<p><em>See more in the <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/curtis-houck/2014/10/07/ed-schultz-people-…; target="_blank">cross-post</a> on the Newsbusters blog.</em></p>
<p>Ed Schultz used his opening monologue during his MSNBC show on Tuesday to paint Republicans as the <strong>“desperate”</strong> and <strong>“delusional”</strong> party in trouble ahead of the midterm elections and informed his audience that <strong>“people are better off today than they were four years ago”</strong> (before dismissing the struggling wages in the country as <strong>“a different thing”</strong>).</p>
<p>He began by dismissing the idea that Republicans are better positioned to gain ground in Congress following the midterm elections and strangely bashed <em>The Washington Post </em>and <em>The New York Times </em>for predicting GOP victories. He said <em>The Washington Post </em>was <strong>“trying to convince the world”</strong> that Republicans will succeed in November while the liberal <em>New York Times</em> apparently <strong>“doesn’t seem to get enough of it.”</strong></p>