Our "friends" over at Relevant Torture didn't seem to have a problem with a racists comment, wrote it up in their NFL recap (yes the chubs are doing football recaps):

http://bloggingolbermann.com/2007/09/football-night-in-america-week-1/

"Denver 15, Buffalo 14 — “Roscoe is Chicken and Waffles at its finest” (as Buffalo’s Roscoe Parrish makes a catch). Keith notes that Bills’ legend Steve Tasker looks a lot like Buster Olney. Keith also keeps pronouncing Jason Elam’s name as “E-lamb” without the ‘b’, when I’m very sure it’s “E-luhm”. As they show Elam making the game-winning field goal, Keith pulls off a classic “From way downtown … Bang!”"

Bet none of these Leona Helmsley look-alikes had so much ever watched a football game until Olbermann was added to the crew at NBC Sports. And of course they don't have a problem with Olbermann making an outrageous racist statement like this. If Keith says it, it's A-Okay!

But they did have a problem with his KKK one. http://bloggingolbermann.com/

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A U.S. citizen has confessed to using an axe to kill a Dutch student after failing to find a soldier to attack, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The suspect, Carlos Hartmann, 41, of Tecumseh, Mich., has confessed to the Sept. 8 killing on a train platform in the southern city of Roosendaal, defence lawyer Peter Gremmen said.

Gremmen said Hartmann wanted to punish the Netherlands for its support of the war in Iraq.

Hartmann appeared before a judge Tuesday and was ordered held for another two weeks for investigation.

"He hates soldiers, and says that the army kills people, so it would be legitimate if he were also to kill someone . . . from the American military - or from its NATO allies," Gremmen said in a telephone interview.

When he failed to find a soldier at the Roosendaal train station, "he got such a crazy, disturbed idea that he killed a civilian," Gremmen said.

Hartmann did not attempt to escape and was arrested shortly after the killing.

I wonder if they have Olbermann on in Dutch prisons? This guy is in Olbermann's "key demo".

kbass:

Check out the catfight going on at Blogging Olbermann regarding not discussing the sacred Olbermann's private life, even though he himself brings it up in the Playboy article.

Okay I will.

More ethics lessons from the Democrats and Hillary.
ABC NEWS
Just days after the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Hillary Clinton and several Democratic lawmakers will be getting uncomfortably cozy with moneyed interests who have stood to reap billions in post-9/11 homeland security spending, watchdog groups say.

On the sixth anniversary of the attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is slated to attend a sober memorial service near Manhattan's Ground Zero.

One week later, the junior New York senator is scheduled to speak at a homeland security-themed, $1,000-a-plate fundraiser for her campaign in the downtown Washington, D.C. offices of a powerful legal firm.

"Being a week after 9/11, it appears unseemly and politically opportunistic," said Steve Ellis, a former Coast Guard officer who is now vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington, D.C. good government group.

Clinton's fundraising audience is expected to include many of the government contractors and lobbyists whose fortunes have soared in the years since the attacks, which triggered a massive government reorganization and billions in new government spending.

But that's not the only objectionable feature of the event, critics say.

For the price of a ticket -- from a $1,000 personal donation to a $25,000 bundle –- attendees will get a special treat after the luncheon: an opportunity to participate in small, hour-long "breakout sessions" hosted by key Democratic lawmakers, many of whom chair important subcommittees on the Homeland Security committee.

Do any of you morons know what Roscoe's Chicken And Waffles is?

It's a restaurant in Los Angeles (founded by a man from Harlem), and it's one of the most popular places in the city.

Please, just shut up. You people sound like idiots for finding racism WHERE THERE ISN'T ANY!

Please, just shut up. You people sound like idiots for finding racism WHERE THERE ISN'T ANY!

Posted by: at September 11, 2007 5:24 PM

Your right. We would not want to act like liberals and their friends media not would we.

>Do any of you morons know what Roscoe's Chicken And Waffles is?

It's a restaurant in Los Angeles (founded by a man from Harlem), and it's one of the most popular places in the city.

Please, just shut up. You people sound like idiots for finding racism WHERE THERE ISN'T ANY!

Posted by: at September 11, 2007 5:24 PM

As the debunked hypocrite Royal Douche likes to parrot 'The person who screams racist first is usually the the racist."

Now, that's just tripe (as long as no one talks about it, racism doesn't exist? Great Thanks Jeff!), but any chance to paint the Schizoid Right as hypocrites, well that's just all in an honest days' work.

A few others who find it racists as well:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893704/posts

The freepers? Are you fucking kidding me?

Tell you what, call Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition. Call Al Sharpton's group. Ask THEM if they think there was racism present. The fact that now, nearly 24 hours after the telecast, neither one has said anything (whereas they were lighting up the airwaves less than 12 hours after Imus' remarks) should be telling in and of itself.

Tell you what, call Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition. Call Al Sharpton's group. Ask THEM if they think there was racism present. The fact that now, nearly 24 hours after the telecast, neither one has said anything (whereas they were lighting up the airwaves less than 12 hours after Imus' remarks) should be telling in and of itself.

Posted by: at September 11, 2007 5:57 PM

That's funny. You actually think they would say anthing against a Hillary cheerleader like Olbermann? You must be kidding, right? If O'Reilly or Hannity said something like, those fools would have a march going right now. Keep drinking the Kool-Aid.

"You actually think they would say anthing against a Hillary cheerleader like Olbermann? You must be kidding, right?"

Thanks for the non-responsive answer.

But the fact is that the ONLY people making noise about this are people who despise Olbermann already is telling.

Jackson and Sharpton are interested in headlines - if they could take on a big network with something damning, they would.

If anyone's guzzling Kool-Aid, it's you.

Jackson and Sharpton are interested in headlines - if they could take on a big network with something damning, they would. Posted by: at September 11, 2007 6:07 PM

What was that about a non-responsive answer...keep drinking the kool-aid, bub.

5:24,

Thank you for the post.

> either one has said anything (whereas they were lighting up the airwaves less than 12 hours after Imus' remarks)

Actually that's not true. The Imus quote went for a couple of days without any reaction. The first person to point it out on the air, actually, was John Gibson. Then others followed.

"Jackson and Sharpton are interested in headlines - if they could take on a big network with something damning, they would."

You are naive, anonymous if you think Jackson and Sharpton try to make headlines anytime there are allegations involving racial overtones.

Remember when Hillary Clinton made a remark that the House of Representatives is "run like a plantation" in 2006? Sharpton refused to denounce it, not because it wasn't a remark replete with racial overtones, but because a DEMOCRAT said it! If it had been a Republican, there would have been immediate calls for sensitivity training, resignations, and reminders of the pain of the images of slavery that such language evokes. Olbermann is getting the same pass that Hillary got in 2006.

Wake up, tool

The bathroom stall toe-tapping is deafening in here.

Clinton's HR comment could easily be applied to the systemic denial of the Black caucus, particularly the last few years. She wasn't advocating that the HR should be run like one, but that it had been already.

'm not an HRC supporter, she's made plenty of mistakes, but that was a poor example. Please try again.

As the debunked hypocrite Royal Douche likes to parrot 'The person who screams racist first is usually the the racist."

Now, that's just tripe (as long as no one talks about it, racism doesn't exist? Great Thanks Jeff!), but any chance to paint the Schizoid Right as hypocrites, well that's just all in an honest days' work.

Posted by: at September 11, 2007 5:40 PM

Key word being "usually," asswipe.

this is such a non issue. It was not a racist statement. It wasn't offensive. It just wasn't. Get over it and try, just try, to get a life.

this is such a non issue. It was not a racist statement. It wasn't offensive. It just wasn't. Get over it and try, just try, to get a life.

The "chicken and waffles" reference is analagous to "watermelon." It can be construed as racist.

For those of you who have never been to Roscoe's in Hollywood, the eats there are pretty damn good:

http://www.roscoeschickenandwaffles.com/

"It can be construed as racist."

Yeah, if you have the IQ of month-old mayonnaise...

6:57 p.m., are you of color?

I doubt you are....

Jesse Jackson helped end Howard Cossell's broadcasting career by taking Howard's quip during a replay on Monday Night Football, where he called Washington Redskins' returner Alvin Garrett "That little monkey" and blew it up into a racial slander crisis that forced ABC to act.

Cossell was famously liberal in the 1960s and 70s -- anti-Vietnam, anti-Nixon, and the only sportcaster in the mid 60s who would refer to Muhammad Ali by his taken Muslim name when he converted to Islam. He also supported Ali's right to continue boxing and keep his heavyweight title after he refused to be drafted and was imprisoned for two years. But it didn't matter -- Howard used a line he had used previous times in calling smallish players (regardless of color) as "that little monkey", Jesse and some of the others who make their living off racial politics saw an opening and pounced, and all the Cossell had done the previous 25 yeards didn't matter a bit.

Keith doesn't get the same treatment now because -- as much as we may discuss Olbermann here -- he's a relative non-entity to the great majority of the American public, below the radar of even Don Imus, who, while not a household name like Cossell, was known by more people than just ESPN watchers and 9/11 truthers.

So in that sense, the higher ratings Keith's fans are touting for "Countdown" are actually a double-edged sword. The better-known Olby gets, the less he can have his faux pas fly under the radar, whether it's a chicken and waffles reference, a Michael Vick comment, a false story about Tom Coughlin or labelling every single Jets fan at Sunday's game as classless. And all of Keith's liberal compassion and all his after-the-fact bragging about how he helped get Imus off MSNBC wouldn't save him if someone wanted to take the C&W remark and run with it, because the attckers know Olby's hardcore fans are about as lilly white as you can get (just like MoveOn, Kos and most of the other far left sites), so he's a free target.

Olby is the gift that keeps on giving, kind of like the clap or a bad rash. He just does not know when to shut up, which will be the nail in his NBC contract coffin.

excellent point John

"So in that sense, the higher ratings Keith's fans are touting for "Countdown" are actually a double-edged sword. The better-known Olby gets, the less he can have his faux pas fly under the radar, whether it's a chicken and waffles reference, a Michael Vick comment, a false story about Tom Coughlin..." Posted by: John at September 11, 2007 7:14 PM

Cosell was a lot of things, but he wasn't a racist.

NBC News doesn't care how far these guys go.

Matthew said the damn F word on the TV.... NBC doesn't care. Olby is going to have to do far worse to get removed.

NBC News...Al Jazeera @ 30 rock

Matthews is almost as bad as olby....almost.

Patience people.....it always happens....guaranteed Olby will hang himself sure as shit.....just give him a little more rope and a little more time.....and it will be glorious.

O'Lielly, you are a delusional idiot. Your comments portray that fact perfectly.

Feechie

"NBC News...Al Jazeera @ 30 rock"

Did you come up with that all by yourself? Or did your mummy help you?

very interesting. the nfl stuff. plus that clip from the movie was funny. what a site. :)

"Clinton's HR comment could easily be applied to the systemic denial of the Black caucus, particularly the last few years. She wasn't advocating that the HR should be run like one, but that it had been already."

Idiot. I never said that HRC was "advocating" that the HR be run like a plantation. Let me spell it out fool. Using certain symbols that are reminiscent of the days of slavery (the Confederate flag, the "plantation") is considered by many persons of color to be very offensive and insensitive. Clinton got a pass on this because she is a Democrat.

Them darkies just LOVE fried chicken. But to top a heap o' waffles with crispy golden poultry AND rich maple syrup? They'd chase that ANYWHERE!

And O'lielly, I don't need your help or support any longer. I hereby command you to hang yourself with a pair of your pantyhose.

The phrase "chicken and waffles" has the same negative connotations as"watermelon". That's simply a fact. If you don't believe me, watch the entire clip at the top of the page. Now, if Keith had used "watermelon" instead...

BTW -- Keith's commentary this Sunday ought to be fun to watch, since the New England Patriots are currently embroiled in a scandal over illegally taping defensive signals and possibly illegally intercepting radio signals transmitted by the New York Jets during Sunday's game, when he crowned all 77,000 New York Jets fans as "The Worst Persons in the NFL".

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is scheduled to have a little talk with Patriots' coach Bill Belichick on Friday and -- what do you know -- NBC has the Patriots as their Sunday night game against San Diego, which means the taping controversy will be the major issue on "Football Night in America". The question is, how will Keith manage to take the issue and comment on it so that he manages to piss off Patriots fans, Jets fans, Chargers fans, Chris Collinsworth, Tiki Barber, Jerome Bettis, Bob Costas, Sports Illustrated's Peter King and anyone else on the set of "Football Night in America"?

The potential train wreck aspect of this -- because, unlike NBC News' attitude towards "Countdown", NBC Sports holds Keith accountable for what he says on FNIA -- is almost limitless (unless someone at NBC Sports gets really smart and starts vetting Olby's Sunday night commentaries in advance).

Gibson effortlessly exposes Keef as the ShitBag hypocrite drama queen that is she:Keith Olbermann.

John,

You have fantastic insight into this whole FNIA trainwreck. Keep it up.

I have never gotten a pie in the face or someone swearing at me. I have heard from others there have been players that have thought about it but when they see -- I am their height or bigger -- they decide maybe this confrontation is not really worth it.
http://www.theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/5840-Keith-Olbermann-on-Egos-and-Other-Things.html

More proof that neocons have never met a terrorist or a wealthy man that they didn't kiss ass for:

"The Justice Department notified Chiquita Brands International yesterday that it will not seek to criminally charge its former top executive and other former high-ranking officers over the company's payment of bribes to a Colombian organization on the State Department's list of terrorist groups.

The multibillion-dollar banana company pleaded guilty earlier this year to making $1.7 million in illegal payments to a right-wing Colombian paramilitary group from 1997 to 2004. Until now, three of its officers were under investigation for authorizing and approving the payments to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, known as AUC, after federal prosecutors warned them in April 2003 that such bribes violated the nation's anti-terrorism laws.

"The United States gave serious consideration to bringing additional charges in this matter," prosecutors wrote in a memo filed in court yesterday. "In the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, the United States has decided not do so."..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091102504.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Cheney could trade with Iran/Iraq/Syria; Bush can kiss Arab ass and Chaquita can pay terrorists to break up labor unions, eh?...

And Olbermann and his fan contingent have never met a psychotic that they didn't like or had something in common with, namely, insanity.

What are the odds that Keef makes it 3-3 with apologies for mistakes made on the NFL show? First being his inane rant on Michael Vick, 2nd being Completely fucking up a story relaying that Coughlin coach of giants did something that he did not do, it was someone else, then now his chicken and waffles crack

This from the bastian of integrity that "worked so hard" behind the scenes to remove Imus.....Al Jazerra at 30 Rock has no crediibility at all

Hey "Truth"...

Forgiving folks who give terrorists money now, son? Wow!

Tell me how that ol' neocon mind makes those logical leaps, child...

?

Keith actually does have a hook to get the Belichick story right, and apologize to the thousands of Jets fans who did not cheer when Chad Pennington was hurt last week, contrary to Olby's claim on FNIA. He can say he made another mistake, and the Worst Person in the NFL on Sunday was not all the Jets fans, but the Patriots' head coach, for (as of now allegedly) violating NFL rules and illegally recording the Jets' defensive signals, after being warned not to do so last season.

That would be the safe way out of this, especially if Commissioner Goodell hits the Patriots and their coach hard on Friday, two days before NBC airs the Pats-Chargers game. But you know Keith's going to take it over the top and screw it up somehow, so he creates a new problem as he tries to fix one of last week's mistakes.