I admit it, every so often I used to watch Countdown with Keith Olbermann a long time ago. His sarcastic style of delivery was entertaining at times.
Then he started getting on my nerves.
His show and his schtik went progressively downhill culminating in his OBSESSION with Bill O’Reilly - WHAT’s with THAT? It’s a one sided competition. Why does he feel so compelled to be so competitive with Bill O’Reilly? You can only imply someone is a ‘nazi’ so many different ways before it starts sounding a little creepy. It started getting really old.
Still Olbermann managed to get some news this week. It appears Olbermann was on vacation this week and returned from his vacation for the express purpose of selectively editing and slamming Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld’s speech to the American Legion.. The progressive blogsphere is all a twitter over it. Frankly, if Rumsfeld made that many people mad, he must be doing something right.
Maybe he’s gone off his meds, or is desperate for ratings, or both.
You can find Olbermann’s response to Rumsfeld’s speech here.
h/t and photo Olbermann Watch
Hot Air has the video and writes:
It’s an instant classic of nutroots porn, second only to Colbert’s faux-dissident burlesque at the White House correspondents’ dinner. In fact, Olby goes further than Colby: we’re all used to the comparisons of Bush to Hitler and the Democrats to Neville Chamberlain, but never before have I heard someone compare Bush to Chamberlain  and to Hitler (or some generic “fascist,†if you prefer), both in the span of a few moments.
Sister Toldjah says Olbermann has turned moral equivalency into an artform.
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August 31st, 2006 at 10:25 am
Beth,
Rather than compose a mildly amusing post on Olbermann’s reponse to Rumfeld’s attack on any one who dares comment critically on the way things are going in Iraq, you would be far better employed doing a little reading on what has been happening in your country under the Bush Administration’s watch.It is clear from Fiasco and Cobra 11 that the vast majority of commanders on the battlefield, before and after the war commenced, were deeply concerned not only by the number of troops deployed, but also by the complete lack of planning for phase IV (Lt. Gen. Kellogg, overseeing systems for the command and control of forces in Iraq, said, and I quote: ‘I was there for all the planning, all the execution of the Iraq war plan. I saw it all’ But what he never saw was a plan for phase IV. ‘The assumption was that everything would be fine after the war’.)
The main goal, according to the Bush administration, was not to topple Saddam, that was just the first part of a grand scheme to transform the Middle East. The main goal, if this strategy was to be completed, had to be to first secure and then transform Iraq.
In this they have failed spectacularly, despite dire warnings from the very beginning, and the consequences of this failure has weakened America for years to come.
It seems that in the new America, to state the obvious is now an act of treason, which leads to another problem for the Bush admin and its supporters- will there be enough prison space to hold all those who’ve been stating it?
August 31st, 2006 at 11:19 am
By far the best dissertation on the most corrupt, illegal, and criminal administration this country has ever seen.
August 31st, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Non-Utopian Headlines and Dumb Ox Op-Ed (8/31/06)…
Free speech saved versus evil Nazi Bushies! …Hugo and Mahmoud sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g… Mexico or China: the bigger threat? Plus all the News you need, the way you want it……
August 31st, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Keith Olbermann’s commentary of Rumsfeld’s speech was refreshing in it’s clarity. We are truly being led by the most disengenous administration in our nation’s history.
The most baffling phenomena in the USA today is how the hardcore GOP faithful can maintain the intellectual gymnastics required to accept the rhetoric offered by Bush/cheny/Rumsfeld/Rice et al.
August 31st, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Mainstream (?) Media…
Se qualcuno si chiede perché la trasmissione Countdown di Keith Olbermann, della MSNBC, sia molto meno vista dell’O'Reilly Factor di Fox News (che va in onda allo stesso orario), provi a dare un’occhiata a questo video. Si sarebbe vergognato perfin…
August 31st, 2006 at 4:30 pm
click…history-blah blah blah click…baywatch-jiggle jiggle jiggle click…countdown-vomit lies vomit Click…off
August 31st, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Judging by the wails of hysteria by the righties, i’d say mr. O hit the nail in the head. Silly righties canoot stand (still) criticisms of their boys. i imagine most on this blog are as delusional as rummy
August 31st, 2006 at 6:41 pm
Right on Olbermann! I am passing the link to his message to all my friends. WAKE UP America, your civil rights are disappearing and they have mortgaged all our futures to pay off the fat cats. How do you impeach an entire administration? How far down the line of presidential succession do we have to go before we can find someone who has had the guts to see that this puppet emperor, his controllers, and his lackeys have no clothes? Bush doesn’t have the inteligence to have pulled off this scam. Cheney is the really dangerous one.
August 31st, 2006 at 6:55 pm
This may be a trite analogy, but….have any of you ever worked for a company where the senior management decided to launch a new product or marketing campaign or strategic initiative that you (and most working with you) knew was just a bad idea? That’s how I feel about the war on terror.
Every American wants to defeat extremism and terrorists (just like every employee of a company wants the company to succeed). It’s a matter of how we do it and allocation of resources. We’ll need to use military force in some places, diplomacy in others, let our allies carry the ball sometimes, and use sneaky tactics other times.
Let’s not spend precious resources in the wrong place. I mean, give me a break, Iraq was not a central front on the war on terror. It never was. But we turned it into one. We messed up royally. The least our leaders could do is acknowledge that.
So forgive people for getting really pissed off that the admisitration has wasted hundreds of billions of dollars not to mention many lives fighting in the wrong country. And please, let us understand who the are the ones with their heads in the sand. It is the ones that spent hundreds of billions opening a front when there was no reason to.
I would feel much better if we had spent all that money and locked down every single missing Soviet nuclear warhead.
While some on the far left really do think that Cuba would be a better place to live than the US, that is about the same number of Republicans who are polygamists. Most in the middle and the left are simply sad that the US has sqandered the goodwill so many had for it, that it isn’t living up to its potential, and that it blunders blunders blunders with the occasional victory. It is like the US Men’s Basketball team getting a bronze medal in the Olympics. Just sad.
Most people on Earth know the US can do so much better. This country is amazing…it really is. We’re underwhelming everyone.
August 31st, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Wow, that’s quite a collection of comments you got for this post, beth!