MSNBC’s newest blowhard Ed Schultz started his second show ever with an “OpED” segment on the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act.

Here’s what Schultz had to say:

Now, one of the claims that’s being made out there by the antis (that’s us) of the Employee Free Choice Act is that this would take away the right of a secret ballot.

Folks, I`m telling you tonight, that is an absolutely lie. And the advertising that has been out there by the antis is misleading Americans across the board on this.

I’m not going to rehash the debate about EFCA and secret ballots, other than saying that more than 130 newspaper editorials have come out against EFCA for effectively eliminating employees access to secret ballots.

Here’s another one of Schultz’ falsehoods: “Every poll in the workplace in the country is coming up positive on this.”

Except these (and many more), apparently:

• 82 percent of working Americans say they don’t want their job to be unionized.
  ? Opinion Research Corporation, 2009
• 87 percent of Americans support a federally supervised secret ballot election to decide unionization.
  ? McLaughlin & Associates, 2007
• 75 percent of the public supports secret ballot elections over EFCA rules.
  ? Opinion Research Corporation, 2006
• 77 percent of voters in Maine, 72 percent of voters in Colorado, and 72 percent of voters in Minnesota support secret ballot elections over EFCA rules.
  ? McLaughlin & Associates, 2008

In the meanwhile, Schultz’s comrad-in-arms Rachel Maddow has one thing correct. Here’s what she said on last night’s show:

I, from here, don’t imagine that there are enough votes to pass it.

Read the complete transcript after the jump.

Tonight it`s the Employee Free Choice Act. I`m here to report to you tonight that this act is in the danger zone. But let`s back up just a little bit and give you a history here.

The unions put the Democrats in the majority. Bottom line. Had it not been for the efforts in `06 in Pennsylvania and in Ohio, those Senate seats would have never been won. Also, Senate seats were picked up in Missouri and Montana.

So now we roll with into `08, and the unions again with an unprecedented effort of $40 million, social networking, boots on the ground, and they want one thing. It`s their biggest issue in 40 years of labor, and it is theEmployee Free Choice Act.

Now, what is it? Well, let`s go to the board.

The Employee Free Choice act is about, just that, choice. What could be more American than having a choice in the workplace as to whether you`re going to organize or not?

Now, the point being here is that if you get your friends together in the workplace and you decide you want to do collective bargaining, you can do it. Yes, you can do it today. But this would change.

Now, one of the claims that`s being made out there by the antis of the Employee Free Choice Act is that this would take away the right of a secret ballot.

Folks, I`m telling you tonight, that is an absolutely lie. And the advertising that has been out there by the antis is misleading Americans across the board on this.

If you`re in the workplace, and if you want to have a secret ballot or if you want to have an open ballot, you can do that. This law would not change that.

Now, also, the thing that the management and ownership doesn`t like is that there is a date specific when it comes to getting a deal. You know, voting in a union in the workplace is one thing. Then going to the front office and getting a deal with the employees, that`s something else — the stall tactics, the intimidation of the employees who actually started this whole doggoned thing.

And so there is binding arbitration. They`re going to have 90 days to get a deal done and then, of course, there would be binding arbitration. And that`s what the antis in the front office doesn`t like.

Now, there is a change in the landscape in the last 24 hours. I have called on all Democrats to stand up. We know who put you in office, and this is what the union and the working folk and the wage earners in this country want.

Well, an Arkansas senator, Blanche Lincoln, has decided to take issue with the Employee Free Choice Act. Now, we asked the senator to come on the program tonight. She says she`s moving on to another issue.

Really?

Now, let`s talk about Arkansas for just a moment and this comment that was made by the senator from Arkansas. It`s one of those issues that creates great division, as well as distraction, at a time we all need to have hands on deck.

Wait a second. What division? What distraction? This is what the American wage earners want.

Every poll in the workplace in the country is coming up positive on this. This is what the unions want. And I`ve been told by some union heads, Democrats, if you don`t deliver on this, it could be a rough road to hoe. There is a small window of opportunity to get this thing done, and they need to get it done.

Now, in Arkansas, I find it hard to believe that a senator from a state where wage earners are pretty much depressed wouldn`t support a deal like this. For instance, the U.S. median income versus Arkansas median income, $50,000 across the country — $50,200. The Arkansas median income is $39,500.

Senator, your state is 47th out of 50th when it comes to wages. Now, I know that Wal-Mart is in the back yard and they don`t like this union thing at all. But looking at the total picture of it, doesn`t a rising tide lift all boats? Don`t the people of Arkansas deserve this opportunity? I would think they would considering the statistics I just showed you.

Now, it`s going to be some tough sledding for some centrist Democrats out there who don`t really want to admit who got them in the majority back in November. And I want to know, where does the president of the United States stand on this?

Now, President Obama, you know I`m a big fan. Hey, I was the first progressive talker to come out in your corner. And you can`t get me out of your corner. I`m a big fan. I believe in what you`re doing.

I think we documented on this program last night how awesome a 77-day run you have had leading this country. Your trip to the G-20 has been absolutely outstanding.

But Mr. President, I need you to say to the American people and the wage earners of this country that you will support and you will sign the Employee Free Choice Act if it comes to your desk.