Politico’s Keach Hagey writes about Ed Schultz getting suspended by MSNBC for comments he made on his radio show yesterday…

MSNBC has suspended Ed Schultz for one week without pay for calling Laura Ingraham a ‘right-wing slut’ on his radio program Tuesday.

“Remarks of this nature are unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” MSNBC said in a statement Wednesday evening.

Schultz will address the remarks on his television show Wednesday night, and begin his leave immediately afterward, MSNBC said.

“MSNBC management met with Ed Schultz this afternoon and accepted his offer to take one week of unpaid leave for the remarks he made yesterday on his radio program,” MSNBC said.

How many more Ed Schultz gaffes is MSNBC going to allow before it finally realizes what some of us have known for some time; there are bomb throwers and then there are bomb throwers. The former deliberately stirs the pot by saying provocative things but you can tell they’re in control of their environment. The latter deliberately stirs the pot and by saying provocative things but you can tell something’s not quite right and eventually they’re going to self-destruct in a blaze of glory. Ed Schultz falls into the latter category. He’s lucky this happened on his radio show. Had this incident happened on MSNBC’s air I think the punishment would have been even more severe, especially given his newsroom meltdown last year.

Update: There’s a three day weekend that occurs during this one week suspension so instead of missing five days on the air apparently Schultz will only be missing four.

Update 2: I forgot that Ed’s show doesn’t air on Fridays. So his one week suspension consists of only three days off the air. Three days doesn’t sound as impressive as “one week”.

Update 3: On his show tonight, Schultz termed the suspension “indefinite”. Was Schultz embellishing or has it really changed from one week (three air days) to indefinite? We shall see…

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