They need to demonstrate plays, like they do on FOX. They can use Keith to demonstrate how to "sack" the quarterback.

And get Katie to record the "Leave Keith Alone!!!!!!!!" video.

Leave it to the New York Slimes to defend a liberal hate monger. This from the paper that gives $100,000 discounts to MorON.org.

Are those your toes tapping?

There's bad karma in Krazy Keith's wake
He's deplorable make no mistake
To quote verbatim
His colleagues "hate him"
He's a "name caller", "liar", and "fake"

Is it just a coincidence that "MorOn.org" was registered immediately before "MoveOn.org" or was this done intentionally to prevent a parody site from being established?

What's going to be funny to watch, as the season rolls on, is how Keith's apologists are going to spin the train wreck that is "Football Night in America" and drag a Sunday night football highlights and pregame show into the political world.

Hopefully, Chris Collinsworth is prepared enough to become the newest demon of the far left, right up there with Bush, Cheney and Bill O'Reilly, for his questioning of Olby's special comments and "Worst Person in the NFL" diatribes after he delivers them on the show. And Tiki? My God, the man goes on Fox! So there shouldn't be any question he's part of the VRWC if he rolls his eyes or casts doubt on Keith's latest bon mot (and I wouldn't be surprised if Barber wwas the one who told the producers last week after Olby blasted Tom Coughlin that the story he included about the stolen car that it actually involved Tiki's former coach, Jim Fassil, forcing Keith to issue a halftime apology).

You'd think with the Bill Belichick scandal and punishment this week, Keith can't possibly screw up his "Worst Person in the NFL" comentary this Sunday night, especially with the Patriots facing the Chargers in the prime-time game. Heck, he can even half-apologize to Jets fans by saying last week's "Worst Person in the NFL" wasn't all 77,000 fans in Giants Stadium but one man standing on the visiting team's sideline ("I had the right stadium, just the wrong person").

But since Olby is so hell-bent on proving himself above the conventional wisdom of the plebeian minds who follow football, my guess is -- just as he tried to be too smart be half with the Michael Vick commentary -- he's going to use pretzel logic here and either blame all 31 other NFL teams for hypocrisy or go after some other problem and try to say it's worse than what the Patriots' coach did. And then he'll have to suffer through the logic critiques of Chris, Tiki and even Bob Costas, who may soon find himself coming in for criticism from people who he's generally in ideological sympathy with, because he doesn't treat Keith's utterances with the reverence they deserve.

Katy: Leave him alone! You bastards don't even care. He's a human being. *cry, cry* Leave him alone. I'll kill myself if anything happens to Keith. *cry, cry*
(behind Katy: Tikki *grin, grin*)

John,

Or he could lay low this week and just pick on the refs. More than blow calls this week they did something worse, they called an immediate make up call. They did it with SD/Chicago when they missed the Bears D lineman jump off and immediately gave the Chargers a make up call. Then on Monday the backjudge called a phantom offense holding that eliminated a Ravens tie in the final minutes. Next play they called a Bengals cornerback on a suspect hold.

Hammering the refs is easy but it appeals to the masses.

Is he "too smart" (pleae) for his own good or too conceited?

By the way. Who are the people who continue to post about political tangents when this is a serious discussion about football and television?

The same folks who can't stay on topic here, can't stay on topic on just about every thread, because they don't want to reply to the question/charges. Better to try and get everyone off the topic than to admit you're clueless about how bad the chemistry is on "Football Night In America", where the main problem lies, and the fact that it has nothing to do with liberal-conservative politics.

As for blasting the refs, Keith may do that and play it safe -- I would imagine the folks at NBC Sports would love to actually get through a show without causing new problems -- but even then, he'll probably throw some sort of Tim Donaghy reference in their and insinuate the officials are on the take, and have to apologize again next week. Plus, with the Patriots playing on the Sunday night game, Bob, Chris, Tiki, Jerome and even Sports Illustrated's Peter King (which apparently is his official full name on NBC) will be talking about the Belichick fine and draft choice penalty, so Keith will have to say something about the situation. But unless his commentary is vetted beforehand by someone at NBC Sports to remove all the possible verbal land mines, I'd guess the odds are at least 2-1 he throws kerosene on the fire.

Hey John, This guy claims that HE was the one responsible for Olbermann "fixing" the Tom Coughlin gaffe:

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/2007/09/keith_olbermann_makes_a_mess_w.html

"...a serious discussion about football and television?"

hehe... now THAT's funny. :)

I thought retracting his Vick comment a week later was pathetic, but having to correct himself by half-time was just downright ridiculous.

BTW: I agree with John, Olbermann will pick Bill Belichick, but I do think he will somehow figure out how to screw it up. Maybe he'll retract after a commercial break.

Actually, having Olbyloon on the show may be enough for me to actually pay attention, with or without the train wrecks.

On a side note: although they were gifted players, Sharpe and Collinsworth are both as entertaining as watching two stationary BRILLO® pads on tv.

good comment from one of the football blogs:

It comes as no shock to anyone who has watched Olbermann over the years that he has a huge, huge ego and an equally big mouth. Over the past year there is absolutely no denying (although I’m sure some will try) that his show has taken a hard left turn. I can honestly say I’ve never voted for a Republican, but some of the “conspiracy theories” he began to give credence too were a bit too much for me. His special comment about how the failure to rebuild at the WTC site was George Bush’s fault was where he lost my respect. Anyone who knows the history of the fight between the developers, owners, and families of the victims knows the real reasons of why it’s taken so long to rebuild and GWB isn’t one of them. True journalists don’t alter the facts to suit their arguments. They also don’t let their opinions be known to their audience. That’s Journalism 101. They also occasionally get out of the studio and go cover real stories. Olbermann doesn’t go to war zones. Olbermann doesn’t go to the site of disasters like hurricanes, floods, etc. He stays anchored in the studio. What was his last on-scene report? Live from the NYC publishing house of the Harry Potter books the night the last one was released. Oh yeah, that’s a “real” journalist for you. It’s also really puzzling how he claims “health difficulties” prevent him from traveling. Yet that doesn’t seem to stop him from flying off to watch Spring Training in Florida every year. Doesn’t seem to stop him from jetting to California several times a year to promote himself on shows like Leno, Craig Ferguson, etc. It was these types of lies, contradictions, etc. that made me come to the sad realization that there is really no difference between him and Rush and Bill-O except for the type of rhetoric he’s espousing.

August 23rd, 2007 at 9:02 am

I tend to lose respect for folks who pontificate without paying much attention to details readily available. For example, "Special Comment" does not equal "Hard News"

Believe me, folks can complain all they want, he can make all the mistakes in the world, he will not be taken off that show. Welcome to the world of media cross promotion, his appearances on the NFL are giving his show a nice bump over on MS-NBC. Plus on the NBC boards the Olbermann topic along is over 11,000 views. I just don't think you yank someone with this kind of buzz.

I tend to lose respect for folks who pontificate without paying much attention to details readily available. For example, "Special Comment" does not equal "Hard News"

Posted by: Thank you, try again. at September 14, 2007 3:58 PM

I think you are being a bit nit picky. You know that all over the blogs, people who love Keith Olbermann, call him a truth teller because they feel the special comments align with hard news. Perhaps you should "try again"

I tend to lose respect for folks who pontificate without paying much attention to details readily available. For example, "Special Comment" does not equal "Hard News"

Posted by: Thank you, try again. at September 14, 2007 3:58 PM

A editorial may be opinion and not "hard news" but it has to have some basis in reality and fact and the journalist issuing it should have some sense of responsibility.

The writer you're responding to has made a good point that Olbermann's comments about a Ground Zero memorial and his willingness to air blue blog conspiracy theories shows neither.

I think you are being a bit nit picky. You know that all over the blogs, people who love Keith Olbermann, call him a truth teller because they feel the special comments align with hard news. Perhaps you should "try again"

Posted by: joe at September 14, 2007 4:03 PM

Well, the person you're describing as nit picky has set the same standard for another guy with a following all over the internet and who is viewed as a "truth teller" by his fans-- Rush Limbaugh. The writer had already made it cearl that he/she has rejected your standard that validity equals a following who thinks you're the berries...

Joe:

While I agree that since there's at least some group of execs at NBC whose hearts go pitter-patter at anything Keith says, they won't take him off the show this season, Olby does not like either controversy or to be critiqued on-screen, and he's getting that in spades from the reactions of Collinsworth, Barber and even Costas.

That can't be fun for him, and the fact that he's already had to issue two apologies in two shows means he can't even fight back with "I know what I'm talking about", because he's only going to get smacked down again -- and since Fox pioneered the genre in 1994, NFL studio shows have lived on the ex-jocks and other hosts trash talking each other. Keith may not like it (and he trashed "Fox NFL Sunday" on last week's FNIA after the Costas-Frank Caliendo clip), but no NFL studio show allows anyone to spout off on the topic de jour without having to then defend their position -- i.e. it ain't "Countdown" where Keith can say whatever he wants with no fear of criticism.

For someone to took to the bathtub when he had to have contrary opinions on his show during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, 16 more weeks of having to defend his WPINFL or his other football special comments may be just a little too much to take. Unless the higher-ups at NBC tell the others on the show that, no matter what snarky/obtuse thing he says, just nod your head and say "What an wise and insightful commentary, Mr. Olbermann, sir," Keith may take himself off the Sunday night show after this season.

Got a good point, John, Olbermann may very well take himself off the air, he is a bit thin skinned. I just remembered he took himself off MS-NBC because he couldn't handle the Clinton/Monica stuff.

I don't know how much Collinsworth can "trash talk" the guy, if he's always sitting at the "kids" table. I think Costas seems more diplomatic, in that, he'll let Olbermann hang himself.

No way cross promotion equals job security. Football is a demograph driver but a money loser for networks. Plus the NFL is very, very guarded with it brand. When Olbermann starts going off the tracks expect a call to NBC brass from the NFL. Lets all remember the NFL has its own channel and has made no secret its hope to go strictly exclusive content making nearly all games subscription. Networks kill for the NFL and won't do anything to harm that relationship.

Olbermann would be easy to get rid of with just a small campaign directed to the NFL corporate offices.

Actually, that might be a fun thing to organize and take credit for.

So far Olby is averaging one apology/correction per NFL show. How long can they keep someone on who can't get anything right? Something else that was oh-so-overlooked in the completely unbiased NY Times article.

Joe:

So far they've given Collinsworth and Tiki face time with Keith once per show, after the WPINFL segment, and both times his logic has come under question, to put it kindly.

Costas has been a little more diplomatic -- he is the host -- but he also hasn't come to Keith's defense in either of the halftime segments. And he can't be happy with the new set-up, where he has to share time with Olby on the highlight clips, while Collinsworth works with Barber and Bettis on the post-clip analysis (remember, the reason why they hired Collinsworth in the first place was his chemistry with Costas from HBO's NFL show. To shoehorn Keith into the picture, the new FNIA format almost completely removes that connection).

Cecelia!

Brandon sez Hi and he's ready to accept your apologies. (Plural)

Posted by: Brandon sez Hi! at September 14, 2007 4:53 PM

Does he know you're using him as a sock puppet (singular)?....

Ever see The Weatherman?

That movie explains why Keith won't go out in public. I know I would sacrifice my Big Gulp for humanity.

At first I thought I could handle that awkward chemistry, sometimes that stuff is kind of funny, but this is a little too much, so I don't know if I'll be watching the pre & half time show much longer.

Cecelia, I would respond to you, but I'm not sure what you are saying. Sorry.

Cecelia, I would respond to you, but I'm not sure what you are saying. Sorry.

Posted by: joe at September 14, 2007 5:20 PM

No problem. We'll tell you when you're older.

Ever see The Weatherman?
Posted by: Olberma bin Laden at September 14, 2007 5:18 PM

Actually a pretty good movie and does kind of sum up Olbermann. Although I think Olbermann may be a tad more self aware than the Nic Cage character, but not by much.

Average American Patriot & Cecelia:
You guys can be real asses sometimes. I'll stick to football talk. Feel better about yourselves now?

Average American Patriot & Cecelia:
You guys can be real asses sometimes. I'll stick to football talk. Feel better about yourselves now?

Posted by: joe at September 14, 2007 5:32 PM

I feel great! You might feel better if you took yourself less seriously....

I feel great! You might feel better if you took yourself less seriously....
Posted by: Cecelia at September 14, 2007 5:39 PM

Pot meet kettle...

I feel great! You might feel better if you took yourself less seriously....
Posted by: Cecelia at September 14, 2007 5:39 PM

Pot meet kettle...
Posted by: joe at September 14

I forgot to add:

HA! pot meet kettle

don't want to be too serious...

Why is it that the rest of the world is not afraid of Al Qaeda ?
Posted by: Bill O'lielly at September 14, 2007 6:18 PM

maybe because they weren't attacked like us?

I feel great! You might feel better if you took yourself less seriously....
Posted by: Cecelia at September 14, 2007 5:39 PM

OMG! Cecelia telling someone else not to take themself too seriously...tooooo funnny! Pot meet kettle indeed. Cecelia, even YOU have to chuckle at that one!

I dislike DoucheBag as much as any normal person, That said, when I heard he was on Sunday Football I decided to boycott because of his fringe viewpoints and his inability to monitor and regulate his extremeness.

But my jones for football forced me to turn this on. I also told myself I'd give Olbermann a fair break.

DoucheBag was absolutely HORRIBLE! His lack of football is quite evident. He takes to reading the Telaprompter and is unable to engage in any useful dialog. He plays the court jester rather than contributes any meaningful dialog.

Nice move NBC!!!

He is a disaster!!

don't want to be too serious...

Posted by: joe at September 14, 2007 6:16 PM

Dear Kettle

Too late...

Sincerely,
Pot

The man is just a F-ing idiot. He is trying to up his numbers by attracting the far left groups like moveon etc.

OMG! Cecelia telling someone else not to take themself too seriously...tooooo funnny! Pot meet kettle indeed. Cecelia, even YOU have to chuckle at that one!

Posted by: too funny at September 14, 2007 6:26 PM

You think you could get a taadddd more "breathless" sounding?

I'm sure Graham Norton will need an understudy at some point... :D

This is what Cecelia is best at; pointing out in others what is so obvious about herself. Funny how she doesn't see it though.

At least she's good at something...her political comments are pretty useless..

This is what Cecelia is best at; pointing out in others what is so obvious about herself. Funny how she doesn't see it though.
Posted by: at September 14, 2007 7:00 PM

At least she's good at something...her political comments are pretty useless..
Posted by: at September 14, 2007 7:04 PM

Anonyloons.... they're so cute when they swarm... :D

I'm gonna go hit some porn sites now...Cecelia's around, and she's really boring....

I'm gonna go hit some porn sites now...Cecelia's around, and she's really boring....

Posted by: anons unite in porn at September 14, 2007 7:13 PM

Well, you always do better with just pictures....

I'm back, just a quickie, that was great. I see Cecelia couldn't help herself and had to have the last word. PreDICtable & boring. how fun.

Concerning Olbermann's veracity as a "journalist", SLOB says:

" I have never noticed his reports to deviate from the established facts."

Where do we start? Well, it's Friday night so, we'll just pitch an easy one right down the pipe:

[S]ome of the “conspiracy theories” he [Olbermann] began to give credence to were a bit too much for me. His special comment about how the failure to rebuild at the WTC site was George Bush’s fault was where he lost my respect. Anyone who knows the history of the fight between the developers, owners, and families of the victims knows the real reasons of why it’s taken so long to rebuild and GWB isn’t one of them. True journalists don’t alter the facts to suit their arguments."

"Oh..one more thing. Petraeus' boss Admiral Fallon....you know the one that called him a "asskingin chickenshit"

The lefties at the Daily Kos and Think Progress are both giving a lot of play to the following quote that Admiral William Fallon allegedly (much more on that in a bit) made about his underling David Petraeus during their first meeting in Baghdad last March. The Daily Kos and Think Progress report Fallon called Petraeus “an ass-kissing little chicken-sh*t.”

I know what you’re thinking. For reputable outfits like the Daily Kos and Think Progress to report such an incendiary comment, the remark must be impeccably sourced. Well…

The original report of the comment, the scoop if you will, came in something called the “Inter Press Service News Agency,” or “IPS” as the organization bills itself. What? You’ve never heard of this IPS and find yourself curious about who and what it is? IPS describes itself this way on its website: “IPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath. Another communication is possible.”
A couple of things about this IPS “scoop”. IPS reported the alleged exchange on September 12, or yesterday to you and me. The alleged exchange occurred back in March. You also might wonder how IPS got this juicy nugget. Did Admiral Fallon put a call into the news agency renowned for “delving into globalization”? Hardly. IPS got the story from “Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.” Mind you, IPS didn’t just use just anonymous Pentagon source who might have seen the exchange. IPS relied on sources who not only didn’t witness the exchange, but didn’t even talk to people who witnessed the exchange. They were just “familiar with reports of the meeting.” Allegedly.

Here’s the kicker. Both Think Progress and the Daily Kos report IPS’s “scoop” like it’s a fact. Think Progress qualifies its reportage of Fallon’s comment merely by saying, “Inter-Press Service suggests animosity between the two might be one reason for Fallon’s absence” and then hits its readers with the quote. Think Progress does not bother to note the flimsiness of IPS’s reporting, nor does it bother to say exactly who and what IPS is. Maybe IPS is a household name where “delving into globalisation” is de rigueur, but I doubt it.

The Daily Kos does even worse. In happily relating Fallon’s alleged comment, Daily Kos front pager BarbinMD doesn’t even mention IPS. She doesn’t even link to IPS, a tacit admission of what a pile of hooey their report is. Instead, Dr. Barbin oddly chose to link back to Think Progress’s report on the matter.

And thus in the modern left’s eyes, a Four Star General who has served his country for decades becomes “an ass-kissing little chickensh*t.” And once again, the rest of the country is left to wonder about our nation’s far left: Have they no decency?

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/page2

For the millionth time, not all of us here support the Iraq War. Many conservatives did NOT. Despite that, the Olbyloons continue to insist that we all do/did. What I don't support is the likes of biased "journalists" like Olbermann who play fast and loose with the facts. Biased "journalism" hurts us all. How the hell do you think we got in this war to begin with (other than the fact that the Dems voted for it)? Because no one asked questions. Especially not your beloved Olby. Now go THINK about that will you?

Even the Democrats, including Pelosi have said that the attacks on Petraeus are unwarranted and unnecessary. Olbermann coined this term but yet he and his demented fans refuse to own it. Why? Now of course you have "Think" once again showing how they are more than willing to carry Olbermann's water for him.

'm back, just a quickie, that was great. I see Cecelia couldn't help herself and had to have the last word. PreDICtable & boring. how fun.

Posted by: anons unite in porn at September 14, 2007 8:45 PM

I suppose you'd get carpal tunnel if you ever had a "longie"....

WDYT is even more detached from reality than usual tonight. After showing that the sourcing for Fallon's so-called quote regarding Petraeus was completely unreliable (see my post @ 10:24), you would have thought the boy would have had enough sense to move on to something else and hope that no one noticed. Instead he comes back for more. I'll let his own words speak for themselves (capitalizations added for emphasis):

WDYT starts out with this assertion:

"The FACT is ....Fallon did call Petraeus an "asskissin chickenshit."

Then trots this out in "support" of his assertion that the alleged quote is a fact:

"Fallon told Petraeus [in March] that he considered him to be “an ass-kissing little chickenshit” and added, “I hate people like that”, THE SOURCES say . . ."

and this:

"That remark REPORTEDLY came after Petraeus began the meeting"

Just lovely. WDYT posts a message that reinforces exactly what I stated earlier (the quote is probably bogus because it cannot be reliably sourced) and he crows that I "laid an egg". Either come up with a reliable primary source source for this quote or admit that you have no proof that anything such as this was ever said by Fallon.

Maybe this will help, maybe not:

http://www.factcheck.org/operation_iraqi_gloss-over.html

Thank you for posting my thought exactly, 1:42

Wonder how the position W's put Petraeus in has an impact on military morale. Or did they ever have time to consider this Red Herring?

normally I don't comment on such trivial things as what an Admiral said about a general, however the veracity of the report has to be questioned for several reasons. 1. Patreus is Bushs' boy so in actuallity he has more clout then his nominal boss Fallen. 2. The number of people present at this meeting would be four, Petreus, Fallon and their aide de camp. With both Petreus and fallon aware of the political situation there would be no need for petreus to suck up to a lowly naval officer. and fallon would understand this. 3. with both officers quite aware of this fallon would never trash petreus like that is such a public way, easy to trace back to him, easier to demote him i.e lose a star and his job.(officers dont trash other officers in such a public way.

The attempts by this administration to politicize historically apolitical government departments and career workers is incorrigible to say the least. Such pathetic cowards.

The attemps by the MSM to prop up Olbermanns pitiful performance on FNIA is typical of the liberal elitist NY Times. Such predictable idiots.

In the past day, there have been other Belichick cheating stories that have come out, going back to his days as Cleveland Browns coach (he reportedly practiced the team during the week without numbers on their jerseys, so he could sneak five more players onto the Browns' squad without anyone knowing). All of these would make perfect fodder for a WPINFL by Keith that wouldn't cause any controversy at all under the current situation, and have already been vetted elsewhere.

But watch. He's going to try and be too cute by half again, just like with his Michael Vick commentary, and show he's the smartest and wittiest kid in the classroom. And he's going to say something that's controversial more for its inaccuracy than for it's insight, and we'll see apology No. 3 rolling in a short time later, after Chris, Tiki, Jerome and Bob give him a verbal wedgie.

'm back, just a quickie, that was great. I see Cecelia couldn't help herself and had to have the last word. PreDICtable & boring. how fun.
Posted by: anons unite in porn at September 14, 2007 8:45 PM

I suppose you'd get carpal tunnel if you ever had a "longie"....
osted by: Cecelia at September 14, 2007 11:52 PM

see folks, she just can't help herself. BTW, I'm sure getting your old fart husband off takes some work on your part---then again, I doubt you are even married.

back to football: From SI

Alan of Sandusky, a no-nonsense town, asks a no-nonsense question about the NBC studio crew, which he calls, "a rambling mess." (sounds like the Georgia Tech fight song), and the question is what do I think of it? Not much. Costas, Collinsworth, Tiki. Yawn. Opinions and not much evidence of serious effort. My colleague Peter King stands out as a hard-working print journalist trying to bring news to an arena that's too cluttered with personality enhancement. Keith Olbermann is another matter, though.

This is like the corporate executive at the company picnic, trying to impress the work force with his perceived cleverness. You can hear the clank of heavy chains. Boardroom humor. Even worse, though, is the war he wages with facts. They are enemies to people such as this. He made a big point of pointing out that the Jets' trade of left guard Pete Kendall led to Chad Pennington's injury via sack. The problem was that it was left tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson who gave up the sack to Jarvis Green. Others jumped on this supposed irony. The NY Daily News' radio and TV columnist, Bob Raissman, got all over the CBS announcing team of Phil Simms and Jim Nantz for not stressing this whole Kendall-Pennington thing, in other words, for not reporting wrong information because this Raissman character thought it was a good angle. Please God, save me from heehaws pretending to be journalists.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/dr_z/09/14/mailbag/?eref=mostpop

more football from ESPN's Bill Simmons (plus a very good take on the why NBC has too many folks on it's pre & half time show (use the link for that part):

Q: When you and Sal do the Week 3 lines in your next podcast, please include the over/under for weeks before NBC scraps Keith Olbermann's painful "Worst Person in the NFL" segment. Since it's my idea, I'll make the over/under 5½ weeks.
-- Lenny, Montclair, N.J.

SG: I'll take the under! I'm going to miss that segment because it has been so enjoyable to see Tiki Barber smiling like Kevin Eubanks afterwards, and Bob Costas has been putting on a fake-laugh clinic for the ages. But it's not long for this world. Hey, speaking of NBC ...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/070914&sportCat=nfl

Really, in the same way I can sit down and enjoy something like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" because it's so bad, it's good, I'm actually starting to eagerly await Keith's facetime on FNIA each Sunday.

Not that Keith is necessarily in Ed Wood territory when it comes to hosting a studio sports show, but the position the geniuses at NBC have given him, combined with the mandatory frat boy/macho attitude all football studio shows are now required to have, means whatever he says this Sunday on his "WPINFL" segment, he's going to have to defend it or any new errors from critiques by (at the very least) Collinsworth and Barber, and Keith doesn't handle criticism all that well. If he thought this was going to be "Countdown" where he could spout dramatically and then just go to commercial or sign off for the night, he and the NBC Sports folks had a bit of miscommunication.

The only other option is to hermetically seal off Olby's commentaries from any discussion whatsoever after their completed, which would require either just isolating Keith on one side of the set from everyone, save Costas, for the entire show, or move him into another studio entirely and show his comments on-set via some huge HD monitor, where he can come off like the Big Giant Head in the Apple 1984 commercial.

Whatever happens, there's still 16 weeks of this train wreck, plus the wild card round of the playoffs yet to go. NBC Sports folks will really be earning their money if they manage to right this ship before it's over.

Even the Democrats, including Pelosi have said that the attacks on Petraeus are unwarranted and unnecessary. Olbermann coined this term but yet he and his demented fans refuse to own it. Why? Now of course you have "Think" once again showing how they are more than willing to carry Olbermann's water for him.

Posted by: at September 14, 2007 11:08 PM

Timid Democratic leaders, maybe; but what about a two-tour Republican veteran of Vietnam and the Senate?

Chuck Hagel - one of the few Republican legislators to have actually served in combat, and who has NOT served President Bush as a grovelling mind-slave - said on Bill Maher last night that General Petraeus' testimony was:

"Not only a dirty trick, but its dishonest, hypocritical, dangerous, and irresponsible. The fact is this is not Petraeus' policy, its Bush's policy".

..and just what does Senator Hagel think of Bush's policy?

"I think that this war policy, where we are today, and the coninuation of this policy s the biggest foreign policy blunder in the history of our country"

Sounds like a pretty firm accusation of "Betrayal" to me.

Didn't Truman read MacArthur the riot act for doing the same thing that Bush ordered Petraeus to do? Of course, Truman had balls, and so did MacArthur. Bush does, too. They're in his Mama's purse. I don't know where Petraeus' are. Maybe, Michael Savage borrowed them.

Wonder what excuse/apology/correction Olbermann will be issuing on tonight's FNIA episode? Will he have to do more than one? Or will he continue to average his one fuck-up per show?

Go ahead attack Keith….you’re nothing but a bunch of little jealous girly men. Keep attacking the messenger for telling the truth.