MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: ‘I Have Not Been Instructed to Tone it Down’

(By Meredith Jessup, The Blaze) - After Keith Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC, some speculated that the anchor’s politically divisive and often combative rhetoric were to blame. In case you wondered whether the cable network had tried to muzzle its outspoken line-up, progressive firebrand Ed Schultz says no one has told him to tone things down.

“I will admit that sometimes my show gets to bar talk,” Schultz recently told Media Bistro, “but that’s how people talk.”