Olbermann Watch - MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann: MSM KO Bandwagon #332: CBS Public Eye

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June 5, 2007

MSM KO Bandwagon #332: CBS Public Eye

What's this? Wait-it's not a MSM KO Bandwagon piece! Someone has finally gotten it right about the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann!

Keith Olbermann has developed a reputation- he's earned media capital, if you will - by raising serious questions about the political climate in America. But last night, he squandered a bit of that account in a 16-minute segment in which he attempted to make the case that the JFK terror plot was little more than a cleverly-timed political ploy by the Bush administration.

The segment went through chapter and verse of how curious the timing has been of many Bush terror alert announcements and arrests--how they frequently seem to follow and swallow, news that isn't friendly to the White House. There has been rampant discussion of the consistencies of these coincidences in the media over the years. It's a concern. But Olbermann stretched that concern to a very thin and tenuous extent last night.

Hot damn! Someone in the MSM finally thinks that KO is over-playing his liberal loon act a bit much!

His point? That Saturday's press conference announcing the JFK terror plot occured the day before the Democratic debate to take away from its impact. Also, that the arrests were announced by a Bush-appointed US Attorney amid the current scandal surrounding the apparently politically-motivated firings of US Attorneys. And--hold on to your seats--also present was the New York City Chief of Police . . . the father of a Fox News Correspondent!

It's always those bastards at Fox isn't it Keith?

Said Olbermann: If merely a reasonable case can be made that any of these juxtapositions of events are more than 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.

Yes Keith, we know you and Rosie and the rest of the Loons think that there are no terrorists. But the CBS blogger sees it a bit differently:

So his point is that if any of them are true--even if, ahem, last night's seemed a bit far-fetched--that we need to ask questions. Amen to that Keith. But aren't we already asking questions? Aren't you? And if the Hamdan decision was of such import, why didn't you devote 16 minutes to the case of the legal environment at Guantanamo Bay? Hammering away at things that aren't there--or barely there--is a surefire way to dilute your message. Though the likes to point out this political tendency whenever possible, Keith Olbermann is beginning to make the same mistake.

Hmm. This echoes what Brian Williams said yesterday:

"I think you get one of those a career in my line of work," he said. "[Walter] Cronkite chose to use his chit on the Vietnam War that he witnessed. But I think you only get one."

Maybe it's the beginning of a whole new "media bandwagon" where the infamous, deplorable, biased Keith Olbermann is concerned.

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By Brandon on June 6, 2007 9:27 AM

LOL--even the Olbyloons can't spin this one! Too funny.

By Katy Turic on June 6, 2007 10:32 AM

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

By Dan on June 6, 2007 10:44 AM

I wish there was a VA Tech student out there who could just come to MSNBC headquarters and shoot KO in the head, this guy is an absolute Al Qaeda loving, Bill O obsessed moron!

By hank on June 6, 2007 11:11 AM

One of your better efforts, Katy. Look forward to your next limerick!

By STC on June 6, 2007 12:07 PM

AAP--how about reading the actual CBS piece, the author makes a valid point. I think that is what Brandon's comment pointed out---where are the Olby-lovers to defend. I guess, like you, they don't like when the MSM points out valid criticism of the "hero liberal KO". More and more Keith Olbermann is being portrayed as the Liberal Limbaugh or the liberal loud mouth Bill O'Reilly in the MSM. I guess for you it is easier to engage your "neo-con" counterparts like Brandon, Cox, or "Bovine" instead of actually commenting on the content of the thread.

One thing we can agree on AAP:
Robert, you should really make the effort to remove death threats on your blog.

By Not the Dan above on June 6, 2007 12:28 PM

I post here as Dan and to see the death threat stupidity is just that, stupidity

That said, the obsession the looony left has wth Fox News his Hi didddly diddly arious.....Keith is obsessed to the point of mondo bizzaroness on FNC

By Brandon on June 6, 2007 3:12 PM

The comment about how Fox News has a reporter whose father is the NYC Police Chief and he was in attendance at the press conference was the kicker for me. He just keeps climbing out on that limb ever close to the edge with each passing day. How long before he slips and falls and finally has his "Imus" moment? And the point of the article is that he's now being questioned, his tactics by the mainstream media instead of being praised by them. I believe a few people have finally begun to see the light.

By STC on June 11, 2007 12:56 PM

More "Shock & Awe" that the MSM "criticizes" Keith Olbermann:

Warner Todd Huston
Keith Olberman 'Overstates'? Ya Don’t Say!

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/06/11/keith-olberman-overstates-ya-don%E2%80%99t-say/

By Mike on June 11, 2007 1:12 PM

"How long before he slips and falls and finally has his "Imus" moment?"

And ya jus cain't hardly wait fer that ta happen, can ya Brandon? Why that jus might be the highlight of your whole existance..huh, Brandon?

Then what, Brandon? Will you fall into a deep dark hole of clinical depression when there is isn't a Keith Olbermann to kick around anymore?

By Brandon on June 11, 2007 1:21 PM

No Mikey, it'll be you and the rest of the terrorist-loving liberal loons who will be in clinical depression when Olbermann is finally kicked to the curb. Me, I'll be sitting back, laughing at ALL of you, just like I do now.

By Mike on June 11, 2007 2:15 PM

Brandon: "Me, I'll be sitting back, laughing at ALL of you, just like I do now."

Take care that no one hears you laughing at ghosts like that....they might just come and drag you away from that gated luxery community.

By Mike on June 11, 2007 2:32 PM

AAP, I'm sure you're aware that anyone who would use an ignorant sycophantic phrase such as "terrorist loving liberal" has already proven themselves to be a moron.

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