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While Olbermann has managed once again to shove egg in his own face for doing exactly what he criticizes others for doing, I find the circumstances surrounding his recent suspension intriguing. Does the policy at MSNBC actually prove the lengths in which they will go to support Democrats over Republicans? Is MSNBC so universally known for its left-leaning bias that it is simply trying to save face? Or is it something else altogether?

How bad is it getting for the likes of Dem MSM cheerleaders like Keith Olbermann? Bad enough that on tonight's Countdown, Olbermann was reduced to arguing that Dem losses would really be wins. Case in point: the predicament of incumbent Dem congressman Tom Perriello of Virginia, who is likely to be defeated by Republican Robert Hurt. Even David Corn of the leftist Mother Jones mag didn't embrace Keith's claim that a narrow loss by Perriello would refute notions that Dems are too liberal. Here was Olbermann, making his pitiful defeat=victory plea . . View video here.

A lot has been made of the video where a woman gets her head stomped on at a Rand Paul/Jack Conway debate. A lot. Before rushing to judgment, and before making incendiary comments in my presence, take into consideration some facts first. Her original story was she was simply handing Rand Paul an employee of the month award for a fictional company moveon.org made up. What is that supposed to mean to Rand Paul? Then, it was she was simply wanting to hold a sign. In all her versions, she’s just innocently standing there and gets jumped. That’s Keith Olbermann’s...

Gee, I wonder which "cable news show" Joe had in mind . . . In a seeming shot at Keith Olbermann, Joe Scarborough has predicted that "certain cable news shows" will stir up a "fake controversy" tonight over whether Sarah Palin was booed on Dancing With The Stars [she wasn't]. Here's the background: Bristol Palin appeared on DWTS last night, and Sarah was there in the front row to support her. Jennifer Grey [of Dirty Dancing fame] also competed last night. Her backers in the audience began to boo when her scores, which they judged to be too low, were...

Multiple media and network television sources confirmed to me Thursday that Keith Olbermann will not appear on NBC’s Football Night In America Sunday evening NFL broadcasts this season. Some members of the FNIA cast and crew were made aware of the news Tuesday at a preseason production meeting in New York City. Afterwards, the cast and crew adjourned to Yankee Stadium to watch the Yankees-Blue Jays game.

The ongoing feud between the jealous Keith Olbermann and the cable news Godfather Bill O'Reilly continues...

It is vile bitterness put on display for America every night of the week - even though not as many people tune in as they do to his competitor. But, still Keith Olbermann seems to obsess over the Fox News Channel. On the Aug. 24 broadcast of his show "Countdown," Olbermann demonstrated just how sensible the so-called "professional left" can be when criticizing things they perceive to be antithetical to their world view. At the top of his "Worst Persons in the World" segment, viewers were treated to a bonus attack on Fox News, who Olbermann mockingly tried to portray...

The growing opposition to plans for a Muslim cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero have prompted some on the Left to speak out in defense of religious freedom in America. On August 16th, pundit Keith Olbermann took opponents of the project to task in his "Special Comment" segment: "'They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then...

Keith Olbermann on Friday evening once again stuck his foot in his mouth on national television when he bashed Ted Nugent for appearing at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally next Saturday. Problem is Nugent is booked at the Boise Knitting Factory Concert House that night, and won't be attending the Beck event. But this actually wasn't the only fact Olbermann got wrong on MSNBC's "Countdown," for he also accused Nugent of making racist remarks while giving a concert in Dubuque, Iowa, a few weeks ago. Turns out this was flatly contradicted by an eyewitness (video follows with transcript and commentary):...

Since August 29, 2008, when Sarah Palin was first introduced as John McCain’s Vice Presidential choice of a running mate, reactions to Palin were and continue to be extreme. The extremity of Palin hatred started within hours of the announcement, as did the hideous rumors (about her son Trig for instance) that were passed from one leftist website to the next without one shred of evidence to back them up. The goal, simply put, was to destroy Sarah Palin by any means possible. Being as passionate as they always are, progressive bloggers, media pundits, leftist groups and even comedians started...

Of all networks to go on to accuse Fox News hosts of faux anger, Anthony Weiner chose MSNBC. You know, MSNBC--home to Ed Schultz, who into his mid-40s was a Republican, going so far as to seek the Republican nomination for Congress as a "fresh conservative voice." MSNBC. Keith Olbermann's hang-out, the man whose stagey histrionics have made him a laughingstock even at his sister network's Saturday Night Live. Weiner made his allegation in the course of responding to Mika Brzezinski, who asked whether he regretted "losing it" on the House floor last week in a vein-popping diatribe that became...

If you were one of the 400 members of the listserv Journolist, perhaps one of the most vicious insults you could hurl at a colleague is: You’re just like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. If the reader holds neutral — or even positive — views about the Fox News hosts, the insult may not sting. But in the cloistered world of liberal listserv enclaves, Hannityism is a cardinal sin. After all, Fox is a “dangerous,” “deranged” “cesspool” that, possibly, the FCC should be investigating. The feelings against MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, then, must run deep. “He’s become O’Reilly on the...

We asked in May: "Which producer for a dorky cable anchor has been complaining to colleagues that she's tired of his notoriously nasty behavior?"

You may (or may not) have noticed that there's been a bit of a feud running between MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and the Daily Caller, the website run by (former MSNBC's) Tucker Carlson. The Caller — via its Twitter account, especially — has poked fun at Olbermann with such headlines as "Keith Olbermann talks too much about himself: We watch, because we’re paid to." Olbermann hasn't taken the taunts sitting down, responding via Twitter with, "@TheDailyCaller unfortunately I don't read you because I don't have to." Olbermann has said Carlson has a "bow tie contained brain" and named Carlson among his...

Obeying President Obama's dictum that it's always educational to check in with what the other side is saying, I checked in with MSNBC's Countdown the other night. Sure enough, there was Keith Olbermann himself barking up I will admit, interesting leftist views on issues A, B, or C. But what got my attention was, well, a bit of outright, easily verifiable factual untruth. If we were talking Joe Biden, the word would be gaffe. It seems Keith, who has never had an easy time with women or blacks in authority if they have decided to take a stroll off the...

One of NewsReal Blog's Biggest All-Time Hits has been our Meltdown with Keith Olbermann series. Now we've collected the first half of the series as a PDF ebook which you can download for free here. This 28,000-word, 56 page collection features posts 1-24 (all the posts from 2009) written by David Forsmark, chronicling the MSNBC demigod-in-his-own-mind Keith Olbermann at his worst. Also included is an introduction by Peter Collier. If you enjoy the ebook then we encourage you to donate to support NRB here. Our suggested donation for the ebook is $5. This ebook is the first installment in...

When the Left joins in one chorus of mockery, you know they are mad and maybe even nervous. The most recent examples include both Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. When the mainstream media and statist blogs recognize a conservative person or movement gaining popularity then they immediately go on the offensive. Make people seem right-wing, stupid, racist, and nut jobs – then no one will pay attention to them. It’s an old trick but it often works. Glenn Beck has been the target of that negative strategy many times, and now that he is starting a school – the...

The leftwing blogosphere has a big problem: dissent. Last week we saw Keith Olbermann leaving the Daily Kos because he was attacked there for mildly criticizing Barack Obama. And this week, the administrator of the Democratic Underground, David Allen aka Skinner, was forced to deal with a recent wave of purges (tombstoning). One reason was due to simple liberal crackup temper tantrums among the DUers as happened when their most prominent member, William Rivers Pitt of Karl Rove indictment hoax fame, was tombstoned last month for threatening physical violence upon a fellow DUer who turned out to be a homeless...

Gibbs To Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews & Jon Stewart: "I appreciate the pulse, the hand on the pulse of America by those who live on cable table TV. I don't actually think that's where all of real America lives."

Is leftist network MSNBC falling out of love with President Obama? It certainly looks like it. Keith Olbermann, for instance, was less than impressed with Obama’s BP speech. “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days,” the man who became (in)famous for doing everything in his power to discredit and disgrace conservatives said on his show yesterday. When guest Howard Fineman asked Olbermann whether he believed Obama had aimed too low, he responded: ”I don’t think he aimed low, I don’t think he aimed at all. It’s startling.” A little later he...