For folks keeping score at home, Ed Schultz is against Keystone today

[cthulu2016]

Today Ed's hair is on fire about the ecological dangers of the Keystone pipeline.

Last week his hair was on fire about the need to build the Keystone pipeline.

It is weird to watch.

It is not that he is right one day or right another day. It is that he changes his Keystone talking points day by day, just kind of spinning around.

Ed seems to be discovering that there is, in fact, tension between the aggregate interests of organized labor and environmentalists and that there is no happy left-of-center funland where everyone agrees on what they want just because everyone agrees that Republicans suck.

And if you live life with your finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing you will end up spinning like a weather vane.

[alsame]

1. It's bizarre. nt

[wiggs]

2. Not a huge Ed fan, but listen occasionally and I think you've framed it unfairly. He had been

OK with the pipeline and said so a few weeks ago. Faced with a deluge of interest and criticism, he began talking about it every day, having experts and advocates on his show, talking with call in listeners, really DEBATING the issues. He kept up defense of the pipeline for a long time but frankly was exposed to facts and points of view he hadn't known about before.

As a result, sounds like he's changed his tune (I haven't listened for couple of days). I think he should be credited with careful consideration, gathering of facts, and abandoning a position based on accurate but incomplete information.

There are two sides to this issue and not every point made for the pipeline is insane. For many people, there are pros and cons...not just pros and not just cons.

[Ilsa]

3. I think he's also concerned about property rights and

International legal issues regarding sovereignty. I don't think he had given it much thought before.

I think that those two issues alone should be enough to stop this process and re-examine how this is supposed to work. I hope the environmental issues kill it for good.