it's those damn Fox news people, they are behind all this! LOL, I almost peed in my pants when I saw the dim witted four eyed jackass present that video. Stop taking the little blue pill, Keith-it;s making you deranged and word is Katy may look to find another Al Qaeda loving disgraced journalist.

Keith's moonbat conspiracy theory
Made me laugh until I was teary
Just blame it on Fox
Better yet, Robert Cox
Keith's tripping like Timothy Leary

Why do I get the feeling that the KO/Saddam image is glimpse into the future Olbermann meltdown that will show up on the cover of the NY Post. Very creepy.

Actually that is the famous photo of Khalid-Sheik Mohammed when he was woken up in the middle of the night and arrested.

I don't normally watch Olbermann, but he makes sense. Thanks for showing this.. especially in the format that you presented. You've made a new Olbermann fan.

Johnny-

I remember that picture well , back from around 2002 or 2003-great touch up on Oralmann. I'm sure that is what Katy wakes up to every morning, after the studio make up is gone and the Viagra wears off.

Great photo of Olbermoronn while being held captive in his cell. I never realized that Olbermoronn looks so much like his younger brother Kalid-Sheik Mohammed. Please, share the photo with everyone.

Tell me Robert...

Did you, like the other Bushbot Cee, stock up on Duct Tape and Plastic Sheeting to thwart the inevitable terrorist attack?

yeah, all those terror attacks are just "fake".9/11 didnt actually happen either, the towers are still standing there and 3,000 lives werent lost, just the typical "right wing media" over hyped and over dramatized story. Why are Oralman fans(all 5 of them) so stupid???

>yeah, all those terror attacks are just "fake".9/11 didnt actually happen either, the towers are still standing there and 3,000 lives werent lost, just the typical "right wing media" over hyped and over dramatized story. Why are Oralman fans(all 5 of them) so stupid???
Posted by: Dan at June 6, 2007 12:56 PM

There is some middle ground between 'The terrorist attacks were all fake' and 'A healthy skepticism of people that hold power over you.'

Let me guess, you bough the duct tape and plastic sheeting too, just like your government told you too. Good citizen...Now bury your head in the sand to make all the fear go away.

Yeah, stupid about sums it up...

If one carries KO's contention to it's logical conclusion it means that every one of these incidents has been fabricated previously and put on ice waiting for the devious Rove, Chenney, Rice or some other devious Repub to launch them.

Over a period of years a cast of thousands must be involved in the productions who sit and wait keeping their mouths shut until the call to action comes. How can anyone seriously entertain such absurdities as such a wide flung (even foreign governments), long term very large group in collusion without even one credible person being a whistle blower.

To borrow from Cecelia, KO is a FORNICATING PECAN.

Grammie

Kelly not Jarrett

"I don't normally watch Olbermann, but he makes sense. Thanks for showing this.. especially in the format that you presented. You've made a new Olbermann fan."

Well Jimmy, congrats on that. Now you must write to Keith in care of Countdown and swear your allegiance so you can recieve your "Secret Conspiracy Decoder Ring" and tinfoil hat making kit. Just be sure and give them your parents address with "Attention: Basement" instructions wriiten prominently.

There is some middle ground between 'The terrorist attacks were all fake' and 'A healthy skepticism of people that hold power over you.'

Let me guess, you bough the duct tape and plastic sheeting too, just like your government told you too. Good citizen...Now bury your head in the sand to make all the fear go away.

Yeah, stupid about sums it up...

right, it's all based on fear tactics; if and when terrorists attack here again, I hope it's your home they blow up first.

Look what just 10 or 15 gallons of fuel can do!
Keep talking Olbermann, you bafoon!

We should begun a betting pool on when KO's full-fledged meltdown hits.

jeez this picture is just so creeeeeepy. Look forward to a few more posts, just to push it down a little...doesn't OW have some shirtless pics of KO? The hair is not too far off. ewwww---shiver---

Do we condemn a man for thinking the way he does? Keiths narrative of the last 5 years may be ridiculous and paranoid , however none of us would deny that he believes it to his very core.
Keith belongs on tour with Rosie O , the 9/ll "truthers" and Charlie Sheen.
He does not belong on primetime cable, provided by NBC. Somewhere, Huntley and Brinkley are getting drunk and weeping.

Did you guys ever notice that most of these "terrorist attacks" fall in conjunction with the naming of a new American Idol?

just creepy....

Robert, where did you find those shirtless pics and are they really KO?
Also:
With all the news about the CNN reporter getting fired writing "dirty" emails on company time, can you clarify why Olbermann didn't get fired over the Karmabites emails? You said she had contacted you...but would not meet you in person. Do you think the Karmabites thing was fake? She talked about how he emailed her during a live Countdown show. Was it determined that Olbermann did not use the company email? Now with Lloyd Grove appearing on MS-NBC on occassion, would he ever publish the emails? I kind of think it didn't happen, because seems like this could have taken him down by now. Or do you think its because he is not married (the CNN guy is married, A-Rod is married) that the Karmabites thing is not that big of a deal (Ture or Not) and bedding one's fans may be par for the course in the media world. Just wondering.

Is this guy on Rosie O'Donnell's email list or something?

Keith's an unrepentant plagirist. If he isn't told what to think by Media Splatters, he's just an empty suit.

right, it's all based on fear tactics; if and when terrorists attack here again, I hope it's your home they blow up first.
Posted by: Dan at June 6, 2007 1:55 PM

Are you really that stupid?

I got the duct tape and plastic...I'll be fine Dan!

>You sir, are a dumbass.
Posted by: George Bush at June 6, 2007 1:12 PM

Since you've been wrong about everything else Chimpy McFlightsuit...I'll take that as an iron-clad compliment!

Great Thanks!

>Why do I get the feeling that the KO/Saddam image is glimpse into the future Olbermann meltdown that will show up on the cover of the NY Post. Very creepy.
Posted by: STC at June 6, 2007 11:41 AM

>Actually that is the famous photo of Khalid-Sheik Mohammed when he was woken up in the middle of the night and arrested.
Posted by: Robert Cox at June 6, 2007 12:22 PM

Why am I not surprised that the average OW viewer had no idea who the original picture was?

Oh yeah...Saddam IS Al-Qaeda...I forgot.

You must watch Faux News and believe everything the government tells you.

DON'T QUESTION AUTHORITY!

DON'T READ A NEWSPAPER!

DON'T REACH YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS!

I'm actually a bit surprised most OW viewers are even able to get online...

Calling people 'morons' or'idiots' is usually an indication that someone is afraid/unequipped to deal with arguments on a factual basis.

Like him or not, Olbermann is certainly not stupid. He has fans because he presents things in a more reasoned, factual way than most broadcasters do, on any side. And because he asked questions that others- whether on Fox or the mainstream media do not ask. Frankly, I believe that he raises the level of debate. I wish there were more on right like him.

It is certainly fair to take issue with the facts and reasoning he presents. But the Ad Hominem attacks are a waste of time.

I watched the video twice. Perhaps you need to do the same. KO doesn't "purport to find nefarious connections". Nor does he even imply that any terrorist plots are hoaxes. Claiming that he does is being misleading (or playing stupid).

KO begins by wondering whether "with or without justification, all we have to fear is fear itself"? He cautions that it would be wrong to necessarily infer causality from these coincidences (or to deny the possibility), and then joked in the conclusion about coincidences with such things as haircuts.

He shows a very real- chronological- connection between numerous political news stories and the announcement of 'terrorist threats'. That is clear. KO merely laid out the numerous (13 and counting) "curious coincidences" of timing, where news unfavorable to the Bush Administration were followed (usually by about two days) by sudden announcements of Terrorist Threats.

KO points out that often the particular threats mentioned prove to be overblown. Or not immediate. With some the information they were based on was old or unreliable. So why exactly ...then?

KO simply wondered by implication if there might just be some manipulation and news management going on. To be fair, we have to recall that many accused Bill Clinton of 'wagging the dog' by attempting to strike Bin Laden in the midst of the Lewinsky scandal.

Sadly, the Bush administration's credibility seems so low right now, we have reason to wonder all the more.

KO did say that it is worth investigating, and if any one of these proves to be more than coincidence, THAT IS news. I think it is fair to say that the job of the press in an open democracy to at least bring up such questions, to be skeptical of the powers-that-be. Finally, he asks regarding terrorism threats questions that need to be asked repeatedly: "what is prudence, and what is fear mongering?". A fair and serious question to be discussed and debated, not to be mocked and ridiculed or dismissed so easily.

verywary: Very good post at 2:57 AM!

The Olbermann apologists are oh so predictable....

"KO did say that it is worth investigating, and if any one of these proves to be more than coincidence, THAT IS news."

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Yes, it WOULD be news....And journalists like Edward R. Murrow would be out searching for EVIDENCE of a plan to announce law-enforcement victories in time for poltical purposes.....

Where is Keith Olbermann's EVIDENCE?...and I mean people willing to talk to him and confirm this theory.....you know, SOURCES?

"I think it is fair to say that the job of the press in an open democracy to at least bring up such questions, to be skeptical of the powers-that-be."

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Investigative reporting takes more than sitting at a computer and doing GOOGLE and LEXUS/NEXUS searches to find dates of when announcements of terror-related stories occurred and then finding poltiical stories....It means going out and talking to people, asking administration sources about the allegations and finding EVIDENCE!

Those who support Olbermann's fear theory and feel he is providing a service should really study history. Edward R. Murrow INVESTIGATED McCarthy...he had SOURCES....he even had the ACTUAL evil man on his show to answer the allegations presented by Murrow during the Red Scare....Olbermann does not do 10% of what Murrow did in the hard work and professionalism needed for the press to keep check on our government.

So the sanctimonious Olbermann can keep growling and acting and asking questions to a TV camera all he wants, continue to never have contrarian views on his show and not leave his studio to do the hard work of journalism and actually dig up the facts that support his silly conspiracy theories....until he is objectively critical and willing to accept and present evidence that counters his ideology, he is nothing more than a J. Goebbels for the anti-American left....This is actually a bad thing for our democracy and I appreciate that most people realize this and don't even watch the loon.

And this is my post today, the 1,499th day since the declaration of Mission Accomplished in Iraq.....

I am cee, good night and good luck.

"I'd tell you that the Democrats are talking a good game, but they're not even doing that. Everybody in Congress has to understand something: If they continue to fund this war, it's not just the President who owns it. They own it, too." Sgt. Liam Madden

"There were a few tense moments, however, including an encounter involving Joshua Sparling, 25, who was on crutches and who said he was a corporal with the 82nd Airborne Division and lost his right leg below the knee in Ramadi, Iraq. Mr. Sparling spoke at a smaller rally held earlier in the day at the United States Navy Memorial, and voiced his support for the administration's policies in Iraq. Later, as antiwar protesters passed where he and his group were standing, words were exchanged and one of the antiwar protestors spit at the ground near Mr. Sparling; he spit back." NYT 1/28/07

"I think the Vietnamese are better off in Vietnam," George McGovern - NEWSWEEK

"Lefties: Leave these pathetic drowning rats alone to stew in each other's juices. Get yourselves out in the street and fight this criminal administration in ways that really mean something, and that are noted by more than a handful of keyboard heroes!" Sir Loin of Beef

"American liberals need to face these truths: The demand for self-government was and remains strong in Iraq despite all our mistakes and the violent efforts of al Qaeda, Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias to disrupt it." DEMOCRAT Bob Kerrey

Cee,

That is an excellent reply to an absolutely ridiculous post by "verywary".

Robert: And yours was a ridiculous reply to a ridiculous post ridiculing an excellent post by Verywary.

Anon 1:02 AM makes two good points...

"Olbermann is certainly not stupid" + "Ad Hominem attacks are a waste of time"

...and a number of absurd statements:

"presents things in a more reasoned, factual way"

This IS priceless. For years, we have documented repeated instances of Olbermann refusing to mention stories that contradict his political agenda. He misquotes, misstates and misleads many times in each telecast and has been caught many times airing flat-out lies. Most of his material is lifted directly from far-left web sites with absolutely no fact-checking by him or his staff, a habit which has gotten in trouble many times.

"he asked questions that others...do not ask"

Ask questions of whom? He famously books only guests who agree with him and refuses to have two guests on at once to debate an issue.

"he raises the level of debate"

Debate? Again, with whom, precisely? Keith pointedly refuses to debate anyone. Meanwhile, Keith uses his show to carry out mean-spirited personal attacks against enemies (real or imagined) and others of whom he disproves ranging from Roger Clemens to Paris Hilton, from journalists to politicians to celebrities to private individuals.

Do you really believe that segments like Oddball, Newsmakers Keeping Tabs and Worst Person in the World RAISE the level of "debate"? Do you believe that devoting 20% of the "news" segments to American Idol, Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan RAISES the level of the debate? Do you really think demagoguing issues and making ad hominem attacks RAISES the level of the debate?

That you actually believe what you have written only serves to provide a textbook example of the mind of a true OlbyLoon.

Why am I not surprised that the average OW viewer had no idea who the original picture was?
Posted by: at June 7, 2007 12:26 AM

What a f*cking anon loser...so what I made a mistake---glad you have such f*cking mind-bending abilities to come to such ridiculous conclusions about who I am. This from an idiot and can't even take the trouble to put a "name" to his/hers dumb a$$ comments. F*cking coward loser.

Mike....please tell me how I was ridiculous....When I have read or watch investigative journalism in the past, the journalist has quotes, uses anonymous sources, interviews people with first hand knowledge of the story and then offers the subject of the investigation a chance to respond......

Give me one, just one example of Keith Olbermann conducting investigative journalism.....

Like Limbaugh and Hannity, Olbermann uses already researched released information from main stream media reporting and frames it with his opinion and then has guests on that agree with his interpretations and conclusions.....This is not investigative journalism.....

At least Limbaugh and Hannity SAY they are not journalists cut from the same cloth as the respected Edward R. Murrow....truth in advertising.

Keith Olbermann, like Limbaugh, is a partisan commentator......but not a very honest one or good one at that.

BTW....The "wag the dog" stories during the Clinton/Lewinsky scadal all were touted by the likes of right-wing talk radio.....that analogy is very telling of what Keith Olbermann has become......

The Limbaugh of the left without the ratings.

NBC is investing a once good reputation into someone that is a shill of the radical left in America.

Because Cee, I see the compilation of a well documented timeline of terror alerts, and how they just happen to have coincided with breaking news that might be damaging to this administration, is something the public should at least be informed about and consider. Clearly, no other public figure with a national television forum is going to point this out....so I guess in your opinion, continued ignorance on the part of the public is preferable to the disclosure of what is merely a suspicious pattern?

It is clear that you don't believe that this administration has been using irrational fear of attack politically for almost six years now to 'justify' almost every counterproductive thing they have done....and it is equally clear that you don't think this has created great harm to our republic....but I certainly do!

Ok Mike, I understand your point but you didn't answer my question regarding evidence, sources or rebuttal opportunities when someone labels themselves INVESTIGATIVE.....Olbermann's words, not mine.

"no other public figure with a national television forum is going to point this out"

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Callers to Limbaugh say the same thing....."Oh Rush, you serve such a valuable service no one else does...blah, blah, blah." He does the same thing Olbermann does....he uses others' reporting and he opines....This is not investigative journalism. Asking a skeptical question is not journalism.....Doing the WORK of answering the question...finding facts, would be a nice for a change on COUNTDOWN if we are to believe it is serious journalism that is capable of keeping the powerful in check.

I quote the dork:

"But if merely a reasonable case can be made that any of these juxtapositions of events are more than just coincidences, if that case can be made on this, the very day that a military judge at Guantanamo Bay dismissed all terror charges that have kept Salim Hamdan jailed there for five years, it underscores the need for questions to be asked and asked continually in this country, questions about what is prudence and what is just fear mongering?"

So? Was the JFK plot announcement prudent or not and just used for fear mongering? Keith? Hello? What did you find out? Anyone with evidence that the administration orchestrated the announcement that would put it into the fear mongering category? Hello? What did you find out?

Hello?

Hello?

Anyone involved with the case, law enforcement, etc, that Keith will question about their motives in announcing the plot?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Now THIS was a ridiculous post.

Mike,

There is a very good reason why you "see the compilation of a well documented timeline of terror alerts, and how they just happen to have coincided with breaking news that might be damaging to this administration". You are a moronic, tinfoil-hat-wearing OlbyLoon - that's why!

I guess you missed the part AFTER he ran the 12 minute clip where he said a similar timeline could have been constructed based on the hairstyles of Presidential candidates, right? In other words, after subjecting his audience to more than 14 minutes of the most unsupported, off-the-wall conjecture the punchline is "I pulled this out of my very ample ass".

What exactly is this "continued ignorance" you imagine those who do not watch Countdown suffer from? What "pattern" do you imagine exists?

Let's do a little test.

Did you catch the part about how things had been all quiet in the period from the 2006 election in November and the previous weekend which just so happens (cue ominous organ music) to be 18 months before the next election. Now, I am not going to give you a hard question like...what precisely is so significant about "18 months before the next election" in a country where the "next election" is always at least 2 years away. I am going to give you an easy one.

What is wrong with the statement Keith made in the opening two minutes of the segment that the Bush Administration held back on its "scare tactics" of making terrorism related announcements between November 2006 and June 2007?

Need a hint?

Here's one: Fort Dix

Robert, when you call someone like me "moronic", you are doing nothing more than displaying your own damned ignorance and bias.

You are the classic example of the typical on line jerk who cannot, or will not refrain from making an argument without attempting to demean the intelligence of your opposition with an insult.

Calling someone a 'moron' in no way enhances your own arguments, or your own intelligence. It is a prop and nothing more. It essentially puts you in the same class with your rancid and profain lunch hour poster..."George Bush".

Whether you acknowledge it or not, you Robert Cox, are nothing more than another low level political hack who might as well be paid by this corrupt, lying, and monumentally incompetent administration, with your single minded and laughable goal of shutting up one of Bush's most ardent critics.

You sir, are a moron yourself....because NO ONE 2 screws short of being a TOTAL idiot would have proudly proclaimed continued support for the ORIGINAL decision to invade and occupy Iraq, EVEN given the 20/20 benefit of hindsight....as you so stupidly did just a week or so ago, while calling most other Americans 'idiots' in the same post.

God, what a jerk you are!...and I never knew until you decided to actively display your ugly biases on 'your' site only recently. Since you arrogantly proclaimed that you think most other Americans are 'idiots', are you REALLY stupid enough to think you have the power to insult me personally....or for that matter, any other political opposition on 'your' blog?

By the way, I caught an appearance you made on Fox one day (I believe it was with Neil Cavuto). You looked and sounded like a total dunce. One of the least impressive talking heads I have ever seen on ANY News related show ever.

You and your blog are a joke!

Cox doesn't like anyone to point out the weaknesses of his arguments.

Posted by: Why do care what my name is at June 7, 2007 9:27 PM

At what point in his post did Mike get around to doing that?

Oh looky, its little miss "I can't forgive you" Cecelia sticking her unforgiving little nose in something that doesn't involve her again..

I forgive you Cecelia!

Oh looky, its little miss "I can't forgive you" Cecelia sticking her unforgiving little nose in something that doesn't involve her again..

I forgive you Cecelia!

Posted by: Mike at June 7, 2007 9:38 PM

Well, great!

Now since you seem done with your prerequisite hissy fit in lieu of argument thing... how about addressing some of the points that were made about Olbermann and his cockeyed theory.

"Cee gets insulted when anyone connects the dots of administration's pattern of fear mongering and starts using simpleton generalizatons that a fifth grader could see through."

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As usual then opposing poster is close.....but only 1/2 right....

Well...I am glad you finally admitted that Keith Olbermann's skill, language and depth reflects the level of an elementary school child. No reason for me to feel insulted, though....I am amused by people swallowing the tripe that took an NBC intern 60 minutes on the internet to put together....an extraordinary time line of PROOF of a nexus of politics and terror...dun, dun,dunnnn!

Why slovingly laps it all up....."Oh thank you Rush Olbermann for serving us all....asking the tough questions to the powerful, thank you, kiss, kiss, hug, hug!"

Hey Why.....Has any respectable news organization done Olbermann's heavy lifting yet; picked up his theory and found evidence of an adminstration plan to actually execute a complicated canard time after time with precision and secrecy among a cast of thousands? No?...Oh and BTW, I thought you ideologues claimed this administration was incompetant and lead by a stuuuupid chimp? So now the radical left's theory is that the Bush administration is incompetent and irrelevant but is capable of complicated and very secret propaganda campaigns that occur many times over with exact timing?

You are dumber than a 5th grader, Why.

And this is my post today, the 1,500th day since the declaration of Mission Accomplished in Iraq.....

I am cee, good night and good luck.

"I'd tell you that the Democrats are talking a good game, but they're not even doing that. Everybody in Congress has to understand something: If they continue to fund this war, it's not just the President who owns it. They own it, too." Sgt. Liam Madden

"There were a few tense moments, however, including an encounter involving Joshua Sparling, 25, who was on crutches and who said he was a corporal with the 82nd Airborne Division and lost his right leg below the knee in Ramadi, Iraq. Mr. Sparling spoke at a smaller rally held earlier in the day at the United States Navy Memorial, and voiced his support for the administration's policies in Iraq. Later, as antiwar protesters passed where he and his group were standing, words were exchanged and one of the antiwar protestors spit at the ground near Mr. Sparling; he spit back." NYT 1/28/07

"I think the Vietnamese are better off in Vietnam," George McGovern - NEWSWEEK

"Lefties: Leave these pathetic drowning rats alone to stew in each other's juices. Get yourselves out in the street and fight this criminal administration in ways that really mean something, and that are noted by more than a handful of keyboard heroes!" Sir Loin of Beef

"American liberals need to face these truths: The demand for self-government was and remains strong in Iraq despite all our mistakes and the violent efforts of al Qaeda, Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias to disrupt it." DEMOCRAT Bob Kerrey

The Politics and Terror Nexus piece clearly did not purport to PROVE the link of causality; he merely highlighted the juxtapositions and questioned.

This is only the first step- to bring the possibility of manipulation to our attention. He did portray the chronological "coincidences", and merely asked if that is indeed what they were. And mentioned that quite often the 'threats' were not timely, nor as threatening as they were first presented.

Indeed, it is a long way from proving any links exist. But that doesn't mean that we should be prevented from wondering or voicing those doubts, and ensure that they do not. Or would you silence all skepticism of the Bush administration?

I doubt that anyone views Countdown as the single or complete source of news. Proving that announcements of terror threats were deliberately released to distract us from other news at the time would require much more pressure, investigation and indictments than a single cable news analysis and comment show might be expected to bring to bear. But again- this is only the first step to bring such a possibility to our attention.

Given its sad history, healthy skepticism of THIS particular administration certainly is warranted.
And I would hope that we can all agree that we should not allow fear mongering to be used upon us by any administration

cee:

"Was the JFK plot announcement prudent or not and just used for fear mongering? Keith? Hello? What did you find out?"

KO interviewed an expert on airports who responded that the threat originally announced was technologically implausible, and therefore the magnitude of the threat was significantly overblown.

...don't recall whether this was the case in the JFK plot or not, but KO and others have mentioned several instances where others involved in investigations and national security have questioned the Bush administration's timing of announcements for being either belated or premature.

VeryWary is perhaps the most incisive political media analyst of our day. How would we not realize that any time anyone in the Bush Administration or anyone running for the 2008 GOP nomination mentions terrorism that is "fear mongering". Because, as we all know, terrorism does not really exist. The so-called "threats" are just fabrications orchestrated by Karl Rove. The Bush Administration wanted another "Pearl Harbor" to justify the invasion of Iraq and so "allowed" 9/11 to happen. To make the attack even more spectacular, WTC Seven was leveled by a highly trained team of demolition experts working for a special secret unit of the NSA, funded by the Rothschild consortium.

Of course, in less guarded moments like his acceptance speech when he was present with the Molly Ivins Award he "admitted" that terrorism exists. This against a backdrop of Olbermann routinely saying one thing on one day in one venue and then saying the opposite in another setting. But this so-called "OlbyPocrisy" is best ignored because as we all know terrorism DOES EXIST except when it DOES NOT EXIST and any attempt to reconcile Keith's statements on one day with his statements on another is merely an attempt to silence the most eloquent and vocal critic of the Bush Administration.

VW makes so many excellent points in his well-reasoned commentary it is hard to know where to begin. Keith is not irresponsible in using his position as a highly respected news anchor at NBC News to "merely highlight" some "questions" and "juxtapositions" because he is taking the "first step" in bringing "manipulation" to the attention of the American people. Everything Keith said in his piece was 100% accurate and bias-free - the Fort Dix Six plan WAS to dress up as "pizza delivery boys" and take over a military basis with 4 rifles and a couple of pistols, the JFK plotters really did believe they could "light a match, 40 miles away" from the airport, and cause the entire airport to blow up.

It is certainly NOT the case then Keith would ever cherry-pick information to construct a bogus timeline because Keith is the Edward R. Murrow of our generation and Murrow would never do that. When he said he could have made the SAME connections between terror news and the hairstyles of presidential candidates that was just "comedy" because Countdown is such a sophisticated program that respects its viewers so much to know when the show is presenting "news" and when it is presenting "entertainment".

It goes without saying that criticizing Keith Olbermann's "Nexus of Terror" video as shoddy "journalism" is exactly the same as attempting to "silence all skepticism of the Bush administration". Keith's inability to "prove" anything does not mean that he is full of baloney but only that "Proving that announcements of terror threats were deliberately released to distract us from other news at the time would require much more pressure, investigation and indictments than a single cable news analysis and comment show might be expected to bring to bear."

Dear Mike,

As an Extra Strength, Heavy Duty tin-foil hatter and a welcome addition to the OlbyLoon Fraternity (sorry but there are no sororities on OlbyPlanet due to Keith's well known misogyny). I like your most recent post where you call me a "moron" for calling you a "moron". If brevity is the soul of wit then you, sir, are long-winded.

You wrote "You are the classic example of the typical on line jerk who cannot, or will not refrain from making an argument without attempting to demean the intelligence of your opposition with an insult....another low level political hack".

That is ridiculous. Apparently you are unaware that Olbermann Watch is one of the most read blogs in all of the blogosphere or that I am the foremost authority on Keith Olbremann, quoted in newspapers from coast to coast. Given this, I am quite clearly a HIGH LEVEL political hack and I resent any insinuation to the contrary.

As for my recent, brilliant Op-Ed in The Washington Examiner which was perhaps the most important and insightful Op-Ed written in any newspaper, anywhere for in 2007 (many have begun to speculate that it will win me a Pulitzer Prize!), I would simply refer you to Thomas Paine's The Crisis which is one of the few pieces of political writing that approaches my recent work for its power to stir men's souls.

In closing let me note that your ranting diatribe "defending" you abominable conduct on this site only serves to illustrate a long-lost point that is often lost on people like you that having a "single-minded" goal is the only true path to wisdom of which you apparently no quite little.

To continue, when it comes to geopolitics most Americans ARE idiots, which is the context in which I made that statement. Do you care to argue that Americans are well-informed on the major geopolitical issues of the day? Last time I checked, most Americans could not find their own ass on a globe so what would I possibly care what some Gallup poll says is the "consensus" of a bunch of uninformed twits about anything happening outside of the borders of the United States.

Finally, based on your vitriolic and overheated reaction, I think it is quite clear that I do have the power to insult you personally except for the one tiny detail having to do with you being a pseudonymous commenter on a blog. Quite frankly, you do not even really exist - you are just pixels on a web page to me and the rest of the clear-thinking readers of this site.

And lastly, Neil Cavuto told me after my appearance with him on Fox News Channel that I was perhaps the MOST impressive guest he had ever had on his show.

I could not close without noting that no where in your absurd rant do you actually pass the test I presented to you:

"What is wrong with the statement Keith made in the opening two minutes of the segment that the Bush Administration held back on its "scare tactics" of making terrorism related announcements between November 2006 and June 2007?"

I even gave you a HINT and you STILL got it wrong.

>Why am I not surprised that the average OW viewer had no idea who the original picture was?
Posted by: at June 7, 2007 12:26 AM

>What a f*cking anon loser...so what I made a mistake---glad you have such f*cking mind-bending abilities to come to such ridiculous conclusions about who I am. This from an idiot and can't even take the trouble to put a "name" to his/hers dumb a$$ comments. F*cking coward loser.

Posted by: STC at June 7, 2007 12:23 PM

The TRULY ignorant always resort to incoherent foul-mouthed ramblings when their ignorance is exposed...

Truth hurts, doesn't it STC?

>Cox doesn't like anyone to point out the weaknesses of his arguments.

Posted by: Why do care what my name is at June 7, 2007 9:27 PM

Cox expects anyone with an opposing view to supply all the citations and evidence to support that view, while thinking himself above all that dirty work, he expects us to take him at his word.

It's spelled:

H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E

No, Hypocrite is most correctly spelt as K-E-I-T-H O-L-B-E-R-M-A-N-N.

Whatizname, I had an exchange with Chicken Blogger (I don't know which one because the clucking usually sounds the same to me) about this very same thing.

It seems to me that he/she listed the top five (based on discrete hits for six months @ Technorati) and HuffPo was No One in the News/Opinion group.

Should I address you as WIN/CB (Whatizname/Chicken Blogger now? Or perhaps WIN/SCB (Wharizname/Sometimes Chicken Blogger)?

I only ask because you are always such a perfect gentleman that I don't want to give any unnecessary offense. :)

Grammie

>By the way, I caught an appearance you made on Fox one day (I believe it was with Neil Cavuto). You looked and sounded like a total dunce. One of the least impressive talking heads I have ever seen on ANY News related show ever.

Let me guess...Cox was on to talk about one of his two favorite topics...

Olbermann or Himself.

Hey Bob!

Could you please post a link to your performance with Cavuto?

Please.

Oh, never mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57OiYsqtzM8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdXg2vMHV_I

"Adding comments have been disabled for this videos"

Impressive "comments and recommendations"

ROFLMAO!!

Remember Woodsy the Owl?

It looks like Cox Should be Saying:

"Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute, the Internet"

Given its sad history, healthy skepticism of THIS particular administration certainly is warranted.
And I would hope that we can all agree that we should not allow fear mongering to be used upon us by any administration

Posted by: verywary at June 9, 2007 12:03 AM

I have problems with the line of thinking that this sort of take exhibits. It's the same as Olbermann's and it full of memes and assumptions that some needs to address.

The first one is the meme that the Administration has politicized terrorism. I think that started with all the fuss in '04 about the Bush Campaign campaigning on how Bush had handled the aftermath of 9/11.

Bush had won almost universial acclaim for this, starting with the speech he gave at Ground Zero. Subsequent speeches, like the one about his carrying the fallen firefighters badge... the way he reassured the country, building Carsai in Afghanistan, etc.

Idiotically, Olbermann and other partisan Dems, including a few of the 9/11 widows, argued that Bush wasn't supposed to campaign on this success. That it was exploitation. Can you imagine FDR being told he couldn't campaign his war policy successes, or Dwight Einsenhower? Oh, he can be hit by opponents with his failures or set-backs-- the Mission Accomplished celebration of Saddam being overthrown, but he can't campaign on his successes. It's the sort of Catch 22 bit that any extreme partisan, like Oblermann, just love--- Heads-- I win... tails...you lose...

Now, all these feeds into to the politicialization of terrorism meme that verywary accepts as a foregone conclusion seeing how the president has lied before--- by what I mention above and by not broadcasting intelligence gathering techniques.... therefore to verywary, it's perfectly alright for Olbermann to air the sort of nonsense timeline, that would have to mean that Olbermann logically then must conclude that the Clinton Death Watch timeline was just as suspicious....

The MSM told us that this sort of "black helicopter" stuff about Clinton made you a kook (and they were right) but now we have an MSNBC show, The View, Frank Rich, and other MSM columist with the same sort of mentality against Bush that they would have characterized as nutso if aimed at Clinton.

So contrast a bunch of black helicopter Freepers online with the likes of Paul Krugman and Doug Krile. Yeah, we always have to be verywary of those ole Republicans, you can't' be too cockeyed paranoid with those folks. It doesn't matter when Chris Matthews goes on air and conjures up every sort of plot he can think of concerning the nefarious ways of the Bush Administration. "Liberal means never having to say you're sorry"...So let's take any old meme and accusation based on the silliest of nonevidence and just run with it like it's gospel.

Let me add, verywary, that Olbermann is airing this theory on national television in a manner that is about as "questioning" as Rosie O'Donnell is about whether 9/11 was an inside job.

Here you have a supposed "journalist" using what he admits is the most tenuous of evidence to make an accusation. There is no doubt as to whether or not Olbermann is convinced.

At last...
*

There she goes again. Cecilia making excuses for Bush. No.....Bush hasn't politicized terrorism. Only in every speech and every opportunity he gets.
There has never been an American president who has try to sell fear to the American people like this one.
Fortunately, most clear thinking Americans have seen thru that bullshit.
But not Cecilia. She continues to live in a delusional fog.

Posted by: Why do you care what my name is at June 11, 2007 8:20 PM

This is certainly up to your usual standard. You've essentially replied "Does too!".

What? No added cut-n-paste opinion piece in lieu of your engaging in more than the above?

This is certainly up to your usual standard. You've essentially replied "Does too!".

What? No added cut-n-paste opinion piece in lieu of your engaging in more than the above?

Posted by: Cecelia at June 12, 2007 12:50 PM

=

Does NOT!

Since Cecelia doesn't work, lives off her husband, has insomnia, Tivo's Countdown, watches MSNBC 'religiously', and spends all her other waking hours on this blog, I think it's safe to say Cecelia 'doesn't get out much.'

Does NOT!

Posted by: at June 12, 2007 1:11 PM

Well, you capitalized it this time, but it's not anymore impressive.

Posted by: STC at June 7, 2007 12:23 PM

Truth hurts, doesn't it STC?
Posted by: at June 10, 2007 3:10 PM

eh...not so much, especially 3 days later...losers say what...

Just check everyone of Bush's speeches since 9/11.
Only the grand dame of delusionment would think Bush has not politicized terrorism.

Posted by: at June 12, 2007 1:11 PM

So Bush addresses the very real threat of terrorism in his speeches and not only is that proof that he's trying to instill terror in the populace, but instill it to the point that it makes compelling Olbermann's conspiracy theories involving both federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies...

Since Cecelia doesn't work, lives off her husband, has insomnia, Tivo's Countdown, watches MSNBC 'religiously', and spends all her other waking hours on this blog, I think it's safe to say Cecelia 'doesn't get out much.'

Posted by: at June 12, 2007 1:14 PM

Well, you've got two out of five things right there. That's probably a record for accuracy for you.

psssttt... there is a certain irony to your saying *I need to get out more, but you have collected and remembered a dossier of misperceptions about me.

Stop worrying about me, sweety and get your own life... :D

Well, you've got two out of five things right there. That's probably a record for accuracy for you.

Oh, Cecelia, I could copy and paste posts that you've made yourself that would support all five assertions. But since when did you begin standing by your own words?

psssttt... there is a certain irony to your saying *I need to get out more, but you have collected and remembered a dossier of misperceptions about me.

'Collected and remembered?' Yes, I've been 'cursed' with a good memory. It's the bane of all intellectuals everywhere.

The REAL irony here is you've denied nothing I've written.

Stop worrying about me, sweety and get your own life... :D

Did I sound 'worried?' Amused is more like it...

Posted by: Cecelia at June 12, 2007 1:32 PM

Take care, sweety...

Truth hurts, doesn't it STC?
Posted by: at June 10, 2007 3:10 PM

eh...not so much, especially 3 days later...losers say what...

Posted by: STC at June 12, 2007 1:24 PM

Is the truth three days later, any less true?

Yes, I don't spend every day here....

Unlike some folks.

I catch up from time to time in and out of my other pass-time called 'a life.'

Why am I not surprised that the average OW viewer had no idea who the original picture was?
Posted by: at June 7, 2007 12:26 AM

What a f*cking anon loser...so what I made a mistake---glad you have such f*cking mind-bending abilities to come to such ridiculous conclusions about who I am. This from an idiot and can't even take the trouble to put a "name" to his/hers dumb a$$ comments. F*cking coward loser.

Posted by: STC at June 7, 2007 12:23 PM

STC gets sooooooo angry when someone points out it's mistakes.

I thought ignorance was supposed to be bliss...?

Not with STC, ignorance is agony.

Hulk Smash! Arrrrrgghhh!

STC: "so what I made a mistake"...as they launched into a profanity laced tirade.

Pretty important 'mistake'!!! Anyone who follows current events regularly should have been able to pick out the origins of that doctored photo.

If you didn't know THAT, it rightfully makes one wonder just what other things you don't know that should be common knowledge.

psssttt... there is a certain irony to your saying *I need to get out more, but you have collected and remembered a dossier of misperceptions about me.

'Collected and remembered?' Yes, I've been 'cursed' with a good memory. It's the bane of all intellectuals everywhere.

The REAL irony here is you've denied nothing I've written.

Stop worrying about me, sweety and get your own life... :D

Did I sound 'worried?' Amused is more like it...

Posted by: Cecelia at June 12, 2007 1:32 PM

Take care, sweety...

Posted by: at June 12, 2007 1:51 PM

Yep, you sound worried, obsessed, and too stupid to understand that in order to "remember" anything, you'd have had to been here as much as anyone else to reead it... :D

Pretty important 'mistake'!!! Anyone who follows current events regularly should have been able to pick out the origins of that doctored photo.
If you didn't know THAT, it rightfully makes one wonder just what other things you don't know that should be common knowledge.
Posted by: Mike at June 12, 2007 2:24 PM

Mike, it's not that big of deal, really. Why are your panties in such a bunch over this? I launched into the "tirade" because I can't stand "anon" posts making assumptions about me, my bad, (I should really just ignore it).

Sorry, I'm not up on all the latest current events---I get all my news from Countdown.

STC gets sooooooo angry when someone points out it's mistakes.
Posted by: at June 12, 2007 2:00 PM

anon, last time I'll address you (or any anon):
I launched into the "tirade" because I can't stand coward "anon" posts making assumptions. That is what made me soooooo angry. I could care less about the "saddam" mistake (surprisingly, like you, I too have a life).

Go ahead, have the last word, it seems to be very important to you (as we can see from your obsession with Cecelia). BTW: I get all my NEWS from Countdown. HA!