Ed Schultz on Monday bashed American Sniper as "disturbing" and contributing to the culture of "normalizing Islamophobia." The MSNBC anchor warned that the late Chris Kyle was "far more complicated than the hero portrayed in [Clint] Eastwood's movie."

Schultz jeered, "To Kyle, if they weren't Americans, they were the enemy. Unfortunately, some of those feelings have spread into our culture." The Ed Show host lectured, "The public reaction to the movie American Sniper also highlights some of the most disturbing consequences of this war, the normalization of Islamophobia..."

Schultz concluded, "I was disturbed by the movie. I sat there in the movie theater with my wife over the weekend and thought this just underscores how many lives we have ruined because of doing something that was terribly wrong."

Schultz often portrays himself as a blue color liberal, a working man fighting for high tariffs and a fair wages. On Monday, however, he sounded more like his elitist colleague Chris Hayes. In 2012, Hayes admitted that he was "uncomfortable" calling fallen members of the military "heroes."

This weekend, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore ranted that snipers were "cowards." Actor Seth Rogen compared American Sniper to Nazi propaganda.

A transcript of the January 19 segment is below: