Posted on 03/13/2006 10:16:35 AM PST by rcocean
LAMB: I mean, is it fair to say you hate the man, or is this just an act?
OLBERMANN: He’s so extraordinarily obvious and the antithesis of what I think broadcasters should do and what journalists should do and what people should do that he’s necessary, in some way... But, what he does on the air, everything is a simplification. It goes back to what we were talking about earlier, about inspiring fear in people, both in terms of what the world is going to be like, and also what the rest of the media is like. And I don’t hate him. I’m entertained, to some degree, by him. I wouldn’t watch him with a gun pointed to my head..
LAMB: You ever met him?
OLBERMANN: Not really. We were both at a charity dinner.... Walk into the table to get the little identity plaque or little nametag. Well, of course, what do I see right below me on this table, here’s Keith Olbermann. The next one’s Bill O’Reilly. I went, ”This is going to be entertaining.”
...He’s a little taller than I am, so most of the people, if you notice, he picks fights with Al Franken and people like that who are significantly shorter, Janeane Garofalo, people like that. I didn’t really anticipate that there’d be trouble, but we were, like, 20 feet apart at all times... it was as if we knew at all times where the other one was, and we were, like, just staring daggers at each other from the corners of our eyes. But, I used to - I think I did used to hate him, but it’s - this segment has become so useful to me, and allows me to express that hatred in a positive, ratings-growing way.
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I thought I had lost all respect for Brian Lamb.
Now I'm sure of it.
"He's an interesting man, full of hatred for Bill O'Reilly, pompous, egotistical, and shallow."
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Which one?
Olberman is a nobody.
Olberman is a turd.
Which raises the important question...
...which is less interesting, Olbermann as an interviewer or Olbermann as an interviewee?
(Or watching paint dry?)
Brian Lamb better watch out. "Fox Security" will be paying a visit!
Why?
He seems to be a really bright guy, but his MSNBC show(is it still on?) is really unwatchable. Beyond boring, BBC newscast type boring.
I've heard quite a bit of him on Dan Patrick's radio show, and Olberman comes off sounding like one of those radio show interns. Bad timing, unfunny, redundant comments, really no value to the show at all.
LAMB: ...throwing paper in the air or just wadding something up and throwing it at the camera. What’s that all about?
OLBERMANN: I wish I knew. It started with the – with the wadding of the paper at the end of the show. That – I think there was in the old studio at MSNBC, the same one you just saw in the clip there, but the equipment doesn’t work anymore. There was on the roof there was a track camera, a remote operated camera that (INAUDIBLE) something out of 2001, out of the movie. That just rolled around, this little white nodule that hung from the ceiling. And, at the end of the show if there was 30 seconds to kill, I would just start wadding up my paper and try to hit this thing.
And it was, you know, the height of about 20, 30 feet. It was – I did it, I think once in a period of 14 months – that I actually hit the thing. That’s I believe where it came from. People have read symbolism into it that there’s, you know, it’s some sort of anti-news, anti-television gesture. Something that – try to break down the wall with – no it’s just trying to hit the moving camera, that’s all it was. And then this thing where – throwing the papers up at the end of the news maker segment which is in the middle of the show, I should point out, that’s just being on camera with nothing to say or do and there’s nothing worse than television than just a shot of – I was watching some old tapes the other night with a friend, of newscasts that I did in 1987, and there was a 30 second bump at the end of a segment for a commercial.
Thirty seconds where there was – after the last news segment had occurred, where it was just a shot of the three of us sitting there at the news desk, for 30 seconds. That’s essentially saying to the audience, ”Change your channel right now, go look somewhere else.” And so, here’s – I’m on camera, do something quickly, you know, throw the paper, what the hell.
did this hard-hitting journalist give any hockey scores or women's college basketball scores during the interview??
I watched the interview last night and realized that he is likely on of the posters at DU who constantly complains about is state of mind and the drugs he takes for depression and anxiety. He then blames it all on Bush, and O'really...(who he mistakenly calls a conservative)
Isn't Lamb the fellow that has a large connection of Tweey Birds dolls in his office?
Really bright guy?! Are we talking about the same person here?
Other interesting KO facts:
1) He's 47 and never married (i.e Gay, but there's nothing wrong with that)
2) KO keeps tapes of all his shows, in a secure vault.
3) He gave himself a concussion by trying to jump on a moving train in 1980. He injured his inner ear and can't drive.
4) He was a smoker, until a growth in his mouth was removed.
5) As a 12 year old, he would obsessivly watch 1 1/2 hours of news every night.
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"Ratings growing way." Is he kidding? NO ONE watches that show. Look, if you're gonna be obnoxious and stupid and rude, well then, for Heaven's sake, please have an audience of some substantial size.
O'Reilly fits that bill. Olberman is a just a loud-mouthed, diasppointed creep. Garbage in, garbage out. He feels he is entitled to an audience.
Every sentence was full of inconsistencies.
Really, really, the man needs help.
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