J$ reminded me that once upon a time we allowed commenters to post HTML including live links to other sites. It was my intention to re-enable this feature once we had registered commenters. So, I've now done so. Let's see if this works and how it works.

The following HTML is permitted by Movable Type by default when HTML is enabled:
a href,b,br/,p,strong,em,ul,li,blockquote,u,img src

We're not going to give lessons in HTML here so, if you don't know what that means you can read more about it here: http://tinyurl.com/bsafk

I also enabled a feature that will auto-link URLS if you post them in comments.

I also mentioned on another post that I would like commenters to get in the habit of using TinyURL.com which provides a free, easy to use service for quickly turning long URLs into short ones. Using these short URLs will reduce clutter and make it easier for people to copy and paste your link and visit the site.

By the way, that tinyURL link that you see in my comment above was created by simply pasting the TinyURL into the comment. MT automatically converted it into HTML. That should address about 99% of why all of us would want to have HTML enabled - to share links.

So...cool! It works!

The day I understand something as silly as respective Coalitions of The Reasonable is the day I go to my physician for a prescription for lithium....

I agree with Allahpundit at HOTAIR.COM.....

"I googled that term to see if it was some sort of inside joke I’m not getting. Nope. He’s coining his own phrases now to express his reality-based solidarity. His argument re: Hillary is that she was driven to the Factor out of desperation at the fact that no one’s interested in her anymore, a nuanced point indeed in light of both the ratings and the rumors that the guy he’s shilling for these days might turn up there himself sooner rather than later."

http://tinyurl.com/5hh5pb

Bob,

I think by "coalition of the reasonable", Olbermann is trying to foment some sort of feeling of tolerance and unity of aspirations among Clinton and Obama supporters.

In promoting its political coverage, MSNBC raised a lot of stir by airing one with Olbermann encouraging "Americans" to put partisanship aside and come together for the good of the country, etc. Of course that was galling and bemusing to Olbermann critics because Olbermann is the most relentlessly and unabashedly partisan non-pundit on television.

The promo only made sense if you understood that Olbermann was not addressing Republicans. He'd no more encourage viewing Republicans as anything other than a domestic version of Al Qaeda than he could perceive hypocrisy, partisan, pandering, negativity as being any of these thing when he engages in them.

"The Coalition of the reasonable" really speaks for all of MSNBC now. The obvious political stance that they've taken goes beyond cheerleading for a candidate or being "in the tank" for Democrats etc. into the area of a total negation. They aren't attempting to persuade us to vote for a Democrat. They're not inviting conservatives on air and then talking over them-- all the beefs about FNC. THey aren't talking to us or even at us.

We don't exist.

With regard to "our"....I can only conclude Olbermann's coalition is him, himself, and he.....a very crowded and noisy group....and the other is the kos community which are largely supporting SNOBamessiah for POTUS.

I looked at his other comments this past week regarding the great ratings O'Reilly got....Olbermann discussed them only in percentages (that makes him feel better) when he compared them to his own ratings....

You can see his thumb-sucking rationalization here:

http://tinyurl.com/6cd9eq

What a sad and insecure man.

Cee: you are correct. Olberman said "we beat them (Fox) in the first half hour. Dont know if thats true or not, but if thats the best that he could come up with...

I cant imagine anyone could be as much of an idiot that Olberman acts like. I like to think that he is just pandering to KOS, etc. But maybe Im just giving him too much credit.

An aside, I got this other comment posted by Olbermann on kos about the difference between O'Reilly and Wallace...

"First, he was on their broadcast network, not their cable "news" network, so there is a modicum of difference, even if it's mostly ceremonial. President Clinton was on the same show Obama was on, and did a stand-up-and-cheer job on Chris Wallace, in 2006. It is barely a legitimate Sunday Morning News show, but it isn't the pigsty that is O'Reilly.

"More importantly, Fox has not insinuated he was a murderer, the way they have Senator Clinton, courtesy Sean Hannity, within the last two months."

http://tinyurl.com/6hru5r

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Oh boy...and this one is a rea; nice quote....

"In my last book, I put a personal thank you to her and Bill - and especially her brother, and her mother, the latter of whom used to send links of Special Comments to the Senator.

"My very first diary here was in reply to a series of comments - it was only in January, for goodness sakes - that I was biased towards her, against Obama and Edwards. I got pounded for a question I asked Obama in the Chicago debate last August about Barry Bonds (would've been the most serious question in the first hour of the last ABC debate).

"This is about her campaign and those who have directed it. I have seen them try to alter or break every rule of the game to which they have previously agreed. I have seen them run advertisements that could have been swapped into the Bush reelection campaign. I have heard them create ridiculous postulates about thresholds and experience that might be to her favor and not to Obama's, but are certainly going to be to McCain's favor and not to hers. I have watched them alter the metric of who is winning so often that the only one not yet tried is 'Ladies First.'

"On the logical, ethical, historical, and party-definitional levels, my sensibilities have been offended. And because I have not been willing to agree that it would somehow be a good thing for a presidential nomination to be decided in a back room, in favor of a candidate whose nomination is now being transparently campaigned for by the far right - because I haven't done that I've been picketed as a sexist, described as less 'fair' than Fox News, and gotten death threats.

"I have pulled punches against her. Repeatedly. Sometimes on a personal-I-just-can't-do-this basis. And as to those who have applied the Bushian Formulae to her campaign, I think I've been fair.

"The ugliness you perceive in the coverage, emanates from the covered."

http://tinyurl.com/5ktgkm

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Do I really want to continue going through the many posts of Olbermann on kos justifying his behavior on COUNTDOWN?.....No

Olbyonesidedkanoby continues to keep Bob and Johnny's hands on their keyboards blazin' away with new posts. I can see it now....Olby is calling Hillary 'desperate' and 'pathetic' for going on The Factor (#1). All the while, obama is planning to do the same! How many people watch this clown?

Poor Olbermann. Clinton is just so awful that he must go and rip her, even as he feels badly about it and pulls his punches for her in the process, and all he gets for his efforts are accusations of sexism, or being more partisan than FNC (gasp!) and death threats (probably from racist right wingers who prefer to Obama because she's white).

Yet here you whiners complain about his saving you from her attempts to corrupt the party via backroom deals and you call his restrained coverage and the media coverage "ugly"!

Get off his back Coalition of the Reasonable! It's not his ugliness, it's her's, man!

Could Edward R. Murrow have been as courageous and as selfless in his pursuit of the truth and all that is best and honorable for the country as one Mr. Keith Olbermann?

Olbermann is a living legacy.

Just ask him...

How Olbermann is able to KNOW Hillary's campaign is "Bushian" and SNOBamessiah's campaign is as pure as the wind driven snow will be a question pondered upon for generations.....

The fall campaign is going to be an interesting one as well. Olbermann will know McCain has lost all sense of decency in every decision he makes while he know every move his man crush makes is "smart," "savy," and/or "necessary."

It is hard to believe NBC NEWS has sunk to such depths in allowing such as arrogant attitude, and resultant editing of content, to become to be a part of their once respected organization.

Check this one out:

" Keith, your mission, if you choose to accept it.. (4+ / 0-)
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...will begin in November. With the help of your millions of loyal supporters, here on DKos and elsewhere, along with the small handful of real journalists that remain, you must start to influence and put pressure on president-elect Barack Obama. What this involves will be convincing Obama that he (and the new congress) have a duty -- to America, the constitution, and in fact the world -- to begin, as soon as they take office, to open hearings and investigations into Bush Regime crimes.

Nothing else that the new president could do will have such dramatic, far-reaching, long-term implications as making it clear that we Americans are not hypocrites, that we will hold our own "leaders" accountable, while giving a blunt warning to any future wanna-be fascist dictators that might come along.

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media." -- Noam Chomsky

by ratmach on Fri May 02, 2008 at 05:21:37 PM PDT"

I can just hear that Mission Impossible theme being played by celestial orchestras already.

KO, with his MILLIONS of LOYAL Supporters, will shine the light on the path that Obameesiah needs to follow to fulfill the phophecy.

Are these people functioning adults who are gainfully employed or are they all just finr tuning, polishing and adjusting their tin foil hats constantly?

Grammie

What Keithy doesn't want to admit is that this stuff on Kos that he gobbles up like gospel is being tapped out by teenagers in their Mom's basement. Although you occasionally have an adult case of arrested development who plays with the Kos Kids, the sort of guy who doesn't drive a car, reads children's books, and collects bubblegum cards. Not that we would know of anyone like that of course...

Just a couple of comments on MSNBC's coverage last night: Did anyone else catch Chris Matthews "Special Comment" re Limbaugh's Operations Chaos? He actually said something like "I think I need to do a Keith Olbermann special comment about this." He then proceeded to castigate the Republicans in Indiana who used their vote to create "mischief." Funny, I don't recall him getting into high dudgeon (or any dudgeon for that matter) when the Daily Kos’ Markos Moulitsas was trying to get Democrats to do the EXACT SAME THING (http://michiganmessenger.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=707) during the Michigan primary in January. Also, it seemed to me that whenever Odiousmann gets into the same room with a lot of real journalists he just kind of fades into the background. He doesn’t really seem to know what is going on and just asks a lot of lame questions with obvious answers, makes fawning comments about the real journalists, and occasionally throws in some incongruous sports anecdote. Last night he was telling Russert that Obama’s favorite baseball team is the White Sox and how they just pitched a no-hitter (kind of like Obama, I guess, except for the no-hitter part because Hillary actually won the Indiana primary…actually I have no idea what point he was trying to make and I don’t think Russert did either.) By the way, it seems to me that Oralmann has really put on a lot of weight all of sudden. I can barely stand to even look at him because he now has that huge puffy orange face with that miniscule mouth. It looks like he might be retaining a lot of water or something.