To back up with J$ says on the firing of the SEC Chairman...

Interesting comment from a lawyer affiliated with the Weekly Standard magazine regarding whether McCain *could* fire the SEC Chairman...

"Contributor Adam White, an attorney, writes in explaining that McCain's critics are completely wrong:

It's true that the SEC is an "independent agency," and that the statute creating the SEC (specifically, Section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) doesn't expressly state that the president can fire SEC commissioners.

But the law on this point is well settled: As the D.C. Circuit reiterated as recently as last month, in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, 537 F.3d 667, 668-69 (D.C. Cir. 2008), "[m]embers of the Commission, in turn, are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate and subject to removal by the President for cause; its chairman is selected by and serves at the pleasure of the President."

The courts have never said that Congress can completely prevent a president from firing officials of an independent agency. At best, Congress can limit the president to firing such officials only "for cause," and the term "for cause" is generally interpreted pretty broadly."

Fat Ass lies again!!!

Two corrections to my contribution:
1) "depending on the interviews Bill has done with other media outlets or publications over the years."
2) "Buckinghamshire".
Doesn't it seem kind of ghoulish that the Olbyloons, including Olby himself, are so gleeful over the market meltdown? Anything to their base's or candidate's benefit is good to them.
I didn't watch Part 1 of Hannity's interview with Palin last night because I couldn't stand his voice or doctrinaire style. Tonight, I bit the bullet and watched Part 2. I actually thought it was pretty good. At least on this night, Sean didn't seem so bad to me. For one thing, I didn't know he played ice hockey growing up, which he admitted at the interview's conclusion. I'm still waiting for "The Factor" interview, though. Maybe after the VP debate two weeks from tonight.
The t-word slip occurred on "Fox & Friends" this morning. Another *pretend* walk-off followed. LOL

Here's is the fuller quote of BOR addressing what I call the dreaded two words:
"I've said 'shut up' to people six times in 12 years and they all deserved it. They were either bloviating or filibustering or lying. 12 years on the air, six times I've said it, and this is a big far-left mantra. (mocking voice and face): 'He always says shut up!' These people never watch the show. They don't know who I am. They're zombies. Night of the Living Internet. (makes a zombie expression.) And, so, I gotta put up with this, but, that's what's going on."
I call it "the dreaded two words" because when I hear him say it, no matter the context, I know that Olby & Co. will end up using it as a gotcha. And what happened tonight? Rip 'n Read quoted "glorious" Slate's tally of all utterances, no matter the context, of those two words.
The interview was conducted in "The Factor" studio one day last week, an hour or so before air time. You can tell because there's a clock on the TelePrompTer behind BOR. I think that's Studio A, which is also where "America's Newsroom" and "Red Eye" eminate from. I could be wrong.

I forgot to mention that the fuller quote is in the Time video here:
http://tinyurl.com/463lye

My sentiments in Olbyspeak:

Does this, his childish recap of Gov. Palin's interview , at long last, finally, please!... once and for all put to rest the myth that Mr. Olbermann is an honest journalist, and if so, doesn't that eviscerate any remaining shred of credibility, how ever thin, that was clinging to this self-proclaimed truth teller and the MSNBC campaign of biased political reportage?

Goodnight and good riddance!

Ramjet,

Olby's been demoted, so any semblance of integrity or illusory attempt at fairness can now go out the window.

The Goon has no reason to hide his true self anymore.

Caution and leftist temperance have been thrown to the wind. Obama-Into-The-White-House is his only edict now.

If he loses his job for it, so be it. He knows he'll always have a throne to sit in at Kos.

He has already been exposed for the Fraud he always was. It's just a matter of time before NBC finally pulls the plug on him. (Assuming they have a measure of integrity left......)

Whoops she did it again..KO's GirlFriday beat him in the ratings...

CABLE NEWS RACE
THU, SEPT. 18, 2008

FOXNEWS HANNITY/COLMES 4,589,000
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 4,092,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 3,286,000
FOXNEWS SHEP SMITH 1,986,000
MSNBC RACHEL MADDOW 1,971,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,947,000
FOXNEWS HUME 1,903,000
CNN KING 1,855,000
CNN COOPER 1,852,000
CNNHN GRACE 1,204,000
CNN DOBBS 1,121,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 944,000

Now that MSNBC know they have someone who get the same Ratings as KO..that has to make Bathtub boy a little nervous. New Murrow indeed.

Speaking of ratings, right on que, paranoid Olbermann runs to DailyKos to "explain" Rachel Maddow's ratings, plus reminding everyone why Donahue was cancelled, ratings. Man, this guy is sooooo predictable....if JS doesn't mind, I'm pasting Olby's entire comment:

Common Sense Says: Duh
This is the new Republican meme: people are "rejecting" Countdown because Rachel gets higher ratings some night. It's a classic forest-for-the-trees thing. Since she started, my ratings are up 50-75%. It doesn't matter who has more on a given night. I'll be the one applauding loudest if she gets more every night.

Even if I was as shallow as somebody here suggests, you need to look a little bigger-picture.

This is our schedule, 8 PM-Midnight Eastern:

8 PM Me
9 PM Rach
10 PM Me
11 PM Rach

It's not just that I'm her lead-in; she is also my lead-in.

When I do really well at 8, she's likely to do really well at 9. If she does really well at 9, I'm likely to do really well at 10. If I do really well at 10, she's likely to do really well at 11.

So if she does better at 9 than I did at 8, I will do even better than I otherwise would have at 10, etc.

I did better than she did on Monday. She did better than I did on Tuesday. I did better than she did on Wednesday. But the point is, we're talking viewership totals above 1,500,000 in each of these hours, and "demo" viewerships in giddying numbers: 500,000; 600,000; 700,000. The shows are really profitable at something like 185,000 "demo" viewers (25 to 54's).

Also, I must again protest the Donahue Legend. For purposes of contrast, in his last month on the air in 2003, he averaged 439,000 viewers (tops at MSNBC at the time). Not demo viewers, total viewers. Rachel and I are talking to audiences three and four times Donahue's at his peak. He didn't help his longevity by his political stance, but he was cancelled because his ratings did not justify the expense of his show, which was probably more than Rachel's and mine combined. Here is the requisite link to Bill Carter's contemporary article in the NYT.

"If you're going through hell - keep going!" -- Winston Churchill

http://tinyurl.com/4ts9kn

BONUS:

Olby provides a link to a 2003 NYTimes article about Donahue. Funny, I think the NYTimes can re-work an MSNBC press release with the best of 'em...but it is funny that Olbermann had to go find that article, like it wasn't already bookmarked by him...too dam funny.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E6DA173CF935A15751C0A9659C8B63

Sorry, I forgot to provide the link to the actual story Olby was commenting on. It was just a simple congratulations shout out to Rachel, but Olby had to make sure he wasn't eclipsed by her spotlight and had to inject his long stupid rambling pathetic comment. LOSERS say ‘what’…

Trust me, this isn't so much about ratings, it's the perception that Rachel his 10X smarter than Olbermann. Here's a comment from a Kos blogger that is really the reason for Olbermann self-absorbed comment:

"To my mind, the trajectory of the two MSNBC programs is clear: Rachel's show is going to be better than "Countdown," and soon. Part of this, I think, is that Rachel Maddow is very likely the smartest person on cable news."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/18/155839/124/87/602996

more great comments that’ll have Olbermann plotting Ms. Maddows demise…teehee:

My dirty little secret...
Can I admit it? I'm not a huge fan of Keith Olbermann. I'm super grateful that he's been on the air, don't get me wrong, but his style grates on me sometimes, and I catch him in hyperbole too often for my tastes.
But I love Rachel Maddow! I knew she was going to do well. She is so talented.
by NancyK on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 02:23:21 PM PDT

I gotta say...
she made me go out and buy a new sound card for the computer. Cable system doesn't have MSNBC so I'm limited to watching online, but even Olbermann withdrawal didn't drive me to the computer store. It took Maddow. I wanted to see the if the hype around here was justified.
It was worth the $35. She's great.
by dougymi on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 02:50:20 PM PDT

Not to say I told you so, but I told you so:

By ramjet on September 18, 2008 12:16 PM
"At least finally the bathtub boy will not be bragging about his ratings anymore."-kb

Here's a prediction for MikeH's amusement:

Low Blow KO will take credit for Mz. Maddow's ratings.

His crappy ratings are driving him crazy. He is constantly getting his ass kicked. Correction, since he is a complete ass, I change that to say he is constantly getting the part of his body on the backside, middle kicked.

Olby the clown is getting desperate. I wouldn't be surprised if Keith "Czechoslovakia" Olbermann changes the name of his show to The O'lbermann Factor.

Ash, are you Ashley from J$P? I should know this; the "Czechoslovakia" nickname for Keith is a dead giveaway. Welcome to OlbyWatch.
On other note, I forgot to mention that in Olbermoronn's Worst nod for Lady Lynn, he applied OlbyLogic, deducing that the "bitter" crowd would like what Obama called them better than her referring to them as rednecks. In other words, Obamamann thinks Lady Lynn's term will drive people to Barack. Don't try to make sense of it. It's OlbyLogic.