Keith Olbermann
Posted at 2:23am on Jun. 16, 2008 How Very Amusing
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
I see that Keith Olbermann is not a favorite of some people on the other side of the partisan divide. Of course, when Olbermann goes ballistic on Republicans, that's fine and good. It's just when he goes ballistic on Hillary Clinton that there is a problem.
Perhaps the moral of this story is not to cast your lot with someone who has a history of being exceedingly temperamental in the first place. It may be fun when the fire and brimstone are directed towards others--however unfair those attacks may be--but when it comes to dealing with people like Keith Olbermann, eventually even his allies get singed.
People at NBC must really miss Tim Russert. He would always provide interesting and dispassionate analysis in addition to evincing a pure and undiluted love for the political process. Now they are stuck with the likes of Olbermann and Chris Matthews--blowhards who substitute rage and fury for intellect and reason. I can't believe that the effect on the quality of NBC's political coverage will be anything less than utterly disastrous.
As for Olbermann's onetime allies who now feel betrayed by him, well, they deserve what they get.
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Posted at 1:43am on Jun. 12, 2008 Primary Reflections
By absentee
There are few people in the world worse than Keith Olbermann. Every once in a while, though, his excuse for a show accidentally produces something worth watching. Usually that something is a conservative making his "worst people in the world" list, as our own Flagstaff did last year. This time, they inadvertently created a video worth watching. It is, of course, unfortunately littered with Matthews and Olbermann, but still ... interesting.
Hat Tip to Tommy Christopher at AOL.
Posted at 2:43pm on Apr. 3, 2008 Quote of the Day, Pennsylvania Primary Edition
By Dan McLaughlin
"It took Saturday Night Live to bring some fairness to this election," Rendell said, referring to the show's now famous skit lampooning the media's crush on Obama. "It's stunning. Does Keith Olbermann get checks from the Obama campaign?"
Posted at 2:38pm on Mar. 21, 2008 This Post Is Dedicated To The Worst Person In The World
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Namely, Keith Olbermann.
Ever since the Obama passport breach story came out, Olbermann has worked himself into quite the lather asking over and over "what did [the Bush Administration] know, and when did they know it?!?!", so convinced is Olbermann that the breach of the passport files constituted a Rovian plot, the likes of which MSNBC pays Keith good money to rail against (whether or not there is actually any basis in reality to do so).
Doubtless, the fever pitch worked itself into a veritable frenzy when it was revealed that Hillary Clinton's passport files were breached as well. The worst fears and most self-righteous fantasies of Olbermann and his comrades-in-rant were apparently realized. The GOP is out to get the Democrats! Nixon would have been proud!
Except, a monkey wrench has now been thrown into the fantasizing: John McCain's passport files have been breached as well.
Kind of makes it more difficult to believe that this is a project of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, doesn't it? I mean, if Republicans are so sinister, so Rovian, as utterly power-mad as Olbermann & Company make us out to be, why would we try to take out our own nominee?
Things that make you go "hmmm," eh? That sound you hear in the background is Olbermann's brain cell (yes, note the singular construction of that word "cell") exploding.
Of course, if Olbermann wanted someone to rail at, perhaps he could have gone after comrade-in-rant Joe Conason. See, Conason thought it wise to call for the release of Barack Obama's passport files. Evidently, it was so important for Conason to find out whether or not Obama traveled to Europe that he essentially advocated the very intrusion into Obama's privacy that Olbermann is spending so much time denouncing.
Look, I know that Florida and Michigan and the prospects of a long and bloody nomination fight have gotten Olbermann and the comrades-in-rant down. But really, there's just no reason for the Reality-Based Community to stop being so reality-based with their commentary.
I mean, they were reality-based to begin with, right?
Right?
Why is no one answering in the affirmative?
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Posted at 4:08pm on Nov. 14, 2007 If It's Possible, All Three of Them Will Lose
By Dan McLaughlin
Mark Cuban challenges Bill O'Reilly to debate him with Keith Olbermann as the moderator. Via Hot Air.
