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Does Keith Olbermann have some special appeal to bad mothers? The question arises in light of a TV ad for something called FloTV that aired this morning. A mother is giving dinner to her kids when she glances at the clock, notices it's shortly before 6 PM, and proceeds to dump the kids plates and toys, pour a bag of flour on the table and . . . throw a glass of milk in her son's face [see still shot after jump]. Cut to shocked coming-home-from-work hubby at the door. Mom informs him "I just need an hour." Cut to...

Gandhi . . . King . . . Mandela . . . Solzhenitsyn . . . Olbermann . . . OLBERMANN?? Wha-aa?? Yes, Keith Olbermann, the Wussiest Person in the World, is ready to join the ranks of heroic dissidents of the past in going to JAIL for his beliefs! I can just see his future memoirs: "The Long Island Archipelago." "Letters from a Bridgehampton Jail." KO's life and career will become the stuff of legend. Movies will be made: "Inflictus." "The Golf Shank Reduction." Ben Affleck will find work again. Songs will be written: "We shall Olbermann someday."...

Now, finally, we can all agree on something — the individual mandate should be killed. Check out Keith Olbermann's "special comment" about the individual mandate last night. It's (inadvertently, of course) laugh-out-loud funny at times, including his pledge to become an insurance criminal at the end: "Brand me a lawbreaker, if you choose. Fine me, if you will. Jail me, if you must."

Here is video of liberal Markos Moulitsas, of The Daily Kos, telling Keith Olbermann that Democrats are in a "lose-lose situation" for the 2010 mid-term elections. Moulitsas said that if Democrats don't pass a Health Care Plan, they will "rightly be accused" of not being able to govern. If they do pass a bad bill, he said every item in the bill will be hung on them during the campaign next year. On President Obama, Moulitsas said the danger for Obama if Democrats lose big in 2010, is that he may not have enough of a majority in Congress to...

Olbermann joins call to kill billAndy Barr – 29 mins ago Keith Olbermann became the latest progressive icon to voice opposition for the Senate health care reform bill on Wednesday. Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s “Countdown,” wrote in a post on the Daily Kos that he agrees with former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who has told numerous media outlets that because the bill provides too many concessions and does not constitute real reform, Democrats should “kill the bill.” “There could not be a finer line between the words compromise and compromised and tonight, with the greatest possible reluctance, I believe I...

Keith Olbermann ended his broadcast tonight with one of his Murrowesque reports from the health care battlefield. He acknowledges, however, there has been no war as he desperately quotes Churchill in his opening of a promised special commentary on health care reform: "Our loyal, brave people ... should know the truth. ... they should know that we have sustained a defeat without a war." Oh the drama. Given the choice of this "perversion of health care reform" or jail, Olbie chooses jail. After railing for a few minutes over the moderates in the Democratic party, Republicans, bipartisanship and a bizarre...

Perhaps there is something obstructing the view overlooking Rockefeller Plaza, where MSNBC broadcasts "Countdown" nightly because the show's host, Keith Olbermann fails to see the existence of a news media with a liberal bias. On MSNBC's Dec. 14 broadcast of "Countdown," Olbermann came to the defense of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" executive producer and noted left-winger Dick Wolf. The Dec. 9 episode of Wolf's program featured a killer who targeted the children of illegal immigrants and in that episode, one of the characters, played by John Larroquette, blamed conservatives "like Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck"...

Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s “Countdown,” said Wednesday night that losing the pure public option is a “total and unmitigated defeat without a war.” “All is over,” Olbermann declared near the top of his show, channeling Winston Churchill following the 1939 Munich agreement appeasing Adolf Hitler. “Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, health care reform recedes into the darkness,” adding that he hopes he is mistaken. “The people should know that we have passed an awful milestone in our history, when the whole equilibrium of the nation has been deranged and that the terrible words have for the time being been pronounced...

Mr. President, it now falls to you to be both former Republican Senator George Aiken and the man to whom he spoke, Lyndon Johnson. You must declare victory, and get out. ... even though the Pentagon is a bunch of perpetually 12-year old boys desperate to stay up as late as possible by any means necessary — get out now. But poll after poll, and anecdote after anecdote, of the reality of public opinion inside Afghanistan is that its residents believe we are fighting Afghanistan. That we, Sir, have become an occupying force. Yes: if we leave, Afghanistan certainly will...

MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: FORT HOOD NEVER HAPPENED!November 25, 2009It's been weeks since eyewitnesses reported that Maj. Nidal Hasan shouted "Allahu akbar" before spraying Fort Hood with gunfire, killing 13 people. Since then we also learned that Hasan gave a medical lecture on beheading infidels and pouring burning oil down their throats (unfortunately not covered under the Senate health care bill). Some wondered if perhaps a pattern was beginning to emerge but were promptly dismissed as racist cranks. We also found out Hasan had business cards printed up with the jihadist abbreviation "SOA" for "Soldier of Allah." Was that enough to conclude...

Here is video of Arianna Huffington telling Keith Olbermann that Glenn Beck should be exempted from free speech. Huffington said about Glenn Beck, "there is a good reason why we have an exemption to the free speech protected by the first amendment, when we say that you can't shout fire in a crowded theater, and he's doing that every night, he's basically using images of violence every night." Huffington said Glenn Beck and Fox News are "morally liable" if "any violence ensues from what he says." Read more...

...Keith Olbermann plays the part of the sniggering seventh-grader. Notice how Mr. Olbermann can barely control his smirk throughout, even as he tries to pretend that he's having a grown-up discussion about the etymology of the word with his guest, Richard Wolff. Giving the lie to that pretense, Mr. Wolff, at the 4:04 minute mark, says, "...just to be serious for a moment..." Also note Olbermann’s pride in having brought the term to the forefront, and his modesty in asserting that it was only “with a little help from us” that the designation became popular, implying that clueless protesters embraced...

Matthew Alexander published his book last year entitled “How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq”. The book has it’s roots in a Mark Bowden article in the Atlantic. Alexander parlayed the Atlantic article into a book deal. After he wrote it, with some help from a renowned co-author, he went on a book tour making the rounds of all of the farthest Left news programs that would have him. Alexander didn’t use his real name to author the book or do his book tour. According to...

Here is video of Keith Olbermann's show tonight where he mocked Lou Dobbs' resignation from CNN during his "Worst Persons" segment....(Video)

OLBERMANN: "If the man has a bumper sticker removed from his car that expresses his belief and his car gets keyed two weeks after he moves into his apartment, that's a-that's a harassment, THAT'S A RELIGIOUS HATE CRIME. Is that a factor in this? And does that need to be investigated?" Click the link & scroll to the comments section for full transcript

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has repeatedly made excuses for Hasan by saying he was the "victim of a hate crime".

Left-wing news commentator for MSNBC Keith Olbermann declared voter demonstrations against the Administration’s health care bill “terrifying” and urged that “they be stopped in some way.” The remarks came in response to a massive rally in Washington this past Thursday by opponents of the health care bill originally slated for a vote in the House of Representatives on Saturday. “Here are our duly elected members of Congress trying to do their job, trying to fix a broken health care system, when mobs of ignorant yahoos descend on them,” Olbermann complained. “How can we expect to govern the people of America...

Leave to a brilliant mind like Keith Olbermann, who finally decided to show his face on live TV after Nov. 3's Democratic defeat, to throw a temper tantrum about the public display of opposition to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's that occurred on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Nov.5. After Olbermann and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson all but declared Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., organizer of the "House Call" event, an enemy of the state, they predictably came to the conclusion the event was racist. However to overcome that hurdle, Olbermann suggested organizers "pay" minorities to...

While Fox News and CNN carried live coverage throughout Election Night, MSNBC took a break to show repeat programming, which included World Series highlights, in their 10 p.m. hour and some conservatives say it's because host Keith Olbermann was unable to stomach the GOP gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey. During a normal evening the 8 p.m. "Countdown" re-plays in the 10 p.m. hour, but MSNBC ran promotions during the day Tuesday that promised "special, live editions of 'Countdown With Keith Olbermann' at 10." And while Mr. Olbermann took a break, his fellow anchors Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews...

Let’s get the facts out of the way first – Keith Olbermann went to see Game 6 of the World Series, watching the Yankees close it out, instead of hosting his 8pmET MSNBC show Countdown last night – the day after the first elections of the Obama administration. We know this because he wrote all about it on his MLB blog. There’s photo evidence he was hanging out…with a Fox News host! Now that the facts are settled – does this make any sense?

It's probably safe to assume many Democrats weren't happy about last evening's election results, no matter how they spun them and how they pertained to President Barack Obama. And to his credit, that's something MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews admitted was not good for the Democratic Party. However, MSNBC, the so-called "Place for Politics" hyped up its Nov. 3 "Super Tuesday" election coverage throughout the day (emphasis added): "Tonight, Super Tuesday continues on MSNBC with live coverage of ‘Decision ‘09' inside the key elections that will set the stage for a 2010 political battle," the announcer on the TV spot...

The willingness of MSNBC on-air commentators to engage in political hackery for the Democratic Party knows no boundaries - as indicated by the latest charged hurled at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's "Countdown," who once called conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, "big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick," almost on a nightly basis attacks Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and has also regularly drubbed Palin, is now charging her with sexism. On his Nov. 2 broadcast, Olbermann accused Palin of forcing former GOP congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava out of the race for New York's 23rd Congressional...

Here is video of Keith Olbermann talking with The Huffington Post's Lawrence O'Donnell about Sarah Palin's impact on Dede Scozzafava having to drop out. Olbermann said that Sarah Palin's campaign last year "within hours of her selection by Senator McCain, began to be enveloped by their perpetual charges of sexism, every criticism of her was sexism." He then asked "why did she just push another Republican woman off the cliff, and where are the charges of sexism about that?" O'Donnell said "they beat her out of the place" and that Republicans "don't even quite qualify for party status anymore." (Video)

Here is video of Joe Scarborough today mocking Keith Olbermann in a hilarious mimicking of what he said last November and what he will probably say tomorrow night to try and spin Obama's losses in races in Virginia, New Jersey and New York 23rd District. . . (VIDEO)

I voted for Barack Obama. I never watch FOX News. I am not a raging conservative. And I think Keith Olbermann is hurting America. An uncompromising megaphone of partisan rancor, Olbermann perpetuates the single-mindedness and inflexible partisanship that now roil the country, both on and off Capitol Hill. His rants against former President Bush, former Republican politicians, and shock-media rival Rush Limbaugh contribute little to constructive debate about how we can fix today’s true problems. And his soapbox forays in such segments as the “Worst Person in the World” – a daily lambast of often unsavory, but many just politically...

With lots of cable news shows, the feast of the 2008 election has lead to famine in 2009. Countdown with Keith Olberman’s ratings are in the famine range as well, with October year over year ratings down 53% in the cable news target adults 25-54 demo, and down 53% in average viewership. Although I don’t have a trend chart, October is also Olbermann’s lowest rated month so far in 2009 in both 25-54 and average viewers.

I put together a short video for Janeane Garofalo and all of those in the media who seem to think that disagreeing with Obama makes you a racist. These are just a few of the black American patriots who chose to stand up and exercise their First Amendment rights at tea parties and other various rallies and protests throughout the nation. Are these people racists? Believe it or not, there is a growing movement in this country among blacks who are starting to see that liberal democrats don't represent the values most of them share and do not have their...

VIDEO: Communist Keith Olbermann, a member of Obama's "mainstream media" at MSNBC, repeated White House propaganda so accurately that you would think he lifted the words from Obama's beloved teleprompter. Olbermann, who's so far left that even the state-run MSNBC fired him from election coverage last year, lashed out in a grotesque display of journalism butchery against the Tea Party Express II, on October 22nd.

Urban Dictionary defines Teabagging as:“A guy dipping his testicles into a girls or gay mans mouth, slowly going up and down just like a tea bag”. Is anyone at the FCC wondering if this is appropriate language for a Network News Channel? (If that’s what you want to call MSNBC) If you feel like the FCC needs to be reminded of what’s acceptable and what’s not…Feel free to drop the FCC a line and complain about Olberman’s sexually explicit tirades. http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm Watch Keith Uberjerk below as he bashes fellow American citizens for taking an active roll in government. God, we...

A day after key White House officials declared the Fox News Channel wasn't a news organization, President Obama met with MSNBC personalities Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. Talk about your delicious hypocrisy. Fittingly, the news was broken by FNC's Bret Baier during Tuesday's "Special Report" (video embedded below the fold with transcript, relevant section at 1:45, h/t Hot Air via NBer Thomas Stewart): BRET BAIER, HOST: And finally, during this morning's off-camera White House briefing with reporters, ABC's Jake Tapper asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about the ongoing White House attacks on FOX News Channel. After being asked about the...

THE GRATING COMMUNICATOR October 21, 2009 The Obama administration has attacked Fox News in order to prevent government corruption stories broken on Fox from bleeding into the other media, which are all-consumed with daily updates on Levi Johnston's Playgirl spread and Carrie Prejean's breast implants. That's understandable. But I think the administration should have picked someone other than David Axelrod to deliver the claim that Fox News is "not really news," inasmuch as Axelrod was behind the leak of scurrilous allegations in Jack Ryan's sealed divorce papers when he was running for a Senate seat against Obama. Talk about vicious...

In the past several days; numerous print and broadcast media outlets, race hustlers Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, an NFL commissioner, a handful of NFL players, a U.S Congressional Representative, and one NFL owner; embarked on a willful campaign of slander and libel in an effort to defame the character of Rush Limbaugh by attributing to him racist quotations that he never made. . . . this new policy of "anti divisiveness" it is obvious that MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann must be removed from his panel position on NBC's "Football Night in America". . . we are urging all NFL...

Here is pathetic video of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann running an ad on his show touting MSNBC as the "undisputed leader in Cable TV News." Olbermann said he has been saying for six years that Fox News is not a real news organization. He said the "White House has done the heavy lifting" now on that issue by saying that Fox News is not real news. So, he ran this pathetic ad that flies in the face of every fact. But, of couse, that's Keith Olbermann. How sad can you get. . . . (VIDEO)

During his interview with ACU Chairman David Keene, John Ziegler name-checked Countdown host Keith Olbermann several times. On last night’s edition of Countdown, Olbermann returned the favor. He and Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis had themselves a good chuckle about the confrontation, with Kofinis calling the showdown a “good old conservative rat fight,” and Olbermann wondering if Ziegler was “defending his own crush.” In a Mediaite exclusive, Ziegler reacts by challenging Olbermann to a debate about the former Alaska Governor, and puts his money where his mouth is. Check out the video, followed by Ziegler’s full reaction. ... I will make...

The 41st President of the United States joins NewsReal in the goal of “keeping the cable guys honest.” He has recognized and called out both Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann for being “sick puppies” for their vicious style of personal attacks. We at NewsReal having been pointing out the false journalism of those two since our inception. Here’s a video with part of his quote and Maddow and Olbermann’s response

One would think that Republicans in the Congress had something to do with Democrats plans to force the fascist rule of Universal Health Care Deform on the American people. A system in which Federal Government for the first time in its 225 year history of the United States of America would force citizens to buy into a Federal mandated system. Keith Olbermann is a Rush Limbaugh wanna-be on the political left who is not worthy of the comparison so forgive me. Albeit, Olbermann does present quite an interesting case study in the manipulate of thought and language as Democrats and...

Here is video from the Rachel Maddow show where she played audio of former President George H. W. Bush on CBS Radio calling Maddow and Keith Olbermann "a couple of sick puppies" for their vicious attacks against his son - George W. Bush - and others who do not agree with their point of view. Maddow then talks with Olbermann by phone and they essentially say they can't imagine why he would say such a thing! George H. W. Bush is right on target, and good for him that he said so! . . . . (VIDEO)

Media Bias: Not long after pro football welcomed a convicted felon back on the playing field, Rush Limbaugh is dropped for his opinions from a group seeking to buy an NFL franchise. Won't someone throw a flag? When even Keith Olbermann says back off, you know the politically correct critics of the conservative icon and megaradio talk host's proposed part ownership of the St. Louis Rams are guilty of piling on. The prospect of the leading conservative voice in America participating in the purchase of a football team sent the liberal elites into cardiac arrest and into a frenzied campaign...

In answer to "how can I contact the NFL" the following number was put up on Yahoo Answers: Best Answer - Chosen by Asker NFL Public Relations at 1-212-450-2000 (you may have to leave a message in voicemail)

I'm beginning to smell a rat named Keith Olbermann. I think he might be the source from whence comes all the lies about Rush. Did anyone pick up on what Rush said yesterday about the source of all the smears came from someone named Hoverman or Hobermann (Rush never gives Olbermann a plug...that's why he didn't pronounce his name). The he said this Hoverman wrote a book titled the 100 Worst Persons in the World. Well, Keith Olbermann did "put together" a book called The Worst Persons in the World based on his lame schtick on Countdown. The plot thickens...

On Tuesday’s Countdown show, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann spewed bile at conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, accusing her of possessing "fascistic hatred," and comparing her to a "mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it." During his show’s regular "Worst Person" segment, Olbermann attacked Malkin for her role in bringing attention to the recent controversy over school children in New Jersey singing a song about President Obama.

Just when you thought Keith Olbermann couldn't get any more vile or vulgar . . . Opening this evening's Countdown, Olbermann said that Rush Limbaugh's observation that Glenn Beck was the result of his success "is like congratulating yourself for spreading syphyllis." Olbermann made his crude comment in teasing a segment on Rush's interview with NBC's Jamie Gangel. View video.

Olbermann: "By nighttime, [Michelle] Malkin and the lunatic fringe had decided Carney-Nunez was responsible for the [NJ school] song and whichever plot their fevered little paranoid minds saw behind it. She received death threats and hate-filled voice mails all thanks to the total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred, without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it."

WASHINGTON -- Keith Olbermann wants you to listen to him. That was, essentially, the message of Wednesday night's "Countdown." The entire hour was dedicated to a "Special Comment" -- Olbermann-ese for an editorial -- about healthcare reform. But the point didn't seem to be to pass reform legislation; the point appeared to be to chastise everyone involved in it, on either side, and to declaim about the nature of the system. Where Olbermann could have explained what the legislation would do -- and taken on the myths against it -- instead he spent his time making solemn pronouncements. The very...

Here is video of GOP Rep. Michelle Bachmann telling a group at the Heritage Foundation that people are moving away from the liberal and "mainstream" media and turning to places of information that will give them the truth - like Fox News and conservative websites. Bachmann said Fox is "on the ascendency," now with an audience that surpasses the combined audiences of CNN, CNBC and MSNBC. She also said, "I'm certainly not going to fear the likes of Keith Olbermann." . . . (VIDEO)

In the ideal cable news ratings world there would be the run up to a Presidential election *every* year. Sadly for MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, it’s just one in four. Comparing Q3 2009 with Q3 2008, the show has lost 21% of its cable news target adults 25-54 demo , and 12% of its average viewership. 2012 will be a long time coming.

Keith Olbermann calls Rush Limbaugh an "asshole" after the talk show host called Jimmy Carter the nation's hemorrhoid.

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: Breaking news at this hour: Saying the inclination to racism in the country still exists, former President Jimmy Carter has tonight told NBC News that it has again bubbled up to the surface and that much of the most extreme animosity towards President Obama stems from the belief—again quoting Jimmy Carter, “that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country,” unquote. With a hilariously studied seriousness, , Keith Olbermann and Lawrence O’Donnell discussed Jimmy Carter’s charges that racism was behind the opposition to Obama as though it was a brand new thought, rather than something both...

Keith Olbermann is not one to pass up an opportunity to attack anything that even hints at being right of center. The repugnant MSNBC host devoted some three-quarters of his Sept. 16 show to claim criticism of President Barack Obama had to have elements of racism, no matter how you sliced it. And therefore, those critics were all despicable human beings, end of story. However, he did manage to find time to revert to old tried and true method of appeasing his angry left-wing desires - a little bashing of former Republican vice-presidential nominee and Gov. Sarah Palin, with an...

Keith Olbermann is a reprehensible swine, on a good day. The last thing I want to see when I turn on the television to watch the greatest rivalry on earth (Packers v. Bears) is the smirking face of the least talented, least fair, least honest person on television doing the pre-game show. It turned my stomach and I turned the channel. I did the same at halftime and I'm certainly not the only one. Olbermann is not funny anymore and he is such a partisan scumbag that it is an insult to football fans to have him anywhere near the...