"Then the good news: the Hour of Spin ended ten minutes early. For us it was like an early parole."

Thanks for the laugh!

JD

Thanks for putting in the O'Reilly link. I would swear that Worst Person had Frankin stench all over it! O'Reilly gave him fair warning. But we know this piece of pathetic garbage and his trashy spin rats won't heed this. So.....LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!!

I loved KO's tirade where he bragged on his 30% increase in viewership. When you start with a base of 10 viewers , you get up to 13 - that's 30% KO.

KO gets his ratings data from the jackasses at TVNewser, a group of liberal dopes. They obsess about the 25-54 demographic since Keith almost pulls third place. The guy is a pathetic loser and always will be. As O'Reilly starts embarassing NBC further, they will have a choice. Keep a crappy miserable embarassing nobody host with no ratings, or get a real host who might get some ratings and behave professionally. Until MSLSD fires Kaplan, the former will prevail.

As for TVNewser, I wonder if they report ratings selectively. Friday numbers (and sometimes Monday numbers) for Keith are usually miserable, yet Friday numbers and Monday numbers are often absent from that crappy site.

That really was one of the most disgusting rants last night ( Olby on Oreilly ) that I have ever seen. Keith ... Have you no shame!!

Ha Ha defending O'Reilly LOL.

This is a funny site. And the dumbing down of 'merica continues.

Does anyone have a transcript of this? I do not have a media player and am interested in learning what was said.

"behave professionally"

Like O'Reilly? I would hate for any network to sink to the level of that dumbass on FOX. What a piece of shit he is. Of course when viewers just want ridiculous fast food instead of news, they can just turn on FOX.

Keith Olbermann is the best news commentator on air today. He's not a Fascist chickenhawk flannelmouth like blowhards O'Reilly and Hannity.
O by the way before you all freak out over the use of "Fascist"- look at the definition government by an alliance of corporations and the military led by an idolized leader- dissent is ridiculed and discouraged- the people are kept in perpetual fear that only the Beloved leader can save them and scapegoats are used- sound familiar?
and the economy's doing real well too ask all the Ford workers; and you guys are worried about Keith Olbermann?!? Look at the way the Constitution is being trampled;
The Bill of Rights forever!

I think the point is that KO has personally attacked O'Reilly over 58 times - by name. O'Reilly has never attacked KO personally - in fact, he has never even mentioned his name. O'Reilly's only attack is on MSNBC's constant personal attacks against him.
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"behave professionally"

Like O'Reilly? I would hate for any network to sink to the level of that dumbass on FOX. What a piece of shit he is. Of course when viewers just want ridiculous fast food instead of news, they can just turn on FOX.

Hey "Dan"

You said: "O by the way before you all freak out over the use of "Fascist"- look at the definition"

OK --

fascism: "Political philosophy that became predominant in Italy and then Germany during the 1920s and 1930s; attacked weakness of democracy, corruption of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs; undertook state control of economy to reduce social friction.

Sounds more like your Democrat buddies to me.

As for this statement:

"and the economy's doing real well too ask all the Ford workers"

You can thank auto unions, inflated salaries, and outrageous health and pension plans for Ford's problems. If you get pay and benifits worthy of a CEO for putting doors on cars, how can your company make a profit? The workers have their own greed to blame. The economy is doing very well. Socialist companies are doing poorly.

Thanks to Keith's strong lead-in, MSLSD had 707,000 viewers for the State of the Union Speech. Very strong . . . until you see that Fox News Channel's coverage of President Bush's State of the Union was watched by 6,462,000 viewers and CNN averaged 2,218,000 viewers! Another job poorly done Keith! Keep deflecting ratings with your superpowers.

I had probably watched Bill O'Reilly once or twice before I began watching Countdown.

Since then I've doubled that number and all because of something Olbermann had said about some issue or controversy surrounding O'Reilly. Olbermann virtually promos O'Reilly's show.

Bill should be thanking Keith. Especially if Keith has a young demographic, as he claims.

What's more enticing to younger viewers than hearing some television personality making politically incorrect comments and taking on some sacred cows.

Whoa...dude...like he doesn't suck...

This is yet another example of how O'Reilly's over-inflated sense of his own importance is causing him to make more of a jackass of himself than he generally does.

He needs to shut up and send Keith Olbermann thank-you notes.

Thanks to Cecelia for saying what i've wanted to say all along. It's not that we love and praise BO. I could write a column about all the ways in which he irritates me.
It takes a special strain of mental illness to give the amount of free advertising that he gives to his so-called 'enemies'. I'd love to know how much traffic he's generated for mediamatters alone, and the less said about the Frankenbook the better.
So much more to say but so few writing skills.

Laura,

If you have a lot to say, by all means say it.

Welcome to Olbermann Watch.

Actually, I said the above and typed Laura's name in the Name box....

A third glass of wine and I'm dangerous. :D

Well, this is an Olbermann site, after all. How much obnoxious behavior can one site manage?

Laura,

As much as Johnny lets me.

At least he keeps us off the streets, if not the bottle. Seriously, though, it might be nice if the two of them went back to their rooms and started reporting the news, rather than waving things at each other.
I'm loathe to admit that Olbs rant last night was pretty good, at least if you don't overthink it. He might have a sliver of a point with the suggestion that O' has certain bullyish qualities. Shocking, no?
I swear to God, I'd like to think that if I had as much money and influence as he thinks he has, I would not drop a public load every time someone dares to say a not nice thing about me.

Yes, I will admit he did have a few semi-valid points in his over-the-top screed. But there is method in his madness. The whole point of staging that bizarre segment was to sieze the offensive. He had just got caught in an embarrassing predicament: ridiculing O'Reilly for something O'Reilly never said. And the last thing Olby would do is admit he's wrong about O'Reilly. So he launched this hyperbolic salvo to take the initiative, and try to drown out his own lie in a shower of new invective. And since everyone else gives Olby a pass, it will work.

That's a given. My thing is if O' would stop engaging(and I think he's mentally incapable), it would, at least, subside. Someone like Olb won't let go of the bone entirely cause he's got nothing to lose by taking shots at his betters. On the other hand, Rush ignores him entirely, which saves us having to endure an Olberlimbaugh snarkfest.

Quite frankly, O'Reilly is doing a headier version of "Inside Edition" for the people who turn the channel when they see Fred Barnes or George Will because they are "too boring." That having been said, Bill seems to understand the importance of attempting to be truthful, while Olby completely lacks the capability.

It seems Olby looks at a given topic, decides what he wants to be true, then tries to prove his point with whatever arguments he can. If facts are there, fine. If they aren't, he'll make them up. Keith behaves like a disingenuous Public High School debate team third-stringer.

"Thanks to Keith's strong lead-in, MSLSD had 707,000 viewers for the State of the Union Speech. Very strong . . . until you see that Fox News Channel's coverage of President Bush's State of the Union was watched by 6,462,000 viewers and CNN averaged 2,218,000 viewers! Another job poorly done Keith! Keep deflecting ratings with your superpowers."

So, Keith is supposed to do bullshit like those 2 networks to compete?

It's like what Koppel said the other day:

"Right now, the main agenda is to give people what they want."

"profitability that shapes what you see."

Yeah, what a triumph for America that 6 million + empty-headed, self-deluded cattle like to have The Big Giant Head re-enforce their fears and self-delusions. Yippee. The reason you emotional little girls don't like KO is because your don't like to hear the truth... it reminds you what a dupe you've been and how you continue to support a regime that is grinding your children's future into the dirt for the benefit of a very few rich people. The fact that Bill O is a hypocritical sex pervert, Rush a degenerate drug fiend, and your "president" a lying criminal is of no moment as long as you are able to keep up the fantasy that you haven't been played like the fools you are, and aren't supporting the worst, most evil regime in American history. The sad fact is that Bush is not the worst actor in this depressing play... YOU ARE, because you know better but are too proud to admit that you have been supporting a murdering criminal regime. This is the saddest moment of American history, like Germany in the 1930's, vast portions of the population have finally become so ignorant and irrationally fearful of a fake boogyman that they allow the Constitution to be shat upon by the idiot son of an a--hole millioniare. What a sad end for such a great land.

Any of you moronic moonbats care to carry on a debate based on facts? Anyone dumb enough to state, "The reason you emotional little girls don't like KO is because your don't like to hear the truth" is beyond help. KO lies like a rug -- just look at the DOCUMENTATION of his lies on this site alone.

"Facts"?? That's awfully cute coming from a Bush supporter. You wouldn't know a "fact" if it dressed in a flight suit and landed on an aircraft carrier behind a banner that read "It's A Fact!"... although if that happened, you drooling sub-human bushies would certainly believe every word of whatever lie Bush happened to incoherently mutter. I just wish your personal need to be lied to by the useless son of a millionaire didn't also mean the ripping down of 200+ years of American democracy. It's sad to live in a nation filled with half-wits and morons like you, but even so, you lot are SO stupid and SO destructive that it can't last much longer. There won't be anything left for the republicans to screw up and steal.

So, if you want to talk about facts, let's talk about facts:

FACT: Bush has violated the law by ordering unconstitutional searches of citizens and should be impeached and jailed for life.

FACT: Bush has violated international war crimes laws (instituted by USA and the allies after WWII) by conducting an unprovoked and illegal war of aggression and should be tried and jailed for life.

FACT: Bush committed treason leading up to, and after, 9/11 by failing to protect the USA and then by covering up his Saudi friend's roles in funding the attack. He also acted like an abject coward (no surprising since he was a draft dodger 35 years ago) by flying around and crying like a little girl for hours. He should be impeached and jailed for that too.

FACT: Bush is a simpering half-wit, as are most of his supporters, the others being greedy scum.

Anonymous,

With your grasp of the "facts", you could be the next guest on Countdown...

"This is the saddest moment of American history, like Germany in the 1930's, vast portions of the population have finally become so ignorant and irrationally fearful of a fake boogyman that they allow the Constitution to be shat upon by the idiot son of an a--hole millioniare. What a sad end for such a great land."

Here dear, have some champagne...

Well Cecelia, like most ignorant and empty-headed Bush supporters, I see you haven't bothered to say anything other than "that's not twue!".

Great defense for the Liar-In-Chief.

Trixie,

Like most angry, humorless, and utterly ridiculous doomsday sayers, you are apt to experience hallucinations.

I never said a word about truth or 'twuth'.

how about how the "liberally-biased" media obediently reported that sheehan was (illegally) arrested for trying to display a banner? how pathetic that they have to make up such a ridiculous lie to justify arresting a woman's whose son was a war-hero. cowards.

Dopey,

Two people wearing t-shirts were ejected. One person had a "support the troops" shirt on, the other shirt bearer was Sheehan. I doubt Bush was plotting against your hero. Be sure to vote for Sheehan against Diane Frankenfeinstein.

Wrong. One was escorted. The mother of a fallen war hero was arrested and an absurd cover-story was concocted and broadcasted uniformly across the media.

I'm not angry, i'm stunned at the depth of ignorance and self delusion in this country. P.T. Barnum was right (yes, I know he actually didn't say it).

I point out that this country has gone to hell in a hand-basket due to a Moron at the helm and all you can mewl is "it ain't twue! it's all because the Olbermann guy said bad things about my favorite sex pervert Bill O!!"

You people are funny.

Trixie,

No, you merely state your foregone conclusions and assumptions as though they were down from Mt. Sinai, while pre-emptively hurling names at anyone who might take issue you.

You just sputter out the sort of hyperbolic, irrational allusions to night-time in America, and the dawn of a Third Reich-- over-the-top rhetoric that would make a paranoiac shake his head in awe.... but goodness knows.... you aren't angry....

What you are is a stupid and bitter little control-freak who would literally kick to death anyone who dared to cross you, and will,if and when you think you can get away with it. You're an enraged and hateful little thug who has found politics a very convenient vehicle for expressing all the meaness in your livid and little soul.

Unfortunately this is a blog board and not my yard where I could set my dogs on your type of violent traveling interloper. However, I would be concerned that they might just die from your taste.

Cece, love the post, but don't you feel like we lower ourselves with the whole tit for tat? It's satisfying, momentarily, but then you feel a little dirty, and not in a fun way. Maybe the hormones are just swinging philosophical.

"You're an enraged and hateful little thug " ...

"I could set my dogs on your type of violent traveling interloper"

Typical brainwashed republican hypocrite. You can project all you want on me, the facts are the facts. Your hero President Cokehead has run the country down. He's wrecked the economy, lost 2 million jobs (whoops!), plunged us into debt (from a surplus), and let arab terrorists call the shots. He's a loser and a liar and it's hard to take anyone who continues to support him seriously... especially when they seemed to have a split personality and talk about how "angry" and "violent" someone is and then, in the same message, talk about setting dogs loose on them.

And you think you're not helping me prove my point about what an idiot you are? How about defending your hero on his pathetic record instead of making threats of violence?

Not a chance... because there ISN'T any defense.

All you facists know is to sic the dogs... because you can't express a though unless it's an approved Karl Rove talking point.

Laura,

The only way I might feel dirty is if I had been insincere.

You know how that is, don't you.

why don't you tell me, oh great one?
My only point, assuming I have one, is that every time I spew I wind up feeling like a jerk. That comes under the heading of personal problem, but not one that is a great hindrance, obviously.

Laura,

I suggest Tigan.

Yer welcome.

Testosterone cream also works amazingly well. Calms me down. Go figure.

Makes me think Ann Coulter might be curable.

Laura/Obi-Wan,

I'm not a fan, but Anne Coulter has never found it necessary to pretend to be anyone. She is who she is.

No question. Probably the worst thing she could do is tone it down on behalf of hens like myself.
Remember when libs biggest debate point was that conservatives were a bunch of fat old white guys?