Olbermann Watch - MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann: Greetings from Tennessee

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April 10, 2006

Greetings from Tennessee

I'm down in Nashville today and will be tied up the next two nights and so unable to watch Countdown. Thank goodness for OlbermannWatch where I can monitor KO without having to actually watch the unwatchable.

Here is a little trivia in the meantime:

Q1. I am in Nashville for...

a) To interview Mary Winkler, the preacher's wife murderer, in her jail cell in Selmer.
b) To attend the CMT Music Awards at the Grand Old Opry
c) To discuss blogging with Federal judges from around the county
d) To shoot amateur video of tornadoes

Q2. Keith Olbermann grew up in...

a) Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
b) Berkeley, CA
c) Hastings, NY
d) Cambridge, MA

Q3. I had lunch this after noon with...

a) a special assistant to then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
b) a two-time Democratic nominee for Governor of Tennessee
c) a business partner of Bill Frist's father
d) the inspiration for the name of a character in a Warren Beatty movie

Click "read more" for the answers.

Q1. I'm here in Nashville to speak at the Justice & Journalism conference at the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University.

Q2. Keith Olbemann grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson and attended the Hackley School in Tarrytown, NY both just down the road from where I grew up in Irvington, NY.

Q3. If you said all of the above you'd be right. I had lunch with my good friend John Jay Hooker who has been all those things and more. It is not mentioned on Wikipedia but John Jay is good friends with Warren Beatty and appeared in Beatty's biopic of John "Ten Days That Shook The World" Reed as Senator Overman. Beatty also named the title character in his hilarious political farce, Bullworth after John Jay (Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth).

If you've read this far you are a devoted fan of the site so let me you to volunteer...

There are two KO "fanlistings" sites each with a couple dozen or so members. I always want to make the list of KO links on the right side of the home page as complete as possible. I need someone who can take an hour and review their sites and see if any of them ought to be listed on the Olby Watch home page. The URLS are...

http://garr.ulo.us/countdown/
http://fan.star-wisher.com/keith_olbermann/

I'd guess it would take less than an hour to review the site.

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By Caroline on April 10, 2006 8:45 PM

Bob,

I took a look at the websites you listed.

I'd probably list both sites just so people can see what's out in Olbermannland. Assuming these sites echo other KO fan sites, I'm sure OW readers will find them amusing. The first link doesn't appear to have been updated since September 2005. The web address was formerly http://fanlist.hinote13.com/countdown/ . The second site will only add you to the member list when the webmaster does their next update...whenever that is.

By Robert Cox on April 10, 2006 11:23 PM

Caroline,

Great. Except I goofed and was not clear. I saw on the member list that some members linked their own web sites. Is that what you are referring to; did you click on each of the members' sites to see if they are KO related?

By OneByOneTheProWarCriminalsFall on April 11, 2006 3:05 PM

-- Italian elections appeared to have stripped President George W. Bush of another Iraq war ally in Silvio Berlusconi.

-- Bush lost two wartime allies in 2004 when Jose Maria Aznar's conservative government was defeated in Spain and Portuguese leader Jose Manuel Barroso stepped down to head the European Commission.

-- Now it is Blair, the most faithful of Bush's backers and the most visible defender of the 2003 Iraq invasion, who is on the political ropes for the war, compounded by a series of domestic controversies. Responding to current polls and ongoing troubles, political analysts in Britain have predicted Blair's government will be all but gone by the end of this year.

-- Next, in America, Polls show the Democrats poised to reclaim the House and perhaps the Senate in this year's midterm elections, as they lead incumbent Republicans who promoted the war in Iraq by a 10-15 percent margin in voter polling.

By Caroline on April 11, 2006 6:16 PM

Bob,

Nope, I didn't do that but will look at the links tonight.

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