MSNBC's Fathead, Ed Shultz, being sued for Idea Theft

MSNBC's Fathead, Ed Shultz, being sued for Idea Theft Scotty Starnes | May 12, 2011 at 8:54 AM | Tags: Ed Shultz, Idea Theft, Michael Queen, MSNBC, teleprompter reader | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5fc

Do liberals ever have an original thought? Typically they just recycle the same failed philosophies and MSNBC's Ed Shultz is just a teleprompter reader who has words fed to him. Maybe MSNBC can hire Obama after the 2012 election. We know he can read a teleprompter like no other in history.

The Daily Caller reports:

NBC News broadcast engineer Michael Queen is suing MSNBC host Ed Schultz for at least $100,000, accusing the left-wing talker of ripping his idea for a TV show off. TVNewser reports that Queen approached Schultz in January 2008 to make a pilot for a TV show, and filmed one at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.

Schultz's lawyer, Jeffrey Landa, told The Daily Caller that Queen represented himself under a different name, Michael Anderson, in order to avoid scrutiny from his NBC bosses while he tried to pitch the show to WUSA-TV, a CBS affiliate. Landa said Schultz paid Queen $12,000 for all the pilot's expenses, but that Queen wants more. Landa said Queen claims he took out an extra mortgage to pay for Schultz's pilot.

"The reason why he was using the phony name was because he was dealing with CBS on doing the Sunday show and didn't want us or anyone else to know that he was an NBC employee," Landa said.

Since Schultz didn't end up doing the show at WUSA and because there was never a contract, Landa said Schultz doesn't owe Queen anything. Landa told TheDC he and Schultz plan to "vigorously defend" this lawsuit and that "there will be no settlements." But Landa said Queen has caused other problems for him and for Schultz.

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