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    Olbermann Watch, "persecuting" Keith since 2004


    January 14, 2008
    Keith Olbermann now a Daily Kos blogger

    Keith Olbermann is now a Daily Kos blogger. I guess Huffington Post wouldn't have him. But one wonders why he wasn't allowed to publish this little love letter to his liberal fans on his own MSNBC website?

    Read it and laugh as I did fellow Olbywatchers as you observe the delicious and deep irony of it all.

    Yeah, it's me. Hi. Sure has taken me long enough. But, as you may know, I am the shy, retiring type: Hesitant to state an opinion in public and horrified to pass judgment or seem a scold. And, yes, if I'm going to step out from the cool, comforting environs of the shadows, I'd rather spring forward to pimp the book or the newscast.

    Of course he had to work in a show/book plug there didn't he?

    But, having now read a (mercifully few) claims here that I'm a) attacking Clinton, b) burying Edwards, and c) clobbering Obama, I feel the need to mention that I truly don't have a preference. I am tilting in no direction, sending out no subliminal message, and thwarting no truth.

    Sorry but you party with the Clintons and personally thank the Clinton family including a personal shout-out to Hill's mom in your new book and you really expect people to believe you don't have a favorite? Yeah, uhm, sure. The loons are dumb but they aren't entirely stupid.

    To report the NBC New Hampshire projection after the polls close there, is not to try to marginalize John Edwards. To run the entire Bill Clinton "fairy tale" sound bite complete with its Iraq vote context, is not to try to thwart Barack Obama. And to report that Dennis Kucinich has put a down payment on a New Hampshire recount is not to claim Hillary Clinton stole a primary. I appreciate the fervor of each candidate's supporters and I think I have some empathy based on my standing in the Frustrated-By-The-Obviousness-Of-Politics League. But can anybody reading messages into tea leaves in my newscast, when there isn't even a teacup, please resume regular breathing patterns? To see in each of my reports an enemy or a spokesman sounds microscopically like---and I swallow hard and prepare for the prospect of some Kossacks to approach what passes for my castle with torches and pitchforks as I write this: Bill O'Reilly.

    Yep, obligatory O'Reilly reference. But you see Keith, O'Reilly is smart enough to label himself as a commentator and his spiel as Opinions. You've chosen instead to term your little program as a "News" show and yourself as a news anchor. But now the very natives you once courted so, and still are attempting to suck up to, are beginning to turn on you. Tough breaks kid, see this is what happens when you decide to be the "liberal mouthpiece" you are. You can't please everyone during election time. And if you think that this is bad now, can you imagine what it would be like if a Democratic candidate is elected and you have to report something negative about them? Oh right. You can. You after all, famously quit your last job at MSNBC because you didn't want to report details of the Monica mess.

    Update [J$]: Just so everyone is clear what the "not politically biased journalist" has signed up to do, here is the purpose of the DailyKos website, straight from their FAQ:

    This is a Democratic blog, a partisan blog. One that recognizes that Democrats run from left to right on the ideological spectrum, and yet we're all still in this fight together. We happily embrace centrists like NDN's Simon Rosenberg and Howard Dean, conservatives like Martin Frost and Brad Carson, and liberals like John Kerry and Barack Obama. Liberal? Yeah, we're around here and we're proud. But it's not a liberal blog. It's a Democratic blog with one goal in mind: electoral victory. And since we haven't gotten any of that from the current crew, we're one more thing: a reform blog. The battle for the party is not an ideological battle. It's one between establishment and anti-establishment factions. And as I've said a million times, the status quo is untenable.

    Posted by Brandon | Permalink | Comments (76) | | View blog reactions

    76 Comments

    Well, let me explain. I AM a Hillary Clinton supporter, in fact Bill gave me some nice pick-up lines to get chicks. Hey, did I mention I have a YOUNG girlfriend now?

    Anyway, the night before the NH primary, Bill gives me a call and says, "Throw Hillary under the bus tonight Keith. Our victim plan is working, but we need YOU to make one final "slam" so that we get some far left sympathy for Hill too." Brilliant plan Bill, I replied, will do. He then wanted to know how Katy was, which was odd, because he just spent the night with her yesterday. Oh well.

    The next day Dee Dee Myers gave me a "tisk" "tisk" for my "Hillary Pile-on" on Countdown last night. Nice touch, Bill, I thought. But I wasn't going to let Dee Dee (a feminist, no doubt, probably a closet lesbian) get the best of me. It was pretty easy to enlist Tweety in making fun of her.

    Now, I do a little kiss-and-make-up with the Kos Kids, (god they're dumber than the neocons!) and I'm back in they're good lefty graces. Oh, and that Playboy positive letter solicitation was priceless! Thanks Becky! Too bad I picture you looking like Leona Helmsley, only much fatter. Did I mention I have a YOUNG girlfriend?

    I can't believe posting a diary on Kos is OK with NBC. Could you see Brokaw or Cronkite doing this, openly pandering to a partisan site? Unbelievable.

    I can't believe posting a diary on Kos is OK with NBC. Could you see Brokaw or Cronkite doing this, openly pandering to a partisan site? Unbelievable.

    Hey Bear, it's "their" not "they're" dumbass.

    Why not. crooked smile Brian Williams writes for the Huffington Post...He HAD to kiss up to the Kos Kids, they are his bread & butter. I think even NBC sees that.

    "Brian Williams writes for the Huffington Post"

    then I guess it's OK for KO to go to their yearly convention - the Kos Kids were all over that idea

    Along the same line as Olbermann now writing for the DKos, we have this item to contemplate:

    "Terri Burke, former editor of the Abilene Reporter-News, has been named executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas."

    "Burke said her new job seems like a continuation of her work in the newspaper business."

    You just can't make this stuff up.

    "I wanted to be a journalist because I thought journalism was a way to further the democratic process," Burke said."

    Report the news? Nah, that's old school thinking.

    Inform the community of events in their area? Nah, please.

    Deliver facts to the consumer? Nah, we don't need no stinking facts.

    It's "furthering the democratic process."

    What the heck is the "democratic process"? And how do you "further" it?

    My guess is both involve lots of money and lots of diversity training seminars.

    To her credit, she did quit her news job.

    You reading this Keith?

    Hey Bear, it's "their" not "they're" dumbass.
    Posted by: at January 14, 2008 6:09 PM

    Hey, cut me some slack. I was touching myself as I was reading my lastest issue of Playboy. I still read Playboy, even though I have a YOUNG girlfriend.

    I think I'm going to give Becky a "Best Person" tonight on Countdown. Screw the ethics of it all. But I'll try really, really hard to picture Becky looking like "Jenny from the Block" and not like the Leona I KNOW she probably looks like, as I give her the Best Person award tonight.

    a comment from Kos - wtf?

    Hi, Keith. We met 6 months ago at... (1+ / 0-)
    . . . that little bar ("The Shaved Wombat") in Mumbai where we stood each other to (what? about 3 dozen!) rounds of Victoria beers. How you were able to find Mexican beer in India was nothing short of miraculous. How my 5-day hangover didn't last 5 weeks was equally miraculous. Of course, that you took me and "Lakshmi" (not her real name) to that little, very illegal, bhang bar (actually not too far from Leopold's . . . funny how I never knew about it before) probably helped take the "edge" off the beer.

    At any rate, I wanted to give you a "shout out", tell you that you're Special Comments kick ass (the most intellectually honest thing on t.v. today. Monk's good, I suppose. And Frontline), and that you still owe me 2 friggin' lakh for that ticket and my "winning" the bet (wish I'd lost, alas!) about Musharraf...

    Are you still planning to do Nepal again this May?

    Come, that's Katy, trying to make Olbermann seem impressive to the rest of the world. yuck.

    Picture KO sitting there all hot and bothered over those Kos comments. Feed the ego once again.

    Will he turn to this strategy now that he doesn't need to pump out so many Special Comments since the book is published. How will he perk up ratings? Go from blue blog to blue blog, posting, and watching the ardent flock to him to tell him how he speaks to power?

    The "status quo" is untenable, but Cindy Sheehan was blacklisted for challenging the status quo?

    Obligatory Daily Kos shout out.

    Keith Olbermann owns all of you!

    You show all this hatred towards him, not because he is a liar or an evil man like you say, but because he exposes the people you look up to and agree with on political issues.

    Wake Up People!

    The future should be bright. It is time for you narrow minded people to open up.

    >You show all this hatred towards him, not because he is a liar or an evil man like you say, but because he exposes the people you look up to and agree with on political issues.

    Nope - it's because he is a liar and an evil man - you summed it up well the first time

    "god they're dumber than the neocons!"
    Is correct. "they're = THEY + ARE"

    "Hey Bear, it's "their" ot "they're" "dumbass." is incorrect.

    Dumbass.

    Bear - do you ever photoshop O'Reilly's face to the topless pics in Playboy, then you have he best of your world's getting off on big boobs and BOR - your 2 bigest turn-ons

    I can't believe posting a diary on Kos is OK with NBC. Could you see Brokaw or Cronkite doing this, openly pandering to a partisan site? Unbelievable.

    Posted by: at January 14, 2008 6:06 PM

    Get over it.

    who is the sucker and who is the swallower?

    keith or screw um markos?
    and does he swallow?

    Can you imagine O'Reilly posting at Free Republic? Hmmm. He'd make WPITW wouldn't he? Investigations of "conflict of interest" would be cited. But let Olbermann do it and it's fine. Really, you people do enjoy twisting yourself into pretzels don't you?

    "Get over it."

    It's the year 2008 and this person is still a believer in the claptrap called Marxism - despite the vast documented record of its complete bloody failure everywhere it was tried - and he tells OTHERS to get over it.

    Tom Wolfe noted that it's impossible to write parodies anymore; real life is so absurd that it overwhelms fiction.

    Ya' got that right, Mr. Wolfe.

    It's probably not even Olbermann posting on Kos-- probably some right winger posing as Keith to try to create an issue. You RW's up to your dirty tricks again!

    Kos has an editor's note confirming that it's Olbermann. But go ahead and create your little RW conspiracy theories-you make yourself look even dumber than you already are.

    The fact that MSNBC apparently has no problems with someone they are passing off as a news journalist posting at Kos and even posting again to suck up to the posters there--speaks volumes about what has become of the integrity of the NBC news machine.

    Uhhhh dumbasses, you too can write a diary for DK if you open an account. He wasn't "front paged", it was just a diary.

    P.S. How much money do the righty blogs raise for their political candidates? DK alone humiliates all the wingnut blog sites in terms of fund raising and organizing.

    > Uhhhh dumbasses, you too can write a diary for DK if you open an account.

    I think Kos Kid is lying to us. Cindy Sheehan was banned from doing a diary on Daily Kos, because she was running against Nancy Pelosi. That violated the Daily Kos purpose for being: electing Democrats. So now Kos Kid is telling us that ANYONE can post there? Kos Kid isn't telling the truth.

    "While you dumbasses are crying about Kos, our planet is disappearing."

    Posted by: at January 14, 2008 11:14 PM


    Is this warmingwatch, now? Get your fat ass out on your bicycle and do something about it instead of scouring the internets for crap to post here that doesn't belong here. Just our regular olbyloon diversion from the orange faced hack.

    Is this warmingwatch, now? Get your fat ass out on your bicycle and do something about it instead of scouring the internets for crap to post here that doesn't belong here. Just our regular olbyloon diversion from the orange faced hack.


    Posted by: royal king at January 14, 2008 11:30 PM

    You do realize when you use the phrase, "the internets" you are mocking your idiot-in-chief, right?
    I think Brandon has a quote for you, And Look, it's even from a fellow Bushie!

    Is this warmingwatch, now? Get your fat ass out on your bicycle and do something about it instead of scouring the internets for crap to post here that doesn't belong here. Just our regular olbyloon diversion from the orange faced hack.


    Posted by: royal king at January 14, 2008 11:30 PM

    You do realize when you use the phrase, "the internets" you are mocking your idiot-in-chief, right?
    I think Brandon has a quote for you, And Look, it's even from a fellow Bushie!

    So what, even if it was Olbermann posting at Kos, he didn't say anything favoring one candidate or party over another either Democrat or Republican. So what's the big deal, dipshit?

    Keith tells it like it is, right down the midddle and you RW's can't handle it. Suck on that!

    KO belongs with the Thruthers and Anti-semitics of Daily Kos along with their founder Markos "Screw them" Zuniga.

    Keith Olbermann and Daily Kos. Together at last.

    I think Brandon has a quote for you, And Look, it's even from a fellow Bushie!

    Posted by: Trent the Marxist at January 14, 2008 11:55 PM


    I don't think Brandon's a "Bushie" and neither am I. Next?

    I was browsing through the Kos messages and I noticed a complete lack of criticism of Goebbelsman. Little but gushing praise.

    Then I notice that he was made a "trusted user". Then posts that, as a "trusted user", he could tag anyone he pleased with being a "troll".

    Makes one wonder if the only reason he joined was to silence his critics.

    The loons are dumb but they aren't entirely stupid.

    posted by Brandon

    Proof?

    Left-wing liar and democratic hack Markos Moulitsos Zuniga of the Daily Kos cheered the brutal murders of four American civilian contractors in Fallujah–all of them war veterans with distinguished records, three of them fathers–with the following infamous words:

    “Screw them.”


    Initially, democrat advertisers condemned Kos’s atrocious statements and withdrew their ads. But as Dean Barnett reported a few weeks ago in a Weekly Standard piece, Kos is now stronger than ever–and awash in daily traffic and ad revenue from the hate-America Left.

    "To report the NBC New Hampshire projection after the polls close there, is not to try to marginalize John Edwards. To run the entire Bill Clinton "fairy tale" sound bite complete with its Iraq vote context, is not to try to thwart Barack Obama. And to report that Dennis Kucinich has put a down payment on a New Hampshire recount is not to claim Hillary Clinton stole a primary. I appreciate the fervor of each candidate's supporters and I think I have some empathy based on my standing in the Frustrated-By-The-Obviousness-Of-Politics League."


    "This is a Democratic blog, a partisan blog. One that recognizes that Democrats run from left to right on the ideological spectrum, and yet we're all still in this fight together. We happily embrace centrists like NDN's Simon Rosenberg and Howard Dean, conservatives like Martin Frost and Brad Carson, and liberals like John Kerry and Barack Obama. Liberal? Yeah, we're around here and we're proud. But it's not a liberal blog. It's a Democratic blog with one goal in mind: electoral victory. And since we haven't gotten any of that from the current crew, we're one more thing: a reform blog. The battle for the party is not an ideological battle. It's one between establishment and anti-establishment factions. And as I've said a million times, the status quo is untenable."


    Oh, yeah...he's taking it to the streets, folks.

    Get ready people...you are going to see Mr. Keith Olbermann speaking truth to power--- telling it like it is to the Democratic establishmentarians...

    You're going to see Olbermann directly charge that the voting system in our country is under the control of powerful political forces sympathetic to HRC!! Well, okay no... but he will MENTION that Kucinich wants a recount in New Hampshire .... ( Now don't get excited Kos Krusaders....that's not an implication towards Hillary...)

    Yes, sir, our Mr. Olbermann is mad as hell over the status quo Democrats and he's not taking it anymore! You are going to see him make a Democrat WPITW!! Okay, okay... that's not going to happen.... but he will run a clip of Bill Clinton's fairy tale speech... (Clam down Kos Krusaders, no disrespect to Obama intended!....)

    We're talking CHANGE here! Olbermann's ready for it.... he's longing for it.... the Democratic Party needs it..... In fact, he's going to focus on change so intently that he won't even be able to spend another minute on Bill O'Reilly.... STARTING...after tonight! (uhhhhhh.... let's not get carried away, friends and neighbors...)

    Keith and the Kos Kids.... yeah... profiles in political courage...

    fer sure.... :D


    You're dull, mentally, Mr. blank-FLUCKER (cue OLD SPICE jingle).....Bill Kristol is labelled a pundit...He is usually balanced on TV with someone from the left of him in discussing the political matters of the day....Everyone knows Kristol is partisan because he is advertised as such on FOXNews....

    Olbermann markets himself as the anchor of a News Program....He has never admitted to being a partisan, in fact he has denied it often and he is never labeled a partisan and his opinions are never balanced with someone from the right.

    You never cease to amaze us here, Mr. blank-FLUCKER (cue OLD SPICE jingle)....You really must correct people when they mistake you for Karl Stromberg, the brilliant villian in the flick, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME.....He displayed more intelligence and logical reasoning in his dealings with 007 and the beautiful Anya....

    Do you remind them of a senile Jonathan Winters, perhaps?

    "I am politically neutral" -Keith Olbermann (Dan Patrick radio show)

    ---Is Olbermann blogging on the Daily Kos different in kind from Kristol peddling his neo-con belligerency to Bush whilst commenting on FOX whilst writing a column for the NYT? Please explain the difference to me.----

    Simple. Olbermann is a television NEWS anchor. His program, Countdown, is classified by MSNBC as a News Program.

    Bill Kristol is a political commentator for Fox News who provides analysis and commentary regarding politics. He also writes an op-ed column for the NY Times. In case you don't understand what Op-Ed means--it means opinion-editorial.

    Olbermann=masquerading as a news person. Countdown=masquerading as a news show. Daily Kos column and Olbermann's lofty elevation there as a blogger who has the power to delete any and all unfavorable remarks posted in response to his blogs mean that he is now akin to a staff member at Kos, a website with open, political allegiances.

    Or let me put it to you anther way, Edward R. Murrow he ain't.

    I know take back my earlier statement that the Loons are dumb but not stupid as Anonymous's "challenge" to me proves. They really don't get it.

    If you read the entirety of his diary entry, you would see his argument . . .


    Stop attacking me. You should be attacking Bush instead.

    If you read the entirety of his diary entry, you would see his argument . . .


    Stop attacking me. You should be attacking Bush instead.

    Posted by: Olberma bin Laden at January 15, 2008 11:17 AM

    Actually, the main theme of his diary is that he and the Kos Kids are tired of status quo Democrats who go along with the Administration and want to effect change within the party.

    That Olbermann has to provide explanations for even REPORTING on a New Hampshire recount and hasn't even granted a Democrat WPITW status, let alone speaking "truth" to the Dem establish, is nothing short of poetic...

    I'd say it's a precarious tightrope walk he's doing, trying to appease all in his fan base, shore up his ratings, and sell a few books, but the fact is that it's not difficult at all... A few diary entries a month will suffice... :D

    One previous poster mentioned that Brokaw or Cronkite would never participate in a partisam forum like Keith. That's true, but those guys are journalists. Keith is an opinion commentator. He's a lot of things, but newsman is not one of them.

    From my perspective, if he wants to play to his partisan base, more power to him.

    He's a far left political opinion commentator. If he were an actual journalist, then there would be something to talk about.

    FOX is not fair balanced, and everyone knows it,

    posted by anony

    You mean reporting both sides of a story, having (d)'s and (R)'s on debating topics is not fair and balanced? As far as everyone you meant everyone on your side, right? I would expect you have some documentation from a scientific investigation that concludes "everyone knows Fox News is not fair and balanced?"

    That's what I thought.

    For the thinking-impaired amongst you-the point is that it is none other than Olbermann himself who holds himself out to be a "journalist". It is none other than NBC News which insists that Olbermann hosts a news show. You can post what you think the show is all day long and it does not change the way in which Olbermann tries to portray himself in media interviews nor how the network labels him. That's the point of Olbermannwatch-we have issues with opinion being presented as news as Mr. Olbermann and MSNBC insist upon doing. I'm not sure what part of that is so difficult for you to understand or what Fox News does or doesn't do have any part to play in this matter. Your "but they. . . " defense still does not make what Olbermann is doing right. If Olbermann would stop lying and admit he's running an opinion-based program, if MSNBC would correctly relabel what he does as "opinion" instead of news officially, I can promise you I would no longer post on this site. His fan's stubborn insistence on labeling him a commentator and seeing no problem with it because of how they perceive him stands in direct opposition to the known facts of how Olbermann and MSNBC characterize him. And yet, some of you are so stupid and dense you still don't get it and will post 10 more posts saying you think he's a commentator and Countdown is an opinion show. Perhaps you should be telling him and the network and not us?

    Anonymous, you exaggerate Fox News tilt to the right, it is really more centrist on average. This is because the Fox News channel has on-air personalities that range across the political spectrum. It is the howls of protest from Democrats over its very existance that shows the hypocrisy of Democrats and their intolerance of different viewpoints.

    Anonymous: Judging by Olbermann's continuously pathetic ratings and the lack of book sales for his newest offering, I'd say it was Olbermann who was trying to peddle a product no one wanted to buy.

    "You know very well, RK, FOX tilts strongly right. . . I don't think the on-air personalities even keep up the pretense that FOX doesn't tilt right."

    Posted by: A N O N Y M O U S at January 15, 2008 1:33 PM

    The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) at George Mason University ..... found that Fox News Channel's evening news show provided more balanced coverage than its counterparts on the broadcast networks:

    “Fox News Channel’s coverage was more balanced toward both parties than the broadcast networks were. On FOX, evaluations of all Democratic candidates combined were split almost evenly – 51% positive vs. 49% negative, as were all evaluations of GOP candidates – 49% positive vs. 51% negative, producing a perfectly balanced 50-50 split for all candidates of both parties.

    On the three broadcast networks, opinion on Democratic candidates split 47% positive vs. 53% negative, while evaluations of Republicans were more negative – 40% positive vs. 60% negative. For both parties combined, network evaluations were almost 3 to 2 negative in tone, i.e. 41% positive vs. 59% negative.”

    Talk about bullshit.....

    "CMPA's claim to be 'non-partisan' is undermined by an analysis of its sources of funding. In otherwords Hank, that is all bullshit. "

    Posted by: at January 15, 2008 5:43 PM


    Sorry you didn't like the results of the study. Perhaps if you had some true methodological objections or some other substantive arguments to make the case that those who actually did the work on the study failed to reach objectively sound conclusions, your post might be worth considering. Thanks for playing, now run along.

    Ahh So by your logic the fair study is accurate.
    Posted by: at January 15, 2008 6:21 PM

    If by that ("the fair study") you mean the study you cited at 5:43, no, I do not dispute it's conclusiosn about the funding for CMPA. What I am saying, brainiac, is SO WHAT? Point out something about the CMPA study itself that indicates its conclusions are wrong.

    I wonder if MSNBC would tolerate Joe Scarborough or Tucker Carlson having a blog with the expressed purpose of facilitating "electoral victory" for Republicans this year?

    I watch Tucker and Joe and it seems that their credibility is directly contingent upon an aura of professional distance from personal partisan politics.

    Their street cred hinges on their ability to see both side, air both sides, and directly challenge fellow conservatives who they feel they are in the wrong.

    Ahh So by your logic the fair study is accurate.
    Posted by: at January 15, 2008 6:21 PM


    You have absolutely zero evidence to the contrary. Ask yourself this. Why would a left wing group pay or donate to do a study that they full well knew wouldn't go their way? The "right wing" groups paid for the study to prove a point, ever think of that? Of course not.

    Are you disputing the "left wing groups" study, also?

    In other words, since you wouldn't address my simple question. Your left wing group study was hunky dory. The "right wing" study was a big lie. Do I have it "right?"

    Are you disputing the "left wing groups" study, also?

    Posted by: royal king at January 15, 2008 7:59 PM


    The major point here is that you are on the wrong side , RK.

    Posted by:why he's an olbyloon at January 15, 2008 8:12 PM

    Plain as day........


    It's a damn shame what this republican administration has done to our country.

    Posted by: at January 15, 2008 8:43 PM


    Pelosi Pallooza has done wonders.....

    It's a damn shame what lying hacks like Olbermann have done to journalism.

    What's the difference between Kos and Johnny Dollar? Kos had the balls to serve in the army. Have you ever seen the inside of a recruiting station, Johnny?

    Kos had the balls to serve in the army.

    Posted by: Kos Kid at January 16, 2008 12:15 AM


    Left-wing liar and democratic hack Markos Moulitsos Zuniga of the Daily Kos cheered the brutal murders of four American civilian contractors in Fallujah–all of them war veterans with distinguished records, three of them fathers–with the following infamous words:

    “Screw them.”


    Initially, democrat advertisers condemned Kos’s atrocious statements and withdrew their ads. But as Dean Barnett reported a few weeks ago in a Weekly Standard piece, Kos is now stronger than ever–and awash in daily traffic and ad revenue from the hate-America Left.

    Blogging For The Kos Kids

    Damn Keith, sure does suck when you have to suck up to the lunatic fringe to keep you're crappy ratings from leaving the toliet and going out into the cesspool.

    Anonymous, you exaggerate Fox News tilt to the right, it is really more centrist on average. This is because the Fox News channel has on-air personalities that range across the political spectrum. It is the howls of protest from Democrats over its very existance that shows the hypocrisy of Democrats and their intolerance of different viewpoints.

    Posted by: SPQR at January 15, 2008 3:19 PM


    You are insane. Your "spectrum" is a tuncated little slice that pinches off to the left at Juan Cole and Allen Combes; two brow-beaten corporate wage-slaves who occasionally balk at the utter sychophancy and band-wagon belligerence of their associates and force themselves to keep a desperate, white-knuckled grip on the door-jamb of humanity.

    Fox is overtly a party organ; but its a preposterously over-the-top burlesque that its producers know no rational person would take seriously; It is (along with Glenn Beck on CNN Headline News) to news and opinion what the WWF is to legitimate sports.

    Fox's true function is to provide cover for the more insidious, more carefully crafted corporate propaganda provided on ABC, CBS, and NBC.

    "Countdown IS the news show of record (for MSNBC)" -Keith Olbermann

    "Countdown IS the news show of record (for MSNBC)" -Keith Olbermann

    Posted by: merkle923 at January 16, 2008 9:57 AM


    If does say so himself... :D

    Hey, I was finally able to track down a likeness of Phallu-Cee! at 11:04 AM.....I've been called a rat before!.....Good for you!......

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EwigerJudeFilm.jpg

    The opening scene of this film shows us scurrying up from the sewer!....How exciting!

    Keep up the leftist propaganda.....It just makes my point about your hatred!

    Is your real name SLOB, wannawipe or A N O N Y M O U S?

    No it was not, Mr. blank-FLUCKER (cue OLD SPICE jingle)....we have been through all this before....Nazism was a RADICAL idea against the staus quo of a Democratic and centrist German government that emerged from WWI....I always refer to left and right in terms of degree and speed of societal change from the present status quo with "right" maintaining said status quo.....Nazism was as "left" or radical as the communism it fought and just as hateful.....You can pick either secular worldview, Nazism or Marxism, they both were evil.

    Oh, and look at communst propaganda against Jews and Christians and read Marx.....the same imagery comes about.....sorry FLUCKER.....WHY?

    Jews are rats?

    Again, Mr. blank-FLUCKER (cue OLD SPICE jingle), the masquline man here at OW, runs from the argument.....Why does Marx (a leftist according to your simplistic political definitions) call Jews "rats" while the Nazi (a rightwinger? I suppose you want to claim), does the same thing?

    Oh yeah....it has to do with SECULARISM....THE radical idea to spring forth from man's mind in the 19th century.....It lead to two responses in oh so civilized Europe....Lenin/Stalin and Adolf Hitler.....

    And it continues today, dear sir....but you would rather ignore it because it infringes on your little ideal world of comfort politics and elitist prejudices.....

    As for that link....sorry, it was someone else...you can talk to the webmaster about it....your ilk's tendancy to dehumanize people shows your bigotry and lack of intellect and I just love to point it out when it bubbles to the surface....

    You've done it yourself, FLUCKER!

    Prove it, Mr. blank-FLUCKER (cue OLD SPICE jingle)! You whine about RK predicting who is posting under false names...put up or shut up.....You harass the site admin to divulge the IP of the 11:04AM post and who usually uses it.....I will bet you it ain't one of the three "cee" uses....I post from my office, my home and my hospital.....

    How about you?

    We don't need Johnny to tell us who the 11:04 was. It's a no brainer. The poster w/no brain, patsy/why. There might be tissue up there, but, it's cooked beyond recognition.

    We don't need Johnny to tell us who the 11:04 was. It's a no brainer. The poster w/no brain, patsy/why. There might be tissue up there, but, it's cooked beyond recognition.

    Posted by: royal king at January 16, 2008 1:07 PM

    So says the shithead who is right less often than W.

    It is funny that Keith had to get "permission" to blog at the Daily Kos. His "kiss & make-up" with the far left Kos kids was pretty smart:

    Daily Kos' Newest Blogger: Keith Olbermann

    The blogosphere got a new member yesterday, as MSNBC's Keith Olbermann posted a blog entry on one of the top left-leaning political web sites, Daily Kos. Olbermann's entry, entitled, "I Hate To Interrupt, But...," served mostly as a defense to those on the left who feel he is biased towards certain candidates.

    "But, having now read a (mercifully few) claims here that I'm a) attacking Clinton, b) burying Edwards, and c) clobbering Obama, I feel the need to mention that I truly don’t have a preference. I am tilting in no direction, sending out no subliminal message, and thwarting no truth," he writes.

    While he may claim not to be tilting in a Democratic-candidate direction, to post on a site which describes itself as, "a Democratic blog, a partisan blog," and still hosting non-partisan primary coverage, may raise eyebrows. An MSNBC spokesperson tells TVNewser Olbermann okay'ed the blog entry with MSNBC executives before it ran.

    He ends the post by equating those, both on the Daily Kos and other similar web pages, who claim to see bias in his reporting with (gasp!)..."To see in each of my reports an enemy or a spokesman sounds microscopically like — and I swallow hard and prepare for the prospect of some Kossacks to approach what passes for my castle with torches and pitchforks as I write this — Bill O'Reilly," he writes.

    The post was certainly popular on the site, with almost 1,600 comments before the moderators disabled commenting because of the volume.

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

    I think Keith hates Bill O because he was far more successful athletically.

    Bill O was good enought to try out for a pro baseball team, while Keith was happily collecting baseball cards

    . Keith would worship Billyboy if he had been an athlete rather than just a "journalistic" adversary.

    So says the shithead who is right less often than W.

    Posted by: RK's a fucking tool at January 16, 2008 1:57 PM

    Says the troll who's pst are as transparent as Susan Saranwrap! You can troll, but, you can't hide.

    Why don't we ever hear about Barack Obama's white heritage. His negro father abandoned him, and his very white mother raised him. He should b e ashamed of his black heritage. His dad was a scum .

    His dad was a scum .

    Posted by: falow at January 16, 2008 6:25 PM


    Not to mention associated with terrorist organizations.

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