Statements of fact they are few
From the boy with the apricot hue
“News Show” claims NBC
That’s a joke, journalistically
Since when did news have to be true?

Before any one bashes me, keep in mind. I am the most fair balanced journalist on the air. I stand up for the little guy. I speak truth to power! So stop hating.

Actually, the suggested readings are links from the Countdown newsletter that they send each day. They prepare itjust for me each day. It is my understanding that since they have already prepared it for me they send it to other people if they ask for it.

They are the articles Olby is using to prepare his script so it's worth looking at to give you a sense of how he is "setting up" his show for the night.

Robert,
We have a new know it all Aristotle annabe. He calls himself jt! Watch out he thinks he's the most intelligent man on this planet!

Hmmm...

KO didn't know Dan Senor worked with Fox News. I guess it's safe to assume that KO didn't get an invitation to his colleague Campbell Brown's wedding to Dan Senor, huh?

Hi Keith!

Thanks for the post and stopping by! By the way KO, you do know that Tony Snow has done fill in work for Bill O'Reilly. Uh oh!

The increasingly smaller group of people who believe Fox News? As compaired to what MSLSD? Meltdown? A show that can't beat a THREE WEEK OLD O'REILLY RERUN? LOL...LOL...LOL...LOL..A show that can't pull 1/6 the numbers of O'Reilly on a Monday night? Now maybe theres hope tonight I'm going over to check the numbers from last night. I'll be back!

I really liked the Jeff Gannon/James Guckert part of the show tonight. I guess Mr. Dollar was in the toilet at the time so he didn't put it in his review of tonights show. But being the nice guy that I am I decided to mention it. I know Mr. Dollar would never omit anything that is embarassing to the Republican party. I am also aware of the fact that if Clinton would have had a gay male prostitute posing as a reporter he would never mention it because it would not have been all that important.

I really liked the Jeff Gannon/James Guckert part of the show tonight. I guess Mr. Dollar was in the toilet at the time so he didn't put it in his review of tonights show. But being the nice guy that I am I decided to mention it. I know Mr. Dollar would never omit anything that is embarassing to the Republican party. I am also aware of the fact that if Clinton would have had a gay male prostitute posing as a reporter he would never mention it because it would not have been all that important.

I have smaller ratings because my audience is smarter and I speak truth to power!

No numbers yet! I don't know why? It's not like Meltdown is up against a THREE WEEK OLD O'REILLY RERUN!......Got beat by a rerun, a three week old rerun. THATS BAD!....THATS REALLY BAD!!!!!

I say give McClellan's job to Olbermann. That is who the lefty press corps wants anyway. Just give Olby the basic info he needs to run the conference and let the lefty convergence begin. Normal people will laugh their buts off.

When Hillary gets elected, Olbermann will be the Whiehouse spokesman!

When Hillary is elected this is what will happen.
Before she takes the oath of office, she will replace the Bible with the Koran, then she will state:
"The is no god but Allah and Muhammed peace be upon him is his prophet!"
Then she will disband the US military and make Zarqawi vice persident of the Islamic States of America. She will invite the Islamo-Fascist to come her to form the Islamic Army of America!
Keith Olbermann will be the official Whitehouse spokesman and will open his news conference everyday with a call yo prayer facing Mecca.
That's what we're heading to thanks to Olbermann, Soros, The media and Howard Dean.
The Leftists will convert to Islam so they don't have to pay Jiyiza tax on Dihimmis. Christianty and Judiaism will be outlawed and the Left and their Islamo-Fascist allies will ahve won.

Olbermann should be the announcer for the Liberal Democrat political franchise. As the "home team" announcer, he could root for Cynthia McKinney to escape prosecution while delighting in damage to opposing players like Scott McClellan.

He would have to change the show's format of course. Instead of five stories it would have nine innings, each four to six minutes long (depending on commercials). When the liberal team plays Don Rumsfeld, Olby would do the play by play, all the time rooting for his beloved team. At least the show would make sense, and he would add a degree of honesty to Meltdown.

Olbermann will have Jack Frost and jt desribing their great intellectual virtues!

According to this board's reasoning, why isn't Hannity or my namesake volunteering to be White House Spokesman. These guys are real pros about answering questions without saying much while smiling at you like your best friend while they're doing it

Forget your political for a minute.IMO McLlenan is viewed as a "good guy" by the white house press corps. What is your take?

A good guy with bad bosses. He's called a liar because it turns out his bosses either didn't tell him the information he needed to know, or his bosses knowingly told him the wrong thing. I don't think anyone at the Press Briefings 'hates' Scott, they are probably just frustrated at not being able to get a straight answer.

And common, you had to see the jokes at Tony Snow funny (Will he have to pay backtaxes?). And because I'm so tired of seeing you ALWAYS post: and here we get some more celebrity news..ugh--I've decided to bring your attention to a little thing called the Inverted Pyramid--Look it up.

spaghettilegs,

you think it's easy to watch Countdown running to the bathroom? More likely he went to throw up.

...per usual, if you don't like J$ take of Countdown, you and your fellow KO supporters have an open invitation to write your take on an a broadcast of Countdown.

I have extended that offer since this site was launched in 2004 and not one of you big talking KO fans have taken me up on it. Could it be that it's a little more difficult to put your own ideas up on the big Olby Watch board...easier to pick nits with the always brilliant J$

We might be a tad hard of KO....I think he now realizes that he lacks all the credentials of being a journalist...he lacks the intellect (hence his never having anyone with an opposing viewpoint on his show), he lacks the intellectual curiosity, he lacks the verbal skills and lastly he lacks the integrity.He only relies on spewing hatred towords those whom he disagrees (hence TWPITW segment....which, as my 3rd grader says, "is so 2nd grade")
KO is like any court jester...a parady unto himself

WOW!!!!I went from a fellow KO supporter to a
Big talking KO fan all in one paragraph. Now that's a fast track promotion.

Here's my pro-KO take from last nights show.

Brilliant, as usual.
Finally, someone had the family values, integrety and inclusiveness to acknowledge Scott's spouse, Jeff Gannon.
Sadly, still no mention of Olbermann Watch.

A dope wrote:

"According to this board's reasoning, why isn't Hannity or my namesake [O'Reilly] volunteering to be White House Spokesman."

Ummmm. . . . maybe because they would have to take five or ten million dollar pay cuts?

Let's see, what would you libs like? How about the White House Press Corpse{sic} elects a representative to serve as spokesperson? That way, they could spy on the White House and disseminate misinformation while the representative makes sure an honor bar is always at the ready when the journos are in the room.

The mini stockholder revolt going on at the New York Times is a small sign of big things to come. People are tired of news bias - and the Times is appealing to half of it's possible audience.
The decision by GE - and NBC news to continue with Opieman - will have ripple effects for years to come- Opie on every day makes it clear that NBC feels partisian propoganda is OK- thereby tuning out at least half of the US population. Last I looked - public coprs were accountable to their owners - the stockholders. Opie is doing irreprable harm to the reputation & credibility of NBC. Transcripts are there to be studied. Someone is making an awful, awful business decision letting him rant every night against Bush & all things Conservative or Republican

re: all things Keith ... quick question ...

is it true that Keith can't drive a car because of his subway-related depth-perception accident? (rather than because it requires one to drive on the RIGHT side of the road : ) which means, of course, that Keith can drive in England just fine.

yes, blucaller, KO was once again wonderful for those of use who long to drive on the left. have a good one fellow Keith lovers/haters/watchers.

P.S. loved the dana milbank line about "Zen Rummy"

"Opie on every day makes it clear that NBC feels partisian propoganda is OK- thereby tuning out at least half of the US population."

Where are your complaints about MSNBC allowing Scarbourough, Carlson, and Matthews spewing partison propoganda? And What about FOX?
You pathetic right wingnuts not only can't handle truth, you are offended by the very notion of balance.

Blucaller--
Scarborough, Carlson and Matthews don't make disingenous claims (as the Krazy One does) that they are "newsmen" who are playing it straight and dishing it out equally to both sides. Scarborough, Tucker and Matthews are opinion makers and make no bones about it. And these three routinely put guests on their shows that challenge thier own political worldview-- something Kowardly Keith will never do. Maybe KK should relent and allow someone on the show who would challenge his liberal looney politics and take some Pepto so he won't get "queasy". On second thought, maybe the Pepto wouldn't be such a good idea-- might turn the orange Man-Tan into some funky orange pink combo.

blucaller,

As Sen. Moynihan used to say - you can have your own set of opinions just not your own set of facts.

Now, if you are giving opinion you are entitled to stack those facts in your favor and even gloss over or omit facts that you don't like.

The question for NBC is whether KO is doing a comedy show, a news show, a new analysis/opinion show. From what I see they are having KO do all three at the same time and muddying the water as to what NBC News is all about. The same could be said for Imus in the Morning. I know Rick Kaplan believes this is the future of news and maybe it is but then KO trotting out his Edward R. Murrow Awards as if he is some paragon of journalism becomes a bit silly. If you dabble in playing Jon Stewart don't expect me to accept you as Tom Brokaw.

Maybe you should try "accepting" Keith Olbermann as KEITH OLBERMANN. Journalist are under no obligation, regardless of what your limited experience with journalistic tradition and ethics or the echo chamber at FOX tells you, to coddle or make excuses for those in power.
He has almost singlehandedly restored the noble tradition of "the adversarial press" that you folks were so fond of in the old Bill Clinton days.
KO is entitled to his heros and influences, and last I checked, he's on MSNBC, not NBC.

And what's the deal with you guys dragging out quotes from Democrats everytime you have to make a point? There must be something some Dead Republican said somewhere that is memorable or would impress somebody.

"If you dabble in playing Jon Stewart don't expect me to accept you as Tom Brokaw."

very well said. (even tho i'm a big keith fan). i admit that keith is biased, but personally, i like his bias and think he speaks the truth. different strokes.

so, Robert, i'm guessing that if MSNBC stopped calling Countdown a news show and started calling it a news analysis/opinion show, that would go a long way to mollify one of your biggest complaints about the show. (and leave you to indulge the other 999 complaints you have about the show/KO).

and reiterating my previous question ... is it true Keith can't drive a car? can anyone help me out with that? Bueller? Bueller? anyone? thanks.

Robert -

The McClellan moments were clever, especially with that cheesy '80s hairband power-ballad playing in the background. It would actually take a long time to string together all of the really choice McClellan dodges, obfuscations and outright lies, and Countdown did a pretty good job of capturing some of the best ones. Like the one where Scottie claims that Rove and Libby didn't have any part in leaking Plame's name because he asked them and they said they didn't! HA-ha! A tragi-comic classic that one is!

Oh, yeah and all the Gannon shots, those are priceless! I mean, how much better can it get than a congenital liar calling on a fake reporter? I think that can only be topped by the way Rumsfeld asks and answers his own softballs.

But, hell, lately entire press conferences are just him blurting out one continuous lie interrupted by reporters' questions.

I think it's kinda funny how you only seem to criticize the jokes Olbermann tells about the people who might be replacing Shitpile, oh, er, uh, I mean, McClellan but don't mention anything about Scottie himself.

What do you think of McClellan as a Press Secretary? Personally, I thought Ari Fleischer was a bad liar, but then comes Scott McClellan (whose body language, facial expressions and verbal cadance all telegraph every lie he tells) to make Ari look like a professional.

McClellan lied like other men breathe (musta been a student of Cheney's), but that's not hard to accomplish when you're attempting to cover the collective ass of the most corrupt administration in history.

The joke about Tony Snow getting back pay was accurate, and I actually do hope that Tony makes is as Press Secretary. I REALLY don't like Dan Senor and it will be lots of fun seeing Snow go down in flames.

Lying to an audience isn't as easy as lying to a camera, after all.

Lefty,
It's true, he is unable to drive a car, because of depth perception problems he recieved after his concussion injury on the subway. He spoke of that on Q&A on C-Span recently.
But the jealous guys here ought to be able to do something with that by claiming it's because of his size 14 shoes.
"It would have to be a clown car.."
"He would be a menace on the roads because of his heavy feet...."
something...
Come on you guys! Your skin tone and hairline jokes are getting old!

thanks blucaller ... and don't forget ... next tuesday's online insurrection meet and greet password has been changed from "censure" to "impeach". yuck yuck. ciao for now ...

Jack Frost,
You made good points. Where is all the stuff about Scotty's personal life? Did he and Jeff Gannon bring their adopted child, "Santorum" to the Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn?

KFK: "Ummmm. . . . maybe because they would have to take five or ten million dollar pay cuts?"

True patriots put service to country ahead of service for money! Look at Dick Cheney.

Enough said for your excuse of an answer.

Looking forward to reading you guys tonite after the show.

Dealing with the White House Press Corps is a waste of time. It is not a "service to the country." McLellan's successor will have to deal with a bunch of liberal, stuck-up whiners spewing invective while casting aspersions. Enjoy the Olby show tonight you dopey moonbat.

"liberal, stuck-up whiners spewing invective while casting aspersions" ... all except for Jeff Gannon!

on another note, i've always been a big Randy Newman fan and thought ya'll would enjoy an old hit of his that's been a favorite of mine for years. note: in this case, to rhyme, "Paris" is given the freedom-fries pronunciation of "Pear-ee". enjoy.

Political Science
-------------------
By Randy Newman

No one likes us, I don't know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
All around, even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens

We give them money, but are they grateful?
No, they're spiteful and they're hateful
They don't respect us, so let's surprise 'em
We'll drop the big one and pulverize 'em

Asia's crowded, Europe's too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada's too cold
South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one left to blame us

We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin', too!

Boom goes London, boom Paris
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We'll set everybody free
You'll wear a Japanese kimono babe
It'll be Italian shoes for me

They all hate us anyhow
So let's drop the big one now
Let's drop the big one now

Total viewers wed. 4-19-06 8 P.M.

O'Reilly: 2,434,000

Blabberboy: 610,000

O'Reilly 4x the viewers.

THANK YOU FOR COMMING AND PLEASE DRIVE HOME SAFELY.

puck,

I don't know if I'd be too glib about the ratings. In working yesterday to add some new features to the sidebar (the column to the right on the main page) I read through the archive.

On December 1st, 2004, I put up this post:

ESTABLISHING THE COUNTDOWN BASELINE

Countdown Ratings: November 2004
Households (%): 0.4?Households (000): 365,000

On JAN 13 2005
O'Reilly = 2,514,000
Olby= 288,000 (25-54=64,000)

February 27, 2005

MNSBC OLBERMANN (night Gannon story broke)= 208,000

Countdown MONTHLY DATA FOR FEB = 236,000/night

March 8 2005
MSNBC OLBERMANN 315,000

J$ famously caught KO basing his reporting on an item he lifted from TVNewser - that O'Reilly had claimed he had 9 times the viewers on Election night. TVN had it wrong, KO repeated it, O'Reilly was talking about the "day before" which was the day AFTER Election Day.

Point being in Nov 2004 O'Reilly had 9x the audience of Countdown; that he now has 4x audience is another way of illustrating that KO is growing his audience, The Factor audience is decreasing and the gap both in actual and relative terms is shrinking.

I'd still like to do a detailed analysis so if any of you readers has access to the Neilsen data and would be willing to provide it to me to run some numbers I'd appreciate it.

Robert,

It is no surprise that Krazy Keith's ratings go up when Bush's approval rating goes down. The Krazy One feeds off of his audiences anger. The more Bush Derangement Syndrome out there, the better Keith's numbers. If Bush turned it around and more people started liking him again, Keith's numbers would tank. Keith is not on his own, after all -- he is part of the mainstream media project to discredit Bush and surrender to the terrorists.

Keith's sentence structure is horrendous, he behaves bizarrely, he is angry, and he is stupid. He's lucky there are enough angry, stupid and confused Bush haters out there to give him a 0.5 rating.

For whatever reason, KO's numbers are clearly much higher than we started Olbermann Watch. That can be interpreted a number of ways. I am sure many will feel that the left's harsh reaction to Olbermannn Watch spurred them to prove us wrong and watch the show to spite us.

My view is that we were correct in our original analysis that Keith Olbermann had the potential to become much more of a force in broadcasting and could become the dominant cable news program given time. This is why we began our KO KO campaign back in 2004 and why we must press before Keith Olbermann truly is the most dangerous man in America.

Just imagine someone with the power and force of Bill O'Reilly but WRONG all the time.

I seriously doubt your site has contributed so much as a single viewer to Countdown with Keith Olbermann, but expect you have been the benificiary of Keith's burgeoning popularity.
Many of us just can't get enough of KO, and come to places like this to have our feelings validated that he is singlehandedly leveling the field for the national debate.
You are right, however, that he is a giagantic threat to the right wings' grip on propoganda.

What's really frightening is imagining someone with the force and power Bill O'Reilly THINKS he has, right or wrong.
It's

blucaller,

You thinks you so smart huh. Well let me ask you something. How do you explain the fact the Keith Olbermann is so afraid of this site? How is that he has been pressured by J$ into backing into corrections of previoius stories? Why does he keep whining about Olbermann Watch in the press? This site is inarguably the most persistant, high profile critic of Keith Olbermann and one that makes him tremble.

It is unfortunate that in order to point out the many errors of malfeasance, journalistic faux paus and out right fabrications of words that it has become necessary in our great tradtion of free speech in this country to draw attention to Keith Olbermann in order to bring the attention of the American people to bear on the danger that is Keith Olbermann.

Robert,
I wouldn't want to diminish your site. I'm glad it's here, and appreciate that you make the efforts you do to maintain civility, so thanks for that.
Do I think I'm smart? Uhhh.... I have only a high school education, but I do appreciate that KO, unlike the right wing heros of most of the posters here, doesn't talk down to his audience.

I am highly sceptical that this site, with its low traffic (or at least number of posters) and even lower level of discourse, has ever caused KO to retract or correct anything. If he has done so because of J$, I would lose some of my respect for him.
Rather than "trembling" at the mention of OlbermanWatch, I can imagine him wanting the site to grow and reach a much wider audience as proof that he has gotten under the craw of the nuts on the right.
What do I have to do to get myself one of those little flags that warn the regulars here that I'm a loonie?

Ha! Just keep posting!

Seriously, I dont' always put those up- just when we get linked by some left-wing site and are inundated with troll comments.

That said, let me think about it and see if I can come up with one for you.