“Psycho Talk” got a little out of control last week. Liberal talk show host Ed Schulz said, “If I lived in Massachusetts I’d try to vote 10 times. I don’t know if they’d let me or not, but I’d try to”. He followed it up on his TV show by saying, “Ya, that’s right, I’d cheat to keep these bastards out, I would.”

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At first I thought Big Eddie was just trying to be provocative, but he sounds like he really means it. I guess that’s why I’m sort of worried about the guy.  If he were just a whacked-out talk show host we could laugh at this, but Eddie has a background in journalism so he has to be held more accountable. Words have meaning.

For years Ed Schultz and I have had similar career paths (until his MSNBC gig) so there’s a lot that I can relate to with the guy. We’re about the same age. We both love the outdoors. We’ve both hosted talk radio shows; we both did sports at local TV stations for years. I did a lot more “hard news” reporting, but for the most part, there’s a lot of common ground here.

It’s fun stuff when you’re the sports guy in a local market, and I’m guessing Eddie would be the type of guy who would be fun to sit down with and watch a game (how ‘bout those Vikings!), but I’m thinking something has snapped. Maybe it’s the move to MSNBC, but I have friends there, and haven’t seen them change like this. This is not the Big Eddie that once I listened to and enjoyed on radio.  He was thought-provoking and informative and there was even some common ground in our beliefs (I actually called in to his show in 2004 before the Bush-Kerry election and predicted Kerry would lose because he was on the wrong side of freedom for the Iraqis).  Now, he’s… well, you be the judge:


While we’re at it, Ed should know that if he wants to vote ten times in Mass, he probably can. I’m guessing they have an ACORN chapter there that would be happy to register him and all of his former football teammates (ACORN registered the entire Dallas Cowboys football team in Nevada). If you’re going to say you’d like to vote ten times, why let a little registration issue stop you?  That can easily be taken care of.

I guess this is funny on one level, but Eddie says he’d cheat if he had to, just to keep the “bastards” from winning. I assume he’s talking about Scott Brown as the “bastard” in this case, but there is nothing funny about cheating at the ballot box. As we get more polarized as a nation (in spite of Obama’s promise to bring us together), the last thing we need is to destroy the system of democracy that has brought us this far.  Healthcare is the big issue here with Eddie, so if nationalizing health care is this important, then let’s make it part of the U.S. Constitution, propose an amendment, have Congress pass it and have at least three-quarters of the states ratify it.

The process is clear, we’ve made changes in the past, and we can do it again. Take your case to the people that you say you so ably and enthusiastically represent and let them decide.  Something that changes the entire fabric of this nation to this degree should be decided by the people and, above all, should be Constitutional.

My guess, Eddie, is you don’t want this because you know it would never happen.  You’d lose, and you’d lose bad.  Americans don’t want the Democrats’ healthcare plan – which is why right now they’re running around like chickens who’ve just seen both Farmer Brown’s chopping block and his axe.

We can join hands in this effort, Eddie.  We’ll be on opposite sides, and we both have personal reasons for believing what we believe, but I assume we both love the Constitution and would love to see it work in this case.  You only get one vote though, and that’s not negotiable. That’s constitutional.