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Once again the Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how much attention was paid to important and not so important stories over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:

Notes: Olbermann only worked two days during this week. References to Iraq do not include Olbermann's ritual closing mantra.
It's a new week for the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann and the start of yet another chart. Will Krazy Keith actually show up on a Monday? Does anyone really care? Do your part by recapping the longest 60 minutes in television--right here. Comments are open!
Even numbnuts is getting made fun at on his own network:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-sargent/2009/11/02/joe-
scarborough-satirizes-keith-olbermanns-08-election-night-coverage
You really need to watch the video to get the full effect.
Joe ScarRino has committed yet another thought crime? Why has been handed a shovel and put on a box car with Tucker Carlson?
And Keith goes back to "Cheney lied"? Jesus christ! If you have evidnce that Dick lied, report him. Snitching is good, bitch!
SWEET FREAKING MARISKA!!!!
This is part of WPITW, gold went to several conservative bloggers for tweeting parts of the vistors list of the white house.
Keithy explained that there might have been 'false positives'. Really? Bitch, please! Most of us might have been born at night, but not last night.
In 'The Battle of The Fill-Ins' Friday Night. No surprise here.
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_friday_oct_30__142000.asp#more
Campbell Brown is in a full beat down these days. Anybody know how much she has left on her contract? She's not doing any damage to Olby.
If I was running CNN I'd switch Brown & Sanchez. You have to beat the screwball at 8 on MSNBC and miss Nicey Nice ain't gettin' it done.
KO might make a rare full week of news broadcasting since I hear the Comcast deal might be done by next week.
Let's hope when it happens Bathtub Boy gets a visit from the Bobs ( Office Space reference ) I could see it now, KO pleading to them that he's a " people person". when they see how many days off he's had this year.
Besellers' NewsBusters link
Keith might attack O'Reilly tomorrow night because he, too, named names from the visitors list in Reality Check.
Number one story: Talk about how "fixed" the interview by Chris Wallace of Fox to Rush. I guess Keith didn't see the billions of interviews his network has done with Obama.
I think Brian Williams has his own little room in the WH and a megshift studio incase breaking news happens.
Give me a freakin break Keith. Aren't you fired yet?
Did he do #1 by himself and just run clips and snark in between those clips?
#5A: Palin! Crazy Larry.
#5B: Video title: "GOP reinvention or revolution?" The "Deeply Twisted" Wolffe Man gave his take.
#4: Another Blue Suit Interview with fellow Fox hater Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL). Public option!
Oddball: Man crashes into vodka bottles.
Bests: Philadelphia Inquirer ad blunders.
#3: Cheney!!! The Jeremy Glick-card playing Howard Dean was the guest.
Still Somehow All These Months Later Why Bother With This Segment Move On Already Bushed: Bin Laden's still alive.
#2: Worsts. Worse was Pat Boone. Blue blog source: Media Matters. Worser was Rep. Virginia Foxx (evil R-NC). Blue blog source: Think Propaganda. Worst was Amanda Carpenter, Michael Goldfarb, Mary Katharine Ham "of O'Reilly's show," and Ed Morrissey. Blue blog source: Think Propaganda. All four fine people with more brains than Olbermoronn...were mocked by Olbermoronn.
#1: To answer my question, yes, this segment was merely play-and-mock of the Wallace-Limbaugh interview. The Colon Detox guy was thrown in, too.
By the way, if you want to see that "Fox News Sunday" interview in its entirety, and as always, IN CONTEXT, here it is.
well being that the yankees lost tonight, you can bet Olbermann will not be working on Wed night
Alan Grayson (D) has had health care...his lobotomy is showing. This meathead is wonderful for the GOP picking up house seats. :-D
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This is the 24th day since the current president received the Nobel peace prize.
Via the OlbyFlood, Hot Air's AllahPundit posted the following: Awww: Olby names Ed [Morrissey] worst person in the world.
He writes:
"Which dastardly Morrissey post on Hot Air could warrant such an honor? Why, none: He got this for something he wrote on Twitter, as a quickie reaction on Friday afternoon after the White House visitor logs were released. Details [KO] conveniently neglects to mention: (1) Ed corrected his own erroneous tweet within 45 minutes of posting it; (2) [Hot Air] got the story right from the get-go; (3) the modern-day Murrow has made much more embarrassing errors himself, including those of the Twitter variety; and (4) Ed's basic point, that Petraeus and McChrystal seem to be way down on the food chain of face time with The One, appears to be entirely correct. But other than that, you've got him dead to rights, Keith.
In Olby's defense, he did at least place Ed in good company here. Exit question: Did Olbermann actually mock MKH [Mary Katharine Ham] for being...condescending? Keith Olbermann?"
Yes, we all know Keith is the King of Kondescension.
I suppose every WPitW has a whiff of hypocrisy in it, however, last night's tirade was a clear three for three....
Olbermann putting someone down for using dehumanizing imagary to discuss their disgust with the executive branch of our government?.....I will not even go there....the SPECIAL COMMENTS are archived and filled with all sorts of goodies about Bush Co.
Olbermann putting someone down for using the terrorist metaphor?.....He tried to explain his FNC "damage away" (I am sure the 3000 families of the 9/11 victims would disagree with Olbermann about his crass and cynical analogy) but alas......he failed.
Olbermann citing someone making an error in fact gathering?.....OW is a wonderful depot of these examples and how Olbermann never makes corrections or apologizes.
Oy. He was off his game being away from the desk so lonh, I suppose. Hypocrites have difficulty hiding their flaws.
VERO POSSUMUS, indeed. Wee weed?
Keith and Grayson on Kountdown to share
Their need for psychiatric care
An increase in meds
And two hospital beds
Discount treatment if done as a pair
I think I missed Cankles discussing the following on last night's church of SNOBamessiah revival hour, better known as COUTNDOWN:
Fred Thompson Draws Larger Crowd than Joe Biden Does in NY-23
"Fred Thompson even got a little cocky at one point. 'You know, the vice president's job is to attend funerals,' Thompson said of Biden's visit this morning. 'Maybe he came a day early.'"
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/11/fred_thompson_draws_larger_cro.asp
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A very funny line from Mr. Thompson who, along with Sarah Palin, was smart enough to see that the handpicked GOP candidate was not a good choice and likely to lose because conservative values were not represented.
The spin from the radical left, like Olbermann, is that what occurred in NY-23 is destructive with the bad ol' bogeyman conservative voter is tearing down the GOP. The spin is 180 degrees from the truth....this is DEMOCRACY in action with the voice of the people being expressed and responded to....through the ballot box! The GOP should respond to the voters and their direction, not the other way around.
Obama's radical agenda is driving the backlash and if there are democrat loses today, it is because of the over-reaching of the democrats. The radical left does not want that truth to dawn on the more moderate and sane of their national party.
VERO POSSUMUS, indeed. Wee weed?
I too happened to catch the #1 segment on Countdung last night. Keithy picking apart what he termed a "softball" interview, on the part of Chris Wallace, with Rush. Hey Keithy, there IS a way to counter that. Invite Rush on YOUR show, and have a "civil" discussion with him. I'm sure he would accept Ask him all the "hard" questions you want. You know, about his weight, his pain killer addiction, etc.
Ooops. Olby doesn't allow those with whom he disagrees with on his show. He is too chicken shizz. My bad. Nevermind.
Isn't it funny how liberals always seem to know what's best for conservatives? Shouldn't liberals be more concerned about the split within the Democratic party? Obama won the Presidential election by a mere seven percentage points in what should have been a landslide victory. If another Presidential election were held today, I seriously doubt that Obama would win... just 10 months into his term.
From admitted liberal Tommy Christopher at Mediaite: 3 Out Of 4 Of Keith Olbermann's 'Worst Persons' Respond.
Carpenter, Ham, Morrissey were the ones that responded.
MKH: "I’m glad to see MSNBC has at least moved beyond awarding them for typos, which I think was my last transgression. Ha. Perhaps the 'Tweets I Read on Friday Night' segment will get better ratings than the 'Check Out My Copy of Strunk & White' segment. Plenty of room to move up!"
A.Carp: "I just hope Olby gave Think Progress credit for ripping off their cheap shot post. We all acknowledged the 'false positive' note from the White House. I asked Think Progress several times on Twitter to update their post, they didn't and Countdown proceeded with a nothing story."
Ed: "While I'm honored that Keith Olbermann has now made me his Worst Person in the World just a few weeks after being his Best Person in the World, perhaps Keith might do better to simply get a sense of humor and lay off the hyperbole. Maybe the next time his boss Jeffrey Immelt goes to visit Barack Obama after four such visits already, he'll give Keith a night off and bring him along for a beer and a little perspective."
(As is standard procedure for blog posts, far-left trolls showed up in the comment thread to support Olby and join him in the denigration.)
And then, there's this from Jeff Poor at NewsBusters: Laughable: 'Countdown' Accuses Palin of Sexism. This occurred in #5A.
Via the transcript, the end of #4:
OLBERMANN: Is the current plan as we understood from the FOX commentator and Republican consultant, Mr. Kristol, said that they're going to after this argument, they're going to really to try to hit home against reform by claiming this is all about cutting Medicare. And if that's the case, what's the Democrat-Democratic defense play on that?
GRAYSON: The Democratic defense play is to tell the Republicans stop lying.
(LAUGHTER)
OLBERMANN: Congressman Alan Grayson of Florida, as always, to the point and succinct.
GRAYSON: Thank you.
OLBERMANN: . and thanks for being both and for your time tonight.
GRAYSON: Thank you very much, Keith. We're close to the end of this long, long road to affordable, universal, comprehensive health care in America.
OLBERMANN: **Amen. Congratulations in advance.**
GRAYSON: Thank you.
Bests featured a Campbell Brown attack:
"Dateline: New York. Number two: Best disproof of the device 'know thyself.' CNN, which recently let this go out on the air, quote [Ding!], 'Some of us, like my colleagues here at CNN, are still trying to do journalism. I'm not critical of what my friends at FOX News and MSNBC do, but it is apples and oranges when compared to what we at CNN do. And we should all just acknowledge that.'
Two words, Lou Dobbs. If you have Lou Dobbs, the out-of-control vintage 19th century horse-drawn fire engine of hate on your network, you long ago stopped trying to do journalism. And we should all just acknowledge that."
Correction on #3: John Dean was the guest; not Howard Dean. I apologize for the error.
The attacks in #2:
"The bronze to Pat Boone, the ex-teeny bopper singer. Has now authored one of those dog whistle, you know, assassination, insurrection columns for the deplorable Newsmax site, writing that exterminators needs to go to the White House and kill its, quote [Ding!], varmints and unwelcome creatures. ... Funny he uses the word usurpers. Pat Boone has now personally done more to try to incite violence against the elected representatives of the United States government than the entire country did during the two terms of George W. Bush. He should be ashamed of himself. Particularly in his distrust of democracy and distrust of the American way of life."
"The runner-up, the infamous Congresswoman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina. She's the one who claimed health care reform would lead to the murder of seniors. She's the one who claimed that the conclusion that the murder of Matthew Sheppard was homophobia was a, quote [Ding!], hoax. This just in from the senile lady from the North Carolina Sixth: ... Well, Ms. Foxx, clearly, your employers in the insurance industry [Ding!] do have that fear. And honestly, when I said Fox News, no relation, had done more long-term damage to this country than al Qaeda, meaning the nation was strong enough to survive al Qaeda fundamentally unchanged, but Murdoch was eating away at our national soul, the skulls of several conservative apologists exploded.
You've now got an actual elected Congresswoman with her lips so firmly attached to the insurance butt that she could make this insane analogy. So where are the conservative screamers now?"
"But our winners, Amanda Carpenter of the Washington Times, Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard, Mary Katharine Ham of O'Reilly's show and Ed Morrissey of the Hot Air Blog. Their tweets on Friday, as rounded up by Think Progress, after the administration voluntarily released a list of 500 visitors to the White House from January through July.
Wrote the condescending Miss Hamm, ... From Ed Morrissey, super genius [Ding!], ... From Miss Carpenter, a modest woman with much to be modest about, ... From the breathless [Ding!] Mr. Goldfarb, "I tried to warn you, America."
Why didn't we hear more about this? Jeremiah Wright at the White House? Bill Ayers? Bill Ayers? Wouldn't we be able to hear Sarah Palin's rapture from Alaska without microphones, just coming through the walls and windows of our homes? As the White House ethics counselor, Norm Eisan, in an introduction that none of the conservative rocket scientists [Ding!] apparently bothered to read, ...
And there is your conservative intelligencia in action. Shoot first, figure out if it was too good to be true later. Amanda Carpenter of the Washington Times, Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard, Mary Katharine Ham of O'Reilly's show and Ed Morrissey of the Hot Air Blog, or, as we call them here, clowns [Ding!], today's worst persons in the world."
Finally, #1:
"We tweak Fox Noise [Ding!] here every once in a ten-minute span, but at least we can count on one of those real journalists the network claims [Ding!] are so different from its opinion people to produce a hard-hitting interview. Our number one story in the COUNTDOWN, Chris Wallace takes on Orly Taitz Limbaugh [Ding!], who, frankly, must have faced tougher questions from one of those doctors he used to shop [Ding!].
The smooch fest [Ding!] was evident from the beginning in Wallace's first question. The inclusion of one word might have tipped us off.
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To? To the country? No better way for Wallace to set himself up as the eager enabler to Mr. Limbaugh.
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Wow, Orly Taitz [Ding!], that was almost worthy of Michele Bachmann. But a man admits to a blatant political agenda, off which he makes tens of millions of dollars annually, and then he accuses the president of the United States of not just harming the country, but doing so deliberately. And the follow-up is another softball [Ding!] about, you know, there was 3.5 percent growth in the third quarter.
But Limbaugh did offer some original material, again, prompted by Mr.
Wallace.
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And this is the expert in that field. Later, when Wallace throws Limbaugh another softball [Ding!], this one about Afghanistan, Limbaugh starts in on his Obama doesn't care about the troops canard [Ding!]. Mr. Wallace reserves some of his biggest push back for that nonsense [Ding!]. Listen carefully. You just might hear Wallace say, come on.
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Oh, Mr. Wallace will be thrashed severely for that come on. What about the president going to Dover Air Force Base, Wallace asks? "You don't think that Barack Obama has profound respect for our soldiers?"
And there it is, the fair and balanced act [Ding!] we've all been waiting for.
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That was enough, Limbaugh's invocation of knowing Bush a little bit [Ding!] and Bush the crier [Ding!], to make Wallace cave completely. By the way, Chris, you did not need to hedge on that at all, about Bush having not gone to Dover for the Dignified Transfer or Remains, because he didn't, not ever.
Returning to domestic policy, after giving Limbaugh the chance to repeat the charge that the Obama health care plan is "the biggest snatch of freedom and liberty that has yet occurred in this country," Mr. Wallace asked Mr. Limbaugh to suggest an actual solution.
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And there you have it, an oddly revelatory answer to a throwaway [Ding!] question. Attention radio listeners, Orly Taitz Limbaugh [Ding!] wants them government [Ding!] to spend some of the stimulus money to buy health insurance for the uninsured and socks for everybody who doesn't own any.
But the crown jewel [Ding!] of this mutual admiration society [Ding!] came when Wallace asked Limbaugh about Glenn Beck's success. Limbaugh has been asked this before, and has been given himself credit for being basically the father of all conservative media as we know it. He did that again this time, but with a bit more specificity.
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So Limbaugh includes Fox News in his list of conservative media, between conservative talk radio and the conservative blogosphere. How does Chris "Fair and Balanced" Wallace react? No defense of his channel's proclaimed neutrality, not even self-defense as his one time status as an actual network level journalist. Crickets [Ding!].
In fact, his next question begins, let's talk about you. And after asking Limbaugh about what he learned about himself in drug rehab, Wallace turned to the exciting topic of Limbaugh's salary. When Limbaugh seemed a bit put off, this came next.
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Oh, TMZ could use you. Oh, Rush, you're great. And I, Chris Wallace, am a real tough interviewer. And after all this-remember, we're reviewing these excerpts in sequence-Wallace then asked this.
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Finally, some politics! Right, because everything that had proceeded that was in no way political. It was just the musings of a what? Failed [Ding!], low-level [Ding!] baseball executive? Fired [Ding!] top 40 DJ? Let's do what Mr. Wallace did not do. Let's balance our analysis out to end with a good question and answer.
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Here's a riddle. If you've got an empty room and you put Orly Taitz Limbaugh [Ding!] and Chris Wallace in it, what do you have then? An empty room."
There went 40 minutes of my afternoon that I'll never get back.
Too bad Cankles did not dedicate any of his "newshour" to fact checking the power in the US executive in their claims regarding the stimulus package.
The Obama administration has been lying about the real impact the spending has had, especially with the "jobs saved."
"The Obama administration announced Friday that federal stimulus money had created or saved about 7,200 education jobs in Ohio as of Sept. 30.
"Although a couple of hundred of those jobs were in Columbus City Schools, the district acknowledged yesterday that many of the 'saved' jobs definitely wouldn't have been lost in the first place, and others might not have been lost at all.
"Federal Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a conference call with reporters yesterday that the country has '325,000 who would literally not be in the classroom today if not for these funds.' But not in Columbus, where the district's finances looked pretty solid before the stimulus. Voters passed a levy last November that should keep the district's books largely in the black until 2012."
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/11/03/copy/stimulus_jobs.ART_ART_11-03-09_B1_RDFIAA5.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
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How well....The administration lied but this time around, even with facts, Olbermann does not seem to care. I wonder why?
Oh, that's right.....I forgot....Olbermann is an Obama cheerleader, hypocrite and intellectually dishonest lefitst shill!
VERO POSSUMUS, indeed. Wee weed?
Cankles? Fact Check? Surely you jest!