Your kidding right? No way his spin was that obvious. I didn't see the show but now I want to to make sure you didn't cook this up:) Freaking hilarious. Olbergeeks, how do you explain this one?

In the interest of fairness, I will defend Keith.

Clearly, Keith was being precise about distance. When one states a distance as "15 to 30 yards," it is implied that the 30 yard mark is a boundary. Therefore, to restate, the Doctor said 15 up to 29.99999999 yards inclusive. The breach of the 30 yard mark makes all the difference. When the Doctor says 15 to 29.999999999 inclusive but the stated distance in the police report is 30, Keith has a cushion of .00000000001 yard or so to play with. Keith is nothing if not precise.

In addition, I think Keith used the term "yards" in the traditional Anglo-Saxon sense, when a yard was equal to one foot. Therefore, the Doctor was confused by Keith's historical reference (history is one of Keith's strengths). If anything, the Doctor transposed yard for foot, not Keith. Ever the gallant host, Keith tried to allow the Doctor to save face by covering for him.

All kidding aside, how sick is it that Keith is ready to kill off the old lawyer Cheney shot just to see the VP get dragged through the mud? Olby is a despicable person, to say the least.

Oh, and by the way . . .

KEITH HITS ROCK BOTTOM
The Scoreboard: Friday, February 10

8pm:

1. O'Reilly: 1,910,000
2. Grace: 587,000
3. Zahn: 453,000
4. Deal or No Deal: 353,000
5. Countdown: 292,000

Keith is losing badly to CNBC now! In other words, MSNBC, the cable mothership, is losing to its own money channel in prime time. Holy cow that is an embarassing. But that's our Keith, always breaking new (lower) ground

Just curious but has Countdown ever aired a correction? Or is there a place on the website where corrections might be listed? (Like in a newspaper?)

This is day five of the Shuster non-correction...

Or is it day six?

Keith is anti Judeo-Christian hating, marxist Islamo-Fascist lover.
I really wish he would run into one of these Jihadis he always defends.
He loves to trash our government but not our enemies.
he should be deported for sedition to Iran!

Johnny,

The 90 yards business was hilarious. Once during one of his pretentious introductions to one of his conspiracy theory smear pieces, Keith spouted background for the term "freudian slip". Talk about your irony. Your boy makes more freudian slips than Teddy Kennedy at a drunken pool party.

I thought the hit on Kenneth Starr was an ironical hoot too! Keith waits eight years to name someone he once compared to Heinrich Himmler, as being "Worst Person in the World". For what? Well, for trying to save someone from a lethal injection...

Keith, just like the rest of us, Freud isn't laughing with you, he's laughing at you... :D

By the way, Johnny, in light of Keith's new nightly sign-off, I think you should have continued counting down the days Olbermann has failed to correct his misrepresentation of Bill O'Reilly's remarks.

An excellent idea, C. But the only question is where to count from. His most recent phony O'Reilly attack? Or should we go back to November 2004, another case of Olby doctoring one of O'Reilly's quotes, getting caught, and never correcting it? Man, then it's already day 900-something!

Good point, Johnny.

On second thought, it really is impossible to keep track of any one particular misrepresentation when you're dealing with an irresponsible partisan hack sportscaster cum news anchor.

How do you "accidentally shoot a deer"? That makes no sense to me.

Uncle Buck,

The accidental deer shooting was yet another Countdown misrepresentation that Olbermann had to correct last night. Rick Kaplan must have been standing on the set with a hickory switch or Olbermann would have never bothered to have issued all those corrections.

I'm not 100% sure of the type of bird it was, but I believe the "deer" in question was a type of bird called killdeer, which Bush accidentally shot while duck hunting.

Good grief.

I want to know that if Mr. Whittington dies and then is brought back to life like Jason in the horror movies and then he tries to kill Jamie Lee Curtis, is Cheney culpable for any damages in the hospital?

And doesn't that show that because Jamie Lee Curtis had to pay for her own hospital bills, that Bush's Medicare cuts fall disproportionately on the poor and middle class?

And doesn't this really show what a just frankly completely irreponsible and silly press we have in this country? Regardless of ideology; for I'm convinced that had this been a Democratic VP the same nonsense would have been undertaken although the volume, if you will, may have been less intense.

Yes, Cheney should have been more prompt in informing the press. But this is just absurd.

SMG

JDogg66:
Right.

Please return to "Kosland" or whatever leftwing site you usually visit.

SMG

SteveMG,

The MSM has long hated Dick Cheney, but what you're seeing too is the outcry from their wounded sense of self-importance. And it is important for a pol not to offend them, as Marlin Fitzwater and Ari Fleischer know...

Here's a link to a piece Washington Post reporter, Howard Fineman wrote a couple of years ago about what he has called The American Mainstream Media Party:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6813945/

Read it and then analyse the media's reaction to not being told about Cheney's hunting accident until the morning after.

Fineman's American Mainstream Media Party theory, is enlightening as to why Olbermann can feel it plausible to call himself "nonpolitical" in an interview. Olbermann hates Republicans and/or conservatives but he doesn't FEEL himself to be a Democrat (a member of either political party). He doesn't have to, he's a member of the AMMP.

I read a letter to the Wall Street Journal from reader Tom Davis who wrote this about Fineman's AMMP piece that was reference on the WSJ site:

"In large part due to the ideological congruence between the AMMP and the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party's main function has been subsumed by the AMMP. It is the AMMP that sets the liberal agenda, and the Democrats follow. It is the AMMP that makes the most effective challenges to conservatives, and the Democrats merely echo them. The AMMP is a much more effective shadow government than the Democrats are. As a result the Democrats have become vain, intellectually lazy and self-righteous."

When you see Reid and Pelosi using the AMMP's talking points about Cheney, the next day, you see Davis' words in play.

lol, smg

To know the main stream media, you have to know who becomes a main stream media journalist.

1. Probably the majority: "Make a difference" types. Activists from the get-go, enamoured of tales of reckless newsmen past (Woodward, Bernstein, etc). They dream of book deals and center stage.

2. Empty headed pretty people who want to be on camera (easily malleable, like to "belong")

3. Infrequently, someone dedicated to reporting facts

The end result is a media driven by the passions of the people who compose it. They need a cause and a good side / bad side to exploit. If an enemy doesn't exist, it is necessary to make one or the dream is over. How can you make a name for yourself when there is no evil Nixon-type or evil war to expose? No racism? That won't do! No gender inequality? Better make some up fast! No evil companies? Wal-Mart to the rescue! A Pullitzer in the waiting!

The hostility to the bloggers and internet news comes from the reporters' collective instinct to preserve their deepest-held desires. Every time an agent of the MSM insults an internet journalist or Fox News for playing it straight, he screams "stop messing with my dreams!" Unfortunately for the MSM, the internet allows people without crazy agendas to comment on the news, even to make the news in some cases.

The best thing that can happen is for the old guard media elite like Rather, Woodward and Bernstein to be discredited. Once the paradigms of "activist hero reporter" are discredited, the young journalists will go into the field with a healthier understanding of what it means to report the news. No more Keith Olbermanns, looking to take up a cause, find the conspiracy, pick a fight, and tell us all about their thoughts. No more home movies of the '68 Yankees on a newscast, or happy recollections of being on the radio in college when hearing of John Lennon's death. Just straight forward reporting on what is actually happening in the world. That way we might actually see what is happening out there!

I have not seen one report about progress or change or the people in Iraq in the past month! A Democratic country is being constructed from the ground up, and the MSM could give a shit. Is history going to focus on the creation of a new Iraq or on Dick Cheney's hunting accident? If you believe in Dick Gregory, you believe the latter. If you believe in Thomas Jefferson, you believe the former.

Anonymous,

I think it's fine for the media to offer up context and to offer 'viewpoints' as long as it's done in a balanced matter.

Chris Matthews on Hardball (and I know he is a pundit and his is an analysis show) spends most of his show PERSONALLY formulating and offering up DNC talking points against the war and the WH, but at least he has guests on the show to rebut them.

As for Olbermann featuring personal stories and film-strips, I don't have a problem with that in the context that it was done--- sports and cultural icons-- but he has to know that they will be used against him.... Especially when he tries to wax poetic as he did about John Lennon's "golden presence".

That bit probably made Yoko Ono snicker...

Lookout folks, I just had Fox News on and Cheney will be on an exclusive with Brit Hume tonight. Oh boy I can't wait to see how Mr. cut and paste works this one.

And okay nobody else has said this but, How many people in the press went to sleep night last hoping that they would wake up this morning finding out this guy expired during the night.

KFK....Deal or No Deal beats Keith?....PRICELESS!

Yup -- beats him like a red headed stepchild

I think Keith will have his hands full tonight. Will he lead with the new Abu Ghraib photos, or with Cheney, or will he mix both into one big miasma? Either way, I think we know what to expect tonight! Quelle surprise!

Read this and then watch Chris Matthews tonight... :D

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007970

is Deal or No Deal a rerun? I thought it aired first on NBC, but I cant' imagine anyone live show losing to a game show re-run.

Yes it's a rerun, and the five episodes have been shown over and over (and over) on CNBC.

Keith Olbermann is just an American hating Marxist.
he had sympathy for the Anti-cartoon rioters.
Like i said Sedetionists like him should be deported to Iran!

JDoog66,

I hear the "Sedetionists" sect in Iran doesn't want him either...

Maybe the Maximo Lider Fidel might want him.
I could see him in doing Cuban propaganda.

Doesn't look like your prediction will come true Jim.

Look at this from your own website!

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/default.asp

MSNBC Enjoys Eight Days Of 25-54 Demo Wins At Seven & Eight O'Clock

MSNBC beat CNN in the 25-54 demographic at 7 and 8pm last week, and the trend has continued so far this week.

Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann have outperformed Wolf Blitzer and Paula Zahn for eight straight weekdays.

WOW! Keith is losing in the overall ratings, but doing well in a SUBGROUP! Well well well! Let's check how many handicapped people watch and see if he wins there too!

Last I checked, 229,000 viewers sucked, case closed. Zahn and Blitzer are atrocious as well, but at least they pull better numbers overall.

O'Reilly destroys them all anyway, so who cares?