Keith Olberman, the washed up sports caster turned party-hack over at MSNBC that no one watches is pulling a Chuckie and ditching his allies and friends and trying to remake himself to get ratings, I guess he’s taking a page out of the washed up guitarist turned failed blogger page…
Its an open thread as well:
From the Politico:
Keith Olbermann announced Wednesday night that he will cease blogging on the liberal Daily Kos over a comment directed at the MSNBC host’s coverage.
Olbermann and some of his MSNBC colleagues surprised their left-leaning fans on Tuesday with eviscerating critiques of President Barack Obama’s Oval Office address on the oil spill spewing off the Gulf Coast.
One commenter on the Daily Kos, where Olbermann has maintained a diary over the years, speculated that the pattern of hosts generally sympathetic to the president bashing the administration was too consistent to be a coincidence.
“Can’t verify, of course,” the commenter began, “but a friend in the news biz tells me he got a damaging e-mail from one of his pals at NBC. Something to the effect that their anger was pre-planned because ‘beating up on the president has been good for ratings.’ I haven’t checked, but I’m hearing that Olbermann slammed the speech on Twitter before it even started.”
“For years, from the Katrina days onward, whenever I stuck my neck out, I usually visited here as the clichéd guy in the desert stopping by the oasis,” he wrote. “I never got universal support, and never expected it, nor wanted it (who wants an automatic ‘Yes’ machine?). But I used to read a lot about how people here would ‘always have my back,’ and trust me this was of palpable value as I fought opponents external and internal who try to knock me and Rachel off the air, all the time, in ways you can imagine and others you can’t.”
Olbermann went on to say that he understood if some of his viewers were frustrated to see him criticizing the president but that he would not stand for being accused of doing so just to boost ratings.
“To accuse me, after five years of risking what I have to present the truth as I see it, of staging something for effect, is deeply offensive to me and is an indication of what has happened here,” the liberal host wrote. “You want cheerleaders? Hire the Buffalo Jills. You want diaries with conspiracy theories, go nuts. If you want this site the way it was even a year ago, let me know and I’ll be back.”
The Right is attacking Barry for making a mad rush to enact as much socialist/fascist policies as possible, and the the Left is being to attack him for not doing enough.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
*Sigh* Another attack of the Typo Elves.
First the BuddhaChuck and now the Dalai Keith, enlightened and elevated to higher states of being.///
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Not as terrible an attack as when the Beer Faeries make your drink disappear.
An Apology To Be Truly Sorry About
OK. New deodorant. Am I acceptable?
Anyone here?
Obama’s Answer To Spill Comes Up Short
Sorry OT but I would really like someones take on this blog article that I caught as a redirect from Flopping Aces. It is terrifying if true, but not unexpected by this time.
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/update-the-first-time-i-heard-of-barackby-tom-fife/
Keith and Chuck,
Go ahead, have your rants. Nobody gives a shit what you think.
signed,
the world wide web
Olberdork isn’t going to be allowed into the right pundit cool table. We don’t forget when you bash us, Olberdork. We have Levin, Rush and the fabulous Dr. K and David Horowitz -- we don’t need you. And you’re a mental midget in comparison to these guys. Actually you’re a mental midget compared to my cats, but since they have claws, I don’t want to risk offending them.
Could it be you’re just a little worried that Comcast is going to come into MSNBC and clean house -- i.e., follow the Fox model and you’re trying to wean yourself away from the left.
@ Poteen:
Yuoh, I’m around, in between laundry, dishes, and assorted other chores.
@ jlfintx:
it does not surprise me…this idea of him being the manchurian candidate is not new, nor would i outright dismiss it. too many coincidences and lucky breaks have befallen the mediocre one on his way to 1600
Poteen wrote:
so THAT’S how it happens!
Empire1 wrote:
Being the Master of my own Destiny and in possession of enough clean underwear for another week I have rescheduled those tasks to another day.
Poteen wrote:
Hmmm, why does it smell like I’m downwind from a French whorehouse?
(*ducks*)
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
all fixed
coldwarrior wrote:
Dirty little bastards are quick too!
@ Carolina Girl:
Forget Mental Midget. He’s just a plain Midget.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
It worked, didn’t it?
@ jlfintx:
A lot of the same was said of Clinton during his Presidency, and still voters gave a pass and a second term to the serial liar and adulterer.
@ coldwarrior:
I wrote what I meant, my words don’t need additions/amending.
Poteen wrote:
The beerglers?
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
sorry, next time i’ll ask permission before i attempt to make a fuuny.
comment deleted.
coldwarrior wrote:
It is just a particular pet peeve of mine, getting told I didn’t mean what I said. I don’t “fix” what people wrote, I just offer an alternative viewpoint of what was said.
Poteen wrote:
You were looking for such a revolting stench?!?
*GAG*
coldwarrior wrote:
And don’t delete comments, or we become just as bad as SChmuck and his butt minions.
@ Poteen:
Ah, but this is my “other day”! We had a few nice days — not too hot, and low humidity — so I did a few outdoor chores, then sat out on the deck under a nice big umbrella and undulged in some whittling. Today it’s back to 90+ heat and humidity, so I’m doing indoor stuff with the a/c running.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
i was making fun of EU regulations, because i just read an article how the EU bureaucrats are messing with he perfume industry, which is primarily french. I was not changing any meaning of your words. the link didnt get into the quote.
be assured, it wont happen again.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
and my peeve is getting compared to chuck when i try to make readers happy.
so we are on each others nerves now.
bbl.
@ coldwarrior:
I know what you intended, and I did chuckle at it. I just take a dim view of editing people words to get at the “truth” of what was said. The Left does that all the time, and we on the Right are vastly better than that.
If I had been the one doing the reply to a comment I would have just added a something along the lines of “don’t you mean a pre-EU whorehouse?”
@ snork:
And they’re all French.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Whatever else he did, good or bad, Bill Clinton had neither the intelligence nor the self control to keep his 50 some yr.old dick out of someone barely at the end of her teens.
No character.
@ Empire1:
Ah!! Poor you.
I on the other hand will now put fresh undies on my newly French perfumed ass and meet some friends at the local tap for beer and cigars.
Olbermann said:
To accuse me, after five years of risking what I have to present the truth as I see it
See, that’s the problem, Keith -- the truth, AS YOU SEE IT, ain’t really the truth. It’s a Leftist opinion. See? It’s why you aren’t a journalist, punk.
hi kids
@ savage:
Heyla, Savage! How goes it?
@ Empire1:
just sending out more and more resumes. that’s about it.
savage wrote:
Sheesh … sorry to hear that. Not that it’d be any better if you were on this side of the country, I’m afraid.
“The Emperor has no clothes!”
We’ve been saying this for 18 months.
We knew Obama was an empty suit. A grifter. A Chicago thug.
You can’t continue to support that even if you’re Olberman.
Now, I have dry wood termites to deal with. They’re almost as bad as the IRS.
@ Empire1:
are you on the east coast?
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Barton said the truth.Pure and simple.
Chuck’s flinging boogers at Pam again. This time, the group of Nazis under her bed is the French Bloc Identitaire.
It appears that Bloc Identitaire is guilty of distributing pork soup. Off with their heads!
savage wrote:
Yes, I’m in lower Delaware — a few miles outside Harrington, if you’ve ever been up US 13, or across State 14.
Hey IronFist I saw your post that you are reading on the civil war. Here is something you might want to look into. Someone needed to say it:
AMERICA’S CIVIL WAR LIE by Steve Preston
file this under “what the hell is she doing?”
Pelosi Throws Down — Won’t Consider Senate Doc Fix
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struck a combative tone tonight, rejecting the Medicare “doc fix” passed hastily through the Senate Friday until Senate Republicans allow a vote on jobs measures that have passed through the House.
“I see no reason to pass this inadequate bill until we see jobs legislation coming out of the Senate,” said Pelosi in a statement. “House Democrats are saying to Republicans in the Senate: Show us the jobs! (exclamation mark hers)”
Her statement, along with Senate Republicans’ unwillingness to pass any legislation that adds to the debt, means that Medicare doctors can expect a 21 percent pay cut when claims that have been held for two weeks start to be processed by Medicare’s government administrator on Monday. Senate Democrats could not muster 60 votes twice this week when they considered bills more to Pelosi’s liking. They passed the last-minute doc fix bill to avert the 21 percent pay cut to Medicare doctors on Friday afternoon, even as the pay cut was scheduled to take effect.
I know the bitch is stupid,but shit….is she insane as well?
this from Ed at hot air
In other words, Pelosi has handed the Senate Republicans the key to a filibuster not just in the Senate but also in the House, all to demand a massive expansion of the deficit on two separate fronts. The GOP couldn’t have possibly asked for a better political position even if they had begged Pelosi not to throw them into that briar patch. And if the “doctor fix” fails to get out of the House, it won’t be Republicans who get the blame, since Pelosi can call a vote on that any time she desires.
Let’s hope that Republicans manage to keep this advantage for as long as it takes Pelosi to realize that she’s blown it.
rain of lead wrote:
After Nov.2, that old bat will be shifting gears on her broom instead of taxpayer jets. Hopefully she’ll hit a tree on her first outing.
OK folks, wish me luck. I cooked the Tacoroni last night and it passed my wife’s muster. Now I will unleash it upon my coworkers…including my boss!
snork wrote:
I saw that Nekama’s posting again. The negative karma is palpable.
He zapped Zombie. Does Nekama qualify as a sleeper?
jlfintx wrote:
Even if all that was true there’s one thing that cannot be true.No one could predict the American voters.
Olberman is astro turfing some outrage against Kos?
Hmmm , sounds familiar, like a ploy to get noticed.
file this under “this is cool just because its cool”
A wizard’s words finally set free
Three men use some modern-day inspiration to retrieve 80-year-old Edison radio broadcasts from old technology.
SCHENECTADY-- To hear an ailing 82-year-old Thomas Edison speak, with the great inventor’s voice, wheezy and high-pitched, growing husky and choked as he praised his good friend Henry Ford who stood alongside President Herbert Hoover on a stage on Oct. 21, 1929 is catching lightning in a bottle
Earlier that night, the crowd heard Albert Einstein offering words of praise for Edison in German from Berlin.
It is contained in one of the world’s oldest surviving radio broadcasts, recorded on an obscure machine that General Electric developed in 1922 and called a pallophotophone — which means “shaking light sound” in Greek.
Listening to the elderly Edison lose his place, become confused and nearly weep over the depth of his admiration for Ford more than 80 years after he spoke those heartfelt words to a live audience has the power to cause a lump to rise in one’s throat.
This aural treasure might have remained lost in history’s silent dustbin were it not for a curious archivist, a dogged engineer and a fixer.
Grimcargo wrote:
Undeniable, never underestimate teh stupid.
god,this man is such a whiny pos
President Disaster threatened the GOP today to go along with his radical agenda, or else.
The radical former community organizer is upset that Republicans voted against his latest round of spending bills.
…awwww poor baby!
its too damn hot outside to do any work at all.
wow. i need a cold one.
@ rain of lead:
or else what?
rain of lead wrote:
or else what, 0?
gulfloafer wrote:
brilliant!
@ rain of lead:
oooops
forgot the link
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/06/obama-threatens-gop-america-will-be-watching-to-see-if-youll-cooperate/#comments
@ gulfloafer:
He’ll have a hissy fit and blame Bush for something else.
@ coldwarrior:
Check out this relevant topic video concerning Olby.
I just mowed the lawn in 90 degree weather & then pruned some trees.
But wait! Just when I finished my next door neighbor came out & handed me a cold beer. Alright!
mfhorn wrote:
yep…its W’s fault.
@ rain of lead:
‘Barack,
Opposing your radical, extreme, left-wing, big government agenda IS in the public’s best interest.
Sincerely
An American voter’
yeah, his guys run the fucking show but its repubs who are the bad guys
it’s gonna be a bloodbath come november
@ RIX:
i turned my back yard into a forest years ago. where there are no trees there is 8″ of small stones to walk on or decks. i am working on the hedges tho…and them boys are tall.
@ gulfloafer:
they deserve each other
17 Afghan military training at Lackland Air Base in Texas, went AWOL.
Just guys who don’t want to go home or joining a Fifth Column?
RIX wrote:
i think about half of em have been caught.
why do we let this happen. we let jihadis into one of our bases. AGAIN
The bane of my existence is weeds, I just can’t keep up with them.
We get Canadian Thistle & the roots go to next week. I swear that they fight back.
@ Empire1:
Ahh, I have been through there with the truck. Took a lot of loads from the Delaware coast to points west and north.
rain of lead wrote:
That seems like a self-defeating statement to me. “America will be watching” Damn skippy, whoever votes against additional spending has got my vote.
RIX wrote:
prolific ivy and the spraying of herbicides takes care of that.
the ivy grows where there are no trees or pebbles. spraying rocks is easy.
Yup, they have about half of them.
It makes no sense to train Afghans to fly. This is not really an ally.
@ RIX:
You must stand strong and fight Rix! Like rust, weeds never sleep! Fall back, regroup, and re-engage.
@ rain of lead:
I sure hope so. I’d LOVE to see the Dems lose control of both House & Senate. But we can’t just sit back and expect it to happen. We’ve got to get out there and make our voices heard!
RIX wrote:
Taverns and strip clubs most likely.
Thank you, I will take that advice to heart. I hate Canadian Thistle!
Macker wrote:
I’ve been in the restaurant business long enough to know a dish that ugly has to be great tasting. Fill me in please.
@ RIX:
ivy loves shady areas and will grow quickly and spread out once they are established. it takes a few years but the results are very nice. i got mine at the local shop, nothing special, just typical ground ivy. planted three different types and they all are doing well.
the back yard has a catalpa tree, two japanese cherries, an american cherry, two japanese maples, and an american maple. the left and right border are 8 ft privet hedge. inside the yard is a 16x16deck and a 12x12 deck just below it down the steps.
there are two large rectangles of 8″ thick pads of river pebbles terraced away from the house that are shaded by the trees and the grape vines off of the smaller desk in the yard.
Grimcargo wrote:
And received a thrashing from the GOP for his troubles.
I despise BOTH parties for their pettiness and sheer hubris of thinking they know what is best for Americans.
mfhorn wrote:
Have a hissy fit? He’s been having a continuous fit of “Blame Bush” since he started campaigning. A change of pace would be to actually “Man Up” and admit he is in over his head, or the disaster he is creating is deliberate.
RIX wrote:
During the early 80′s when I was doing my Navy “A” and “B” schools for Avionics, one course was self-paced in a cubicle filled room. I had in my quad cube 3 Iraqi (I believe) officers taking the same course I was doing. They had all started before I did, and were on assignment 3 when I finished all 12 assignments in the course. I asked the sailor proctoring the room about the Iraqis and he told me Iraq was paying BIG bucks for the training.
He also said the Iraqis were dumber than a box of rocks and had been told to “assist” them in passing the topic exams, otherwise they would probably still be there.
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