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July 1, 2008

Why Does The Huffington Post Dislike Keith Olbermann So Much?

The Cable Gamer is now determined to unravel the mystery as to why The Huffington Post is so hostile to Keith Olbermann. Did Keith say something unkind to Arianna Huffington? Did KO hit on some HuffPo staffer? Or is HP just appalled by the nightly truckbomb of bombast on "Countdown"? Or is it just that HP is looking for the maximum sensationalism, with every posting, even if such sensationalism is aimed at a fellow lefty! Inquiring Cable Gamers want to know!

Surely somebody has to explain headlines such as this doozy: "Olbermann 'More Like His Fox Counterpart Than He Would Care To Admit': Variety."

Now the words that Huffpo pulled out from Brian Lowry's story in Variety are perfectly accurate, but those words, cited above, do not appear in the Variety headline. Instead, Variety chose softer words: "Olbermann-O'Reilly feud spreads/Parent companies embroiled in grudge match."

So again, let's compare Huffpo's header:

"Olbermann 'More Like His Fox Counterpart Than He Would Care To Admit': Variety."

To the original, which appeared in Variety:

"Olbermann-O'Reilly feud spreads/Parent companies embroiled in grudge match."

Obviously The Huffington Post's header is much harsher. Somebody at HP sat around and torqued up the Variety story.

Now let's think about that, fellow Cable Gamers: Why would Huffpo take a perfectly good headline Variety headline and heat it up like that? HP must realize that such headline-heating will infuriate the notoriously thin-skinned Olbermann. Surely it won't be long now before KO singles out AH for one of his many "worst person in the world" awards.

So why? Why?

Someone please explain it to me!

Cross-posted from The Cable Game

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By Quads on July 1, 2008 12:53 PM

If you're going to sex up the "King of all Healdine publications" then something is up for sure at HP.

By KO-a-go-go on July 1, 2008 4:37 PM

Maybe like Madonna, Gretchen Carlson, Kim Cattrel, and many, many others, Olby mocked Arianna's age. Fellow OW readers, you're gonna LOVE this. His excuse to the Daily KOS idiots on why he said Madonna was "206" years old:

206 (18+ / 0-)
I've been stealing the Python gag about "you know how old she is? She's 206" since 1992 on SportsCenter.

I've used it about men, women, athletes, actresses, guys dating younger women (a-hem), and women dating younger men. Gays, straights, transsexuals, metrosexuals, young people, old people, and myself.

So I'm going to keep using it, unless Mr. Idle or Mr. Palin object.

"If you're going through hell - keep going!" -- Winston Churchill
by Keith Olbermann on Mon Jun 30, 2008 at 09:06:38 PM PDT

______________THEN, since that phoney comment didn't fool the KOS kool-aide drinkers, he goes on to say he was complementing her:

Again on 206 (15+ / 0-)
Why do you assume I wasn't complimenting her on breaching the 173-year age difference?

We old-timeys have to stick together.

"If you're going through hell - keep going!" -- Winston Churchill
by Keith Olbermann on Mon Jun 30, 2008 at 09:15:01 PM PDT

____________Funny, I don't seem to remember "old timer" Beefy Keify calling Gretchen "206", he just said she was a beauty queen in the last century. Maybe J$ has an archive, but has 'old-timer keefy' EVER used his little "206" joke with "men, women, athletes, actresses, guys dating younger women and women dating younger men. Gays, straights, transsexuals, metrosexuals, young people, old people, and myself" ? I think I hear crickets.....

By KO-a-go-go on July 1, 2008 4:53 PM

Aparently, Olberdouche DID call Kim Cattrel "206" years old. Here is the OW link:

http://www.olbermannwatch.com/archives/2007/07/olbermann_kim_c.php#comments

I look forward to finding more links where he calls "men, athletes, guys dating younger women. Gays, straights, transsexuals, metrosexuals, young people, old people, and myself" 206 years old.....I think I still hear crickets....(I took out "women" and "women dating younger men" & "actresses" from Olby's list, seems he's pretty good at using his "206 attack" with those three groups).

By Olby Sucks on July 1, 2008 10:44 PM

Why does huffy dislike keith? One word, Hillary.

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