http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/olbermann/ en-us Fri, 3 Jul 2009 03:18:12 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284602/posts “You know, there’s nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech,” began Janeane Garofalo in her interview with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann Wednesday. “Let’s be very honest about what this is about,” she continued, “it’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about.” “That’s right,” agreed a grinning Olbermann. “They don’t know their history at all,” the actress from such films as Mystery Men and, more recently, the acclaimed television show 24 ranted. “This is about hating a black man in the... The Constitutional Alamo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284602/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 03:18:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282245/posts WASHINGTON — A North Texas congressman is among three Texans cosponsoring the so-called “birther bill” requiring presidential candidates produce a birth certificate to prove they meet constitutional requirements to be president. U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer’s support for the bill and comments about President Obama’s status as a natural born citizen drew fire from a liberal pundit who pronounced the congressman’s constituents “idiots” for electing him. Does Neugebauer, who represents Young County and part of Archer County, doubt Obama’s U.S. citizenship? “I don’t have the documentation one way or the other,” the Lubbock Republican said in a telephone interview. “And so... Times Record News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282245/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:45:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2280556/posts Newsbusters.org: Contrasting Olbermann’s struggles, Fox News is dominating more than ever. FNC has ranked fifth or higher for 24 straight weeks among all cable channels in prime time, while MSNBC ranks seven spots below the Food Channel. A typical ratings score looks something like this one from June 22: O’Reilly – 2.9 million, Olbermann – 1.2 million. It must be hard for Olbermann now that he doesn’t have George Bush to call a fascist or to compare to the Nazis. Crediting Obama with defeating Hezbollah in Lebanon’s elections just isn’t cutting it… Olbermann’s uncritical coverage of Obama is one reason... Politik Ditto http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2280556/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:53:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276474/posts Whether it’s post-election cable news hangover and/or seasonal declines as the weather improves, Countdown with Keith Olbermann hit its lowest ratings of the year in May down over 30% in the cable news adults 25-54 demo target from January. TV By the Numbers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276474/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:12:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2275410/posts 10. He loves himself. Not in the funny way either, but the creepy 'is he serious' kind of loving. 9. Common sense? No, it doesn't make a showing on Countdown nor, apparently, the Keith-ster's life. 8. His name isn't Richard. He's a dick, plain and simple. 7. Most of his tirades seem like the temper tantrums of an angry four-year-old who didn't get pudding after dinner. 6. Liberal? Please, this douche makes President Obama look like Rush Limbaugh. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2275410/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:26:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272619/posts Bill Maher was confused if Howard Dean, former DNC Chairman, or Keith Olbermann said if it was necessary to get GOP support for Obama's health insurance plan. Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272619/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:33:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2271147/posts "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann Friday evening accused Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of using her daughters, as well as the brouhaha surrounding jokes made about them by "Late Show" host David Letterman, to further her political career. In a twelve minute segment about the former vice presidential candidate, Olbermann called her, "Sanctimonious, holier than thou, exploitative, undignified, pedantic, childish, self-inflicting, insipid, backwards, embarrassing, over-reactive, overreaching" as well as a "delusional lunatic." Potentially even more disgraceful, in Olbermann's almost unimaginably perverted view, Letterman is actually "the victim" who has "continued to take the high road" in this sordid affair. Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2271147/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:59:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271229/posts Countdown" host Keith Olbermann Friday evening accused Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of using her daughters, as well as the brouhaha surrounding jokes made about them by "Late Show" host David Letterman, to further her political career. In a twelve minute segment about the former vice presidential candidate, Olbermann called her, "Sanctimonious, holier than thou, exploitative, undignified, pedantic, childish, self-inflicting, insipid, backwards, embarrassing, over-reactive, overreaching" as well as a "delusional lunatic." Potentially even more disgraceful, in Olbermann's almost unimaginably perverted view, Letterman is actually "the victim" who has "continued to take the high road" in this sordid affair. The video of... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271229/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:05:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270643/posts Keith Olbermann, host of Countdown on MSNBC, lied about Free Republic last night in a segment on white supremacist James Von Brunn, the accused murderer of a Stephen Johns, a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.Olbermann falsely said that Von Brunn was a poster at Free Republic and that Free Republic is a Republican website.A request for a correction has been made to Countdown via phone and e-mail.Click video 'Blaming Obama for Hateful Outbursts'Transcript available here.Olbermann: Von Brunn himself posted on the Republican Web site, Free Republic, spouting the right-wing claim that Obama‘s birth certificate was forged,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270643/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:54:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2266751/posts One of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits is when Ben Affleck played Keith Olbermann. In this skit, Olbermann, played by Affleck, calls for no less than four people to quit or get fired. Those people include John McCain, Richard Wolfe, as well as his landlord. His landlord wouldn't allow Olbermann to keep his cat Ms. Precious Perfect. This "injustice" Olbermann compared to Pol Pot, slavery, and other historical injustices. Olbermann is bombastic, an ideologue, and he has a terrible habit of demanding that political opponents and others he disagrees with of being dismissed from their job. That's one of... The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2266751/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 20:18:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265816/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- MSNBC talking head Keith Olbermann has named pro-life nurse and blogger Jill Stanek the "Worst Person in the World" during that segment of his Thursday night broadcast. Stanek is the pro-life nurse who uncovered live birth abortions at a hospital in Chicago that led to a national law prohibiting the practice.On her blog, Stanek has noted how late-term abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart of Nebraska is one of the few remaining people to do abortions so late in pregnancy now that George Tiller has been killed.As LifeNews.com has noted, Stanek posted pictures of Carhart's Belleview-based abortion... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265816/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 21:44:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2260857/posts I dunno, maybe actual NBC reporters don't want to come on Keith Olbermann's show since he took to bellowing insults at them on the air while anchoring the network's coverage of the Republican convention last year. Whatever the reason, he's now apparently resorted to faking stories. The media-news site Gawker has been reporting for two days that the video of waterboarding you can see up above was faked. And, Gawker adds (though, it should be noted, without attribution), Olbermann knew it. Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2260857/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 21:53:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260607/posts Yesterday we showed you video of Erich "Mancow" Muller, a Chicago-based right-wing shockjock, appearing as a guest on Keith Olbermann's show to discuss his being waterboarded. He claimed it led to an ideological conversion! But now a tipster has provided information that suggests the whole thing may be a hoax. [Update: Mancow tells us on Friday morning: "'Hoax' is probably not the right word, but we did think it was going to be a joke."] The information provided to Gawker by our tipster came in a series of emails and is somewhat layered, so we'll try to lay it all... Gawker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260607/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 16:04:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256974/posts Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment about Mr. Cheney's speech. Neurotic. Paranoid. False to fact and false to reason. Forever self-rationalizing. His inner rage at his own impotence and failure dripping from every word and as irrational, as separated from the real world, as dishonest, as insane, as any terrorist. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256974/posts#comment Sat, 23 May 2009 18:33:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2256339/posts MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has said a lot of disgraceful things in his tenure as "Countdown" host, but on Thursday evening, he attacked former Vice President Dick Cheney in a fashion that should make all of America's enemies both here and abroad proud. To give you an idea of the level of hatred and invective on display, this was the opening sentence of Olbermann's "Special Comment" concerning Cheney's speech to the American Enterprise Institute Thursday: Neurotic, paranoid, false to fact and false to reason, forever self-rationalizing his inner rage at his own impotence, and failure dripping from every word, and as... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2256339/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 15:55:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255331/posts So, Rush Limbaugh did not get his wish. MSNBC mentioned his name more than a few times during the day. But the Rush rush really began in earnest with the political shows - first Hardball, then the Ed Show, and culminating with tonight's WTF segment on Countdown. But Keith Olbermann didn't just go after the king of talk radio, he went after the crown prince too (sorry Sean). Glenn Beck's sad end. Pecked to death, carcass consumed, nothing left but the veneers from his teeth, in only six minutes, by the hosts of "The View." But even more titanic than... TVNewser http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255331/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 10:08:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252564/posts On his show last night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann responded to a story on CityFile.com, about his previously unexplained absence for several nights in late April. CityFile's story, picked up on a variety of other blogs, quoted insiders who described a booking battle, which Olbermann lost, between Rachel Maddow's staff and Countdown's over Ben Affleck, who was promoting his movie, "State of Play. But Olbermann said his absence was not due to the Affleck booking but because he hit "an emotional wall about my mother's passing," and took a long weekend off, before hitting "another kind of wall over the weekend... Mediabistro http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252564/posts#comment Sun, 17 May 2009 09:32:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2251278/posts MSNBC's Keith Olbermann attacks blogger from Cityfile for reporting rumors about him and his mother's death. And also a fight between him and Rachel Maddow over who got to interview actor Ben Affleck. With all due sympathy to Olbermann over his mother's recent death, he has unintentionally legitimized Cityfile. If it were me, I would take the high road and settle my grievance with the website in private. But that would by un-Alinsky of Olbermann to do. When it doubt, pick the target, personalize it, polarize it. Finally, for Olbermann to question anyone's journalistic integrity is like Barack Obama or... ConservativeXpress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2251278/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 02:31:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251267/posts MAY 14, 2009 In Defense of Keith Olbermann For him, verbally assaulting women does take courage. By JAMES TARANTO The liberal blogger Bob Somerby is no fan of MSNBC ranter Keith Olbermann, and that much we have in common with Somerby. He goes too far, however, in a recent post blasting Olbermann for a "buffoonish" segment on Carrie Prejean. Prejean, whom Somerby unchivalrously describes as "an insignificant 21-year-old," competed as Miss California in the Miss USA beauty pageant. A kerfuffle ensued when a contest judge, Perez Hilton, asked Prejean what she thought of same-sex marriage. She gave what seemed an... Wall St. Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251267/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 01:59:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2250579/posts Governor Palin Statement on attacks against Carrie Prejean FR threadFirst Dude Helps With Literacy ProjectsFR threadWhy Sarah Palin still befuddles the media - Commentary: Alaska governor appears set for 2012 presidential bid Chugach Electric and CP Sign Gas ContractPalin weighs vetoes, whether to accept stimulus money(Conservatives4Palin comment on this) What a surprise! Chris Matthews slams Sarah Palin’s new bookFR threadMSNBC Olbermann raging against Palin's book deal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2250579/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 05:05:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2249230/posts I'm quite sure everyone remembers the touching and tastefully done 9/11 tribute video that was shown last year at the Republican National Convention. I'm also quite sure that everyone remembers the fake outrage that was shown by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann as he put on an on-the-air ratings grabbing phony meltdown. This turned out to be the final straw with the suits over at the adult wing of the network, NBC, who then fired Olbermann (and Matthews) for their on-the-air biases and childishness. Just this past weekend, Keith Olbermann was in attendance at the White House Correspondents Dinner. He had a... stormin's morning java http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2249230/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 14:30:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246466/posts An unusually enlightening palate cleanser. If Fox News anchors started posting on HA, the hunt would be on for every last incendiary sentence ever left in the comments to prove that we’re a “hate” site. As it is, the leading lights at CBS, NBC, and MSNBC have been known to grace sludge pits like HuffPo and dKos and nary an eye is blinked, even when they “forget” to mention that they’re blogging there. I can almost understand that, though: Given the media’s own ideological slant, lefty sites must seem to them practically nonpartisan in tone, in much the same way... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246466/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2009 22:55:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242713/posts It is obvious that Keith Olbermann and Michael Musto were joking, but the mud-slinging is so base and crude one wonders where MSNBC will draw the line. Michael Musto of the Village Voice rips into Carrie Prejean like a rabid pitbull. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242713/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2009 14:45:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2242497/posts Keith Olbermann is such a whack!!! http://www.mofopolitics.com/2009/05/01/video-keith-olbermann-calls-carrie-prejean-a-nazi/ www.mofopolitics.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2242497/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2009 02:10:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242443/posts People at both ends of this argument make me want to barf, and all parties involved are harming the cause of gay rights. Miss California's attack on thousands of marriages is now available for all to see, and instead of stupid gay thunderstorm imagery, it makes handy use of Carrie Prejean's victimization: The ad cleverly accuses advocates of gay marriage of distraction, while using distraction. Lost to the viewer is the fact that neither Perez Hilton nor the Miss California organization really has any skin in this game, as far as activism goes. So, what does Countdown with Keith Olbermann... Politics Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242443/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2009 00:07:57 GMT