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Our monthly analysis of Edward R Olbermann's fair and balanced guest line-up once again shows what an outstanding, nonpartisan 'news hour' they produce on OlbyPlanet. Behold, The Chart:
This month's fun facts:
The most appearances under the liberal/progressive label: Eugene Robinson, followed closely by Melissa Harris-Lacewell.
Most appearances under the conservative/traditional label: nobody.
Top Dem politicos (each appearing twice): Reps Grijalva and Ellison.
Top GOP politicos: there weren't any.
Most used 'neutral' commentator: Howard Fineman.
So welcome to Olbermann's Echo Chamber, where the only debate is left vs lefter. Perhaps that's why his ratings are so good. He pooh-poohed July's numbers based on the fact that he took so many days off. So what happened in August? While a few A-Mess-NBC programs showed a little growth, Herr Olbermahn's was not one of them. Just like his pal Rachel Maddow, Keith Oralmann lost 25% of his viewers in the critical, coveted, nothing-else-matters 'key demo'. And since they were both losing handily to the eeevil Fox News, they're still losing handily to the eeevil Fox News.
There is no joy on OlbyPlanet. Mighty Olby has struck out. Comments are open!
Oh they don't allow their talent to insult each other over at (MS)NBC, do they? Perhaps they should remind the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann of that policy. As Glenn Beck's rally concluded Saturday, Oralmann was furiously tweeting away. First he bizarrely claimed that the rally was not apolitical:
TWITTERMANN: Glad y'all kept it nonpolitical. Except for the who-to-vote-for part.
There was a part of the rally where they were endorsing candidates and telling people whom to vote for ['who to vote for' is improper grammar, according to Olby a sign of low intellect]? Um, to put it simply, there was no such thing at the 8/28 event; it's Another Olbermann Lie. Then Olby went further off the deep end. He seemed almost pathologically invested in 'proving' that there were fewer than 100,000 people present.
Unfortunately for him, his own network didn't agree:
CHUCK TODD: Colleague @DomenicoNBC is on the mall, reports crowd estimate from Parks service is 300K-325K.
When someone pointed out to Oralmann that NBC estimate, Krazy Keith decided this will not stand on OlbyPlanet:
TWITTERMANN: Wrong! NBC quoted no number. Parks Service stopped making estimates in 1997. You've been lied to.
Actually, the Park Service estimated the Obama inauguration crowd, so "Bear" isn't telling the truth about that. And as for the idea that Chuck Todd lied in his report, then Brian Williams did too. Williams referenced the 300,000 number, and said it was an NBC News estimate! Hear for yourself via John Gibson:
Keith lies on top of lies, then claims it's Chuck Todd and Brian Williams who are the liars?!? Crazy Larry hosts tonight, but the infamous, deplorable one will have a special report on the 'Beckapocalypse'. Ooooh, that's must-miss teevee! Comments are open!
Anti-Hispanic Bigotry, Or Just More Olbermann Hate?
We often hear about Keith Olbermann's rampaging misogny, but we should not forget his pattern of demeaning and insulting Latino Americans. It's part of the very fiber of Krazy Keith's being, and it resurfaces every now and then. Here are a few examples:
He repeatedly referred to George Bush's Hispanic Attorney General as a "house boy".
His "pass the guacamole" description regarding Gov Bill Richardson was deemed offensive by Latino activists.
That last smear of Mr Pujols (which to this day Olby has never apologized for) is particularly relevant. Because it has been revealed that Albert Pujols will be attending the Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" rally. Horrors! Needless to say, that meant "Bear" had to immediately tweet his disapproval with yet another attack on Pujols, and merely the latest example of Olby anti-Latino invective:
Hey Albert Pujols! Here's hoping when you go to Beckapocalypse nobody attempts an AZ SB1070 Papers-Please citizen's arrest on you.
Of course if Pujols WAS Papers-Please'd at Beckoning, LaRussa's with him, is a lawyer. Or would he defend the arrester?
He goes on to suggest that Pujols (and La Russa) are "simpletons". Which is ironic because Pujols never did a rip 'n' read of a phony blog story and use it to smear Keithy--but that's exactly what Oralmann did to Pujols. And has let it stand for years (even repeating the slander) without bothering to make things right with the simplest gesture imaginable: an apology.
But apologies are scarce as hens' teeth on OlbyPlanet. Especially, it seems, when Keith Olbermann's victim is Hispanic.
Comments are open!
UPDATE: Is Olby cracking up? Behold one of tonight's tweets:
Oh wait, it's the weekend. See, it makes perfect sense. Bathtub Boy is in the tub again.
MSNBC Conflatorama! Maddow, Schultz, and Olbermann
It's really amazing how they all use the same technique. John Gibson sez it's almost like they were part of an 'Obamamedia'. Listen for a special appearance from Oralmann's one-time teenage heartthrob, who has now moved on to greener pastures:
Just when you think the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann can't possibly get any more hypocritical than he already is, he does the impossible: he surpasses himself. Is there anyone as smugly self-righteous? Remember when he ridiculed McCain for referring to 'Czechoslovakia', cackling how stupid that was since there is no longer any such country? Only Edward R Olbermann had done the same thing, over and over again. Yeah, Olbypocrisy. And it continues.
It was just a few months ago that Oralmann was attacking Glenn Beck for having 'Nazi tourettes', with one of the examples being Beck's use of the 'First they came for..." poem. So what does Krazy Keith use to kick off his latest Special Education Komment? You guessed it:
They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up...
When it comes to 'Nazi Tourettes', Olby is no slouch. Who doesn't remember that charming moment when Oralmann compared Dan Abrams's father to a Nazi? Whether it's comparing the Bush administration to The Third Reich or saying Fox News is like Nazi Germany, Krazy Keith just can't resist slapping the Nazi label on anyone that's on his enemies list, even if it means trivializing the Holocaust. [BTW, there's an excellent breakdown of KO's SEK here.]
The inevitability of Monkeymann stepping in it is what makes his Twitter account such fertile ground for Olbypocrisy. Here's an exchange where KO pulls one of his favorite Twitter stunts: correcting someone else's spelling. This is the real Olbermann on display:
SHRIKE: @KeithOlbermann The left is idrological kindergarten. That's why you guys believe in Santa.
TWITTERMANN: Ah yes. It's always "idrological"
SHRIKE: As I said: kindergarten. If the best you guys have is typo flames, it's no wonder @KeithOlbermann is in decline.
TWITTERMANN: 2,000,000 a night. How many you got?
Yes, this is certainly the high plane of discourse we expect from the cow-school graduate. And isn't that two million figure a little suspect? According to the latest ratings, combining Edward R Olbermann's 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm showings only amounts to 1,529,000 viewers. But we digress. Back to the tweets, where things take a different turn:
BELLAMOM: I love you Keith but picking on spelling errors is beneath you - there r other aspects of that comment u could play off
TWITTERMANN: but they're representative of the level of intellect. This isn't speaking, you do get to review all 140 chars. before hitting send
Got that? Misspelling = no intellect. Here's what Olby tweeted a few hours before this exchange:
TWITTERMANN: And then they add "but they must be stopped! And they won Obama the election!" Fox = Emporer's New Clothes
Emporer? Emporer?!? That's some intellect you have there, Fat Ass.
Didn't we just have one of these last week? Never mind, the free world cannot survive without the deep thoughts of ex-CNNer, ex-FSNer, ex-ESPNer, ex-NBC-Footballer Keith Olbermann. Olby, who is an 'ex' in more ways than one, is pretty easy to predict on these things. We'll take a stab in the dark on what to expect this time:
Blame Fox News
Attack Sarah Palin
Get Sharron Angle in there somehow
Attack Fox News
Lots of camera pivots
Smear Newt Gingrich
Cry racism
If anyone realizes Islam is not a race, cry religionism
Go after Fox News
Meaningful pauses
Invoke tolerance
Insist the building isn't at Ground Zero, even though it was hit in the attacks
Get Palin again
Oh, and Blame Fox News
It's another night of must-miss tv. Comments are open!
UPDATE: Listen to tonight's Special Education Komment without having to put up with Olby histrionics. Courtesy of MikeC, here's the SEK delivered by the OlbyRobot.
After the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann sunk to a smear of Bill O'Reilly's deceased father, we saw just what rules Oralmann plays by. Tony Soprano may have insisted that families are off limits, but on OlbyPlanet it's perfectly acceptable for KO to enhance his personal attacks of O'Reilly by dragging in Mr Bill's dad.
That's why we asked people who had knowledge of Olby's dad to email us with information. If O'Reilly's father is considered so probative in a smear of Mr Bill, then clearly the Ted Olbermann story must have much to tell us about Edward R Olbermann. And we've received some fascinating emails in just the past 24 hours.
That's why tonight we turn to the record of misogynistic behavior that has followed Keith Olbermann around for much of his professional life. A few examples:
Calling his co-worker Rita Cosby 'dumber than a suitcase of rocks'
Describing Michelle Malkin as a 'mashed up bag of meat with lipstick'
These of course are just the tip of the iceberg. It all causes us to wonder, just what turned Keith Olbermann into someone who delights in degrading women? Was he born that way? Or were these attitudes carefully taught? What of Theodore Olbermann? Did his behavior or attitudes play a role in Keith Olbermann becoming the He-Man Women Hater of today? Email your information; as before, your confidentiality is assured.
It's another night of must-miss television from the infamous deplorable one. What to expect:
Attack on Gingrich etc with Howard Not-So-Fineman
Emotionalism over BP oil spill with Perfessor Harris-Lacewell
Waving the 'anchor baby' bloody shirt
Smears of Rand Paul
This will be more Oralmann sound and fury signifying nothing. But perhaps he will bring us something Emmy-worthy. Maybe tonight he'll go beyond his sick attack on Bill O'Reilly's deceased father, and launch into smears of other family members. What should we expect? The lowdown on O'Reilly's maternal grandmother? Some ugly name calling at Mr Bill's children? How in the world will Edward R Olbermann top his most repellent smear so far?
Watch Monkeymann's empty calories if you like, but give some thought to this question. Now that Keith has changed the game, and it's now perfectly acceptable for him to smear Bill O'Reilly's deceased father, what exactly should we say about Theodore Olbermann? Does anyone know the real lowdown on this man, or how he could raise a person like Keith Olbermann? Email your information; confidentiality is assured.
Must-Miss TV: Another Olby Special Education Comment
This time he's going to rail at Robert Gibbs for daring to criticize the 'professional left'. Oralmann doesn't like it when his people get criticized by anyone. To help him make his case, he will also interview the erudite political analyst and respected economist...Michael Moore.
Comments are open!
UPDATE: Listen to tonight's Special Education Komment without having to put up with Olby histrionics. Here's the SEK delivered by the OlbyRobot
The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann cannot take criticism...let alone rejection. Now that NBC has kicked him off Sunday Night football, he's retreated into a Cone of Silence. It must have been doubly embarrassing when the staff was told of Oralmann's firing, and they celebrated by going to a Yankees game!
No new posts at the bestest baseball blog in the whole world, And Keith the prolific tweeter also went silent about 24 hours ago, shortly after the bad news broke. We know his ego is crushed, but Edward R Olbermann should be used to that by now.
Well he convinced himself to deign to appear on A-Mess-NBC tonight. But he doesn't have to respond to anyone there, or face comments about his humiliating exile from football coverage. So he retreats from the interwebs, puts up cyberwalls, holds his hands over his ears, and screams. As he steps into the cyber-bathtub. Listen closely and you can almost hear the bath water bubbling.
Twitter is getting to be a delightful source of Olby humiliation. The latest gem came when he attacked CNN for leading a news hour with a shooting, rather than the all-important gay marriage story:
I happen to like Rick Sanchez, I worked with him. But how CNN could begin with the Connecticut shooting, bad as it was, is inexplicable.
Meanwhile, a short distance away in the very same building, the NBC Nightly News, the flagship news program of Olbermann's employers, led with...the Connecticut shooting!
Whoops. Pretty inexplicable, huh Keith?
Tonight another hour of must-miss tv. You can expect:
Our monthly scan of the MSNBC transcripts turned out just like all the previous ones. Well, not exactly. There was, for the first time in years, a 'conservative' appearing in the count. But there's a catch. Behold, the chart:
Hey, how did one 'conservative' guest find his way onto OlbyPlanet? Well, it wasn't exactly OlbyPlanet. Two weeks of the month found Herr Olbermahn on his staycation, and "Crazy" Larry O'Donnell was the host. On one program, Larry generously allowed a conservative to appear. That was David Frum, who was there to criticize Andrew Breitbart. Ah, that explains it.
More interesting factoids from the July showings of The Hour of Spin:
Barney Frank (D) and Ed Markey (D) got special treatment, each showing up twice!
The most-used pundits classified as 'neutral' (and hence not included in the chart) were The Wolffe Man and David Weigel.
The most-seen liberal/progressive was Huffington Post's Bob Cavnar.
Keep an eye on Alex Wagner. She came in second to Cavnar and was presented as a 'Washington correspondent' (thereby hiding the fact that she hails from the Center for American Progress).
Get set for another month of propaganda that's a pure precis of the progressive party line. Comments are open!
The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann may be on staycation, but there are others at A-Mess-NBC ready to pick up the slack. Case in point: Big Ed Schultz, who yesterday hosted Howard Dean. Dean was fresh off an embarrassing turn on Fox News Sunday, where he had stammered incoherently as Chris Wallace confronted him with a hard fact: Shirley Sherrod was fired long before Fox News Channel had aired the Breitbart video or even mentioned her name.
But that didn't stop Dr Dean, who yesterday doubled down on dishonesty with a flat-out lie:
HOWARD DEAN: I happen to like Chris Wallace, but he was really not being exactly accurate when he talked about 'we didn't say one word about this before the Secretary of Agriculture fired her'. The fact of the matter is they were pushing this story very very hard all day. It may be true that they didn't mention her name, but they sure did run the tape without mentioning her name, and they cranked up this story...
No they didn't, Howard. That's not a matter of opinion; it's a hard, stubborn fact. Needless to say, bellowing doofus Ed Schultz didn't correct Dean, and let the lie stand.
What now, MSNBC? They lurrrve to attack Fox News, but here it's their own prestige at stake. Will they insist that Big Ed correct the record today? Or will they let Howard Dean's falsehoods stand, and show again that A-Mess-NBC is little more than a sleazy cadre of flagrant liars?
As the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann enters week two of his vacation, matters still swirl all around him. It has been revealed that his buddies on the Jouno-List don't hold him in very high regard, tossing around such words as 'pompous' and 'misogynistic'. Of course Keith's antipathy and lack of respect for women is well known, and we're not just talking about using them for his "relief" and then dumping them with nothing more than a half-empty bottle of Merlot and an used necktie. For a quick recap of Oralmann's misogyny just check out these examples.
Meanwhile, Krazy Keith has been busy mastering The Twitter. Which is always run to read, because there are often flashes of The Real Olbermann to be seen. Remember when Olby told an emailer:
By the way, with my new contract I could buy and sell you. Then again, I could probably have done that when I made $8500 a year in 1979.
I get paid a lotta money, Dude. We make a lotta money, Pal. We're covered on that front. How much YOU make?
Very classy. And so deeply intellectual. Because the more money you make, the smarter you are, the better you are. Hmm. I wonder who makes more: Keith Olbermann or Rupert Murdoch? But never mind. How about reprising an old favorite with a new target. Edward R Olbermann once declared:
Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda--worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.
Well now there's someone else Fat Ass is comparing to the KKK:
ah yes, the Klan. Formed by those who refused to accept the government or blacks in power. In other words, The Tea Party
Why do any original thinking when you can just recycle and repurpose the manic smears of yesteryear? That's OlbyPlanet. The smears are tired, old, and tattered from excessive re-use. Only the targets vary to satisfy the diseased overcompensating psyche of Keith Olbermann.
Olbermann Can't Resist, Interrupts 'Vacation' for Special Education Komment
Yep, here it comes:
Tonight on Countdown, my Special Comment on Shirley Sherrod, the Assassins of the Right, and the enablers of the Left.
What's the over/under for how many times we'll hear "Fox" or "Fixed" tonight? Get ready for must-miss tv, but keep in mind Oralmann will probably not even appear until the last segment.
As Keith Goes on 'Vacation', Enjoy His Sophisticated Rapier Wit
Some people expressed surprise that the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann suddenly announced a vacation on Friday. Two weeks away from The Hour of Spin. Was it because Tucker Carlson had unnerved him? Baseball season heating up? We think the explanation is precisely what we predicted when A-Mess-NBC banned Olby's butt-boy Markos Malicious from their air:
Keithy doesn't like Joe, Markos hearts Keithy (a true Love Connection), so Markos is happy to smear anyone on Olby's enemies list. Unfortunately, this was too much even for A-Mess-NBC's pusillanimous management, and Markos has been banned from their airwaves--including The Hour of Spin! Oh there is no joy on OlbyPlanet tonight. How long until Oralmann cooks up some excuse to take multiple days off in protest?
How long? Ten days. Ten days during which Olby was not permitted to have his way with Countdown bookings. Ten days during which Edward R Olbermann chafed under the No-Kos Rule. Hardly a surprise, and certainly not unexpected, that he would revolt against the injustice of not having his favorite far-left extremist on the air, camouflaging it as a "vacation".
But fear not. Even as The Great and Powerful Olb will not be on the air for two weeks, you can still enjoy his insights, intellectual prowess, and sophisticated wit by following his twitter feed. Oh wait, he's gone and made it "protected"; nobody gets to see it unless they are Olby-approved. But we have our ways. We thought you might like to see an example of how Keith fills his days and nights. Like a moth inexorably drawn to the flame, Oralmann can't resist responding to critical tweets (right before blocking the senders). Here you'll see what a great speller he is, and view some of that clever, urbane, cerebral repartee that has already made him a twitter legend:
I meet all kinds of people playing Halo 3. Expand your mind, puppet boy /This is urs expanded? U must've started as a rock
@Assholbermann emailed people telling them to: "kill yourself"... /Those weren't people, they were humanoids like you
olbermann goes overboard over his ratings cause he has is concerned about something smaller than his ratings /Your brain?
Rand Paul needs to learn difference between Socialism & Communism... /Lets start with them learning to tie own shoes
There you go @KeithOlbermann - http://tinyurl.com/2cealje /Uh this appears to be a tweet from a rodent of some sort
nearly all-white group replies "I can't see" racism./More KO disdain for We The People //Actually, WE the People
Does anyone think @KeithOlbermann will spend his entire 2 weeks off hiding in a bathtub? //Only dipshits
teheehee, it's a gay joke, everybody! /No it's a "Beck is Psycho" Joke. Probably paints his privates too
Next time...bone up on your grammar and try writing in grown-up English /YOU go bone up
OK, sports fans, Batting Practice has now concluded for another night. Thank you, good night, and good luck.
Reading that is like...well, it's like Edward R Murrow was alive again. Wow. That whole string of comments should be sent to the Pulitzer Committee.
Enjoy two weeks without the infamous, deplorable one. And here's a little traveling music for your listening pleasure. Comments are open!
UPDATE: Another good reason to take a "vacation": the Executive Producer of your show has left and taken another key staffer with her. Inside Cable News had the story over a month ago:
Which cable news show may be showing signs of internal trouble? Rumors are flying that the show's EP has "had it" and another key staffer is leaving the program...
That's exactly what happened today, with Izzy Povich and another staffer finally earning their freedom from OlbyPlanet. ICN confirms that his blind item was about The Hour of Spin (so Keith Olbermann alienates two more people who couldn't stand to work with him) and notes:
Not that this was entirely unexpected but Povich leaving Countdown is huge. You don't usually see EPs leaving the network's flagship primetime show for a new show that is totally unproven. As a network exec you don't want to make the switch because you don't want to potentially upset the applecart for the flagship show, unless you have to. This suggests that there may be a story here to be written concerning what's been going on with Countdown that would force this move.
There's all sorts of fun at the new KeithOlbermann.com website, set up by Tucker Carlson and The Daily Caller. First you might check out the latest edition of their weekly Hour of Spin summary. Here's a shocker: Keith Olbermann shamelessly inserted himself (in a self-aggrandizing fashion) into the Steinbrenner story.
Jim Treacher has breaking Olbermann Twitter news: Krazy Keith doesn't know how to tell time, and made a fool of himself again. Oh wait, maybe that's old news.
Speaking of Twitter, here's how Oralmann replied to someone who dared to suggest that he is something less than perfection itself:
RT @Mamadoxie U gleefully tweet about mistakes but when u F Up we get crickets? /when I f up I'll let u know. Otherwise just assume U f'd up
Right. The Great and Powerful Olb never Fs up, and never makes a mistake. Meanwhile he's responding to critics by being a human spell-check:
...said the buffoon who misspells "biggest"
Yup, Oralmann really believes that spelling errors are proof that you're a buffoon. Unless, that is, it's one of Olby's spelling errors. Then he blocks people who saw it, and stays up all hours of the night deleting his tweets so he can pretend he's infallible and still make fun of other people's spelling mistakes.
Oh, KeithOlbermann.com has also presented a page of video highlights from Keith's career, drawn from the many Olbermann Watch videos. Watch and enjoy reliving some of Monkeymann's biggest embarrassments. And we'll add this one, just for old time's sake:
Olbermann Not Master of His Domain! Now UPDATED with Tucker Q&A!
Krazy Keith has never shown much understanding of the interwebs. You will recall how he lied, wailed, and smeared Fox over a twitter account in his name...only to have it come out that the account had been created for him by MSNBC. Still, Edward R Olbermann wasn't interested. Twitter was too hard for him to figure out:
I tried to sign up last summer and abandoned the project.
Yes, signing up for Twitter is a really intensive "project". People abandon the effort all the time because signing up is so hard that they have to try and try to do it.
It would be months later when A-Mess-NBC finally got him to go on The Twitter, where as we know he now blocks anyone who criticizes him, and attacks 12-year-old fans over their grammar.
Now Al Gore's invention has bitten Herr Olbermahn yet again. Despite being on the air for a decade, and bearing the name Keith Olbermann since birth, the infamous, deplorable one never showed one minute of interest in reserving the domain keitholbermann.com. As a result of his sloth, that domain was first created in August of 2004, and not by Keith Olbermann. Now it has changed hands, and keitholbermann.com is being run by Tucker Carlson, of the Daily Caller. You can read about it here:
The Daily Caller, one of the fastest-growing online media properties, announced today its acquisition of KeithOlbermann.com, expanding the company's global reach into a new segment of the online political market.... "We plan to make The Daily Caller the one-stop online shop for Keith Olbermann commentary," said Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson. "We will be THE Keith Olbermann superstore..."
Olby's reaction was first to laugh it off, then just minutes later (as the paranoia kicked in) to sputter vague threats about legal proceedings. We at OlbyWatch throw our full support toward this new venture, and encourage all our loyal readers to contact the new keitholbermann.com and suggest topics to cover, perhaps bring their attention to some of our hundreds of OlbyWatch videos, and in general encourage them on this noble enterprise.
Tucker Carlson may be reached at his personal email address: keith@keitholbermann.com.
Comments are open!
BONUS: Here, courtesy of Mediaite, is Tucker Carlson explaining his acquisition of the domain name, and detailing just how much Keith Olbermann is hated at MSNBC. And Tucker should know. He worked there:
Sure Enough, Now It Comes Out: Steinbrenner Was a Secret Fan of Countdown!
The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann has been a busy beaver today. Since he has people to write Countdown for him, he can afford to diddle away on his blog of choice, Daily Kos. (Of course it's not beyond belief that ghost writers provide the Kos material as well. But if so they must be pretty disreputable ghosts. With soiled sheets.)
Today his contribution to Markos "Screw 'Em" Malicious is a lengthy diatribe about the evil Rush Limbaugh. It's bereft of even a modicum of logical thought (like when he talks about the estate tax rate--he's not countering Limbaugh at all, but actually reinforcing Limbaugh's point, but Oralmann is too dense to realize it). Plus there's this gem, which just about every who reads OlbyWatch knew would be coming:
Steinbrenner made no secret that he was a viewer of mine, at ESPN, and MSNBC.
Right on time: the retroactive "fan" whose adoration of Edward R Olbermann only gets mentioned after his death. Considering how insensitive this oft-used self-promotional Olby gambit is, it's that much more hypocritical to find him superciliously cluck-clucking at Limbaugh for making a political point on the day someone died. (Which, if you think about it, is, like, every day.) To wit:
You turned a man's death into a race-baiting joke....the timing of this remark is just as callous, and just as sleazy...
Right, It's not callous and sleazy to trade on his death to inflate your barrage-balloon-sized ego, is it Keith? But hey, you're a Daily Kos diarist. You love the place: it's a "nice site"! And while you're puffing up your own reputation by promoting unverified post-mortem claims from someone who is now conveniently unable to contradict, your "nice site" was avoiding being "sleazy" and "callous" as they discussed the heart surgery of Dick Cheney:
Slowly but surely, he is getting a bionic heart. Kind of like Locutis of Borg.
Somehow this must be part of his deal with the devil.
Too late anyway. He already spawned his evil offspring.
I don't believe we would get any truth from him if he were ever compelled to give testimony. We'll have to dig out the truth ourselves, via documents and colluders. So whatever happens to him healthwise, I am fairly indifferent to.
If you look at the device they put in it looks like the devils hand wrapped around and pumping.
who is this guy and why should we care?
That's what you find on Keith Olbermann's blog. And he's calling someone else "callous" and "sleazy"? Hey Olby, before you want to toss dirt on others, you should quit wallowing in the sewer yourself.
Day Four of Keith Olbermann's Ongoing Lie...UPDATE: Not!
It was Friday when the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann broadcast falsehoods. (Actually it's every day, but we're dealing with one particular example here.) As usual, he lifted them from a blue blog, didn't bother to fact check, and then put them on the air as "news". Unfortunately, his habit of parroting sites like Think Propaganda came back to bite him again, as Politifact exposed his blatherings as wildly, utterly false.
Herr Olbermahn was confronted about his laughable nonexistent fact-checking on Friday when, as we reported yesterday, he admitted he was utterly wrong and promised that the correction would come that night.
Friday. Monday. Now it's Tuesday, four days later. Edward R Olbermann could have corrected the false information and shown the merest modicum of journalistic ethics. Instead he chose to let the untruths stand without acknowledging or correcting them. If we give him the benefit of the doubt that originally he was merely lazy and inept in not checking the facts, he now knows what he said was untrue. And he's allowing it to stand. In other words, he's turned what may have been just another instance of his pitiable "journalistic" skills into an ongoing lie.
Perhaps Olbermann Watch will have sufficiently humiliated Keith Olbermann that he will slip a perfunctory correction into tonight's Hour of Spin. But we wouldn't suggest betting the house on that possibility. Keith Oralmann would rather be wrong, than do right.
Comments are open!
UPDATE: Our mistake, but we have an excuse. We checked the MSNBC transcripts for both Friday and yesterday, and there was no correction from Olbermann in either case. However, we didn't reckon with the incompetence of MSNBC's web team. Just go to the transcripts page and read the transcript for Friday, July 9. No correction, no mention of the gas/oil subsidies at all. Why is that? Because while msnbc.com claims it is the transcript for Friday July 9, it is in fact the transcript for Thursday July 8. The actual Friday transcript isn't posted at all!
KO did make a correction on Friday night, as politifact notes in their article. Our fault for assuming msnbc's website to be reliable. Our apologies to Keith. We correct our mistakes, and it's good to know that in this case, he did too. Now if he could just admit he was wrong about Lincoln's elections...
Remember when the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann absurdly claimed: "I have never knowingly reported anything false and we correct our mistakes."
Yeah, right. We reported how Rip 'n' Read Olbermann lifted bogus stats from his blue blog source, Think Propaganda. And how Politifact nailed him on his falsehoods. On Friday we rashly predicted Oralmann would make the correction, but hey--it's Olbermann. What were we thinking? Of course he boasted that he would do the right thing:
Politifact is absolutely right & we will correct tonight.
But Friday night's Hour of Spin came and went and...well, we didn't notice any correction. So we checked the MSNBC transcript and...well, we didn't notice any correction.
Is this so? Is Keith Olbermann really such an insecure wuss that he can't even admit when he's wrong? When he lifts talking points from an internet website and doesn't bother to check them before broadcasting them as "news"? C'mon Keith, man up. Grow a pair. Keep your word.
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:
1832 -- Lost his first race for the state assembly
1842 -- Lost a race for Congress to John Hardin.
1854 -- Elected again to the Illinois legislature, but loses a race for the United States Senate to Lyman Trumbull.
1856 -- Loses the vice-presidential nomination of the new Republican Party to William L. Dayton, a former U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
1858 -- Lincoln loses a race for the United States Senate to legendary rival Senator Stephen A. Douglas.
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.
MSNBC Bans Markos...Amy Robach Bans Herself from OlbyPlanet!
All sorts of developments today regarding the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. There's his attack last night on the "racist" Limbaugh, which turns out to have been concocted from a quote so heavily cherry-picked and cropped that it's not beyond reason to call it a doctored quote. This sort of lie by omission is coin of the realm on OlbyPlanet.
Meanwhile things aren't looking so good for Olby regular and blog boss Markos Malicious. It seems that he thought it would make sense to smear Joe Scarborough by suggesting he murdered an intern. Never mind that the death wasn't even a homicide. Never mind that there's not one scintilla of evidence that Scarborough was even present when it happened. Keithy doesn't like Joe, Markos hearts Keithy (a true Love Connection), so Markos is happy to smear anyone on Olby's enemies list. Unfortunately, this was too much even for A-Mess-NBC's pusillanimous management, and Markos has been banned from their airwaves--including The Hour of Spin! Oh there is no joy on OlbyPlanet tonight. How long until Oralmann cooks up some excuse to take multiple days off in protest?
At least there's one NBCer who knows what associating with the infamous, deplorable one can do to her credibility. Mediaite also reported that Herr Olbermahn admitted in one of his many, many tweets that NBC's Amy Robach refuses (wisely) to appear on Countdown. Refuses to bow before the altar of Edward R Olbermann?!? Maybe Markos should start spreading some rumor about her too. Hey, as long as he's banned anyhow, why not redouble the smears?
Don't expect to hear too much about any of this on tonight's Hour of Spin, where the topics will be the usual dog's breakfast of talking points, accentuated by the usual gang of parrots: The Wolffe Man, discredited partisan hack Dave Weigel, and Olby's favorite low-rent leftist Dennis Miller wannabe, Harry Shearer. It's a Countdown for the ages. It's must-miss tv! Comments are open!
June Chart: Countdown Still a DNC Talking Points Factory
Our monthly scan of the MSNBC transcripts turned out just like all the previous ones. It's what you might expect from the most unbalanced, one-sided "news" program this side of Radio North Korea. Behold, the chart:
Some additional fun facts about the month's statistics:
The most popular Democrat was Robert Reich (three visits to OlbyPlanet).
Favorite left-wing guests included HuffPo blogger Bob Cavnar (seven appearances) and Eugene "Geno" Robinson (four).
Of those guests categorized as independent, the front-runner, with six visits, was Dave Weigel.
Of those guests categorized as conservative or Republican, most were blocked from entering the studio by Nation of Islam poll watchers. Two who made it as far as Olbermann's office were summarily executed. Of course, none was permitted to appear on The Hour of Spin.
Yeah, we know that Weigel is no more "independent" than Crazy Larry O'Donnell (who himself appeared three times). But we bend over backwards in an abundance of caution to ensure that our counts are unimpeachable, so even conservative-haters like Weigel get the benefit of the doubt, and are classed as "independent".
So get set for another month of propaganda from the least diversified hour on all of cable news. Discuss, resolve, and recap. Comments are open!
No sooner had Larry King announced that his iconic interview program on CNN was coming to an end, when the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann immediately injected himself into the story. Why he and Larry were best buds, and King was so enamored of Herr Olbermahn's baseball card collection superb analytical skills that he embarked on an eight-year campaign to convince Jon Klein to hire Olby as the lead-in to Larry King Live:
Larry King is a lovely, generous man who tried, for eight years, to convince his bosses to hire me to be his 8 PM lead-in at CNN.
Now it's odd that a crusade to sign Oralmann that ran for eight years never seemed to make any news during that time. It must have been the best-kept secret since the development of the atomic bomb. And never mind that Krazy Keith was more than willing to ridicule his good friend Larry King on air, when he thought his credulous viewership would enjoy a laugh at King's expense:
During a full hour with Larry King, Hello, Miss Hilton sent the nation into a premature slumber and turned out the light. The good news, Mr. King did not confuse Miss Hilton with any of the other Beatles and did not refer to her as George Hamilton.
Yeah, we're sure that's exactly the sort of "journalism" Larry wanted leading into his hour. The latest development: CNN's Jon Klein has weighed in on Keith "Man on Fan" Olbermann's astonishing claim that Larry King spent eight years lobbying for CNN to hire Olby. Mediaite's Steve Krakauer asked a simple, direct question about Olbermann's claim: "Is it true"? Jon Klein's response:
Klein: Larry's got a million ideas a day.
Say what? According to Keith, this was Larry's eight-year-long campaign: hire Olbermann! But CNN's President paints it as something completely different--just one of millions of ideas Larry tossed out over his 25 years at the news channel. What Klein didn't say is equally important. He could have said yes, Larry pestered me about it for eight years. Or Larry repeatedly pushed Olbermann. But Klein said nothing even remotely supportive of Oralmann's claim. Instead he tossed the question aside with a flip response, as if anything more substantive would give credence to a preposterous Olbermann conceit.
Even a Disgraced Hack Is Welcomed by Olbermann...Because He IS a Hack!
Set the wayback machine for May 25th. That's when the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann sanctimoniously attacked Bill O'Reilly for joking about plugging the oil spill hole with members of NBC News. This shocking depiction of fantasy violence really offended Herr Olbermahn...because he didn't think of it first. Just three days later, Olby would crack that the way to plug the hole was to stuff it with BP executives:
That's how it works on OlbyPlanet. It's only wrong when someone on Fox does it. It's not even wrong when someone at the Washington Post does it--as long as they agree with Edward R Olbermann. So what if frequent Olby parrot Dave Weigel called for Matt Drudge to commit suicide by setting himself on fire?
This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire.
No WPitW for Weigel, because Olby approves of Weigel's aims: to slant the news to benefit the Democratic Party, or when necessary to minimize the damage to the Dems, as when Scott Brown defeated Coakley:
I think pointing out Coakley's awfulness is vital, because it's 1) true and 2) unreasonable panic about it is doing more damage to the Democrats.
Hmm, does that sound familiar? It should. It's like a living, breathing example of the sort of "news" that you get on OlbyPlanet. Twisted, slanted, choreographed, and filtered. Ergo it's no surprise that Dave Weigel--out of a job, discredited, and exposed as a slovenly political hack--will be welcomed back in the Seat of Honor on tonight's Hour of Spin. Along with Crazy Larry, The Perfessor, and a Special Education Comment attacking...wait for it...Palin!
Only the diseased mind of a feckless propagandist could welcome Weigel back because he has been exposed as a partisan hack. But that's life on OlbyPlanet. Comments are open!
Oh that Obama! He didn't do what Olbermann told him to do. Krazy Keith spent yesterday hyperventilating about General McChrystal, telling the Prez not to accept his resignation, but instead "Keep him, Mr President". That way Obama will "neuter the political blowback" and "present a front of force and calm and intelligence".
But Obama didn't listen to Herr Olbermahn. Maybe the Prez was influenced by the writings at Keith Olbermann's blog, where they declared that McChrystal is a "monstrous thug", an example of the military's "pathological criminals": "half murderer, and all evil". Yes, our old friends at Daily Kos, recently described by member Olbermann as "a nice site".
But there's a bigger problem on OlbyPlanet. Obama went and appointed General Petraeus. You remember Olbermann on Petraeus, don't you?
Mr. Bush, you had no right to order General Petraeus to become your front man. And he obviously should have refused that order, and resigned rather than ruin his military career.... Mr. Bush, you have hidden behind the general`s skirts... That, sir, is not only un-American, it is dictatorial. And in pimping General David Petraeus, sir, in violation of everything this country has been assiduously and vigilantly against for 220 years...
But that's hardly Oralmann's most egregious insult to the General. You will recall the famed moveon "Petraeus Betray Us" ad, questioning the General's patriotism? The moveon folks have quickly moved to scrub that ad from their website. But as readers of Olbermann Watch have known for years, the Petraeus/BetrayUs smear was not thought up by moveon. Before their ad even appeared, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann was impugning the General's patriotism live, on air, bellowing:
KEITH OLBERMANN, MSNBC HOST: Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The Petraeus report, less Petraeus, more Betray Us.
And just to make sure nobody missed the point, he put his slur right up on the tv screen:
Yes, Keith "Man on Fan" Olbermann is the author of Petraeus/BetrayUs. Moveon stole it from Olby. And now Monkeymann is about to go on the air and...do what? Slam Petraeus anew? Accuse Obama of pimping him? Repeat his "BetrayUs" smear? Or just pretend like none of that ever happened and gush over Obama's choice as if he was for Petraeus all along?
Meet the OlbyLoons (Twitter Edition): Laura Stadler
We know Olbyloons are fixated on the wonderful magnificence that is Keith Olbermann, but even the most rabid aren't as prolific as the one we profile tonight: Laura Stadler. It's hard to imagine how she finds time to serve as moderator on a video game forum, because she's constantly on twitter. In just the past week alone she has sent over 100 tweets to @Keith Olbermann! Such is the nature of obsession whereby anything no matter how trivial (like the weather, or allergy shots) gets sent to @KeithOlbermann, in the desperate hope of getting his attention. Laura seems to have had no luck getting @KeithOlbermann to follow her on twitter. But even worse--it seems that Olby has ceased replying to her at all! Laura offers up innumerable theories for this, but there's an obvious explanation. His replies stopped after Laura gave her age: 48. Here is just a sample of the multiple hundreds of tweets she directed to Oralmann over the last three weeks:
I'll miss getting to hear the Thurber reading live(30 yr HS class reunion is tonight)Will watch via DVR later.
Can't watch @KeithOlbermann because I'm at my HS reunion right now, dammit :-(
I'm going back inside for another round:no fucking signal in the basement where the bar is :-( missing@KeithOlbermann sucks
Good night everyone, including @KeithOlbermann :)
YANKEES WIN!!!!! Now THAT was a good game :D Hope it made @KeithOlbermann happy too ;)
I also watch what I've DVRed during the week....mostly @KeithOlbermann and @Maddow ;)
If you live for the day @KeithOlbermann follows you #YouMayBeALiberal & a #Yankee fan & #shameless //LOL Agreed ;)
I should probably get some rest myself....if I fail to get to sleep, I'll be back later. Good night everyone, especially @KeithOlbermann :)
@KeithOlbermann Looking forward to watching the show.....Musto is really funny and I bet he'll be "En Fuego" tonight ;)
@KeithOlbermann The show is interesting so far....and I see you're wearing your jeans tonight as well ;) Do like the jacket and tie :)
@KeithOlbermann ROFL at Michael Musto's segment. Great show tonight :D I'm trying to behave...still worn out from parties all weekend ;)
@KeithOlbermann is MUCH better looking than Philippe Cousteau!///I agree :D I'm also not a cougar ;)
I have yet to figure out why they impersonate me and then try to undermine me with @KeithOlbermann
@KeithOlbermann Good afternoon Keith :D What lovely weather you're having today :)
Almost done killing time at the doctor after my allergy shots :P Have to do some shopping, but should be home in time for @KeithOlbermann :)
Oh, niiice :D Purple with dark purple tie and black pinstriped jacket tonight. Very nice combo, @KeithOlbermann ;)
That second toss was all kinds of adorable tonight ;)
Am getting the start of a f'ing migraine right now..glad it waited until after both live runs of @KeithOlbermann were over.
I know why this migraine is hitting me:no sleep last night :( I was actually awake to see all 4 @KeithOlbermann broadcasts.
As to the @KeithOlbermann follow goal: He does seem to follow the pretty young women more...I don't stand a chance at 48 :(
@KeithOlbermann Well, nicer realtively speaking, anyway...I would love to hear from you if I'm in trouble for tweeting you so much...pls??
Be NICE to @KeithOlbermann so that maybe he'll tweet to us more often ;)
@KeithOlbermann looks very serious tonight in shades of blue....it's not funeral black ;) Love that striped shirt, too...
@KeithOlbermann Time for me to get some rest. Good Night and I hope you get some sleep, Keith :)
all the data I have on there....like at least 24 @KeithOlbermann podcasts ;) Probably need to delete some :P
@KeithOlbermann How can you say your pictures are unflattering......YOU happen to be quite photogenic, unlike myself ;)
@KeithOlbermann Very nice combo tonight...Charcoal gray jacket and the blue&earth tones tie :D
@KeithOlbermann I hope I'm not in trouble with you for reading your mention stream in addition to my own timeline...I read very quickly
Insomnia last night, and the only way to reset my sleep cycle is to stay awake until the 3rd run of @KeithOlbermann's show starts :(
I feel like I'm on @KeithOlbermann's ignore list, though. Did you see my tweets about the BP respirator farce??
Trying to back up my iPhone right now.....hope the damned thing is finished before @KeithOlbermann is on the air
@KeithOlbermann You know what, Keith? You've got HUGE......amounts of integrity. :) //LOL NOT where *my* brain went ;)
So do you think our teacher (@KeithOlbermann) is going to spank me, give me dentention&punishment "sentences" ala Bart Simpson? ;)
Good night and sleep well :) I'll be heading for bed after @KeithOlbermann is over again....he WAS wearing jeans tonight, BTW ;)
@KeithOlbermann I'm looking forward to hearing the Thurber story you pick for Friday's reading. Sleepytime for me.....Good Night, Keith :
I got the whole show on DVR, but wanted to have the podcast to listen to as well....@KeithOlbermann's reading voice is relaxing ;)
it would be nice if @KeithOlbermann would follow me, if only to be able to comment without the trolls heckling me.
@KeithOlbermann Yeah, it does look rather warm out there today.....hope you're wearing something comfy and using sunscreen ;)
@KeithOlbermann So, what color shirt are you wearing??? We who are watching the game on TV are trying to spot you on the crowd....
I doubt I'll ever get another reply tweet out of @KeithOlbermann....I seem to be persona non grata lately :-(
Can't be putting your foot in your mouth worse than I've done..probably why @KeithOlbermann doesn't answer me anymore
Meanwhile, prepare for tonight's Hour of Spin. Will Olby be wearing jeans again? Or that dark purple tie? And what color shirt will he wear? Laura Stadler wants to know!! Comments are open!
Keith Olbermann Leads Desperation 24-Hour MSNBC Flip-Flop!
Just as we predicted yesterday, MSNBC's critical reaction to Obama's handling of the BP catastrophe didn't even last a day. As if the orders had been beamed in from the DNC, Wednesday found the A-Mess-NBC propagandists back in their sycophantic zone, led by the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. John Gibson discusses this, and Oralmann's drama-queen "announcement" that he was leaving Daily Kos (how long will that last?). Listen up, listen uppers:
What to expect on tonight's Hour of Spin?
Olby attack on Joe Barton for saying "shakedown" (but Ed Schultz will get a pass)
Meet the OlbyLoons (Twitter Edition): Donna Cestone
She claims (and therefore wants Keith Olbermann to believe) that she is a registered pharmacist in DC, but twitter user belladonnamc elsewhere describes herself as a "pharmaceuticals professional", which isn't exactly the same thing. Be that as it may, there's no doubt of her unswerving (and borderline irrational) obsession with the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann, as these tweets demonstrate:
Well deserved; This is wonderful news!!! Congratulations Lawrence and Excellent Selection Keith! :-) [Apparently she too believes Olbermann decides who gets to appear on A-Mess-NBC]
Loved Thurber as usual! I see you're making it more casual without the tie and you looked great!
Not to mention every other night I watch you, you're looking mighty fine tonight! ;-)
Just visiting too and hope you had a great weekend! :-)
Yay; I did catch Thurber! Now to play my taped show from the beginning!
Loved tonight's comment! :-)
Did get your Tweet about being on the 7 train now; get home safely! T-storm here now; I'm going to sleep. Sweet dreams :-)
I'm at The Capital Grille (5310 Western Avenue, Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda).
Think of it this way: We get to see ALL of your good looks that way and you don't look old! :-)
On my way to Mount Vernon for a Winefest with friends; will Foursquare when I get there...Think you'd like this event!
Was wondering where you've been this gorgeous day! - LOL! :-)
WOW! Beautiful ring! :-)
I enjoyed seeing this at work. Please post more photos of you!
I wanna hear flutes too! :-)
There's much more but you get the idea. The desperation is really sad, but who knows? Perhaps Olbermann will make another Love Connection.
Meanwhile, watch for the fastest flip-flop in Oralmann history as he reverses his mild criticism of Obama yesterday and comes out cheering for BHO tonight. Sure as there's an OlbyPlanet, that's what will happen. Comments are open!
MSNBC Adds Crazy Larry O'Donnell: An Even Whiter Spectrum of News!
In yet another bold programming move, A-Mess-NBC has given its 10:00 pm slot to Lawrence "Creepy Liar!" O'Donnell. Observers are already giving this predictable move a thumbs down, noting how little it really adds to the primetime lineup. But one question remains: "Where are the black faces?" (tm Keith Olbermann). MSNBC's lineup of white news, is now whiter than ever:
While you're pondering how many times Edward R Olbermann will rail against the paucity of "black faces" on A-Mess-NBC (that number would be somewhere around the square root of zero), enjoy this bit from Glenn Beck ridiculing Keith Olbermann--watch it here courtesy of The Right Scoop.
Senate Candidate (D) Accused of Accosting Teen with Porn...So Olbermann Endorses Him!
You really can't get any lower than this. The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann is so desperate to promote Democrats and smear Republicans that he'll not just cross the line--he'll obliterate it. Follow: a Democratic candidate for US Senate is arrested and charged with a pornography-related felony. According to the accuser, Alvin Greene (D) accosted her in a restricted school area and stuck a sexually explicit picture in her face. And then tried to get her to go with him. Here is the story as the victim told it:
Yeccch. This is a sleazy and slimy guy. Yet, if you're Edward R Olbermann, Sen James DeMint (R) is worse. So much so, Oralmann declared that (if he lived in the state) he'd cast his vote for the accused pervert! No we're not making this up:
Everyone knows that Edward R Murrow would give his endorsement to a pervert, so why not Krazy Keith? Maybe there's something here that reminds Olby of the good old days, when he could use the company email to entice young things to a nearby hotel room. Perhaps with a bottle of cheap Merlot at the ready. Then again, it could've been Laura's dog that told him he should back Alvin Greene (D). In any case, Man on Fan's diseased mind has sunk to new depths. Just another incident that the new bosses may find to be something less than comcastic. If that happens, Karmawill bite. Comments are open!
Sharron Angle and Laura Ingraham Respond to Latest Olbermann Attack!
Smear, lie, and attack: the stock-in-trade of the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. He never gives his victims a chance to respond (yet another way in which he is nothing like Edward R Murrow), but now you can hear what Keith doesn't want you to hear: the other side. Listen here as Sharron Angle joins Laura Ingraham to show up Oralmann for the slovenly political hack he is. (This may be a disappointment to Krazy Keith, but Laura's dog does not take part in the conversation.)
Then get set for tonight's Hour of Spin. Attacks on BP, Dick Cheney, Bush (of course), Chris Wallace...and another zzzzzzz-filled segment of Creepy Uncle Keith reading to the kiddies from the works of an overrated nobody by the name of Thurber. Comments are open!
Hey Here's a New Idea for Olbermann: Why Not Attack Rand Paul?
Oh the excitement of another Hour of Spin, where the topics, propaganda, and biases are about as unpredictable as the rising of the sun. Coming tonight from the infamous, deplorable one:
Doomsday courtesy of the evil BP
The Wolffe Man to spin oil spills in favor of Obama
Political analysis from an unbiased source: Ed Schultz
Requisite attacks on Orly Taitz and Rand Paul
Plus a threat from Oralmann to return again at 10:00 pm
No, that's not a picture of Olbermann, though it looks a little like Musto. Actually that's a picture of someone who will probably get very little attention on tonight's Hour of Spin, because the infamous, deplorable one has bigger fish to fry...
Attack on BP
Howard "Pundit for All Occasions" Fineman for political spin
Lefty David Corn to attack Liz Cheney
Attack on Rand Paul
And creepy Michael Musto to attack Rush for hiring Elton John
A "newshour" that would have made Edward R Murrow proud. Comments are open!
In blasting a typical Olbermann attack at a new target (CNN's Campbell Brown), the infamous deplorable one made a comment that struck those of us here at OlbyWatch, who know him too well, as blatantly fatuous. To quote Olby: "I have never knowingly reported anything false and we correct our mistakes."
Yes, he did say that. OK, so the OlbyWatch Research Division is a bit short-handed during the summer months, but even so they were able to whip up a short list of Edward R Olbermann falsehoods and lies...and guess how many he corrected? Here's a hint: if you guessed one, you might just be too high:
Olbermann lied that Scott Brown 'never disassociated himself' from a shouted statement.
The above? Merely an appetizer. There are literally hundreds more examples. But you get the point. Oralmann is a serial misinformer, a congenital liar, and his claim that he 'corrects his mistakes' is the latest example of the latter.
The Latest Olbermann News: None of It Good...for Olbermann
How are those ratings going, Olby? Not so well. It seems that as FNC continues its dominance over cable news, Countdown to No Ratings is staying the course as well: going down! TV By the Numbers reports that May is Herr Olbermahn's worst month this year, as his audience dwindles and his standings plummet:
May was Countdown with Keith Olbermann's worst month so far in 2010 in the cable news advertiser target adults 25-54 demographic. The show's May, 2010 monthly average of 250,000 adults 25-54 demo viewers was 23% below its 323,000 average in May, 2009.
Perhaps that is why Jed Eckert is reporting on Comcast's plans for Jeff Zucker, and his fair-haired boy Krazy Keith:
The thinking is that Phil Griffin won't have time meet the new bosses before finding himself out on the street. And without Griffin to protect The Stalker from the new corporate bosses, he can cross another network off his list of places he can never work again.
Hmm, some good reading there. Especially when you factor in an exclusive report from Inside Cable News, which has always had good sources inside A-Mess-NBC:
Which cable news show may be showing signs of internal trouble? Rumors are flying that the show's EP has "had it" and another key staffer is leaving the program...
Make of that what you will, and prepare to recap another miserable Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Another month of Olbermann spin, and once again we poured through the MSNBC transcripts and tallied up the guest breakdown for The Hour of Spin. The results are startlingly similar to the sort of intellectual diversity you might expect to find on Radio Venezuela:
Some fun facts:
Most frequent Democratic politico: Rep Gutierrez
Most frequent Democratic strategist: "Crazy" Larry O'Donnell
Most frequent liberal talking head: WaPo's Ezra Klein
Most frequent 'independent' guests: Dave Weigel, The Wolffe Man
Most frequent Republican/conservative guest: um, there weren't any!
Keith Olbermann Ready to Lead the Borking of Rand Paul
Yes the very notion of anyone in the melanin-challenged MSNBC lineup complaining about segregation or diversity is the utter height in self-unaware irony. But A-Mess-NBC is on a mission, and since Keith Oralmann runs the station, he's leading the charge. Racist! Kook! Loser! Watch for it tonight as Krazy Keith kicks off his smear-fest with ultra-leftist David Corn and that crack analyst of American politics, the Brit who is Pinocchio to Olby's Gepetto: the Wolffe Man. Oh and you won't want to miss the ultimate in compelling television: three fables from the overrated James Thurber--like Harry Potter and bubblegum cards, another indication of Edward R Olbermann's stubbornly arrested development.
Since KO fancies himself an ace wordsmith he's already crowing about the oh-so-clever line he will spew on tonight's Hour of Spin: "Enjoy Rand Paul while you can." Yes, he swears he wrote that himself. Such brilliant discourse Shakespeare could only aspire to. We'd better get a telegram off to the Pulitzer committee right now. They don't want to miss this.
We know the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann has a peculiar relationship with our canine friends. For example there was that night when Olby had to leave a woman's apartment because he was convinced her dog was talking to him. OlbyPlanet is a place where dogs may talk, but don't bark. And the dog that didn't bark last night was predicted right on these pages by brad90956:
His name is Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat and Connecticut's Attorney General who is running for the US Senate. He claimed he served in Vietnam but obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war. In at least eight newspaper articles published in Connecticut from 2003 to 2009, he is described as having served in Vietnam. Will this candidate make the WPITW list or will Olby refuse to cover the story? I think we all know the answer to that question. Instead, Olby will dedicate the segment to Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Fox News. What a "journalist".
Sure enough, while Blumenthal was headline news everywhere else, his name never even came up on The Hour of Spin. Another Dog That Did Not Bark. What stories will prove to be tonight's quiescent canines? Here's our sneak peak of what Oralmann has in store:
Republicans spinning election results
Republicans block bank reform (ignore the two Dems!)
Republicans have a Souder problem (who's Blumenthal anyhow?)
Left Dem politico to smear Arizona law
Evil right-winger insults Muslim diety
Attack on Republican Lowden
Green propaganda piece w/ Robert Redford
Hmm. GE benefits from green energy programs, will make a bundle on Cap & Trade. Is pushing this agenda some sort of Conflict of Interest for A-Mess-NBC? What, how dare you impugn the ethics of Edward R Olbermann?!? For that crime you are sentenced to having to recap Monkeymann's sixty minutes of chicanery. Comments are open!
Keith Olbermann: Still Cleansing His Twitter Feed of Dissent!
We wrote about how little it took to get blocked by @KeithOlbermann, and told you how many people have been banned from Oralmann's Twitter presence. It shouldn't surprise you that it's still going on:
He was tweeting so many people-and it seemed like he would be on for hours. I swear, I was one of the first people to tweet him. I tried to let him know that I was a huge fan-no response. I tried my unique brand of humor-no response. I looked at who he was tweeting and quickly realized that he like to tweet cute white girls, so I created an account-@OlbermannsBrain and had an avatar of a chick with really big "ta-ta's" I tweeted him, and he responded-by blocking me....
In my last attempt to get a response from Keith I tweeted him this,
"Ha! @KeithOlbermann is getting his ass beat in the ratings by @CNNCampbell"
It provoked a response from Keith that read,
"Keith Olbermann @shaggieshapiro ah I see the problem. You think 150 > 250?
I was so happy! This was it! Mission Accomplished, well it was until I found out that the tweet I sent him got me blocked. I mean, come on-I was blocked because I jokingly said that Campbell Brown was beating him in the ratings???? Campbell Brown's ratings are in the toilet, and if he took the time to read my profile-or my tweets-he would know who I am. But, maybe he just didn't like what he saw.
After all the years I defended him-from all the wingnuts who said the problem with Keith is that he puts people on his show that agree with him-no dissenters. For years I was proud to carry the "Olbermann Kool-Aid", and this is how I get treated? He has ruined my experience, and MSNBC's President Phil Griffin has too. With the absence of David Shuster, and the arrogance of Keith Olbermann I am left with no choice but to stop watching MSNBC.
Twitter is just not cool anymore. Looks like I will be hanging around Facebook. Hopefully, that douchebag won't be on there.
Another one sees the light. Discuss, resolve, and then recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Uh Oh...Maybe Olby's New Boss Doesn't Think He's So Comcastic After All
The head honcho of Comcast is talking about what they plans are when they take over NBC. Brian Roberts was effusive about the acquisition of NBC News, but his tone was a little more, well, cautious when the subject turned to the network's illegitimate offspring, A-Mess-NBC:
Playing devil's advocate, former News Corp president and COO Peter Chernin asked Roberts what course of action he might take should, say, MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann begin taking pot-shots at Republican Congressmen.
"Let's have that conversation in 12 months when we're playing with live ammo," Roberts said, before adding that he would ensure that NBC News continued to "keep [its coverage] down the middle, whatever that means."
"Whatever that means"?!? A revealing and arguably appropriate response to the notion of putting Oralmann and "down the middle" news coverage in the same sentence. They aren't even on the same planet! With all the fulsome plaudits he bestowed on NBC the network, his squirrelly reluctance to say even one good word about the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann could prove to be very telling.
Discuss, resolve, and then get ready to recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Olbermann Defends Only Having Guests Who Agree with Him!
Is it satire? MSNBC's idea of Comedy Gold? Or are they seriously trying to make Countdown's one-sided guest list a feature?!? Watch MSNBC's new promo, discuss, resolve, and then recap tonight's Hour of Spin.
Blocked by Keith Olbermann...For Telling the Truth
Keith Olbermann is having the time of his life on Twitter, but it seems like maybe he doesn't get the community/exchange of ideas/conversation aspect of it very well. Because it seems that he treats it like his kingdom on OlbyPlanet--dissent will not be tolerated. KO keeps an eagle eye out for anyone who dares tweet criticallly of him by watching for his twitter address: @KeithOlbermann. As the tweets fly by, he routinely just blocks dissenters from following his tweets, which in his diseased mind is probably like denying the Library of Congress access to the works of Shakespeare. For a while he was using the #beseeingyou hashtag to rub it in, but perhaps he realized that spectators would actually see how many people he was blocking. Sort of a numeral count of his pettiness quotient. So he's cut back on that, but he's still banning people left and right...well, more correctly stated, banning people right and right.
We didn't think our tweet was particularly controversial. We wanted to draw attention to our monthly analysis of Countdown's guests, neatly categorized by partisan and ideological viewpoints. It's nothing we haven't done before, and it's not exactly some kind of devious attack. The guest lists are right there on the Countdown transcripts page. We just go through, tally up all the names, and place them in the appropriate categories. The results for April were typical, indicative of the exclusionist approach Herr Olbermahn takes on The Hour of Spin. So we issued our tweet:
April chart: Countdown w/ @KeithOlbermann breakdown of guests by party and ideology. It's just a tad imbalanced... http://bit.ly/asDZlW
We thought we were being generous by saying it's "just a tad" imbalanced, but Edward R Olbermann didn't see it that way. He quickly responded with a tweet of his own:
@johnnydollar01 When will #JohnnyDollar01 reveal who funds him?
Experienced OlbyWatchers will spot immediately the same sort of demagoguery that regularly appears on The Hour of Spin. First, the substance is completely ignored. The chart is based on NBC's own transcripts. The counts are accurate. So switch-hitter Oralmann drops any challenge to the truth of the chart, and pivots to a personal attack. One entirely without evidence, concocted purely from the malevolent brain of Fat Ass himself. In other words, Another Olbermann Lie. How quickly he forgets that "accusations demand evidence", when it comes to smearing someone as being on a nonexistent payroll. But concern for truth is not exactly high on the list of Olby attributes.
It was just moments later that it happened. We had been following Olbermann's tweets for weeks, but all of a sudden our access was cut off. We tried again to re-add him to our follow list, with this result:
Blocked by Keith Olbermann! Banned from being in the Emperor's Twitter Presence for daring to post a chart that told the truth! We knew Krazy Keith had some self esteem issues, and that his cowardice has kept opposing viewpoints off Countdown for years. But we didn't realize he was so insecure that he has to put up walls around a freaking Twitter account! It almost makes one pity the sniveling little weasel.
Make of this what you will. Discuss, resolve, and then prepare to recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
PS: Here's a twitter user who has obviously figured out the real story about johnnydollar01. There's probably a 50/50 chance that Oralmann will think this seriously true:
@KeithOlbermann Queef, @JohnnyDollar01 is not only funded by but IS John Gibson!!!!! LOL u probably believe that #bathtubboy I KNOW u do!
Glenn Beck Ridicules the Sophisticated Humor and Wit of Keith Olbermann
Watch as Beck mocks those immortal lines that still stand today as the zenith of Keith Olbermann's intellectual badinage: "You're a fascist!" The video is excerpted from a post at The Right Scoop, where you can watch a longer version that also tackles Obama's "predator drone" jokes. Watch and enjoy, watch and enjoyers:
April Countdown Guests: A Full Spectrum of Viewpoints--Everything from A to B
Another month of Olbermann spin, and once again we poured through the MSNBC transcripts and tallied up the guest breakdown for The Hour of Spin. The results will not surprise you:
This is the sort of fairness and diversity of opinion that must be the envy of Radio North Korea. A few fun facts about the statistics:
The most frequent guest categorized as 'liberal' was Chris Hayes.
The most frequent guest categorized as 'democratic strategist' was Lawrence O'Donnell.
If Crazy Larry's sub-hosting appearances are not counted, the most frequent 'democratic strategist' guest was Markos 'Screw 'Em' Moulitsas.
The most frequent guests categorized as neutral were Richard Wolffe and Dave Weigel.
The most frequent guests categorized as either 'Republican' or 'conservative' were...nobody. There weren't any.
Notes: Lawrence O'Donnell is a long-time strategist for Democrats though that is often unmentioned in his MSNBC appearances. Markos M says the purpose of his website is to elect Democrats and he has worked for Democratic candidates, including Howard Dean, so he is considered a 'Dem strategist'. Chris Hayes is categorized as 'liberal' based on the fact that he consistently takes liberal positions. (Duh!)
Discuss, resolve, and then recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
We often hear the notion expressed that while Keith Olbermann may not know much about politics, or geography, he's really a whiz at sports, particularly baseball. Because, you know, he has the bestest baseball card collection in the whole wide world...at least in the possession of someone over 21 years old. But in truth, Edward R Olbermann is as reckless and irresponsible regarding baseball as he is with more serious matters.
It wasn't that long ago that Oralmann smeared Hispanic ball player Albert Pujols and Chris Mihlfeld, his trainer. You can read the sordid details here, but the story tracks what Krazy Keith does every night on The Hour of Spin: he lifts a story from a blog, doesn't bother to verify it, then runs with it as fact. Yeah, that worked out real well, didn't it?
Of course things get really dicey when Monkeymann decides to ignore the Separation of Sports and State and intermingles his maniacal political jihads with baseball. His latest gem began on twitter and was reinforced on Thursday's Hour of Spin, and it is more moronic smears from the infamous, deplorable one:
Bitter Irony Alert: by my analysis, the only MLB team without a prominent (possible All-Star or future HOF) Hispanic player? Arizona. ~ MSNBC's Keith Olbermann via Twitter
It didn't take long for knowledgeable baseball observers to see what Olby was doing here: smearing all the Hispanic players on the Diamondbacks as sub-par, just to prop up one of his tired Daily Kos talking points. The reaction is best summarized by The Sports Retorter:
Miguel Montero, the Diamondbacks' catcher is from Venezuela. Montero arguably would have been in contention for the 2010 All-Star Game if he hadn't injured his knee early in the season. Montero hit .294 last season with 16 home runs 59 RBI and a .832 OPS. Not shabby numbers by anyone's account.
And what about Gerardo Parra? The young Venezuelan had a breakout season in 2009 batting .290 with 5 home runs, 60 RBI and a .729 OPS in just 120 big league games. He was so good that he finished even received votes for the NL Rookie of the Year.
Not enough? What about the former face of the franchise? The man who was responsible for the greatest moment in Arizona sports history and is now a special assistant to the general manager? Does Luis Gonzalez not count in Mr. Olbermann's estimation? Gonzalez is a Cuban American, and was a fantastic player in his day, representing the Diamondbacks in five MLB All-Star Games.
Greg Esposito has much more to say about this, so read the whole thing. And ask yourself what kind of a "journalist" will smear the reputations and denigrate the abilities of these Hispanic ball players just to backstop a phony partisan political talking point? Maybe the kind who never could make the team, couldn't even serve as bat boy, and to this day can't even drive a car? Ya think?
Discuss, resolve, and recap the last (thank you, thank you, thank you!) Hour of Spin for the week. Comments are open!
Embarrassment! Olbermann 'Report' Lifted from Conspiracy Site Falls Apart on Air!
The infamous, deplorable one thinks he is the next incarnation of Edward R Murrow. But we don't think the estimable Mr Murrow would lift alleged 'news stories' from wacked-out conspiracy websites and the present them on air. Yet that's exactly what Herr Olbermahn did on Monday's program, as he relentlessly hyped his breaking news: Sarah Palin's testimony at the email hacker trial just might be perjury. Oh, and in case you didn't get the idea, he repeated the word "perjury" over and over in hyping his breaking news. That is until his guest showed up to pour cold water all over Krazy Keith's latest scoop:
Uh oh. Guests aren't supposed to embarrass Oralmann in front of millions...well, make that thousands of viewers. Will he be permitted back on OlbyPlanet soon? Only time will tell. But poor Mr Weigel was swiftly turned on by the denizens of the wacky site Monkeymann lifted his 'news report' from. So what was this reliable source used by Edward R Olbermann? The subtly-titled (and substantially fictitious) Palingates. And while KO has gone to some odd wells in seeking the most unreliable 'news' available, this is the first time he's relied so heavily on a conspiratorial site this loony. One that claims Sarah Palin faked her pregnancies, and pores over grainy photographs as if they were the Zapruder film to expose the truth about the Trig pregnancy. Yes, Keith Olbermann's latest source for news is a Trig Truther site. What's coming next from the infamous, deplorable one? The real lowdown on who brought down the Twin Towers? Maybe an hour-long special with George Noory on the UFOs who are behind it all?
Who would have guessed that the once-esteemed news department of NBC would end up being humiliated by an incompetent sports guy masquerading as a 'journalist', lifting stories from crackpot websites and further dragging the Peacock reputation through the mud?
Beck Uses Olbermann 'Fascist' Clip to Demonstrate Hate Speech
You may find this segment from the eeevil Glenn Beck of interest. There are several familiar clips shown, including the famous "You're a Fascist!", screamed by Edward R Olbermann at the President of the United States. Glenn Beck puts the rantings of Herr Olbermahn and others in context:
As further show prep for tonight's Hour of Spin, check out this column from sure-to-be-worst-person-nominee David Zurawik. Even though he is a liberal, Zurawik finds MSNBC "Irresponsible" for giving air time to Keith Olbermann, whom he likens to a modern-day Joe McCarthy. Oh, and watch for this guy on tonight's show. He's just a comedian of course, but by sheerest coincidence a comedian who writes for the Huffington Post and is involved with "Laughing Liberally". Yes, on OlbyPlanet, even comics must conform to Monkeymann's politics or they will not be allowed to appear in the presence of the infamous, deplorable one.
Scarborough, About to Unload on Olbermann, Bites Tongue
It's too bad A-Mess-NBC has cracked down on Joe. Because it would have been fascinating to hear what Scarborough would have said if he didn't have to worry about Edward R Olbermann demanding that he be kicked out of 30 Rock. The clip from this morning's broadcast:
Olbermann on Twitter: Thief Hannity Steals Money from Charities!
Inside Cable News connects the dots on MSNBC's glaring double standard:
The manner and zeal in which Olbermann deals with trolls and detractors is interesting. It's interesting not because of the way he does it but because it echoes an infamous incident someone else from MSNBC had a few months ago. And I have to wonder if David Shuster is looking at Olbermann's tweets and thinking to himself if they're going to allow that then why did he get his twitter privileges revoked...
How about that, Olbermann getting special treatment. Whoda thunkit? And his twitter account is so full of perceptive insights. Like when he exults in a comparison of how many followers he has:
he's as phony as a three dollar bill he accepted for charity and then kept
The 'charity' where Hannity keeps the $$?
Recall that all Shuster did was state that James O'Keefe, who had been arrested and charged, was guilty and would go to jail. But at least Shuster was talking about a real case, an actual investigation--even though he was predictably wrong about how it would turn out (or he wouldn't be Shuster). But Judge Olbermann's rulings on Sean Hannity (other than the one where he crows about having more followers) are completely out of left field: there is no criminal investigation, let alone a pending charge. In fact, no such accusation of pocketing money has been made by anyone, other than in Krazy Keith's fevered fantasties!
A-Mess-NBC was pretty quick to yank Shuster off Twitter, for much less than what Edward R Olbermann is perpetrating day after day. It sure seems like the peacock "news" channel has a double standard: different rules for different fools.
The greatness that is Keith Olbermann is so far beyond that of mortal men that it's almost like a god coming down to earth when he graces the rabble with a few of his immortal tweets. And Edward R Olbermann has a favorite topic: no, not Palin, or O'Reilly, or Beck, or even Obama. Nothing so warms the cockles of Olby's heart as talking about...himself! His achievements, the swells who know him and fawn over him, and of course the great and near-great who hang on every word uttered on The Hour of Spin. Submitted for your consideration, just a few examples of Oralmann on his favorite subject:
Larry King is warm-hearted + generous + has championed my career for 15 yrs...
I've been on Craig twice and he's been on Countdown twice.
Friend of mine showed blog/cards to Bob during the rain delay in SF and he laughed "Where does Keith GET this stuff?"
Lotta mutual fanboy stuff there (except for Mary Jo). They watch, I've watched them for 20 yrs.
I gave MST3K its 1st big review in the LA Times in 1990 or 91. Its still on the Times website.
One of the hoots of this job was dinner w/Cleese, Gilliam, Jones.
I am a Met "friend" - sit with the GM most of my days out there.
Flustered Olbermann Calls Bathtub Story a Lie, Gibson Responds!
We noted yesterday how the twitter hashtag #bathtubboy was driving Keith Olbermann to exasperation. Today he kicked it up a notch, telling someone (as he was blocking them from following OlbyTweets):
@JayoftheDead You do know John Gibson simply made up the bathtub crap after MSNBC fired him, right? You live his lie. #beseeingyou
Keith really is the new Edward R Murrow, isn't he? Perhaps he'll become even more discombobulated when he hears John Gibson's retort to his sophomoric attacks. We have the audio for your listening pleasure:
Discuss, resolve, and then recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
So how's that twitter thing working out for Olby? Not so well. A tweeter had some unkind words for the infamous, deplorable one, but what really seemed to set him off was a new hashtag that has appeared. (Hashtags are used to mark tweets with a key word, like #glennbeck, so interested folks can see all the tweets on that subject.) When one @robsolo mentioned Edward R Olbermann in a tweet, he included that new hashtag we mentioned: #bathtubboy. That so got Oralmann's panties in a bunch that not only did he send off a snarky insult to @robsolo, he also blocked the guy (noting it with the #Beeseeing you tag) from following OlbyTweets! Plus it seems like @robsolo is not the only one Mr Courageous is blocking...
@robsolo - I detest @KeithOlbermann and only follow him to see what sort of vile misogyny or race baiting he'll tweet. #tcot #gop#bathtubboy
@KeithOlbermann - @robsolo Well, if you can listen to John Gibson's made-up stories and you still can use your fingers, props to you. #Beseeingyou
@robsolo - @glennbeckgirl22 He's a coward. But how can you tell if you've been blocked? #bathtubboy
@Evanb_86 - @glennbeckgirl22 #bathtubboy blocked me too
@robsolo - Whatever you do, don't mention the bathtub incident to @KeithOlbermann, he's a little sensitive about it heh #tcot#gop #bathtubboy
Such fun. Discuss, resolve, and recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Great thanks to our friends at Broliath for this glimpse into the mindset of the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann and his pals at A-Mess-NBC:
Discuss, resolve, and then prepare for another week of Edward R Olbermann. For additional pre-show prep, check out the Daily Caller's Olby week in review. Plus you might get some hints about tonight's Hour of Spin from Monkeymann's shiny new twitter account (if you can stomach reading the most egregiously self-absorbed tweeter in the known 'verse). Comments are open!
Olbermann's Triumphal Return Loses Lawrence O'Donnell's Viewers!
A funny thing happened to Edward R Olbermann when he made his Big Return to Countdown last week. Well, maybe not funny to Olby, but we can't imagine that Larry O'Donnell wasn't smiling at least a little bit. O'Donnell hosted The Hour of Spin for four days the previous week, and we compared his ratings with the same four days of the following week hosted by the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. The numbers tell the story:
Ouch! Do you suppose MSNBC's bosses at Comcast are looking at numbers like these? Could they be wondering why they should pay an exorbitant salary to Krazy Keith, with all his high maintenance idiosyncracies, when they can attract more viewers for much less cost with their new best friend Larry?
Of course neither of them comes anywhere near the eeevil Mr Bill, but when it comes to bang for the buck, will MSNBC continue to pour money down the Olbermann rat-hole? Discuss, resolve, and recap! Comments are open!
Does Keith Olbermann Believe The American Legion Is a Right Wing Hate Group?
That's the idea you might get from Monday's Hour of Spin, where Edward R Olbermann allowed his guest to smear US veterans without Olby even raising one of his plus-size eyebrows. Perhaps he was too busy thinking thinking ahead to his glorious Tuesday night triumph, without realizing 28% of the viewers who tuned in on Monday would abandon ship on Tuesday. Apparently one day of the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann is more than enough.
As Obama Returns from Afghanistan Olbermann Returns to Countdown
Tonight the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann is expected to report on the President's Afghanistan visit. Obama's speech to the troops showed considerable resolve--exactly the opposite of what Oralmann wanted. Just to refresh your memory, here's is Olbermahn's demand that Obama "get out" and leave Afghanistan to the Taliban:
Of course, that was a long, long time ago...four months. Is Krazy Keith going to flip-flop on another issue? Will he crank up the rhetoric and demand again that Obama "get out"? Or will he find some way to spend so much time on things like Sarah Palin that he can relegate the Afghanistan question to a few tossed off sentences and neatly avoid the issue? Discuss, resolve, and recap. Comments are open!
Many were surprised that after the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann returned to the airwaves on Monday, he just as quickly vanished again, leaving Crazy Larry to man the ship. We're not sure about the wisdom of such an arrangement, given that Larry hasn't lost Keith's audience, but may actually be building on it!
But Olby never planned to return for more than that one night. His own words at his blog of choice, Daily Kos, specifically said that would be the case:
I felt compelled to come in off my grief leave, just for the night...
So don't be surprised if Herr Olbermahn doesn't make an appearance for the rest of the week. He's on 'grief leave'. And there are five stages to the grieving process. Or maybe six: an extra stage for world-shattering ruminations on baseball trivia...
His own personal plan for redistributing teams among the Major Leagues
And those are from just this week. So far. There are still two more days to go! We're sure the Major League Baseball folks are pleased. After all, he couldn't do both: write up his fanboy baseball posts and host Countdown too. It's clear what comes first for Keith Olbermann. Comments are open!
Inside Cable News reports that the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann will be returning to his throne tonight. Perhaps he will bask in the glow of another victory for President Obama. But wait, how can that be? Let's set the wayback machine for a long, long time ago...all the way back to December! As the mists clear, we find Edward R Olbermann pontificating on health care reform and the evils of mandates and why the Senate version of the health care bill should be...killed!
This is not health, this is not care, this is certainly not reform.... They must now not make the defeat worse by passing a hollow shell of a bill just for the sake of a big-stage signing ceremony.
You have just agreed to purchase a product. If you do not, you will be breaking the law and subject to a fine. You have no control over how much you will pay for the product.... The bill now is little more than a legally mandated delivery of the middle class (and those whose dreams of joining it slip ever further away) into a kind of Chicago stockyards of insurance. Make enough money to take care of yourself and your family and you must buy insurance -- on the insurers terms -- or face a fine.
This provision must go. It is, above all else, immoral and a betrayal of the people who elected you, Sir. You must now announce that you will veto any bill lacking an option or buy-in, but containing a mandate. And Sen. Reid, put the public option back in, or the Medicare Buy-In, or both....
No single payer? No sale. No public option? No sale. No Medicare buy-in? No sale. I am one of the self-insured, albeit by choice. And I hereby pledge that I will not buy this perversion of health care reform. Pass this at your peril, Senators, and sign it at yours, Mr. President. I will not buy this insurance. Brand me a lawbreaker if you choose. Fine me if you will. Jail me if you must.
Care to see the complete rant in all its histronic glory? We are happy to oblige:
Of course that was then, and this is now. Will Oralmann reiterate his principled objections tonight, call for the bill to be repealed, and boast how he will refuse to obey its provisions? Or will all that be forgotten as Herr Olbermahn does a complete about face and continues his slobbering love affair with the Prez? Discuss, resolve, and then recap tonight's Big Return. Comments are open!
UPDATE: One way to disguise an imminent flip-flop is to camouflage it by changing the subject. Olby has posted a preview of tonight's Special Education Komment. The theme: Republicans are racists, and people shouldn't call names. Yes, Keith Olbermann, the man who spews epithets like 'psychotic', 'schmuck', 'facist', 'whore', 'fat ass', 'slut', 'monkey', and 'c-nt', is just the guy to make that case!
...He was my inspiration, and will always remain so. His bravery these last six months cannot be measured. He is as much my hero now, as he was when I was five years old.
Media Institute Wants Public Apology for Olbermann's Latest Nazi Smear
We reported earlier on the vicious personal attack Keith Olbermann spewed at Floyd Abrams. Mr Abrams is the father of Dan Abrams, MSNBC legal analyst, but as a first amendment attorney he dared to represent a client Oralmann didn't like. So Keith maniacally smeared Mr Abrams, who is Jewish, by comparing him with a Nazi.
Now the Media Institute, dedicated to defending the first amendment, has demanded that Edward R Olbermann issue a public apology for his slander. Their open letter, which deserves to be read in full, pulls no punches:
For any Jew to be compared to a Nazi collaborator is vile, but in the case of Floyd is simply beyond comprehension.... If you believe that attorneys should be personally vilified whenever they advocate a cause you oppose or a client you dislike, we would like to know how you believe our system is supposed to work. Many of the freedoms you enjoy as a journalist exist because of the work of Floyd Abrams throughout his exemplary career. Yet even if Mr. Abrams had not blazed important paths for the rights of the press, he does not deserve to be personally insulted, which for you may have seemed like nothing more than a clever turn of phrase.... But we also look forward to your public apology to Floyd Abrams for your unwarranted personal attack.
Our advice to the Media Institute: don't hold your breath waiting for that Olbypology. Comparing people to Nazis is nothing new for the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. Whether it was giving the "Sieg Heil" salute (for which he was admonished by the ADL), or comparing Fox News to Nazis, not to mention calling the Bush administration facist and likening it to the Third Reich, Herr Olbermahn has never been able to purge himself of the compulsion to demean his enemies with the Nazi comparison.
From the OlbyWatch archives, a little remembrance of Keith's love/hate relationship with the Nazi smear:
Discuss, resolve, and recap the week's last Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Absent from Countdown, Olbermann Writes Increasingly Bizarre Kos Posts
He hasn't been on The Hour of Spin for a while, but don't get the impression that the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann hasn't been busy. Maybe just not busy doing what you thought. The posts continue of course over at the (now heavily moderated) baseball blog. Meanwhile he's picking up the pace at his blog of choice, Daily Kos (proprietor: Markos 'Screw 'Em' Moulitsas). Mediaite noticed that he posted a blast at Jesse Ventura:
Keith Olbermann responded to an interview between Cenk Uygur and Jesse Ventura with a lengthy blog post on Daily Kos last night. Then he followed it up with 18 more comments to fellow Kos commenters. All concern his history with MSNBC, Ventura's, Ashleigh Banfield's time at the network (and leaving the network) and...more.
Jesse's crime? He criticized MSNBC. It is ironic that for all his rhetoric, Oralmann proves at heart to be the quintessential 'company man', flacking for his bosses even when he is supposedly preoccupied with other matters.
And yet the obsessive-compulsive nature of this cannot be understated. It was after 3:00 am, and Keith was presumably back home (he claims he wrote the lengthy original post at the hospital, using an iPhone!). But though it was the middle of the night, Edward R Olbermann was still tap-tap-tapping away. For some reason he thought it necessary to produce a detailed list of every person who held the 8:00 pm slot on A-Mess-NBC. We suppose that's nice bit of ego-onanism for someone who can then claim "I had it longest", but really, it's just...well...weird:
Notice how he puts that line break in to highlight 2, and again to separate 21 from the entries preceeding it? Self-absorbed much?
Keith Olbermann Doubles Down With New Personal Attack on Bill Simmons!
People are starting to wonder if Keith Olbermann has spiraling toward the career meltdown so many have speculated about for years. It was just a few days ago when he attacked ESPN's Bill Simmons as a hack with "no discernible insight or talent". (Keep in mind that ESPN and Olby parted company on less than friendly terms.)
A storm of commenters reacted to Oralmann's rant to the point where Keith had to cleanse the comment thread of those pesky dissenting voices. Sort of like he does every night on The Hour of Spin.
But Olby believes that no opportunity to personally attack someone on his 'enemies' list should go to waste, so he has doubled down and launched a new invective-filled salvo at Simmons. If you don't believe that paranoia strikes deep, then how else to explain Olbermann's latest delusion--that Simmons is cyber-stalking him in the comments while disguising himself under a panoply of pseudonymns:
And we now encourage Mr. Simmons to again falme [sic] the comments section under various identities, to his heart's content.
Oh there's a lot more hate from Krazy Keith so read the whole thing. And then check out Jed Eckert's latest take on all this:
This may just be a frivolous and minor spat among relatively minor media players, but it goes to a pattern of unraveling for Keith. Why gratuitously attack "The Sports Guy?" What did he ever do to you? He's a successful figure at ESPN, so there's probably some jealousy factoring in, but come on.... By the way, Simmons' reference to Keith living alone could have something to do with rumors about the stalker's once live-in girlfriend, Katy Tur (pictured below in happier times.) We hear that Katy has had enough of Keith and has flown the coop. Maybe he can reignite his affair with karmabites1!
Keith has been off the air all this week, except for a taped-in-advance segment on Monday's program. That segment appeared to air from "on location", obviously intending to suggest Olby was at the hospital visiting his father. Which he may well have been.
But let's bear in mind what happened last week. The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann launched into the most recent of his unhinged diatribes, this one at a fellow MSNBC employee, Dan Abrams. This vicious personal attack had been preceded by KO smearing Abrams's father, constitutional attorney Floyd Abrams, by comparing him to a Nazi. (Yes, Floyd Abrams is Jewish. No, we don't think Olbermann cared one whit about tossing another "Nazi" stinkbomb into the public arena.) We waited for some action from NBC honchos, who were quick to slap down Joe Scarborough for daring to criticize Edward R Olbermann. But it hasn't come. Or at least it hasn't been publicly revealed.
So that brings us to our question of the day. What has Keith Olbermann been up to? Three days away from The Hour of Spin so far this week. Odds are that today will make four. We understand if he is consumed with personal issues, and again extend our best wishes and prayers for all of his family in this troublesome time. But it's not like Olby isn't doing other things.
Just this morning he was making oh-so-witty comments over at his blog of choice, Daily Kos (proprietor: Markos "Screw 'Em" Moulitsas). Here he is jumping into a Sarah Palin bashing thread with some OlbyHumor about Todd and Levi.
And of course there's his baseball blog. He was busy there on Tuesday, bragging about how assiduously he keeps politics out of his posts, as he launched into a seemingly endless stream-of-consciousness ramble about the career of--guess who?--Jim Bunning! What's interesting is that it obviously took a while to write up--it's a long post--and it was published Tuesday at 7:34 pm. Right around the time when he'd ordinarily be preparing for Countdown.
Why he is not doing The Hour of Spin, but instead is writing long-winded dissertations on baseball, is a question we can't answer. His choice, or someone else's? Discuss, resolve, and recap. Comments are open!
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: The baseball post linked above attracted a storm of comments. Today the reader reactions have been trimmed down to half of the original number. Apparently on his blog, just like on The Hour of Spin, dissent is not to be tolerated.
February Chart: Olbermann Still as Balanced as Radio North Korea
Another month of Olbermann spin, made more bearable only by the fact that it is the shortest one of the year. Once again we poured through the MSNBC transcripts and tallied up the guest breakdown for The Hour of Spin. The results will not surprise you:
Here are some fun facts about the stats. In an overabundance of caution we classified a number of frequent guests as 'neutral', even though they very rarely were. So they aren't counted in the chart. These include The Wolffe Man (6 appearances) as well as Margaret Carlson, Howard "Pundit for All Occasions" Fineman, and the Perfessor (Turley). Among those categorized as Dem strategists, the names that came up most were Crazy Larry O'Donnell (7) and Markos "Screw 'Em" Moulitsas (5). Among the liberal/progressives who weren't Dem strategists, David Corn led the way (6), followed by Ezra Klein (5). And these are Republicans/conservatives Olbermann had on his show:
Do you want to see that list again? Here it is:
As you discuss, resolve, and prepare to recap another excruciating Hour of Spin, you might want to check out the latest from Jed Eckert:
Sources within NBC News have confirmed that things are more dire than we originally thought. Veteran correspondents are cringing and are openly embarrassed by Olbermann's self-absorbed theatrics.
Yet again the Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how much attention was paid to notable stories and issues over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:
Notes: References to Iraq do not include Olbermann's ritual closing mantra. Countdown did not air on Thursday. Crazy Larry substituted for Olbermann on Friday.
Get ready to recap another week of The Hour of Spin...comments are open!
...His bosses have long suspected that he was playing the bereaved son card. They could even tolerate the sick father excuse to a point (apparently even when that said father was not be seen at the many Yankee games Keith was attending - one notable game was the October 9 play-off against the Twins!) But now things have really gotten creepy. In his special comment on Wednesday, in what can only be a cry for help or sign of impending mental breakdown, Keith talked about killing his father...
And more:
...Word is that the folks at NBC are now looking for a way out. Very informed sources tell us that they realize all his relationships with employers end badly. It is just a matter of degree. Add to that - his embarrassingly dismal ratings no longer appear to warrant his inflated salary...
The article seems to be a mix of anonymous sources and speculation, so read the whole thing and make your own decision as to its validity.
Olbermann will again be off tonight, reportedly due to his father's illness. We extend our best wishes and prayers.
Olbermann Attacks Dan Abrams as a Bitter, Fired Failure!
Edward R Olbermann has found someone new to hate. Tonight he accused Dan Abrams of using Mediaite.com to attack the Great and Powerful Olb. Because, well, it must be because Abrams was "fired" by MSNBC, and is so "embittered" by his "failure" that he's taking it out on Queeg Olbermann. No we're not making this up. See for yourself:
This is fresh off Herr Olbermahn comparing Dan Abrams's father, attorney Floyd Abrams, to a Nazi! Is Dan Abrams still the Chief Legal Analyst for MSNBC? If so, does that mean that it's OK for Keith to attack a fellow MSNBC employee, while Joe Scarborough gets slapped down for criticizing Olby on twitter? Let us remember the words of the man who purports to be Keith Olbermann's boss:
We have many strong personalities with differing, passionate opinions, but it is important to remember that we are all on the same team. I want to reiterate my long-standing policy: We do not publicly criticize our colleagues. This kind of behavior is unprofessional and will not be tolerated.
Let me be clear: I encourage you to keep doing what you do best. Give the viewers your perspective and a vigorous debate on the issues they care about. But do not turn substantive differences into personal ones.
The Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts yet again to see how much attention was paid to various stories and issues over the past week. THere is what our keyword searches found:
Notes: Iraq reference count does not include Oralmann's ritual closing mantra.
Get ready to recap another dismal five days of The Hour of Spin...comments are open!
Gibson Rips Olbermann, Explains Origin of 'Bathtub Boy' to Clueless Caller
Listen and enjoy as Gibby explains to his clueless caller the empty idiocy of Keith Olbermann, and how he came to be known as 'Bathtub Boy'. Then recap the week's last Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Tuesday night, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann once again revived a favorite meme: put Cheney on trial for war crimes! And of course, for "expert" commentary Olby turned to his favorite felon, disbarred lawyer John Dean. Needless to say, Liz Cheney wasn't exactly impressed and you can hear her tell John Gibson what she really thinks of Olby and the felon:
Discuss, resolve, then recap Wednesday's and Thursday's Hours of Spin. Comments are open!
Another week of the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann means another analysis of five days worth of OlbyTranscripts, direct from MSNBC's official page. Would it surprise you to learn that there was someone who got more coverage on OlbyPlanet than even President Obama? Here are the results of our keyword searches:
Clearly Herr Olbermahn has a new Olbsession, and she's from Alaska. Well he's got to do something, with his audience dwindling and his career circling the drain. The most recent ratings show him losing overwhelmingly to Mr Bill, as is customary. Even more embarrassing, Olby regularly slips out of his poor second place and falls into third. Note how that powerhouse of journalism, Nancy Grace, yet again defeats Krazy Keith in the critical, all-important, nothing-else-matters, crucial, much-beloved "key demo". It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Prepare to recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Props to IMAO for this delightful little creation:
Note: MSNBC has not posted Friday's transcript yet so our 'Countdown By the Numbers' post will be delayed until tomorrow. Ergo, use this thread to recap tonight's miserable Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Olbermann and Maddow: MSNBC's $1 Billion Dollar Money Machine?!?
As Keith Olbermann slips deeper and deeper into irrational dementia, his claims become increasingly divorced from reality. Anyone who reads Olbermann Watch knows how he regularly lies with impunity, often in an embarrassing attempt to puff up his own importance. All of this gets magnified when he saunters into his personal echo chamber of adulation at his blog of choice, The Daily Kos.
The latest example finds Edward R Olbermann boasting of the money that flows into A-Mess-NBC from just two programs: Countdown and Rachel Maddow. But it's not enough to claim that his show is profitable. Olby has to kick it up a notch, and tells the credulous Kossacks that, between him and Maddow, they are responsible for nothing less than a billion dollars in profits!
Those of you who've posted about Comcast meaning the end of my show or Rachel's can, I think, relieve yourselves of such concerns....Whatever else you think of these guys, they are not in the habit of saying "a billion in profit over the next five years? Who needs it! Cancel the shows that generate it! (Oh, and let's keep paying both of their salaries, too)."
Now maybe Keith has a point there. Because his show, and Maddow's, are such powerhouses in the ratings that they are just setting the world on fire. The advertising revenues must be huge because their names are on everybody's lips. But don't take our word for it. Check out the latest CBS/NY Times poll:
Discuss, resolve, and recap the week's last Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Keith Olbermann Blasts Steve Capus, Says He Should Be Fired?!
The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann made a remarkable statement last week, as he assailed Roger Ailes yet again as "worst person":
But our winner, Roger Ailes of Fixed News, announcement tonight, his boy, Sean Hannity, will deliver the keynote address at the National Republican Congressional--excuse me, the National Republican Congressional Committee fund-raising dinner next month. This is not a job for anybody on a news channel....
No actual news organization would permit its people, even its commentators, to assume such purely partisan political fund-raising roles. This organization, rightly, would not even let me address an ordinary non-fund-raising gathering of some Democratic senators. Those are the news rules. And if Mr. Ailes does no honor them nor obey them, as he never has, he should be relieved of any news responsibilities, or his employer should admit that he is purely a political operative. Roger Ailes of Fox, quote, "news," unquote, today's worst person in the world.
Yawn. Another Olbermann attack on the news channel that beats him like a rug night after night. But what does this have to do with Steve Capus? Follow...
Herr Olbermann insists that no news organization would permit its commentators to indulge in such vulgar political activity, even if they are clearly opinionizers. But wait. Wasn't that Harold Ford Jr, MSNBC commentator, speaking at a political fundraiser last year? And more than once?! Hmm, that doesn't make MSNBC News honcho Steve Capus look very good in Olbermann's eyes.
And didn't Joe Scarborough, MSNBC program host, also get involved in partisan political campaigning? Why yes, he did. And what's more, MSNBC signed off on it, stating:
Joe Scarborough hosts an opinion show and is not a news anchor.
Wait, isn't that exactly the same situation as Sean Hannity's? And isn't MSNBC taking the exact same position as Roger Ailes? It doesn't seem like that position has changed any over the years, since just a few months ago Joe was out speaking at another fundraiser. Apparently Steve Capus is violating Olbermann's "news rules"!
But wait, there's more. Edward R Olbermann claims MSNBC won't let its commentators get involved in partisan activities (despite the evidence of Harold Ford, Joe Scarborough, and who knows how many others). And yet, Keith is a regular blogger at Daily Kos, a website whose stated partisan purpose is to elect Democrats and defeat Republicans. And as for fundraising, Olby's been there, done that too.
So let's apply Krazy Keith's standards to the actions of his own boss. Steve Capus, who purports to run MSNBC (we know who really calls the shots), is permitting commentators to assume "partisan political fundraising roles", adopting the same position as Roger Ailes--something that "no actual news organization" would ever do. What's more, Capus is ignoring the Edward R Olbermann "rules of news", which means he should be "relieved of any news responsibilities".
The conclusion is inescapable. By the standards Keith Olbermann himself enunciated, MSNBC is not an "actual news organization", and Steve Capus should be fired. Yesterday, if possible.
Discuss, resolve, and then recap. Comments are open!
The Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts yet again to see how much attention was paid to various stories and issues over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:
As the chart makes clear, Edward R Olbermann is a serious newsman, who doesn't fritter away his precious broadcast minutes on irrelevancies, petty attacks, or side-issues that distract from the important news of the day. Except when he does. Get ready to recap tonight's Hour of Spin...comments are open!
Olbermann Sinks to New Low with Repellent, Vulgar Cheap Shot
Just when you think the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann has scraped the bottom of the barrel, he goes and proves you wrong. Well he did want Hillary Clinton beaten to death. And he did take on the aspect of a cheering section for women abusers by chortling as he called one woman a mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick. Those were pretty bad. Maybe this doesn't quite sink to that level of personal vitriol, but it certainly plumbs new depths of crass vulgarity.
Behold the ever-evolving ethical standards of (MS)NBC News. In reporting on a poll from the impartial Daily Kos, Edward R Olbermann put up a graphic purporting to represent the findings. Look and be amazed at what passes NBC standards and practices these days (screengrab via johnny dollar's place):
Now before the apologists rush to insist that this was merely a typo, a mistake that someone overlooked, consider the following facts:
ITEM: Keith Olbermann blogs at the Daily Kos. MSNBC provided him with a blog at msnbc.msn.com but Olbermann insisted that he blog at Daily Kos and subsequently the MSNBC blog was abandoned.
ITEM: Daily Kos is a site whose stated purpose is to elect Democrats and defeat Republicans.
ITEM: The poll in question was commissioned and published by Daily Kos.
ITEM: Daily Kos himself, Markos Moulitsas, appeared on Countdown in this very segment.
ITEM: The term 'Repubican' is a common (though incredibly juvenile) insult that is regularly used at Daily Kos. There are literally hundreds of examples.
Now it's possible that all the above are just mere coincidences. Olby just happens to blog at a site run by the guest he's talking to who did the poll where the graphic just happens to use a vulgar insult term that's a favorite of that very website. Yeah, uh-huh. And perhaps you'd like to invest in a perpetual motion machine.
Is this a new low for the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann? Or just a typo combined with an incredible string of coincidences? Discuss, resolve, and then recap the last Hour of Spin of the week. Comments are open!
John Gibson Predicts New Owners Will Fire Keith Olbermann!
We're not sure about that, but you won't want to miss Gibson's devastating take-down of Olbermann and Alter's crotch-bomber analysis, and we have the audio for your listening pleasure:
Discuss, resolve, and recap! Recap Thursday's Hour of Spin here too. Comments are open!
January Chart Proves Keith Olbermann: Still a Liar!
We noted the words of the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann before. At his blog of choice, The Daily Kos (no conflict of interest there for the "nonpartisan" Olby!), his writings still resound as preposterously absurd:
I read with astonishment here and elsewhere that I am guilty of never presenting conflicting viewpoints. Do you know what the easiest form of "good tv" is? Put two guys on who disagree with each other and let them yell at each other.
How many times is Edward R Olbermann going to prop up this flimsy straw-man defense of his one-sided reportage? You don't have to put two guys on to yell. You can put two guys who won't scream at each other. Hell Keith, you could just put one guy on who doesn't parrot your talking points. No yelling, no screaming, just a point of view other than the prevailing dogma of OlbyPlanet. But for some reason you won't do that.
I am pleased to be able to say that I've never put something on Countdown to toe a party line.
Yikes!
I'd rather devote the time to personally rebutting something else that has been let loose into the ether without rebuttal...
Hey Keithy, letting stuff loose into the ether without rebuttal...that's exactly what you do on your Hour of Spin. Five nights a week, 52 weeks a year (minus Bathtub breaks). And today's proof comes to us via the January guest list. We poured through the MSNBC online transcripts and tallied the data. Note that we generously regarded numerous appearances by the likes of Richard Wolffe-Man and Howard Fineman as neutral, despite their habit of bending over backwards to agree with Herr Olbermahn. But even with these tendentious "journalists" out of the mix, the results are still stunning:
Olbermann doesn't toe any party line, does he? None of that putting stuff out without rebuttal for him! Why can't he tell the truth? There's more rebuttal on Radio North Korea than on Countdown!
Discuss, resolve, and then recap the latest Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
The Olbermann Watch Research Division has again poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how much attention was paid to notable stories and issues over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:
Notes: Friday not included as Countdown did not air.
Does it surprise anyone that the most important story on OlbyPlanet was James O'Keefe? More important than President Obama, health care, or Haiti! It's more of that trademark Edward R Olbermann news judgment. Get ready to recap another repellent five days of The Hour of Spin...comments are open!
More MSNBC Balance: Obama Q&A Re-Air with Commentary...by Three Democrats!
Tonight it will not be just one hour of spin...but two! The infamous, deplorable one joins forces with Democrat Chris Matthews and Err America alum Rachel Maddow for a 120-minute thrill-packed spectacular--in Obamavision! The President's Q&A will be rebroadcast by the Gang of Three, with special interruptions for their special comments. And as a bonus, no analysis by anyone who isn't in the midst of a slobbering love affair. That way no matter what questions the GOPers raise, or how the Prez handles them, the Gang of Three will be able to protect their guy and invariably get the last word.
Edward R Olbermann trumpeted tonight's desperate ratings ploy on his blog of choice, The Daily Kos (hat-tip to Inside Cable News):
We will be running, as they say, "large chunks" and then cutting back to the studio to see which one of our jaws can drop the closest to the floor.
No doubt this is a reaction to Herr Olbermann once again being trounced in the critical, all-important, vital, supreme "money demo" by the eeevil Mr Bill, who only beat him last night by 500%. Olby even lost to Nancy Grace on Headline News. So it was obviously time to try something different, and toss Rachel and Chris "I forgot he was black" Matthews into the mix as well.
But isn't this an abdication of MSNBC's news responsibility? Aren't they completely ignoring the Biggest News of the Day?!? How can Krazy Keith not devote the first 1/3 of his program to "Watergate Jr"? How will his phone booth full of viewers survive without another twenty minutes about the nonexistent "wiretapping" conspiracy that has dominated The Hour of Spin night after night?
Use this space to recap tonight's Pulitzer-worthy journalistic triumph. Or maybe you have something better to do, like watch The Factor or the finale of Dollhouse--either of which will provide you with far more redeeming social value. Whatever. Comments are open!
Shuster Declares O'Keefe Guilty, MSNBC Sends Him to Cover the Case!
Has every last vestige of common sense drained from the sinkhole that is A-Mess-NBC? Follow: Impartial hard-news journalist David Shuster went and exposed himself again on Twitter, screeching at arrestee James O'Keefe that he was guilty and was going to jail:
@DavidShuster: a) you are not a journalist b) the truth is you intended to tap her phones c) it's a felony d) you will go to prison.
Whoa. Isn't this something like deciding the case ahead of time, like declaring the defendant guilty before any testimony is taken, let alone a verdict entered? Well no, it's not something like that. It's exactly that! Of course it's nothing new for Slippery Shuster, if you remember one of his earlier Pulitzer-worthy scoops.
But there is another twist to the tale. How did MSNBC react when one of their alleged straight news journalists declared O'Keefe guilty until proven innocent? Did they smack him down, like they did to Morning Joe? Not exactly. In fact, A-Mess-NBC rewarded Shuster for his lack of objectivity and assigned him to go to New Orleans and cover the story. Cover the exact same case in which he just found O'Keefe guilty without a trial and sentenced him to jail!
Is this the kind of journalism that was pioneered by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley? The standard that Tom Brokaw stood for? Or does this mean the tendentious demagoguery of Keith Olbermann is now infesting even MSNBC's so-called 'straight news' hours?
If there's anyone who shouldn't cover a court case, it's someone who has publicly declared the defendant guilty ahead of time. And yet of all the 'journalists' at A-Mess-NBC whom do they pick for the assignment? The one who has a conflict of interest more glaring than a freshly buffed diamond tiara on the Bonevian Salt Flats at high noon. It's almost like Keith Olbermann is making the decisions at MSNBC. Oh wait, that can't be. Can it?
If MSNBC permits Shuster to cover this case as a 'reporter', it will relinquish any shred of respectability that may remain after all the embarrassments of Edward R Olbermann.
What say you? Discuss, resolve, and then recap tonight's atrocious Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Note: In yesterday's ratings, A-Mess-NBC's primetime line-up finished in a dismal fourth-place in the all-important, nothing-else-matters, critical, key "money demo". Bill O'Reilly outpointed the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann by nearly five to one, and Olby even lost to Nancy Grace again. (No doubt Grace's increasing tendency to grab more of these viewers than Oralmann accounts for Keith's increasing tendency to attack Nancy Grace as he has done this week.)
Actually more than just one, but the only way to keep Keith Olbermann honest is to do it one lie at a time. On his Monday night program, Edward R Olbermann once again smeared his chief competitor and uber-Olbsession. Olby quoted Bill O'Reilly, the man who triples or quadruples his ratings on a regular basis:
OLBERMANN [quoting O'REILLY]: "To be fair, CNN has covered the Haiti story very well. There's no question about it. And I applaud the CNN correspondents who have done such a good job. But our Fox News correspondents are just as good."
OLBERMANN: Then why don't you put them on, instead of stroking yourself in front of the American public? Just once.
O'Reilly won't put Fox correspondents on the air to cover the Haiti earthquake? Not even once? Is that what you're saying, Keithy?
ITEM: The Factor debriefed Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan, who has been reporting from the ground in Haiti. "The biggest surprise," Harrigan said, "was driving around a corner and seeing fifty women and girls naked, soaping up on the street...."
ITEM: Geraldo Rivera, who was in Haiti over the weekend, joined The Factor with his reaction. "I was at the airport," Rivera reported...
ITEM: FNC's Jonathan Hunt, also in Haiti, expressed his personal reaction to the carnage. "The smell of death is hanging over large parts of this city," Hunt said...."
ITEM: Two parents whose daughters are missing in Haiti gave an emotional appeal for help on Wednesday's program. As promised, The Factor pursued the story with Geraldo Rivera, who reported from the hotel where the girls were staying. "This is a very melancholy place," Rivera said....
It should surprise no one that Keith Olbermann lies. Remember that we're still waiting for him to retract one of his whoppers from last week. So don't expect him to tell the truth about Bill O'Reilly. Ever.
The Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts yet again to see how much attention was paid to various stories and issues over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:
Notes: Iraq reference count does not include Oralmann's ritual closing mantra.
Get ready to recap another dismal five days of The Hour of Spin...comments are open!
Keith's Olbermann's manic, embarrassing diatribe of personal attacks and name-calling against Scott Brown has been widelydenounced. But what about the truthfulness of Oralmann's harangue? A few have attempted a fact-check of Krazy Keith's polemic: Tommy Christopher rendered a split decision, but seemed to side with Olbermann on points. A commenter's detailed rebuttal finds far more Olbermann falsehoods than accuracies. But there is little disagreement about one key Olby assertion:
I said Mr. Brown was a supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees. Specifically, this past Sunday, when a man at a Brown rally shouted they should, quote, "shove a curling iron up Martha Coakley's butt," Brown responded by answering, "We can do this." Or, if that remark was unconnected to the shout, he never refuted, condemned, nor disassociated himself to the call for violence and even sexual assault.
Whatever you think about the other personal attacks in Olby's philippic, there is little room for doubt on this one:
Brown told reporters this morning that he didn't hear the remark, that it was "inappropriate" and that he would have "said something" had he heard it.
"This morning" refers to January 18. Two days later Keith Olbermann is still claiming that Brown "never disassociated himself" from the statement. That, dear reader, is Another Olbermann Lie.
We don't expect Edward R Olbermann to retract all of the disputed allegations in his tirade. The chances of that would be slim and none, given Keith's shoddy track record of correcting his many lies over the years. So we'll focus on this statement--one that nobody can defend.
Our challenge to Keith Olbermann: for once, man up. Grow a pair. Retract this lie tonight.
Reason vs Rage: A Tale of Two Commentaries - UPDATE: Project 21 Responds
Two analyses of the Supreme Court's McCain-Feingold decision. One lasts over 11 minutes. The other about two. One is a raving diatribe. The other addresses issues and facts. One is peppered with manic name-calling, personal attacks, and hyperbolic extrapolations. The other focuses on the US Constitution. Watch, compare, and then ask yourself... Which is real journalism? Which informs rather than inflames? And which is the work of a 'real news channel'? We report, you decide:
UPDATE: As they did with Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL), members of the Project 21 black leadership network are taking MSNBC talking head Keith Olbermann to task for his wrong-headed and offensive behavior in equating the free speech victory in the Supreme Court case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to the infamous Dred Scott case.
Deneen Borelli: "For starters, to equate a decision that gives people more freedom of speech to a decision that denied basic rights to blacks is offensive and wrong. Then there is Olbermann's assumption that the American public today is a flock of sheep. Unlike Olbermann, the Court realizes freedom of speech is under assault, and the American people can't be bamboozled by the increased participation of a few rich individuals or companies. I think the failure of Obamacare - despite massive spending by the drug lobby and unions to promote it - is proof of that.
"It also seems as if the pot is calling the kettle black. MSNBC is currently owned by General Electric. GE Capital was bailed out by the taxpayers. GE CEO Jeff Immelt is a close advisor to President Obama, and GE would profit from Obama policies such as cap-and-trade. Olbermann has served as a cheerleader for all of this. Are Immelt and Olbermann simply afraid to allow others to possibly gain the attention and influence GE has had all along?"
R. Dozier Gray: "The idea that Obermann would connect the infamous Dred Scott decision to this new ruling is appalling, though not surprising. Olbermann's comments are, at best, hyperbolic. In my mind, the two decisions are opposites. The Dred Scott decision denied rights to an entire class of people and their descendants. The Citizens United decision recognizes both the rights of individual and entities that they can use to amplify their voice. To bring up Dred Scott is to introduce race where it simply does not belong."
Red Eye Rips Maddow, Olbermann, and Media Matters!
It's a classic. Watch and enjoy, watch and enjoyers:
For your Hour of Spin show-prep for today, make sure to read Miami's premier tv critic, Glenn Garvin, who unleashed on the infamous, deplorable one and his minions in a scathing denunciation of A-Mess-NBC:
Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, positively enraged that Massachusetts dared to elect a Republican, delivered two hours of nonstop bilious rage toward the state's voters, calling them "irrational" and "teabaggers," engaged in "a total divorce from reality," and hinting that they're vicious racists to boot....
The network's coverage was idiotic, one-sided and downright ugly....
It may be too much to expect NBC, these days reduced to a national wisecrack, to be embarrassed over the frothing lunacy that passes for news coverage at corporate stepchild MSNBC. But both networks are part of the same news division. If news boss Steve Capus thinks his reporters can continue to appear with Olbermann and Maddow without suffering credibility contamination, he's dumber than whoever was behind the Leno/O'Brien late-night shuffle.
There's more...much more...so make sure to read the whole thing. Thin-skinned paranoid Oralmann has already attacked another tv critic for daring to question the Great and Powerful Olb. Will Mr Garvin be the next victim of another lying smear from Edward R Olbermann?
Don't be shocked that the protector of habeas corpus, Mr Civil Rights himself, Edward R Olbermann, thinks that the burden of proof is not on the accuser, but rather that people should be presumed guilty until they can prove themselves innocent. Because he got this logic from a highly regarded repository of intellectual thought:
Will Olbermann Pull Another Disappearing Act Tonight?
Olbermann on election night. You know what you're promised, but you never know what you get. Do you remember November? That's what Olby told us he'd have a special second live hour of Countdown at 10:00 pm. But fate intervened: Democrats lost two big races in New Jersey and Virginia. And come 10:00 pm what happened? Instead of a second live hour of Countdown, there was a brief update from "Crazy" Larry O'Donnell, and then A-Mess-NBC proceeded to rerun the 8:00 o'clock show!
And that's not all. Edward R Olbermann disappeared from the show entirely for several days. He claimed he was visiting his sick father, but MSNBC refused to confirm his story! And then those embarrassing photos of Olby at Yankee Stadium put the lie to Keith's tall tale. But we're sure his ill father (for whom we hope only the very best) appreciated being used by Keith as a fictitious alibi.
So what happens if Scott Brown wins tonight? Does Monkeymann stick around until 10:00 pm to spew more spittle at the camera (with or without his trademark pivots)? Does Crazy Larry have to rush in yet again? Or will A-Mess-NBC just rerun the 8:00 o'clock show, while Oralmann soaks in the bathtub? Since KO is starting to make a habit of coming in last place in his critical, all-important, nothing-else-matters "key demo", maybe a better question would be: does anyone care? Why should they? They're all watching Fox!
Whichever channel you watch, use this thread to post your comments on the election, the coverage, and of course the infamous, deplorable one. And we didn't forget about last week's chart either:
Olbermann Goes Paranoid, Lashes Out at Kos Writer for Criticizing Him!
Those hard-working MSNBC staffers haven't gotten around to posting Friday's transcript yet, so we can't prepare or weekly summary of keywords and topics. We'll give them one more day, and if it still isn't up we'll do a four-day summary instead. Meanwhile, enjoy watching Herr Olbermahn froth at the mouth. It seems a Kossack dared to print a criticism of Keith:
As if the human tragedy did not present enough drama by itself, Keith had to go fishing for more. Not once, but twice, he went beyond the facts of the story in a sad, transparent effort to drum up even more high drama and doom than the more-than-ample supply of tragic facts warrant.
Uh oh, this is a capital offense on OlbyPlanet. And it didn't take long for Edward R Olbermann to make his calm, rational, reasoned response:
You trolls are getting freakin' desperate. Is this to protect Limbaugh for turning this nightmare into an excuse for his on-air racism about this today? To cover O'Reilly for having done twenty seconds on Haiti in two nights (and the twenty seconds was spent devoted to bashing the President for not holding a news conference after Detroit as he did after Haiti)?
DKos is undergoing a full scale Troll attack, object, divide and conquer, muddy pools, etc.
Yes, if anyone dares to criticize the Great and Powerful Olb, they must be 1. a troll B. part of a Limbaugh plot against him III. part of an O'Reilly plot against him. d. an evil right-wing troll. Paranoia strikes deep.
Get ready to recap the first Hour of Spin of the week. Comments are open!
UPDATE: Olbermann loses his mind over the MA Senate race (via The Right Scoop):
Well, it's not like it'd be the first lie from the infamous, deplorable one. But if reports are correct, it would be one of the most audaciously egregious. On yesterday's Hour of Spin:
The conservative Web site RedState has a front page link for Haitian relief donations via the Salvation Army. The sites "National Review" and Town Hall and FOX News have front page links for Haitian relief donations by the Worldview Organization. SeanHannity.com has a front page link to Haitian relief donations via the Red Cross. RushLimbaugh.com has a front page link to a company that sells gold coins.
Wow, what a searing indictment from Edward R Olbermann. Unfortunately, it seems to have been a lie, according to multiple sources. Example:
Olbermann lied last night. Olbermann said that Limbaugh's site did not have a link in order to donate to Haiti-of course I checked it out and there WAS A LINK on the top of the page- and its still there.
Olbermann pointed out that RushLimbaugh.com has a CAPITALIST ADVERTISEMENT FOR GOLD INSTEAD OF AN AD FOR THE RED CROSS! After hearing Edward R. Olbermann create a bitch storm about how evil Rush is, I checked RushLimbaugh.com myself... and low and behold, the first banner ad deals with news and donations for the Haiti relief effort. Hey bathtub boy, you miserable piece of shit, it took me 30 seconds to check RushLimbaugh.com to figure out you were lying yet again. Does this douche even have staffers anymore who tell him he has a basic obligation to fact check before going national on "The Place for Politics"?
Did Olbermann just get caught in another lie? We report, you decide:
Get ready to recap the last Hour of Spin for the week. Comments are open!
Joe Scarborough Predicts Tonight's Countdown w/Olbermann!
Keep in mind that the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann doesn't have much interest in actually covering news. Last night he was on the air live and managed to avoid coverage of the earthquake in Haiti entirely! But the story continues to grow so it's likely he will have to cover it tonight. And what do you know? Fate delivered to Oralmann the perfect hook to use his time attacking people he disagrees with (in their absence of course) instead of actually covering news:
Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson says Haiti has been "cursed" because of what he called a "pact with the devil" in its history. His spokesman said the Wednesday comments were based on Voodoo rituals carried out before a slave rebellion against French colonists in 1791.
Spokesman Chris Roslan says Robertson never stated that Tuesday's earthquake was God's wrath. He says Robertson's Operation Blessing group is sending millions of dollars in medication and relief workers to the country.
What do you think the odds are that Monkeymann will leap at this, and, well, pretty much forget all about the millions of dollars in aid? Joe Scarborough would say the odds are pretty good:
Hmm, now who in the world is the MSM ideologue that Joe is talking about? That's a real puzzler. Prepare to recap another atrocious Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
The Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts yet again to see how much attention was paid to various stories and issues over the past week. The results are unusually revealing. Here is what our keyword searches found:
Notes: 'Crazy' Larry O'Donnell filled in for Edward R Olbermann on Friday. Iraq reference count does not include Oralmann's ritual closing mantra.
Who knew that the three most important news developments of last week were health care, George Bush, and Brit Hume?!? Get ready to recap another dismal five days of The Hour of Spin...comments are open!
Olbermann: CIA Deliberately Buried Crotch Bomber Intel to Embarrass Obama Administration?!?
First Oralmann tells us the crotch bomber was no big deal, just a schlub who didn't pose any real threat to anyone. But consistency is not considered a virtue on OlbyPlanet, so Krazy Keith goes on from there to suggest that our spy organizations deliberately buried the intel about the crotch bomber--knowing he could kill 300 people. Why? To embarrass the Obama administration! John Gibson has the details on the latest Krazy Keith Konspiracy...listen to the end as a genius caller takes it to the next level.
The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann has completed another year of Countdown, one that has solidified the show as the most biased program this side of Radio North Korea. An analysis of the MSNBC transcripts for the month of December reveals once again just how Edward R Olbermann prevents any dissenting views from entering his echo chamber on OlbyPlanet:
It is safe to say that no other news program in the free world is as severely and consistently cleansed of dissenting views like Krazy Keith and his Hour of Spin. Congrats, Bathtub Boy, on preventing your audience from hearing even one voice that disagrees with yours. But then again, what choice do you have? How else could you possibly win an argument other than by not letting the other side speak?
Discuss, resolve, and then recap The Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Remember When Olbermann Ridiculed the Prospect of Another Terror Attack?
The Hour of Spin may be into reruns and clip shows, but John Gibson has not taken a vacation from keeping an eye on Bathtub Boy. Listen and enjoy, listen and enjoyers...
The Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts yet again to see how much attention was paid to various stories and issues over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:
Get ready to recap another week of The Hour of Spin...comments are open!
Keith Olbermann Says Joe Lieberman Should Kill Himself!
You'd think this sort of thing would be over the top even for Krazy Keith, but no--there he is, saying that Joe Lieberman should jump off a bridge. Apparently that's within the Standards and Practices guidelines over at (MS)NBC these days. Listen as John Gibson lays it out, but don't skip the first part of this clip. That's where The Gibson Players do their world-famous dramatic readings from the blue blogs--paranoid, hate-filled rants against Sen Joe that set the stage for Edward R Olbermann's jaw-dropping notion that Lieberman should commit suicide. It's a clip for the ages, and Another Olbermann Watch Exclusive:
Discuss, resolve, then recap tonight's and Wednesday's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
The Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts yet again to see how much attention was paid to various stories and issues over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:
As the chart makes clear, Edward R Olbermann is a serious newsman, who doesn't fritter away his precious broadcast minutes on sleazy tabloid stories. Except when he does. And it appears that Herr Olbermahn is starting to develop a bunker mentality. Here he is at his blog-home Daily Kos, reacting to someone who posted comments critical of Obama. Commandant Olbermahn suggests he's an "infiltrator", and goes along with the idea that his comments should be made "hidden" (so that they are invisible and cannot be read). Does that sound familiar? Hey, just like on OlbyPlanet, where opposing views are made to disappear! That's Edward R Olbermann, proud defender of the 1st Amendment. Get ready to recap tonight's Hour of Spin...comments are open!
November Chart Shows: Keith Olbermann Still Lying!
The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann continues to post at his blog-home, The Daily Kos (no conflict of interest there for the "nonpartisan" Olby!). His writings yesterday can only be described as laugh-out-loud funny:
I read with astonishment here and elsewhere that I am guilty of never presenting conflicting viewpoints. Do you know what the easiest form of "good tv" is? Put two guys on who disagree with each other and let them yell at each other.
How many times is Edward R Olbermann going to prop up this flimsy straw-man defense of his one-sided reportage? You don't have to put two guys on to yell. You can put two guys who won't scream at each other. Hell Keith, you could just put one guy on who doesn't parrot your talking points. No yelling, no screaming, just a point of view other than the prevailing dogma of OlbyPlanet. But for some reason you won't do that.
I am pleased to be able to say that I've never put something on Countdown to toe a party line.
Yikes!
I'd rather devote the time to personally rebutting something else that has been let loose into the ether without rebuttal...
Hey Keithy, letting stuff loose into the ether without rebuttal...that's exactly what you do on your Hour of Spin. Five nights a week, 52 weeks a year (minus Bathtub breaks). And the latest proof of that is the November guest list. We poured through the MSNBC online transcripts and tallied the data. Take a gander at the results:
Olbermann doesn't toe any party line, does he? None of that putting stuff out without rebuttal for him! Why can't he tell the truth? There's more rebuttal on Radio North Korea than on Countdown!
Discuss, resolve, and then recap Tuesday's and Wednesday's Hours of Spin. Comments are open!
The Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how much attention was paid to various stories and issues over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:
Get ready to recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
John Gibson Previews His New Book (with an Entire Chapter on Olbermann!)
What is MSNBC up to? John GIbson worked there for years and in his new book he devotes an entire chapter to A-Mess-NBC's deranged hatemonger, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann! Here he is with Sean Hannity with a preview!
John Gibson explains for the uninitiated what we here at Olbermann Watch have known for years: the infamous, deplorable one has the worst track record of any so-called 'pundit' not just on A-Mess-NBC but anywhere in the known 'verse. Listen, enjoy, then prepare to recap Herr Olbermahn's post-speech Hour of Spin. And Wednesday's crapfest too! Comments are open!
It was a short work week for the infamous, deplorable Keth Olbermann, but nonetheless the Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how much attention was paid to various stories and issues over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:
Notes: References to Iraq do not include Olbermann's ritual closing mantra.
Get ready to recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Once again the Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how much attention was paid to key stories and issues over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:
Notes: References to Iraq do not include Olbermann's ritual closing mantra.
Congratulations Sarah Palin! You are again the runaway winner--by far the most important story on OlbyPlanet. Who cares about unemployment, or Afghanistan, or Nidal Hasan, or that boring old economy? You can add them all up and Sarah Palin is still ten times more important to Edward R Olbermann! Get ready to recap tonight's Hour of Spin. And Tuesday's too! Comments are open!
John Gibson: The Real Reasons Behind the KSM Trial
Gibby has a theory, and he tries to explain it to callers. And there's even a passing reference to the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann, just to keep it on topic. Listen up, listen uppers, and then recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Once again the Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how much attention was paid to key stories and issues over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:
Notes: References to Iraq do not include Olbermann's ritual closing mantra.
Congratulations Sarah Palin! You are once again the most important story on Countdown--in fact Sarah Palin was more important than Afghanistan, Iraq, Nidal Hasan, Iran, Pakistan, and unemployment combined! It looks like Keithy has a krush on someone. Awwwwww. Get ready to recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Flashback: Keith Olbermann's Love/Hate Relationship with Nazis!
Among the many videos that were purged from youtube when the Olbermann Watch account was nuked was this look at Keith Olbermann, so ready to pompously object to Nazi comparisons, and so eager to use them himself. Here's the post from February 3, 2008, and a freshly uploaded version of the video:
This is the same Edward R Olbermann who slammed Condoleeze Rice for suggesting that Saddam might have been like Adolf Hitler. The same Keith Oralmann who sermonized that such comparisons must be stopped: "There's no place for the reference in this culture. Not about the Republican tactics, not about the Democratic tactics, not about Guantanamo Bay."
Keep those words in mind. Because in his latest Special Education Komment, Olby does it again. Yes, he compares the Bush administration to the Third Reich! A more stunning example of Olbypocrisy could not be imagined. This video explores Herr Olbermahn's love/hate relationship with Nazism:
Edward R Olbermann spent Wednesday's Hour of Spin without reporting on Fort Hood, emails to Al-Qaeda, Hasan, or anything else that didn't fit his talking points. Because on OlbyPlanet, if Olby just decides not to report it, then it didn't happen! Prepare to recap tonight's propagandarama right here. Comments are open!
The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann couldn't be bothered yesterday to report on Malik Hasan or all of his contacts with jihadists and repeated emails to Al Qaeda. He didn't even bother to do a segment on the Fort Hood memorial. Instead, he devoted over seven minutes to grade-school vulgarities directed at Carrie Prejean. More of that OlbyPlanet news judgment. No doubt he'll have something really special for Veterans Day. You can recap it right here. Comments are still open!
Once again the Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how what kind of attention was paid to key stories and issues over the past week. Here is what our keyword searches found:
Notes: References to Iraq do not include Olbermann's ritual closing mantra.
Hmm. An awful lot of coverage of Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachmann, and Fox News. Not so much about Fort Hood, which got relegated in each case to a non-leading short segment. In fact, on yesterday's Hour of Spin, Edward R Olbermann didn't even mention Fort Hood, with no reporting whatsoever on all the new developments regarding Nidal Hasan's background and troubling contacts. Truly, another Dog That Did Not Bark. Such is the vaunted news judgment prevalent on Olby Planet. We'll wait for next week's chart for a fuller spectrum of Oralmann's "journalism". But we pretty much know what to expect tonight--and chances are it won't include an apology to Peter Johnson for Monkeymann's repellent, still uncorrected smear. Comments are open!
Will Keith Olbermann Apologize for Smearing Fox's Peter Johnson Jr?
To understand how Keith Olbermann concocts his ritual character assassinations of people on his enemies list, one must appreciate the modus operandi involved. More often than not, Olby spots an attack in a blue blog, preferably a Fox hating one, lifts it without checking, contorts the content even further to suit his own agenda, and then for a big finish tosses in a healthy dose of name calling, ridicule, and personal attacks.
This week brought us an egregious example of OlbyCarthyism, one that appears to have had its genesis at one of David Shuster's favorite sources, Talking Points Memo. They excerpted a few sentences from a four hour program: an exchange the Fox & Friends hosts had with Geraldo Rivera regarding the Fort Hood massacre. The article links to, but does not embed, a snippet of video. But even this skimpy documentation was too much information for Olbermann, who attacked all three hosts by cropping things even further and just quoting their questions and ignoring the answers. Here he cites Gretchen Carlson:
CARLSON: Could it be that the military was exercising political correctness in not approaching him as seriously as they would have had he not been a Muslim?
Why does this question make Ms Carlson a "worst person" nominee? After all, MSNBC's employee Clift van Zandt made a similar point about political correctness, and just today NBC's own David Gregory asked a question that echoed Carlson's about the military missing warning signs. Will they be named "worst persons" by Olbermann? There was a lot more that Gretchen Carlson said--not merely the questions she posed (the job of an interviewer) but her own analysis--that Keith Olbermann neatly avoided telling his viewers about. Before asking that verboten question, she noted:
CARLSON: It puts any Muslim American in a tough situation here because by all accounts most Muslim Americans living here are living here peacefully. I mean, this is the extreme element--potentially--of this religion, and we don't know exactly if the religion was his motivation or not, or if it was the act of war, or that he went nuts. I mean, we don't really know right now.
There's no way Olby is going to let that be heard! Olbermann's distortion of Carlson is pretty bad, but his defamation of Peter Johnson Jr is even worse. Here is the quote as Olby cites it:
JOHNSON: You won't countenance special screenings for Muslim soldiers, will ya?
Olbermann attacks Johnson for this cropped quote as if Johnson were calling for such screenings. Again, neither Olby nor Talking Points Memo (which frames this statement as Johnson "grilling" Geraldo, as if they were disagreeing) bothers to note anything Johnson said before that interview, which just might shed some light on the situation. Here is what he said after a statement from a CAIR spokesman calling for Americans to remain calm because the motives of the attacker are not known:
JOHNSON: Well that's absolutely accurate, and it calls for restraint, and it calls for concern for fellow citizens. And obviously whether an assailant is Christian, or is Muslim, or is Jewish, is irrelevant.
What? How can that be? Olbermann wants you to believe Johnson is some sort of depraved racist! Well Keith did have that one-sentence quote as "proof". But even that one sentence has been falsified--doctored to change its meaning and intent. Here, in context, is precisely how the exchange between Peter Johnson and Geraldo Rivera went down. After Brian Kilmeade asked if there should be special screenings for Muslim soldiers, Geraldo disagreed. After Geraldo rambled a bit away from the question, Peter Johnson jumped in:
JOHNSON: You can't, you won't countenance special screenings for Muslim soldiers, will you?
RIVERA: You know, it's a hard--
JOHNSON: You can't. As a civil libertarian, can you countenance that, Geraldo Rivera?
RIVERA: It's a hard step for me to take, to countenance. This is an American born person.
JOHNSON: Yeah it is!
RIVERA: This is not a naturalized citizen.
JOHNSON: Right!
This is the exact opposite of what Olbermann claimed. Peter Johnson Jr was not supporting "special screenings". He was agreeing with Geraldo Rivera and arguing against them! But that doesn't matter to Olbermann, who slanders him as a "worst person" based on his dishonestly cropped quote. Par for the course on Countdown.
But wait, there's more. We haven't yet dealt with Olbermann's specialty: over-the-top insults and name-calling. In this instance it was to accuse Fox News of, among other things, racism:
OLBERMANN: Since we're asking questions, I have one for Carlson, Johnson, and Kilmeade. You guys ever wonder if you all succeeded inside a company like Fox mostly because you're not Muslim or black or Asian or Hispanic?
We noted above that Olbermann was careful to quote only questions, but not answers. This of course made it easy to strip all context from the discussion, but now we find there was another reason. Because the person the Fox hosts were talking to was Geraldo Rivera. You know, the fellow whose successful Fox News program beats MSNBC and CNNweekend after weekend? Now we're not sure, but we think Geraldo is Hispanic. You know, like Julie Banderas. That's the other reason why Olby avoided even mentioning Rivera. Because if he had, how could he wail that Fox News won't allow Hispanics to succeed? Oh that racist FNC! If only it could be more like MSNBC, where Hispanic anchors are plentiful. Why MSNBC is a veritable haven of Muslims, blacks, Asians, and Hispanics:
Keith Olbermann owes someone an on-air apology. Big time.
Red Eye Gang Plus Ann Coulter Beat Up (Figuratively) Keith Olbermann!
Greg Gutfeld and Andy Levy were filling in for John Gibson on the radio today. They got in some good shots at the infamous, deplorable one, then kicked it up a notch by bringing in Ann Coulter. It's perfect Friday fun listening, so listen up, listen-uppers.
Olbermann Election-Night 'Hospital' Excuse Starting to Unravel
It was an odd moment when the time rolled around for MSNBC's "special live edition" of Countdown on election night at 10:00 pm. Because show host Keith Olbermann wasn't there. A hasty pre-recorded Olby tossed it to Lawrence O'Donnell, who proceeded to update viewers on the elections for about 20 minutes, then a rerun of the 8:00 pm showing of Countdown was joined in progress. The first apparently official explanation from MSNBC or from Olbermann came from mediaite:
We hear Olbermann was visiting his dad in the hospital...
But why did MSNBC promise a live Countdown, if they knew they weren't going to air one? For that matter, why did Olbermann himself claim that he would be back at 10:00 pm?
Lawrence O'Donnell and I will be back with the latest on the votes in New York 23rd, Virginia and New Jersey at 10:00 Eastern, 7:00 Pacific. Until then, I'm Keith Olbermann...
There was one thing that changed between 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm: the Corzine loss in New Jersey. Keith already had to endure the victory of Bob McDonnell in Virginia, whose electoral chances he had previously dismissed with a sneering: "Good-bye, Mr McDonnell". He would then have to report another Republican victory at 10:00 pm. If he stuck around.
Was his father's condition so serious that he had to bail on his responsibilities at MSNBC and skip the 10:00 pm show? If so, there was a miraculous recovery because less than 24 hours later KO was merrily blogging at Yankee Stadium, snapping pics and cracking wise. Remember, Olbermann has a pattern of ducking his job when there's news he doesn't want to report. After all there's a reason he's called "bathtub boy". Just ask John Gibson.
Most telling of all is how flimsy and ephemeral the hospital excuse turns out to be when you look at it more closely. Mediaite's only reference is "we heard"...exactly what you would expect when someone is tossing out a BS excuse but doesn't want to get caught having done so. Why wouldn't Olbermann, or someone from MSNBC, say this on the record? To Mediaite's credit, they did try a second time. And MSNBC's non-response speaks volumes:
Mediaite's Steve Krakauer reported that he "heard that Olbermann was visiting his dad in the hospital, which accounted for his absence." When asked for confirmation of this an MSNBC spokesperson provided no comment.
Isn't it time for MSNBC and/or Olbermann to address this , and do it on the record?
MSNBC boasted that on election night they would present a "special live edition of Countdown" at 10:00 pm. But with bad news for the Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a funny thing happened on the way to the bonus Hour of Spin. Keith wasn't there! After a live update (not from Olby but from Lawrence O'Donnell) A-Mess-NBC ("the place for politics") proceeded to rerun the 8:00 pm showing.
Keith had obviously left the building. But why? Where in the world was Keith Olbermann? We don't know yet, but we think we have a pretty good idea:
Around 10:15pmET, there was a commercial break, and the repeat 8pmET Countdown kicked in. It aired the rest of the hour. We hear Olbermann was visiting his dad in the hospital, which accounted for his absence. But that doesn't answer why O'Donnell or Matthews didn't fill in during the prime results hour. In the MSNBC release Monday, it was listed as a live edition of Countdown.
Update update: Does anyone really believe what is almost certainly an MSNBC leak, that he was visiting his sick Dad? Especially when nobody is willing to go on the record to say it's true? Keith announced at 8:59 pm that he and Larry O'Donnell would be back at 10:00. So what happened between 9:00 and 10:00 pm that might have sent Olby to the bathtub? Could it have been Corzine losing? Ya think? Will Oralmann show up tonight? Or will he end up at Yankee Stadium? That would be peculiar, if his dad's illness prevented Olby from staying at work past ten o'clock, but allows him to spend all night at a ball game. We'll know a few short minutes from now, and we're counting on you to recap tonight's festivities in this thread.
Update Update Update: Well Keith is just where we thought he'd be: Yankee Stadium, merrily posting one blog entry after another at tonight's game. So either his Dad made a miraculous recovery from just 24 hours ago, or MSNBC's PR line explaining away Keith's sudden disappearance on election night is even shadier than we suspected. Discuss and resolve. Comments are still open!
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Um, Tell Us Again Who Is a Propaganda Arm of a Political Party...
The Olbermann Watch Research Division chuckles every time it hears someone on A-Mess-NBC attacking Fox for being a partisan operation, since we know there are more opposing views aired on any given hour of Hannity or The O'Reilly Factor than you will hear in a month of Edward R Olbermann. Having just finished one such month, here's the proof. We poured through the MSNBC online transcripts and tallied up the Hour of Spin guest list. Take a gander at the results:
Behind the numbers Democratic and Republican politicians: these are office-holders invited on Countdown for tough, aggressive grillings. Actually, that was a joke. Since they are all Democrats, they are trademark Olbermann blue-dress interviews. These included Ron Wyden (4 times), Anthony Weiner (3), James Clyburn (3), Alan Grayson (2), and one each for Maria Cantwell, Sheldon Whitehouse, Charles Schumer, and Sherrod Brown. Strangely, not one Republican.
Democratic and Republican strategists: These are partisan "experts" who have toiled in the partisan vineyards to get candidates of their persuasion elected. The big winner here is Democratic strategist "Crazy" Larry O'Donnell: ten appearances, either as a guest or guest-host. Plus we find Chris Kofinis (4), Howard Dean (2), Joe Trippi (1), and Markos "Screw 'em" Moulitsas (1). And then there were the Republicans: zero.
Liberal / Progressive vs Conservative / Traditional: These guests are not officially identified with party activisim but they appeared on OlbyPlanet to promote a political viewpoint. People like Wendel Potter (from the Center for Media and Democracy--two appearances), Shannyn Moore of Huffpo (1), Eric Burns of Media Matters (1), and so forth. We included three appearances from the National Association of Free Clinics, since they were present not to promote a philanthropic effort, but rather to hold free clinic events "in five key cities, in five key states represented by Democratic senators who have not yet said they will oppose a Republican filibuster of the public option." Yes, A-Mess-NBC organizing, promoting, and sponsoring political events to oppose Republicans and promote Democratic legislation. Gee, that sounds a little bit like, what would you call it, acting as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party? In the interest of fairness, we didn't include the washed-up "comedians" and vulgar "entertainers" who also used their Countdown appearances to further Olby's partisan agenda. We have our limits, even if the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann does not.
Discuss, resolve, and then recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
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!
From his radio show today. Enjoy the mockery, and the inside references that true Olby scholars will understand--like the allusion to KarmaBites. Then use this space to recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
John Gibson: Who's Biased? Fox, or Olbermann and MSNBC?
Gibson lays out the facts in one of his best dissections of the infamous, deplorable one. Maybe he'll be named WPitW tonight, an honor we're still hoping for here at OlbyWatch. Recap tonight's Hour of Spin right here. Comments are open!
John Gibson Blasts Keith Olbermann and the Fox Haters!
Listen and enjoy as Gibby again analyzes The War on Fox, and wonders if people who call Fox 'talk radio' have ever hard of some guy called Olbermann. And we haven't forgotten this week's Olbermann Week That Was: By the Numbers. We poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how much attention was paid to various stories over the past week and here are the results of our keyword searches:
Notes: References to Iraq do not include Olbermann's ritual closing mantra.
Who will Keith Olbermann attack tonight? Post your predictions here, and then recap use this space to recap The Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Gibson: Olbermann Part of Obama's 'Pet Media', Does White House Bidding!
Listen as John Gibson paints the picture we know so well: Keith Olbermann as an extension of the White House PR office, dutifully avoiding the stories Obama doesn't want covered. Be amazed as Olby's parrot-like guests completely go along with him! Then use this space to recap tonight's Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Listen and enjoy as Gibby analyzes The War on Fox, and wonders about MSNBC and its status as a news organization. And we haven't forgotten this week's Olbermann Week That Was: By the Numbers. We poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how much attention was paid to various stories over the past week:
Notes: Friday's Countdown not included as it was a rerun. References to Iraq do not include Olbermann's ritual closing mantra.
Who will Keith Olbermann attack tonight? Will we get another "mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick", or something not quite so intellectual? The possibilities are endless: Fox News, Glenn Beck...Juan Williams would seem to be a likely target. Post your predictions here, and then recap use this space to recap the longest 60 minutes in television. Comments are open!
Gibson Defends Rush, Tells Caller 'I Never Worked for Olbermann'
John Gibson has a field day with another batch of clueless callers as he goes after media geniuses like Rick Sanchez and Dr Maddow for airing fake Limbaugh quotes. And there's a nice bit about our pal Olby in there to give it some OlbyWatch relevance. Listen, enjoy, then prepare to recap the last first-run Hour of Spin of the week. Comments are open!
A New Entry in Keith Olbermann's Misogyny Hall of Shame
On Tuesday night's Hour of Spin, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann did it again. In attacking Michelle Malkin, the new Edward R Murrow once more indulged his diseased psyche to unleash demeaning, personal invectives against women, referring to Ms Malkin as a "big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it". This is what passes for journalism on today's Peacock air. It has not gone unnoticed. Inside Cable News said "Yuck!" and noted:
Um, what's the difference between this attack and the "Ho-Pas" incident, which Olbermann subsequently apologized for even though he had nothing to do with that incident?
Liberal blogger Tommy Christopher, writing at mediaite (a website run by MSNBC legal analyst Dan Abrams), was also taken aback:
[Malkin] is not known for parsing her words, either. None of this, however, explains why Keith Olbermann would refer to her in such dehumanizing terms, even as he's decrying that exact behavior.
All this is nothing new. Olbermann's Misogyny Hall of Shame has been adding exhibits for years:
Olbermann deplorably mistreated Suzy Kolber at ESPN driving her to tears
said of his colleague Rita Cosby: she's "dumber than a suitcase of rocks"
laughed and joined in on a gross, creepy attack on Carrie Prejean
Even Olbermann's progressive allies recognize that there is a septic streak in Keith's soul when it comes to the opposite sex. TomPaine.com summed it up well:
So, to Keith Olbermann, who will be sternly moralizing into the camera for at least another four years, I have this to say: There is no excuse for how irresponsibly you are using your position of influence. The fact that you are a petty, disrespectful misogynist discredits you. You are not a progressive and you never will be, unless you drastically alter your attitude toward women. All of the brutally honest political criticism in the world does not make up for the shallow, sexist tripe you use to boost ratings. You, sir, are no Edward R. Murrow.
Is there any recourse for Keith Olbermann's many victims, male and female? Broadcasters have been censured, even fired, for much less. Yet Olby seems to be impervious to the standards that are applied to everybody else. Why not start fighting back? The first step might be to contact MSNBC and their news honchos to express outrage and request than an apology be made. But why stop there? What if Olbermann's victims demanded that they be given equal time--on Countdown, with Olbermann (not one of his stand-ins) present--to answer to the smears? Being allowed to face one's accusers is the American way. Every request to MSNBC, Countdown, and Olbermann should be made public. Every response should be published as well. Transparency.
What are the chances that Malkin, or anyone else who is a victim of Edward R Olbermann's vile hatred, would be permitted to face him on Peacock air and have it out? Slim and none--and Slim just left town. But seeing all the demands, responses, and rejections published online would make the effort worthwhile. All the world would know how morally corrupt MSNBC's news operation is. And as for Keith Olbermann? His cowardice and refusal to have on guests with opposing viewpoints--especially people he has viciously smeared--would be another vivid demonstration that he is more than just a misogynist. He's also a sissy.
Discuss, resolve, and then use this thread to recap tonight's unapologetic Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Chutzpah Beyond Belief: MSNBC Accusing Others of Bias!
John Gibson couldn't believe it: Olby Clone/Parrot/StandIn "Crazy Larry" O'Donnell complaining about media bias while hosting the most one-sided program not heard on radio North Korea. Listen as Gibby lays out everything that's wrong about the White House (and therefore MSNBC's) war on Fox, and explains it all to several highly confused callers. Good stuff, and the perfect appetizer for the much less nutritious Hour of Spin to come tonight. Use this thread for opinions, your Countdown recaps, and more. Comments are open!
Once again the Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how much attention was paid to various stories over the past week. Here is the raw data on what our keyword searches found:
letterman:69
palin: 55
baucus: 24
beck: 21
steele: 17
limbaugh: 15
fixed / fox (news): 8
afghanistan: 3
iran: 2
pakistan: 0
iraq: 0
zazi / terror / plots: 0
Notes: 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!
Olbermann Watch has obtained this exclusive footage of Keith Olbermann and his team of analysts, writers, and sycophants doing last minute preparations for tonight's marathon one-hour Special Education Komment:
It's the eve of Edward R Olbermann's daring ratings experiment: his marathon Special Education Komment, set for Wednesday night, that will run not ten, not 20, not 30 or 40 minutes. It will run for a full-hour! Can you imagine all the Pauses of Significance? Just think of all the camera pivots: enough to induce whiplash! But for now we will have to content ourselves with the joys of anticipation, coupled with Oralmann's cleverly inserted plugs for tomorrow night's stunt, which will be ever so subtly placed at multiple strategic points throughout tonight's Hour of Spin. Do your recapping right here. Comments are open!
Once again the Olbermann Watch Research Division poured through the MSNBC online transcripts to see how much attention was paid to various stories over the past week. Here is the raw data on what our keyword searches found:
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