I'm watching the Q&A program now. Olby's take on morality is hilarious. He is the paragon of virtue, of course. I keep waiting for someone to throw a net over him.

Unreal, he claims he justs asks questions not try to solicit a political response!
What a liar!

The fake-tan look is back. Nice quarter-inch of whitewall around your hairline, Olby. Send one of your memos re: getting new makeup artists.

Wait until you get to his Cornell speech...puh-leeze.

Olbermann is the scumbag nerd that used to get beat uped in school!

I lived in the town where KO went to school - The Hackley School in Tarrytown and it is true, we public school kids always thought those Hackley kids were wierd and, sometimes, they'd get beat up.

What you don't hear alot about from KO is all the sports he played as a kid; funny when you consider that Bill O'Reilly was a college baskteball player at Marist and yet KO spent a good deal of time ridiculing O'Reilly's athletic background. You may recall KO made a number of false statements about KO and had his facts wrong on the structure of college football at the time O'Reilly was in school (that Marist was not a Division III school; there were NO NCAA divisions when O'Reilly was in college).

When Marist issued a public statement to Olbermann Watch confirming O'Reilly's account of his involvement in the Marist football program - and this was made available to Keith - he ignored it and refused to run a correction.

Cox, got to give it to me I'm 2 out of 2.
I called Sanjay an Islamo-Fascist and Keith Olbermann a weirdo that got beat up!
I'm doing good!

Cox, got to give it to me I'm 2 out of 2.
I called Sanjay an Islamo-Fascist and Keith Olbermann a weirdo that got beat up!
I'm doing good!

Cox, got to give it to me I'm 2 out of 2.
I called Sanjay an Islamo-Fascist and Keith Olbermann a weirdo that got beat up!
I'm doing good!

okay folks

Fridays numbers were not posted as of 9:30 p.m. but. Did you see the 18-54 demo for thursday?

O'Reilly 423

Deal or no Deal 325

Grace 222

KO 155

Zahn 113

Ko just makes it to 1/3 of Mr. O's numbers. Rick Kaplin says KO is the best show on cable? Isn't this the same Kaplin that said the only people that watch Fox News are angry white guys?

Philly

Five will get you ten the makeup artists can't stand Olby either.

I agree that there is a white line of demarcation around Olby's orange face -- perhaps an effort at avoiding contamination of his wig with the man-tan, or perhaps a line of super-absorbent white powder to prevent flop sweat? After all, spewing 100 words a minute with a malfunctioning tongue while spinning and twisting is hard work.

I saw Keith's #1 story about unsexiest men. He was showing a clip of Dick Cheney. Problem is, Dick is not on the list. Seems that Olby wanted him there, so he just spliced in some footage to make it so, kind of the way he splices footage of himself into porno movies to make it seem like he has had sex.

I now unveil KfK's top ten most unsexy men in the world. My list, by the way, is more reputable than the list created by that crappy "Phoenix" website:

10. George Soros -- crazy eyes, coke bottle glasses, twitchy face, psycho hair

9. Michael Moore -- grotesquely fat, sweaty, smells like urine, cheeze whiz and ass sweat

8. James Carville -- Looks like a corpse, sounds even worse

7. Paul Begala -- The loser from John Hughes movies, except all grown up

6. Jimmy Carter -- A less-macho Mister Rogers

5. Fidel Castro -- Stinks like cigars, sweat, blood of dissidents and eau de toilette.

4. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- Wears ill-fitting suits, has beady eyes

3. Ayman al-Zawahiri -- crazy eyes, bad hair, pushy

2. Osama Bin Laden -- Tall and dark, but never showers, lives in caves, attitude problem

1. Keith Olberman -- Orange face surrounded by white demarcation line, uneven beady eyes, frothing mouth, wig, bad suits, speech impediment, nerdy water boy all grown up chip on the shoulder.

I didn't even watch Al-Zaeera USA(Keith Olbermann) I was watching O'Reilly discuss serious matters of real concern.

DOSE ANYONE HERE HAVE A GOOD STUFFED GREEN PEPPER RECIPE????

"But the winner: "worst person" Michelle Malkin."

Olberman seems to have deep-seated sexual problems involving attractive conservative women.

Remember the time he enacted a sex-murder fantasy with an Ann Coulter doll?

And given the events of the day, Herr Olbermann also seems to believe that publishing a press release is worse than murdering Jews.

Why does this demented freak still have a job?

You guys are just haters! I get more butt than a toilet seat! Me and my buddies Zarqawi and Ahmadinejad are going to get women while you all hate on me!

The unsexy guy list

Anybody ever heard of "The Phoenix" before tonight? (real mainstream, yeah right)

It was posted by two guys. About other guys. Shouldn't women be doing this list?

The unsexy guy list

Anybody ever heard of "The Phoenix" before tonight? (real mainstream, yeah right)

It was posted by two guys. About other guys. Shouldn't women be doing this list?

The unsexy guy list

Anybody ever heard of "The Phoenix" before tonight? (real mainstream, yeah right)

It was posted by two guys. About other guys. Shouldn't women be doing this list?

The unsexy guy list

Anybody ever heard of "The Phoenix" before tonight? (real mainstream, yeah right)

It was posted by two guys. About other guys. Shouldn't women be doing this list?

sorry about that a real breakdown on the server tonight

sorry about that a real breakdown on the server tonight

Just found your cite today! To say Keith Olberman is an uber moron is understatement. I was wondering who else is as irritated with this no talent jealous hack, as I have been. I guess now I know. How many people watch this idiot's show? Three, four? Props to this website. Keep the pressure on KO. The guy has a single digit IQ.

I say just ignor Olbermann, how about Jack Frost watch.

"When pundit for all occasions Howard Fineman showed up to discuss Bolton, Krazy Keith let loose with another of his patented leading questions:

Is he the guy for the job? Does he not scream status quo?
Not suprisingly, Howie found a way to concur with this sentiment"

Howie said he has known Bolton since 1999 when Bolton was working on the Bush Presidendial race.

So,if Keith calls that keeping the status-quo, what would you call it- a reinvigeration of new blood?

I wish Olbermann would go away.

I can't take it any longer. Having enjoyed this site for several weeks now, I've seen several references to, including tonights show synopsis, a posting of "imformation of a personal nature". I understand the info was already available on the internet. Please give me the skinny on this elusive nugget before my head explodes! Thank you.

Dear Mr. Dollar,

If I am not mistaken, KO has a book up and coming . I was wondering if you were going to read the book and do a review and post it on your site. Just wondering.
Spaghettilegs

I'm waiting for Jack Frost to post his revolotionary movement's manifesto!

> was wondering if you were going to read the book and do a review and post it on your site.

If he sends me a review copy I'll be happy to review it for Olbermann Watch. I will take special care to see if he repeats the "worst person" lies that we have exposed in the past, the ones he never corrected even when informed they were proven wrong.

So write to Keithy and advise him to get a review copy to us, pronto.

How come you chose not to discuss the "bombshell" declassified document? Frankly, KO should have discussed this one in more detail. You know, the de-classified one that they said shows there is no mention of Valerie Plame-Wilson's status as a covert CIA agent. The only problem was that it was labeled SECRET all over it. Treason is bad. Here's a link to help you debunk it.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000392.php

Yes it looks like Status Quo. Snow stays, Rummy stays, maybe McClellan goes. Feebly asking for resignations. That fits their attack the messenger M.O. Bringing in a guy that has been with him 19 years IS NOT considered bringing in new blood. I suppose after they got bit by Brownie after letting him go, they are reluctant to repeat that fiasco. Better to keep these morons collecting a paycheck than have them go on the talk shows and snipe at them.

STOP HITTING POST THREE TIMES!

Let's see. A declassified document that was labeled secret. Why else would it have been declassified? They don't declassify documents that are NOT secret, do they? And it doesn't have any mention of Plame's covert status. Why would it? It doesn't mention her status as Queen of the Nile either. BECAUSE SHE WASN'T.

Seems to me that Olbie's sources for his show consist of nothing more than the Soros troika referenced above, with Kos and moveon.org thrown in to sound sane. He seems to cut and paste what theses idiots write to his show. Well, if you join the 6 people who do watch him, you don't have to visit those sites.

Also, it seems as though the cocktail party crowd loves him. He's been on Colbert and Cspan a lot recently. Playing to the choir, I see

Another source from keith is whatever the Iranian Foreign Ministry tells him to say. He's traitor that should be hanged!

Dear Mr. Oreilly,

What is your opinion of us making permanent buildings in the sands of Iraq? Do you think that if a child were to be born today, and joined the military, 18 years from now, he or she could expect a deployment to the middle east?
From this day, 17 April 2006 and the day the last American Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine exits Iraq, how many of them do you think will die? Do you think each death is worth it?
No matter your response, I will respect it because it is your's and not mine. But I feel that the lives of Americans. Being in the military or not, are not worth what we are doing in Iraq......Spaghettilegs..

They were printed on the press release the protesters handed out to the media!

Here's how it was listed on Malkin's own site:

"The unhinged group behind the anti-troops movement at UC Santa Cruz is "Students Against War." The leaders on campus, according to a SAW press release, are:

Sam A. [information redacted]
David Z. [information redacted
Janine C. [information redacted]"

Further, she calls what they did "sedition" and called it a "mmonbat ambush".

No other site or press organ published these people's personal e-mail accounts and home telephone numbers. The purpose of putting contact information on a press release is so that if somone has a question they can contact a person with the group. It is not meant to be published unless it says ON THE RELEASE that the information is released for publication. That's what responsible journalists do.

Malkin is right up there with Ann Coulter for "batshit insane right-winger".

On Malkin - she was asked to take the numbers down after the students had recieved death threats, she didn't. Malkin does this stuff just to get attention (pictures of Mohammed on a poster on FOX News anyone?).

http://saw.revolt.org/node/51

Oh, and the Contract with America was a "cockamamie" plan. It was a good thing to run on, but nothing to make policy on (kind of like reforming social security, or being a uniter not a divider, or.. well, you get the picture).

Great explanation Trekkie.

Furthermore, If it wasn't for Malkin's posting of the phone numbers and emails, the students would not have received nearly as many death threats that they received. She clearly knows that her postings are contributing to the death threats and she still refuses to take them off her website.

Ask yourself: If Malkin's postings of these personal phone #s (twice 4/12 and 4/17) is OK, then why has no other media outlet in the world publicly posting these numbers?

Here one of the content basics of press release writing at the following website and it also backs up Trekkie's assertions:

http://www.press-release-writing.com/content-basics.htm

"Contact Information: Skip a line or two after release statement and list the name, title, telephone and fax numbers of your company spokesperson (the person with the most information). It is important to give your home number since reporters often work on deadlines and may not be available until after hours."

The above statement clealy shows that the contact info has the specific purpose of allowing REPORTERS to contact the organization to get more information!

Great explanation Trekkie.

Furthermore, If it wasn't for Malkin's posting of the phone numbers and emails, the students would not have received nearly as many death threats that they received. She clearly knows that her postings are contributing to the death threats and she still refuses to take them off her website.

Ask yourself: If Malkin's postings of these personal phone #s (twice 4/12 and 4/17) is OK, then why has no other media outlet in the world publicly posting these numbers?

Here one of the content basics of press release writing at the following website and it also backs up Trekkie's assertions:

http://www.press-release-writing.com/content-basics.htm

"Contact Information: Skip a line or two after release statement and list the name, title, telephone and fax numbers of your company spokesperson (the person with the most information). It is important to give your home number since reporters often work on deadlines and may not be available until after hours."

The above statement clealy shows that the contact info has the specific purpose of allowing REPORTERS to contact the organization to get more information!

The are only two things Republicans, Liberterians and Vicious Christians believe in: hate and greed. Ronald Reagan fought his whole life for Greedom. Hitler had the Dream and Ronald Reagan brought the dream to America.
Thank God, Mr. Olbermann tells the truth, because Fox and Ronald Reagan Nazi Hate Radio(Limbaught, Hannity and Boortz) and the Republican Swift Boat Gestapo are the enemies of Freedom, they only believe in Greedom: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich!

Ha Ha. Olbermann Watch. Yeah! Keith Olbermann has made the big time, and has struck enough fear into the Right Wing Cry Babies that they stuck on a new filthy web diaper to wallow in.
Just hope he is as intellegent and saavy as his ever-growing audience trusts him to be and never swallows your bait. Naw. You wouldn't even make the cut if he had a "Not-So-Hot Person in the World category.

Who watches this show anyway? He's the worst thing any tv personality could be. Boring. He's trying to use a success like Bill O to garner himself attention. Won't work, Keithy. It's sad that even the crazy moonbats can't even watch him.

I wouldn't miss his show. It's easily the best thing on any of the cable news networks. That's why there's so much buzz about Keith Olbermann.
That's why he was on C-SPANs Q&A. That's why his numbers are going up, while O'Reillys are are dropping so fast. That's why the mere mention of his name will get O'Reilly to sick Fox security on you. That's why this copy-cat website exists all of a sudden.
I could give you the names and and addresses of dozens of people I know personally who have started watching him recently. But you'd probably turn them over to last nights WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD and their lives would be threatened by your fellow Fox viewers.
And he does it all surrounded by a bunch of
rabid rightwingers on a network that is trying to outFOX FOX.

The host of Meltdown's insane
He whacked his head on the train
Now his thinking ain't right
Attacks women for spite
He's hiding under his desk again

Trekkie claims: "No other site or press organ published these people's personal e-mail accounts and home telephone numbers."

You can't get away with this sort of misinformation at Olbermann Watch. To wit:

http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=18037

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060412120326890

http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/2006/04/military-recruiters-more-things-change.html

We would hope posters here would aspire to an accuracy rate at least better than that of the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann.

J$ - you da man...

blucaller wrote - "That's why this copy-cat website exists all of a sudden."

hey blue..check the archives...we have been around for YEARS.

"the way he splices footage of himself into porno movies to make it seem like he has had sex"

- That made me laugh

- but not as much as THIS from blucaller:

I could give you the names and and addresses of dozens of people I know personally who have started watching him recently.

- Dozens? Wow! Call Neilsen....blu has the ENTIRE LIST of Countdown viewers!!!

beef (hamburger) 1 med. onion, finely chopped Salt to taste (a sm. amount in the palm of your hand.) 1 finely diced or chopped or crushed clove of garlic (Or you may shake garlic powder in the bowl generously, this will be about 3/4 tsp. garlic) (but then we like a lot!) 1 tbsp. dry parsley or a nice lg. handful of fresh well chopped parsley from the garden 1 tbsp. oregano 1 tbsp. Mama D's Italian seasoning (use the seasonings to taste some people don't like as much spice as we do in our Italian food) 2 eggs, cracked & dripping over sink to bowl 6-8 saltine crackers (put them in a plastic bag & crush them with a rolling pin to eliminate crumbs on the counter) Sprinkle course ground pepper so you can see it (any kind of pepper will do about 1/2 tsp. or less, to your taste) 2 tbsp. olive oil (or a couple of splashes) (this helps to avoid sticking when mixing with your hands
If just starting out and your budget is a bit slim, you may add rice and lessen the amount of ground beef.

Mix all ingredients by hand, scraping cracker crumbs from outside of bowl. Once mixed well (with sticky fingers or gross fingers depending upon who you are) caressingly fill each green pepper, stuff well and solid but don't over fill. Be careful not to fill too briskly or energetically or skins may crack. When all of the peppers have been filled, make meatballs from the remaining mix. Kid's as well as some adults don't like the green pepper or just haven't acquired the taste for good Italian lovable food as of yet!

To Cook: In a large dish, or borrowed roaster from your mother if just starting out; place peppers open side up. Surround with meatballs and cover with sauce. (If one or two are too tall turn them on their side.)

The Sauce: Use Elaine's Homemade Italian spaghetti sauce (without meat) or substitute Paul Newman's Ragu or your favorite.

Cook 2-4 hours at 325 degrees. Check after first 1 1/2 hours to test doneness of peppers and meat. Adjust heat as needed. Do not allow to boil over as almost impossible to clean once burned on the oven. (Place a cookie sheet under the pan will help, especially if the sauce is close to the top of the sides of the pan.)

Serve with your choice: Tossed green salad - in salad bowls. Lettuce, endive, chard, spinach, tomatoes, celery, onion, cucumbers, slivered carrots, radishes, zucchini, dressing. Garlic toast. Pasta.

So tell us who you think is more accurate than Keith Olbermann out here in this bizzarro universe of yours? Hannity? Limbaugh? O'Reilly?
This is a parody site like the Colbert Report, right?
Michelle Malkin knew full well what posting those kids phone numbers and email addresses on her site, with her whack-o following would result in, and any sane or honest person would have to acknowledge it was done maliciously for purposes of intimidation by proxy.
The victims of her cowardly act have chosen to not take the bait and are staying focused on their anti-war efforts.

Hey Michelle, thanks for the OlbyWatch link!

Like we need MORE moonbats over here!

THE MOONBATS STRIKE BACK
By Michelle Malkin · April 17, 2006 08:17 PM

You can't get away with this sort of misinformation at Olbermann Watch. To wit:

The first two links do not show any personal contact information (one shows an email address to the entire SAW group).

The third is a straight copy-and-paste of the SAW press release, but I will concede that they did not redact the numbers.

However, it's still irresponsible and unethical to publish them. The numbers were printed on the press release for reporters to contact them, not for them to be plastered all across the internet.

blucaller - you are smarter than you look

that said, this site concerns itself with Keith Olbermann and only Keith Olbermann and is the best, most insightful blog covering Keith Olbermann and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. It is necessary to keep a close eye on Keith Olbermann because Keith Olbermann is the most dangerous man in America if not the world. After many years of careful study of Keith Olbermann we here the assembled Committee to Monitor Keith Olbermann have concluded that we must monitor Keith Olbermann and every move Keith Olbermann makes including keeping a watchful eye on Keith Olbermann's television show on MSNBC, Countdown with Keith Olbermann and any interviews Keith Olbermann might give such as C-SPAN's recent Q&A with Keith Olbermann where Keith Olbermann shares his insights on being Keith Olbermann.

That is all.

SpaghettiLegs,
I agree, we should leave Iraq, But before we do that, we should give the Shiite and Kurds tanks, plane and helicopters. Then when we leave, they crush the Sunnis and their Al-Qaeda allies. That's my solution. I would keep an air force and 1 Army base there. that's it.

SpaghettiLegs,
I agree, we should leave Iraq, But before we do that, we should give the Shiite and Kurds tanks, plane and helicopters. Then when we leave, they crush the Sunnis and their Al-Qaeda allies. That's my solution. I would keep an air force and 1 Army base there. that's it.

SpaghettiLegs,
I agree, we should leave Iraq, But before we do that, we should give the Shiite and Kurds tanks, plane and helicopters. Then when we leave, they crush the Sunnis and their Al-Qaeda allies. That's my solution. I would keep an air force and 1 Army base there. that's it.

> The first two links do not show any personal contact information (one shows an email address to the entire SAW group).

That's because the first link was changed and it's even noted on the page that it was changed. The second link does indeed include the information; I'm looking at it right now as I type this:

"The following is a release from Students Against War.
Students Kick Military Recruiters Off UC Santa Cruz...

And it goes on to repeat the same "personal information" that Olby ranted at Malkin about. And that you claimed "no other site" published.

Olbermann picked this up from the blue blogs and didn't spend ten seconds to fact-check or verify the outrage. Daily Kos was on the warpath and that's good enough for Olby. Just as with O'Reilly, where he screamed about how terrible it was for O to give out an email that's published on the newspaper's website, here he screamed about Malkin printing something that can be found all over the internets, just because the left-wing echo chamber decided it should be the talking point of the day.

Robert -

Your rundown of last night's episode is pretty thorough, but there's just one thing. You don't really seem to have a problem with anything on the show beyond the fact that Olbermann (well, and Shuster) is doing the reporting. You don't rebut any of the stories, you merely criticize Olbermann for even bringing them up. (Although, in your defense, it's true the O'Reilly thing is getting a bit tired.)

Your 'review' is just a shot-by-shot of the program with a few of your pet opinions tossed in (Keith's tan, claims of Shuster as 'discredited', questioning the veracity of guests, etc.) to make it seem like you've done some analysis.

The end result is, of course, predictable: Olbermann sucks. But that brilliant deduction spawns from the fact you've dedicated the site to this notion, not just because of last night's broadcast.

So I must know:

If Countdown is the worst news show on TV (and it could well be) and is misinformed to the degree you attempt to portray, who do you (or hell, anyone on this site) recommend as an alternative?

Who is doing the BEST reporting on TV?

Who has the most reliable broadcast?

I get the feeling there won't be many answers to these questions.

Funny,

Olbermann is mad at Malkin for posting a PRESS RELEASE that was sent to the public FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE by the members of saw who themselves posted their information publicly in the press release.

No, Malkin did not go searching through a phone book in order to get their info, the students themselves posted that info on the press release as contacts. So now they are upset they got contacted? They are upset that the media actually posted their PUBLIC PRESS RELEASE? What an outrage! How dare they cover our story and actually use our press contact information!

But Olbermann will not give those facts. Olbermann knows he would look like the idiot he is if he accurately reported that she posted their PRESS RELEASE to her site and people used the information they themselves provided to contact them. No, he had to make it seem like Malkin dug up their info. And how does Kos know he doesn't have an argument or facts to support his view? He calls her the Worst Person of the Day, on a day where Suicide bombers murdered 9 innocent people at a restaurant. Nice Keith.

Well thank you Keith. I couldn't see the facts clearly. I was starting to think that Michelle Malkin only supplied the info the students wanted to release. To think I was almost blinded by the publicly available information that they wanted to be released. I can now see past her propaganda. Long Live Kiethypoo!

Spaghettilegs, I wrote the Iraq opinion.

So now they are upset they got contacted? They are upset that the media actually posted their PUBLIC PRESS RELEASE?

Read my posts upthread - contact information on press releases is for reporters to contact the sources! It is not meant for public consumption!

Sheesh!

So now they are upset they got contacted? They are upset that the media actually posted their PUBLIC PRESS RELEASE?

Read my posts upthread - contact information on press releases is for reporters to contact the sources! It is not meant for public consumption!

Sheesh!

Well the numbers for friday are on tvnewser.

Total viewers:

O'Reilly 1721 (A THREE WEEK OLD O'REILLY!!)

ZAHN 559

MELTDOWN 429

GRACE 416

You're boy couldn't even come close to a three week old rerun? Thats bad! I don't care how you spin it thats bad! A THREE WEEK OLD RERUN! And not even 1/4....THATS BAD! Nope sorry don't care how you spin it. THATS BAD! TERRIBLE! Well at least KO got to be on top of Nancy Grace for the night.........couldn't beat a rerun.......THATS BAD!

Spaghettilegs, I wrote the Iraq opinion.

Well the numbers for friday are on tvnewser.

Total viewers:

O'Reilly 1721 (A THREE WEEK OLD O'REILLY!!)

ZAHN 559

MELTDOWN 429

GRACE 416

You're boy couldn't even come close to a three week old rerun? Thats bad! I don't care how you spin it thats bad! A THREE WEEK OLD RERUN! And not even 1/4....THATS BAD! Nope sorry don't care how you spin it. THATS BAD! TERRIBLE! Well at least KO got to be on top of Nancy Grace for the night.........couldn't beat a rerun.......THATS BAD!

what a moron ...

"I hear the voices, and I read the front page and I know the speculation," the president said. "But I'm the decider, and I decide what's best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense." -- George W. "anti-christ" Bush

let's check the numbers for Friday from tvnewser

Total Viewers:

O'Reilly: 1721 (a three week old O'Reilly)

Zahn: 559

Meltdown: 429

Grace: 416

Wow Keith got beat by a three week old O'Reilly show. THATS BAD! TERRIBLE! But Hey Keith got to be on top of Nancy Grace for a night......Got beat by a rerun.......Nope don't care how you spin it..........THATS BAD!

let's check the numbers for Friday from tvnewser

Total Viewers:

O'Reilly: 1721 (a three week old O'Reilly)

Zahn: 559

Meltdown: 429

Grace: 416

Wow Keith got beat by a three week old O'Reilly show. THATS BAD! TERRIBLE! But Hey Keith got to be on top of Nancy Grace for a night......Got beat by a rerun.......Nope don't care how you spin it..........THATS BAD!

let's check the numbers for Friday from tvnewser

Total Viewers:

O'Reilly: 1721 (a three week old O'Reilly)

Zahn: 559

Meltdown: 429

Grace: 416

Wow Keith got beat by a three week old O'Reilly show. THATS BAD! TERRIBLE! But Hey Keith got to be on top of Nancy Grace for a night......Got beat by a rerun.......Nope don't care how you spin it..........THATS BAD!

let's check the numbers for Friday from tvnewser

Total Viewers:

O'Reilly: 1721 (a three week old O'Reilly)

Zahn: 559

Meltdown: 429

Grace: 416

Wow Keith got beat by a three week old O'Reilly show. THATS BAD! TERRIBLE! But Hey Keith got to be on top of Nancy Grace for a night......Got beat by a rerun.......Nope don't care how you spin it..........THATS BAD!

let's check the numbers for Friday from tvnewser

Total Viewers:

O'Reilly: 1721 (a three week old O'Reilly)

Zahn: 559

Meltdown: 429

Grace: 416

Wow Keith got beat by a three week old O'Reilly show. THATS BAD! TERRIBLE! But Hey Keith got to be on top of Nancy Grace for a night......Got beat by a rerun.......Nope don't care how you spin it..........THATS BAD!

O'Reillys show gets his viewers the same way puck gets readers.
How many posts was that?
I bet if we added up the IQs of the audiences, Keith Olbermann would win, hands down. And I bet if asked, he would not care to have an audience over whos head his every word flew.
Besides, Who needs O'Reilly now that we have The Colbert Report?
Olbermann is intellegent, thoughtful, funny and talented. I've seen him admit many mistakes on the air, but have never seen the same from O'Reilly, who stoops to name calling, insults and bullying anytime he's exposed or challenged.

Congratulations to this blog for having been around for years.

How long do you think it will take for your denizens to master the insults about tan lines, hairlines, physical features, etc?

Also, You are forgetting to take him to task for using multi-syllabic words without pointing out that they're new or claiming he discovered them as your hero does for his dwindling audience.

Jack,

Now you are asking me to put on President of Media Bloggers Association hat not my OlbyWatch hat. Since you raise a good issue and appear to want a serious answer let me break character here for a second and give you a serious answer:

"Who is doing the BEST reporting on TV? Who has the most reliable broadcast?"

I'd like to answer your question directly but the predicate is flawed for two reasons: (1) TV reporting is generally poor so the term "BEST" is a relative term where it is relative to a very low benchmark; (2) I resist the notion that any broadcast or other news source is reliable to the extent that I accept what I hear/read at face value.

What I do - and what I encourage everyone to do - is to be your own editor and take a catholic (small "c") approach to your sources. These days that is increasingly easy to do with Tivo, satellite radio, podcasting, blogs and, especially RSS feeds so the only excuse not to do it intellectual laziness.

Now, I think what you really want to know is what are MY sources. There are really too many to list here and I don't read/watch/listen to them every day.

In the mornings, I skip around the TV dial watching Imus on MSNBC, Fox and Friends, CNN's American Morning, CBS Early Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America and ESPN.

During the day I read news websites, get email newsletters and listen to talk radio (but not on a daily basis).

My default news site is CNN.com. I also look at the nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com, bbc.com, reuters.com, WSJ.com and loads of others. On the blog front I read many blogs and jump around the web off of them. I don't think I have a favorite blog and I certainly don't read the same blogs every day. In the past few days I have looked a CrooksandLiars.com, Drudge Report, Daily Kos, Instapundit, Oliver Willis, Romenesko, Michelle Malkin (because she linked OW) but this is not even close to an exhaustive list.

I get emails from various think tanks and activist groups ranging from Tikkun to the Cato Institute to MoveOn.org to MarchFirst. I get emails from MSNBC for Countdown and the Hardball Briefing and ABC News' The Note. I get pinged all day on IM with readers, bloggers and friends sending me links to news items and blog posts.

On the radio I listen to Imus, Tony Snow, John Gambling, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Jerry Springer, Al Franken, Randi Rhodes, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, John Batchelor. Tony I can only get off the web so that is a pain in the neck. Imus I also catch on MSNBC. Rush is good. Sean Hannity and Randi Rhodes grate on me after a while. I love Mark Levin - he has probably the funniest rants on the radio (why liberals call his show I will never know but it is funny when they do). John Batchelor is good but the bumper music on his show is THE best in radio. O'Reilly is not live in the New York market and I don't listen to taped shows when I can help it (I call in rarely but I always think I might want to call)

At night, Tom Brokaw was always "must watch" TV for me. I still prefer NBC overall and think Brian Williams is very good but I am not as loyal to Brian as I was to Tom. One of my biggest thrills was getting to sit in the control room at NBC News while Tom read the news and then getting to meet him afterwards (he signed my copy of The Greatest Generation). I Tivo two news shows daily- Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Special Report with Brit Hime. The rest is all jumping around between the network news broadcasts, the Newshour, and the cable news shows. About six months I really cut back on watching those shows - Scarborough, O'Reilly, Hannity & Colmes - because they were so repetitive. One segment I have come to like is when Tucker Carlson does banter with his producer. I also Tivo Letterman, Leno, Jimmy Kimmel and Conan (and, if you must know, The Sopranos, 24 and My Name is Earl). More often then not I tune them all out to watch the Yankees.

I live in New York and most of my friends and neighbors are liberals so I am surrounded by the leftish, New York Times, broadcast news view of the world. If Pauline Kael of The New York Times had actually said it, this is what she would have been referring to when she supposedly wondered how Richard Nixon was re-elected when no one she knew voted for him. Bill and Hillary live a few miles from my house. Because I am around this daily I have a good sense of the type of misinformation which permeates the liberal mindset (things I know to be untrue that are accepted as fact by my friends) - I sometimes write based on these observations.

That said, because of my blogging I have developed many relationships on the right and can't say I agree with everything they have come to believe either. I was a credentialed blogger at CPAC, I covered the GOP Convention in New York in 2004, and otherwise gotten a healthy dose of the rightish, Washington Times, Fox News view of the world. These are the people you don't like too much. Most of these folks have a huge distrust of the media which I share and so I tend to find them more of a naturally ally in my writing. After a week at CPAC I came to the conclusion that even though I am no longer a Democrat I am not right-winger either. I don't envision wearing a t-shirt with a photo of a U.S. tank running over a dead Iraqi soldier or carrying around placards with photos of aborted fetuses either.

I suspect you'd like me to say something about Bill O'Reilly so let me say that he is not a paragon of virtue either. Last week I was told about O'Reilly's coverage of this story about Parchman State Prison by someone intimately acquainted with both the case and the prison. O'Reilly did his usual "coddling" death row inmates spiel while playing a video of a prison in Mississippi. The problem? The prison in the video was not Parchman but rather a brand new prison elsewhere in the state. If I was editing a blog called "O'Reilly Watch" I would have written about it. If YOU are so concerned then maybe you should create just such a blog.

The bottom line is that I think that anyone who takes commercial advertising at face value is a fool. I feel the same way about the news media. I don't implicitly trust any news source and the more I gather information from a wide variety of sources the most I see how news and information is distorted (sometimes intentionally, sometimes inadvertently, sometimes just by the constraint of time, space or money). A recent critic has accused me of suffering from Paranoid Personality Disorder. With regard to the news media that may be correct - but I think all of us would be better off if we were a bit more paranoid about what we read in the newspaper or see on TV. A good deal of it is not to be believed.

Robert Cox
What kind of self-respecting cook uses garlic POWDER, for crying out loud? And how big are your hands, or the palms of your hands? This is relevant, because I could kill somebody by driving up their blood pressure with too much salt if my hands were exceptionally large.
And what better way to introduce children to the wonderfully diverse world of culinary delites than by sneaking in a small quantity of finely diced green peppers? Julia Childs must be rolling in her grave.
Keith Olbermann has a much better recipe, I bet.

Check it out on Inside Cable News: Rumor that MS will air Countdown repeats at 9 a.m. EDT.

http://insidecable.blogsome.com/

I don't fully understand the Sedition laws but it seems to me that when a traitor like Keith Olbermann knowingly spreads false and/or manipulated information to the masses (and does not retract inacurrate reports when irrefutable evidence to the contrary presents itself), he should be held accountable to the highest degree. Am I the only one who believes this? Who's with me? How close is this is this piece of shit to breaking the law? Johnny Dollar...could you please comment?

KATRINA KIDS SING TO LAURA BUSH:

WASHINGTON -- At the White House Easter Egg Roll, dozens of children from the stricken Gulf Coast region serenaded First Lady Laura Bush with a song praising the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Agency. To the tune of "Hey Look Me Over," the kids from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama sang:

Our country's stood beside us
People have sent us aid.
Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.
Congress, Bush and FEMA
People across our land
Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!

WOW, THAT'S COOL. USING CHILDREN TO SPREAD PROPAGANDA ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN, JUST LIKE:

When you speak to your German people,
The words go across the land
And sink into countless hearts,
Hearts in which your image long has stood.

What is a law that would restrain us
The pure faith that you have given us
Pulses through, guides our young lives.
My Fuhrer, you alone are the way, the goal!

How close is this is this piece of shit to breaking the law?

Nowhere near breaking any criminal law. Sedition requires that you knowingly or willfully advocate the overthrow of the government of the United States (Title 18, Section 2385 of the United States Code) or you incite rebellion or insurrection (Title 18, Section 2383 of the United States Code). Keith has done none of these things (the language indicates that an overt act is necessary).

So press releases are not fit for public comsumption? So when the White House, or any other gov't, commercial entity releases a press release the public shouldn't know about it?

http://sydney.indymedia.org/node/36508/print

Heck, even the DailyKos (who isn't a big supporter of Mailkin) agree with her on this issue.

http://www.michellemalkin.com/mt/oct05-tb.cgi/4345

So what is the definition of a press release?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_release

"a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something claimed as having news value. Typically, it is mailed, faxed, or e-mailed to assignment editors at newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations, and/or television networks."

Except for one thing... THEY POSTED IT ON THE INTERNET! It wasn't a private fax/email to news reporters, they published it on the internet which is PUBLIC DOMAIN. Anything posted on the internet is fair game.

So if they didn't want to have their information released to the public at large, ALL they had to do was to make note somewhere on their press release that this release wasn't for public consumption. and not put it on the internet for the entire world to see! That's it. Then if they wrote that on the release, and released it privatly, and Malkin published it then she would be in trouble because they didn't want their info publicly released.

http://insidecable.blogsome.com/

That's confirmed. See my post: First Step Out the Door at MSNBC: Olbermann Goes Dayside on the main page.

randy - come on...that CAN'T BE TRUE...can you provide a link to a reliable news source that is reporting this? If it is true, I'm not going to defend it.

It seems to be true, but the part about it being White House propaganda appears to have been made up.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/04/17/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/

The blue blogs are going crazy over this, which means it's a prime candidate for Olbyfication tonight. But there's no evidence of WH involvement; it seems it was something the kids and/or their teacher thought would be a fun thing to do.

So press releases are not fit for public comsumption?

Selective omission pays off again...

Let me spell it out for you - contact information (as in names and private phone numbers) are meant for reporters who get the press release to use to contact the writers of the press release. These names and numbers are not supposed to be released unless it says on the press release that they are permitted to do so.

And as for posting it on the internet - yes, they posted it on the internet with an email address for the group! There were no individual names, phone numbers or emails in the internet version, so to argue that they put their home phone numbers into the public domain themselves is ridiculous.

> There were no individual names, phone numbers or emails in the internet version

I cited three examples where all those elements WERE published on the internet, exactly as Malkin did. Olby, of course, didn't bother telling his viewers that.

"And as for posting it on the internet - yes, they posted it on the internet with an email address for the group! There were no individual names, phone numbers or emails in the internet version, so to argue that they put their home phone numbers into the public domain themselves is ridiculous."

Please go back to the site that I cited and scroll down and please tell us what is says underneath the following:

"Submitted by studentsagainstwar on Tue, 04/11/2006 - 1:37pm.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 11, 2006

CONTACT: Students Against War’s ad-hoc press team:"

KLRMNKY

J$ already provided links proving his case; you are going to need to disprove the validity of those links if you want to undermine his point. Can you do that?

BTW, you are not going to get very far citing WIKIPEDIA as an authorative source with me. Please see this post...

PBS's MediaShift Explored Bias in Wikipedia

Wacky Wiki: Keith Olbermann

Just in case anyone missed the facts while repeating the KOS line about the students requesting their information be taken down...
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"Oh, and for the record--not that the facts matter to the unhinged--not one of the three SAW students whose contact information is still publicly accessible across several websites has e-mailed me [*or phoned me or contacted me in any other way*] as of 12:30am EDT 4/18 [*as of 10:00am EDT*] to request that I remove anything.
(http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005008.htm)
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It's the next paragraph after the link to Olbermannwatch.

Hey Robert Cox,
I'm just backing up Johnny $ on this. He provided links and I provided mine that show the student's phone numbers and email addy still up on the internet. Anyone can get there and see that this just wasn't a "Malkin" fantasy but the real deal.

As for Wikipedia, all I wanted was a definition of what a press release was. If you really want to see the bias, or vitriol of the left in action just go look at George W. Bush. It's been locked for the longest. Then go check out Hillary or Bill Clinton and see the bias and vitriol of the right in action... yeah.. I hear crickets chirping too...

my bad

Thanks for the laughs, people. You all have too much time on your hands, and you are wasting it with your efforts here. Lucky for me, though, 'cuz every few days when I actually have time to surf the net I can usually find some pretty funny shit like this to lighten my mood. Cheers!

Scott Earls,

Your welcome!

Glad we gave you a lift. Come back any time.

Observer Dan.

I have already addressed the "personal nature" nugget several times on the site...my recent comment is contained in this post".

You can jump down to it by searching for this string of text:

"I have been remiss"

Tip o' the hat , Robert

RE: Michelle Malkin readers/supporters

I have made numerous updates to the original post to track a bit of the coverage of the Michelle Malkin - SAW blogstorm. I focused, but not exclusively, on links that addressed Olbermann's WPITW segment on Malkin. I'd encourage you to jump back up and readmore about Again - thanks to Michelle for the link to Olbermann Watch.

I Jesse girl! I sucky sucky Jesse. I sucky Jesse all night long even as he write blog...oops even as I write blog.

And these liberal loons wonder why they've been bannished to the political wasteland.

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