Old MSNBC Hosts Never Die, They Just Join Russian Official Television

In another example of the fusion and crossover between anti-American English language foreign government-run propaganda outlets masquerading as news sources and the conventional left-wing media, Ed Schultz of MSNBC has joined Kremlin-run RT.

Presenting himself as a champion of blue-collar “working class” Americans, Schultz has previously hosted a talk radio show – cancelled in 2014 – and an MSNBC primetime show – cancelled in 2015.

Schultz is noteworthy for blaming Detroit’s economic problems on “a lot of Republican policies,” attributing allegations of Republican opposition to President Barack Obama as motivated by racism, stating that the film American Sniper promoted “the normalization of Islamophobia,” and describing conservative commentator Laura Ingraham as a “right-wing slut/talk slut.”

Attaching to a foreign and hostile propaganda operation, Schultz joins the ranks of other left-wing personalities who abandoned failing enterprises to do the same.

Following their departures from CNN in 2013 – likely not entirely voluntarily on either of their behalves – both Ali Velshi and Soledad O’Brien joined Al-Jazeera, the anti-American English-language propaganda arm of Qatar’s government. Less prominent figures from CNN have done the same. Anti-Zionist activist Ayman Mohyeldin has also gone back and forth between MSNBC and Al-Jazeera.

Other esteemed personalities joining RT include Larry King, who left CNN in 2013, at age 79. Anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic socialist politician George Galloway hosted a weekly show on RT between 2013 and 2015. Jesse Ventura currently hosts a show on RT entitled “Off The Grid.”

Al-Jazeera launched a subsidiary – Al-Jazeera America – in 2014, which will be shutting down in April. Apparently Qatar’s government underestimated the competitiveness of the domestic market for left-wing anti-American agitation presented as objective news.

RT was launched in 2005, a brainchild of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy.

“I am very excited to be joining RT,” said Ed Schultz. “The network is firmly established outside of U.S. corporate media and is not afraid to give a platform to diverse voices, stories and perspectives to its viewers, even if it ruffles some mainstream feathers,” said a Quixote-esque Schultz.