Ed Schultz Slams Rush Limbaugh For Accusing Obama Of 'Monkeying' The Jobs Report Numbers (VIDEO)

MSNBC's Ed Schultz tore into conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh during his show Tuesday night. Limbaugh was the topic of Schultz's "psycho-talk" segment for accusing President Barack Obama and his administration of "monkeying" and "jimmying" the January jobs report.

Schultz played footage from Limbaugh's radio show on Tuesday. Limbaugh, who Schultz referred to as the "noted conservative columnist and college drop-out," told his listeners that he "failed to grasp" the January jobs report. "I'm still struck by the difference in that raw number of two and a half million jobs lost, and the government telling us 243 thousand were created. The bottom line is this...the withholding tax receipts number doesn't line up...Obama monkeying the numbers here, jimmying around with things in an election year, designed to make things look better than they are."

Schultz fired back. "Limbaugh admits he doesn't understand what he's talking about but he's confident the President is cooking the books. He's wrong," Schultz said.

He then referenced what he called the "Murdoch-owned" Wall Street Journal, which published an article that broke down the jobs report and concluded that more jobs were added in the month of January. Schultz referenced more conservative sources to provide Limbaugh with "more evidence." He called Limbaugh "arrogant" and said he "wants the President to fail at all costs." Schultz called Limbaugh's accusation "desperate psycho-talk."

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Comments

[nevernot]

02:19 PM on 02/09/2012

So Rush now freely admits he doesn't know what he's talking about but still condemns our president. Isn't he the same guy that says he does all the thinking so you don't have to?

[cwewill]

02:05 PM on 02/09/2012

flush Rush!!!

[EZWriter69]

01:01 PM on 02/09/2012

The way Rush loathes and sneers and has utter contempt for academics and scientists, I'd think he'd be praising Schultz endlessly for dropping out... NO one has less respect for learning and most particularly for those who teach than Rush Limbaugh, NO one.

[brunswick1946]

12:55 PM on 02/09/2012

Ed, would you expect anything less from a man who eats boogers

[Consequence]

10:37 AM on 02/09/2012

Ed Schultz slamming someone ELSE for 'desperate' statements?

LOL Oh, please.

At lest he didn't call Rush a sl*t....did he?

[mwoody1955]

10:36 AM on 02/09/2012

And theres Limpblob refusing to resist his uncontrolable urges to insert his racist undertones "Monkeying around with." "Jimmying around". This booger picker is the number one example our young people should look at as an example of a lower form of humanity, willing to say anything or do anything to make a buck.AKA Palin, Rove, Hannity, Olberman,

[Steve Rockett]

10:07 AM on 02/09/2012

pick, pick, pick

[Mike Costanza]

08:53 AM on 02/09/2012

Hey, Rusty, come out from behind your microphone, leave your hermetically sealed, gated home, and walk amongst the common folks you purport to speak for for awhile. Let's see how big your mouth is when you have to fce the people you attack. No? Thought so.

[Sieggy]

08:46 AM on 02/09/2012

The only people who listen to Limbaugh are the kind of people who listen to Limbaugh - low information, low intelligence, low education, angry old white people. Since he's an 'entertainer', he can say anything he likes, and he really likes saying inflammatory, hateful things because it gets his base all worked up.

And a worked up base will tune in daily to get their daily fix of hate because, well, you might as well admit it, they're addicted to hate.

[PollyTics]

08:26 AM on 02/09/2012

Everything Limbaugh says is "desperate", whether the GOP is ahead or behind...he just lies and tries to stir up hate as much as he can.

It's hard to keep listening to things that this person has to say because they are always lies or distortions filled with a hate that is palpable. I guess some people carry around that kind of hate in their person and Limbaugh gives them the reasons they need to focus it on someone or something.

What a sad thought...

[AlwaysRight213]

08:10 AM on 02/09/2012

Ed once claimed he had the highest rated news cable show in his time slot. That is, if you didn't look at the numbers.

[PollyTics]

08:28 AM on 02/09/2012

Ed never claimed that his TV show was the highest rated show, so please just stop this kind of lying...it simply is not becoming.

[patters85]

10:25 PM on 02/16/2012

It is becoming of a low IQ idiot that supports another low, low low IQ idiot such as Limbaugh.

[K August]

06:59 AM on 02/09/2012

So Rush is a college drop-out, Scott Walker is also a college drop-out......and Karen Handel......she managed to finish High School. Are we seeing a pattern here?

[Consequence]

10:38 AM on 02/09/2012

Definite trend.

High School drop outs that are successful because they are willing to work hard.

I know that is a foreign idea to Liberals, but there's proof.

[OmniDude]

02:24 PM on 02/09/2012

Trend defined;
Self-righteous conservatives are anti-intellectuals who do not value education, like to cut corners, are envious and putdown anyone who became successful through education and hard work.

Knowledge is power.

[patters85]

10:27 PM on 02/16/2012

Bank robbers and baby rapers work hard too! That's the class that Limbaugh and friends fit into.

[Hector Boag]

06:04 AM on 02/09/2012

Does anyone care? I'd bet very few folks here listen to Rush anyway and the same for the folks who listen to Ed.

[dahmady]

04:05 AM on 02/09/2012

MY MAN ED, YOU ARE TOO TOUGH AND HAVE LOTS GUTS

[Consequence]

10:39 AM on 02/09/2012

That's because when God was handing out brains, Ed was still in the other line demanding a second helping of mouth.

[patters85]

10:29 PM on 02/16/2012

You are proving the IQ results. Good going genius.

[frankieshoes1]

02:44 AM on 02/09/2012

Statistics can be formulated to say whatever you want them to say. It is immaterial what Ed or Rush think. What matters at this time is how Wall St. has reacted and as a consequence business has responded with more confidence. So if you believe one set of numbers or the other they are still good numbers as far as the big money is concerned.

[PollyTics]

08:29 AM on 02/09/2012

While it is true that stats can be manipulated, what you are not calculating into this equation is that Rush Limbaugh simply lies and makes up his own fantasies to spew to the unsuspecting.

[frankieshoes1]

12:43 PM on 02/09/2012

I thought that was a given and not worth mentioning.