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Four-fifths of Ed Schultz's viewers agree with U.S. drone policy

Discussing the Obama administration's drone strike policy last night, MSNBC host Ed Schultz asserted that "many Americans want to know how the United States can order the killings of American citizens without due process."

"This controversy is not going away," Schultz, a critic of the administration's drone program, said. "The boundaries of transparency are still undefined."

Yet in a survey of his (reliably liberal) viewers, 78 percent said they agreed with "the policy of targeted killing of American citizens."

These results may have come as a surprise to Schultz -- neither he nor MSNBC PR immediately responded to a request for his reaction -- because the results of his viewer surveys almost always align with his own progressive worldview.

In recent days, Schultz has said he is "troubled" by the Obama administration's targeted killings of American citizens.

"It doesn't meet the moral or constitutional standard that we expect of any administration," Schultz said earlier this week. "We're losing the moral high ground by doing this." Liberals who supported the targeted killings had "come a long way" from opposing warrantless wiretapping under President George W. Bush's administration, he added.

Schultz's viewers seem far less concerned.

Updates here if and when we hear back from Schultz.