Porter Goss was prob not disappointed.

Noticed KO did lament that no other media had picked up the Guardian story today. Although airing of a clip of a State Department press briefing (?) did reveal at least one reporter asking a single question about the memo. The press spokesman wearily shaking his head and saying, "We've been over this ground again and again and again."

Which raises the question of why has there not been more reporting on any independent validation of the Guardian's memos, one way or another? Oh well.

Two telling remarks from last night's Schiavo interview. When introducing the interview segment, KO said: "First, to understand the man you have to remember the context." Shortly afterward was a clip of Bush saying: "This is a complex case with serious issues."

The two keywords were "context" and "complex." Light interview. If you are going to promote someone, at least go the distance.

While watching the rerun of last night's show, I did discover one way to take the pain out of the promos and teases. Watch it backward! Reverse back, skip the nonsense, watch the news related segments. Really torques the show down!

Nice read again, JD.

Let's play a game. Let's see if we can determine who Keith likes and who he doesn't from a transcript of Thursday's show:

MCHAEL SCHIAVO, CHAIRMAN, TERRIPAC.ORG: I don‘t think I‘m really out there to politicize. I‘m not out there to do that but to hold these people accountable. These people should not have done what they had done. . .

OLBERMANN: What about the president? President George Bush?

SCHIAVO: I think I was most stunned with him. I have never in my entire life have ever seen a president slide back from his vacation to sign a bill. He gets up at 1:10 in the morning to sign a bill. OK. That‘s just unbelievable.

I mean, the amount, the millions and millions of dollars it took to do this. It just blew my mind. And it was basically because his brother called him up and said hey, can do you this? I‘m sure that happened. But that just blew my mind.

OLBERMANN: Some of the other figures who were key to this, Rick Santorum, the Pennsylvania senator. A thought about him?

SCHIAVO: The man is clueless. He came down here on one of his campaign trips, stopped by the hospice and pulled up in his limousine and got out and walked the path like Jesse Jackson and the rest of them. Standing in front of this crowd of people talking stuff he had no clue about.

OLBERMANN: Do you think that some of the politicians were sincere but mistaken as opposed to merely trying to make an opportunity for themselves out of this or make an opportunity for a certain aspect of the political spectrum? [i.e. Jesse Jackson Olby? --ed Was anybody in this who was just sincerely mistaken?

SCHIAVO: I don‘t think anybody was sincerely mistaken.

{Olby: DARN!}

http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1661

Dopey

Whats the channel 4 thing a report on how to change the grease in the fryer? Oh did you hear that a family of four just pulled up to the drive through! Better get on it!!!

There's some Harris Poll out of best loved media personalities and O'Reilly is number four after Oprah, John Stewart, and David Letterman. Evidently, he's moved up four places this year. It's hard for me to believe too...

See where all the publicity from MSNBC went... :D

Has anyone tried digging into Olby's personal life?

Has anyone tried digging into Olby's personal life? >>

That's sick!

No, who would want to dig into this pathetic guy's life? We are only concerned with the PATHETIC job he is doing for MSNBC. The fact that he has never been married at such a late age, and has no children says it all, we don't need to know any more than that.

We don't like Olbermann as an anchorman because he's a partisan zealot.

We couldn't care less what he does in private.

Patrick,

Long ago, I think Olbermann looked deep into someone's eyes and whispered, "You're beautiful and there's no one else but you."

He was gazing into a mirror at the time.

C, that's kinda what I meant (actually didn't mean to imply anything else). He seems to be a totally self absorbed person to me.

Patrick,

No prob...I didn't read you as implying anything other than what you said-- that Olbermann is self-absorbed.

Keith is also O'Reilly absorbed. Lest we write off Keith's personal side as being nonexistent or shallow, let's remember that Keith once offered O'Reilly's sexual harrassment accusor over $90,000 for her alledged tapes of phone calls from Bill.

Now how many men (or women) want to pay money (let alone that amount) to hear Bill O'Reilly talk diry?

Olbylogic: If I attack the most popular cable news anchor in America, I will enhance my own reputation and ratings! Next up on Countdown, Keith attacks Oprah, Mother Theresa and a little old lady who takes care of orphans!

Anonymous,

I think it's more than your Olbylogic theory.

It's personal.

Aha, the ad hominem thread. Just one click into this Web site and I found it. Kudos!

Unmarried and self-absorbed,

That's no way to talk about yourself...