Caption: Keith learns David Brock is taking another anchor to MediaMatters' Winter Solstice Celebration.

How could MSLSD let Olby represent them during the President's speech? Just look at his idiotic page on the MSLSD site:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

Good lord! It looks like a paranoid schizophrenic leftist's wet dream!

As for what Keith was blabbering in the photo above:

"Are these two terms synonymous, or are there shades of meaning here? Do we have any idea yet roughly what percentage of the information the whole net supply has supplied, what part of it has been fabricated, what percentage of it has been valid?"

By the way, the above sentences are actual inanities splurted forth from Olby's mouth. Never underestimate the power of misfiring synapses.

Here is my caption plain and simple:

"Keith gets hit with a dose of reality."

Seriously Bush's speech was IMO just setting the record straight for idiots who still think he "lied" or whatever the far left says.

That sonofabitch!!!!

(##**%%%#!!! I told them to get John Dean!)

These are all great, but I think IrishLightning has the #1 caption, SO FAR.

Olbermann: You've been quoted in several places as saying...the President has been more open to dissenting opinions than in the past. Did you see that in the speech tonight?

Biden:Yes. [awkward pause as Olby is rendered speechless] Yes, I did see that in the speech.

Olbermann: I withdraw the question!

caption: Keith, Mr. Immelt is on the line. He wants to discuss your ratings.

Keith reads TVNewer headline: Craig Crawford to join Fox News Lineup

2nd headline:

Abrams Report Canceled
Kaplan, O'Reilly Talking

3rd headline

Transit Union Official Admits Meetings with Rove

Okay! Okay, Johnny!

Now this is war!

Get this caption:

Olbermann: (Senator Biden..why he... he's...he's not wearing any pants!)

Caption: Keith learns Friday's 4 AM O'Reilly repeat beat him in the ratings again. Ohhhhh, why must I lose to the Worst Person in the World!!!

Damn that's good!

Arrrgggghhhh!

Well O'Reilly finally responded to Keith's constant smearing of him. He said that in this month over 50% of the time the replay of the factor at 4 AM gets a higher rating then the 8 PM edition of Countdown. Ouch...

Excpet for O'Reilly to be the worst person in the world tonight.

Keith sez: "Obviously there are shades of interpretation here, as far as the definition of the action goes of course, but assuming that, in an ideal circumstance, there is some standardization of the process, in so far as, given all the irregularities, we assume there are few, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?"

From http://mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

For MSNBC, The Word Is Progress

MSNBC's latest promos tout "the best primetime on cable news." The lineup of Abrams, Matthews, Olbermann, Cosby, Scarborough, Carlson seems to have solidified, and the network has enjoyed some gains in the 25-54 demographic.

"We're quietly building up the channel, and I'm happy with the progress we're seeing. I really am [Sure you are! -ed]," NBC News president Steve Capus told TVNewser a few weeks ago.

In a move that surprised some observers, a 5pm broadcast of Hardball was added to MSNBC's schedule in September. Capus noted that the network has seen a "dramatic increase" in the program's ratings and explained the thinking behind the decision:

"If you program these channels like you're programming a traditional broadcast channel, you're doomed," he said. "Cable is a different game altogether. It's a different audience. We know it's a rolling audience...Sometimes somebody might catch the first 15 minutes of the broadcast and they might watch the last half an hour on another feed."

He continued: "We think it's all about putting compelling programming on at convenient times, and if it's compelling programming, people will come and watch."

MSNBC has also experimented with broadcasts of Scarborough Country and The Abrams Report at 4pm. In recent weeks, the network has cancelled Connected: Coast to Coast, canned its weekend entertainment programming, and developed an upcoming program called "Weekends with Connie and Maury."

The ratings gains, especially in the 25-54 demo, have mostly taken hold post-Katrina. (See MSNBC's charts demonstrating this trend here. Year-to-date in the 25-54 demo, MSNBC is averaging 99,000 viewers in total day (up 2% from 2004) and 148,000 viewers in prime (up 6% from 2004) [What is the TOTAL AUDIENCE GROWTH for cable news? Probably more than 2%! -ed].

"I don't like that the only way anybody ever talks about it is in the context of its ratings," [I bet Keith doesn't either! -ed Capus said. "I'm not naive enough to believe it's not part of the story of MSNBC. Of course it is. But it's not the only thing...That channel has produced countless hours of great programming."

Ladies and gentlemen,

I think we have a winner.

The coveted Worst Person In the World/Photo Captioning Award should go to K for k for that priceless bit of Olbermann blather.

I for one think MSNBC should have gone with the Zell Miller-Chris Matthews duel idea.

First, thanks for the vote C. Captioning Olby in context is tough -- I'm not sure if anyone can do him justice.

Second, sometimes I see things and I want to be sure I am not imagining them --

In the story referenced above by "Is this a joke," I see the following:

[quote]"In recent weeks, the network has cancelled Connected: Coast to Coast, canned its weekend entertainment programming, and developed an upcoming program called "Weekends with Connie and Maury.""[/quote]

Could this really be true? I mean, do these lunatics really think that people will tune in on weekends to see Connie Chung and Maury Povich stink up the screen? Why not go with a couples theme all weekend! Add Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue, Barbara Streisand and James Brolin etc.? I bet they could pull a HUGE audience!

When it comes down to it, some people should never be in charge. If cable news networks can be compared to countries and their leadership, I would say that FOX news is the USA, CNN is Europe/Canada, and MSLSD is North Korea!

Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and Glorious Miscellaneous (I may trademark this greeting to rival "Happy Holidays") everybody!

Back at ya, K for K.

Just think, at one point Connie Chung was a CBS primetime news anchor along with Dan Rather.

Now they're both candidates for Hollywood Squares.

Maury's current talk-show seems to set the low in the industry...the few unfortunate times I have caught clips he seems to be exploiting poor black people by submitting them to DNA tests to check for paternity. The men usually either get angry if they are found to be the Father or Jump for joy if they are not....I wonder how the kids will feel when they grow up and see the tape? And this is the kind of guy GE wants to have on its payroll?

What do mean Bill O'Reilly is standing behind me? No Keith wake up its only a dream.......By the way have you seen the ratings? Nancy Grace laughs at you!

Hypocrisy thy name is Olbermann: does anyone recall Keith's public moral grandstanding against News corp when it ran a blind item regarding Sandy Koufax' sexuality? Keith went ballistic, wrote an article on it for Salon (google Olbermann and Koufax) and also referenced what he claimed was a homophobic piece on Mike Piazza. Well from Olby's high horse you would think he would never tolerate any type of homophobic reference at any time. But, hey, we know our Keith. In tonight's episode of Meltdown, they replayed Keith openly mocking Tom Cruise and engaging in blatant innuendo that clearly insinuates Cruise is gay. Referring to his wife's pregnancy, KO asked if it was artificial insemination, the immaculate conception or a neighbor!! Yes, the same man who threw a moral hissy fit over a gay insinuation on Sandy Koufax (and returned an alleged five figure advance over it!) later engaged in a much more blatant and obvious smearing of Cruise.

What is the difference? Cruise, of course, is a Scientologist who has political and social opinions which differ from Keith's.

The lesson from Keith, which is as pure an example of his intellectual dishonesty as I have seen, is that publishing a blind item gay rumor is wrong and makes you swine if Keith likes the person being smeared, but it is absolutely clever, witty and perfectly acceptable if you have views that differ with Olbermann's.

PS
Just as an example of Keith's journalistic sloppiness--in the Salon article he mentions Koufax is friends with CNN's Larry King from their childhood....anyone who reads a newspaper remembers when Larry King was forced to pblicly admit he fabricated his boyhood friendship with Koufax. Has Keith not heard of google?

Irish,

If Olbermann had done the Koufax piece for Countdown instead of Salon,it would have been accompanied by a shot of Sandy Koufax that was actually a picture of Sen. Robert Byrd.