| Ed Schultz AKA Edward Andrew Schultz Born: 27-Jan-1954
Birthplace: Virginia
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Radio Personality Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Talk radio host Ed Schultz hosts The Ed Schultz Show, one of the top-rated radio talk shows, syndicated by the Jones Radio. On the air, Schultz is cordial, not confrontational, rarely funny but never dull. He comes across as a friendly middle-aged man, talking about the day's news and sports, and he often takes his show on the road in his customized motor home, dubbed the Big Eddie Cruiser.
He played quarterback on his high school team, and earned a full scholarship to Moorhead State University, where he led all Division II schools in passing in 1977. He tried out for the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets, and played about half a season of pro football for the Canadian Football League's Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Schultz later worked as a sportscaster for a TV station in Fargo, North Dakota, where he married and divorced the station's news co-anchor. In 1988, he was briefly suspended from on-air duties after screaming obscenities and coming out of the broadcast booth at a football game, to confront several fans he believed had thrown an empty whisky bottle into the booth.
By the early 1990s he was hosting a conservative radio talk show. As recently as 2000, Schultz was still cheerleading on the air for far right candidates and causes, but he now describes himself as a "gun-toting, meat-eating, drug-free liberal from America's heartland." He says he had a change of heart, abandoning his conservative outlook after his girlfriend (now his wife), who worked in a Salvation Army soup kitchen, challenged him to stop by and actually meet some of "the bums" he had routinely castigated on his radio show.
A political pundit or talker who switches sides is a rarity, and as such Schultz is despised by some right-tilting listeners who see him as a traitor, and viewed with distrust by left-tilting listeners who doubt his sincerity. Despite the "liberal" tag, Schultz's opinions are mostly middle-of-the-road, and his program is owned by Randy Michaels and Stu Krane, two conservative former syndication executives for The Rush Limbaugh Show. Father: George Schultz (aeronautical engineer)
Mother: Mary Schultz (English teacher, d., Alzheimer's)
Wife: Maureen Zimmerman (newscaster, div.)
Son: David Schultz (professional golfer, b. 9-Dec-1982)
Wife: Wendy (psychiatric nurse, m. 2000)
High School: Maury High School, Norfolk, VA (1972)
University: Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
MoveOn.org
New Leadership for America PAC
Endorsement of Select Comfort Sleep Number bed
Official Website:
http://www.bigeddieradio.com/
Author of books:
Straight Talk from the Heartland (2004, autobiography)
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