. (It isn't.)

Variety
TV Line
CBS News
LA times business
Heavy
Inquisitr
Huffington Post
The Wrap
Breitbart
Hollywood Reporter
Sputnik News
YouTube
Chicago Tribune
Deadline.

Let's go with Fox Entertainment. Because "entertainment" is ironic.

* His employer announced it, RT America
* At his home in D.C.
* Was successful covering sports for Fargo-Moorhead
* Originally conservative but changed his views to retarded on many issues.
* Gained national fame hosting "The Ed Sho" on MSNBC.
* Until Phil Griffin wanted a new look

[This is what hearing people do; they speak and write out of chronological order and expect to followed through time-jumps. That's fine. Just an observation, no criticism. Not everyone does this. Some cultures/subcultures, like deaf-subculture speak and write chronologically.]

* Born in Virginia
* Played football at Minnesota State
* Signed as free agent to Oakland Raiders
* Went to Canadian Football League
* Was kind to people
* Had a complex personality
* Remarkably generous
* Did shows for clinics where doctors gave free care to indigent. No one else would.

So that's that.

And now something different.

When I was five-years of age my Scottish grandfather died. My older brother discussed this tragedy with me. I flashback to this moment.

We're standing outside on the street in Bethlehem at the trunk of a dark early model car parked in front of our dad's early home. Very round heavy car, nearly a military tank. Like a '54 Chevy. Grandpa was very old. Very very very old. Old as the hills. Creaky debilitated coughing sick, hard of breath, wrinkly old. Couldn't feed himself, couldn't bathe himself, my grandma was his nurse.  His wrinkles had wrinkles and his age spots had their own age spots. His hair was thinned gray and he had more hair on eyebrows and growing out of his ears than he had on his head. He was remote. Ancient as pharaonic Egypt, his English incomprehensible, hardly English at all, and he flat didn't like us two boys. We meant nothing to him, except aggravation, and it showed. He was sixty-four years old when he died but he looked like a five thousand year old mummy brought back to semblance of life. Barry and I agreed, sixty-four years old really is up there. He had a long life.  (!)

This month I turn sixty-four. What a stupid little bastard I was. No wonder Grandpa didn't like me.

4 comments:

The Dude said...

64? Ha! Kids!

edutcher said...

People aged from stuff that's now curable or preventable. Venustian Carranza, who was Preezy of Mexico, when it had more guts than it does now, became Prez at age 54. Looked 80.

When Schultz was fired by MSLSD, mostly for being a Bernie Bro, he seemed to have seen the light.

Consider these thoughts on Trump from last year

"Trump went into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin and he took down the progressive firewall, because he talked to the American people about a deal,” the veteran news host said when asked about Trump’s appeal on trade. “I went into these towns, and I saw the anguish and the hurt,” he continued. “For years, the American heartland thought that Democrats and the progressive movement were their best friend, but guess what? The jobs left anyways. Donald Trump came in and promised them a deal.”

Doesn't even sound like the same guy, does it?

Breitbart's piece has some interesting insights as to how MSLSD works, so you may want to take a gander.

AllenS said...

No, it does not sound like the Schultz I heard before. He must have realized how wrong his message was.

XRay said...

64, I wish. I can almost remember then. And back when I was a whippersnapper, anyone over 50 looked 5000 years old.