The Great One: "I heard you (Olby) might be doing tennis on the radio soon." "Shaped like a pear with elephantitis."

Man I like Levin.

No one takes Olby seriously
His "cult" views deliriously
Howard Beale invoked
The news industry joked
Girlfriends measure him curiously

from the Miller-McCune article in the KO Mini-Blog

"On MSNBC, Keith Olbermann made the story about … Keith Olbermann, telling viewers that Carlin had contacted him periodically with suggestions for the show. He then replayed a 2007 interview he did with Carlin, in which the comedian commended Keith’s “Countdown” as the best newscast on television.
(Just days earlier, Olbermann was telling viewers about the regular e-mails he received from Russert, which also contained advice and direction. If he also received fan mail from the late Cyd Charisse, I missed his mention of it.)"

Excellent observation.

In the Media Matters Minute:
Worse: "Page Six" person. "You guys are kinda embarassing yourselves now."
Worser: Another O'Reilly attack for criticizing the all-holy "Newsweek," which features its all-holy MSNBC contributors and Kos, and pointing out the ratings success for "The Factor" and FNC. Hysterical Ted Baxter voice used while reading distorted quotes from yesterday's "Reality Check" segment. Phony statistics! "It must have come to him in a dream!" Unfair comparison between "Your World" demo ratings yesterday and the demo ratings for The Hour of Spin. Oralmann claimed that BOR only hates "Newsweek" because of their criticism of his upcoming memoir, "A Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity." Well, that's part of it. Keith pimped out a "Newsweek" online poll asking which three insulting knock-offs should be the new title of the BOR memoir.
Worst: Oh, no. Not again. Yep, Mr. Bill. Again. This time over something from the same "Reality Check" segment. Fat Ass used his trademark faux outrage over BOR saying George Carlin used the F-word too much. This was a question to George Carlin in a "Factor" interview in *2001*! What's wrong with showing that part of the interview last night, which Krazy Legs showed tonight instead of doing the Baxter voice? O'Reilly "condescending criticized him?!" Turns out that was a set-up for that infamous "Inside Edition" blooper from 18 years ago. Double-standard, I guess. But you're going back to an interview question from a seven-year-old interview and showing an 18-year-old blooper that isn't a reflection of the man? Give me a break. Krazy Keith Oralmann, now and forever, the Worst Person in the World.
(NOTE: I closed out of the "Countdown" page once the blooper was shown. So, I don't know what happened in the last 29 seconds of WPitW.)

I almost forgot. Here's last night's "Reality Check" in its entirety:
http://tinyurl.com/5dto2j

"What's wrong with showing that part of the interview last night."

Because.....the man has died. If you don't have something positive to say about someone after they have just passed away, then you should just shut the hell up. I can't believe you would need someone else to explain this to you.

Here's something positive, after the interview clip was shown:
"Mr. Carlin was indeed a witty guy, no doubt. Our condolences to his family."
And that's it for acknowledging you.

Max Headroom is stretching the George Carlin/BOR story, just to call BOR the worst person.
Very dramatic on Olberman’s part but much distorted.
What was Bill supposed to do, show a clip from George’s routine?
BOR did what Keith did and replayed a few minutes of the only the interview he did with George.
In the clip Keith showed, I didn’t see BOR denigrating George.
Bill just asked him if he had to use curse words in his comedy act. Not the best question in the word but not insulting.

Then Keith calls Bill a hypocrite for using curse words during a taping of Inside Edition.
But at that moment that Bill cursed up a storm, he probably didn’t know a camera was taping him and he was very upset.
It’s not as if BOR uses curse words in his show all the time. So Keith was comparing apples to oranges and trying to fool his idiot followers, which he probably did.

I think the problem here is Keith’s pattern; he will stretch the truth, lie, distort and use trickery just to try to get a cheap shoot at Fox, BOR and anybody who doesn’t see his point of view. If you are going to criticize somebody at least do it honestly like Edward R. Murrow did. Until then you shouldn’t be respected.

And another disgraceful pattern used by Keith, is using a recently deceased person to lobby a critical bomb at BOR.
According to Keith, it’s not right to even mention George Carlin and Tim Russert but it’s ok for Keith to use them to get at shoot and Fox and BOR?

I’m just wondering when the man is going to be fired?

Keith Olbermann- moral defender of the recently departed. HAR! HAR! HAR! Also, ain't it sad that a man has to introduce an occasisonal guest, tonight Jason Bateman, as "my friend" ? We all know it's simply to prove to his audience that he actually has friends.

It's not as if BOR uses curse words in his show all the time."

Duh!.......Obviously not. It's against FCC rules and he would have been kicked off the air years ago if he had. What that tape that some of you defend as a "blooper" shows us is what kind of a person this egomaniac is when he doesn't think the camera is on him.

Poor Olby. No first-class Amtrak ticket to Tim Russert's memorial service. No ketchup at the Kennedy Center. Throwing tantrums and berating co-workers. Yup, same old Olby.

Olby has no class whatsoever. What a loser.

http://tinyurl.com/6j5ut3

"Duh!.......Obviously not. It's against FCC rules and he would have been kicked off the air years ago if he had. What that tape that some of you defend as a "blooper" shows us is what kind of a person this egomaniac is when he doesn't think the camera is on him."
No it doesn't. It shows him getting mad one night a long long time ago. That's all and you know it.

> It's not as if BOR uses curse words in his show all the time."
> Duh!.......Obviously not. It's against FCC rules and he would have been kicked off the air years ago if he had.

There are no FCC rules about curse words on cable. Haven't you ever watched HBO? The FCC does not regulate language on cable broadcasting.

Olbermann for once was right here, at least IMO.

O'Reilly had no business satisfying his vanity by showing an old interview with Carlin.The man's dead for gods sake.
Olbermann wins this round at least, the BillO F word freak out was a nice ending.

RhodesianRider fails to mention that Olbermann showed an old interview with Carlin. Carlin was blowin smoke up Olbys huge ass. Also, what in the world does a man saying the 'F' word in what he thought was an off camera moment, does that have to do with " I use the F word in my act because it's the 'spice in my stew' ".
Only a person driven by hatred and shallowness could possibly connect those dots. Olbermann was completely wrong, again.