"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET)
Host: Keith Olbermann
Topics/Guests:
WHITE HOUSE SCANDALS [Ding!]: Jonathan Alter, Newsweek senior editor and MSNBC political analyst
2008 CANDIDATES: Dana Milbank, The Washington Post national political reporter and MSNBC political analyst
Tonight we break from our usual format to explore a specific subject: the tangled web of connections, blue blogs, and undisclosed sources that combine to produce a Klassic Keith attack. It's almost like an investigation into money laundering, since the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann will stop at nothing to hide his tracks. But first, a rundown of the rest of tonight's bilge from the discredited sports guy.
UPDATE (RCox): Transcript and Video
First Keith raised the possibility that the President knew how Tillman died days after it happened. His guest (deep blue Tod Bowers) flat out said Bush knew. In an egregiously corrupt bit of OlbySpin, Keith had cut something out of the breaking news report from AP:
White House spokesman Blain Rethmeier said Friday that a review of records turned up no indication that the president had received McChrystal's warning.
Instead of reporting the whole story, KO and his partisan guest both speculated that Bush had to know, without ever revealing that the records show otherwise. "Journalism" on OlbyPlanet. Then scandal, scandal, and...oh yes...scandal. Karl Rove. Walter Reed. The far-left "Veterans for America" described as a "veterans advocacy group". Olby said the entire administration is "politically corrupted" and nothing is as important as "the Democratic Congress". Lefty Alter slobbered in agreement.
Next, attacking Giuliani: he endorsed Kerik knowing that there were allegations that Kerik may have had mob ties. Neither Giuliani nor a supporter were invited to respond to the regurgitated NBC report or to Olby's attacks. Oddball included O'Reilly attack #171
#3 was an all-out attack on Fox, made necessary by the agreement of the Black Caucus to cosponsor a pair of debates with Fox. This must be stopped! The Blue Blog Source appears to be TVNewser, but as we shall demonstrate below, that's just a blind. Rachel Maddow of Err America was there to join Fat Ass in smearing FNC while warning Democrats to boycott Fox, repeating at least one lie from MyDD. The host of Meltdown compulsively used the phrase "Fox Noise" over and over, because every time he says it, you know, it just gets funnier!
Rounding out the longest hour in all of television: KO attacked John Boehner for mispronouncing "Tuskegee". This is the same KO who mispronounced Boehner's name! Of course he didn't mention that. After the usual celebrity crap, and before those hilarious internet videos (with attack #172), the Media Matters Minute slimed Michael Savage (Blue Blog Source: Media Matters) and Glenn Beck (Blue Blog Source: Media Matters). The latter was for his criticisms of Hillary's voice ("it makes me want to kill myself"); Rev Olbermahn gestured encouragement for Beck's suicide.
Now to the subject at hand: Krazy Keith's latest attack on Fox: Olby's dogged investigative reporting and diligent sleuthing turning up yet another indictment of one of his eeevil enemies. But on OlbyPlanet nothing is as it seems.
We've been exposing Herr Olbermann's compulsive lifting from blue blogs for months. Because Keith doesn't like that sort of publicity (it militates against his claims to be "nonpartisan") he sometimes takes extraordinary steps to disguise his sources. So here's the scenario:
This poll was released on Thursday, and within hours it was being attacked on one of the bluest of blue blogs: MyDD. This particular publication has a documented history of lying about Fox, among other things, but it also sucks up to Olby, so it's no surprise that Olbermoronn would hang out there and swallow every word as gospel.
MyDD's objections to the Opinion Dynamics polls are not very specific. All they come up with is that sometimes Fox will "stick in a ridiculously loaded question". No examples are provided, but remember: Olbermann Watch had just criticized Monkeymann for ignoring the poll. So to Krazy Keith, the MyDD article is like finding a wallet on the street. If he looks hard enough, he'll come up with something he can use to try to discredit the poll.
Olbermahn, or one of his crack staff--maybe even The Laughing Stagehand--pore over the raw data and think they've hit paydirt. They're ready to run with it, but there's a catch. The footprints are going to lead right back to a hyperpartisan, dishonest blog with connections to moveon.org. So it's time to muddy the waters a bit.
"Man on Fan" Olbermann, or one of his Seacaucus toadies, looks for a compliant water-carrier, and they don't have to look very far. At 1:17 today, TVNewser suddenly publishes an article about the questions in the Fox poll. A subject that, to our knowledge, Mr Stelter has never before addressed in his "blog". TVNewser headlines: "Interesting Poll Questions", and goes on to credit "an emailer" for bringing this to his attention. The "emailer" (guess who?) bloviates about how inappropriate the questions are.
Now Olby wants it clear that while he may be picking up something from that "respected" TV news blog, he won't be a suspect in providing it to TVNewser in the first place. Here the Countdown blog comes into play. At 3:29 The News Hole does a piece on the "biased" questions in the Fox poll, and is careful to include links to suggest that the story came from somewhere else. The links go to where? MyDD? The desk of Keith Olbermann? No. They go to TVNewser. Twice.
So a story that began in a discredited blue blog goes to A-Mess-NBC and Olbermahn, they reverse leak it to another blog under strict conditions of anonymity, TVNewser obediently runs it, then Countdown picks it up from them as if they had no hand in it whatsoever. And the involvement of MyDD and the moveon crowd has been successfully obfuscated. Well, in this case, not exactly "successfully".
Quiescent canines: We don't have to tell you that, for eight days, Edward R Olbermann has spiked any news--even a passing mention--of the hostage crisis that has 15 coalition soldiers kidnapped and held hostage by Iran. We leave it up to you to determine why Keith is so desperate to cover for the mullahs in Tehran. And we remind you that while he has railed about the importance of the Geneva Convention at least a dozen times, now that there's an actual, living, breathing violation of its terms happening on the world stage, all of a sudden he says nothing. Geneva Conventions? What Geneva Conventions? Lots of scandal talk tonight, but our favorite slovenly political hack spiked this news completely. Finally, it's time for our weekly measure of Keith Olbermann's masculinity. Over the past week Olbermann has attacked Fox, CNN, and Limbaugh/right-wing pundits thirteen times; Olby has criticized MSNBC: zero times. His primary source (Media Matters) criticized MSNBC seven times. That makes this week's Olbermann Manhood Quotient: -26 [limp].
Olbermann's book The book that bears Olbermann's name has cratered at #27,358 at amazon.com, while "Culture Warrior" is #241. (It's that 2-for-$25 sale!) The OlbyTome is #3,630 at Barnes & Noble; O'Reilly's book is #1,435 there, and is one of the top five books of 2006 per Publishers Weekly. Thursday's Hour of Spin sunk like a rock, third place overall and a humiliating fourth place in the critical, beloved, all-important, coveted "key demo". Uh oh, looks like we need another Special Education Komment. Get those writers to work! Tonight's MisterMeter reading: 4 [GUARDED]
Jossip reports ESPN insider says Keith Olbermann "stalked" Rebecca Lobo
First there was the Karmabites1 blog bemoaning an allegedly disappointing tryst with Keith Olbermann, then Dan Patrick accusing Keith Olbermann on air of stalking his former school teacher on ESPN radio, then the news that Keith was dating a 22-year old college student, then yesterday the startling revelation by porn star Mary Carey on the Radio Chick show on FREE-FM that Keith had left her a "rambling message" on her voice mail in the hopes of "dating" her and now former UConn basketball star Rebecca Lobo's name has surfaced in yet another case of Olbyfatuation.
Last night Keith Olbermann who has been criticized by even some feminist bloggers for his misogynistic comments about Paris Hilton, named Rachel Marsden the "number one newsmaker" after Salon magazine reported that Mardsen, who had dismissed the harm done by the Duke lacrosse players over false accusation of rape on Fox News Channel, herself had a history of stalking her college professors, pleading guilty to criminal harassment and filing extremely questionable date rape and sexual assault charges. We had heard this elsewhere but not posted on it but with Jossip.com now claiming to have been tipped by a source at ESPN that Olbermann has his own history of stalker-like behavior we'll leave it to readers to decided who to believe.
"Keith Olbermann is the last person who should comment on someone being stalked," snipes a source inside ESPN. "While [Keith] was at ESPN, he went out with UCONN women's basketball player Rebecca Lobo a few times, but it didn't end there."
According to our tipster, Olbermann wouldn't leave Lobo alone once she decided she was no longer interested, and reportedly starting keeping tabs on her by monitoring her calls and persistently writing her notes.
Says an insider, "Lobo was close to taking out a restraining order against him, but spared him - and herself - the negative publicity that would have ensued."
We've got the audio from the Dan Patrick show on ESPN and the video from last night's Countdown where Keith slammed Mardsen. We are currently efforting the audio from the Radio Chick show and have asked Mary Carey's people for an interview.
But the real story of last night is the loud round of boos Keith Olbermann earned every time his name was mentioned or a clip of him was shown. My Jewish brethren might compare it to the racket we make every time Haman's name (boo!) is said during Purim. Keith might not have won an award last night, but he sure earned Worst Person On A Grand Hyatt TV Screen recognition.
MSNBC's Olbermann Loses Big at 'Liberal Media' Dishonor Awards Washingtonian
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was perhaps the biggest loser last night: Nominated in three of the five categories, he failed to win a single award. Neal Boortz relished going after Olbermann, calling him "MSNBC's answer to a relief tube," a "void surrounded by a sphincter muscle," and said, "You know you've done something right when that footstool attacks you on national TV."
Proof that Keith Olbermann is an Inveterate Liar! Red Alerts
Are we really to believe that Olbermann got a call from a beautiful woman with, shall we say, an open attitude toward sex and he brushed her off? How exactly did Carey get his phone number unless he gave to to her, and why would he give her the digits (as we used to say) if he didn't want to "go out?" Something about Olbermann's story doesn't add up.
Did MSNBC's Keith Olbermann really turn down a date from Mary Carey? Or was it the other way around? Let's see, a guy in his mid-40s with a show on basic cable turning down a pornstar? Hmm, we'll get back to you on that one. (nypost.com + olbermannwatch.com)
If you've been living under a rock the past few years, there's this annoying, mosquito-like,Max Headroom -looking dude named Keith Olbermann, who hosts a show on MSNBC. He is renowned in the liberal world for his acid-spewing, hateful rhetoric concerning Bush and all things conservative.
I was really surprised by Olbermann picking the Yankees to finish third behind the Orioles in the division. While I think the Orioles are improved, it’s hard to see then coming in second. Also, Olbermann, ever the Yankee apologist, picked David Ortiz to win the AL MVP.
On Keith Olbermann's Countdown show on MSNBC - it's likely Bush was referring to, and inflating, blog posts made by a couple of Iraqi dentists who have a blog that has been somewhat supportive of the American occupation in their country. But supposedly these bloggers are becoming more critical of what is going on, so Bush may not have named the blog because he did not want Americans logging in to see what else - besides unwavering support for him and his surge - is being posted.
There are lots of ways to lie and Keith Olbermann is an expert in just about all of them - the prevarication, the fib, the whopper, the white lie, misleading through omission, manufacturing quotations, deceit, dishonesty, the "bait and switch", evasion, euphemism, exaggeration, changing the subject, leading astray, silence, false empathy, pretense, pomposity, pretense.
If it's a form of lying Keith has done it and his expertise in the finer points is on full display each night on Countdown.
It's a bit like shooting fish in a barrel to take the time to point out ALL of Keith's lies. The simplest way to understand Olbermann is to realize that he does not tell lies on Countdown. ALL he does on Countdown is tell lies. Every sentence is a carefully woven piece of propaganda that is infested with lies. The entire presentation of information by Keith is one big lie tied to together by lots of little ones with the fig leaf that he is just presenting a "snarky" take on the events of the day.
By the time one would be able to pick apart the totality of the lies broadcast on MSNBC by Olbermann another show would be airing. There is no good way to keep up. But that does not mean one should never take the time to explore Olbermann's words and dissect the lies embedded in his show. The most instructive lessons can be gleaned from exploring Keith's "layered lies", a special form of Olbfuscation that operates in multiple dimensions and on multiple levels all while relying on the willful ignorance of his viewers who do not know or care to know where the truth ends and the lies begin.
You could build a RICO case around just one sentence in an Olbermann script.
Last night on Countdown, Olbermann led off his show claiming the President has resorted to citing anonymous Iraqi bloggers in a speech at a hotel near Capitol Hill. He went on to claim that the President had "descended" into a defense of the entire war by quoting two dentists.
Fortunately, for those seeking the truth, the White House publishes all of Bush's speeches on the White House web site and the one cited by Olbermann is no different.
If Keith had bothered to read the speech he would have known that the speech was well over 5,000 words, lasting three-quarters of an hour and contained precisely two sentences from the bloggers delivered in just 70 words.
I want to share with you how two Iraqi bloggers -- they have bloggers in Baghdad, just like we've got here -- (laughter) -- "Displaced families are returning home, marketplaces are seeing more activity, stores that were long shuttered are now reopening. We feel safer about moving in the city now. Our people want to see this effort succeed. We hope the governments in Baghdad and America do not lose their resolve.
99% of the speech had nothing to do with bloggers except on Countdown where bloggers made up 100% of what Keith aired.
What about that "anonymous" part?
The two bloggers, Mohammed Fadhil and Omar Fadhil, are hardly anonymous. They are easily the two most famous Iraqi bloggers in the world. They have been feted here in the states by American bloggers, foremost among them the well-known American blogger Jeff Jarvis. They have given numerous media interviews and even visited with President Bush at the White House. There names and email addresses are on the home page of their blogs. Their blog, Iraq the Model, was one of the earliest and most well known blogs from Iraq.
About the only thing Olbermann got right was that the speech was given at the Holiday Inn near Capitol Hill.
But Keith is not done - not by a long shot.
He continues:
The Internet mavens at Google recently reported that the average blog is read by an average of exactly one person. Tonight, somewhere in Baghdad, two bloggers are boasting, We found our reader.
Amusing. And entirely irrelevant. While it may true that of the 100,000,000 blogs cited by Google the AVERAGE is one reader a day per blog, Iraq the Model is one of the most widely read blogs in the world. Got that? Not out of Iraqi blogs but of out of ALL blogs in the entire world.
According to Sitemeter, Iraq the Model gets about 5,500 readers a day. There are over eleven hundred blogs that link to Iraq the Model. In the TTLB Ecosystem rankings they are currently ranked #51 worldwide. Technorati lists them among the Top 1000 most influential blogs in the world.
So much for applying the Google survey data to the Iraq the Model blog.
Is Olbermann done? Nope.
Keith goes on to argue that the President quoting these two bloggers is an indication that he is getting out of touch with reality or in denial or maybe it's something clinical, something that might be like Nixon talking to the paintings. For Olbermann, the President quoting these two "anonymous" bloggers with "one reader" is a form of insanity.
After mocking the President through several segments, Olbermann gets around to discussing the President's speech with Rajiv Chandrasekaran from the Washington Post and, for the first time all night, reveals something kinda important. He has known all along who the two blogger are but withheld that information for almost half the show while playing up the "President is so desperate he's taken to quoting random, anonymous bloggers to make his case" angle. But to fully appreciate the artful blend of ignorance, arrogance and deception that defines Keith Olbermann look at the way he tees up his question about the bloggers to Chandrasekaran:
I must ask you about the blog that the president cited today. It's now been identified. It's IraqTheModel.com. There's a pair of dentists who've generally been sympathetic to the American mission. They met with the president in the Oval Office three years ago...
It would be to fail to appreciation the subtlety of Olbermann's mastery of deception, to note simply that Keith is here admitting that he has known the identity of the bloggers all along. Nor that he even knew that the President met with the pair in the White House. It's better (or worse) than that. Notice how Keith says "it's now been identified".
Like all of Keith Olbermann's best lies this one works at multiple levels. First, he conveys the sense that either the President was intentionally withholding this information or that perhaps the President did not know who he was quoting, that maybe he just picked a couple of random bloggers off the web who happened to say something that supported his case for the war. Either way he gets across his point (Bush=idiot) to his blissfully gullible readers. More to the point, by claiming that the blog has "now been identified" Keith R. Olbermann can suggest that he (or his pals in the MSM) ferreted out this information after diligently working the phones or otherwise acting like real reporters.
Of course this is Keith Olbermann whose idea of journalism, famously, is making up catch phrases for when a basketball player makes a shot from beyond the three point line. He can't even get the name right. While the URL "iraqthemodel.com" does redirect to the site, the blog is called simply "Iraq the Model" not "Iraq the Model dot com", the URL is iraqthemodel.blogspot.com.
When he says "now been identified" does he mean that he is reporting breaking news? Recall that at the top of the show he claimed to know nothing at all about the two "anonymous" bloggers. Now he knows that three years ago they visited with the President in the Oval Office. Did something just comes across the wire? Hardly. Keith knew full well who these bloggers were before he ever went on the air. But the President briefly quoting the two most well-known Iraqi bloggers (the truth) did not have the entertainment value of asserting that the President of the United States was so desperate for good news from Iraq that he had taken to poking around in the blogosphere (the lie).
In the world of comedy this is known as a "callback" and God knows Keith is far more concerned with finding a good callback that he can work into the show than actually reporting the news so when the news does not work comedically Keith makes it work through the most reliable of journalistic techniques - making shit up.
For the uninitiated, callbacks are a staple of stand-up comedy. Anyone who stays up past 11 PM has seen Jay Leno or David Letterman use a punch line from a previous joke and apply it to a later joke in the set. Often a comic will use a callback with a joke that bombed and keep circling back to it, creating a sense of intimacy with the audience, as if they are the comedian's friend. Done right it is a very powerful comedic tool.
By the time Keith gets around to letting the audience in on the gag (that's he's been bullshitting them for the entire show) they no longer care - they got their fill of "Bush as idiot" for the day - and after all what's a few hundred lies between friends.
But I digress.
Keith continues his questioning of Chandrasekaran:
We're down to the president quoting a couple of dentists to prove that the surge is working?
Dang! Keith still can't seem to get it quite right now can he? While the President was quoting Mohammed Fadhil and Omar Fadhil and they are bloggers from Iraq the Model, President Bush was not quoting from their blog. It is ironic that Keith cited a study by those "Internet mavens" at Google (is that what they are? mavens?). Keith cited Google just the other day in his Special Comment on Tom Delay. Maybe Keith should spend less time Googling for porn and more time using it to prepare for his show. Had he bothered to type in the quote he ran from President Bush at the top of the hour he might have found this:
Notes From Baghdad
Open liquor stores and other signs of the surge's success. OpinionJournal.com
BY MOHAMMED FADHIL AND OMAR FADHIL
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Whoops! Turns out the President was not quoting from some random, anonymous blog. He was actually quoting from a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed written by the two most famous Iraqi journalists in the world. Two men who have been reporting from the trenches, literally, since the days when Saddam was still on the loose in Iraq.
Like most Olbermann efforts, he labors to arrive at the big moment and when the time comes he disappoints.
After thirty minutes of hype the best he can do is unload on Chandrasekaran with...
on the same blog, they said...the administration, quote, "needs to revise the way it's been handling and planning for this critical war."
Imagine that? Bush is actually quoting someone who does not agree with him on every point - and even invited them to the White House. No surprise that Olbermann is flabbergasted to hear of something like that. Scary!
Anxious to please and determined to be "great thanksed" by Olby, Chandrasekaran laps up Keith's nonsense with an eager smile.
Well, you know, there are dozens of Iraqi bloggers. And I dare say IraqTheModel is one of very, very few to be as rosy as it is, just notwithstanding some of their own skepticism about things and some of their own critical comments. I mean, those guys aren't idiots. But, you know, if we do a more representative sample of what Iraqis are writing in their blogs, and I read a lot of them, you won't find as optimistic of a portrait as IraqTheModel portrays.
And there you have it. Olbermann has spent half his show implying the President is insane because he spent a few seconds in a 40 minute speech quoting from an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal. And Bush's "crime" in this case? Among the "dozens" of relatively unknown Iraqi bloggers his guest says he reads, the two bloggers Bush quoted are not sufficiently pessimistic to suit the tastes of a reporter from the Washington Post.
Another scoop for the Edward R. Murrow of our time.
"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET)
Host: Keith Olbermann
Topics/Guests:
KYLE SAMPSON TESTIFIES: Jonathan Turley, constitutional law expert and George Washington University law professor
IRAQ WAR VOTE: Richard Wolffe, Newsweek chief White House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst
PRES. BUSH: Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic Monthly senior editor and author of "The Conservative Soul"
SANJAYA LIVES: Maria Milito, Q104.3 radio host
The opening spiel began with a "contradiction" between Kyle Sampson and the AG; the banner read "Sampson Sinks Gonzales"; the President's promised veto (graphic: "The Lone Ranger", another of KO's trademark fair and balanced banners); Karl Rove raps "while his administration burns"; American Idol again, Michael Jackson, and more uproarious internet videos. As The Hour of Spin progressed, we would catch Olbermann twisting the truth, plus a bit of tricky editing that would make Slippery Shuster proud.
UPDATE (RCox): Transcript and Video
It didn't take long for another Olbermann cliche. The very first sentence of The Hour of Spin proper told us that Sampson "threw Attorney General Gonzales under the bus" [Ding!]. Monkeymann's veins were popping as he reported the earth-shattering news that Karl Rove was involved in the US attorney selection process. (Banner: "Sampson and De Liars") The President's chief political advisor taking a role in political appointments? By Gawd, we can't have that! Olby's selective report of Sampson's testimony highlighted that decisions were made by Gonzales and Myers, courtesy of four clips with (D) Senators and zero clips with (R) Senators. The infamous, deplorable one ran this exchange:
SCHUMER: So the Attorney General's statement is wrong. It's false. The statement is false. There's no way to believe it's not.
SAMPSON: I don't think it's accurate.
SCHUMER: So the Attorney General's statement is wrong. It's false. The statement is false. There's no way to believe it's not.
SAMPSON: I don't think it's accurate if the statement implies that I intended to mislead the Congress.
Ah, that clever bunch of editors on OlbyPlanet. Not only can they hack out half a sentence with the greatest of ease, they can also manage to omit his opening testimony that the firings were proper and not made to influence any ongoing investigations. Can't have that on OlbyPlanet.
Then it was time for another hilarious episode of Olby and the Perfessor. The AG either lied or he's "an empty suit". The higher ups in the AG's office are incompetent. The Dems "scored a lot of points", like the lack of any good reason to fire Carol Lam. Of course, the the fact that even Diane Feinstein (D) had filed complaints about Ms Lam was spiked. This is "journalism" on OlbyPlanet. Great thanks.
#4: The Senate vote on Iraq. Fat Ass was peeved because Bush may veto. He insisted that the President wanted "a blank check". Technically, Another Olbermann Lie. It is impossible to legislate a blank check to fund a war. While introducing The Wolffe Man, the slovenly political hack showed just how slovenly and political he is. He compared Bush's threatened veto with when "Newt Gingrich shut down the government". Olbermahn knows his credulous toadies are too ill-informed to know, or care, that the government was shut down because of a Presidential veto! Bush's veto is bad, but Clinton's veto is so good that he could issue it and it was still Newt Gingrich's fault! Man, it's hard to believe more people don't see through this bilge. Wolffie simpered about "political jujitsu", and Olby twisted himself into a pretzel to make it all good for the Dems: even if they compromise, they're still the "white knights".
They went on to Karl Rove's rap session at the correspondents' dinner. Olbermoronn's metastacized hatred was telegraphed in today's Countdown newsletter: Rove "wasn't funny at all" because "he's just another jerk". The Wolffe Man of course played along: "not a lot of laughs right now". Naturally, Great Thanks.
After a passing attack on Fox's Rachel Marsden plus O'Reilly attack #170, we came to #3, bringing back Andrew Sullivan, again cross-dressing as a "conservative". But first, Olby had to cite a report about some sex scandal coverup attributed to Gonzales from...WorldNet Daily! Always a favorite source on OlbyPlanet, but only when Olby can use it to attack a Republican. Andy talked about Bush, Monkeyman quoted Oliver Cromwell and John LeCarre, Andy brought up Rove and Bush's "psyche", KO cited "Mister" Bush's "infallibility complex", and... well let's just say that no stone was left unthrown. Of course Keith allowed nobody on to give a different point of view. Because this is journalism on OlbyPlanet. Great thanks.
#2: American Idol yet again. But what a disappointment. There were no OlbyScoops, you know, like Catherine McPhee is singing at Tom Cruise's wedding. Or Idol is bringing on Michael Jackson as a guest judge. Just blather with Malito. Plus Michael Jackson and the big, #1 story: funny internet videos. In the Media Matters Minute, "comedian Rush Limbaugh" was the attackee (Blue Blog Source: what else? Media Matters).
Mute mongrels: Oralmann's highly selective cherry-picking of poll numbers is known to all readers of this site. Less than a week ago he was blasting "Mister" Bush for opposing the Iraq timeline because he was "substituting his judgment for that of the people for whom he works". So what happens when a poll comes out that contradicts OlbySpin? A poll that shows only 44% support the timeline passed by Congress? The law on OlbyPlanet is clear: the story gets spiked. The David Bloom award was bestowed last night on two journalists from the eeevil Fox. You know Olbermoronn ain't gonna say word one about that! But the most amazing muzzled mastiff has to be the Iranian hostage situation, now in, what, it's seventh day? And still Edward R Olbermann hasn't even reported it! Note: Monkeymann has mentioned the Geneva Convention well over a dozen times on The Hour of Spin. Trivia question: how many of those mentions were about US violations, and how many about violations by, say, Iran or allied states? You know that answer. Now here are the Iranians, violating international law left and right, and all of a sudden there's not one peep out of Herr Olbermann about the Geneva Conventions. Why is this? Send your answers to hypocrisy.com.
Olbermann's book The book that bears Olbermann's name is #15,838 at amazon.com, while "Culture Warrior" is #433. (It's that 2-for-$25 sale!) The OlbyTome is #3,556 at Barnes & Noble; O'Reilly's book is #362 there, and is one of the top five books of 2006 per Publishers Weekly. We could say that Wednesday's Hour of Spin finished in second place. But "Man on Fan" Olbermann doesn't believe in raw numbers. He prefers that "money demo" that he's always hawking as definitive and absolute. So fine. Based on that, Wednesday's Hour of Spin crashed into fourth place, as did the 10 pm repeat, in the critical, beloved, all-important, coveted "key demo". Tonight's MisterMeter reading: 6 [ELEVATED]
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