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Can Keith Olbermann straddle the line between news and opinion?
AP via Boston Herald.com ^ | Friday, May 4, 2007 - Updated: 02:35 PM EST | By Associated Press

Posted on 05/04/2007 3:08:32 PM PDT by Laverne

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To: Laverne

Is the Pope Jewish?


41 posted on 05/04/2007 4:09:00 PM PDT by AIM-54
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Can Keith Olbermann straddle the line between news and opinion?

No. Are there any other questions?

42 posted on 05/04/2007 4:10:54 PM PDT by OneLoyalAmerican (Truth was the first casualty in the MSM's war on President Bush.)
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To: Laverne

O’Reilly was actually on the Fox News Sunday round table one weekend, several years ago, and he was awful.


43 posted on 05/04/2007 4:12:08 PM PDT by Duke Nukum (I wish the world was a newt!)
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To: Stajack; Laverne
Two weeks later, Republicans go on MSNBC and get subjected to Hardball with Chris Matthews & Co. And to top it off, KEITH OLBERMANN gets to do color commentary before and after. Is THAT how we’re going to elect our next President?

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.

44 posted on 05/04/2007 4:13:50 PM PDT by marron
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To: Laverne

No.


45 posted on 05/04/2007 4:29:55 PM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: Laverne

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?


46 posted on 05/04/2007 4:41:05 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

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.


47 posted on 05/04/2007 4:47:22 PM PDT by Laverne
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To: Right Cal Gal

Why was Glenn Beck given that award.... because he exposed the Global Warming Jihad?


48 posted on 05/04/2007 4:52:06 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert (Texas Cowboy...graduated to Glory)
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To: Laverne
Can Keith Olbermann straddle the line between news and opinion?

First, he'd have to find it.

49 posted on 05/04/2007 4:53:20 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: Laverne

“chilling nonchalance of the madman”

Where is Vlad the Impaler when you need him? Then Keith could really straddle something.


50 posted on 05/04/2007 4:59:02 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (Nobles Oblige, BS, Well take care of it ourselves!)
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To: Laverne
"Keith’s an adult," Griffin said.

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.

51 posted on 05/04/2007 5:25:43 PM PDT by MovementConservative (Run Fred run.)
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To: marron
If we do not establish our own press organs, and use them, we will always be beaten in the field of public opinion.

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.

52 posted on 05/04/2007 5:28:14 PM PDT by Stajack
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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?


53 posted on 05/04/2007 5:54:21 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Bobkk47
The more I think about this the madder I get. Who is running the GOP nowadays.

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.

54 posted on 05/04/2007 6:14:35 PM PDT by Stajack
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To: Laverne

“accused Rudolph Giuliani of using the language of Osama bin Laden with “the same chilling nonchalance of the madman”

Olberman is mad.


55 posted on 05/04/2007 7:05:36 PM PDT by H.Akston (Conservatives are frugal with the public's resources.)
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To: RabidBartender; potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000; Grampa Dave; ...

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......


56 posted on 05/04/2007 7:19:15 PM PDT by devolve ( -25%_the_little_fury_with_the_fringe_on_top_)
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To: Laverne

57 posted on 05/04/2007 7:52:52 PM PDT by honolulugal
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To: Laverne
The only thing Keith Olbermann straddle is Chris Mathews
58 posted on 05/04/2007 7:57:40 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Al-Qaidacrats =A new political party combining the anti American left and the anti Semite right)
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To: devolve
[(DISCLAIMER: I could be wrong - I doubt it!)]

LOl, you are usually exactly right on politics.

59 posted on 05/04/2007 8:17:02 PM PDT by potlatch (Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. M.Twain)
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To: Laverne

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!


60 posted on 05/04/2007 8:24:25 PM PDT by Bernard (The price used to be 30 pieces of silver; now it's a spinach subsidy.)
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