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Report: ESPN Hires Nate Silver to Contribute to 'Olbermann'
Breitbart Sports ^
| July 19, 2013
| Breitbart Sports
Posted on 07/20/2013 8:47:39 AM PDT by Bratch
ESPN will reportedly announce next week that it has hired Nate Silver to contribute to Keith Olbermann's new late-night talk show.
The numbers-crunching baseball geek gained national fame when he correctly projected the outcomes of the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. The New York Times, which reported the news on Friday, hired Silver, who brought his FiveThirtyEight franchise with him, in 2009.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chat; espn; liberaltv; olbermann; olberwomann; sports; unskewedsports
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posted on
07/20/2013 8:47:39 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: Bratch
Gee.....Nate and Olbermann...ain’t that like sh!t on a biscuit.
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posted on
07/20/2013 8:50:06 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Bratch
I thought he burned his bridges @ ESPN. Must be working cheap.
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posted on
07/20/2013 8:55:57 AM PDT
by
Forgotten Amendments
(I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
To: Gaffer
2 libs joining the lib sports network whose breaking news is Jason Collins coming out as a poofter. This is like taking a dump in a toilet which hasn’t been flushed yet.
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posted on
07/20/2013 8:57:27 AM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
To: Gaffer
Betcha the 37 viewers will be thoroughly entertained.
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posted on
07/20/2013 8:59:09 AM PDT
by
Shady
(Creed of the PC Police: You're guilty when we say you are...)
To: Gaffer
I'm not sure if this is a good idea.
Both are outspoken leftists, so no political contrast.
Both are narcissistic egotists, so no personality contrast.
Both are obsessive statisticians (Olbermann is probably THE authority on the statistics of walks), so no methodological contrast.
Both have baseball as their most loved sport, so no contrast in sports interests.
This could either be a boring show where they agree on everything except the smallest minutiae, or it could be a boring show where all they do is bicker over the smallest minutiae.
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:00:54 AM PDT
by
wideawake
To: Forgotten Amendments
The ESPN mother ship is being challenged by NBCSports, FoxSports and even the Audience Network on Direc-TV. They needed something controversial to even be noticed on ESPN 2.
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:02:30 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: wideawake
It really doesn’t matter. Don’t mean a thing, really. Who in the hell would watch it? I mean, really!
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:02:43 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: wideawake
Actually, this is in all likelihood, some kind of favor payback for Oberdipshit.
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:05:56 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Bratch
ESPN Hires ...
Like HBO, I stopped watching ESPN many, many moons ago.
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:15:50 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Bratch
dang I wish I’d known, I just made a contribution to Olbermann over in the porcelain room...
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:36:41 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: oh8eleven
Wasn’t Rush supposed to be too controversial for sports television?
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:47:19 AM PDT
by
fhayek
To: oh8eleven
Wasn’t Rush supposed to be too controversial for sports television?
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:47:20 AM PDT
by
fhayek
To: Bratch
Does anyone actually watch Odorman? They could bring on Satan himself and it wouldn't make any difference, because no one cares.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:51:10 AM PDT
by
wku man
(Amnesty? No Way, Jose (No Se Puede!) by 10 Pound Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTUQ8yOI2c)
To: Bratch
I thought they said no politics.... another leftist lie
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:53:19 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Bratch
I thought they said no politics.... another leftist lie
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:53:26 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Bratch
I remember when they launched ESPN2. It was like Olbermann 24/7, always wearing that hideous faux letterman’s jacket. Ugh.
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posted on
07/20/2013 9:56:31 AM PDT
by
cdcdawg
(Be seeing you...)
To: Bratch
Oh great! Glad I cut the cord and now subscribe to hockeystreams.com, ballstreams.com, and lean on my trusty HD antenna for my NFL games, so I don’t have to rely on ESPN’s crappy network! :)
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posted on
07/20/2013 10:24:59 AM PDT
by
erod
(I'm a Chicagoan till Chicago ends...)
To: fhayek
Wasn’t Rush supposed to be too controversial for sports television?
Yeah and in fact, I stopped listening to Rush a few years ago too. Ever since Øbama took office that's all he's talked about.
I'd listened since 1991, back when he used to be very "cutting edge" and very entertaining.
Now all he does is talk Øbama, tea and golf. The time for talk is over. Get out from behind the EIB microphone and do something.
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:10:19 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
what would you expect a radio talk show host to do exactly?
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posted on
07/20/2013 11:14:25 AM PDT
by
GeronL
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