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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

While Rush and Hannity and O'Reilly were pointing fingers at Kathleen Blanco...
Posted by Jill | 2:12 PM

...ANYTHING to point blame away from their Chosen Messiah, George W. C-Plus Nero Bush, one of their compatriots in PROGRESSIVE talk radio, was actually doing something for families left homeless by Hurricane Katrina.

Hoffmania has this story, which makes me proud to be a liberal:

Ed Schultz, a radio talk show host from Fargo, N.D., and self-proclaimed "America's No. 1 progressive talker" who is carried on radio stations from Los Angeles to Boston, watched from his comfortable lakefront home as thousands struggled to survive in New Orleans.

"We're out water-skiing and enjoying the world…. I said, 'We've got to find some of these families and bring them to Fargo,' " he recalled.

Schultz decided to charter the jet he uses about once a month for his radio show on KFGO-AM (790). It costs about $10,000 a pop, but it's worth it when he and the crew don't feel like driving to appearances in Ann Arbor, Mich., or Sioux Falls, S.D., or don't want to hassle with the delays of commercial flying.

Schultz isn't a high roller — "he's not Oprah," his producer points out — but he does have loyal listeners, and he knows how to get things done. So when it appeared to him that the federal government had dropped the ball, Schultz launched the Adopt a Family of Hurricane Katrina Trust Fund. Then he and his wife, Wendy, hooked up with the Air National Guard 119th Fighter Wing out of Fargo and went down to the Gulf Coast.

Hours later, he called his pilot, Toby McPherson, and said: "Toby, get that jet fired up and come on over and pick me up. We've got to bring home some families."


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