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Olbermann: Hillary's Wolfson 'Tokyo Rose' for Working for Fox
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/26/2008 7:08:30 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann put their own feud aside to agree on something tonight. Hillary honcho Howard Wolfson is a puppet, nay, a Tokyo Rose traitor, for going to work for Fox News. It was the McCain campaign's use in its ads of Hillary's anti-Obama statements that triggered the outburst.

KEITH OLBERMANN: Irony upon irony, instead of the commercials designed to destroy Hillary Clinton, [the Republicans] are using Hillary Clinton in commercials designed to destroy the Democratic nominee.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Those are crocodile tears. And you wonder whether an objective person, either rational or post-rational, would be able to appreciate the fact that that's clear politics--nothing wrong with it. But Republicans have no heart in Hillary Clinton's claim to the White House. They villainized her for years. Their commercials, their attitudes are--you go to a Republican hangout, it's all anti-Hillary. That's their point of view. To now hold her up as some victim of some sort of foul play, of unfair politics, is a joke. But the funny thing about it is, they're enjoying it. Fox News, for example, seems to enjoy it. It's no accident, for example, that they hired Howard Wolfson. They use him as some sort of, oh, little toy soldier waiting on the shelf.

OLBERMANN: Tokyo Rose was the thought that came to my mind.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; chrismatthews; foxnews; hillaryclinton; howardwolfson; keitholbermann; msnbc
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1 posted on 08/26/2008 7:08:30 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Olbermann calls Hillary’s Howard Wolfson a traitor for working for Fox News. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 08/26/2008 7:09:19 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Most already consider Olbermann PMSNBC’s “Bagdad Bob.”


3 posted on 08/26/2008 7:10:59 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (A History and Science Minute.- "Climate change" has been going on for millions of years!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Is this a-hole off his Meds?


4 posted on 08/26/2008 7:11:08 PM PDT by mortal19440
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Since democrats are pro-choice about abortion, they should give Howard Wolfson the same courtesy so that he can choose how he wants to live his life and where he wants to work.


5 posted on 08/26/2008 7:15:24 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

In retrospect, Tokio Rose was later found to be “innocent”.

But if he’d cited propagandist traitors like Mildred Gillars/Axis Sally and William Joyce/Lord Haw Haw, he would have impuned people like Michael Moore and Al Franken who employed similar tactics in communications during wartime.


6 posted on 08/26/2008 7:16:35 PM PDT by weegee (The higher taxes that Obama demands of Americans are 'Above my Pay Grade'.)
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To: mortal19440
Personally I liked Olbermann better when he was playing Bert, and Ernie is a better partner than Chrissy too.
7 posted on 08/26/2008 7:18:13 PM PDT by za_claws
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Some people you just love to hate. For me both Wolfson and Olberman are two of the most disgusting pukes around.


8 posted on 08/26/2008 7:18:38 PM PDT by umgud
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
All this extreme battiness has got to be a calculated move by MSNBC and even Olbermann and Matthews are in on the gag, methinks. Maybe it's the incurable cynic in me, but I think they are trying to be this crazy. Mean Jean Okerland comes to mind, for all you old time WWF fans.
9 posted on 08/26/2008 7:20:00 PM PDT by Huck (Warning: This post may contain spelling and/or grammatical errors.)
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To: mortal19440

I don’t support abortion but. Could make an exception (retroactive) for olbergirl.


10 posted on 08/26/2008 7:26:05 PM PDT by LongsforReagan (Liberals believe global warming is the greatest threat and that 9-11 was an inside job. Enough said.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
What is wrong with Olbermann? Is he, as Chris Mathews would have it, "post-rational"? Seriously, the man has problems.

He perpetually looks like he hasn't had a movement in a week, and he's clearly delusional. Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like him in a "responsible" position on TV. Granted, it's MSNBC, but . . .

11 posted on 08/26/2008 7:26:34 PM PDT by Glenmerle
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To: Huck
I think your right on. No talent employed at that network, so in it's place, say crazier and crazier things in order to draw any viewers.

Problem is...after a while...no one is watching to care what they say.

12 posted on 08/26/2008 7:28:02 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Tokyo Rose, huh? I wish olbermanm would pull a kamikaze, jump off his desk and land on his head, knocking himself unconscious.


13 posted on 08/26/2008 7:28:16 PM PDT by skeety (2008 Democrat Slogan: "We are not happy until you are not happy")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It would seem, at PMSNBC, Keith and Chrissy are on the rag. PMSNBC has made a business decision to make their bed with the looney left and they must lie in it. Since I don’t watch anything they have, I don’t know who their sponsors are, but, I will be greatly surprised if it is not mostly GE.


14 posted on 08/26/2008 7:30:14 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (Bolshecrat, the party of what if and whine.)
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To: Huck
. Mean Jean Okerland comes to mind, for all you old time WWF fans.

Future Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura working WWF with Mean Gene was some great theatre.

15 posted on 08/26/2008 7:33:42 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s going to be fun watching Herr OlberFuhrerman on election night when his candidate goes down in flames.


16 posted on 08/26/2008 7:35:07 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Those two boobs have a viewing audience about the size of three wards in NYC on a good night. When I read Matthews’ “sort of, oh, a little toy soldier waiting on the shelf,” a tingle went up my leg because he’s too stupid to even frame a proper metaphor.


17 posted on 08/26/2008 7:37:30 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: LongsforReagan

I have to agree on that.


18 posted on 08/26/2008 7:41:50 PM PDT by mortal19440
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bath Tub Boy knows Obama is a slowy sinking like the the Titanic. That’s why Chrissy and Bath Tub Boy are making collective fools out of themselves.


19 posted on 08/26/2008 7:45:27 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

and he is laughing all the way to the bank.


20 posted on 08/26/2008 7:46:31 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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