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As readers of Olbermann Watch have known for years, the infamous, deplorable one has a habit of basing his "reporting" on items lifted from webpages, blue blogs, and the like. And of course, the little matter of fact-checking is something his writers don't bother with. He's embarrassed himself yet again, and not just once, but twice. First we find him melodramatically sneering at Sharron Angle for the crime of saying Abraham Lincoln had lost "a few" elections before becoming President. NOOOO, boomed Oralmann, he only lost one.
Unfortunately, Edward R Olbermann got it wrong. According to Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, Honest Abe lost more than once. How about five times? These would include:
But if you think that's bad, consider how eagerly Fat Ass thoughtlessly parroted another gem of misinformation from Think Propaganda. Olby lifted some bogus stats from that discredited site, and naturally was unconcerned with such small matters as, um, ascertaining the truth. As a result, he was nailed by Politifact:
Olbermann clearly muffed it twice when he repeated [Think Progress statistics] incorrectly to viewers -- and by a substantial margin -- giving viewers the impression that oil and gas subsidies are 10 times more expensive than they actually are. Because of this, we considered rating his comment Pants on Fire, but his errors seemed to us to be sloppy rather than devious. So we'll give him a rating of False.
Very generous, but any Olbermann report is likely to be either sloppy or devious, so it had to be one or another. You can expect Edward R Olbermann to make a great show of correcting his oil and gas falsehoods (and maybe blame it on someone else), but he'll double down on his Lincoln gaffe. Probably claim that elections to Senate don't count because the voters are actually the state legislators. But then, wouldn't that mean there's no such thing as a Presidential election because the voters are actually the electoral college? Don't try to make sense out of it. It's OlbyLogic.
Comments are open!
Off topic, two-time Olby guest Mancow will be "Red Eye" tonight.
On topic, he always doubles, triples, quadruples, etc. on his lies. He's still repeating the FEMA camp lie.
You know I adressed this before, but he's uncreative. I don't know if it's he's lazy or just doesn't care. But same openings, same lies, same results. I haven't seen someone phoning it in this much since Richard Dean Anderson in season 8 of Stargate SG-1!.
It seems that Keith cannot hold himself up to the extremely high standard he judges everyone else by.
Well on to the fun stuff. A proper worse later, and I'll post my video of the week while Keith reads (and destroys) Thurber.
I give you, SUPER EASY MODE!!!
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1938370
OMG! HE'S GOING TO DOUBLE DOWN!? REALLY, KEITH IS SO STUPID THAT HE'S GOING TO NOT ONLY SAY "Everybody's wrong cause I'm always right!", BUT HE'S ALSO GOING TO SAY "ba ba a lou lou, stick your head in do do!".
IF KEITH WAS PLAYING BLACKJACK HE WOULD HIT ON 20! AND NO MATTER WHAT HE'S GOT, HE'LL JUST SAY HE'S GOT 21!
To steal a line from Keith, that man is a idiot (ding).
Keith, just admit you're wrong about Lincoln and move on. You are making yourself look retarded.
I've got to agree with Keith. This was the worst sports broadcast I've ever seen!!!
I want to know who choose Jim Grey in the first place. I didn't know he worked for ESPN now. If there is one guy I hate more in sports than Keith Olbermann, it's Jim Grey.
I broght up my father earlier this week, I'm going to do it again. It was the 99 world series. They showed the all world series team. Me and my father shared a love of baseball, the Reds and Pete Rose. With Pete on the field, he goes and asks Pete, "will you show contrition?" Wrong time, wrong place. My dad was livid. Anger at the level of 20. The angriest I have ever seen him. This was the last baseball game my father ever watch. He ruined baseball for my dad.
No that's not LeBron James firing his media relations staff, it's your daily update on the NBA for dummies crowd...... TEE TIME!!!!
No tea on Fridays. And get ready for the double down!! I guess getting hit in the head with a shovel hurts less the more often you do it, to the point where it doesn't hurt anymore.
Reality be damned!!! It's the WPITW abstract! Facts? We need no stinkin' facts.
Beck commercial parody that isn't funny. And we found 10 dragos in America and sent them back. I didn't know we had a 'catch and release' policy with spies.
Bronse: Bill-o! For attacking Darth Vader Ginsburg. Keith, the difference between Bill-o and Darth Vader Ginsburg is that she swore a oath the UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION!
Silver: Tom Tancrado- For attacking king Obama.
GOLD: Daniel Foster for putting Keith's face in shit! As showed by Johnny $, Keith was wrong. But in true Olby fashion, he's right and we're wrong. This is Keith's world, we're just living in it.
Well, off to live my life (such as it is). Have a great weekend, see you guys on Monday and let's be careful out there.
Worse blue blog source: Think Propaganda...again!
The attack stems from Tuesday night's Back of the Book segment. Why did Oralmann wait until tonight to guttersnipe back?
I find it hilarious that you trash KO for defending the record of a REPUBLICAN President.
So much for your notion that in Olbyplanet, IOKIYAD.
That "REPUBLICAN President" was used as a club to beat the Republican candidate running against Harry Reid. You are moving the goalposts again.
Anyway...
#4: Blue suit open border sue-them-and-stop-this-racist-law interview with Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM).
#3: Will Leitch ruined his reputation by appearing as a guest.
#2: Another Beck Attack in the "brought to you by" portion of WPitW. Billo! [Ding!] Avis commercial line. Bill says Ginsburg doesn't give a wit about the Constitution, but he tells Judge Andrew Napolitano in November that he doesn't care about the Constitution. Oh-ho-ho-ho! Gotcha! Retire! Bill used to be scary, but now we all feel sorry for him. Why don't you retire instead, Keith?
As predicted, Olby doubled down on his Lincoln lie. I can't find a blue blog source on this one, but Foster's National Review post did show up in the Daily Radar feed and was linked to in a Slate thread. American Spectator is a "lesser blog." Judge Olbermoronn No'd every election that Lincoln lost. It's like a child that refuses to listen to reason by covering their ears and going "la, la, la, la, I am not listening." "Don't besmirch the greatest President's record. It tells us so much about National Review that it'd be willing to so contort the truth... [yada yada yada] ...or it's aggressively ignorant." Pot kettle.
And I find it hilarious that you haven't yet shown the cajones to comment on Olbertard's complete ignorance with regard to Lincoln.
""I find it hilarious that you trash KO for defending the record of a REPUBLICAN President."" -MKDAWUSS
I find it hilarious that you chose not to respond to either of the factual mistakes Olbermann made, and instead offer this odd response.
Keith Olbermann isn't defending the record of a Republican president. He's just wrong about a fact regarding a Republican president. And he won't admit it.
Also. The whole "he defends Lincoln, therefore he isn't pro-Democrats" might be the most absurd thing I've ever read.
You can't be serious. You have to be a troll.
Did you listen to KO's WPITW segment. He responded to those claims.
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/Diogenes2008/Best%20Of/Keith1001006.jpg
As Factor fans learned on Wednesday with Jorge Ramos, true believers can never be swayed, no matter what *facts* you throw at them.
"I find it hilarious that you trash KO for defending the record of a REPUBLICAN President."
Actually, we're trashing KO for lying.
Again.
You can't be this stupid.
""Did you listen to KO's WPITW segment. He responded to those claims.""-MK
I didn't see him address the subsidies mistake he made.
I did see him make excuses for his historical inaccuracies. He doesn't know what he's talking about MK. Like someone else pointed out, according to his logic...nobody has ever been elected president.
Only Keith would make this big of a deal about a side remark anyhow. The point Angle was making was that Abe Lincoln had failures in his political careers as well.
Keith Olbermann turns it into a technical debate about how many elections Lincoln lost.
It's stupid.
When you graduate from Cownell U.
You're bound to make a mistake or two
Or three, or four, or five
When the facts don't jive
With whomever you're trying to screw
It's all Keith has. Almost everyone has written off Harry Reid except for Keith. And the only reason Olby supports him is because he hates Sharon Angle.
So, his position is essentially "that election doesn't count because I say it doesn't."
So, just because he decides to define what constitutes a real election, no one else can think differently. Typical KO
But even giving Keith the benefit of the doubt, he throws out the Congressional loss because he says Lincoln didn't win the nomination. Well, OK, but Lincoln didn't win because he brokered a deal between the three main candidates for each to serve a consecutive term. So the congressional election he did win (1846) was basically a technicality because no one else ran.
As to that little business about Senators not being chosen by the state legislature, which doesn't count in Keith's eyes since it's not a vote of the people (even though it is. It's just the only qualified voters are the legislators. Like how the only citizens qualified to vote for congress or the assembly were white men). Well, here's a few passages from the original constitution describing the process of choosing senators:
"Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. "
OK, so that only refers to the senators chosen from the first year.
But then: "No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen."
There's that word again. Elected.
And
"The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Place of Chusing Senators."
Hmm. So clearly the founders of the constitution considered legislative choosing of senators to be an election. (and it is. Just a matter of who gets to vote).
But maybe Keith doesn't care about the constitution.
Nah. He probably hasn't even read it.
As for this asinine argument that reporting the true record somehow diminishes Lincoln's legacy ... anyone who believes that is smoking something. But it's typical of the Olby/Liberal mindset, isn't it? If the truth doesn't fit your narrative, go ahead and twist it until it does. Propaganda 101. So again Keith gives himself away. This is, after all, the same technique he applies to all his preferred Liberal candidates today.
It actually enhances Lincoln's legacy. Shows that he didn't have an easy ride through politics. That even the greats face adversity. Gives him an outsider/underdog status, and it shows that everything wasn't handed to him.
Sort of like Michael Jordan being cut from his high school team.
Also. Monday's worst person in the world. The Constitution. For misuse of the word "election".
And the most disturbing thing is that once Olbertard's done that, he's also managed to thoroughly convince himself that he was right all along.
Well, himself and MK, of course. Both of these clowns are completely delusional.
Keith cares about the Constitution when he can use it as a club to beat his enemies with, as he did with the eeevil O'Reilly earlier in WPitW.
Let me know when I've used that "club to beat" phrase too much.
Can anyone tell me if Keith Olbermann has a progressive mental disease or does he just always take a contrary view toward anything republican or FNC?
MCDAWUSS, IOKIYAD? LOMGW, SIB "IOCIYAD"? WANYA. GBTTDKYH.
He does, It's called being childish.
Let me get this straight - the whole Linocln embarassment / fiasco is to somehow prove to people that you shouldn't vote for Sharon Angle. Wow - I'm sure that is going to convince a lot of voters in Nevada, isn't it? Some big mouthed fat ass in New York whose primary occupation is hating says your Senate candidate is "dumb", so you should re-elect the senator whose policies have led to the largest foreclosure rate in the country and a catastrophic plunge in tourism on which the state depends. Riggggghhhhht. Should have about as much affect as the hate filled tirade directed at Scott Brown, you remember that one, don't you Olbermoron? The one that was re-played dozens of times on local talk radio all over Massachusetts on election day earlier this year?
Anyone know what's behind this Olby tweet from about a half hour ago
"OK, this is too weird even for me. I'll be off Twitter TFN. Let me know if the relevant parties calm down."
There was a thread about him blocking a 9 year old and hurting their feelings but there's too much back and forth to tell what's going on.
Maybe it was this:
Dasani_01: "The whole thing was regarding him corrected the spelling in a tweet that a gifted 9yr old sent him...The kids feeling got hurt."
Ah, Keith's arrogance strikes again.
That 9 year old is more mature than Keithy.
And as I said, Keith is all Harry Reid has left. Did you see Obama at the Reid fundraiser? Looked like Barack would rather be at a blackjack table. Hell, hapless Harry looked like he didn't want to be there. Even he knows it over. Then that blast about how bad things are is the fault of republicans? "Do we want to go forward or backwards?" Well, Barack, if we're heading for a cliff, forward ain't all that great. Did wonders for Thelma and Louise.
Unless Sharon Angle convicted of murdering orphans and nuns, she's going to destroy him. And if she did, she would still beat him like a drum.
It's not as if Republicans could set whatever policies they wanted. They still had to act within the framework of bureaucratic institutions established long ago by progressives. Not an ideal situation.
Firday night, I said I was unsure of what Olby's blue blog source was for Worst. According to Daniel Foster of National Review, the source was Twitter.
"... And sure enough, Olbermann then tweeted, 'Lincoln lost 1 popular election, proof 8pm tonight.'
I responded to Olbermann, saying that, apparently, he thought there wasn't any democracy in America until 1913. That brought out the fangs:
'KeithOlbermann @DanFosterNRO What's an election, Dan? A vote in a State Legislature, or a vote by citizens. Of course NRO wouldn't KNOW.'
Oh, but think it through, Keith! By your logic nobody's ever been elected president of the United States."
Olby is taking a Twitter vacaton. He's pouting bc he was called out for insulting and attacking a 9 year old.
Fox Haters Week in Review
I'm surprised none of you have started speculation over his little criticism of NBC in his #3 story. Knowing how you people like to comb over every last syllable looking for something to hammer him with.
Only because he (his staff) combs over every last syllable of people with whom he disagrees for fodder to embarrass them (even if it means taking them out of context).
Ann Coulter says that Glen Beck should apologize to Keith Olbermann.
Here it is in its entirety (July 9, 2010, 2:57 pm):
"Beck Should Apologize to Keith Olbermann -
Glenn Beck is wrong: MSNBC hosts are not all "Ivy League egg-heads." Here I must rush to Keith Olbermann’s defense. Although Keith pretends to be an Ivy League graduate, he isn’t. He went to a state agriculture college and majored in “communications,” like his MSNBC colleague Contessa Brewer.
So, here, Glenn Beck is clearly wrong. Keith merely behaves the way he thinks Ivy Leaguers should, but never would, act – for example, ridiculing people without polished educations, correcting other people's teeny-tiny grammatical errors and using big words in a ridiculous fashion. Beck should apologize."
www.anncoulter.com
Let me try the link again:
www.anncoulter.com
One more time:
http://www.anncoulter.com/
Me thinks Coulter-Giest will get a Worst persons mention Monday, not to mention he'll pull out the old sheepskin again!
any bet tomorrow he's going to say how much Yankess PA announcer Bob Sheppard was an influence and how he helped him, etc. oh please. do like obama keith and resign
How Bob helped Keith or how Keith help Bob. With Olby, it can break either way.
And if Keith did resign, you'd attack him for that too
No, Drive-by. We'd be thrilled.
NewsBusters: Olbermann Claimed He'd Never Call a Woman 'Idiot,' But Tags Palin 'Idiot' 22 Times.
Hey Wussy, give it a rest. Your Boy Keith needs to resign along with the real BOY Obama. Neither one is a real man, neither one is of military caliber. Wussy the Pussy, what is wrong with you and your kind that support bathtub boy and this MORON of a president? Pick and choose your stories. I find it moronic that msnbc will talk about Mel Gibson but hide behind the curtain and do not say one word about the black panther that is running his mouth about "Crackers" and killing us all. You and your kind want war, you got it and we are ready for it. Wussy, if you want to know where racism starts, take a look at YOUR people, it's coming from them, not us. I find it amazing that when race riots flare up, it is always the blacks that burn, steal, molest, fight dirty (ten blacks on one white). You want me to go on? You and your people need to stop dragging your knuckles on the ground and wake up.
Obama & Olbermann...........RESIGN NOW
Hey Wussy, give it a rest. Your Boy Keith needs to resign along with the real BOY Obama. Neither one is a real man, neither one is of military caliber. Wussy the Pussy, what is wrong with you and your kind that support bathtub boy and this MORON of a president? Pick and choose your stories. I find it moronic that msnbc will talk about Mel Gibson but hide behind the curtain and do not say one word about the black panther that is running his mouth about "Crackers" and killing us all. You and your kind want war, you got it and we are ready for it. Wussy, if you want to know where racism starts, take a look at YOUR people, it's coming from them, not us. I find it amazing that when race riots flare up, it is always the blacks that burn, steal, molest, fight dirty (ten blacks on one white). You want me to go on? You and your people need to stop dragging your knuckles on the ground and wake up.
Obama & Olbermann...........RESIGN NOW