Posted on 05/04/2007 3:08:32 PM PDT by Laverne
NEW YORK - In an angry commentary on April 25, MSNBCs Keith Olbermann accused Rudolph Giuliani of using the language of Osama bin Laden with "the same chilling nonchalance of the madman" to argue that Republicans would keep Americans safer than Democrats from terror.
Eight days later, Olbermann hosted MSNBCs coverage of the first debate among Republican candidates for president.
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Olbermann knows to leave his opinions at home when he anchors events, said Phil Griffin, NBC News senior vice president.
"Keiths an adult," Griffin said. "He can tell when its appropriate to express himself in a commentary and when to be a journalist. Thats one of his strengths. He knows exactly the tone and his role when hes doing anything."
He served Thursday both before and after the debate in exactly the position Griffin intended, as the quarterback for coverage. For the most part, he introduced interviews and questioned MSNBC analysts on their own opinions of how the debate went.
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Having Olbermann anchor _ as he will continue, with Matthews, for big political nights throughout the campaign _ is the MSNBC equivalent of Fox News Channel assigning the same duties to OReilly.
Fox has never done that, perhaps mindful of the immediate controversy that would result. Fox has tried to differentiate between its news operation and its prime-time opinion shows, even as its critics believe strongly thats bunk. In this case, MSNBC doesnt try to separate news and opinion people, even as it tries to separate news and opinion.
"Were not hiding from it," Griffin said. "Were saying he can do both."
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Is the Pope Jewish?
No. Are there any other questions?
O’Reilly was actually on the Fox News Sunday round table one weekend, several years ago, and he was awful.
Thank you, you just nailed it.
Almost without exception, the major news outlets are effectively DNC propaganda mills. They have never been anything else, we've been complaining about media distortions as long as I've been alive and sentient. The surprise isn't that they are biased, the surprise is that anyone is surprised. A Republicans is always in the position of borrowing his enemy's microphone to try and get his message out, he is forever subjected to having his message filtered and shaped and explained by people who hate him and hate his message, and yet after decades of this we have yet to get our own microphone.
This debate was, as you point out, another embarrassing example of Republicans letting Democrats manage their political campaigns. If we do not establish our own press organs, and use them, we will always be beaten in the field of public opinion. When your enemy gets to define you and explain you, the surprise isn't that you lose elections, the surprise is that you have ever won at all.
No.
I can’t believe they are going to put this guy on the Sunday night football broadcasts too. Are they deliberately trying to drive viewers away?
Yes! HA; they have great faith in this character for some reason....but look at the ratings for last night that I posted above. FNC beat MSNBC during the debate coverage. I watched it, and some of the aftershow, but I was disgusted with the olberidiot and the spitter....and then, to top it off, they had the biggest liar of them all...David Schuster...doing the fact checking! MSNBC is sick.
Why was Glenn Beck given that award.... because he exposed the Global Warming Jihad?
First, he'd have to find it.
“chilling nonchalance of the madman”
Where is Vlad the Impaler when you need him? Then Keith could really straddle something.
Please. This is a man who recently set up a one stand with a fan then dropped her immediately afterwards(according to her). That is hardly adult behavior. It sure isn't how a real man acts once they are out of their 20's.
Great insight. Along the lines of what you suggested, I just found out today about two new conservative media alternatives.
- Qube TV (in response to perceived bias at YouTube)
- Conservapedia (in response to perceived bias at Wikipedia)
I'm going to check them out this weekend.
The more I think about this the madder I get. Who is running the GOP nowadays.
They allow their presidential candidates to go on the most liberal cable network, and the moderator is a lib asking obvious set-up questions such as “What don’t you like about America”.
And then the guy doing the after debate “analysis” is a super-lib like Olbermann?
What is going on here folks. How incompetent does it have to get in the Republican party. Who’s running the show?
I almost wonder if this is some form of Rope-A-Dope. Give the Republicans a test run in a hostile envoronment, before a smaller viewing audience, in order to work out the kinks. But that's probably giving the Republican strategists too much credit.
“accused Rudolph Giuliani of using the language of Osama bin Laden with “the same chilling nonchalance of the madman”
Olberman is mad.
Rush & his producers read FR as showprep daily
That nickname was (allegedly) posted right here on a FR thread several days before the Republican candidate’s debate as “Oberdork” I believe (DISCLAIMER: I could be wrong - I doubt it!)
It’s a natural......
LOl, you are usually exactly right on politics.
Hey! The MSNBC people got through the entire debate without asking anybody what kind of tree they would like to be, so let’s be nice to them!
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