I posted earlier about liberal talk show host Ed Schultz getting a front row seat at Barack Obama’s first press conference. Michael Calderone at Politico pointed out that the left would’ve gone nuts if Limbaugh or Hannity had been given the same by a Republican victor.

Well, Schultz has responded to the Politico posting. Apparently he feels that he’s “earned” the seat.

“I end up with a front row seat in the first prime-time press conference, and all of a sudden it’s all over the blogosphere,” Schultz said.

Schultz called Politico’s Jonathan Martin a “punk” and a “nitwit” for asking if it was an assigned seat.

“I have earned that seat,” the veteran radio host said on the air.

First of all, why the personal insults to Calderone for pointing out the truth? Second of all, what exactly has Schultz done to have “earned” a seat in the front row? I don’t like the woman in the least, but what has he done to sit alongside Helen Thomas?

Calderone writes:

Schultz claimed that conservative hosts had access to the Oval Office during the Bush years, and that wasn’t noted by the press. However, I think it’s safe to say that if McCain were elected, and Limbaugh had a spot right up front, the media would call attention to it.

Of course they would’ve. And as I wrote earlier, it would’ve been used as evidence that Rush really ran the party and that McCain had to kiss his ring.