Olbermann Links Domestic Terrorism to 'Right Wing Blogs,' Malkin, Ingraham, Coulter

Newsbusters ^ | 11-15-06 | Brad Wilmouth

[xtinct]

On Tuesday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann devoted an entire segment (video available on Countdown Web site) to discussing links between a man arrested for domestic terrorism and "far right-wing blogs," describing the man as a "gushing online admirer" of conservative commentators Michelle Malkin, Laura Igraham, and Ann Coulter, as the Countdown host suggested conservatives had inspired the man to commit terrorism. Olbermann also compared past actions by Malkin (see Malkin's blog for details) to "the King Henry thing about Thomas Becket." Olbermann: "There were the students at the University of California in Santa Cruz who protested military recruiters on their campus, Malkin posted their addresses and other personal information on her blog, and then when people harassed the students at their homes, Malkin did the King Henry thing about Thomas Becket, 'Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?' 'I never told anybody to do anything to them.' This is the problem, right? I mean, you can come out, you can directly encourage people to act violently, Ann Coulter has done that, or you can do it in this sort of thinly disguised way the way Malkin has."

[xtinct]

Olbermann unhinged !!!

[Doctor Raoul]

There's a direct link between Olbermann and stupidity.

[Doctor Raoul]

Countdown To No Ratings with Keith Olbermann.

[Doctor Raoul]

Malkin posted the phone information they put on their press release. What a tool Olbermann is...

[IslandJeff]

Sorry to bug you, Sir, but did you happen to call Mark Levin today (Tuesday)?

[Dallas59]

"Olbermann Links Domestic Terrorism to Freedom of Speech and US Constitution"...

Fixed it.

[Doctor Raoul]

Olbermann was PISSED that he couldn't snort the powder.

It wasn't harassment, it was teasing. Like waving an empty beer can at a drunk.

The first thing Olbermann grabbed was not a phone to call 911, but a 100 dollar bill to roll up...

[MaineVoter2002]

He's hoping to be noticed. He's looking for free advertisement. Sort of like what Savage does attacking those who have a much larger audience. You probably have noticed his latest rants are against Rush but Rush never falls for it. You never hear Savage's name mentioned on Rush's show but you hear Rush mention Dan Rather, Chris Matthews and many many other critics but Rush can know the difference. Savage is an AM Radio Carpetbagger hoping Rush will mention his name so a few million more will tune into him out of curiousity. This Oberman guy is doing the same.

http://www.cafenetamerica.com

[TXBlair]

Who is this doofus, Olbermann? Never heard of him nor his CNN.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Next in the news, Richard the III will be giving and interview at the WH and Olbermann will be there with a hair shirt. One too many acid trips before English class!

[TXBlair]

LOL! Nor his MSNBC, apparently!

[Darkwolf377]

Keith Olberman's ratings are so low even Al Franken laughs at him.

And everyone else laughs at Savage--he has ratings but so does The View.

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1738800/posts
cross reference

[woofie]

I think if any of us Freepers go nuts and become domestic terrorrists we should first turn ourselves in to the nearest police and not hurt innocent people

[Vinny]

What an idiot.

He would pick a fight with the women...what a clown.

Keith Olberman the very scary clown that's afraid of girls.

[Choose Ye This Day]

After reading about the alleged fake-anthrax nutcase FReeper, I would have to agree.

Attention, all FReepers. If you are nuts, please leave FR immediately. We don't need you around. If you plan to threaten or harass anyone, or engage in stupid, unlawful acts, do us all a favor: get yourself zotted and be gone.

[blondee123]

Olbermann = The god of DU!

[CCGuy]

Who cares what that idiot says. Nobody watches MSNBC anyway. There are test patterns with a larger market share and far more content.

[John Valentine]

I hope you don't mind my putting it in such crude terms, but Keith Olbermann is nothing but a stinking turd.

[xtinct]

Chad Castagana - I saw this story on AOL. AOL had pictures of Nancy Pelosi, John Stewart, and David Letterman claiming that they were the recipients of letters that contained white powder. (The remaining slides in the presentation were shorts about the anthrax scare in 2001.)

Interestingly, there was NO source for the story except a reference to Los Angeles. I tried to look up the story in LA newspapers - NOTHING. Also, NOTHING on Drudge or any of the wire services. So, I am now assuming that the source was MSNBC's Keith Olbermann based on this cross reference that you provided.

The story on AOL only lasted an hour...

[unspun]

Attention, all FReepers. If you are nuts, please leave FR immediately. We don't need you around. If you plan to threaten or harass anyone, or engage in stupid, unlawful acts, do us all a favor: get yourself zotted and be gone.

Man. You sure know how to hurt a guy's feelings. and here I was just sitting here and reading and stuff and you have to say such a personal thing. Don't you know how senstive we are? Hm....

Ping!

Are you all just gonna sit there and take this?

[woofie]

I think if any of us Freepers go nuts and hurt people's feelings we should first turn ourselves in to the nearest police and not hurt innocent people

[unspun]

I think if any of us Freepers go nuts and hurt people's feelings we should first turn ourselves in to the nearest police and not hurt innocent people

But the poor police could be overcome with the workload. I think this idea may take some planning. We may have to stagger our appearances.

[woofie]

LOL

[GOP_Raider]

If you are nuts, please leave FR immediately.

*Whew* glad I don't have to worry about that. Now if you all don't mind, I'm going to play some poker with my imaginary friends Bruno and Surge.

[Daaave]

"I was talking to these great FBI counterterror guys yesterday about all this, you waste hundreds of hours of their time that they could be spending on other counterterrorism cases." Olbermann

I wonder if Olbermann meant that the FBI could have been monitoring overseas calls to the US by Al Qaeda members? Or maybe tracing Al Qaeda financial transactions? Aggressively interrogating terrorists?

All of which, the leftist fanatics like Olbermann, are against.

[BigSkyFreeper]

He forgot to mention a left-winged blog posted a map to where Malkin lived, and because of death threats left on her phone, she had to move and get a new number.

[Cincinna]

Keith Olbermann is an idiot...but you knew that already.

[ajolympian2004]

Can't wait to read / hear what Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham have to say about this tomorrow morning.

[unspun]

Forget the FBI. I think we should aim SETI at Olbermann and investigate. They're designed to search for intelligent life transmitted through our universe's radio waves.

[mlong]

It's guilt by association just because this nut posted on some right-wing sites..KO trying to say he only did it because of them...Then I quess it's Al Gore's fault that the Unibomber killed all those people..afterall Gore's book was found at his shack and they shared the same views on Global warming.

[JerseyHighlander]

The man is so incompetent in his field he can't even properly read and source a press release sent directly to his employer over the newswires. He has so little oversight he can then go on air and not a single editor or producer knows enough of standard PR industry business practices to censor their babbling head before he goes on air and commits libel.

Too dumb to know he's stupid.

[wodinoneeye]

"Keith Olberman's ratings are so low even Al Franken laughs at him. "

Damn, now THATS Pathetic......


BTW isnt that Franken show the one you get by connecting your radio antenna to a sewer pipe????

[wodinoneeye]

"Forget the FBI. I think we should aim SETI at Olbermann and investigate. They're designed to search for intelligent life transmitted through our universe's radio waves."


And they will have as much success finding intelligence there as they have in the past......

[Caipirabob]

Olbermann is a domestic "ratings" terrorist.

[Use It Or Lose It]

While never watching the program, an occasional promo will pop up from time to time. Olbermann appears to be in need of a strong laxative as he has a constant look of constipation on his face, with an occasional wince from unexpelled gas.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Did he mention ELF or the anti-free speech idiots who shout down Coulter, et al. at college speeches?

[lentulusgracchus]

BTW isnt that Franken show the one you get by connecting your radio antenna to a sewer pipe?

No, the sewer-pipe thing is Hillary's "fat pipe" from Larry Flynt to the MSM.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: Leave FR immediately if. . . .

Does that include the few of us who want the authorities (local, state, federal LE and DoD) to do the threatening and harassing of domestic enemies?

Every two-hundred-year-old republic is entitled to at least one patriot-dictator. Hey, I don't make the rules. It's not my fault.

[kellynch]

We might laugh at that, but it's the truth. Liberals I know love this guy and watch his show all the time.

[Grateful One]

I think if any of us Freepers go nuts and hurt people's feelings............................................

I do not wish to do this, for sure, so I am going to contact the White House and Republican Party headquarters to send me instructions on how to avoid being "mean".

[thelastvirgil]

The FEC should require MSNBC to register as a 527. This loser "network" would have been a faint memory years ago if they weren't being propped up as a front for radical liberalism. Can't wait for Rush time, today.

[TonyRo76]

What's this—a thread that references Malkin, Ingraham, and Coulter in the title, and no pictures?!?!

[Choose Ye This Day]

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/11/the-castagana-correspondence-right-what-you-know.php

[Choose Ye This Day]

You don't know where I live, do you?

:o)

[Choose Ye This Day]

I don't care about hurting people's feelings. That's not illegal. And sometimes it may be a good thing.

I care about FReepers doing illegal things--like sending threats via the U.S. Postal Service. And I agree with you--if any FReeper has such tendencies, they should first, get banned from FR, and then turn themselves in to the authorities.

[photodawg]

Countdown To No Ratings with Keith Olbermann.

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Olbermann's ratings are increasing. He is over 1 million viewers last week. Up from the mere 300 thousands before summer. The guy is not nuts. He knows the audience he wants to cultivate and is starting to get traction. Conservatives reacting to his intentionally flagrant lies only fuels his interest level. He's after the most popular conservative blogs because to attack them and get notoriety for it means ratings. the guy is a dangerous liar.

[PA Engineer]

He has so little oversight he can then go on air and not a single editor or producer knows enough of standard PR industry business practices to censor their babbling head before he goes on air and commits libel.

My first impression was exactly that. This sounds like a potential rainmaker.

[NavVet]

Of course the gushing admiration that Al-Qaeda has recently expressed for the victorious Democrats must have escaped Olberman's attention.

[griswold3]

I thought MSNBC was being disolved..
Can't happen soon enough if you ask me.