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Barry Bonds??? what, he did'nt sign a baseball for Olby? Kissing Howard's ass? Nothing New. (please Howard be my friend and come on my show.) Dana Milbank again? Did Keith have a fight with his friend from newsweek? I hope I catch that wacky promo. Should we even have hearings after his show tommorow or should we just burn George Bush at the Stake at 9:01 p.m.? Michael Musto? You know at this point he's playing to the upper west side crowd. Which is about where his ratings are comming from at this point. Thanks JD another fine job!!!!!

Interesting remarks about search and seizure, Johnny.

It just goes to show how easy it is for Keith to snark on people since he won't allow them or anyone else on to defend a point.

BOOO, OLBERMANN! How dare he tell more details of the Libby cover-up-- it's a non story, 'cuz Rush said so! It's like the anthrax story, and the male prostitute in the White House, and the Abramoff missing photos, and the unfortunate destruction of Bush's service records, and Bush's non-answer of using cocaine... Why doesn't evil Olbermann bring THOSE non-stories up,too?
BOO, OLBERMANN!

Anonymous,

You're lame to say the least, but I'll answer in the same spirit that you write...

Why don't we mention a few stories that were Olberman non-stories because Mr. Olbermann left the air to avoid covering them.

Yep, he quit his job during the Clinton scandals because he felt they were "taking over his show"...

How about, foreign benefactors to Clinton's campaign fund, who FLED THE COUNTRY after a Special Prosecutor started looking for them. One donator was arrested and prosecuted for illegal campaign donations to Clinton and the DNC:

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/01/28/charlie.trie/

Concerned about things like missing records? How about Rose Law Firm billing records that went missing for months until they finally appeared on a table in the WH private quarters?

Like conspiracies? How about CLinton quizzing his secretary, Betty Currie, on a false memory ("We were never alone right".)two days before she had to testify before a grand jury.

What about the Arkansas convicted drug dealer, Jane Parks, who swears she sold cocaine to Bill Clinton and the two other people who said they used with him at the time?

Olbermann took a powder when the coverage was about the former president. He went back to where he belongs-- sportscasting.

No one's telling Olbermann not to cover what he wishes now on his program. We'd just like to see him have the guts to allow a contrary viewpoint or a defense against his accusations.

Instead of throwing terms like "Rush" or "Faux News" around, why can't you idiots address the subject at hand, Keith Olbermann, and how much you love him because he's an utter ideologue passed off as an anchorman.

Right on, Cecelia! Why DOESN'T Olby cover those stories???
I think it's 'cause he doesn't want to betray the libs...not because Clinton hasn't been President in FIVE years. But Olbermann, lib that he is, SHOULD bring it up. Every night, along with the Clinton Body Count in the corner of the screen. He should also have Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick as NIGHTLY contributor, too...and focus on the REAL NEWS: The Misdeeds of History's Greatest Monster, William Jefferson Clinton.
So, with this pressing news, why does Olby concern himself with non-stories like Constitutional issues, the Plame case, bribery in the White House and GOP congressional leaders, yadda yadda yadda??? WHO CARES... DOESN'T OLBERMANN KNOW THAT 9/11 CHANGED EVERYTHING?
BOOO OLBERMANN!!!!VIVA BUSH!!!!

Jenna,

Actually, I'd have settled for his covering them back in '90's, instead of quitting his job instead.

How bout you, Jenna?

And again aside for making fun of the way Keith characterizes the 'groundbreaking' nature of a story that he wants to cover (unlike unimportant stuff like the investigation and impeachment of a president), we've only asked that he have someone from the opposing side on to answer his snarks and accusations.

Keith should cover all the issues of the day. But would it kill him (or you) to allow both sides to be aired?

Probably.

Cecelia, I agree with ya 110 percent. Olby needs to demonstrate the same non-partisan broadcasting ethics as Hannity, O'Reilly, Scarborough and Limbaugh (who calls himself, rightfully, "America's Anchorman").

Instead, Olbermann went running from a show called "White House in Crisis" when it stopped being about him... and not, as surmised, because it was a GOP smear job that grasped at straws after the Whitewater investigation fell apart. Olby wimped out.

So, who cares about Valerie Plame? I don't! Or the Abramoff scandal? Not me! Or Iraq being a catastrophe? I support our troops... AND OUR PRESIDENT!

VIVA BUSH!!!! BOO OLBERMANN!!!

BTW, Jenna,

Since you have to throw around Brodderick and Wiley as though Olbermann left because he had to air gossip in those days... let me enlighten you on some of the inconsequential issues that Keith thought were "taking over his show" at the time.

Jones vs Clinton-- A "constitutional issue". A case take all the way to the Supreme Court. They decided unanimously that a private citizen could sue a sitting president. Clinton had argued otherwise.

A special prosecutor's investigation-- into allegations that the president had tried to thwart the discovery process of a civil suit brought against by a private citizen. Remember the false affadavit that Lewinsky signed after being driven to a lawyer by Clinton friend Veron Jordan. Just a trifle over sex...

Misleading a grand jury-- Clinton got a fine and a temporary loss of his law license for this. No big deal. What's a bit of lying to a grand jury, right Scooter?...

I guess these things weren't groundbreaking enough for Keith at the time.

Jenna,

Actually, all those shows routinely feature guests with opposing viewpoints. Viewpoints that ......oh my God!....actually oppose those held by the host!

What's Olbermann afraid of?

As for the show Keith walked away from...there was an army of flakies--- Paul Begala, James Carville, Lanny Davison, etc. available to defend the president and who routinely appeared on MSNBC to do so.

That wasn't enough for Keith? He would have still have had to air these issues of the day in the first place? And on HIS show?

Oh how awful!

Well, viva the poor tolitarian Olbermann! He did the equivalent of putting his fingers in his ears and singing...

Thank you for proving my point. Presidential abuses ARE important and need to be covered by the press. Olbermann is covering them against Bush, and you're mad. According to you, Olbermann didn't cover them during Clinton (probably one of a handful of journalists who DIDN'T) and it grates on your nerves that he is one of a handful of reporters keeping these stories alive.

Would Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh or Drudge bring these abuses by the Bush Administration up in their programs? Doubtful.

So, presidential abuses need to be covered when it is a Dem, but can be ignored when a guy like Bush is President. Do I have that right?

Anonymous,

So far you haven't gotten anything right.

So the NSA and the Plame case are NOT being covered by Tucker, Scarborough, Colmes, Hannity, and O'Reilly? Think I'll go look at a show synopsis for these shows, at some point today.

Too, Anonymous, we've made fun of how Olbermann characterizes some aspect of a story (that he wants to cover) as being new or groundbreaking, but no one here has suggested stories about the NSA, Plame, or Abramoff shouldn't be covered. We want them fully covered....from all sides...

I think that concept is just too much for Olbermann and you guys to bear.

It's stuff like Olby's ridiculing of Gen Hayden for a supposed error, that makes Countdown the Hour of Spin. The General answers correctly, Olby doesn't know how to read, and so the General gets smeared by the arrogant sports guy.

Plus, the incessant pimping of his own agenda by always interviewing people who agree with him. The pot-shots at his perceived enemies, often no more accurate than his pot-shot at the General. The parroting of Media Matters reports while ignoring statements equally (and often more) outrageous by Olby's ideological comrades. The spiking of stories that don't fit his pre-ordained talking points. I could go on, but I already do that five nights a week.

And the cherry on the sundae: Olby's smug, supercilious, too-hip-for-my-shirt hubris. All of this is why we say Countdown is the most biased news hour on television. Our nightly documentation proves it.

Jenna,

I think you are right. I think the boss should be allowed to stick cigars in his employees nether-regions willy-nilly (pun intended). Since you feel the way I do, why don't you come work for me? I can promise you the same work environment that Bill would give you.

As for Chinese lobbyists paying off the President, I am all for it. The President needs to make some scratch for his Library after all.

I do agree that scandals like perjury take precedence over Iran's quest for annihilation of the West, so I like Keith's choice of lead stories. So what if Iran is making nukes, telling OPEC to decrease oil production, and meeting with Bashar Assad? I don't care! I want to know whether a Government Official lied during an investigation into a CIA agent who likes to be in Vanity Fair and whose four year old son says "my mommy is a spy" in airports.

I also firmly believe that terrorism is like a pesky mosquito and will never hurt the U.S., so I don't care if foreign terrorists are calling their friends in New Jersey at all. The worst they could do is kill a few thousand people. We should stop trying to intercept these calls and spend the money on studies that investigate how transgendered union workers feel about using the public restroom at work.

Oh my! Iran has nukes! Well, if Prez. Bush says they have nukes and WMDs, they have to have it!

He did fire all those people who gave him the bad intel for Iraq, right? Can't make the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud!

Re: Cigar boy: Uhhh, wasn't it consensual sex? Forgot about that, I guess.

Also, hasn't Bush been in office for 5 years? Your undies are still in a bunch over Clinton. And if you liked Chinese lobbying, you're gonna love Abramoff!

Jenna,

I least O'reilly has opposing opinions even if he does "scream them down". If Keith positions are correct, wouldn't he want to make the Republicans look bad by kicking there butt in a debate? Unless of course, your positions are weakly founded and all you do is blow obviously bias smoke out your backside.

Isn't it funny how the left tries to marginalize the high ratings of right of center media figures.
What, do conservatives watch more TV then liberals? Maybe the left is a lot smaller then they make themselves out to be and that the vast majority Americans are in the center or right of center and the KB's view represent only a small fraction of American, hense his dismal ratings. HEY FAR LEFT, MOST AMERICANS DON'T BUY INTO YOUR BELIEFS. HOUSE,SENATE, PRESIDENCY.SCOREBOARD!!

ps-yes, I'm being overly emphatic.Apologies.

It's fascinating that these Olbermann fans aren't just unable to reason, but they're also unable to read.

Jenna,

Yes, Bill's cigar trick with Monica was consensual, so that makes it awesome. There are too few powerful men willing to take an 18 year old intern under their desk these days. Bosses often get in trouble for abusing their position and authority but I find all that feminist stuff trash just like you do. Nothing is better than a little chippy working around the office who is willing to get down and dirty with the boss. Again, I formally ask you to come work for me.

I agree that Iran is a harmless little puppy. I just don't understand why the Europeans are so worried! God, why don't they just GET A LIFE! They should stop bothering the Iranians. Obviously they need nuclear power because they have such huge energy needs! Sure, they have lots of oil, but they have to plan for the future! I say we send Jimmy Carter to talk to them just like Clinton did with the North Koreans. That will fix everything.