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This is the recappers' comment thread for Countdown, August 8 2008.
Welcome to You Write the Recap 2.0. This is a special thread for you to post your comments on the night's Hour of Spin. Note everything salient: smears, distortions, bias, lies, non-barking dogs...the works. Watch the first showing, or view the videos at the Countdown website.
We'll go through the comments, organize them, and they will form the nucleus of our official OlbyWatch Recap. That will be posted separately, later tonight, for maximum visibility and impact. We'll credit all the commenters for their contributions, and may toss a few opinions of our own into the mix. We need your help to document the shameless "journalism" of Krazy Legs Olbermann.
What to watch for tonight: Obviously the Edwards Affair is tonight's big news. Just how will Oralmann handle it? A mystery, since he hasn't touched the story so far. Three elements to focus on. Element One: status. Will Bathtub Boy whip out the "he's a private citizen" alibi? Keithy had no "private citizen" scruples when it came to cackling over the indiscretions of Ted Haggard, or Rush Limbaugh, or Bill Bennett. Some good Olbypocrisy options here.
Element Two: evidence. You will recall the urgent breaking news over John McCain's "involvement" with a "female lobbyist", based on that old standby of the smear merchant: "anonymous sources". The evidence in today's scandal could not be more clear: Edwards has admitted it, or at least some of it. What of the unanswered questions, like why he's still seeing the woman in the dead of night if the affair ended over a year ago? If Mrs E knew about this affair two years ago, hasn't she been lying about it too, and isn't she complicit in her husband's lies? Will Edward R Olbermann show the same investigative zeal he has demonstrated over the "rush to judgment" (seven years!) in the anthrax case? Or the endless, day after day conspiratorial skepticism over Cheney's hunting accident?
Element three: attitude. Will "Man on Fan" Olbermann give this story the same sneering snark-filled treatment others have received? Remember Larry Craig Puppet Theater? Will he treat the Edwards mess in the same way?
Once again you can be an Olbermann Watch blogger without all the muss and fuss. Comments are open on what promises to be a night rich in Olbypocrisy! Post your analysis of tonight's Hour of Spin here, and watch for it to appear later tonight in the official OlbyWatch Recap.
Here are last nights numbers. Once again bath tub boy is way down. That's one hell of a drop. I'm wondering how long it will be before he has a melt down right on national TV. I'm liking this.
8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor- 2,609,000 viewers (504,000) (938,000)
CNN Election Center– 550,000 viewers (133,000) (250,000)
Countdown w. Olbermann – 643,000 viewers (176,000) (266,000)
On the Money -126,000 viewers (a scratch with 40,000) (81,000)
Nancy Grace – 1,126,000 viewers (382,000) (510,000)
Betrayal! Private scandal, public lies! Sounds like the Autobiography of Keith Olbermann.
Why did Olby start his program with hypotheticals? What if Edwards had gotten the nomination and then the scandal broke? Huh? What if Spartacus had a Piper Cub? The air is especially thin tonight on OlbyPlanet.
Poor Lefty Andrea Mitchell is devastated. She is stumbling over her words. Olby is the poster child for that condition and it appears to be catching.
OUCH! Fred Baron said he paid Baby Mama hush money (only it wasn't really hush money, you see). Olby's voice quivers. Another Democratic soap opera. And moonbats wonder why they can't win a presidential election.
Former Edwards lackey Chris Kofinis has been making the rounds on cable news tonight to spew the party line. Olby's using big words. Oooh. Vituperous. And he didn't stumble over it.
Dogs that won’t bark.... But has to now. The son of the Meeiill Worker knocks up his mistress.
Edwards was the most disgusting candidate the democrats have ever put up, and that is saying something. I want video of Olbermann crying. I feel bad for Edwards’ wife and it is a shame that she has cancer, but she is a terrible person also. Mrs. Edwards used her cancer as a political weapon. We can only pray that this is last we will see of these two disgraces in the public eye.
Olby is particularly orange tonight.
I'll have a full WPitW recap later, but I checked in on MSNBC just now to see it. Worse was John McCain (another attack), Worser was O'Reilly Attack #503 (plus a Jesse Watters attack), and Worst was Newt Gingrich. Krazy Keith once again played the "Reagan said it, too" card.
Let's compare:
An unsubstantiated report about McCain and a lobbyist gets "breaking news" and a full hour of coverage in olbyland.
Edwards admits to having an affair and doesn't.
No wonder olbermahn's numbers are dropping below pathetic. It seems people are finally getting sick of his hateful and one sided schtick.
A high-profile politician cheats on his cancer-ravaged wife and it's not even Top 3 WPITW material?
His numbers might rebound tonight. God forbid. And for the record, I meant he played the "Reagan said it, too" card with Newt.
Don't forget, even the Kos-kidz are getting fed up with KO.
Diaries entitled "Et tu, Keith" (something close to that, I don't have the exact title) that attacked KO for *not* blasting Dana Milbank after the misquote heard round the (left) world were met with crickets. Till Dana quit. Then KO made the obligatory "I was gonna fire the bastard, I just was giving him the benefit of a couple of days to clarify/appologize for his misquote of the Obammessiah, and the coward quit before I could" post.
If he loses the Markos Minions, who's he got left? Us?
Good point, Scott. And after running over to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary at AOL to look up "irony," I can say that if we're all he has left, that is ironic.
Breaking news------I spotted keith obermann and john edwards behind a building, looked like keith was pummeling him pretty hard, all i could make out was "we better not lose because of this, you piece of shit. Then he adjusted his hairpiece and left.
John Edwards is still lying. If Edwards ended the relationship 2 years ago, why is there a picture of him a month ago holding his bastard child? Then Edwards said that some of his donors might have paid the woman off, but he doesn't know anything about it. Well if he doesn't know anything about it, how did his donors find out that he had knocked up this home wrecker? I also want to know if Edwards was able to channel the voice of his bastard son before it was born like he was able to channel the voices of dead children in the court room.
Why would he meet with this woman at 2 am in a hotel if this story wasn't true?
In the Media Matters Minute, Worse was another McCain attack. This was over his statement following the Hamdan sentencing. McCain "exaggerated reality...again" over his involvement with al Qaeda. "But that's not what the jury ruled," said Judge Olbermahn, with papers in hand. "It convicted him of supplying resources to al Qaeda. Namely, himself as Bin Laden's driver. But this is getting clearer. John McCain either lies or can't tell the difference between reality and stuff he dreamed or imagined."
Worser was O'Reilly Attack #503. More on that shortly.
Worst was Newt Gingrich. How dare he criticize the almighty Obama over his "citizen of the world" line in Berlin. As he did with KSFO's Brian Sussman last week, Krazy Keith played the "Reagan said it, too" irony card to make a conservative critical of Obama look dumb. "And Newt, let me tell ya. If you're gonna throw Ronald Reagan under the bus, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to ask you step outside." Rightward head tilt, puffy lip.
Now, back to the Olbsession. I can't pinpoint the Blue Blog Source, but just know Merkle used one. Keith "Man on Fan" Olbermann continued to suck up to Rep. Robert Wexler and not correct his OlbyLie of two weeks ago. On Wednesday, "Factor" producer Jesse Watters confronted "Palm Beach Post" editorial page editor Randy Schultz at his home. The video was run in yesterday's Talking Points Memo. Here's a transcript, beginning with BOR's set up to the clip:
"Down in South Florida, the Sun-Sentinel newspaper covered the Wexler situation professionally, advancing the story, telling its readers the truth. But The Palm Beach Post is quite a different story. That paper has been a far-left concern for years. And after "The Factor's" expose on Wexler, The Post wrote the congressman had done nothing wrong and then attacked us for reporting the story.
The head hatchet man was editorial page editor Randy Schultz, a committed left-wing zealot. "Factor" producer Jesse Watters caught up with Schultz yesterday."
JESSE WATTERS, "O'REILLY FACTOR" PRODUCER: We just wanted to know, why are you in the tank for Robert Wexler? No comment? You say rather than tell Bill O'Reilly at FOX News where to get off, Wexler announced he would lease an apartment in his district. That's what he should be doing. And you're attacking O'Reilly for pointing this out and reporting this?
RANDY SCHULTZ, PALM BEACH POST EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR: You're on my property. Please get off. You're on my property.
WATTERS: I mean, you should be ashamed of yourself. This is corrupt reporting, sir.
SCHULTZ: Oh, you know what? If I took what you said seriously, I'd worry about it.
Isn't Mr. Schultz something? Coming out of the clip, Mr. Bill's response was:
"Now few people care about The Palm Beach Post or that guy. The Post has lost 10 percent of its readership in the past two years, and now you know why.
But here's the bigger picture, the important picture. No longer can Americans trust the media, which was given special constitutional privileges to look out for the folks. The Palm Beach Post and many other media outlets are in the business of advancing a political cause: liberalism. And there's no balance in this ideological intrusion. Few American newspapers are conservative.
So for the first time in American history, the curtain has been pulled back. Media ideology has greatly aided Barack Obama in his quest to be president. And now it's being used as a blunt instrument.
If The Palm Beach Post wants to be a liberal brochure, its parent company the Cox Corporation should simply state that. Don't attack journalists who do honest reporting.
The folks in Congressman Wexler's district have a right to know where the man lives and what his tax situation is. We provided that. The Palm Beach Post did not. You decide which enterprise is noble."
As a side note, Cox bought the Travel Channel from Discovery Networks last year. The channel unceremoniously canceled their show "John Ratzenberger's Made in America" and have probably done the same to "Taste of America," hosted by Mark DeCarlo. These were two of the best shows on their air and they shipped them off to late nights and/or weekends before cutting them loose. A real shame. But I digress.
After all that information, I can finally tell you how Oralmann responded tonight. Billo the Clown! [ding!] Fat Ass referred to "his [O'Reilly's] neurotic attention to where Congressman Robert Wexler's legal residence is." Schultz "aptly" dismissed him. "Naturally, since Billy is the Joe McCarthy wannabe of our time and thinks his coverage of Wexler's perfectly legal residency is a, quote, (Ted Baxter voice): 'Expose', (normal voice): he sent one of his stalker producers [ding!] to editor Schultz's home." A Jesse Watters attack follows: "In the tape, little Jesse shouted phrases like: (squeaky-voiced teen voice): 'In the tank,' (normal): and, (teen): 'corrupt reporting,' (normal): and, (teen): 'you should be ashamed of yourself,' (normal): at Schultz. And then Billo [ding!] came back on and entoned" what he said coming out of the ambush clip. After reading only the first sentence and ignoring the rest of the T-Points, KeithO the Klown entoned in a calm, patronizing voice, "Oh? Then, why did you send a reporter to Florida? Why did you do a story on him?" Incredulous smirk. By the way, I'm not sure if referring to a producer as "a reporter" is a promotion or an insulting demotion. Assume the latter. Also, assume that Edward R. Olbermann will never apologize for his lies.
Talking Points Memo Transcript: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,400201,00.html
And video: http://tinyurl.com/55tgjs
KEITHS CREEPIEST MOMENT: Olbermann, the misguided "wannabe Edward R. Murrow" calling Bill O'Reilly the "wannabe Joseph Mcarthy".
Correction 1: "under the bus [ding!]
Correction 2: "ask you *to* step outside."
Regarding Olbermann using Susskind's book and an article in American Conservative to call back Polosi to impeach Bush and Cheney.
Only in Olby's world does 'unnamed sources' + 'circumstantial evidence' = Fact
I just watched his show off of his website. How f-ing satisfying to watch this f@cking hypocrite squirm because he had to put the Edwards disgrace as his top story, This blowhards basic attitude was why the f@ck does the public have to show such interest in these kinds of stories. That and the fact that he seemed disappointed that Edwards wasn't smart enough to choose a better location to meet up with this whore. The fact that he picked a hotel where the news media was congregating at seemed to irk Merkle to no end. Maybe you can give him some helpful hints of more secluded places you oranged-faced pervert.
The fact of the matter is he spent ONE WHOLE SEGMENT on this story, where EVERYONE knows that if it were a "Republican" city councillor let alone someone like Mitt Romney who ran for president, that all bets would have been off, and the first three segments for the next month would have been about said affair. I can't wait to see what happens when it comes out that it's Edwards' kid. I'm also curious to see if this story disappears from Olbydickheads radar on Monday. Even more probable, I think it might be time to turn into "BATHTUB BOY" ONCE AGAIN. We might not see him until next Thursday or Friday.
WHAT A DISGRACE!!!!!