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Posted on 11/14/2004 1:28:11 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
So, America, what's sloppier?
Our shaky elections system or the jayvee journalism practiced on Keith Olbermann's fake MSNBC news show "Countdown With keith Olbermann"?
I cast all of my votes for Olbermann.
The recovering sportscaster is openly liberal and his irreverent, run-and-quip offense is easy to detest. But I kind of like him and his fast-paced infotainment show, which has the fatal misfortune to occupy the 8 p.m. time slot opposite Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor."
Olbermann, however, really made a Dan Rather of himself last week.
He never directly charged that Republicans stole the election or demanded that Karl Rove should be picked up for questioning by the U.N. But for 15 minutes on Monday, Olbermann pointed to a "small but blood-curdling group of reports of voting irregularities and possible fraud" from across the country, topped it with some vague partisan innuendo from Democrat Congressman John Conyers, and acted like he deserved a Peabody Award for Civic Journalism.
On Tuesday I checked out some of Olbermann's claims. Using a high-tech personal communication device professional journalists refer to as a "telephone," I called an elections bureau person in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (greater Cleveland), where, as Olbermann pointed out, 93,000 extra votes had been inexplicably cast Nov. 2.
It turns out the votes were "a computer anomaly" that didn't affect or reflect the official vote count. And those 18,472 votes Olbermann said were counted in Fairview Park, a Cleveland suburb that had only 13,342 registered voters? Absentee ballots from many precincts had been grouped together by the computer and credited to Fairview Park, where 8,421 voted.
But what about Florida, the Vote-Fraud State?
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Olbermann gets slammed hard BUMP!
Great article and a big smash to Olbermann's piehole!!
Try pursuing Rathergate and Mary Mapes first, loons!
Maybe too you can find out if Old Walter Cronkite (the most rusted man in America) was right that Karl Rove had OBL make that tape right before the election at Camp David.
LOL
Olbermann is a jerk.
Remember when he comparaired Ken Starr to Himmler?
He should have been taken outside and shot! ;)
I like this guy, Steigerwald!
His ode to the professional insturment known as a "telephone" is Priceless!!!
Jack
I have no choice but to post on every thread involving Olberman. He's the only person in media or politics I'd like to sock in the mouth. What a wussy would-be fop. He's like a kid who thinks he's a journalist because he wrote the lunch menu announcement for the school newspaper.
I did'nt like Olbermann when he did the local sports way back when in Los Angeles...was full of himself...big smart ass.....He stunk then and he stinks now......
" He's like a kid who thinks he's a journalist because he wrote the lunch menu announcement for the school newspaper."
Ouch! I can't remember when I've slammed a door that hard!
Didn't Olbermann go from ESPN to MSNBC, then back to ESPN, then back to MSNBC (ro something like that)?
Another thing thats telling is that the email that Juan Williams was reading on FOX during the Brit Hume hour and throwing out there as fact, started out and sounded EXACTLY like a thread I had been following on the DUmmy site.
There's a user on that site called Truthisall, who I've just thought was hilarious this whole campaign. He's apparently a statistician, although not a very good one. He came out at least every other day and told all the gullible and other DU'ers of extremely low intelligence, that according to his data model, using the Monet Carlo method, Kerry was 99 - 1 favorite for victory of the presidency. His numbers were loosely (very, very, very loosely) tied to polls, though he often said he "disregarded polls that are clearly unreliable" (read: polls where President Bush was ahead). If ALL of the polls had GWB in front, didn't matter, Kerry had a 99% chance of winning, just looks at his bars and graphs.
I followed it, knowing that he would disappear after GWB won, but he didn't disappear.
Right after the election he came out with a thread that said "If you believe President Bush won reelection, you must also believe this..." and he listed about 15 points of pure B.S....number 13 of which was that President Bush overcame a "99% chance of losing" (because of his computer model).
Well my FReeper friends, when Juan Williams started talking about maybe GWB didn't win, and the reason being that "he received an email..." and when he started to read some of that he started out verbatim "If you believe President Bush won reelection you must also believe this...", I was pretty floored because I'd just read that almost word for word the previous day. Every one of the points Juan read were from that DUmmy thread. Though to Juans credit he neglected to mention point #13, that President Bush overcame a 99% chance of losing.
I'd say that Juan Williams of FOX news also had a Dan Rather moment.
Olbermann has no clue about anything. Ignore him.
LOL, and he never noticed that Bush was up in every major poll taken just before the election? Well, you have to be stupid to be a Democrat to begin with.
He went back to sports, but didn't go back to ESPN -- he went to Fox Sports Net to anchor their knockoff of SportsCenter, an experiment that failed miserably.
MSNBC is now run by the same Clinton hack who used to run CNN during the 1990s. He and Olbermann ought to be held to account and forced to publicly retract the story on the air. This article provides a perfect roadmap for Howie Kurtz for his Reliable Sources program next week.
The Monte Carlo method is a way of treating complex, strictly unanalysable problems (such as many-body problems in Physics) by positing millions of solutions, and seeing which one gives the best result.
It's a way of picking out best configurations of complex systems: I cannot think how it could possibly be useful in statistical analysis of polls. This faux statistician on DU sounds like a loon.
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Olberman gets his news from the most reliable sources on DU.
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