Olbermann Watch - MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann: MSM KO Bandwagon #73, #74

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July 23, 2006

MSM KO Bandwagon #73, #74

And the hits just keep on coming - more MSM promotion this weekend for the TV Critics Fave Keith Olbermann.

The AP took a double-shot of the KO Kool Aid this weekend with two stories about the supposed "feud" between Keith Olbermann and the host of TV show with five times the audience size.

As OlbyWatch noted previously, David Bauder backed his way into the KO v. Successful Host feud by using the Fox News PR department as a hook whereas Beth Harris bit hook, line and sinker on KO's hilarious hijinks at a recent NBC promotional press conference. She wrote:

Olbermann opened his session by whipping out a mask of O'Reilly - a poke at Fox asking journalists to accept handout photos of TCA news conferences from photographers the network had hired.

Just how boring does the life of a TV Critic have to be to find KO amusing? Pretty boring. Case in point, I heard back from Verne Gay at Newsday who says he wrote his recent KO piece AS IF the ratings at MSNBC were not so awful because everyone knows it and its boring to keep writing about it. He adds that he considers Countdown a "success" because he likes the show but admits the numbers for the show are "dreadful". Which begs the question - then write a column that makes it sounds as if KO is on some kind of roll with Countdown?

h/t to John and T

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By Frank Cooper on July 23, 2006 11:49 AM

"Just how boring does the life of a TV Critic have to be to find KO amusing? Pretty boring. ...admits the numbers for the show are "dreadful". Which begs the question - then write a column that makes it sounds as if KO is on some kind of roll with Countdown?"

This also begs the question........why do YOU bother with a website dedicated to analyzing a show you don't like and no one watches? Is your life as boring as you imply?

By Frank Cooper on July 23, 2006 11:50 AM

This also begs the question........why do YOU bother with a website dedicated to analyzing a show you don't like and no one watches? Is your life as boring as you imply?

By Paula Zahn #2 on July 23, 2006 11:52 AM

Don't forget that Olbermann is now entrenched in third place again, Paula Zahn has embarrassed him in late June and July.

Oh, and by the way, TVNewser is ignoring Olbermann's despicable Hitler salute while wearing the mask.

By Brandon on July 23, 2006 12:00 PM

How much do you want to bet he trots that mask out when he's on the Tonight Show later this week?

By puck on July 23, 2006 12:02 PM

There is no way you wing-nuts can tell me if this was reversed with Bill doing the Nazi salute you nutty libs wouldn't have you're panties in one big giant wad!

Care to explain what num-nuts did was okay.

By Larry The Cable Guy on July 23, 2006 12:04 PM

Title: Far-Left Keith Olbermann cries for attention on Television Critics Meeting @ AmericasNewsToday.Org

By NuttyKeith on July 23, 2006 12:13 PM

Keith the paranoid delusional "Brain Wreck" lives in a parallel universe. He somehow thinks that Bill O'Reilly is at with with HIM. It is the other way around. This kook can't even be trusted driving a car. He can't even get a drivers license.

By Robert Cox on July 23, 2006 4:59 PM

Frank Cooper wrote:

"why do YOU bother with a website dedicated to analyzing a show you don't like and no one watches?"

Maybe for the same reason that you read a web site you don't like dedicated to a show you don't watch.

PS, yes, my life is that boring.

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