"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET)
Guest Host: Amy Robach
Topics/Guests:
2008 ELECTION: Richard Wolffe, Newsweek senior White House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst; Chuck Todd, NBC News political director; Rachel Maddow, Air America radio host and MSNBC political analyst
CELEBRITY NEWS: Paul F. Tompkins, VH-1's "Best Week Ever" contributor an MSNBC political analyst
To Amy the hack will defer,
While he soaks in the tub with Ms Tur.
Prep for Sunday's big show?
Not a haircut, we know.
With his wig he don't need no coiffeur.
If it's Friday, it's our weekly assessment of Krazy Keith's masculinity. During this four-day week, Monkeymann attacked Fox and other broadcasters 20 times. Olby's source (Hillary Clinton's Media Matters) criticized (MS)NBC 12 times, but Keithy protected his corporate masters with zero criticisms. That makes this week's Olbermann Manhood Quotient: -64 [pansy limp].
And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 692nd day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".
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UPDATED 3/28/08 - As some folks know I have been traveling all week and trying to squeeze in time here and there to fine tune the site. There are still a few things I need to sort about the new site and realistically I am not going to get a chance to do that until I get back to New York. So figure Saturday. I have gotten about 15-20 requests for a login and will process those at the same time. So for those who sent emails I did get them. And rest assured that the criteria for approving a request has nothing to do with your politics and everything to do with not being a troll. If there are any experts of MT4 who would care to help me, please let me know at the email address indicated below and we can chat on Saturday.
BTW, folks might be interested to know that earlier in the week I was at the Newseum in Washington for a blogger night event that I had organized. There I learned that I am, believe it or not, part of one of the exhibits (on citizen journalism and the Libby trial). I am in Nashville now because I spoke yesterday at MTSU in Murfreesboro where other speakers included Al Gore and Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia. I have to admit that Al gave a quite amazing speech on the development of the human brain and the Internet and displayed a sense of humor that was all but invisible when he ran for President. The key event was Al serving as peacemaker (get it?) between Jimmy Wales and John Seigenthaler (you can google for why that would be noteworthy). All of the speakers took a group photo with Al so I will post that when I get a copy.
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"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET)
Host: Keith Olbermann
Topics/Guests:
4000: Paul Reickhoff, Richard Wolffe
2008 ELECTION: Jonathan Alter, Chuck Todd
Keith Oralmann bellowed the opening spiel: Hooray, we've reached 4,000! Clinton lies about Bosnia! Carville calls Richard a Judas! McPeak raises McCarthyism! And a Polish Puppet Theater! (Why not? That's one ethnic group Olby hasn't insulted lately!). It's a blue Monday at Olbermann Watch and Keith not only serves up more Olbermann lies, he also smears Brit Hume by slicing and dicing a quote so much that, after it goes through the Olby VegaMatic, it means the opposite of what was actually said!
#5: Keith has been waiting and salivating for that 4,000 number, and since so many in the media have been waiting for it to unleash another torrent of stories, the terrorists obliged and redoubled their efforts to get there as quickly as possible. Good work, Olby. Cheney is evil for thanking our volunteer forces. Bush is evil for not following opinion polls. Monkeymann claimed Bush never met with Cindy Sheehan. Another Olbermann Lie! (they met in 2004). How dare Cheney mention that we have an all-volunteer force? He's even eviller than he was a few minutes ago! The Wolffe Man parroted and simpered and was Great Thanksed.
Time to turn the sights on Richard McCain: he's in bed with Usama Bin Laden! Say what? Because UBL said Iraq is the central front, and so did McCain, therefore... Well you get the drift. It's OlbyLogic at its most diseased. The way to avoid further deaths depends on whether you--you credulous sheeple out there--elect a Democrat or a Republican. Ah that's our Keef: "We must move beyond partisanship....except for me". How do people get the crazy idea that the surge--oops, sorry, the escalation [Ding!]--is a success? Reickhoff repeated OlbySpin but refused to buy into Herr Olbermann's claim that the troops "died in vain". He wasn't Great Thanksed, but he was Pleasured.
#4: It's "breaking news!" At least it would have been had it been about four hours earlier. Clinton "misspoke" about landing in Bosnia. Fat Ass spent what seemed like an eternity nitpicking every single detail about Clinton's TARMAC account, and then doing it again to make sure the dense viewers had the message pounded into their heads: Hillary lied. Finally he took a breath and allowed Lefty Alter to essentially ditto it all, who was not Great Thanksed.
#3: Surrogates battle each other. Judas! McCarthy! How to spin this in Obama's favor? Easy! Hillary is trying to raise money on the bickering, and therefore she is eeevil. Todd was there for the ritual delegate counting and--surprise!--the numbers haven't changed since the last time he appeared. Maybe that's because there haven't been any primaries or caucuses. Ya think? Bear worried sick that the bickering might hurt the Dems chances in November. Hot Toddy was Great Thanksed.
#2: Plug for #1. #1: Some Polish variety of Puppet Theater, which we didn't watch for fear of losing our Polish temper at the infamous, deplorable one.
In the Media Matters Minute, Fixed News [Ding!], Fox Noise [Ding!] and someone had bedbugs, Bill Kristol (Blue Blog Source: Hillary Clinton's Media Matters), and Brit Hume (Blue Blog Source: Think Progress). Fixed News! Oralmann called Hume a "McCain supporter" (Olbermann Lie) and "press spokesman", and claimed Hume said this:
It's probably just a blip. The feeling was not that he's a dope, didn't know his way around. He might have had a senior moment there.
Then Bear raised his voice and added:
You want we should elect a guy who has senior moments about starting wars? These are my choices, he's a dope, he's a liar, or he has senior moments?
Here's a great example of how the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann lies. In this case, by doctoring a quote so heavily that it bears little relation to the actual spoken words. Here is what Hume actually said, with some key parts in bold that Edward R Olbermann simply left out, because it worked against his propaganda:
I think it's probably just a blip, but it was a bigger blip than he wanted or needed at the time. I think the overall impression of the trip was this is a man welcomed by, knowledgeable of and comfortable with foreign leaders across a big part of the globe. But the mistake, nonetheless, raises questions not about his knowledgability -- we all kinda believe he has that -- the question, perhaps, about his age, which is an issue. You know, the feeling was not that he's a dope, didn't know his way around, that he might have had a senior moment there, and that's unfortunate for him.
Fat Ass was insistent on calling Hume McCain's "press agent". That meant KO couldn't allow the full statement to be aired. Especially since it raised the age issue, the very thing Olby was pretending to have noticed so brilliantly! So Merkle doctored the quote just for the pleasure of calling names and smearing Brit Hume. Can the deeply insecure, diseased psyche of Keith Olbermann possibly sink to any greater depths of depravity?
And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 688th day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".
You read it here first: how Keith Olbermann was taken in by a bit of shtick on Fox & Friends and hyperventilated it into a screaming "worst person" segment. It's his own fault of course. That's what he gets for lifting stories from blueblogs and not bothering to fact-check or actually (gasp!) do any original reporting. Instead, Rip-and-Read Olbermann just parrots a Huffington headline, and humiliates himself once again...
"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET)
Host: Keith Olbermann
Topics/Guests:
2008 ELECTION: Bill Richardson, Richard Wolffe
PASSPORT SNOOPING: Howard Fineman, Hillary Leverett
The orange-hued Keith Olbermann barked the opening spiel: Richardson endorses! Bill Jefferson Clinton suggesting Obama unpatriotic?!? Oh, and in a red-letter moment, Edward R Olbermann doesn't know shtick when he sees it. Result: tons of free PR for Fox! It's a glorious casual Friday at Olbermann Watch.
#5: Richardson endorses Obama! Clinton can't win! Time for the Richardson blue dress interview:
Why now? Why did you wait?
How do you react to that statement from Mr Penn?
At any point were you close to announcing an endorsement of Sen Clinton?
Do you think Sen Clinton should concede now or in the immediate future?
Needless to say, Rich was Great Thanksed. Note: time to update The List!
Clinton says it would be good to have "two people who love this country" run for President. Horrors! Shock! It's smearing Obama!! Besides Hillary can't win. Polls are with Obama! If the positions were reversed Obama would have quit by now. The Wolffe Man simpered in agreement and was Great Thanksed.
After Fixed News [Ding!] came #4: the Watergatian-like passport scandal. Keith "Man on Fan" Olbermann pimped out Fineman, undoubtedly hoping to hear another "breathtaking" or "amazing". The Pundit for All Occasions did deliver a conpiracy theory that Hillary and McCain were dragged in just to hide the real motivations behind it all. Too bad he wasn't Great Thanksed.
After a couple of Halliburtons [Ding!][Ding!] (they are "poisoning our troops") came #3: an attack on Richard McCain for being soft on national security, aided and abetted by Plame buddy Hillary Leverett, who brought up blackmail as part of her specularama. At least, 24 hours after the fact, Olby grudgingly admitted the Washington Times (previous "worst person" winner) broke the story. Don't worry, they'll be back to "worst" again as soon as it suits Oralmann's nefarious purposes. Principles are flexible on OlbyPlanet.
After the "racist" Fixed News [Ding!] came #2: J-Lo, Halle Berry, Brangela. #1: NCAA and politics.
In the Media Matters Minute, it was attack Fox night! Using comments by Chris Wallace (which you can see here) as a jumping off point, Olby launched his latest smear of Fox (Blue Blog Source: HuffPo). Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson of Fixed News [Ding!] were spreading racism, so bad that their co-host walked off! All hail Brian Kilmeade and Chris Wallace for standing up to bigots!!
Keith is such a numbskull. He paints Kilmeade "walking out" [video below] as him being "fed up" with "race baiting at Fox" (no examples given, of course). Kilmeade did disagree with the other hosts, but that happens all the time. It's what's called both sides of an issue, something they don't permit on OlbyPlanet. In fact, the walk-out was a joke (and one Kilmeade has used a half dozen times before): Doocy jokingly called him a "typical sports guy", and since a commercial break was coming up, Kilmeade feigned mock-anger and walked out the door. What Oralmann doesn't tell you: Kilmeade promptly returned, laughed about it, and went on to debate the issue further.
Hey Bathtub Boy, here's a dollar. Buy yourself a clue. It was shtick, and you fell for it! Why do you think they camera was set up to follow him all the way out the door, and they showed it instead of going to a break? Moron. Oh, and Fox thanks you for the free publicity. Nitwit.
Oralmann also attacked Kiran Chetry (Blue Blog Source: Hillary Clinton's Media Matters) mentioning that she had worked at Fox, and Rupert Murdoch and Fixed News [Ding!] (Blue Blog Source: Crooks & Liars), for Olby's newest crusade: finding objectionable comments on a web forum. You know, the very thing he made Bill O'Reilly "worst person" for bringing up! On OlbyPlanet, if it weren't for double standards, there wouldn't be any standards at all.
Oh, and for someone who delights in finding reasons to "question the timing", Fat Ass never wondered how it was that a handful of posts out of thousands on an obscure corner of foxnews.com were spotted so quickly by his blue blog source. It's almost as if they had... well, we report, you decide.
If it's Friday, it's our weekly assessment of Krazy Keith's masculinity. This week, Monkeymann attacked Fox and other broadcasters 29 times. Olby's source (Hillary Clinton's Media Matters) criticized (MS)NBC 9 times, but Keithy protected his corporate masters with zero criticisms. That makes this week's Olbermann Manhood Quotient: -76 [mama's boy limp].
Tonight's MisterMeter reading: 1 [LOW]
And that's The Hour of Spin for this, the 685th day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".
"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET)
Host: Keith Olbermann
Topics/Guests:
2008 ELECTION: Dana Milbank, Washington Post national political reporter; Chuck Todd, NBC News political director; Jonathan Alter, Newsweek and MSNBC political analyst
5th ANNIVERSARY OF WAR IN IRAQ: Jon Soltz, votevets.org
The nightly surrogate for the Obama campaign orange-hued Keith Olbermann bellowed the opening spiel: No Michigan revote! McCain lies about Iran! Or is he "out of it"? (Yes, the "delusional" smear again!) Cheney says Screw You! It's hump day at Olbermann Watch, and quite a milestone. The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann was caught in so many lies tonight that it might well be a new Guiness World Record!
#5: Clips of Obama speech. Clinton in Detroit pushing for a re-vote even though the issue is "moot", and what's worse, she's blaming Obama. Olby rushed to defend, saying that it's "not in Obama's power" to determine because the state Senate won't consider it. Conveniently Edward R Olbermann omits the fact that the state Senate won't take it up until Obama gives his OK, which he hasn't done. Clinton schedules heavily redacted but show her helping to pass NAFTA. More slobbering over The Speech. Bear again complains that Hillary praised Petraeus and was respectful to McCain. Dana Milbank, without weird wardrobe, muttered about bimbo eruptions and tried to explain why insulting Petraeus was not a good thing but was still Great Thanksed.
More on the revote. Hillary went to Michigan after the decision was already made "and tried to blame it on Obama". Monkeymann says HIllary is "backfilling" and cites earlier contradictory statements. He suggested the "nomination process is over". Todd nattered and was Great Thanksed.
After a "lunatic fringe water-carrier" [Ding!] came #4: John McCain made a mistake. "Are you forgetting, or lying?" Didn't Oralmann call him a liar in the spiel? Why is he pretending he didn't? He's "McBush"! "Right-wing radio"! [Ding!] Yes, Merkle ran all over again the clip he played four times in one hour earlier this week. It's either a "two-day senior moment" or "a bald-faced lie"! Lefty Alter bloviated that McCain is trying to "confuse Americans" but when he started to talk about the true threat from Iran, Herr Olbermann interrupted and told him to address McCain's mistakes. The speech policy on OlbyPlanet is rougher than the most PC University. No surprise, Lefty was not Great Thanksed.
#3: Five years in Iraq. Herr Olbermann contradicted Bush statements with "reporting" from Rolling Stone. Cheney said "So?" Far-left Soltz revealed a shocking fact: we went into Iran for WMDs. Stop the presses! Plus he asked the musical question, with the situation so horrible, how are these recruiters going to be able to recruit anyone? (See Dogs below for an exemplification of how leaving out inconvenient news propels OlbySpin.) "Man on Fan" Oblermann added that the President and the Veep "made fools out of themselves" today, and a good time was had by all.
We got a "comedian" [Ding!] and Oralmann's claim that "Sean Hannity called Barack Obama an anti-Semite". Do you think this might be Another Olbermann Lie? #2: a plug for #1. #1: Chuckles with comedian Rachel Maddow of Err America. Olby: Bush is a "chicken little". Comedian! [Ding!] Fox Noise! [Ding!] He went on to say that Fox didn't cover Iraq today. Oops, Another Olbermann Lie. Fox has been doing an all-week series about five years in Iraq, and Oralmann lied by making no mention of it. Here's what Bathtub Boy was too incompetent or lazy or dishonest to tell you about, even though every segment can be viewed right on the Fox website:
Olbermann also lied about O'Reilly, claiming that tonight he featured the "culture quiz" (yet another lie). Does Edward R Olbermann fact check anything or does he make it up as he goes along? Fixed News! [Ding!] Olby and Mandow chortled about O'Reilly's war reporting. Ah the self-delusional irony on OlbyPlanet. O'Reilly's has gone to Iraq and Afghanistan. Keith has gone to spring training.
In the Media Matters Minute, Fat Ass attacked Sean Hannity of Fixed News [Ding!], who said that if Obama agreed with Jeremiah Wright it would make him a racist anti-Semite. So claiming that Hannity said Obama was an anti-Semite--still another Olbermann Lie. Herr Olbermann, who was censured by the Anti-Defamation League, insisted Hannity's audience were racists and anti-Semites. To prove it he quoted a comment that appeared on Hannity's online forum that Obama's background might "get him killed as President". Bear blustered that Hannity "permits assassination fantasies" on his website. Wait a second, wasn't Olby ridiculing O'Reilly for objecting to comments on the Daily Kos and HuffPo? Olbypocrisy will not stop a demagogue like Krazy Keith when he's on a roll.
Oh by the way, Keith's claim that the comment was an "assasination fantasy"? Another Olbermann Lie. He stopped quoting the comment somewhat prematurely, since the writer went on to add: "I'd hope for it not to happen".
Dogs That Did Not Bark: Once again, a veritable cornucopia of canine confidentials that Edward R Olbermann deliberately withheld from the gullible groupies who hang on his every word, shoulder shrug, and drop of spittle. The Obama worship is so sanctimonious on The Hour of Spin that nothing is allowed to interfere with the Leni Riefenstahl of cable news. Bear rhapsodized over the stunning, wondrous nature of Barack's apologia speech. But isn't Olby supposed to be a reporter? In between getting additional stains all over the blue dress, couldn't he do a little reporting? And so it is that a major Obama endorsement was also spiked; it just doesn't exactly help the Illionois Senator. And with all the talk tonight about how stressed the Army is, how strange is it that the latest re-enlistment statistics were somehow never brought up? Not strange at all. This is OlbyPlanet, after all.
And that's The Hour of Spin for this, an especially repellent 683rd day since the declaration that "Karl Rove will in fact be indicted".
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