Ed Schultz criticized two Fox News Sunday guests brought on last Sunday to speak about Obamacare cancellation notices as impartial Monday on MSNBC.
Schultz first addressed Steve Curry, a CPA from Chicago who discussed the rate shock he is experiencing shopping for healthcare on the new exchanges. After the clip, Schultz proceeded to inform viewers that Curry studied alternatives to universal healthcare as an undergraduate and thus had an "agenda":
CHRIS WALLACE: Stephen Curry joins us from chicago. Cade Joiner is in Atlanta. They're both businessmen who have lost their health care plans.
STEPHEN CURRY: My out of pocket for my family is $3500. And everything else is paid at 100%. The closest thing I could find that's comparable, as they say, was a $12,000 out of pocket for my family. So there's a huge difference in there. And I looked through all the different plans.
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ED SCHULTZ: Now, let me give you the entire story. These two guys, they have clear agendas. Let's take the guy on the left. We have here now Stephen Curry, he is a certified financial planner - good for him. But hidden at the bottom of his bio on his company website is the real reason he appeared on Fox News Sunday. It reads, "as an undergrad, Steve spent a great deal of time studying the alternatives to universal health care." Really? You mean, he's not a fan? Curry isn't exactly what you would call a fair and balanced guest.
What Schultz failed to mention is that Mr. Curry received his B.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a school well known for its leftist politics.
Moreover, it is unclear how exactly Curry's undergraduate studies call into question anything he actually said on Fox News Sunday, or his ability to comment impartially about losing his insurance. Indeed, even liberal Mediaite writer Tommy Christopher noted Chris Wallace's other guest, former GOP activist Cade Joiner, could be a credible witness to provide perspective on losing his health insurance:
[…] Joiner had just finished a stint as President of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, but more recently, he was a campaign fundraising organizer, and then a campaign finance committee co-chair, for the successful reelection bid of Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R-GA).
None of this necessarily means Joiner is a bad person, or even that he’s not a credible guest […]
While we never really expect too much from Big Eddy, this failed cheap shot made even less sense than usual.