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April 1, 2007

As The World Turns in Loonland

It was a tough week to be an Olbyloon. First there were allegations that their Lord & Idol, Keith Olbermann, was trying to score with porn star Mary Carey. Then came an allegation at Jossip that Keith might have a bit of a stalker problem. Although this was hardly news to Clear Thinkers here at Olbermannwatch as we recalled a teacher-stalking incident where Keith hired a private detective to track down an old teacher which led Dan Patrick to call Olbermann a stalker.

You just knew the Olbyapologists would come out in force to support their Hero. But even we weren't quite prepared for the reaction these news items generated in Loonland.

After we documented the reaction to the Mary Carey story by one rather obsessed Olbermann fan, the loons deleted the entire thread and the moderators issued an edict:

The thread is gone. it is the consensus of the Mods and Admins that it was in the best interests of the board. just let it go. please. i should have locked it last night, but what's done is done and it's not coming back. we'd really prefer that the entire subject be left alone."

But part of being an Olbyapologist means defending him whenever and wherever. And so, we present for your reading enjoyment, the meanderings of a certain "Dorrie" who sprang to Olbemann's defense at Jossip and who up being compared to a diaper-wearng astronaut in the process. First she tried to chide Jossip for running a gossip item on a gossip site.

You're in a rotten business, Jossip. Repent and save your souls before it's too late.

When someone pointed out to her that Olbermann deals in gossip every single day on his show, Dorrie responded with this rather puzzling post.

Television personalities aren't anonymous when they discuss gossip, which has the effect of limiting what they can say. Also consider that Olbermann corrects the record and apologizes when he gets something wrong -- unlike SOME commentators we know

Raise your hands if you can remember the last time Olbermann apologized for getting a fact wrong about the Bush administration? After being confronted with evidence that Olbermann had once hired a PI to track down an ex-crush, Dorrie had an explanation at the ready: Ann Landers made him do it!

Ann Landers wrote a column before she died advising people that if they remembered a teacher who had influenced them or taught them things that they found valuable later in life, it would be a very good thing for them to look those teachers up and tell their former instructors what their work had meant to them. Was Ann Landers encouraging stalking?

When that rather far-fetched theory failed to take hold, she of course, had another at the ready. She wasn't really an Olbermann fan, she is just a concerned citizen who is worried about the effects of "gossip" on our society!

1) The proliferation of rumor and gossip is destroying our society, culture and politics, and the only way I can think of to stop it is for people to learn how to tell the difference between a verifiable FACT and an unproven allegation; and, 2) I don't like it when people who try to lead decent lives are set upon by anonymous harpies carrying tales. ~ People with truths to tell come out from the shadows and tell them; people who assail others from hidden locations are called snipers.

Now, Dorrie apparently did not read Olbermannwatch on Friday night where Johnny Dollar detailed how an item lifted from a discredited blue blog went to one run by part-time press agent for Olbermann, Mr. TVNewser to Countdown.Then she decides to spin why hiring a PI to track down a former crush is a good move:

Very prudent of Mr. O to consult a professional before setting out to find his former instructor, no?-- because if the P.I. thought the enterprise had even the appearance or suggestion of illegality about it, the mission would have been aborted right then and there. Here's the webpage presenting the NY Dept. of State's licencing requirements for a P.I. -- http://www.dos.state.ny.us/lcns/pifaq.html ~ The P.I. whom Olbermann consulted must have judged his prospective client to be in sufficient possession of his faculties and the request to be sufficiently within the P.I.'s legal purview to consent to go ahead with it.

By this time, as you might imagine, the other posters at Jossip, including yours truly, were begging this woman to get some mental help. But did that slow her down? Of course not. She had come up with a new theory! Olbermann is an enemy of the state and this was all a orchestrated plot between the right-wing media and the Bush administration to frame him!

The motive in making up stuff like this to attack Olbermann IS political, that is what I'm saying. These folks never paid any attention to him prior to November 2004; but the harpies, furies and planters of blind items were deployed after Olbermann involved himself in the election controversy, and their mischief has paralleled Olbermann's denunciation of the Bush administration's failures. Anyone who was watching the show before the last presidential election can remember when these items started popping up, and why. Since that day it's been a textbook case of attack the messenger.

But wait, there is still more! Right about the same time "Dorrie" was spewing forth at Jossip, a poster calling herself "Orinenglish" pops up at Either Relevant or True who proclaims they even know who Dorrie is. I just bet she does. Let's see, it's all part of a politically motivated smear campaign excuse is there:

You can tell just how desperate the Bush administration is by how many old-enough-to-shave Keith rumors the goissip columns have to dredge up, re-animate, and re-plant to attempt to counter the onslaught of rumors emanating from the White House these days.

But wait, the Bush administration has help in the form of Olbermannwatch and a group of former Olbermann fans!

And the trolls are, of course, posting away on it too. Not only the Olbermann Watch gang, but a certain group of gossipy females who went all Heaven's Gate last summer, if you remember.

It's all a part of a sinster plot she claims!

The goal is to bring Keith's career AND his relationship down in a mighty one-two punch. The more personal they are, and the more they involve his so-called relationships with women, the more you can see this. They figure Keith's biggest fan base is women; they figure he appears deliriously happy with his relationship; so there's only one thing to do: convince his female fans, and his girlfriend at the same time, that HE'S THE MOST AWFUL MAN WHO EVER WALKED THE PLANET!

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then huh? You know, I almost feel sorry for Olbermann with fans like these because this one is helpful enough to provide us with a tidbit we had somehow managed to overlook here at Olbermannwatch:

The young man who got his car antenna bent by a young and angry Keith who (was dating a woman) Olbermann wanted â€¦for himself? Come on, Keith mentioned that one on the radio weeks ago. You'd think that by now, OlbermannWatch would have dug up the man in question and done an exclusive interview with him about this incident.

Thanks for the heads-up Dorrie/Orinenglish! With fans like you, these posts just write themselves!

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By Grammie on April 1, 2007 1:47 PM

I have heard some scurrilous and ugly charges against women in my life, but this one is really revolting.

How dare that bimbo accuse me and every other woman in the world of being KO's fan base. No doubt she has newly minted post gender surgery women in mind.

Grammie

PS I went to some links and read a bit. Those women are pathological.

By Anonymous on April 1, 2007 1:59 PM

I forgot about that incident described on the radio. Thanks to Orinenglish for the reminder because I never would have thought about it. But damn, Bob, that's a great idea to try to get antenna boy to come out and contribute his own Olbyreflections. I bet a lot of Keith's high school friends have great memories of Olby.

By Brandon on April 1, 2007 2:31 PM

Remember one night somone claiming to be a high school attendee with him did post here. They did NO have nice things to say about him either. Seems to be a reoccuring them in Keith's life, no?

By DUGUN on April 1, 2007 4:11 PM

With all of this coming to light because of this site and because those who Kieth attacks are starting to strike back I hope to read on this site more and more shows on countdown that spend more and more time attacking Fox. I understand he spent considerable time on this subject in the past week. You know this stuff just infuraites KO. I'm hoping he will take the bait and start doing whole shows about Oreily, Fox and thier hosts. This is going to be great! Oh, and I dont think his ratings will change either....as I said if you were to make an entire show on countdown showing nothing but a monkey sitting on Olbys desk eating peanuts and spanking himself the same people would watch no matter what. I think all mental institutions in the country must tune in to conuntdown daily and let the paitents watch just to keep them "sedate". This would explane his low ratings. It is nice outside today, you should not be reading this in the first place.

By Michael on April 1, 2007 4:16 PM

Has anybody else noticed KO's ratings have actually been lower than Nancy Grace's?

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/

Maybe not EVERY night, but even ONE night is embarassing (LoL)

By DUGUN on April 1, 2007 4:52 PM

Yes, add up both Beck and Graces's numbers compaired to KO's numbers for both of his shows.......the margine is narrowing. Maybe that is why Beck is making "worst person" apperances more and more often

By Cecelia on April 1, 2007 6:39 PM

Bob,

Did you notice that one of the Olbermann critic commenters on the Jossip blog stated that she had worked with Keith in the past and that the owner of the Jossip blog site was a former MSNBC employee.

I think it's safe to say that Olbermann's greatest champions are generally among the people who have never met him...

By Robert Cox on April 1, 2007 9:19 PM

I just went over and took a look at the Jossip comment thread and added a few words of my own.

It's interesting from our perspective to watch people at Jossip react to their first contact with an OlbyLoon isn't it. I want to take some of them by the hand and explain to them that there is nothing they can write in a comment that will satisfy an OlbyLoon expect to express undying admiration for Keith Olbermann (and even then they have their own special litmus test for loyalty to KO).

By Cecelia on April 1, 2007 9:38 PM

Just read your comment on Jossip, Bob. "cable news front man for the left"...

hahahaha!

By Brandon on April 2, 2007 12:44 AM

Good job Bob. That was the best thing on that entire page.

By Sir Loin of Beef on April 2, 2007 9:24 AM

"It was a tough week to be an Olbyloon. "

Tougher, however, is being a delusional drowning-rat fascist mind-slave. Happily, everyone here has perfected the defensive strategy of swamping their disillusionment and cogntive dissonance in banal celebrity-scapegoating.

Gonzales and his whole department are national laughing stocks; data from the Iraqi government exposes as hogwash all the Republican taling-points about the "Surge's" success.

Their gvernment tells us that March deaths of innocent Iraqis are up 15% from February, and 40-some Iraqi military personel were killed in March compared with 80-some Americans...who exactly is "leading the fight"?

You people are all liars, cowards, and vicarious bloodsuckers. ...but Olby's got a stalker!

By Cecelia on April 2, 2007 9:46 AM

You people are all liars, cowards, and vicarious bloodsuckers. ...but Olby's got a stalker!

Posted by: Sir Loin of Beef at April 2, 2007 9:24 AM

Well, no one's perfect, Sir Loin.

Good to see you. How are things at Camp Fire and Brimstone?

By Great Thanks on April 2, 2007 10:39 AM

Olbermann is the one that brought up the fact that he hired a private investigator to find a teacher....and because he had a crush on her, not to tell her what her work had meant to him. How is that rumor or gossip? His own buddy Dan Patrick jokingly (?) called him a stalker first.

On Olbyplanet, that's as close as Keith will come to being on the record with somebody who won't parrot what he thinks.

By Save the Cats! on April 2, 2007 11:42 AM

Hey, Sir Loin of Beef-cake:

Now that the Keithies are over, maybe he can go back to covering British soldiers being taken hostage by Iran....Oh, thats right, he NEVER covered that NEWS story to begin with! Maybe he will START covering that story today!

(That is if he will even be there (or have time to prepare), it is the Yankees home opener, after all...his only two blog entries on his "New Hole" site are about baseball).

By Anonymous on April 2, 2007 11:55 AM

You people are all liars, cowards, and vicarious bloodsuckers. ...but Olby's got a stalker!

Posted by: Sir Loin of Beef at April 2, 2007 9:24 AM
It takes one to know one....haha..Olby's the stalker, can't you read?

By Save the Cats! on April 2, 2007 12:42 PM

Sorry to Sir Loin of Beef-cakes:

I said Olbermann has only posted two baseball blog entries (verses any world issue or political entries) on the "news hole", I just checked today, make that three baseball blog entries.

By Anonymous on April 2, 2007 1:03 PM

I think it's safe to say that Olbermann's greatest champions are generally among the people who have never met him...
Posted by: Cecelia at April 1, 2007 6:39 PM

...Don't forget the army of bashers here who would only describe themselves as Olby's greatest detractors....who also have never met him.

By Anonymous on April 2, 2007 1:36 PM

I'm not quite sure why "Olby's greatest detractors" would want to meet him.

By Brandon on April 2, 2007 1:45 PM

Seriously are you people that dense? Cecilla meant that anyone who has met him, who does know him, are not interested in defending him as if their life depended upon it. They know better. Maybe one day you will too.

By Cecelia on April 2, 2007 1:59 PM

Well stated, Brandon.

By Anonymous on April 2, 2007 2:30 PM

Serious, YOU don't know what I meant?

Cecelia made a point that it is her perception that, generally speaking, the people who champion him the most have never met him.

I was making the counterpoint that it's not just the champions that have never met him, it's most of his detractors as well...

Are YOU really that dense?

Or do you feel anything you or Cecelia have to say should go 'unchallenged' like the views expressed on Countdown

Don't assign characteristics to me without evidence. You can call me stupid all you want, from you, it's a compliment. But don't assume I'm an Olbermann fan.

I don't want to see you 'be wrong' more times in one day than necessary...

BTW, who's Cecilla?

Is that the pet hamster you have in your pocket?

By Anonymous on April 2, 2007 3:04 PM

One way to drive the Loons to visit OW is to post a picture of Katy Tur. They already drool over the shirtless KO pics you have!

I'm sure you will come across a pic of the two of them at a Yankees game, since he is a season ticket holder.

How fun would that be, OW traffic spiking due to OW haters....

By Cecelia on April 2, 2007 3:28 PM

BTW, who's Cecilla?

Is that the pet hamster you have in your pocket?

Posted by: at April 2, 2007 2:30 PM

No, he's just glad to see ya....

By Dave on April 2, 2007 3:42 PM

>>>How dare that bimbo accuse me and every other woman in the world of being KO's fan base. No doubt she has newly minted post gender surgery women in mind.

OMG Grannee that is hilarioius. I bet the stitches where their penises were sliced off and their new vagina holes were sewed on haven't even sloughed off. I can picture pink Keith's fan army now... marching down Gay street with the puss and bloddy drainage from their abominable fake vagina-holes soaking through their skirts!! YGG!!

By barney on April 2, 2007 3:51 PM

I just realize Rove took a clever little jab at our beloved Keith! Did anyone spot this? Check out what happens around 2:27--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4eAZHuaH2o

By Cecelia on April 2, 2007 4:14 PM

Posted by: Dave at April 2, 2007 3:42 PM

You just have to know by this stuff, that Keith wakes up in the night in stark terror after having nightmares in which he personally encounters one of his fans.

By Janet Hawkins on April 2, 2007 4:22 PM

Well, Dave, it wasn't exactly what I had in mind.

Barney, I watched the video twice. It was hilarious. But there was no 2:27 and whatever it was, I missed it.

Had a good laugh anyway.

Grammie

By Dave on April 2, 2007 4:40 PM

Amen to that Ceclia. But we shouldn't really make fun of Keith on that score. The idea of blood-n-puss gender-benders gives me the heebeejeebees too. He can't help it if he is just so darned attractive to freaks.

By stinson62 on April 2, 2007 4:48 PM

That rove thing is awesome. I almost vomited. I didn't see anything at 2:27 because there was no 2:27 in that link, but I did look on one of the other "rove raps" videos on you tube and it sounds like he says a bit after he stops rapping he says something that MIGHT be "there's one for Olberman" or something like that. It's pretty hard to hear. It might have been Colbert too, it's really muffled.

By Dave on April 2, 2007 4:59 PM

I can't find the reference. But If I was jumping around and freaking like Rove there is no way that I would admit/claim that I don't drink. But then I wouldn't let some idiot liberal whackoffs set me up like that in the first place. Why do people always cater to these stupid clowns? And why aren't they rascist for making fun of black people?

By barney on April 2, 2007 5:11 PM

MSM rule #1 dave, Liberals Cannot be Racist.

I honestly felt sorry for that black guy, he was into it at first but when he saw how much "MC Rove" was getting going and jumping around he looked like he wanted to barf on him and run from the stage. He tries to keep smiling but you can see how grossed out he is.

By Brandon on April 2, 2007 5:21 PM

Do you have proof that his detractors have never met him? No, I didn't think so. Just as you have no proof whatsoever that Olbermann is the perfect man you think he is. But we have plenty of proof he is not. And that my friends is what the Olbyloons hate us so. We speak truth they can't refute.

By Sir Loin of Beef on April 2, 2007 5:35 PM

"Now that the Keithies are over, maybe he can go back to covering British soldiers being taken hostage by Iran....Oh, thats right, he NEVER covered that NEWS story to begin with! Maybe he will START covering that story today!"

Is that true? I haven't been watching "Countdown" for a number of weeks so I have no idea - but such an oversight on the part of any "news" show would represent a terrible example of negligence. ...sadly, such shortcmings are a dime-a-dozen in this country's corporate media.

I will right a letter to Keith Olbermann demanding that his show give adequate attention to the Iranian detainee situation if you write to Fox and ABC demanding that they provide a detailed and ballanced presentation of the Johns Hopkins 2004 - 2007 "Lancet" study of Iraqi war-mortality.

We should also all forcefully denounce the countless lies and omissions being perpetrated against us by the executive and legislative branches of our government

...as long as we don't focus on the personal foibles of celebrities.

By Cecelia on April 2, 2007 5:35 PM

Posted by: Dave at April 2, 2007 4:40 PM

Actually, Dave, what gives me the heebeejeebees is you.

By Dave on April 2, 2007 5:44 PM

"Actually, Dave, what gives me the heebeejeebees is you."

Hey, sorry if your stitches aren't out yet, Ms. fastitidious.
i shoud have been more sensitive. You are one weird lady. You remind me of an SNL skit Jon Lovitz used to do where he loved things that were "baudy" but then if anyone actually talked directly about sex he would be all offended. To each his or her own.

By Dave on April 2, 2007 5:50 PM

Cecilia: Olberman has a "hampster in his pocket," so he has to "harvest the lillies" (titter) to prove he is not "a bit light in the loafers" . Ooooooo how deeeeelicious is my baudy satire.

Dave: I agree Cecelia, he probably has a small penis and tries to overcompensate by banging liberal whores so people don't call him a fag.

Ceclia: Ooooooo dear, now you've rooooined everthing you abominable beastly man.

By Cecelia on April 2, 2007 5:58 PM

Dave,

THAT from one line of "no, he's (Brandon) just glad to see you"...

Exponential heebeejeebees!

By Dave on April 2, 2007 6:06 PM

"Exponential heebeejeebees!"

Oooooooo yesss. Why I am just moooortified that someone would suggest that my brilliantly and baudy baudy biting satire is the equivalent of silly gutter humor about...Oh icky icky word....why hath thou been coined? dare I say it? Penises! Oh heavens heavens what would Queen Victoria say? Good taste, where art thou? Oh stars I think I have the vapours...

What a prig! Olbermann sucks donkey ass! Chew on that you baudy little titalator!

By Cecelia on April 2, 2007 6:17 PM

What a prig! Olbermann sucks donkey ass! Chew on that you baudy little titalator!

Posted by: Dave at April 2, 2007 6:06 PM

What? No blood and pus?

By Anonymous on April 2, 2007 6:22 PM

Dave, Cecelia...can't we all just get along...we are starting to sound like the Olbermann fan boards....

By Bradon on April 2, 2007 7:03 PM

Beef: Olbermann hasn't once mentioned the Iranian-British soldiers crisis. Not once.

And I think things would have to get very bad indeed before we began to sound like the Olbermann fan boards.

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