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Ed Schultz Nixed From Armed Forces Radio
Liberal radio talker Ed Schultz is crying foul after being told that Armed Forces Radio will not be carrying his broadcast - saying he's being punished because he blasted the Pentagon last week over its allegedly staged teleconference with President Bush. "It kind of floored us," said Schultz about the abrupt cancellation. He told the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz: "The fact is, they don't want dissenting voices or any other kind of speech unless it's going to be promotional for them. Obviously, these people are making sure they're not going to have any opinion other than the Rush Limbaughs of the world." Late last month, the Armed Forces Network contacted Schultz's distributor, Jones Radio, via e-mail and said they wanted to begin broadcasting the first hour of his show on Monday, Oct. 17.
Story Continues Below But Monday morning Schultz's producer got a call from Allison Barber, the Pentagon's deputy assistant secretary for internal communications, who pulled the plug without explanation. Barber was same Pentagon official seen on a satellite feed last week prepping a group of GI's in Iraq for a chat with the president. Though rehearsal before any presidential interaction is routine, media liberals - Schultz included - pounced on the footage, decrying Bush's G.I. teleconference as "staged." Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told the Post there was no connection between Schultz's rants and the decision to nix his radio deal. In fact, said Whitman, no such deal had been finalized. The AFR spokesman who had contacted Schultz "got ahead of the process," he explained.
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