When it rains it pours. Keith may want to duct tape his mouth and his hands. Keep up the good work guys!

It seems KO has an almost pathological need to engage in confrontational "dialogs", just not face to face. The one-sided O'Reilly diatribes aside, look at the pattern of derisive, inflamatory, and often curse-filled emails documented going back to the exchange Bob Cox posted on months ago with the producer, whatever his name was.

Now this flurry of emails from Lloyd Grove and this Morris guy.

Why would someone of KO's supposed stature feel the need to respond so vigorously to every criticism. Something is wrong with this guy.

And I notice the supporters are curiously silent the last couple days on this subject.

Olbermann refuses to lend some credence to a kook website, which then shows revenge by publishing Olbermann's snarky correspondence.

Why is this important?

Nobody should be shocked by the vile language coming from Olbermann. After all, he suffers from Bush Derangement Syndrome, and most BDS sufferers sputter maniacally, using the most extreme language.

All anyone needs to do is pay a visit to DailyKook, DU or read some of the hatemail people like Michelle Malkin gets.

I've had all I'm going to say about the emails. I'm sure there are countless other out there from this guy, so maybe somebody else can chime in.

I hope he gets help for his problems.

correct. nobody should be shocked by the vile language coming from Keith. rather, they should be shocked by something truly vile.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq has reached 2,500, the Pentagon said on Thursday, more than three years into a conflict that finds U.S. and allied forces locked in a struggle with a resilient insurgency.

The funniest thing about all of this is that all of Ketih's comments, even though they may be rather rude, have been fully correct and/or justifiable.

Honestly, you weirdos who are against the only guy on TV who tells it straight are gonna HAVE to find something better...

Anon wrote:

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correct. nobody should be shocked by the vile language coming from Keith. rather, they should be shocked by something truly vile.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq has reached 2,500, the Pentagon said on Thursday, more than three years into a conflict that finds U.S. and allied forces locked in a struggle with a resilient insurgency.

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A. compared with what? 50,000 killed in Vietman?

B. I don't think the insurgency is looking all that "resilient". Check out the text of a document found in Zarqawi's love nest:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/15/D8I8LJBG0.html

I knew the moonbats would figure out how to post pictures eventually. Of course they post CARTOONS! Who would have guessed? Then again, that is how they both view the world and get their news.

Chicken brain, that picture should have a donkey ridden by Harry Reid rather than an elephant in it now that Zarqawi is dead and our guys have his database. The "insurgency" is in big trouble (both Zarqawi's in Iraq and Murtha's here in the USA).

The above e-mails are nice, but I am waiting for the e-mail where Olby calls Abrams something nasty. I also bet there are a few Anderson Cooper attacks floating out there.

MSLSD has the right to look at ALL OF KEITH'S EMAIL. Not just one or two but ALL OF THEM! Imagine what is there! The head of Human Resources must be under his desk having a seizure. Management must be busy reading about themselves through Krazy Keith's eyes! Goes to show ya, if your host has rabies, he is a danger to all and must be eliminated.

I really really feel for all the brilliant minds at MSLSD. I really really do.

Dear Friends:

A malicious campaign is being waged to try and end my career at MSNBC. They are attempting to cut me off at the knees. Well my friends, even at that height I'm taller than ANY of these shrimps. (That's prawns to my Aussie friends, and as any of you know, prawns are MUCH bigger than shrimp and I'm nobody's prawn.) They are using a devious Mozilla hack that makes it appear that I have sent out derogatory emails. This has got to stop. I have never spoken or written in a demeaning or untoward manner to anyone or concerning anyone. I get along with both management and co-workers equally well, going back to my days as a teen savant baseball card historian. Please find out who is doing this to me. This is jeopardizing my future. No one will ever want to work with me again. Some people just don't understand me. Just leave me the hell alone.

Yours most humbly and sincerely,
Keith Olbermann

Now that's a poster!

You boys are doing the lords work.

Hey ww,

Is that legit?

The irony if it were...

A guy who used his show as a vehicle to try and destroy Rove, based on one side as presented (and hosted) by one guy, Joe Wilson, an empirical liar ans self promoter.

Oh that it was his work.

Alas no, sorry.

Just imagining him feeling unwanted and misunderstood. :)

still, very sweet.

It moved me to gag.

Morris, who is hosted online from somewhere within the United Kingdom, reads like an anti-Semitic baboon, ripe with conspiratorial references to the "Israeli-first MSNBC" and so forth. Odd how this end of things has failed to be mentioned. He also emphasizes that Mr. Olbermann is possibly Jewish, as if this is of importance to anyone, other than an anti-Semite...

I just thought his "apology" concerning the emails seemed too synthetic, no anger, no "feeling."

I imagine a siege or bunker mentality for Keef and his legion of viewsters out there.

Best Week Ever. Rove completely off the hook. Olbermann caught with his pants down outside the window of his sisters slumber party.

Good points 11x. So the question is, why not follow this sage advice about responding to criticism:

"the clever response, the cynical and brilliant response is to just ignore. "

Who said this? Three guesses, and the first two don't count.
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"Well, you know, I mean, people grow and people change and I like to think I’m much more mature and sober and balanced in my life than I was five, 10, 15, 20 years ago..."

Oh, really?

There once was a loon with a "news" show
He choked after eating a large crow
He thought he was funny
Soon he's making no money
Hawking jock straps on sports radio

`I knew the moonbats would figure out how to post pictures eventually. Of course they post CARTOONS! Who would have guessed? Then again, that is how they both view the world and get their news.`

You got that right, KfK! Don`t you believe it when those leftist loonies say political cartoons are as old as the republic! Cartoons are really stupid, especially when they use that stupid irony stuff and the stupid pithiness and humor and stuff. A picture is NOT worth a thousand words -- because it can`t even talk! (Ha!) And besides CARTOONS aren`t even pictures, moonbat, `cause they`re DRAWN! Get it?! Stupid moonbats. Nuance is hard. Nuance is stupid.

More cartoons. Great. How about expressing your ideas in your own way, rather than posting propaganda? You are one step away from posting this:

`More cartoons. Great. How about expressing your ideas in your own way, rather than posting propaganda?`

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Absolutely! No fair cheating by posting pictures instead of writing your own words! Pictures are propaganda, words aren`t -- you stupid cheating moonbat. Cheater! Cheater! Cheater!

We here on the right do NOT deal in propaganda.

Because propaganda comes from lying leftist lefty liars ...

And we righteous right-wingers, who are right because we`re on the right (Ha!), only deal with the truth. (And NOT with pictures!).

You stupid lefty moonbat America hater.
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Is there something to be said for moonbats finding Gannon on a gay website?

Be honest, you guys are spanking it right now...

I have no problem with Olbermann's response to the anti-Semites. You made it seem as if his purpose in calling Abrams "middle management" was to insult him. Actually, he was attempting to prove there was no basis to the assertion that BSNBC was beholden to the "Israel Lobby" simply because a guy named Abrams was promoted. (More on the Mearsheimer/Walt paper can be found here.)

What I do have a problem with is that his responses on petty issues are considerably more forceful then in this case. If anyone deserves to be told to quit wasting oxygen, it's a neo-Nazi. KO doesn't have his priorities straight.

I know! Stupid Moonbats. They probably think it`s somehow ironic that someone gay would become such a propaganda shill for the right -- when the right is so anti-gay! Well the joke`s on you, Looney Moonbats, because the GOP is Pro Pro Pro gay! (The amendment thing is just to win votes, we don`t really mean it, so please don`t take offense. `Cause as you can see, some of our best propaganda shills are gay!) And besides, irony is a stupid moonbat waste of time. Go ahead, peddle your irony, Moonbats ... in the meantime we`ll peddle democracy across the globe to those who need it most!

Actually the dems have been wasting their time and effort on Iraq.

They lost at every margin in 04, with the exception of nigh school dropouts and PhDs.

All the time away from race baiting has turned them into a one issue(as soon as they can define it) group.

"Someday this war is going to end..."
Martin sheen

The problem is that it is the sole galvanizing influence on democratic politics. When the war ends, what do dems have left? The disintegration predicted in Iraq may be coming closer to home.

Unless there are a lot more high school dropouts and PhDs.

Yes, how will Democrats ever survive if they don't talk about Iraq? How will they do it? How did they do it for half a century before 1994?

Iraq is the main issue right now, so it may seem as if the Democrats are a one issue party (all they can be right now is an opposition party when they don't control the House, Senate, or White House).

Tha Gannon thing cracks me up. The "progressives" all attacked him relentlessly and slandered him . . . wait for it . . . because he was gay! What a joke! Barney Frank had a male prostitute stay in his appartment but Gannon gets the relentless attacks from lefty "liberals." Fine Stalinist left tactics right there!

I got news for ya -- attacking people because of their sexual preferences and habits is an a--hole thing to do. So far that dimwit has posted maimed soldier propaganda and anti-gay material. You sure are one "progressive" dude. I suppose Olby's "dicks in your ass" comment was one of your favorites, eh? What a hypocrite.

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OLBERMANN FAN CLUB'S POSITION STATEMENT ON HOMOSEXUALS AND POLITICS
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There is nothing wrong with using a person's sexuality against him or her. It is perfectly legitimate discourse.

Jeff Gannon was a homosexual gay man asking questions of the President! And he had naked pictures of himself on a gay website! Now, I don't know about you, but at the Olbermann fan club, we consider this SCANDALOUS. I mean, look at his hot tight body laying there . . . I mean . . . uh . . . anyway, we also find it legit to question whether a woman is indeed a woman, so we are bipartisan on this issue.

Don't get us wrong. We love gays. Some of our best friends like Michael Musto and Mo Rocca are gays. However, we do not want them asking the President questions, especially if they have been naked and gay at the same time and photographed in the past.

Remember, if a man bothers you about this or that, just quote our hero and say:

"you obviously have your head as well as your dick
stuck up each other's asses."

he hehe he he titter titter . . . homos . . . ha ha titter titter titter!

`So far that dimwit has posted maimed soldier propaganda and anti-gay material. What a hypocrite.`

You tell 'em, KfK! Some loonies would think that posting a cartoon critical of Rumsfeld`s treatment of our military is PRO-mained solder, but that`s a leftist looney lie! Because you know, KfK, that if a cartoon -- any cartoon -- contains a maimed solder, then that cartoon can correctly be called MAINED SOLDIER PROPAGANDA! Because the picture in the cartoon means more than the meaning of the cartoon because a cartoon IS A PICTURE. Get it?! You stupid maimed-soldier posting moonbat! No one should see maimed soldiers, that`s why the pentagon has forbidden pictures of soldier coffins -- because they`re REALLY maimed. And as for the gay republican propaganda shill, why can`t you just call him a regular old republican propaganda shill, instead of calling him gay?! Gay has nothing to do with republicans -- except for keeping them from marrying each other! You Stupid Moonbat.

Cartoon posting idiot:

You help illustrate some very important points about the sick world-view of you and your pals. Thank you for all your help. Please feel free to continue your insane rants and propaganda efforts.

You point out:

>And as for the gay republican propaganda shill

That is some fine gay-bashin' right there! Nice job! What do you think of Michael Steele by the way? How about Cheney's daughter? Seems you libs are all for inclusion when it suits you, but betray the most disgusting bias when jilted. Absolutely grotesque!

Again, congrats on making yourself and your buddies look like insensitive, bigoted, ill-informed idiots.

KfK, my right honorable friend (right, get it?), I think you missed the boat on this one. (Please allow me to translate : ) The maimed-soldier picture and cartoon both appear to be PRO solder. And the Gannon thing is just a point of irony -- that he was a fake reporter planted by a White House that in every way seeks to undermine, if not harm, gays and their civil liberties.

Oh yeah! It is pro-soldier to draw a dead soldier and stick a number on his back. I'm sure all soldiers get warm and fuzzy inside when they see things like this. I know I do.

Your pal Danziger, and the equally stupid Ted Rall, don't give two craps about the lives of our guys. They are just pawns. The more dead, the bigger the number, and the more STUPID CARTOONS you can make.

Danziger, by the way, is a racist tool. Take a look at this doozy by your idiot hero:

Nice cartoon! Seems great minds think alike -- you idiots bash gays, soldiers, and your hero is a racist. Keep on posting idiots! I LOVE IT!

The more dead, the bigger the number, and the more STUPID CARTOONS you can make.

Back to school, KfK:

Satire - "a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject to ridicule, often as a means of provoking or preventing change."

Then again, it seems your preferred humor is calling Democrats "cowards".

Man, KfK, you really *are* dense. You can`t even understand someone`s position when they state it outright. (Or when someone else comes along and trys to politely explain it to you). Each one of the posters and comics is pro soldier / pro gay / anti War / anti Bush. If you take offense at them, that`s one thing, but at least understand the point someone is trying to make. How about addressing the point the picture makes?

"You can`t even understand someone`s position when they state it outright."

Nice cartoons. do you have one that can explain the democratic policy on Iraq? Do you have one that can explain any democratic position?

Seemed Iraq never made it into their 'contract with America'. Really funny when you see them calling the gop cheap for not letting them submit their own resolution ignoring the fact they didn't have one for their contract. Haven't seen a plan that good at least since the one they were picking Zeeks brains off of.

Maybe they'll release a cartoon version.

OK -- you guys are right! The interpretation of these cartoons is not only deep, it is absolute! Just like the bizarre placards you nuts hold up at your protest rallies! You guys aren't nuts at all!

Spare me your childish cartoons and 13th grade philosophy. You guys are dupes incapable of rational thought. Just keep reading cartoons and leave the normal people alone.

Look at the pretty pictures-
Bush is hitler,
condi is a house slave.

Aren't the color pretty?
Doesn't bush look silly/sad/grotesque?

Thank you for taking time to look at what the democratic party will do for you. Vote democrat in November.

Howie,

You are right! The form and line is astounding! These drawings are reminescent of the great Keith Haring.

Sometimes, it takes me a good hour to figure these works of art out. Under each interpretation is a subtext dying to be uncovered. For instance, the cartoon where Condi Rice is talking like she is a slave is good in itself, but then a guy told me there was a movie with a lady just like that! So I did some research and found out that the movie is old! I asked my Dad and he said "Gone With the Wind." Two hours later, I was laughing sooooooo hard! Ha ha ha ha ha! Danziger is smarter than everybody! He is like an Einstein who can draw stuff!

You mean before 'Bush was Hitler', there was a Hitler who was Hitler?

Deep.

I'm working out this idea where instead of stating sensible policy as an adult, I scream like a child and shout things that rhyme. It's great.

I have this scream I have been working on...

I) A Brief History of Political Cartoons

Political cartoons are for the most part composed of two elements: caricature, which parodies the individual, and allusion, which creates the situation or context into which the individual is placed. Caricature as a Western discipline goes back to Leonardo da Vinci's artistic explorations of "the ideal type of deformity" -- the grotesque -- which he used to better understand the concept of ideal beauty [1]. Over time the principles of form established in part by Leonardo had become so ingrained into the method of portraiture that artists like Agostino and Annibale Carracci rebelled against them. Intended to be lighthearted satires, their caricaturas were, in essence, "counter-art" [2].

Does that mean ther are no cartoons which can explain the democrats policy?

Words fail me (and apparently the DNC).

EACH of those cartoons/posters is a pretty clear statement of policy! You don`t get what they MEAN?! Sheesh, what is this? Remedial night school?

OK, maybe not policy, per se, but at least a statement of POSITION, on an issue. That`s how you vote on everything, anyway, for or against. So why are political cartoons suddenly disallowed as a vehicle for public comment? They seem to work pretty well in capturing/convenying ideas pretty succinctly. Just check out the ones on this page.

Kinda like art's way of saying:

Fuck you. Only nicer.

The cartoons work, trust me.

The democrats honor me in using my work in politics. Just wish I was getting royalties... in hell.

LOLOLLLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Get it? It's josef goebbles! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

You guys are kidding, right? Is`t al-Qaeda just as opposed to political caricatures of the prophet Mohammed? Your take on cartoons sure sounds similiar to theirs. What`s up with that?

You guys are dupes incapable of rational thought. Just keep reading cartoons and leave the normal people alone.

Why? You seem confident in dismissng a RATIONAL ARGUMENT in favor of calling me an idiot and/or "abnormal".

The only thing rational about your posts is the binary used to create them. You wackos have big time cognitive issues. I only wish there were a cure.