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After a string of absences, vacations, and days off that would make President Obama green with envy, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann is set to return to his candlelit podium tonight and resume his proper role as King of Kountdown. And you can expect every element to be back in place: attacks on Republicans, a fawning interviewing with Markos "Screw 'Em" Moulitsas, more smears of Arizona as he truckles to the Big Unions, and of course insults galore, aimed at everyone from members of Congress to Rush Limbaugh. It's the beginning of another week--The Hour of Spin times five. Abandon all hope ye who dare to watch.
There's so much news breaking on the Oralmann front that we'll just give you the latest high spots and let you take it from there. Suffice it to say that the infamous, deplorable one is once again alienating everyone he works with and for, and in record time:
The Wrap: Rift deepens between Olby and Current: 'Everyone is replaceable'
We all know Olbermann doesn't burn bridges at every place he works; he napalms them. Could Current TV be the latest venue for an Olbyplosion? The NY Times seems to think so, based on the fact that the infamous, deplorable one has been noticeably absent from recent special reports and is not scheduled to participate in the first big news night of 2012, the Iowa caucuses:
These absences suggest that there may be new tension between Mr. Olbermann and the managers at Current, who are trying to create a progressive-oriented cable news channel.
In the television industry, Mr. Olbermann is well known for fights with his bosses; stories abound about his refusal to speak to managers and executives. At Current, this behavior has continued, according to four people with knowledge of the situation, one of whom described Mr. Olbermann as "disgruntled."...
On Dec. 22, Mr. Olbermann's last live program of the year, he did not acknowledge his expected absences.
"We'll be bringing you Best of 'Countdown' each night from tomorrow through Monday, Jan. 2, and then back -- live, live, live -- on Tuesday, Jan. 3," he told viewers. "Congratulations on getting through another year of this crap. Good night and good luck."
In fact, Current is planning to pre-empt "Countdown" on Jan. 2 for a two-hour caucus preview hosted by Mr. Uygur, according to its schedule.
Uh oh. What's notable about the above is that it is written by Brian Stelter, so pro-Olbermann that he was seen as an apologist for Bathtub Boy, going so far as to alter or delete posts to conform with the wishes of Olbermann and MSNBC.
Meanwhile, while Twittermann has exploded at news articles that were unfavorable toward his highness, he has remained uncharacteristically silent since this piece hit the web. Things that make you go: hmmmmmm.
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UPDATE: Oralmann has changed his twitter page to remove the statement that he is 'Chief News Officer' of Current tv. And he has still said nothing about the NY Times exposé. Hmmmm.
UPDATE UPDATE: Well it took him over 24 hours, but the infamous, deplorable one has finally come up with a response to the NY Times. It is not very substantive, addresses none of the scheduling changes around his appearances, and says nothing about him removing 'Chief News Officer' from his twitter profile. But this is as close to a response as you'll get from Edward R Olbermann:
I've just replied to @BrianStelter as follows: anybody who describes my disposition towards Current as "disgruntled" is either uninformed, working from a personal agenda, wrong - or all of the above
Current TV Fires Staffers as Olbermann Pockets Millions!
When it comes to the Great Divide between the 1% and the 99%, there's no doubt where Al Gore, impresario of Current TV, and his partner in crime Keith Olbermann stand. The New York Times reports that Current is dumping practically the entire staff of Vanguard. This documentary series, once regarded as the flagship program of Gore's media machine, was described by 'Chief News Officer' Olbermann in the most glowing terms. Bathtub Boy noted that Vanguard was "a skeleton -- in the most complimentary sense -- of an outstanding international news operation".
Yeah, well, so much for that. The lucky Vanguard staffers are being reassigned; the rest are getting their walking papers. They're out the door, and here's why:
A person who worked on "Vanguard" for years said that Current, while profitable, seemed unable to afford the documentary unit and the new shows. "If you're committed to boots on the ground journalism, there are just fixed costs you can't get around," he said. "And Current isn't exactly flush."
Really? Whatever could Current be spending money on that it can't afford to keep a few lower-level staffers on their payroll? We know the answer to that, don't we?
Keith Olbermann is not in the witness protection program, but he might as well be. His show on Al Gore's Current TV (America's least watched network) has lost nearly a third of its viewers in four months. Pretty impressive result for $10 million a year. That's just his salary.
Even back then, media writers knew that the facade at Current TV couldn't sustain Oralmann's King Midas salary. It was inevitable that all those lower level jobs would be jettisoned in order to make it possible to pay Olby and keep his bathtub full:
Al Gore, Current's chairman and co-founder, is also whistling a symphony past this particular graveyard. He told Crain's New York: "We're going to be creating a lot of jobs for people who are not afraid to speak truth to power." We can only hope this isn't the former vice president's solution to the unemployment problem.
However, some people are getting good jobs at good wages. In addition to recently hiring Bohrmann, former head of CNN's Washington bureau, it has also picked up Shelley Lewis as executive vice president of programming. Lewis' previous experience includes co-creating the Air America Radio network. Well, that certainly turned out well. The network's other new employees include former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur and former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm.
Where Current gets the money to pay these people or even stay in business is anybody's guess.
So Edward R Olbermann and his 1% pals settle into their cushy leather chairs in their Current tv penthouses, while the people who do the real labor of producing documentaries--the hard working 99%--get shown the door. All by command of Current's Chief News Officer: the infamous, deplorable one himself.
Just what is it with Edward R Olbermann and Twitter anyhow? When he's not lying about Twitter to smear someone, or using Twitter to lie about his own words, the infamous deplorable one is getting himself in hot water by ridiculing and minimizing charges of rape. And just when you think Oralmann might have this interweb thing sussed out, he goes and walks into another propellor.
This has all the hallmarks of Olby's previous twitter snits: blocking people, alienating fans, nasty treatment of women...a compendium of Keith's Greatest Hits. Let Ceilidh-ann explain it all in what has become a disturbingly familiar pattern of Olbermann derangement:
My tweet being mentioned here is this:
"What do Bachmann's looks have to do with it, Lewis? #Countdown"
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's physical appearance was mentioned in one of Lewis's comments, which I found unfair since it's unfair and extremely misplaced to emphasise style over substance in politics, especially in regards to women, who have faced such discrimination for so long. I never followed up on this tweet except for a couple replies to friends, and my tweet wasn't meant as some malicious insult to Lewis. Olbermann's justification for blocking me came here again in another reply to a friend of mine:
"Just the last name is far more insulting than just the first. We're done here."
This is new to me. I've always been told that it's ruder to refer to someone you don't know by their first name, since it adds an edge of condescension to the equation, and with twitter, tone is so hard to grasp sometimes. Countdown is a political show and it's commonplace, or at least it is in UK, to refer to political figures by their surnames. I do it all the time and I know I'm not the only one. 140 characters requires brevity. The choice of surname wasn't meant as some damning critique of Lewis, nor was it meant as the insult of the century. Besides, Olbermann refers to someone by their surname a few tweets earlier. Maybe it's only rude if you're British:
There's much more so read the whole thing and marvel at the inner workings of that miasma of paranoia and insecurity that is Olbermann's Brain. Then you'll have some idea why Bathtub Boy has once again gone on a twitter semi-boycott: he'll continue to post plugs for his show, but he won't lower himself by actually replying to the rabble:
Ok, my thanks to everybody, but life is brief. TFN I won't be replying to tweets.
Man, if we wanted to we couldn't make up crazy like this.
We've said it again and again, and the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann continues to verify what Olbermann Watch has been exposing for years. Edward R Olbermann smears people with lies. He gets his source material from blue blogs. Rip 'n' Read Olbermann then repeats whatever smear he finds there, ramping it up with name calling and other hysterical bits of performance art, and the gullible Olbyloons who think he is a 'journalist' with only the most 'reliable sources' lap it up like the credulous lemmings they are.
The latest example: Oralmann claims Rep Alan West boasted of being a member of a white supremacist biker gang. Where did Monkeymann get this hot news flash from? Maybe The Pulp. Possibly Democratic Underground. Whatever it was, Edward R Olbermann obviously never listened to the audio (which clearly reveals West in a sarcastic, this-is-the-kind-of-crap-I-have-to-put-up-with mode) or he did and decided not to let the truth stand in the way of his latest smear.
But even the left-leaning media aren't buying the latest Olbermann Lie. Here's Tommy Christopher:
Keith Olbermann gave Rep. Allen West (R-FL) top honors in his "Worst Persons" segment, ostensibly for "admitting" (and even "bragging") that he was a member of a white supremacist motorcycle gang, after denying any connection to such a gang for the past year or so.
While West's courtship of motorcycle clubs like The Outlaws is still worthy of scrutiny, the fact is that he made no such admission....
On his program last night, Keith Olbermann mangled even the basic background of the story, saying that last year, NBC reported that "goddamned liar" West "had once been a member of an otherwise all-white motorcycle gang."...it's hard to imagine something so obvious getting past everyone on his show.
No it isn't. Bathtub Boy's gaggle of yes-men never tell the Emperor about those new clothes he's wearing. Olbermann wouldn't hire them if they did.
Wall Street Occupier 'Explains' Protests to John Gibson!
Yes, it's one of Edward R Olbermann's peeps, one of those occupiers Herr Olbermahn loves so much, explaining it all to John Gibson. Listen in amazement as Dylan in Vermont dazzles you with his intelligence, command of the facts, and brilliant argumentation. Exactly what you might expect from, say, one of Olby's two dozen viewers:
Olbermann Visits Drug Pushers and Peeps at Wall Street!
He couldn't be bothered to attend a gathering of the 'predominately white' tea party, but the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann did find time to shuffle over to Wall Street and meet with his predominately white unwashed peeps.
These photos, courtesy of the UK Daily Mail, document this historic occasion. It is not known if Oralmann took advantage of the marijuana and heroin sales on offer at the site. But, to use a classic Olby argumentation technique, he has so far refused to denounce the drug sellers and their criminal activities; he has yet to disassociate himself from their deadly trade. Just when will he do so?
There is no joy in Kosville; Mighty Olby has struck out. Hard to believe but the longer he's on Current TV, the more viewers turn away in droves. It was right here at Olbermann Watch where you heard first the truth about Oralmann's ratings: after opening night the numbers would begin their inexorable, inevitable decline. And sure enough, the infamous, deplorable one's audience size has been shrinking so badly even Keith's pocketful of Cialis can't help him any longer.
As reported by the New York Daily News, the pitifully small viewership of Countdown has gotten even smaller:
Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" has experienced quite a comedown since leaving MSNBC.
After debuting to promising ratings on the Current cable network in late June, Olbermann's political commentary show posted its lowest numbers yet the week of Sept 5-11.
...According to one source, "Countdown" ranked among the top 20 cable news shows when it ran on MSNBC. (After almost eight years at the left-leaning network, Olbermann abruptly announced on-air Jan. 21 that that night's show would be his last.)
In August, that source says "Countdown" on Current ranked 65th.
At this rate, Keith will soon be battling it out for bottom place with the ShamWow guy and Snuggies.
Olbermann slammed Henry as "mediocre," and falsely accused him of ascribing violent intent to Hoffa... his slaps at Ed Henry are unwarranted, and inaccurate.
Christopher shows Keith was lying even about the number of words Mr Henry spoke! Is there nothing Oralmann won't fabricate to satisfy his diseased paranoia?
The guiding hand of ex-CNNer David Borhman is already evident at Current, as Edward R Olbermann serves up another stunning example of journalistic brilliance. Word is that this has already been forwarded to the Pulitzer Committee for their urgent consideration:
We've commented repeatedly on how tight-lipped Olbermann's corporate masters have been with ratings information. Olby, who in his salad days at A-Mess-NBC regularly touted his strong (i.e. losing) ratings in the 'money demo', has now lapsed into the sound of silence when it comes to Nielsen numbers.
The reason for that became clear today as the Hollywood Reporter revealed the latest ratings for the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann and his community access cable hour. Yes, you guessed it: Countdown has achieved record ratings. Record lows that is. Under Herr Olbermahn's stewardship the program has sunk to its lowest 25-54 viewership level evah:
Keith Olbermann's Countdown on Current hit an all-time low last week in the 25-54 demographic. The show pulled in 85,000 viewers in the demo, that was down 2 percent compared to the previous week when the debt ceiling debate was still roiling Washington. Countdown averaged 208,000 total viewers, up 5 percent week-to-week.
Of course Current suits are spinning the numbers as 'outstanding' (!), but they are whistling past the graveyard. Because things are only going to get worse for Olby:
Olbermann has new competition at 8 p.m. as Anderson Cooper 360 moved into the hour and immediately posted double-digit demo gains compared to CNN's previous time-period average. On Tuesday, Cooper's second night anchoring at 8 p.m., the show averaged 228,000 viewers in the demo. Cooper has anchored the program this week from Africa. He was at the Kenya-Somalia border for Monday's show and Mogadishu on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Go Coop!
How long will Al Gore keep paying Olbermann's salary, which was pegged at $10 million so that Keith could brag he's making as much as Bill O'Reilly? For a whopping 85,000 pairs of eyeballs, compared with the 600,000 to 900,000 demo viewers who turn in to Mr Bill nightly? Remember our cable news chart? Olby's 85,000 viewers lands him in 48th place, behind the already-cancelled Cenk Uygur, FNC's 3:00 am Red Eye, and HLN's struggling Showbiz Tonight. Well done, Al. Keep it up, Keith!
Can Current's New Boss Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear?
David Bohrman was best known as the CNN exec who came up with such brilliant journalistic insights as election-night holograms. Now he has fled the CNN fold, only to take charge of Current TV...which is like leaving a multi-national corporation to go and run a cable access station. No, it isn't like that. It is that!
But have no fear. In an interview Borhman promises that Current will remain all progressive all the time. The subject of ratings comes up, but DB gives no information whatsoever. In other words, they still suck.
Respected critic David Zurawik ponders if even this wunderkind from CNN can make a silk purse out of the sow's ear that is Keith Olbermann:
Maybe if Borhman digs deep enough, he will find a journalist under all the rhetorical mustard that now constitutes Olbermann's act. The question is whether Olbermann will be wise enough to listen to his new boss and become a responsible member of the press rather than a strange performer in a sideshow tent far off the midway of TV and American political life.
It's almost like he's in his own little world. Oh wait, he is. It's OlbyPlanet. That's the place where Keith Olbermann speaks and the populace rush to action, overwhelming the country with righteous indignation...because Keith told them to.
Here he is, tweeting away, about his latest manifesto, a call for people to take to the streets on his say so:
Tonight on Countdown: @AlGore on the debt deal, plus my Special Comment on how we must take to the streets to take back the Safety Net
Wow. You can imagine the DC Mall filling up tomorrow morning after Herr Olbermahn orders his vast audience of a few thousand to 'take to the streets'! He's pimping his latest Special Education Comment further at his favorite blog, the Daily Kos, in a teaser post that is nonetheless sprinkled with such unsurprising statements as:
Given the choice between a Democratic president in 2013 and a Republican one - possibly one who is certifiably insane - I'm going to choose the Democratic one every time.
Now there's a shocker. This from the 'journalist' who once bragged that he didn't vote because people might get the idea that he had picked a favorite, something he as a 'journalist' would never do. So much for that! Anyhow, tonight he will also bring on Kos himself, who maybe will again discuss murdered Americans overseas with his classic line 'Thcrew 'Em!', but more likely will thimply therve ath a human Xerox mathine mindlethly dittoing everything Olby thez.
This time it doesn't matter that the suits at Current keep the ratings a deep, dark secret. We'll know tomorrow if the streets of our nation's capital are overrun with outraged Olbots demanding a Safety Net. Or if the response to Oralmann's latest blowhard diatribe is another great, nationwide yawn. Put your money on the latter.
The universe appears to have conspired to rob the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann of his last shred of relevance. His girl friend dumped him (once she acquired a cushy job working for the same company as Herr Olbermahn). Then his company dumped him, tossing him out on his ear, as has happened so frequently in what we laughingly call his 'career'.
Now Keith Olbermann, we understand, does a nightly tv show on a little-seen cable channel. A channel so unimportant that if you have cable tv, there's a 50% chance you don't get the Olby Channel. He rails nightly against the usual names from his 'enemies' list, and actually believes there are throngs watching and hanging on his every word. But Current has stopped even giving out weekly ratings, adopting a curious silence about what many are convinced is the continued erosion of Oralmann's already-miniscule audience.
Indeed, things on OlbyPlanet have become so irrelevant that it's a challenge to come up with something to post about. Outside of a few gullible cranks that hang out at his disreputable blog, nobody cares any more what he says. He's not getting noticed by the websites who watch cable news...maybe because he isn't on a cable news channel. John Gibson can't be bothered with Keith any more. KO is totally off the grid. Olbermann isn't even a has-been. He's a has-was.
You just can't get more utterly irrelevant than Keith Olbermann. So we have trouble coming up with things to post about him. The best we can do for now is to trump up a post about how utterly inconsequential Olby has become. He's the national yawn. On his best days, he aspires to be peripheral. And that's the name of that tune.
The infamous, deplorable one will not be making an appearance tonight. Instead, Bathman's sidekick Robin will be running The Hour of Spin. So to assuage your disappointment, please enjoy the following. It's the next best thing to much better than the real Oralmann:
If you've been following Edward R Olbermann's commentaries on the debt ceiling, you know that he's been pushing the notion that the President isn't bound by his oath to the Constitution. Just raise the debt ceiling on your own, sez Olby. Never mind that the Constitution gives the power of the purse to the Congress, not the Executive branch:
In a rare burst of transparency, the suits at Current have generously given us ratings for the second week of Countdown...not night by night, mind you, but simply the average numbers for week two. You will recall how Olby trumpeted his 'key demo' (25-54) ratings for the first week, an astonishing, jaw-dropping 133,000 viewers. Of course what Oralmann didn't mention is that, compared with all the other programs on genuine cable news channels, that puts him in about 40th place.
Those lackluster numbers tumbled further in the second week of Countdown on Current. Rather than building an audience, Edward R Olbermann appears to be driving them off, as week two found his 133K viewers dwindling to 93,000. In the all-important, nothing-else-matters, ultra-significant 'money demo' (to quote Olby). And plugging that number into the chart finds the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann now plummeting to 48th place, behind even such dayside MSNBC failures as D-Rat and the Daily Rundown.
Funny thing, Herr Olbermahn didn't crank out any self-congratulatory tweets about these new numbers. What an odd oversight. Of course, while tweeting a suspicious claim about his premiere night numbers being higher than originally reported, he did toss out this bit of bushwa to cover his backside:
TWITTERMAN: Caveat: #s will bounce all over the damn place for months
Yeah, well right now they're only bouncing in one direction: DOWN!
On tonight's Hour of Spin, Merkle will show his great independence and serious journalist cred by completely ignoring the story that has the country transfixed: the Anthony verdict. Instead, he'll focus on attacking Republicans (Rick Santorum will be a key victim), which is of course the mission statement of Countdown.
What Olbermann (and Current) Aren't Telling Us About His Ratings
No nightly ratings reports. CurrenTV and Keith 'Transparency' Olbermann have been unusually secretive about the ratings for the new Countdown. So far we have only been given two sets of figures: ratings in the key 25-54 demo for the first night (179K), and a summary rating of the first week: 131K 25-54 viewers.
Now it's clear that the premiere night viewership was much higher than the overall weekly average proved to be. That means that while it appeared that his debut put him in 29th place compared to the rest of the cable news viewership, going by a week's worth of ratings--a more representative sample--finds the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann did considerably worse than 29th place. In fact, that number places him tied with reruns of Celebrity Apprentice in 40th place!
But that week's worth of numbers also includes the inflated premiere night ratings, an unrepresentative thumb on the scale that does not represent the night-by-night viewership of the program. So another way to look at the numbers is to exclude the opening night outlier. Mathematics tells us that the other four nights (Tuesday-Friday) had to average 119K viewers for the week's overall numbers to be 133K. Well, a 119K nightly viewership is even more of an embarrassment for Edward R Olbermann. Given that kind of meager audience he now finishes in 42nd place, behind every program on FNC (including the 3:00 am Red Eye), behind Joe Scarborough, behind Headline News's morning program...even behind CNN's struggling American Morning.
42nd place! At this rate it won't be long before Squawk Box and Sermonette start out-rating Oralmann. As a first week, it can only be called...disastrous.
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Olbermann Revives Grudge Against Petraeus with New Attack
Keith Olbermann is such a slippery, weaselly bastard. On September 10, 2007, the hot political topic of the day was the moveon.org advertisement that portrayed General David Petraeus as 'General Betray Us'. Politicos from Mitt Romney to Nancy Pelosi condemned this attempt to paint a military hero as a traitor who would betray his country. Of course Edward R Olbermann chimed in, attacking Republicans as 'egregious' for criticizing the ad, while pretending to be reluctant to echo the ad by saying: 'Not to defend that phraseology'.
Funny, how Olbermahn pretended to disapprove of the Petraeus-BetrayUs line...funny, because it was Olbermann himself who created it! Weeks before the moveon.org ad appeared with its reprehensible language, Edward R Olbermann had already beaten them to the punch, bellowing in his opening spiel:
OLBERMANN: Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The Petraeus report, less Petraeus, more betrayaeus (ph).
Just to drive the point home he also plastered it on screen, as the graphic illustrates. But when Olbermann's own language became so toxic that even Nancy Pelosi rejected it, Keith pretended like he had nothing to do with it, and whimpered: 'Not to defend that phraseology'. As we said, Olby is a weasel, and a spineless one at that.
So what does this all have to do with tonight's Hour of Spin? Follow. Oralmann's vicious attack on Petraeus, impugning his patriotism by calling him a traitor, had its roots in Gen Petraeus's plan to surge in Iraq. And Gen Olbermahn didn't like that, not one bit. He railed against it night after night, predicting that Petraeus's reckless plan was doomed to result in a massacre of US forces, and would produce nothing more than 'failed blood-letting'.
Oralmann kept up his smears of Petraeus. A year later, as the success of the surge became evident and the predicted 'blood-letting' failed to take place, Olby moved the goalposts, insisting that the goal of the surge wasn't about reducing violence anyway, so there! And besides, he pointed out with the loopy assistance of Rachel Maddow, Petraeus is just trying to 'sell a political platform'.
For normal people what happened next would have been the end of the grudge. A candidate for President was asked about the surge in Iraq. His response:
It succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.
The candidate who said that? Our current President: Barack Obama. That should've been enough even for Olbermann to pack it in, and admit (if only to himself) that he was wrong about the surge, and wrong about Petraeus.
Ah, but the infamous, deplorable one does not give up his grudges so easily. Being proven wrong only deepened and intensified his seething hatred for Petraeus. And now, years after it was clear to everyone--even Barack Obama--that the General was right and Keith Olbermann was horribly, disastrously incorrect, Olby hasn't moved on. He's never admitted he got it wrong. He's never retracted calling the General an un-American traitor--let alone apologized for it. And tonight he will launch a fresh attack on David Petraeus.
The latest Special Education Comment will demand (yes, demand! Are you listening, Mr President?!) that Barack Obama pull the nomination of David Petraeus to head the CIA. Because? Well, he'll have the usual talking-point reasons assembled by trollling through his favorite blue blogs, and no doubt he'll frame it as having to do with 'torture' or some other pretextual justification. But now you know the truth, the real reason why Olbermann hates General David Petraeus and is still holding a grudge for nearly half a decade.
Clever Olbermann Trick to Annoy MSNBC Lasts Less Than a Week
No doubt Edward R Olbermann thought this was the cleverest thing in the world. He would make his community access cable show run over each night with three extra minutes, thereby screwing up people who wanted to watch shows at 9:00 pm (primarily an attempt to annoy those evil overlords at MSNBC who dared to fire him earlier this year). Well, all petty things must come to an end, and the infamous, deplorable one has already decided to abandon this oh-so-clever stratagem, reversing course before he's even concluded his first week on the air!
Olby took to twitter this afternoon to spin the decision to his credulous followers:
At @current we'll soon have a 9 PM companion commentary show to mine. But in the interim there is no reason for me to be overlapping with my friend Rachel, nor to ignore the wishes of those who've been so loyal to both of us for so long. We've heard you: as of tomorrow night Countdown finishes at 9. Bonus stuff will instead go to Countdown Online. Thanks for upsiding my head on this :)
Note the 'my friend Rachel' wording, designed to distract the reader from noticing that this entire bit of Olby chicanery was targeted at his 'friend' Rachel in the first place!
Meanwhile, with the heavily hyped premiere now receding into history, Olbermann continues to keep any more current ratings a deep, dark secret. No leaks, no self-congratulatory tweets, no snarky comments about beating CNN. Man, those numbers must be something else. If you think Keith Olbermann should lift the veil of secrecy on his nightly Nielsens, tweet him at @KeithOlbermann and tell him so. It's about time Oralmann delivered the same sort of transparency that he demands of everyone else!
On tonight's Hour (+ 3 minutes) of Spin, the usual gang of (D) politicians and left-wing spin maestros on the most one-sided program since Radio North Korea. Attacks on Republicans over the budget talks, the Afghanistan war, and agit-prop for gay marriage, drugs, and illegal immigration. Special guest: Jeanine 'racism, straight-up' Garafalo. Because Countdown always gets the most respected intellectuals as guests.
Why Has the Olbermann/Current Hype Machine Suddenly Gone Silent?
It was Tuesday, around 6:30 pm. Keith Olbermann and his corporate overlords couldn't wait to hype their amazing 29th-place finish on Monday, premiere night for Countdown 2.0 on Current. The numbers were promptly leaked to the 'right' people, and Olby himself jumped to direct his twitter lemmings where to read all about it.
But oddly, the information provided only told half the story. Current and Oralmann boasted about their ratings in the important, vital, crucial, nothing-else-matters, significant, key demo of 25-54, but what about total viewers? That information was withheld, and remains so even now. Why? That's a question that also occurred to Baltimore Sun television critic David Zurawik, who noted the irony of the situation:
The main reason for such a redacted ratings release is that it makes it easier to spin numbers when the folks are only getting the bright and shiny ones. And isn't that just the kind of corporate spin and truth-shading that Olbermann says his show is so against?...
But it is hypocritical, isn't it, to sit in front of a camera from 8 to 9 p.m. five nights a week demanding transparency from everyone else, and then playing the selective-release, PR, spin game with your Nielsen numbers?
But that's Olbermann, isn't it?
It sure is. Mr Zurawik continues:
By the way, as folks like Conan O'Brien know, opening night numbers have a tendency to be inflated. So, let's not go nuts one way or the other over these.
Isn't that a coincidence. Here it is, only minutes before Wednesday's Hour (and three extra minutes of Olby pettiness) of Spin is to commence, and we're still in the dark about the ratings for Tuesday, the day after opening night, which as Mr Zurawik says will likely show a marked decline from Monday's numbers. Not a peep from Edward R Olbermann. Not a peep from Current. Suddenly the hype machine, in overdrive for weeks, has gone silent. Why?
It could be just a minor delay, and if there is any info released on this tonight we'll update this post with the Big News as soon as it becomes available. But what if Olby and Current decide they aren't going to give us any ratings for Tuesday? Or Wednesday? Or any other day where the numbers can't be spun to make Countdown appear to be a success? The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann could go on the air night after night and demand everyone else be transparent...while he and his underlings hide the truth from the rest of world. That would truly be one of the Great Moments in Olbypocrisy.
While we await the now long-overdue Tuesday Transparency, we invite you to recap tonight's atrocious episode of Countdown. It will kick off with the Prez talking to us about Afghanistan, and then Oralmann will be on with his instant analysis.
By the way, one of Monkeymann's guests will be Matt Taibbi, who just by coincidence has written a scorching hit-piece on Michele Bachmann. Plus Fat Ass will welcome none other than 9/11 truther Van Jones. Hey, what a great opportunity to attack Bachmann and bash Fox News! After all, both of those are far more important than talking about Afghanistan. It's more of that vaunted Olbermann 'news judgment'.
Current Claims Their Secret Numbers Show Countdown a Success!
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Current has released the first-night numbers for the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. The channel claims that Edward R Olbermann attracted 179,000 viewers in the key 25-54 demo, crowing that they "beat CNN"! Of course at that hour CNN is running the basement-dwelling Eliot Spitzer hour, so that's not saying much. Still, it's an impressive first-night for Herr Olbermahn, but with the curiosity factor satiated, we should look for those numbers to sag as the week goes on.
But can we trust these numbers at all? Just because Current says something doesn't make it true; don't forget who their Chief News Officer is. According to TV By the Numbers:
CurrentTV does not subscribe to the Nielsen service that would regularly measure its programs (presumably because it's only in around 60 million homes). Until CurrentTV subscribes to be measured, there's no chance we (or anybody else) will regularly see any numbers and unless they order a special report and then release those numbers, you won't likely see any one-off reporting either.
Interestingly, the word 'Nielsen' doesn't appear anywhere in the Hollywood Reporter piece. Hmm, do we know these numbers from Current are Nielsen numbers at all, as opposed to something Olby's interns came up with while making random calls to the Daily Kos subscriber base? It all remains to be seen, but assuming arguendo the 179K is correct, where would that leave Olby? In the top 10 cable news shows? Top 20? Well, here is the list (25-54 demo). Note: this list only covers early morning and primetime shows. Fox News daytime programs routinely out-rate many of the primetime shows on other channels, but the nightly ratings do not include the daytime hours:
O'Reilly - 735K
Hannity - 483K
O'Reilly repeat - 438K
Nancy Grace - 419K
Glenn Beck - 411K
Fox Report - 341K
Jane Velez-Mitchell - 332K
Anderson Cooper - 332K
Bret Baier - 329K
Ed Show - 319K
Fox & Friends - 310K
Rachel Maddow - 310K
Joy Behar - 264K
Prime News - 239K
The Last Word - 237K
Cooper 360 (11 pm) - 226K
HLN Special Report - 212K
Piers Morgan - 212K
Last Word (11 pm) - 206K
Morning Joe - 203K
Situation Room - 186K
Hardball - 183K
Countdown - 179K
There you have it. Edward R Olbermann finishes in the #23 slot (in fact lower than that given the numbers that Fox daytime programs pull). Isn't it ironic? Markos 'The Liar' Moulitsas ridiculed Joe Scarborough as the 'lowest rated' morning cable news host...yet Joe still has more viewers than Keith Olbermann does! If anyone believed Markos, that would mean Olbermann loses to every morning cable news show on the air, but of course we know better than to believe Markos. It's enough to realize that KO is pulling up the rear, exactly where he belongs.
Discuss, resolve, and recap tonight's gruesome Hour of Spin, which will revisit Jon Stewart vs Chris Wallace, John McCain, Afghanistan...and hey, maybe Edward R Olbermann will even discuss some topics he didn't cover less than 24 hours ago.
Comments are open!
UPDATE: Politico tells us that Current has recently started being rated by Nielsen. They also note that Current has forbade Nielsen from releasing the total viewership (all ages) numbers for Countdown, from which we can conclude that they suck. Meanwhile, here's an interesting bit of context about Current's status in the overall cable picture.
For a fuller picture of how Mr Opening Night's ratings compare with other cable news programs, here are the top cable news programs (25-54 demo) for May 2011, with Olby added in. This list includes the daytime programs the nightly list omits:
O'Reilly - 630K
Hannity - 498K
Glenn Beck - 412K
Greta - 405K
Fox Report - 398K
O'Reilly (11pm) - 396K
Anderson Cooper - 388K
Fox & Friends - 388K
Bret Baier - 374K
Rachel Maddow - 336K
Anderson Cooper (11pm) - 322K
America's Newsroom - 317K
The Ed Show - 298K
The Last Word - 266K
Piers Morgan - 250K
John King USA - 245K
The Situation Room - 240K
America Live - 228K
Your World w/Cavuto - 217K
Happening Now - 216K
Studio B - 209K
CNN Newsroom - 205K
MSNBC Investigates - 201K
Hardball - 198K
The Last Word (11pm) - 197K
In the Arena - 197K
Morning Joe - 182K
Red Eye - 179K
Countdown 2.0 - 179K
As you can see, compared with May's ratings, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann is even further down the totem pole. Daytime programs on CNN beat his inflated opening night numbers. In fact, every daytime program on Fox News beats him like a rented mule. But Olby did manage to tie Red Eye...which airs at 3:00 am.
Countdown 2.0 Premiere: The Official OlbyWatch Recap!
The new and improved Hour of Spin featured the same sort of opening spiel as ever. A rant against the Libyan war, and a slam on Reagan: "He's dead and he was a lousy President". Clarence Thomas. Conservatives selling their souls, And already a special education comment: government by the people, not by the corporations...like the ones who sponsor Countdown. And greatest cellphone video ever, where the audio drops out for an uncomfortably long time. We're back on OlbyPlanet guys, so watch for attacks on Fox, Republicans, etc. But can the infamous, deplorable one find a way to actually bring up Bush for some primo bashing? Stay tuned!
#5 begins with "As I was saying..." Attack on Rove and Liz Cheney [ding!] for wanting to get the Libyan war over with by ramping up the strikes. Olby cites the Libyan foreign minister's condemnation of the USA. Yeah, his sources are stellar as usual. Keithy stumbles into an accuracy (it had to be inadvertent) regarding the Congress role in war-making. He says Dennis Kucinich (D) is suing on this point. Actually, Keith doesn't want to admit it but the lawsuit was not filed by just Kucinich but by a bipartisan group of ten lawmakers, both (D) and (R).
Then to explore the constitutional issues, who does Fat Ass bring on? Fatter Ass! Michael Moore, who is an expert in...what exactly? Never mind, at least he didn't joke about wanting a hurricane to kill Republicans, like he did the time Olby found it so funny. The discussion was about as illuminating as a burned-out black light, and of course since you can't take anything either one of them says at face value, it had no educational merit whatsoever. But it did serve a key Olbermahn purpose: they managed to swerve the topic to cherry-picking, torture, and--you guessed it--George W Bush! That's more of a stretch than Olby's vest but it was precisely where Oralmann wanted to go.
Then the special comment: contexualization, viewpoint, independence, malfeasance of Republicans, timidity of Democrats, and the obligatory obscure literary quote. This time: Harriet Beecher Stowe. And we were hoping for JK Rowling. But we're thankful for small favors: it wasn't Thurber.
Wow, the first break features ads from Lexus, Foster Grant, and Pradaxa (Big Pharma!). No corporatism here, eh Keithy? The break was interrupted by a typical tease: "Markos Moulitsas inside the Republican Cult".
The next story (apparently they're not being numbered as they were on A-Mess-NBC) is an attack on Clarence Thomas over 'reported' contributions to his wife and to a non-profit library. Now who better to analyze the ethics of a Supreme Court Justice than a convicted felon who is also a disbarred lawyer? That's right, it's John Dean lecturing others about ethics. Sort of like getting advice on modesty from Anthony Weiner. Sure enough Dean manages to bring Nixon into it. It must be noted here that both Olbermann and Dean focused their attack on the Supreme Court's black justice. Isn't this 'racism, straight-up?' Tease for an attack on Fox News. Talk about nostalgia! Man, it's like 'That 70s Show', only more horrible.
Second break: Ads from Microsoft bookend a lengthy promo for a Current football show. Somebody couldn't straight sell all their ad time?
Ooh goody, it's the Current version of Oddball, cleverly called...'Time marches on'. Gee, the first story is about...a Microsoft store. Now there's a coincidence. Then Hollywood dresses and Japanese robots. A tease for a Limbaugh attack ("right-wing radio talker").
Third break: Ford Motors, Zantac (Big Pharma!)...hey, good thing they're not delivering corporate news on this show, ain't it?
Attack on talk radio, complete with the obligatory mispronouncing of Mark Levin's name and cringe-inducing Oralmann 'voice impression'. Lonesome Rhodes [ding!]. Politico's Kenneth Vogel sacrificed any claim to integrity he had by appearing on OlbyPlanet to hype his report on alleged stealth advertising on talk radio. Monkeymann couldn't wait to compare it to 'payola', and expressed phony 'shock'. Vogel was Great Thanksed.
Fourth break: Chrysler motors, Geico, Spiriva (more Big Pharma!...it seems like we won't be seeing any pharmaceutical exposes soon).
KO once boasted that he was dropping 'Worst Persons' in a nod to the new civility, but here it is again. Bronze: Sarah Palin. (Congrats to all who picked Palin as one of the three. Olby is about as unpredictable as Pavlov's dog). Silver: Fox Noise [ding!] He bellowed that Fox 'deceptively edited' 'one key moment' from the Jon Stewart interview...how so? They edited the broadcast version, just as Stewart does, and posted the uncut version on line, just as Stewart does. Somehow, Edward R Olbermann failed to mention that Fox posted the entire unedited video online. Somehow Edward R Olbermann failed to mention that Fox's online video was the source of the clip he played! And his claim that they edited out 'one key moment'? Misleading: the unedited interview runs nearly 25 minutes, what aired is about 10 minutes less. A lot had to be trimmed to fit it into one Fox News Sunday segment, not just 'one key moment'. As usual, when Merkle attacks Fox News, it's not what he says, it's all the things he doesn't say, that prove him a liar. Gold: Some dumb cellphone video.
Fifth break: T Mobile, plus more Microsoft, Foster Grant, Chrysler ads. None of these are corporations of course, because Countdown would never take ads from corporations.
Final story: Inside the secessionist, racist Republican Cult...while running down these stories Monkeymann started talking at a mile a minute, because it was 8:57 and he still hadn't brought on GOP expert Markos Moulitsas. Too bad we can't do voice impressions here, like Oralmann does. But we'll try. Moulitsas: Jon Huntsthman ith not embrathed by the grathrooth. hith tough thlog ith pretty much impothible. Itth gonna be tough to untheat Obama. Olby monumentously announced he would go over the 9pm time, to allow Moulitsas to claim Joe Thcarborough hath veto power at M-Eth-NBC (which is why Markos hasn't been on MSNBC). Moulitsas lied, saying Thcarborough is the lowetht rated cable newth morning hotht. Funny thing, neither Markos nor Olby mentioned that Markos was banned for spreading a rumor that Joe Scarborough had murdered a woman in Florida. Funny that little detail didn't come up, ain't it? Moulitsas: I have a thick thkin. I'm happy that you're here, you get to call the shots, and I'm going to do everything I can to help you. (You know, like trying to convince people that Joe Scarborough is a murderer.)
Papers into the camera and the first Countdown is mercifully over.
Countdown to Countdown: Make Your Predictions Here!
Tomorrow...tomorrow...it's only a day away. The frenzied panting of the Olbyloons will reach a orgiastic climax in just about 24 hours from now. The premiere of Countdown 2.0 on the community-access channel Current is set to revolutionize television. Dispensing with false humility (or any other kind), Edward R Olbermann will actually have an enlarged photograph of Murrow decorating his set. Ever the master of subtlety.
Use this space to give us your pre-premiere predictions, ratings speculations, and (if you like) best wishes to the infamous, deplorable one. And come back 24 hours from now to share your instant reactions to Keith Olbermann's march to marginalization.
In a much-hyped tell-all 'explosive' interview designed as part of the publicity push for the ever-approaching premiere of Countdown on some cable-access channel in the 300s, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann reveals that he has scooped up the much-in-demand services of a reporter with impeccable credentials. Yes, David 'Slippery' Shuster, who for years played Robin to Olby's Bathman, will be Oralmann's substitute anchor (mainly when there's a ball game in the vicinity) on the new incarnation of Countdown.
David Shuster's reputation as an impartial journalist is well-known. Before he made MSNBC history with his 'pimped out' comment about Chelsea Clinton, Davey was so eager to air phony attacks on Sarah Palin that he actually broadcast an internet hoax thinking it was a news story! And even after he was suspended Shuster was still lying, only doing it on Twitter. But Robin is best known for his scoop--which he beat every other reporter in the country to. It was on Countdown that he broke the news that 'Karl Rove will be indicted'. It was a shining moment in Shuster's illustrious career--and might we say a defining one?
The rest of the Hollywood Reporter article is even more free PR for Olby and goes into all the bridges he burned at MSNBC--including Rachel Maddow, his one time protoge. Read it at your peril as we eagerly await the infamous, deplorable one's upcoming debut on community-access cable.
The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann quickly jumped at the chance to snark about a tv chyron that read 'Obama Bin Laden'. First he claimed it was the Fox News station in Chicago:
TWITTERMANN; KeithOlbermann: Oh this gets worse: MT @blcsfo LOOK AT HOW FOX NEWS (Chicago station) REPORTED BIN LADEN DEATH http://j.mp/jDzGnI
Then he decided it wasn't Chicago, and figured out it was Sacramento:
TWITTERMANN: Correcting city: MT @blcsfo LOOK AT HOW FOX NEWS (Sacramento station) REPORTED BIN LADEN DEATH http://j.mp/jDzGnI
Fox40 in Sacramento is not 'Fox News'. They're a local station that carries Fox broadcast network programming (like 'American Idol'). They don't air Fox News, they aren't even owned by Fox. They're owned by Tribune Broadcasting. But that didn't stop Edward R Olbermann:
TWITTERMANN: Note Fox News has switched to "Usama Bin Laden" presumably so they don't get caught calling him "Obama Bin Laden" for a 2nd time tonight
An Olbermann Double Lie! Fox News didn't call him 'Obama Bin Laden', and they didn't 'switch' to calling him 'Usama'--because that's the spelling FNC has used for years. Mainly because it's the spelling that federal agencies like the FBI have used for years.
Of course the supreme irony of all this is that Oralmann himself actually committed the gaffe that he rushed to slam 'Fox News' for. And on his very own website, no less:
Mr Bush personally de-prioritized the hunt for Obama...
Keith Olbermann makes an embarrassing gaffe, and then to cover it up lies that it happened on 'Fox News'. Ladies and gentlemen, the new Murrow!
Red Eye Rips Olbermann's Gutter Attack on S.E. Cupp!
Enjoy:
Comments are open!
UPDATE: Thanks to The Blaze for some grade-A linkage and a great post with S.E. Cupp's reaction on this morning's Glenn Beck radio program.
UPDATE UPDATE: Special thanks to Keith Oralmann himself, who tweeted a link to this post to his credulous followers. KO has always been an Olbermann Watch reader, and it's good to know he still comes here for his Olby updates even while he sits by himself, out of work, with only his bathtub to console him.
It's our pal, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann, self-styled policeman of 'civility', who turned on conservative commentator S.E. Cupp today with a viciously repellent thought: she should never have been born!
TWITTERMANN: On so many levels she's a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.
The Associated Press reports on the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann's appearance at Cornell:
"The whole premise of being a Republican is that somewhere in the middle of the night some poor person has a dollar that some rich man deserves," Olbermann said to warm applause.
Demonstrating his environmental consciousness, not to mention his sympathy for the downtrodden, Oralmann was ushered to and from the event in an oversized, gas-guzzling stretch limo:
Read the backstory on Olby's appearance and his carbon-belching 'whip baller' here.
Something to tide you over while we wait for Keith Olbermann to make a renewed attempt at relevancy. Here's John Gibson and crew bringing you dramatic readings from blue blogs (Olby's favorite news sources) reacting to the vote in Wisconsin:
Greg Gutfeld, Andy Levy, Bill Schulz and their guests gave a moving tribute to the career of journalistic legend Keith Olbermann, and we have the video for your viewing pleasure:
John Gibson: Don't Believe What You Read--Comcast Fired Olbermann!
John Gibson worked at MSNBC, worked with (and subbed for) the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. He reveals what he says really went on, why Olby was canned, and the many and varied excellent reasons for dumping him:
FLASHBACK:Olby boasts that Comcast isn't going to fire him because of all the money he brings in:
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)."
FLASHBACK: John Gibson predicts Comcast will fire Keith Olbermann:
Olbermann Smear Victim Makes World's Most Futile Request
Keith Olbermann smeared John S Wilson on the air after Wilson wrote a post about succession plans for incapacitated Congressmen. Then Mr Wilson made what we rightly describe as the most futile request in the world, and Oralmann's response was just what you'd expect:
WILSON: @KeithOlbermann Don't believe everything you hear. I'm a registered Democrat.
WILSON: @KeithOlbermann @Eugene_Robinson Ha. Let's hope so. It'd be nice to be invited on so I may respond.
WILSON: @KeithOlbermann Are you willing to have me on so I may respond? I think that's fair.
TWITTERMANN: You've already said your piece, sadly
WILSON: @KeithOlbermann I don't need to be on TV. My body of work speaks for itself. However, I do deserve a chance to respond.
WILSON: @KeithOlbermann You're not scared are you? You ranted for 6 minutes. I can't get 3? That's all I need to make my point.
TWITTERMANN: Your point was made. You embarrassed yourself, this country, and the human race.
WILSON: @NathanEmpsall @KeithOlbermann What do you call a commentator who won't let someone respond to their scurrilous charges? Coward fits.
WILSON: Ask @KeithOlbermann if he'll invite me to talk about my article he lambasted for 6 min. last night - http://on.msnbc.com/gTGjnO
WILSON: @KeithOlbermann defines a debate as a 6 min. rant with no chance of his opponent replying. Good to know.
Edward R Olbermann's idea of journalism: level attacks, and don't give your victim the chance to respond. Even when the 'facts' Olby spews turn out to be untrue:
Case in point: The article in question did not first appear on a "right wing" blog, as Think Progress and Olbermann intoned. In fact, it appeared on The Loop 21, an African-American opinion blog that not only permits diversity of opinion and thought but thrives on it.
Contrary to Olbermann's insinuations, as a Governor's Fellow I wasn't a member of Gov. McDonnell's (R-VA) administration any more than I was chief of staff for the two Democratic Virginia state legislators I interned for.
Read Mr Wilson's full response and learn all the stuff Keith Olbermann hides from his gullible viewers.
On tonight's Hour of Spin:
Attack on Paul Ryan (R) with Ezra the K and far-left TPM hack.
Complaints about as-yet nonexistent spending cuts with Jonathan Alter Ego.
Giffords update.
Another thrilling Friday thpecial: thermonizing with Thurber as Keith thends hith latht viewer thoundly to thleep.
Time for Another Lesson in Civility from Keith Olbermann
Keith 'You're a Fascist!' Olbermann spent last night bellowing that Joe Liebermann is a 'delusional liar'. It's part of the 'new tone', don't you know. What can we expect on tonight's Hour of Spin?
Attack on Jan Brewer (R) with a State Senator who is a...wait for it...(D)! HuffPo Howard joins in the parroting.
Attack on 'the right' with Geno Robinson.
Rachel Maddow lookalike Chris Hayes to rejoice that the filibuster, which was sacred to Olby just two years ago, is going to be weakened.
Attack on Glenn Beck.
Attack on Alabama Governor (R) with a real OlbyPlanet-style 'expert': a comedienne!
Time to Ratchet Up the Smears: It's Another Special Education Comment!
What's this? Another spittle-flinging rant from Edward R Olbermann. That's right. You see he's suddenly very perturbed. Because despite all the talk about civility, rhetoric, and the like, it seems nobody has come out and condemned violent rhetoric. Well except for Olby, of course. So that means another ten minutes of melodramatic bluster...in the name of 'civility'.
What is really means is a chance for Krazy Keith to go after those eeevil Fox people. Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and--the greatest Olbsession of them all--O'Reilly! Hey, this would be a good time to demand again (Oralmann loves to demand things) that Obama back out of his interview with Mr Bill. Now this is surely just a coincidence, but yesterday this began running:
How that must drive the infamous, deplorable one up a padded wall. The green-eyed monster stalks again.
On tonight's Hour of Spin:
Attack on Republicans with the civil Howard Dean (D).
Another attack on Republicans with the civil Chris Hayes (Lefty).
Gabby Giffords update, Eric Fuller rehabilitation.
Attack on 'rhetoric' (i.e. Fox, Limbaugh etc) with David 'Children of the' Corn (D).
Attack on Rudy Giuliani (R).
Special Education Comment aimed at...well you can guess.
TUESDAY UPDATE:
Attack on Rep Gohmert (R) w/ Ezra the K and The Wolffe Man.
Repeal Obamacare and throw 140 million people off their insurance! But wait...the bill only added 30 million people to the rolls, so how can going back to where things were cause 140 million to lose coverage? Don't try to make sense out of it. It's OlbyLogic.
Polls show people blame Palin (R) and angry rhetoric for the Tucson shooting! We can imagine what kind of polls those are. Ex-conservative David Frum shreds his reputation by beaming up to OlbyPlanet.
The term "blood libel" has taken on a broad metaphorical meaning in public discourse. Although its historical origins were in theologically based false accusations against the Jews and the Jewish People,its current usage is far broader. I myself have used it to describe false accusations against the State of Israel by the Goldstone Report. There is nothing improper and certainly nothing anti-Semitic in Sarah Palin using the term to characterize what she reasonably believes are false accusations that her words or images may have caused a mentally disturbed individual to kill and maim. The fact that two of the victims are Jewish is utterly irrelevant to the propriety of using this widely used term.
On tonight's Hour of Spin (airing at 11:00 pm):
Tucson Memorial coverage and Giffords updates
Attack on Palin (R) for 'blood feud'.
Attack on John Boehner (R).
THURSDAY UPDATE: There isn't any. Not a peep out of Olby since shortly after noon. Don't surprised if he's in the tub tonight.
The infamous, deplorable one is loose on Twitter again, and there you can see him in his true element. The witticisms, the pithy exchanges, and the rapier-sharp intellect are exactly what you might expect from Herr Olbermahn. Here he explains the policy of his program to exclude opinions he disagrees with:
JOHN STROMBERGER: If presenting one side of a story was a competition, you would be world champion.
TWITTERMANN: There are not two sides to the premise that we need to drop the violent rhetoric. Sorry.
Of course, when caught in a corner, sometimes Edward R Olbermann will resort to such things as bragging about his 'Ivy League' education:
AUGUSTINE 25: Reviewed your comments on murder of Hillary Clinton. In 2008, they were dangerous. In 2011, they are unforgiveable.
TWITTERMANN: Made no such comments. But if pretending this assuages your guilt, go for it
TWITTERMANN: btw I was a TA at Cornell. As an undergrad.
Oooooh. Isn't that special? Should someone catch him misinforming his gullible followers with untrue 'facts', Olby, who never played football (or any other known sport) proves adept at moving the goalposts:
TWITTERMANN: You'll notice the AZ shooter was stopped by unarmed individuals. Last time a vigilante stopped an event like this?
RYUSURE: Uh, check again Mr. Perfect. One of the men who subdued Loughner was carrying. He said so on (uh-oh) Fox News! LOL.
TWITTERMANN: Carrying, did not draw weapon.
Because a man with a gun is 'unarmed' unless he draws the gun...and then magically he's all of a sudden armed! At least that's how it works on OlbyPlanet. And then there's this:
JAMES B: Remember the movie "Death of a President" glamorizing Bush's death? Pot, meet kettle.
TWITTERMANN: I was opposed to that at the time.
TWITTERMANN: Condemned that movie at the time of it's [sic] release.
Hmmm...maybe he condemned it to his barber, or to the last girlfriend to dump him, but there doesn't seem to be any record of it on msnbc:
Tonight, you can expect that the buffoon who described the last President as a 'fascist', 'idiot-in-chief', a 'war criminal', and (our favorite) 'psychotic' will lecture us again on why we have to watch our words. Hmm, he took a different, decidedly sarcastic tone regarding Ari Fleischer's call for rhetorical caution after 9/11:
OLBERMANN: Fleischer tells Maher to watch what he says, contributes to an environment in which ABC fired Maher from his show, warns Americans not to speak freely, that's OK.
Let's see: it's wrong to ask Americans not to speak freely. But now it's imperative that Americans be told not to speak freely because...well, don't try to make sense out of it. It's OlbyLogic.
On tonight's entirely civil Hour of Spin:
We need more gun control. One (D) Rep to agree, and...that's all you need, because there just aren't two sides to the story. Except of course for 'Geno' Washington, also there to agree.
Attack on Sarah Palin (R) for 'bullseye' imagery, but not Daily Kos, because there just aren't two sides to the story. Howard Not-So-Fineman.
Attack on 'the right'. Because there just aren't two sides etc etc.
What Obama should say, with lefty Alter and no one else, because there just aren't etc.
A Chance for Olbermann to Reject Hypocrisy: Quit Kos!
Submitted for your consideration, images from Keith Olbermann's blog. Look at what was posted at the Daily Kos just two years ago, when they targeted Rep Gabrielle Giffords for defeat:
Kos has scrubbed the incriminating images from its site, but that map above can still be found at its original source: the Democratic Leadership Council! The following was posted at the Daily Kos, Keith Olbermann's blog, just two days before Rep Giffords was shot:
Olbermann said this on Saturday:
Those commentators and the others must be repudiated by their viewers and listeners, by all politicians who would appear on their programs including President Obama and his planned interview with Fox on Super Bowl Sunday...
Imagine that. Edward R Olbermann using the tragedy of a mass murder to try and take Bill O'Reilly's Obama interview away from him. Krazy Keith has issues. Serious issues. And some big time Olbypocrisy. From Fox Haters Week in Review:
If Olby wants to be taken seriously, he should practice what he preaches. If Sarah Palin's target was as bad as Olbermann's endless invocations of it suggest, then let's see him take on the Daily Kos with the same vigor. To put it another way, the Kos target-bullseye imagery must be repudiated by all readers, and by all writers who would appear on their website--including Kos blogger Keith Olbermann. By his own standards, Olby must condemn Daily Kos and sever ties with them
Here's an opportunity for Keith Olbermann to show he's not just a posturing charlatan, to prove he takes his own words seriously enough to follow them himself. If he doesn't, he will merely confirm again what we already know: he's a hypocrite and a liar.
Gibson Nails Keith Olbermann for Constitution Comments!
Meanwhile, on tonight's Hour of Spin:
Olby reports on how 'Boehner's GOP' read the constitution aloud. Chortle about two members not sworn in. Left and Leftier (Geno and Maibbi) are the puppets.
Oralmann outrage over spirituality in the military.
Time to bash Goldman Sachs for buying part of Facebook. Hey Olbermahn, you had your chance to object to Goldman being bailed out and you missed it. Parrot: Robert Reiicccchhhhhh (D).
Discredited Dave will attack birthers.
MSNBC hires homeless man to do voiceovers.
Attack on O'Reilly for talk of tides and the Deity. This will clearly be a smear and distortion, as Mr Bill explained what he was talking about in Wednesday nite's email segment. But the truth never stops Krazy Keith from attacking his Olbsession.
FRIDAY UPDATE:
Emergency defense of health care overhaul, attack on GOP House with Ezra the K (the guy who's confused by that constitution thing) and lefty Thomas Frank.
Another attack on AZ Governor Brewer (R).
Attack on Glenn Beck with that historical authority Russell Simmons.
Attack on Boehner (R).
A thrilling Thurber thegment that will have you athleep fath-ter than Thominex.
SATURDAY UPDATE:
A special double-length Hour of Spin, featuring:
Olbermann declares Bush's use of a signing statement is 'giving the legislative branch' the 'finger' and constitute's the President 'ignoring the law'.
Olby and the Perfessor bash Bush for, yeah, you gussed it, signing statements.
That last one exposes even more Olbypocrisy, as the infamous deplorable one rails against ramming bills through a lame duck Congress, because it isn't 'bipartisan'. Hmm, he's been remarkably silent on that topic this year.
So, President Obama is again about to attach a signing statement to a bill (regarding Gitmo and terrorism provisions). Will Herr Olbermahn lay into him tonight as he did with Bush? Does Edward R Olbermann have even a miniscule shred of journalistic integrity? Does the sun rise in the west? We predict: this dog won't bark.
What you will get on tonight's Hour of Spin:
Attack on Darrell Issa (R) with a Dem hack and Geno Robinson (another Dem hack).
Attack on GOP with a union boss.
Attack on the filibuster (remember when Olby was concerned about preserving the filibuster exactly as is?) with a partisan hack from Think Propaganda.
Attack on Glenn Beck.
WEDNESDAY UPDATE:
No barking dog yet? Tonight's Hour of Spin:
Attack on Boehner (R), House GOP (R) with Bawney Fwank and Howard Not-So-Fineman.
A lesson in the constitution: it doesn't mean what it sez!
Attack on Jan Brewer (R) for murdering a transplant patient.
Attack on Kentucky for wanting to arrest 'undocumented immigrants' (OlbySpeak for illegal aliens).
An OlbyPlanet wet dream: all those people leaving the administration is a good thing! Obama unleashed! Yeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh! (Yes, liar Howard Dean to appear.)
You Can Turn Off Radio Venezuela Now, The Infamous, Deplorable Olbermann Is Back!
A new year, a new Congress, but the same old Olby. The infamous, deplorable one will be back in the throne on OlbyPlanet, ready to dispense his own diseased brand of justice to anyone who is even slightly to the right of Karl Marx.
What does Herr Olbermahn have on tap for tonight? Here's a preview of Monday's Hour of Spin:
Republicans will crash the world economy by voting against increasing the debt ceiling (you know, like Obama did). Serving as parrots: lefty Ezra the K and leftier The Weiner (D).
Attack on Congressman Issa (R) with David 'Children of the' Corn.
Attack on Newt (R), Palin (R), and as many other (Rs) as Olby can smear in one segment.
Attack on everyone running for RNC Chairman (Rs).
Politics explained: conservatives have defective brains! To explain it all, disbarred lawyer and convicted felon: John Dean.
Olbermann Again Tweets False Info, This Time About Bill O'Reilly!
It was just last week when the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann got into all sorts of hot water by tweeting false information about the rape accusations leveled at Julian Assange. He has yet to retract any of that, but hey, he's Keith Olbermann. He don't need no stinkin' retractions.
You'd think he might be humbled a bit by that experience, and maybe would think twice before cavalierly spreading something around the interwebs. But noooooo... especially if it concerns his all-consuming Olbsession, Mr Bill O'Reilly. Last night, Twittermann gleefully zapped this retweet out to his 168,000+ followers:
TWITTERMANN: Backstory? LOL RT @CityWineryNYC Bill O'Reilly just got bounced for stealing someone's seat at Aaron Neville.
Now of course, when a story like this has the Oralmann imprimatur, it must be true. And in no time at all, Fox haters and blue blog tweeters took their cue from Keithy and spread the story even further. These accomplices include:
@StopBeck (self explanatory)
@aterkel (Amada Terkel of Think Progress)
@DanaHoule (Democratic political activist)
@existentialfish (John Whitehouse)
@LibertyInProg (far-left progressive Media Matters mouthpiece)
@StopBeck (said it was 'so good had to tweet twice')
There are dozens more, but you get the idea. Without bothering to get the truth of the story, Edward R Olbermann wanted to believe it, so he assumed it was factual and retweeted it to his credulous followers. It's the Twitter equivalent of one of Olby's rip-'n'-read on-air smears. And yes, you guessed it...it's not true.
All it took was one email to get the actual story. Bill attended the event with Arthel Neville, and as she told us:
No one's seat was stolen. Bill, my husband and I sat in seats that were reserved for us. Merry Christmas!
The only thing that happened was that the party had been seated in the wrong place and moved to the correct reserved seats. That's it! Nobody was 'bounced' and nobody tried to 'steal' anyone's seat. So if you thought Olbermann learned his lesson about retweeting false information from his embarrassing Assange screw-up, think again. And if he didn't retract or correct those falsehoods, he's not likely to correct this one.
But then we've exposed dozens of his attacks on Fox as fabrications and lies, and he's never retracted a one of them. When it comes to attacking Fox News, Olbermann doesn't do retractions. Just ask Major Garrett.
As Outrage Grows Over Rape Falsehoods, Olbermann Heads for the Bathtub
It's vacation time for the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. Just in time for him to run away from any responsibility for the falsehoods he spread about the Assange rape accusations. And no, that hasn't died down at all. As Olbermahn today ended his self-exile for Twitter (after, what, two whole days?), he spewed out a grand announcement. And what did it do? It just made matters worse:
Given the time to compose a calm, reasoned response, Olbermann elected to use a single random tweet to tar the #MooreAndMe protest as violent, accuse its members of financial coercion, attack #MooreAndMe creator Sady Doyle for smoking cigarettes, and finally, to ignore the central issues in this brouhaha. Someone should gently suggest to Olbermann that when you're already in a hole, stop digging.
Olby got way up on his high horse and chose, out of thousands of tweets, one that he pointed to with sham outrage. The tweeter had told him: 'Kill yourself'. Oh the horrors, and Keithy poured it on thick. Why, now people are sending him 'death threats'!! But wait. Haven't we heard that somewhere before. Now let's see, where was it? Oh yeah...
Olbermann's antagonists, who asked not to be named, repeatedly claimed in their June 8 E-mails that dead Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was Olbermann's "hero," prompting the television star to advise: "Hey, save the oxygen for somebody whose brain can use it. Kill yourself."
They just don't make Olbypocrisy any thicker than that. Keep track of the twitter action here, and enjoy a blessed break from the horrors of Olbermann for, we hope, two full weeks. Comments are open!
Olbermann Ridicule of Rape Charges Sparks All-Out Twitter War!
The tweets reported by Olbermann Watch yesterday, coupled with the infamous, deplorable one's inability to admit his own mistakes, has set the twitterverse on fire. A special hashtag (used to search twitter for a particular topic) has been created: #mooreandme. One of the irate defenders of rape victims couldn't take it any more and lashed out at Oralmann and his portly puppet:
The point is, Keith Olbermann and Michael Moore both work in what could loosely be construed as "news." Surely they understand that if they're caught spreading misinformation and not retracting it, and violating the journalistic standard of not reporting the names of accusers in an ongoing rape investigation, that makes them look irresponsible, unprofessional, willing to sacrifice known fact to opinion, and basically unqualified to hold the jobs they have. And that it also makes them look so deeply unethical and untrustworthy as to be useless, as authority figures who opine on ethics, morals, and who is or is not a "liar." So, you just have to point out the errors. They'll understand that they messed up. And they'll retract it. Right?
Number of Beloved Progressive Journalists Who Had Blocked Me On Twitter Yesterday: None, as far as I know!
Number of Beloved Progressive Journalists Who Have Blocked Me On Twitter Now: One. And it's Keith Olbermann.
Answer: Perhaps you would like to read the lengthy tantrum thrown by Keith Olbermann on Twitter last night, in which he demanded that one user "retract" (ha ha, Keith Olbermann! We love you when you're ironical! Oh no wait you're not -- oh God he's SERIOUS) a #MooreandMe tweet because it employed the term "rape apologism," demanded that another "show him the charges." Uum, Keith Olbermann, allow me to introduce you to... THE GUARDIAN???? They do a thing called "journalism" there, I think you'll find it kicky and fresh!
There's much more at the link for your reading pleasure. While all this was going on, action at the #mooreandme hashtag has been non-stop. Olby's weak argumentation became embarrassing as one tweeter after another decimated his slippery equivocations. Here is one of our favorite exchanges:
TWITTERMANN: Are you aware of my track record? Merely about women journalists at Msnbc?
Meanwhile the hits kept on coming, as Tommy Christopher sums up here, with Edward R Olbermann stubbornly refusing to even admit that he and Moore falsified accusations against Assange, not to mention dismissing them with chuckling ridicule. So what's an Olby to do? Why, quit twitter of course!
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Just like he can't stand people who disagree with him on Countdown, he doesn't want to put up with them on Twitter either. So rather than read opposing views that challenge his biases, he shuts down his Twitter account! Waaah, I'm taking my toys and go home. That will punish you people. You won't be able to read my brilliant words!
Needless to say, the Twitterverse wasn't exactly wailing in pain over Keithy's juvenile taking his ball and going home:
GRAYPETS: If @keitholbermann doesn't come back, Tucker Carlson will grab the Twitter account, too....
CRAIGCARROLL: Hey @CNN while you're investigating this "hoax", can you investigate who gives @KeithOlbermann his info? Prob same source.
WILDJOYRIDE: I get that you want to take rape seriously, but that means doing so even when politically inconvenient.
CUFFYP: "Have you no decency, Twitter? At long last, have you no decency? Good day, Twitter. Good. Day."
EXISTENTIALFISH: Ironically, these keitholbermann shenanigans read like something out of a thurber novel.
CHRISATYOURSIX: Radio silence from @KeithOlbermann. Maybe we should turn off his show like he turned us off?
JIMTREACHER: And to top off this very fine day, KeithOlbermann is having yet another Twitter meltdown. Life is good!
DOCFREERIDE: KeithOlbermann also, you know what kills people? you know what makes people AFRAID to report rape? LEAKING THEIR NAMES.
SHELBYKNOX: Wait for it: KeithOlbermann's mansplaining on his show tonight about how the dumb feminists forced him off the twitters.
Oh man, KO is getting KO'd. One fun thing that has come out of this brouhaha: a lovely collection of Keith Olbermann Meme badges:
Misogynist Olbermann and Misogynist Guest Ridicule Rape Charges!
What do you know? Olbermann and his guest dismiss charges of rape as just so much nonsense, and feminists are up in arms. Why should this be a surprise? The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann repeatedly fantasizes about women as objects of male violence, whether it's talk about taking Hillary Clinton into a room and beating her senseless, or a reference to a wife-batterer's wish-fulfillment vision of a woman as a 'mashed up bag of meat with lipstick'.
If you read Mr Christopher's article linked above you might think this was just a Countdown thing. No it's not. Twittermann has been pooh-poohing the Assange rape charges with the fervor of an aged perv scowling that 'she deserved it'. Rape? What rape? According to Olby, that just means 'sex without a condom'. Besides, as Oralmann will tell you, the accuser is probably lying because of her 'CIA ties'. And today's he's still spinning his conspiracy theories about questionable 'origin' of the accusations. Man, the real Olby reveals himself on Twitter, doesn't he?
On tonight's Hour of Spin:
Oh no! The Senate folds on the tax deal. But wait, isn't the opposition growing, spreading, INCREASING?!? A lefty Congressman and the winner of the Maddow Look-Alike Contest will parrot OlbySpin.
Defend Assange? Any lefty can do that. Edward R Olbermann goes the extra mile and comes to the defense of BradAss the Leaker! No we are not making this up.
More attacks on Jan Brewer (R).
Attack on two Texas (Ds) who switched to (Rs). Heresy!!
Attack on the 'no labels' movement--purely a pretext to take an indirect shot at Joe Scarborough, another object of OlbyHatred.
After a week of propagandizing about the tax compromise, how opposition is increasing, SPREADING, and GROWING!!, Oralmann's fevered fantasies collided with reality today, as the Senate voted by a landslide to approve the deal. Adding to the angst on OlbyPlanet, a Judge has just declared the key element in Monkeymann's must-beloved nationalized health care to be unconstitutional. A double whammy, meaning that a double dose of spin will be required. To explain away the Senate vote, who better to invite on than the purveyor of that phony fauxlibuster that had Olbermoronn enthralled last week?
What? You mean opposition is not growing, increasing, SPREADING?!? How can this be? It must have been...a sell-out. Yeah, that's the ticket. The Senator who mounted a sham filibuster when it didn't mean anything, and did nothing when the cloture vote was actually imminent--Socialist Sanders--will deliver the OlbySpin. Along with Rachel Maddow look-alike Chris Hayes.
How evil is Wall Street? Reeeeaaaaallllly evil.
Oh noes, a Federal Judge has made a ruling on constitutionality that even Stevie Wonder could see coming a mile away. There's no joy on OlbyPlanet, so defrocked doctor (he should be if he hasn't been by now) "Scream" Dean will join Olby to discuss the legal issues. Ha! Fooled ya! They don't have a clue about the legal issues. Instead they'll use the old ad hominem (an Oralmann standby) and attack the Judge as corrupt!
Attack on House of Rep member (R).
Attack on Glenn Beck.
Juvenile, unfunny supposed-to-be-yucks with Frank Conniff.
On Tuesday's Hour of Spin:
Herr Olbermahn goes straight to the ultra-far-extreme left, out where the busses don't run. Yep, it's a return engagement from Michael Moore.
Oralmann wants to blame Moody's ratings on a tax deal that hasn't even passed yet, but that's OlbyLogic for ya. Robert Reiccccchhhhh (D) will serve as parrot.
Keithy and Geno are upset that a pork rail system in Ohio was 'killed by the tea party'. Call the waaaaambulance! Guess Fat Ass doesn't care about deficits.
Attack on Gov Brewer (R).
Attack on health care judge (again!).
Attack on Rupert Murdoch, by attacking his father!?! Wonder how Monkeymann would like it if someone smeared his father. Anyone got some dirt?
Wow, it's the huge, big, spectacular Socialist 'filibuster', proof that opposition to the tax compromise is increasing, SPREADING, GROWING!!!
Who to speak on the issue? How about (another) Dem Rep, who just coincidentally also opposes the deal?
Obama brings in Clinton (actually to counter-program against the Sanders stunt). What will Geno say about it?
Who better to defend Wikileaks and Julian Assange than...Daniel Ellsberg?!? Too bad Julius and Ethel Rosenberg aren't available.
From the grooveyard of golden oldies, another Cheney attack.
Another thrilling thpecial thegment of Thurber.
Twittermann is just having an Olbergasm over Bernie Sanders little turn at the Senate podium. He's bragging that he'll have a 15-minute highlight reel (sort of a flashback to his short-lived, little-loved time at ESPN). He's calling out ABC and CBS for not showing clips. It's like Sanders' soliloquy was some sort of historic milestone.
Earth to Olby: it was a stunt. A publicity stunt. It's not even a real filibuster, no matter how hard Monkeymann tries to make you think it was. There's no cloture vote coming up until next week. He could've stopped talking after five minutes and there still would've been no cloture vote coming up until next week.
Fat Ass will cite this PR extravaganza as more proof of the increasing, SPREADING opposition to the tax deal, which he will continue to spew about right up until Barack Obama puts his John Hancock on the bill Edward R Olbermann wants you to believe will never pass.
Failed Author Olbermann to Bash Palin Book Sales?!?
Here's what's coming up on tonight's Hour of Spin:
The Dems are in FULL REVOLT. The outrage is GROWING, INCREASING!!! To prove the case, Olby will bring on Bawney Fwank (D) and HuffPo Hack Howard.
To continue the notion that opposition is SPREADING, a union thug will grace OlbyPlanet.
More attacks on Jan Brewer (R).
Exclusive details on 'stunningly low sales figures' for Palin's new book!
What was that last one again? Palin's new book isn't selling, according to Edward R Olbermann? Last time we checked, Palin's latest tome is #31 on Amazon (and #4 in non-fiction), while the book that bears Olbermann's name has rocketed up the sales chart to...#3,213.
And then there's the NY Times Best Sellers list, where Palin's America by Heartdebuted at #2. In case you aren't familiar with that list, it's the one where Bill O'Reilly's latest book just enjoyed its 11th straight week in the top 15. It's also the list that the book that bears Olbermann's name never quite made it onto. So just what is 'stunningly low' about being the #2 hardcover nonfiction book in the USA?
Oh that's right, Oralmann has 'exclusive details' about the sales figures. Because the publisher leaked them straight to OlbyPlanet. Secret numbers that nobody else knows, that prove both Amazon and the NY Times wrong. We hope Monkeymann isn't going to revive that old canard about bulk sales being used to put a book on the NYT list. Because, you know, the NY Times notes when bulk sales are involved with a book on its list by marking it with a 'dagger'. And there ain't no dagger for Palin's book (or O'Reilly's for that matter).
So just how is Fat Ass going to prove Palin's book has 'stunningly low sales figures' when both Amazon and the NY Times say otherwise? Who cares? No matter how he does it, it's probably Another Olbermann Lie. And another reason why Countdown is must-miss television.
Olbermann Tries to Manufacture Anti-Tax-Deal Steamroller
Never mind that most sober-minded, clear-thinking analysts have concluded that the President's proposed deal, or something very close to it, will be enacted into law before the end of the year. The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann has chosen to make this issue his latest Malmedy.
If you're new to OlbyWatch, this was a dishonest smear concoted by Oralmann about an O'Reilly mistake, ginned up to change the subject from his own embarrassing use of the Nazi Sieg Heil salute in public. Keith lied about the details, and then spent a week whipping up his viewers by telling them that "outrage" was "growing", "all over the nation", etc etc. Except that it wasn't. Other than Olby and his pet blue blogs, it was a big ho-hum. The story wasn't all but ignored by mainstream news sources like AP, Reuters, etc. After about a week that "growing outrage" vanished from OlbyPlanet--the steamroller never materialized, and Edward R Olbermahn turned his demagoguery in other directions.
Well now, we have the making of another Olbermahn campaign to manufacture a groundswell of opposition, this time to the tax-deal. Herr Olbermahn would like nothing better than to be seen as the leader who galvanized opposition and sunk the deal. So you'll find that to be a theme on tonight's Hour of Spin:
Only 12 Dem Senators support the tax deal! (Um, only 12 so far, Einstein.) Vermont's socialist, Bernie Sanders, and Geno Robinson will report on the blowback the Building To A CRESCENDO!!!!
The opposition is so strong, it could affect other votes too, because the Outrage Is GROWING!!!!
Of course, attack on a Rep or two (R of course).
Defending Julian Assange, hopefully this time without Olby citing an anti-Semitic holocaust-denier as his 'evidence'.
Olbermann Dressed Down by Bosses, Readies Another Special Comment!
The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann just can't help himself. Never mind that he famously stated that he doesn't go after people's children, he did just that with a petty WPitW segment on Palin daughter Bristol. And It apparently didn't sit well with the bosses at A-Mess-NBC:
Speaking of Olbermann, an MSNBC insider reports the talk-show host was "called on the carpet" by his bosses for declaring Bristol Palin "the worst person in the world" on his show last week -- calling it "tacky" and "a cheap shot that was uncalled for." Olbermann had criticized Palin for making an abstinence public service announcement -- given she has had a child out of wedlock.
Olbermann tacky? Cheap shot? That's like saying water's wet. But even after that dressing down, he still couldn't resist sniping at the eeevil Bristol, even from his 'sick' bed:
TWITTERMANN: Out sick, will spare you details. Instead: Reuters asks http://reut.rs/hRrLLH Who is writing BPalin's stuff?
MIKE SCHWANDT: Wow even when you are ill you show your obsession with the Palins. Perhaps you should see someone for this? Not healthy.
TWITTERMANN: I made one comment about BPalin. She has turned it into an obsession, not me.
Yeah, he's not obsessed. He just made one little twitter comment. That is, if you don't count all the others. Here's just a sample:
TWITTERMANN: Bristol Palin is contributing to teen pregnancies by this idiotic, never-works strategy of "abstinence."
TWITTERMANN: A Bristol Palin Abstinence PSA? Seriously? Because the first pregnancy doesn't count?
TWITTERMANN: "Bristol & Levi want full-season deal for reality show http://ow.ly/2e3bT" /via @peoplemag / they will quit halfway thru
TWITTERMANN: I criticized her for pushing a policy that doesn't work, and doing it hypocritically.
TWITTERMANN: she didn't write it; whoever did misused at least 1 word; she's still selling abstinence that doesn't WORK
TWITTERMANN: She went on "Dancing With The Stars" - she's now just another reality tv show contestant.
TWITTERMANN: And her continuing holier-than-thou abstinence nonsense will lead to unnecessary and unwanted pregnancies
TWITTERMANN: I criticized her hypocrisy. She keeps talking about it, presumably to lift herself out of Reality Show triviality.
Wow. And that's not even getting into all the Bristol bashing he's done on the air. But remember:
TWITTERMANN: I made one comment about BPalin. She has turned it into an obsession, not me.
Nope, he's not obsessed.
On tonight's Hour of Spin, an extra-special Special Education Comment. How dare that spineless Obama compromise with the eeevil Republicans? Keith Olbermann's going to throw the pamphlet at him! It's must-miss tv.
The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann runs Countdown like Radio North Korea. In other words, the full spectrum of opinion: everything from A to B. As for the month of November, submitted for your approval, The Chart:
November Fun Facts:
The Democratic pol with the most visits: Anthony Weiner.
The most appearances by a lefty/progressive Olbermann parrot: a three way tie between David 'Children of the' Corn, Ezra 'The K' Klein, and winner of the Rachel Maddow Look-Alike Contest, Chris Hayes.
The most-used pundit categorized as 'independent' turns out to be HuffPo Hack Howard Not-So-Fineman, with Richard The Wolffe Man coming in second.
Don't even bother looking for Republican or conservative guests; as usual, they are barred from OlbyAir.
After a day of soaking, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann has put away his rubber ducky, dried off, and has returned to the throne on OlbyPlanet.
Here are some of the delights he has in store for you tonight:
Nasty Republicans vote to raise taxes on the middle class because they only want the rich to get richer. Or something. Impartial experts: Anthony Weiner (D), HuffPo's Howard Not-So-Fineman.
Don't stop START. Lawrence Eagleburger turns to the dark side, which is the only reason sniveling Oralmann will let him in the studio.
Wikileaks and then leaks some more. Hey, let's talk indicting Bush and Cheney again! What a great topic for another episode of Olby and The Perfessor.
The NASA announcement that MSNBC skipped covering today.
And just for something completely new and different: attack on the Tea Party!
Friday's Hour of Spin:
GOP obstructionism! Horrors! Turncoat David Stockman will parrot Olby talking points.
Shot over Obama's bow not to compromise, w/ Geno Robinson.
Attack on John McCain (R).
Attack on Jan Brewer (R).
Attack on common sense, ratings, and overall maturity (it'th Thurber Fridayths).
It's tax cuts for millionaires! Oralmann explains why the more you're taxed, the better you'll like it. With renowned economics expert Ezra the K.
More of the above with lefty Heather McGee.
WikiLeaks, right up Olby's alley no doubt. Squishy ex-advisor to Colin Powell will spin.
Far-left Larry Korb returns again to attack Repubs.
Attack on Bristol Palin. Yes, on OlbyPlanet the children of the famous are fair game, as long as it's Olby who's doing the attacking. After all, it's not like he has any children of his own, or ever will.
Herr Olbermahn's cheap shots are so repellent that even his liberal friends are taking him to task. What line will he cross tonight? Here's a preview of Tuesday's Hour of Spin:
The Prez better not compromise on increasing taxes! The Great and Powerful Olb has spoken! And so will a (D) rep and HuffPo hack Howard Not-So-Fineman.
Riding the Don't Ask Don't Tell bandwagon again, with another sympathetic parrot
Attack on Gov Jan Brewer (R) for her 'death panels'! It's only a lie when Palin (R) sez it!
Secession? Treasonous! Constitutional authority Clarence Page will natter.
Attack on Michele Bachmann (R).
No Wednesday preview. Olby's been twitter-silent for almost 24 hours. Will he even appear tonight? Cross your fingers...
At least we won't have to put up with the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann for five days. That alone is something to be thankful for.
On tonight's Hour of Spin:
Olby continues to ride the TSA pat-down story. Who says he can't get behind stories from Fox News? A week behind, that is. An in-house 'expert' and at Atlantic talking head will try to bring relevance to Olby's late-to-the-party meanderings.
Attack on John Kyl (R) with far-left hack Lawrence Korb of the soros-funded CAP, though you can bet money Oralmann won't mention Soros and will instead describe Korb as a former Reagan assistant secretary of defense. That works every time; the dupes never question what the Great and Powerful Olb says.
The biggest ego on OlbyPlanet welcomes a return visit from the supersized idiot: Michael Moore.
Attacks on Glenn Beck (Fox) and Newt Gingrich (R).
Tuesday's Hour of Spin:
More Olby trying to be like Fox News by pounding the TSA story. Does Olby even fly? So he doesn't drive, he won't fly...what does he do? Oh that's right. The bestest baseball card collection on the block.
Expert advice on how to handle North Korea from a ex-official of the...Clinton administration! Because they did such a good job.
David Children of the Corn will rail against corporate profits. No justice, no peace!
Republicans want the credit card companies to screw you! You want proof? Oralmann will serve up Ezra the K.
Attack on Fox and the all-time #1 Olbsession, Mr Bill.
Attack on Jan Brewer (R) of Arizona. Looks like this is going to be another Olbsession. At least for this week anyhow.
Wednesday's Hour of Spin (let's face it, Oralmann's drivel isn't worth a new post):
No tax cuts for the rich!! A left Econ 101 perfessor will be Olby's human talking points, along with The Wolffe Man.
Attack on Sen Kyl (R); what a great topic for Discredited Dave.
TSA opt-out day flops, but Monkeymann will find a way to make something out of it.
Attack on Tom Delay (R).
Attack on Sarah Palin (R)...oh, sorry, make that Sister Sarah (R), because you know it just gets that much funnier the 89th time he says it.
Olby back after a 4-day long weekend with pay, Worst Persons reinstated right on schedule, so OlbyPlanet is back to abnormal. What's on the docket for tonight? Watching Bones. But if you're stuck with Oralmann, this is what you will be suffering through:
Attack on Republicans for not extending unemployment insurance out to 326 weeks. Olby will dig up an 'average citizen' to exploit.
To pile on: HuffPo hack Howard Not-So-Fineman.
More attacks on (R)s with a double-R: Robert Reiccccchhhhh.
Attack on John Boehner (R) with extremist Matt Taibbi.
Attack on Roger Ailes (Fox) for use of the term 'Nazi' (which is much much worse than doing a Nazi salute while holding up a Bill O'Reilly mask).
Friday's Hour of Spin:
Attack on Jan Brewer (R), with innocent victims of her evil ways and Maddow's little sister Chris.
Olby continues to run with TSA story days after the rest of the media was on to the story.
The Great and Powerful Mayor of London wants to arrest GW Bush (R). It's another fun episode of Olby and the Perfessor.
Ith another thuberb inthallment of Thurber thpecialties. Do not listen while driving a vehicle. (No danger for Keith there. He can't drive a car.)
The latest installment in Keith Olbermann's ongoing attempts to resuscitate his ratings comes tonight, as he is dragged, kicking and screaming, into reluctantly reinstating the Worst Persons in the World segment, the one he previously claimed he was suspending 'probably' for good. But as Olbermann Watch reported a week ago, the plan all along was to resurrect it. The 'viewer poll' was carefully positioned to give the results he wanted, and just yesterday we told you what the results would be before they were broadcast. If Oralmann's machinations were any more transparent they would be day-old Neutrogena.
We also told you yesterday that the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann would lie about the Fox video he ran--and sure enough he did, claiming it was Fox reporters who didn't know they were being recorded. Simply a flat-out lie. Not only do the people in that clip know they are being recorded, and will be posted on the internet, but the program host Jon Scott tells viewers every week that they can see the commercial break discussions online. But never mind all of that. Herr Olbermahn would rather just lie about it.
What lies will Monkeymann tell tonight? You might get an idea from this:
What's Soros up to? He lost the election. Oh noes, don't tell us he might abandon Obama? Far-lefty Sam Stein to serve up the OlbyPlanet party line.
Another attack on Rep Harris (R) with another lefty OlbyParrot.
Attack on Michele Bachmann (R), attack on Steve King (R). EZra Klein delivers the talking points
Olby finally discovers TSA issue. That's right, he's now picking up stories Glenn Beck led with days ago.
And [roll of drums, sound of trumpets] The (Not Really) Worst Persons in the World. Whatever the hell that's supposed to be.
It's another must-miss edition of The Hour of Spin. Comments are open!
Tonight's Olbermann Smear Debunked, Before It Even Airs!
On tonight's Hour of Spin:
Oh look, there's GOP 'infighting'! (But never Dem infighting, at least not on OlbyPlanet!) It's Rep Weiner (D) and Discredited Dave to 'analyze'!
Prez/Congress relations, with a Soros-funded hack.
Attacks on all things (R) with Bill Maher.
Attacks on newly elected Rep (here's a shocker--he's an R).
Attack on Fox for attacking Sarah Palin (R)?!?
The most unmysterious reveal ever: gee, what did our WPitW poll say?
We might as well dismiss one of those things in advance, and see how badly Oralmann twists the facts. To quote him:
TWITTERMANN: Surprising outtakes as Fox Newsers TRASH @SarahPalinUSA
Let's see...
1. They're not outtakes, they're conversations that take place during a commercial break. Outtakes are parts of a show that are cut before it's broadcast.
B. Actually nobody in the clip is trashing Palin at all. They are quoting published reviews of Palin's Alaska special that appeared in the papers ahead of its premiere.
III. In fact, they couldn't have been trashing Palin's program, since at the time this discussion was taking place, it hadn't aired yet! The newspapers saw advance copies, the panelists didn't.
d. Just in case Monkeymann tries to suggest this is some sort of secret footage, or leaked video somebody 'revealed', the discussions during commercial breaks on Fox News Watch are posted every week. By Fox. On their own website. In this case, right here.
Yeah, Oralmann will have fun misrepresenting this one. But because you read Olbermann Watch, you have a heads up about his spin and lies.
Thurber? Who's Thurber? Olbermann Dumps Reading Segment for Bush Bash!
Oh yes, he had all those high-minded reasons for reading Thurber on Fridays, but for the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann a chance to level new attacks on George Bush is like dangling catnip before Miss Precious Perfect.
So tonight, Thurber is out the window, and ridicule of an ex-President is in. The gory details:
Attack on Bush's (R) tax rates, with that paragon of American political insight, The Wolffe Man. And of course, Robert Reiccchhhh (D).
Attack on John McCain (R) using his wife as the pawn. Lt Dan Choi, who proclaimed he'd boycott MSNBC until Oralmann came back on the air, gets his reward tonight.
Attack on Glenn Beck (Fox) and Sarah Palin (R)...a twofer! Watch for David Bwock of Media Manipulations to appear in person this time (instead of just writing half the show). Bwock agreed to show up because Keith promised he'd provide the lotion.
Instead of thilly Thurber, we get Olbermahn ridiculing Bush's book, Decision Points. In case you are unfamiliar with it, it's the book that's #1 on Amazon, as compared with the book that bears Olbermann's name which has zoomed all the way up to...#1,069. No wonder Olbermoronn is upset. Expect dramatic readings, obligatory charges of plagiarism, and the usual OlbyPlanet detritus.
Video: Scarborough Distances Himself from Olby, as Keith Moves to Bring Back WPitW
First, poor Joe, doing his best to make sure everyone knows he's not a partisan political hack like the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann:
On tonight's Hour of Spin:
Attack on Bush's (R) tax rates, with Stan Greenberg (D, of course) and the winner of the Rachel Maddow Look-Alike Contest, Chris Hayes (Democratic donor)
Attacks on DeMint (R) and Inhofe (R) with Geno Robinson
Keith slobbers over VoteVets lefty, who runs ads without disclosing who his contributors are. Olbypocrisy much?
Attack on Justice Alito, with a little impeachment talk thrown in?
Attack on Sarah Palin (R)
A special Oralmann viewer poll...
That last one is the beginning of the end for the Worst Persons 'suspension'. Oh please, Keith will implore, let me know if you think we should bring back Worst Persons. After all, it's been--what--less than two weeks since he did away with it?
News flash: that was another publicity stunt. A way to piggy-back on Jon Stewart's silly comedy show with some false high-toned 'responsibility'. Whoever had 'under a month' in the How-Long-Until-WPitW-Comes Back pool is looking pretty good now.
Report: Until 7:30 PM MSNBC Didn't Know Who Would Host Countdown
According to Jed Eckert, who has sources inside the halls of MSNBC, the spat with the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann was not resolved until just minutes before broadcast:
The stand-off between Keith and MSNBC execs lasted much longer than anyone on the outside knew. As of 7:30pm on Tuesday night, bitter recriminations were still flying back and forth. Keith was still demanding that the network apologize to him before he would take the anchor chair.
MSNBC, on the other hand, made it clear that a refusal to host the show would result in an even longer, more serious suspension.
One source has told us that the network even had another host ready to go in case Olbie stormed off to his bathtub. Does anyone know where Thomas Roberts was last night? Because we're told he was in an MSNBC greenroom.
Eckert also ticks off some of the key indicators that suggest Oralmann and MSNBC may be heading for divorce court. Among these, Bathtub Boy's new agents (ICM) who are reportedly trying to convince CNN that an Hour of Spin would be just the tonic to revive their moribund ratings.
Make of it what you will, but remember things are rarely what they seem on OlbyPlanet.
Tonight's Hour of Spin:
Attack on debt reduction with big spender The Weiner (D) and Howard Not-So-Fineman
Attack on Republicans with Soros Monkey from CAP
Attack on Demint (R), McConnell (R), Imhofe (R), West (R), and any other (R)s Fat Ass can squeeze in w/ David "Children of the" Corn
Attack on Glenn Beck for speaking ill of Soros (whose name is the same backwards and forwards--try and claim that isn't sinister!)
Two lefty talking heads about newsmen and campaign donations--once again, Olby makes it all about 'me me me me me'
Even While on Suspension, Keith Olbermann Still Lying!
The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann will return to the airwaves tonight, and at least in his own mind he returns as a victor. As Jeff Bercovici noted, when you get past all the flowery prose and pseudo-intellectual posturing of Keith's 'apology', it all translates to two words: 'I won'.
But maybe people aren't reading Oralmann's words closely enough. The detritus that Keith bangs out on his laptop has more to tell us than the fact that he's an egotist (like who didn't know that already?). Perusing his screed, there were several items that caught our eye.
I was suspended without a hearing...
Wow. Somehow that lack of a hearing didn't bother him when he was chortling over the firing of Juan Williams.
You should also know that I did not attempt to keep any of these political contributions secret; I knew they would be known to you and the rest of the public.
When would that be? He covered the entire election cycle, including election night himself, without mentioning his donations. When was he going to make this public? Next year? He only admitted the donations after he'd been caught, after a website had dug out the information for themselves.
You should know that I mistakenly violated an inconsistently applied rule - which I previously knew nothing about
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.
Wait just a second here. Keith claims that he isn't aware of NBC's rules, but just a few months ago he was quoting them chapter and verse to attack Roger Ailes? If you believe Herr Olbermahn, then we have some lovely oceanfront property in Colorado to sell you. Note also that Olby insists because Ailes broke the 'news rules' (i.e. NBC's rules), he should be 'relieved of any news responsibilities'. Does he still hold with that standard?
You should know that I mistakenly violated an inconsistently applied rule...
Inconsistently applied? That would mean there are others at MSNC who also made secret donations? So Keith is not the only person to donate to candidates without permission or disclosure to NBC? Who are the others? Name the names, in the interest of full disclosure. Hey Keith, are you protecting more secrets donors who just haven't been caught yet? Or is your claim merely Another Olbermann Lie?
We know that Keith is not the only person shilling for Democrats on A-Mess-NBC. While we wait for him to name the other secret donors he's protecting, how about someone explaining how an MSNBC host can get away with this?
The Broomfield Democrats invite you to the Carter Dinner. This is the largest annual fundraising event for the party and this year's keynote will be given by MSNBC's Ed Schultz!
How can this be? When he was attacking Fox Edward R Olbermann used this exact example of something NBC would never permit! And it seems they permitted it all along. Hey Olby, did Ed Schultz break the 'news rules'? Should he be immediately relieved of all duties at MSNBC?
And what an exciting event that Ed Schultz fundraiser must have been, given the huge spotlight focus shining directly on one of MSNBC's on-air hosts:
Keynote Speaker: ED SCHULTZ of the Ed Show nationally on MSNBC
Host Committee seating: $100
Host Committee reception includes hors d'oeuvre, cocktail, and opportunity to mingle with distinguished guests and Ed Schultz
That's delightful the way they phrase that: 'distinguished guests'...and Ed Schultz too.
Olbermann citing NBC rules to attack Fox, then claiming ignorance of NBC rules to make excuses for himself. Olbermann claiming that he's been singled out unfairly, while refusing to give any information whatsoever about the other alleged infringers. Does anyone over the age of ten really believe anything this serial liar says?
The fabrications, spin, and outright lies spewing forth from Olbypologists like Rachel Maddow have been stunning. If you haven't already, read the truth about the Phony 'Journalism' of Rachel Maddow. It will give you just the context you need for the following video. Then settle down for an excrutiating Hour of Spin.
On tonight's hour of spin:
ObamaVision defense of POTUS 'jihad' remarks w/Heather Hurlburt, rabid progressive and HuffPo hack
Attack on GW Bush (R) autobiography with--tada!--Michael Moore
Attack on Michelle Bachmann (R)
Attack on Rand Paul (R)
A huge, honking, interminable monologue of ego, self-puffery, onanism, hypocrisy, and outright lies. Yes, Edward R Olbermann addresses his suspension. Alert the media!
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann made campaign contributions to two Arizona members of Congress and failed Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway ahead of Tuesday's election -- a potential violation of NBC ethics policies.
Whether Olbermann told his bosses about the donation before it happened will be key, but regardless, this act should evaporate any final appearance of objectivity by the MSNBC host.
And this is the guy, Olbermann, who was on Twitter yesterday blasting away at me because I was critical of MSNBC's outrageous behavior on election night....If management of NBC News won't step and say something about the kind of behavior that took place on MSNBC on election night, maybe it will now enforce one of the most basic standards of journalistic independence and not let Olbermann skate on this egregious violation of policy.
What will NBC do?
Fire Olbermann?
Suspend Olbermann w/o pay?
Let Keith take a few bathtub days?
Ignore the story and hope it goes away?
UPDATE! Mediaite: Keith Olbermann suspended indefinitely! Developing...
Day 4: Still No Correction, Still No Apology from Keith Olbermann for Lying
It was on Monday when the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann smeared Brian Kilmeade, claiming Kilmeade said 'All Muslims are terrorists'. Of course Kilmeade said the exact opposite. Yet even though Edward R Olbermann had a chance to correct his smear and apologize on Wednesday's Hour of Spin, he did not do so. We are now at Day 4 of this ongoing lie, and Oralmann is sticking by his smear. Remember, this is the same Olby who famously stated:
I have never knowingly reported anything false and we correct our mistakes.
He corrects his mistakes? He doesn't even correct his lies! Where were the corrections and apologies for these slanders?
Olbermann lied that Scott Brown 'never disassociated himself' from a shouted statement.
Those are just a small sampling of the many uncorrected slanders spouted by Herr Olbermahn. They remain uncorrected because he has structured Countdown to insulate himself from anyone who might even raise an eyebrow at the worst Keith kalumnies. But don't take our word for it. Check out this statistically documented study. The bottom line:
"The O'Reilly Factor" welcomed 20 guests from the right, 11 from the left and seven who were neutral. Left and neutral voices combined almost equaled those from the right. "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" had 20 guests from the left, two neutral and not a single voice from the right. Zero voices of dissent.
So, if you never want to hear anyone challenge liberal views, lock in on Olbermann. While progressives disdain Fox's claim of being "fair and balanced," "The O'Reilly Factor" does present opposing views. O'Reilly will cut them off in midsentence, true, but he even does that to people who agree with him. (Shock therapy might help.) Olbermann seems unable to even listen to anything other than progressive orthodoxy.
If the tea party wants a "theocracy for white males," as he said, Olbermann could be an imam. He offered a paltry four women among his 22 talking heads, 18 percent. (Wasn't Joy Behar available?) Only two African Americans got face time. O'Reilly had three African Americans and scattered 18 women among his 38 guests, for 47 percent. (Don't expect NOW to give him an award.) O'Reilly had three Hispanic-surnamed guests; Olbermann had two.
When it comes to their sources of news, too many Americans live in "silos," protected from contrary views. We'd do better, learn a bit more, by listening to some opposing ideas. You get that from Fox's O'Reilly, not MSNBC's Olbermann.
You can expect more echo chamber 'journalism' tonight:
Attack on DeMint (R) with lefty Matt Taibi
Attack on tea party candidates with lefty David 'Children of the' Corn
Attack on Mitch McConnell (R) w/ HuffPo hack Howard Not-So-Fineman
Attack on George W Bush (R)
Attack on Sarah Palin (R) with washed-up ex-comedian Lewis Black
Keith Olbermann has been running loose on Twitter again. Oh my, hide your children, he's on another tear. About the dismal ratings of A-Mess-NBC's election night:
800 billion of you flies can't be wrong
Yes,once again, it shows 800 billion flies can't be wrong
800 billion flies are never wrong
It's almost like he was hypnotized, giving the same answer over and over. And are you ready for some ridicule? Here is Edward R Olbermann on Boehner's acceptance speech. Now if you should think that this must be a high school kid playing on his blackberry, we can assure you this is Oralmann himself:
You guys underperformed, blew the Senate, and your "Speaker" slurred and wept. Nice start!
You guys blew the Senate, Boehner came across like a buffoon, and you have to make hated cuts.
This just in: Speaker-Presumptive Boehner cried today remembering a day inn 1970 when he had trouble getting his car to start.
This Just In: Glenn Beck sues Speaker-Presumptive Boehner: "Crying? Quit working my side of the street!"
He cries at Supermarket openings. We're gonna have a lot of fun with him.
This Just In: Boehner drafts legislation to change Congressional leadership title to "Weeper Of The House."
You must have only watched Boehner's weep-a-thon.
This Just In: Weeper Of The House Boehner just remembered when his Moeller High FB team lost Coach Gerry Faust to Notre Dame; He cried.
replaced by the Weeper. "I lost (bluh-huh) my pencil (bhbhbhbhbh)!"
Are these the words of a grown man? Would a sane adult actually spend hours on such juvenile sniping? We know that there are certain aspects of Keith's psyche that show signs of what might be called arrested development. He's still trying to assemble the bestest baseball card collection on the block. He obsesses over a series of children's fantasy stories. And now this odd reversion to schoolyard inanities?
Make of all this what you will, but here's liberal critic David Zurawik, who summed up Oralmann's performance last night with pluperfect clarity:
I would not debase the word "anchor" by putting it in front of a desk that includes folks offering this kind of analysis.
I really would like to hear the folks who tell me MSNBC is a real news channel explain this kind of analysis. I can see Jon Stewart's speech has really made a difference at MSNBC.
With the journalistically debased performance on MSNBC last night, I rest my case. I do have to wonder how Olbermann, the cartoon, Bizarro-Planet version of Edward R. Murrow, will try to spin this.
Ouch! We suspect Herr Olbermahn is already regretting doing away with the Worst Person in the Worrrrrld. Because you know he's itching for some sort of payback against Mr Z. Will he sneak it in anyhow?
Watch: Keith Olbermann Smears Brian Kilmeade with a Lie!
While he was announcing his new-found quest for civility, and engaging in mutual onanism with Jonathan Alter about how you won't find MSNBC telling lies, smearing people, and misquoting them, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann does what? Reading from prepared text on his teleprompter, Edward R Olbermann smears Brian Kilmeade by lying about what Kilmeade said!
Hey Keith: When You Lie on Twitter, It's Still a Lie
Here is the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann, sniping at someone who dared question the attitude of MSNBC hacks toward Gov Chris Christie:
TWITTERMANN: I have never even mentioned Gov. Christie on the air. I don't know what you're talking about. Nor do you.
Attn Olby: a lie is still a lie, even if you think it doesn't count because you said it on Twitter. You've never even mentioned Gov Christie on the air? Hey Keithy, permit us to introduce you to...your own words:
Apr 20, 2010: The bronze [WPiTW] goes to Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey.
Apr 23, 2010: Christie's staff is taking home 440,000 dollars more.
Aug 2, 2010: Governor Chris Christie now has another problem at the Jersey Shore.
Oct 12, 2010: Can you explain that briefly to Governor Christie who doesn't seem to get it?
Well, no wonder you thought you never mentioned Christie. After all, that last mention was all of three weeks ago! Apparently it's asking too much to expect renowned journalist Edward R Olbermann to tell the truth about his own words, even words way, way long ago in the deep, dark, distant past of...October.
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Tonight on Countdown, Edward R Olbermann will explain why terror threats, coincidentally timed with an election, are a scheme by the government to keep themselves in power by stoking fear and...oh wait, never mind.
Olbermann Guest Caught Lying on the Air About Her Assault?
On Tuesday's Hour of Spin, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann talked to moveon.org operative Lauren Valle. She gave her version of the events, but today another video surfaced. And while there is no doubt that an assault took place, the new video raises serious questions about the veracity of moveon's operative. See for yourself:
Olby will be addressing the new video tonight, and maybe there's a clue here:
TWITTERMANN: Also tonight we'll show all known videos of the Lauren Valle headstomping incident & let you decide if new images materially contradict her
Is Oralmann going to argue that yeah, she lied, but that's OK because she was still assaulted? Watch the video and post your opinions about the incident and Herr Olbermahn right here. Comments are open!
Countdown: Eight Days to Election, Nine Days to the Bathtub!
You know the infamous, deplorable one will want to soak, soak, soak in that tub rather than come back to work the day after the election. Time will tell if, when that long, black limousine shows up at Casa Olbermann (because he can't drive a car himself), Krazy Keith will dry off and show up for work.
But he'll be there tonight, and that's bad enough:
Attack on Chamber of Commerce, with little Ezra.
Attack on Group that favors (R) candidates, with EJ Dionne.
Attack on Mitch McConnell (R), with Geno.
Attack on Rumsfeld (R).
Attack on Karl Rove (R).
A perfect record. Every attack on a Republican. Man, that's what makes Olbyplanet Olbyplanet. Comments are open!
Soros Gives $1 Million to Key Olbermann Blue Blog Source
Of course Edward R Olbermann doesn't come right out and say he takes his stories from Media Matters. But we know better; the archives have tracked hundreds of his hit pieces straight back to Brock's blue blog. So why is Ernst Stavro Soros suddenly coming out of the shadows? This will explain it:
On tonight's Hour of Spin:
Oh noes! The eeeevil Chamber of Commerce again, and they're linked to...a Retreat! Oooh, that's scaaaaaary.
Let's toss in Beck, Scalia, and a few more to the above, to make it a Guilt-By-Associationorama!
The Dems are surging! The Dems are surging! Who sez? Why, um, Bawney Fwank (D), who just had to loan his own campaign nearly a quarter of a million dollars. Tonight he'll be Olbermann's butt boy.
The evil Koch brothers; Matt Taibi will serve as parrot.
Attack on school books, with the guest expert somebody or other's mother.
Attack on Rush Limbaugh (R).
Attack on Mrs Clarence Thomas (R). Oh, and a reminder that Justice Thomas is a sex offender, or somthing.
Thursday's Hour of Spin:
Attack on the Chamber of Commerce, part 26.
Attack on Mark Kirk (R).
Attack on Karl Rove (R).
Commentary by a Think Propaganda hack plus HuffPo's Howard Not-So-Fineman.
Attack on Christine O'Donnell (R).
Special guest for a slobbering blue-dress interview: Nancy Pelosi (D).
Friday's Hour of Spin:
Damage control for Harry Reid (D).
Attack on the eevil Republican donors w/ New York Times hack.
Praise of union donors with AFSCME thug.
Attack on House candidate (R).
Attack on Beck (F).
Attack on Bachmann (R) (the above with David 'Canned' Corn).
The most boring 10 minutes in television. (i.e. Thurberzzzzzzzzz).
It's going to be another night of must-miss tv on A-Mess-NBC tonight. And of course the flagship broadcast for slovenly political hackery will be helmed by the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. How many Republicans will he attack tonight? How many Dems will he slobber over and cover up for? Who at Fox will be the next victim of Oralmann's drooling venom? Your tip sheet for tonight's Hour of Spin:
Attack on Joe Miller (R); Olby's parrot will be a far-left partisan from Alaska's premier blue blog.
Defense of Dems: 9.6% unemployment proves the stimulus worked!
Attack on Bachmann (R): Ezra the K will probably weigh in here too.
Attack on Ashcroft (R), Bush (R), et al: another hilarious episode of Olby and the Perfessor.
Attack on Sharron Angle (R): a blue blogger from Nevada will be called in to serve as Olbermahn's human Xerox machine.
Attack on Brian Kilmeade (Fox): the apology isn't good enough, long enough, loud enough...what-freaking-ever.
Attack on Alan West (R).
Attack on Ann Coulter (R).
Attack on Bachmann (R). What, twice in one show? We'll see if this pans out, but it wouldn't be the first time for Edward R Olbermann.
The tally? At least eight attacks on (R)s, and we're going out on a limb and say there will be zero attacks on (D)s. Because this is OlbyPlanet.
Comments are open!
UPDATE: Relax. Tonight you can watch NCIS, or O'Reilly, without wondering what crimes against journalism Olbermann is committing. Because Olby's in the tub tonight. In his place: ignoramus and serial liar Cenk (pronounced Chunk) Uygur. Now there's a powerful intellect, who will no doubt be committing his own journalistic sins. But who cares? It's still must-miss tv.
Keith Condemned Breitbart for Edited Video, Now Uses Edited Video to Attack O'Reilly!
The Olbypocrisy just doesn't come any thicker. Oh the self-righteous moralizing from Rev Olbermann about Breitbart's video of Shirley Sherrod--an accurate clip but one that was cut off before the full context of Sherrod's story had been included. Oralmann fumed: Sherrod was 'assassinated by that scum Breitbart!' Edward R Olbermann called Breitbart 'scum' no fewer than four times in one diatribe. All for a clip that ended too soon.
Fast forward to the present. Herr Olbermahn is cackling over Bill O'Reilly's appearance on The View, and he can't seem to resist doing so on twitter:
TWITTERMANN: Selling latest sh*t book, Billo the Clown stunned as View hosts walk off in protest at his hate speech towards Muslims http://bit.ly/cOcg0l
There was more: O'Reilly hates America, falafel [Ding!], loofah [Ding!], yada yada yada. But Oralmann was clearly enjoying the moment.
Now that little jumble of letters at the end of the tweet? That's a link to a video of the segment which you can check out here. If you do, you'll notice something peculiar. After Mr Bill talks about Muslims killing Americans on 9/11, Joy and Whoopi stage a theatrical walk-off. And--boom!--the video ends there. That's all Edward R Olbermann wanted you to see.
How very Breitbartian of him. He could chose any of hundreds of clips that ran longer and/or showed the entire segment. But then his groupies would have seen O'Reilly's response, his clarification of what he was talking about, his apology, and the return of the prodigal co-hosts. The conversation continued, and even went into a second segment.
Now if somebody says something, and just seconds later corrects themselves so they won't be misunderstood...um, isn't that called 'context'? Apparently it is for some people, but those rules don't apply to Keith "Man on Fan" Olbermann. He can direct his credulous lemmings to a video that neatly leaves out what happened just seconds afterward, removes the context just like the Breitbart video did, all to satisfy his anti-O'Reilly bloodlust.
C'mon, Olby. By your own standards, you are scum. Scum. Scum. SCUM! Said four times, just like you did to Breitbart--for doing what you just did.
Part of the incomprehensible 'Lean Forward' campaign is an ad allegedly showing the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann composing one of his Special Ed Comments. Of course right there a penalty flag could be flown, for pretending that Olby bangs these out himself--an insult to the highly paid Countdown writing staff. But take a look at this gem and see if you can spot something even more telling:
Edward R Olbermann bloviates 'now is the time to emancipate our culture' yada yada yada. Whatever the hell that means. But if you're scratching your head wondering where that came from, you are not alone. It's not from any Oralmann Special Comment. It doesn't turn up in any transcript of any episode of The Hour of Spin. It appears that the blustering idiocy of Keith's Special Ed Comments is so laughable and embarrassing that the writers had to concoct a fake Special Comment. Probably because hearing him yell 'You're a fascist, Mr Bush!' into the camera wouldn't mesh well with those tinkly piano notes.
But now the Daily Caller reveals that the first cut of this promo did use Olby's actual words, verbatim:
Yikes! What a diseased display of hateful misogny and unhinged personal attacks! No wonder they had to have their ad agency concoct an artificial, fake, untrue, Potemkin comment for these ads. The real thing would make viewers retch.
Wednesday's Hour of Spin:
Tripling down on the CoC smear, still with zero evidence of any foreign funds going into US elections. Think Propaganda lies will be reinforced with a TP hack and the winner of the Rachel Maddow Look-Alike Contest.
Grumbling over Obama's NY Times interview. Brit 'analyst' The Wolffe Man will explain US politics to ignoramus Keith.
Election Fear-Monger Segment: They're going to impeach Obama!! Only an Air America failure could possibly bolster such drivel.
Attack on Carl Paladino (R) with Discredited Dave.
Attack on Richard Lott (R) over the horrors of Nazi imagery.
Just in case you need a refresher course in Olbypocrisy, here's Oralmann:
Olbermann to Double Down on Discredited Think Propaganda Smear!
Nobody likes a good smear as much as the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. So he's hitching his star to a bit of slander against the Chamber of Commerce from Think Progress. Now don't take our word for it that this bit of propaganda is a sleazy hit-piece devoid of even a scintilla of evidence. The NY Times has proclaimed it to be dubious at best, and Dan Abrams's Mediaite agrees, Going a step further, liberal tv writer David Zurawik describes the charge as a new low in fear and slander. And now the nonpartisan factcheck.org blasts the Democrats for mounting a serious charge with no evidence to back it up.
Obviously, a political lie this reprehensible is catnip to Edward R Olbermann. So on tonight's Hour of Spin, he will bring in a flack from Think Propaganda to repeat it again--and no guest to give the opposing point of view. What else would one expect on OlbyPlanet?
Attack on Paladino (R), with a partisan hack from Talking Points Memo
Attack on the Chamber of Commerce, and probably Karl Rove (R) too, with another partisan hack a flagrant liar from Think Propaganda.
Attack on Richard Lott (R) with Geno Robinson. Maybe they'll call him a Nazi.
Noxious, irrelevant trivia about Google.
Attack on Ed Gillespie (R) and various other bits of OlbyDrivel.
Oh, and Oralmann in a penguin suit. Watch those buttons!
Maybe Keith Also Believes Orson Welles Directed Animal House
When it comes to pouncing on mistakes in spelling, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann is the King of Twitter. Let anyone on his Enemies List make an error, and he's ready to pounce with unending drools of vitriol. You may recall when he bellowed that Bill O'Reilly is a "holy you-know-what liar", based on a rip 'n' read of a Media Matters attack. You see, O'Reilly had noted how he spoke up about the looting in Iraq after the city fell, and Oralmann said O'Reilly lied about that. He never said any such thing!
Of course, the truth was O'Reilly did in fact say precisely what he claimed, just not on the episode he cited but rather on the very next one. Being off by one episode was enough for Monkeymann to bellow about Bill being a 'liar'! (The OlbyWatch archives are replete with many more Krazy Keith examples.)
Fast forward to the present, where Edward R Olbermann is bloviating about the wondrousness of his weekly Thurber bore-o-rama. As part of his ruminations, he comes up with this gem:
If we run a movie clip, for instance, somebody from Mr. Spielberg's [office], will call and say, 'That will be $10,000 for the three seconds of Star Wars you just used.'
Um, Spielberg? Star Wars? Wasn't Star Wars done by George Lucas? Err, yes it was. Another embarrassing oops for Keith "Czechoslovakia" Olbermann. So an intrepid blogger posted a link to the article, and promoted it with the help of The Twitter:
Links: Parker/Spitz an instant ratings disaster. @KeithOlbermann thinks Spielberg did Star Wars. Rick Sanchez flashback http://bit.ly/cdPUYQ
Word got out to "Bear" and he didn't like his faux pas being tweeted to the world. Then came the wonderful, glorious moment when your humble correspondent found how easy it is to get Keith Olbermann's goat:
TWITTERMANN: How stupid is this Fox Poodle at Johnny Dollar? The mismatch was intentional, and got the appropriate laugh.
Bwaaahaaa! Sure it was. Why, confusing Spielberg with George Lucas is exactly the kind of uproarious bon mot that will elicit knee-slapping guffaws from all. It's a line that could win 'Last Comic Standing'.
And chickens have lips.
We know Oralmann is not one to correct errors, but this pathological need to concoct fantasy justifications for every little mistake, no matter how trivial, is another disturbing insight into the diseased psyche of Keith Olbermann.
Comments are open!
UPDATE: The Olbyloonsleap to Keith "Man on Fan" Olbermann's defense:
Something tells me that @JohnnyDollar01 works for Fox News...
I wouldn't be surprised about @JohnnyDollar01 working for FNC at all-certainly humorless enough
But not to the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann. He has nothing to do with the profession of journalism. He's a slovenly political hack, and the monthly tally of his political guests demonstrates yet again how, when it comes to one-sided agit-prop, Countdown is the Radio Havana Cuba of American television. Behold, The Chart:
Notes and Fun Facts:
For clarity, we have combined Dem Politicians and Dem Strategists into the single category of Dem Politicos
The most used parrot among the liberal/progressive guests was David Corn, with six visits. Ezra Klein and Paul Waldman (a Media Matters 'Senior Fellow'!) were tied for second.
(D) politicians invited to spin included Van Hollen, Wasserman-Schultz, Gutierrez, Weiner, Fattah.
(R) politicians who gave an opposing point of view included...well, nobody.
Of those guests categorized as 'neutral', the go-to guy was Howard Not-So-Fineman. He is now with the Huffington Post so he is neutral in name only. Discredited Dave (Weigel) came in second.
Don't expect anything to change on tonight's Hour of Spin. It looks to be just as 'fair and balanced' as September was. To wit:
Republicans are attacking the middle class. For a detached, honest, no-spin, non-partisan analysis, who better than winner of the Chris Hayes Look-Alike Contest? That's right...Rachel Maddow!
The afore-mentioned Dave Weigel parachutes in to participate in the next attack on Republicans (in this case, the nightly Sharron Angle smear).
Tea partiers want firemen to let people's houses go up in flames. No, we're not making that up. Oralmann will explain it all.
The nightly attack on Glenn Beck, natch.
And they wonder why everyone watches Mr Bill. Comments are open!
What (R)s Will Oralmann Attack Tonight? We Name Names!!
In case you're wondering why the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann is on a steep trajectory to irrelevance, you have only to consider the Big Stories he will break on tonight's Hour of Spin. Examples:
The nightly Christine O'Donnell (R) attack: she said she attended a program at Oxford, but that's not an Oxford degree. But did she ever say that it was? Oh never mind, let's bring in a hack from Talking Points Memo to amplify the smear.
The obligatory Paladino (R) attack, complicated by the involvement of a News Corp journalist. What's an Olby to do?
Bonus attack: Meg Whitman (R), for lying, Lying, LYING!!! I tell you, about something or other.
Extra bonus attack: the tea party. They're violent. They're going to strangle you in your bed. They're coming! Keep watching the skies!!
And...it's Ezra Klein Whine Time.
Friday's Hour of Spin, the Keith "Man on Fan" Checklist:
More attacks on (R) candidates. Paladino? Check! Whitman? Check!
Left-wing puppetry? Geno Robinson? Check! White House spin? How about the deputy director of Obama's campaign? Check!
Rahm leaves, need a clueless parrot to 'analyze'. How about The Wolffe Man? Check!
Attack Christians? Check!
If Fox donates to the Chamber of Commerce, how to make that a smear? Call the Chamber a bunch of right-wing extremists? Check!
Cackle and do a juvenile dance on the grave of Rick Sanchez's career? Check!
Bore everyone over the age of 11 with an endleth reading of Thurber thlop? Check!
What Is The Event? It Ain't Olby, That's Fer Sure!
Oralmann getting canned and banned for life (a la ESPN) from (MS)NBC...that would be The Event worth seeing. But just another week of The Hour of Spin? Meh. Just as confusing, and even more boring, than that other 'Event'. Case in point, Monday's must-miss rundown:
The GOP Pledge...What? Olby's just getting around to it now? Is that how long it took for the blue blogs to give him enough material? Hey, since he's only been on dozens of times this year, let's untie Ezra Klein and prop him up before the camera again. And to make sure we have the ultimate in toadyism: Howard Not-So-Fineman, and a lefty partisan hack from Demos.
The nightly Christine O'Donnell attack. Not to be confused with Lawrence, who will no doubt be repeatedly plugged throughout the Hour of Excruciating Propaganda. Watch for a Soros-connection partisan hack on this one.
Nightly get-your-licks-in-on-Fox with a Chris Wallace attack.
Hard to believe, but something even more boring than Thurber. Ken Burns plugging some interminable baseball project. Who's that supposed to appeal to? Kids who read Harry Potter and collect baseball cards? Oh, wait. Yeah, that explains it.
Tuesday's Hour of Spin:
Attack on Sen DeMint (R) by a George Soros hack. And Olby of course.
Watch Edward R Olbermann slobber all over himself because the White House praised him and Maddow. Most journalists want to speak truth to power; Olbermann wants power to speak treacly love notes to him. David Corn Flakes too.
Oralmann goes after the eeevil Koch brothers, because they are going to burn up the planet into a cinder. Or something.
The nightly Christine O'Donnell attack is tonight a Sharron Angle attack. Or maybe he'll smear both of them. Anything is possible on OlbyPlanet.
Who cares? Probably no one, but here's a look at tonight's Hour of Spin:
Olby insists that we have a tax cut vote. But he's not alone. We've got Ezra Klein (again!) and Arianna 'Zsa Zsa' Huffington to play the part of the human echo chamber.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and Don't Watch. Plus Immigration crap.
Tonight's O'Donnell attack is a Sharron Angle attack.
Liz Cheney attack.
And the Friday favorite, um, Thurber...reading...with, uh...the conclusion...um...of...Thur...ber...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Why do we even bother previewing what will appear on The Hour of Spin? While the eeevil Bill O'Reilly will be going mano-a-mano with Jon Stewart, the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann will be hitting the same talking points, yammering with the same like-minded parrots, and insulting the same targets: anyone to the right of Bill Maher. So, keeping in mind this is just more same-old same-old, here's what to expect tonight:
Small business is evil. Why? Maybe lefty Ezra Klein can explain it. Regardless of what he says, Oralmann will be nodding in agreement like a unidirectional bobble head. Because that's the rule on OlbyPlanet.
Another opportunity to harp on gays in the military. We need more of em! As many as we can get!! God knows Olby himself isnt doing that well with the opposite sex. Dan Savage will prattle.
A combo attack, killing two birds with one stone: Sharron Angle and Fox News, they're both eeevil. You want proof? Olbermann will present his impartial expert from Hillary Clinton's Media Matters.
Despite attacks on McCain (R) and Angle (R), that's not enough for Monkeymann, so he'll go after Sen Chambliss (R) too. A trifecta of traducement (your word of the day). Toss in some sort of smear of Liz Cheney and you're all up-to-date.
For this people should miss the epic O'Reilly/Stewart showdown? Let alone NCIS? (Oh wait, NCIS was yesterday. Well watching it again would be preferable.) Comments are open!
Tuesday's Hour of Spin:
Oh the sorrows, the Dems postponed their tax-cut vote. Noward Not-So-Fineman will comfort Keithy, while the winner of the Rachel Maddow Look-Alike Contest (Chris Hayes) will pile on.
More attacks on small businesses for being too successful. To make a rather large point, the rather large Michael Moore.
The evils of buying, or selling, gold, with lots of Beck smears from the Weiner. (Go to weinerfacts.com for a good time.)
The usual (R) victims in the WPitW segment (aka the Media Matters Minute).
You know when the orders come down from the White House to jump, Keith Olbermann's response is 'how high?' And when it's time to ramp up attacks so partisan and one-sided that they put Radio North Korea to shame, Oralmann shifts into high gear. That's what you can expect to see on tonight's Hour of Spin.
Here's what to watch for:
Attack on O'Donnell: Not only is she a witch, she's a thief too! Watch for some infamous, deplorable song stylings (we are not making this up).
Attack on O'Donnell Part Deux: Mice with human brains? Let's go to the tape. (Note: for background on this story, read what Oralmann won't tell you.)
Take Tea and See how badly "Bear" and his new man-crush Weigel can smear.
Switching into ObamaVision, slobbering over the newsless 'town hall' and its pre-selected audience, with that savant of American politics who isn't even from America, The Wolffe Man.
Hat-tip to Maddow with some noodling about Don't Ask Don't Tell (that's the armed forces policy, not the rules given to Countdown bookers regarding conservatives).
WPitW will attack Jan Brewer (R) and America's Mayor (R). Continuing a long tradition of slovenly partisan hackery in the Media Matters Minute.
Oh, and don't be shocked if this video appears, or at least some of it. It may not. Call it a hunch:
Tuesday's Hour of Spin:
Republicans hate the troops! (It's a eulogy for the failed attempt to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell via the defense authorization, and it wasn't only Republicans who blocked it, but don't confuse "Bear" with facts). Watch for some ex-military type and David Corn Flakes.
Get rid of those 'tax cuts for the rich'! Who better to parrot OlbySpin than Howard Not-So-Fineman, now out of the closet as a writer for the Huff 'n' Puff Post?
The obligatory, nightly Christine O'Donnell attack: she's a criminal! Could 'American Prospect' possibly be another far-left, Soros-type organization? You'd think so, because Oralmann invited them for this segment.
The eeevil insurance companies want your children to get sick and die!
How about a book plug? As if Keith's tome is going to do anywhere near as well as O'Reilly's, but he'll keep priming the pump anyhow.
Before we all settle down for another evening on OlbyPlanet (thankfully without the inane ramblings of Thurber), let's take a moment to gaze in admiration at the keen intellect of Edward R Olbermann. But how to gauge something so wondrous and beyond the comprehension of mere mortals? We'll just have to use Olby's own test, the one he uses to rate the intellect of others. As you may recall, the infamous, deplorable one got into a twitter fight (that even sounds girly!) and immediately turned to his Ultimate Weapon, correcting grammar and spelling:
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?
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? OK, so now it's your turn to measure the Olby intellect by his own standards. This is from just yesterday:
TWITTERMANN: You should get a grown's up hat before throwing around "failed"
Huh? What's that? A hat belonging to a Mr Grown? Wrong! It's proof of Oralmann's level of intellect. After all this isn't speaking, you do get to review all 140 chars. before hitting send!
On tonight's Hour of Spin:
New O'Donnell talking point: her win is no big deal because look at all those registered Republicans who didn't vote. The discredited Dave Weigel and (D) hack Chris Kofinis will aid and abet Monkeymann's spin.
Rove and Palin disagree, so that means Democrats will win in November!
Those tax cuts everyone's debating? They're not Bush's, they're Obama's! Lefty Ezra Klein will play Pinocchio.
Tea Party will fail, sez Arshad Hasan (who?!?) from Democracy for America, a nonpartisan outfit that was kick-started with a quarter-mil from George Soros.
Why was the Koran burner fired? Theory: "Bear" will take a counter-intuitive position on this, to show his 'independence' and 'intellect'. Intellect? Oh wait, maybe that isn't the right word.
And Thursday's Hour of Spin:
Obama wants to plug his 'immigration reform', and Oralmann leaps to coordinate with the administration. One Rep (D) and a La Raza type will reinforce the propaganda.
Nightly attack on Christine O'Donnell, this time with Howard Not-So-Fineman Olby's accessory after the fact.
Monkeymann has been neglecting Rand Paul, but watching his poll numbers. So it's time to serve as the DNC's slovenly political hack once again.
Olby will actually make fun of someone else's research (i.e. Limbaugh, for using Wikipedia). Perhaps he will lecture Rush on why he should only rip 'n' read from Media Matters and think Propaganda.
Oh, and he of the Great Intellect can't resist an attack on Glenn Beck, so watch for one of those too.
It's not even worth a new post for the sewage Herr Olbermahn plays to vomit tonight. So here's the lowdown on Friday's Hour of Spin:
Tonight's attack on Christine O'Donnell (obligatory).
That will morph into a wholesale attack on tea party, Michele Bachmann et al, with accomplices Ken Vogel of Politico, and...and who? Oh wait, it's been all of two days since Discredted Dave (Weigel) has been visited OlbyPlanet. Let's recycle him!
Attack Huckabee for saying he made a comparison when he actually made an analogy. (Classic OlbyTrick.) Lefty David Corn will be happy to play Howdy to Keith's Doody.
The most interminable 10 minutes in all of television, it's Olby doing his dramatic readings of Thurber. Truly mutht-miss.
Oh, and lest we forget, the nightly attack on Fox (their punishment for crushing Olby every night in the ratings). In case you haven't heard it before, Fox News is...all together now...RAAAAACIST!
It must be galling to the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann that his hated nemesis, the Fox News Channel, actually attracts more Democrat viewers than either CNN or MSNBC. That's the kind of fun fact that just inflames Oralmann's insistence on inflicting another week of hate, venom, and aggravated misinformation on the American public. Fortunately most of them won't sit through it, but in case you will, this is the place to discuss the Orange Man and his nightly assaults on journalism.
What can we expect tonight? Well, Edward R Olbermann has another 'fair and balanced' line-up of topics and guests, as you might well imagine. Some highlights:
Attack on John Boehner (coordinated with White House of course)
New talking point: the deficit is down (yeah, the 2nd highest ever after last year's 1st highest ever)
Fair and balanced economic analysis from Robert Reiccccchhhh and David Plouffe (aka Obama's campaign manager...hey we told you this stuff is coordinated)
Attack on Newt Gingrich, with race-baiter Geno Robinson
Attack on Christine O'Donnell, who just moved ahead of Castle in the polls (thereby explaining tonight's attack)
Shocking new news that is just shocking: there was a mosque in the World Trade Center before it was hit...and the point of that is, what? Don't try to make sense out of it, it's OlbyLogic!
Tuesday's Hour of Spin:
An impartial look at the tax cut debate with a House Democrat
A Democrat pollster with an impartial look at the tax cut debate
Breaking OlbyPlanet Talking Point: The GOP is racist!
More Christine O'Donnell attacks with lefty Chris Hayes and Howard Not-So-Fineman
Another House Democrat! (The next chart is going to be a doozy!)
Attack on Fox Business because an opinion show offers opinion (lifted from a familiar blue blog source: Think Propaganda)
At least we had an Olby-free Labor Day. But the infamous, deplorable one is back tonight, and with an Hour of Spin that will go down in history as...just like every other Hour of Spin. What you can expect tonight:
Hyperventilating over burning the Koran (Or: Why burning a flag is protected free speech, but burning a Koran is a scandal?)
The Gallup Poll is now tied! Now Olby can stop ignoring it, until it shows the GOP ahead again, when it will vanish from OlbyPlanet.
Rahm's rumored removal from the House of Obama.
A HuffPo hack will harangue about the tea party.
Slanders against Arizona's governor, who will still be Arizona's governor this time next year.
The obligatory attack on Fox/Murdoch/Whatever for the crime of distributing...a video game? No, you're kidding, right? An Olby attack over a video game?!?!?
It's your nightly must-miss tv. Comments are open!
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:
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