‘It Was the Democrats’: Jobs Advocate Shocks Ed Schultz With Unemployment Theory

Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:13am by Jonathon M. Seidl

Ed Schultz isn’t usually at a loss for words. But he was flummoxed when a guest on his show last night blamed Democrats for not extending jobless benefits, instead of pinning the issue on Republicans as Schultz tried to encourage her to do.
NewsBusters’s Noel Sheppard sets up the clip:

Mignon Veasley-Fields is a 61-year-old Los Angeles grandmother who has been out of work since June 2008. Her unemployment benefits ran out over three months ago.
Since then, she has been bringing attention to the long-term unemployed in this nation referred to as “99ers” signifying the number of weeks they received benefits before they stopped.
In recent weeks, a new group has emerged called the 99er NOVOs: they are so angered by Washington that they are refusing to vote in the upcoming elections.

Schultz began pleading with Veasley-Fields to encourage her group to vote for Democrats and “save the majority” because “President Obama deserves to work with the majority for another 24 months.”
Veasley-Fields wasn’t having any of it, and gives Schultz a history lesson in the process:

Update: Apparently MSNBC and Schultz didn't like the negative response and had the video pulled. 

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