Longtime radio broadcaster and MSNBC host Ed Schultz died at the age of 64 on Thursday, according to RT America, where Schultz most recently worked as a head news anchor.
Sources told a local news outlet, The Fargo Forum, that Schultz died of natural causes.
“We at RT America are sad to announce the passing of Edward Andrew Schultz,” RT America said in a statement. “Ed Schultz passed quietly early morning on July 5 at his home in Washington, D.C. This announcement comes as a shock to all of us here at RT America.”
Schultz started his broadcasting career at WDAY-TV in Fargo, North Dakota in the 1980s and hosted a conservative talk radio show in Fargo in the 1990s. He had a change of heart in the 2000s and moved on to host a commentary show for MSNBC, “The Ed Show,” in 2009 until mid-2015 when he was let go for soft ratings.
In 2016 the once left-leaning TV personality took a surprising new gig as the head news anchor for RT America, a network that used to be known as Russia Today and that is run by the Russian government.
All I can say is you never know.
A man with the strong convictions…
of whomever was signing the paycheck.
Always struck me as a little too strident.
I often wondered what happened to him, in terms of his trip across the political landscape, and the weird landing spot at Pravda America. But, like you said…
Russia Today? Are you kidding me? What did Ed know and was the death really from natural causes? Two people in England died this weekend from the same poison Putin used on a former spy living there.
I’m sorry for the family but something is wrong here.
Just like Tim Russert I dont get these wealthy guys getting sudden death generally from the widowmaker coronary artery. The widowmaker is, to quote Wikipedia:
The left anterior descending artery (also LAD, anterior interventricular branch of left coronary artery, or anterior descending branch) is a branch of the left coronary artery. Occlusion of this artery is often called the widow-maker infarction due to a high death risk.
Getting a cardiac cath or stent is a breeze now and surveillance for highly at risk fat fucks is so low risk it should be done more often, The can go in thru the wrist now for gods sake. If your at risk, high calcium score, symptoms etc get cathed allready.