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 8:09 pm
Hey Wild Thang
He is definitly disappointing!
Me too, Douglas!
Jo - LOLOL - I think the prayer circle, intervention is an excellent idea! Might scare the daylights outta him LOL
Mass Repub - you are OBVIOUSLY a male, the way you use the remote! lol
Anna! ROFL! Ain’t THAT the truth! They come out of the wood work when you say anything - even this mild about one of their icons. I wrote a post about Michael Moore a while back and the same guy came out and wrote the same comments, over and over!
August 31st, 2006 at 8:13 pm
To the other commentor who has left numerous comments under different names:
Silly righties canoot stand (still) criticisms of their boys. i imagine most on this blog are as delusional as rummy
You are the only one I see hysterical here and getting so upset over critism of one of your icons.
August 31st, 2006 at 9:41 pm
I can’t watch him anymore.
That goes for most all of the MSNBC programs…
AubreyJ………
September 2nd, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Is been a while since it became apparent to just about every one that the war in Iraq had turned into a fiasco. At this point in time Republicans had the chance to force some sence into Bush and change course for the good of our Country. Instead they chose party politics and went on to look the other way at the incredible incompetence of the Bush Administration. It was the Republican Congress worst moment. We did not elect them to Rubber- Stamp.
In November they will pay the price.
As for the Bush Administration. A word of warning. Accountability will be demanded this time. Incompetence will not be tolerated, and WE the American people will finally get the answers we deserve as to why, and how we got into this mess.
It is not Mr. Olebermann that should worry Republicans, but the millions of us that usually stay on the side lines and do not vote because of apathy. This time a lot of us have become angry enough to get out and trow the bums out….. They more than deserve it.
Enough is enough.
September 2nd, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Gil ….. perhaps you don’t remember how we got into this ‘mess’. I’ll type slowly so you can understand. We were attacked by terrorists. We were attacked in our homeland in a devastating blow. The symbols of our financial and military might were blown up. Thousands of Americans died.
That’s an act of war.
We have been at war since then, in an unconventional war because it’s an unconventional enemy. We vowed, as a nation, that we would get the jihadists and those who harbor them. They were given safe passage in Iraq.
If you look at it in no other way than pure stragetic brilliance. Having a military presence in Iraq puts us right in the middle of the middle east - from there we can turn in whichever direction we need to turn. We are in Iraq and Afghanistan - on each side of Iran. At this particular point in time, it is a good idea to have a close eye on Iran.
I don’t know who you hang with - but ‘just about everyone’ must just be in your circles.
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:56 pm
Beth.
We were NOT ATTACKED BY IRAQ BETH.
We were attacked by a bunch of Saudi Arabians.
Please get your facts correct. You can interpret them any way you want, but you are NOT ALLOWED TO INVENT THEM.
September 3rd, 2006 at 1:53 am
Gil - please quit shouting. If Im not allowed to invent facts, than I hope you will stop spinning them around.
We were attacked by jihadists. Jihadists come from various countries - which is part of what makes this an unconventional war. We are fighting an ideology rather than another country.
The jihadists would have come to where ever the war is being fought. We knew that when we went into Iraq, they would come there from all over the world. We need a base of operation in the middle east. We needed to topple Saddam. According to President Clinton in 1998, Saddam posed a real and present threat to the United States. He stated that we needed to go in and take down his regime because he supported terrorists and used chemical and biological weapons against his own people and would use them against neigboring countries and western countries.
Since we have been in Iraq 500 caches of chemical and biological weapons have been found. However, the MSM neglects to highlight these discoveries of massive amounts of WMDs. Nevertheless, it is what it is.
We are at war - whether you or I like it. Your choice is to give the bully in the playground what he wants, hoping he”ll leave you alone or you can pop him in the mouth and take your chances. But we know that bullies only pick on those they know won”t fight back - so unless we bring the jihadists to their knees, they will bring us to ours.
Just like the bully in the playground, the jihadists will only hit targets that don”t fight back - notice who they are bombing. Norway for crying out loud.
I choose victory. It really is okay for us to be strong and to defeat our enemies. I know that scares you, but we are much safer that way.
September 3rd, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Check out #24. Beth is your typical Bush robot: ignorant, gullible, ill - informed, paranoid, and incoherent.
These people do not have a mind of their own. They can only parrott the talking points emanating from Fox News, the official Arm of the Ministry of Truth. These people are cowards who long for a strong “leader”. They want dictatorship. They took to Bush the way some Germans turned to Hitler: because they are losers.
September 3rd, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Beth.
Like I said STOP INVENTIG !!!!
“500 caches of Chemical and Biological Weapons have been discovered”. That dear lady would be news to Bush, or Rummy. Please direct all of us ignorant blogers to ONE remark by any one in the Bush Administration about what you just said.
“We were attacked by Jihadis” Yes, from Saudi Arabia and you so called Jihadis were in fact Al-Quaida. I would like for you to kindly tell me what facts am I spinning? Al-Quaida is not some generic “Jihadis”
In your “We were attacked by Jihadis” I see the mental Gymanastics that people like you have to go into to explain your point of view. Iraq has much more to do with a sectarian war about to become a civil war than any “War on Terror” beeing waged against some Jihadist.
Clinton was not the only one that believed that Saddam was a danger. The entire world community believed that the man was dangerous….. To a point. Neither Clinton, nore any Arab neighbor of Iraq demanded an invasion for the simple reason that he was not dangerous enough to call for one. What Saddam did to his people DOES NOT JUSTIFY an invasion. I have news for you Beth, we are not the world’s policeman. And if we are, we are doing a rather poor job. Look at the Genocides in Rowanda, Somalia, the Congo, etc. How come we just decided to look at Saddams atrocities and ignore the others? Mental Gymnastics that’s how come.
I am scared to defeat our enemies? Really Beth you take the cake!!
If one questions the policies of this administration and the way they decided to run the war on terror, that translates into beeing scared in your eyes Beth? Dear Lady you are very confused indeed.
September 4th, 2006 at 8:40 am
Gil,
Beth and her cohorts are the ones who are scared shitless. They have swallowed whole the paranoid stance of the Bush cabal. As a result, they are running around in ther feces - stained underwear as they cannot change their diapers fast enough.
As I wrote earlier, these clowns lack any kind of intelligence, moral fiber, courage, or integrity. They are a bunch of malcontents eager to be led by a “strong” Daddy figure. These are the same kind of people who put Hitler in power in Germany.
They do not invent facts. They do not have the critical ability to do that. They are content to indiscriminately repeat talking points and rumors.