Yeah, I don't pay much attention to Cenk any longer.
People thought that Ed Schultz was a true progressive too ..... I had friends who LOVED Big Eddie. I used to watch him when he was on Air America years ago, then followed him onto MSNBC. But in the back of my mind, something about Ed never set right with me. Friends kept saying, NO you're wrong, Ed is the MAN. I said, okay...Whatever.
But here we are in 2017...
Ed Schultz hits a new low at CPAC.
It wasn’t entirely surprising that the former progressive talk radio host and MSNBC personality agreed to speak at annual conservative conference this year. Once a self-styled “prairie populist,” he signed on last January with RT America, where he anchors the nightly news for the state-run Russian network. He’s changed his tone on President Vladimir Putin, whom he used to deride as “Putie.” “Schultz, who once said on MSNBC that Putin is ‘crippling’ his country, now has a Russo-friendly, or perhaps American-skeptical, viewpoint on any number of issues,” The Washington Post reported in December.
Schultz has done an about-face on Trump, too. After calling him a racist and ridiculing his presidential ambitions in 2011, he praised Trump’s political skills during the campaign and downplayed Russia’s role in his election. Still, none of that quite compares to the praise Schultz heaped on the president on Thursday, talking with reporters on CPAC’s radio row. “I think he’s pragmatic, and I think he wants to win—he wants to win for the little guy,” Schultz said.
Schultz predicted Trump “will go with the people” on healthcare, speculating that the president might slow Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and criticized Democrats’ opposition strategy. “They ought to be focused on saving healthcare,” Schultz said. “They ought to be focused on making sure we don’t privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. That’s where the Democrats ought to be. Instead, they’re chasing down scandals or they’re making them up. I’m just—I’m a little disappointed in them right now.”
Rather, Democrats are probably disappointed in Schultz. He used to be a warrior for the working class—cable’s biggest critic of union-busting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who also spoke at CPAC on Thursday. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews even once told Schultz he should run the AFL-CIO. But like a disconcerting number of white-working class Democrats, Schultz found common cause with Trump after supporting Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primaries.
“I don’t agree with Trump on everything,” Schultz said on the radio row. Though he insisted his personal politics haven’t changed, he embraced Trump’s moral equivalence between the U.S. and Russia. Asked about the president’s remark to Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that America has “a lot of killers” and is “not so innocent,” he said, “I think the president was spot on saying that. I mean, could we say that Barack Obama was a killer? Let me just state the facts. The rest of the world is a little mad at America right now for the civilians that have been killed in drone strikes.”
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/140860/ed-schultz-hits-new-low-cpac
In the black bolded would be hysterical if it weren't such a sad thing.
Ed's part of the Hillary-hating, putin machine over at RT television and he caped big time for tRumputin At CPAC just 4 days ago saying that his boy tRumputin will stick with the people and fix health care 
I have not to this day told my friends who were in LOVE with Big Eddie who are mad as HELL at him now. I have not told any of them I told them so, but I DID tell them so 
I'll sit back and just watch what Cenk does and says after having raised all of that CA$H from their "BUDDY," thuglican Buddy Romer ....
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