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Media Coverage: The Tea Party Vs. Wall Street Rabble

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:58:00 -0400

Left-wing protesters have occupied Wall St for about two weeks. There have been 1,000+ arrests, shutting down of bridges, an assault on a police officer, calls for violence by liberal celebrities such as Roseanne and Michael Moore and Van Jones….and other leftists like Russell Simmons and Susan Sarandon have lent their support. The very small band of radicals have cost NYC revenue and reputation. I’ve yet to see a critical report from the MSN on these protesters, despite their ridiculously unintelligent socialist manifesto, violent language and behavior and general lack of bathing.

Consider the fact that the MSN called the Tea Party violent racist rubes and did everything it could to marginalize and smear the limited government movement…yet I don’t recall a single arrest or act of civil disobedience among the thousands of Tea Parties across the country over the last several years. The MSN devoted resources into investigating Tea Party sugar daddies but have shown no interest in who’s funding Occupy Wall St…who want to radically transform the economic and social pillars of this country. The MSN, always looking to expose any hypocrisy in the Tea Party movement, hasn’t even noticed that the Occupy Wall St folks are decrying corporate greed while munching on Dunkin Donuts, sipping Starbucks lattes, and tweeting on iPhones. This is a case study in media bias.

So peaceful and organized! So much different than those unruly, violent Tea Party mobsters…

Fuzzy Math

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:00:20 -0400

Today, Obama declared open class warfare upon evil millionaires and billionaires. But let’s see what we get for squeezing the successful a little bit more:

The core of the Obama’s plan totals just more than $2 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years [new revenue + mandatory spending cuts]
Plan calls for a total of $4 trillion in deficit reduction (by adding about $1 trillion in spending cuts already enacted by Congress and counting about $1 trillion in savings from the drawdown of military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan)

Obama and Previous Addresses to a Joint Session

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:23:00 -0400

Maybe the guy should just keep quiet!

February 24, 2009 – Obama delivers joint session address on economy

Approval – 65%

Unemployment rate – 8.2%

March 2009: payrolls lose 796,000 jobs

September 9, 2009 – Obama delivers joint session address on health care

Approval – 51%

Unemployment rate – 9.8%

October 2009: payrolls lose 221,000 jobs

January 27, 2010 – Obama delivers SOTU

Approval – 48%

Unemployment rate – 9.7%

February 2010: payrolls lose 35,000 jobs

January 25, 2011 – Obama delivers SOTU

Approval - 50%

Unemployment rate – 9.0%

February 2011: payrolls add 235,000 jobs

September 8, 2011 – Obama delivers jobs plan

Approval – 42%

Unemployment rate – 9.1%

While Obama has been on vacation...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:28:00 -0400

Aug 18 – Obama leaves for vacation

Aug 19 – plays golf

Aug 19 – Regional and state unemployment report shows 28 states and the District of Columbia registered unemployment rate increases in July

Aug 20 – Visits home of Harvard Law Race and Justice Professor Charles Ogletree in Oak Bluffs.

Aug 20 - Explosions and gunfire rattle Tripoli after days of battlefield defeats leave Gaddafi’s government and troops besieged in the capital.

Aug 21 – In the Morning, Obama, Goes to beach with his family followed by 9 holes at Vineyard Golf Club. After gold he attends a reception at Comcast CEO Brian Roberts home followed by dinner at Valerie Jarrett’s home where he holds a press conference on Libya with National Security Team

Aug 21 – Rebel fighters enter Tripoli with little resistance.

Aug 22 –Obama issues a quick statement on Libya on tape. Afterwards he plays basketball and calls Warren Buffet.

Aug 23 – 5.8 magnitude earthquake strikes east coast rattling D.C.

Aug 23 – Goes on bike ride and to the beach with his family. Earthquake occurs while he is golfing

Aug 24 – CBO releases report saying unemployment will stay above 8% until 2014

Aug 24 –Obama golfs at Mink Meadows Golf Club for the 4^th time in 5 full days in Martha’s Vineyard

Aug 25 – The forecast for Hurricane Irene took a turn for the worse, with the Category 3 storm now expected to track farther inland along the East Coast than before

Aug 25 –With his family, Obama makes another visit to a private beach in Edgartown, Mass.

Aug 25 – Qaddafi in a new audio message, called on Libyans to destroy the rebels – there are also reports he is surrounded by rebels

Olbermann in freefall... again. And what is the deal with those vests?!

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:37:00 -0400

The ratings are in! And it is not a pretty picture at Al Gore’s Current TV. What they surely had predicted to be a ratings landslide is nothing more than the adding a few people to an already hopeless enterprise. Sure, Olbermann has ten times the ratings than what Current used to get at 8:00pm. BUT let’s consider that they used to have a little over ten thousand people watching. That’s right. 10,000. Again, 10,000.

By those standards, Olbermann has exploded onto the scene there. But talk about being the tallest midget… He is competing with shows there that literally have more people working on them than watching them.

There are bigger problems at Current, however. It would be one thing if Olbie was continuing to build, but alas, it is exactly the opposite. As politics heated up, and it looked like financial Armageddon, people flocked to the news channels to see the latest in the debt ceiling debate. Everywhere that is except for Olbermann’s channel. His ratings continued to fall.

On Monday, his lefty competition over at MSNBC - Larry O’Donnell, somehow snookered almost a million to tune into his show. The latest ratings for Olbermann showed that he has almost ten times LESS viewers. That’s right, despite all the hype from his media friends and his own obnoxious bluster, he does not even come close to matching his replacement. Forget about Fox News. Neither if them even register a blip next to The O’Reilly Factor.

It could be getting dire over at Current. The Bloated One has lost almost half of the audience he started with only a few weeks ago. He has dropped almost 100,000 of the meager, 200,000 people who came in originally. Or, I should say, they dropped him.

A year from now (assuming he is still coming to work), I wonder what storyline the media will telling? If his ratings don’t improve or at least stop from sliding into oblivion, what will his enablers (like Brian Stelter at the NY Times) be saying? Where will they lay the blame? Will they be making excuses? OR will they just conveniently forget about him entirely?

Now onto something else that peeked our interest… From my good friend, Todd Greenberg:

The Fashion of Keith Olbermann

If you’ve been watching CURRENT this past month (I know nobody in the world is) you’ll have seen that the paunchy and middle-aged Olbermannn has been experimenting with a new look lately. It’s not surprising. In the past he’s tried wearing Ashley Banfield’s glasses in his MSNBC days. We’ve all seen his hoody/trench coat combo at Yankee stadium. But recently he surprised many with his no jacket and vest look.

There have been two styles of vests that he’s tried out so far. The black vest and the grayish/brown vest. Let’s run down whether or not he’s been able to pull off these looks as a distinguished anchor in the vein of Edward R. Murrow (Is he really still pushing that?)

As you can see from the black vest he’s trying to say I’m still a businessman but I can be casual. What he is really saying is “Welcome to Ruth’s Chris, I’m Keith what can I start you off with.” He looks like the waiter from Romano’s Macaroni Grill who gives you a smart ass response when you ask for a new napkin. Or as my friend says a blackjack dealer at an Indian casino. It doesn’t play.

The vest was kind of flashy as well. Kind of reminded me of Scott Hall at Wrestlemania 18 (A little bad guy pro-wrestler-ish). Is this what we can expect from the next episodes of COUNTDOWN? Vest number 2, Keith is trying to say I’m distinguished, classy and here for you to respect me.

What he really says is “I’m Paula Poundstone from the 1980’s and let me tell you funny jokes that don’t allude to my sexual confusion.” Really Keith? You ’re going to go back to the 1980’s on this one. I got an idea, why don’t you roll up your jacket sleeves and grow the mustache back.

Keith… It’s time to face reality. You’re not cool and you never will be. Stop trying to be hip and dress like everyone else.

Why CNN just doesn’t get it?

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:16:00 -0400

By Todd Greenberg

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. We are almost six months into CNN’s primetime experiments and it’s becoming painfully clear that no one at the cable news pioneer’s headquarters know what they’re doing.

Sure we put up with Larry King wasting important air time by spending an hour interviewing low level celebrities about nothing… he was Larry King. The man has been in the business since the dawn of time. When the fist living thing trudged out of the cesspool of life he was waiting to interview it. Or if you don’t believe in evolution he was there with a scroll when Jesus came out of his Easter tomb.

We tolerated King in his later years. He was a broadcast legend.

Piers Morgan is British. Nothing wrong with that, but that’s all that Piers has been able to showcase to us. And his interview style isn’t anything special.

Maybe in Britain, the lords spit out their tea and crumpets when he asked a question that was both ribauld and terse, but this is America… where three “JACKASS” movies ruled the box office. This is America where “ass” and “balls” are part of the everyday lexicon. This is AMERICA… where sex and violence is artistic, and no one is shocked by anything anyone says anymore. There’s only three unwritten rules that the majority of Americans primarily agree upon… don’t be racist, leave the kids out of it, and don’t mess with our troops. That’s it.

So why should I want an hour of Sir Piers interview the effeminate kid from GLEE and why does he deserve an hour? Why should I watch an hour with Paris Hilton when she hasn’t been front page entertainment news since 2006? Who the hell cares if Nick Cannon is married to Mariah Carey?

Did I really need a British guy to ask George Clooney the same question 342 hot tabloid TV babes have asked him? He’s not going to get married Piers! He cares about the Sudan… DUH!

Then in the 8pm slot, they revamped a show that should have never been put out in the first place. You drop the old blonde woman. That’s a start. You keep the boring former Governor who paid a young hot woman to have sex with him. Beyond what I just typed… the guy is ridiculously boring. Then… then… here’s the kicker… you add panels.

Whoa! Panels? Really? CNN should get an award for unoriginality because you have to work pretty hard to continuously do the same thing over and over again. The network has a minimum 2 panels on every show.

In the end, the 8pm show like the 9pm is nothing special. They’re not competing with anybody. They’re competing with their day-time shows, and I am truly bored. So bored that I change the channel and ask myself why Elliot Spitzer’s wife didn’t pay someone to be interesting to her (wink). Or if England really is that uptight - a modern version of Gosford Park.

Way to to lower the bar CNN.

OLBERMANN FASHION STATEMENT Thank you to my friends Todd and...

Mon, 23 May 2011 12:22:00 -0400

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OLBERMANN FASHION STATEMENT

Thank you to my friends Todd and Clem for shooting this little video of Olbermann waddling around Yankee Stadium over the weekend.

What is he wearing?! Is that a duster or a lab coat or maybe a butcher’s smock?

When is the last time you saw one of those - other than the bad guys in Pale Rider? And what does he have underneath that ridiculous jacket? Did he steal 25 sweatshirts from the Yankee store and is trying to smuggle them out?

Was he going for this look?:

Because he got this instead:

Other famous duster wearers:

New Tone to Political Rhetoric: Lawmakers Get Death Threats!

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:54:00 -0500

When President Obama, The New York Times, MSNBC, Sheriff Dupnik and many, many others called for a change in the tone of political discourse, who knew it was actually a call to ramp up the violent imagery, thuggery, and now, even vile threats?

The Wisconsin protests have been chock full of comparisons of Republicans to the worst elements in history, threats to reporters and counter-protesters, mean-spirited rantings, and police-defying stormings of government buildings. Now, we get actual, specific threats to lawmakers and their families. Congratulations liberals! You’ve really shown you can step it up from Palin’s “targeted” congressional districts!

Wisconsin’s State Department of Justice confirms that it is investigating several death threats against a number of lawmakers in response to the legislature’s move to strip employees of many collective bargaining rights. Among the threats the Justice Department is investigating is one that was emailed to Republican Senators Wednesday night. Newsradio 620 WTMJ has obtained that email. The following is an excerpt:

Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for more information on possible scenarios in which you will die…

We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn’t leave it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message to you since you are so “high” on Koch and have decided that you are now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent. This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won’t tell you all of them because that’s just no fun. Since we know that you are not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decidedto make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it’snecessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families and themselves then We Will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) you…

Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and say goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!

This, of course, is hardly the first bit of menacing done by these unruly thugs who had been occupying the WI Capitol for weeks. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane…

WI Democratic Representative threatens the life of female Republican after budget vote, “You’re f***ing dead!”

U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) rallies the crowd, “Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary.”

Protester threatens to break the neck of a Fox News reporter.

WI rally full of hateful signs, targets, and threats.

Micheal Moore proclaims, “This is war!”

Jesse Jackson says that there will be a rebellion.

Protesters: Chris Christie is a terrorist who would shoot workers.

Freedom Works activist roughed up by union thug.

And this classic compilation on these animals should be watched by everyone in the media:

This is just a sampling of the new, more civil tone taken by the left in wake of the Giffords shooting.

Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for all the evidence of violent Tea Party rhetoric…

Harry Reid Loves Cowboy Poets

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:03:59 -0500

Politico reports:

In the middle of his tirade against House Republicans’ “mean-spirited” budget bill on the Senate floor Tuesday, the Senate Majority Leader lamented that the GOP’s proposed budget cuts would eliminate the annual “cowboy poetry festival” in his home state of Nevada… For the record, the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is in Elko, Nev., next January. The 28th annual festival, a “week-long celebration of life in the rural West, featuring the contemporary and traditional arts of western ranching culture,” is expected to draw thousands of people, according to the festival’s website.

My good friend Todd Greenberg has some experience with cowboy poetry:

They used to bring cowboy poets to our schools in Arizona. I can’t believe this is federally funded stuff. Don’t get me wrong… cowboy poetry can be cool, I guess, and it’s good work if you can get it, but last thing I wanted to do in H.S. was get dragged to the amphitheater to watch four old guys dressed like cowboys and dramatically read poetry like it was down home Summerstock/Shakespeare and tell us about campfire life.

I only remember one poem, it was called “Damn ol’ Dog.” If it didn’t have damn in it no one would have cared.

The two hours I lost that day (and they did if from 6th grade to
12th) could have been summed up by listening to Thin Lizzy’s “Cowboy Song” or screening “High Noon.” If they really wanted to do kids a favor they should have given everyone DVD’s of “For A Few Dollars More.” That movie taught me more about life and the Old West than anything else up to that point in college when I first saw it. Things would have been different if I saw that in H.S.

Todd, once again, thank you for your helpful life experience.

Piers Morgan Tonight and why it doesn’t work

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:15:00 -0500

Once again we turn our good friend Todd Greenberg for a review of CNN’s latest attempt to rise from the ashes:

It’s been over a week and a half since CNN debuted its new 9p.m. talent Piers Morgan to replace legendary broadcaster, serial spouse, and resident ‘Crypt Keeper’ Larry King.

I wanted to review it last week but felt I needed to give the show a chance by watching a few more episodes. What I found in the end was that the more episodes I watched the more I realized I was just watching a CNN endorsed ‘US Weekly’ TV show.

Morgan was supposed to let Americans see how a real Englishman interviews. We were supposed to get David Frost, a flashy, affable, interviewer who asked tough no nonsense questions… ‘Frost/Nixon’ type interviews… instead we got Dick Van Dyke from the Mary Poppins movie. An inauthentic star fucker who kisses ass and asks questions that everyone else has already asked.

Here’s a sample of his questioning…

Let’s talk about your penis size Howard Stern?

Well Mr. Morgan, if you had listened to Stern’s radio show at all you would know the man practically talks about his penis size every day and has done so for the past 20 years.

George Clooney why won’t you get married?

I think Clooney has officially answered that question over 8,000 times and 1,000 of those times were by Barbara Walters.

Tell me about your shopping habits Kim Kardashian?

As much as I love Kim Kardashian’s ‘rockin’ bod,’especially her world famous rear end, I have to say if I really was interested in how many purses she buys a day I’d drop acid and watch her show on E!.

My question is… this is what Piers Morgan gives us? I mean, I once watched Larry King ask Kid Rock about why he calls himself the “American Bad-Ass” and that seems hard hitting compared to what Morgan is giving us.

He blew the Ricky Gervais interview and there was no buzz from it. the Oprah interview was embarrassing. This week he had Rudy Giulianni and Joel Osteen, am I watching ‘Hannity’?

He has given us no news from his show. The fact that he pre-tapes these interviews days in advance makes his show irrelevant and predictable.

As for CNN, they should have known better. We could have easily gotten the same type of interview from a Ryan Seacrest-type but instead they go across the pond and get us an Englishman because in their heads, Brit’s tell it like it is. And all us stupid Americans know is that Brits are either smart or starship captains.

Well let me inform CNN what they should have learned from Christine Amanpour and ABC News… American’s do that as well. In fact there’s an American on another channel who is way ahead of everyone else.

I have nothing against a British man or woman hosting an American news show. As long as its not a 7 day cricket match or soccer, I have no problem or bias against Euro culture. But I am not fooled that they’re tougher or smarter because they speak with an accent.

Piers Morgan needs to live up to expectations, or CNN needs to let him loose. That’s the only way they can even dream of being competitive.

Todd Greenberg Strikes Again!

DAY TWO - KEITH AGREES WITH BARNEY FRANK - IRAQ WAR IS THE "GREATEST WASTE OF MONEY IN OUR HISTORY"

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:21:28 -0500

Keith had one of the chief architects of the America’s recession on the show last night - Rep. Barney “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis” Frank. Frank is not only a financial whiz, but also apparently a student of history:

FRANK: That is appalling. And, by the way, we have two wars going on. I wish we didn`t. I voted against the war in Iraq, the greatest waste of money in our history.

What was Keith’s coherent, thoughtful response?

OLBERMANN: Yes.

Later in the segment, Keith called Republicans wanting to read the U.S. Constitution “Founding Father worshippers” who likely won’t “even understand the words they will read. That`s not a gratuitous jab.” Really?

Guest Tally!

Barney Frank, liberal Rep. from MA
Howard Fineman, liberal MSNBC commentator
Akhil Reed Amar, liberal law professor who even said, “It`s an honor to be here. I`m a real fan.”
Arizona State Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Democrat from the Arizona’s 15th district

That’s four liberals/Democrats, Zero moderates, Zero Republicans/conservatives

A MESSAGE TO COMCAST

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:48:56 -0500

As a service to Keith Olbermann’s incoming bosses at Comcast, we thought it was a good idea to remind them a little about the character of their new employee. Now, we’re not going to get into all the past allegations (stalking, boorishness, etc.) or even all of the hateful things he has said about Republican politicians (including a sitting president) and sexist, unforgivable tirades against female conservative commentators. (If you are interested, take a look at some of our past stories). No, we are only going to concentrate on what he does now.

We will take a look at his show each day and give you the high(low?)lights of Keith’s insulting behavior. We do this as a service for Comcast. Think of this site as a Media Matters for the sane.

Let’s start with last night’s program. We’ll skip his suggestion that conservatives don’t have brains from Monday. That show also featured a conversation with Rep. Anthony Weiner where they attempted to humiliate Rep. Michele Bachmann in ways that would get a conservative commentator talking a female Democrat fired immediately.

As you’ll see, Keith saves particular ire for women and minorities when they dare step out of line. Is he a misogynist? A look at his personal life will give you a quick answer. Is he a racist? We’ll let you decide.

Allen West

Last night, Keith set his sights on Rep. Allen West - the newly elected African-American congressman from Florida. In fact, Rep. West, a retired Army Colonel, is the first African-American to represent Florida since 1876. Worth celebrating? Not exactly in Keith’s world. The night before Rep. West was to be sworn in, Keith took the opportunity to question his sanity claiming that he “is still fighting mental health” and is, of course, “The Worst Person in the World.”

What was Rep. West’s alleged crime? On a radio show, he suggested that we should be wary of the intrusion of Islamic Sharia law into our legal system. I guess, Keith never heard of the New Jersey judge who denied a restraining order against an abusive husband because according to the man’s Muslim beliefs, “his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited.”

Other Notable Gems from the Always Warm and Generous Keith Olbermann

Just last night, he called Republicans “nuts,” Glenn Beck a “mutant,” and not-so-subtly suggested that the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, is soliciting bribes from big business.

Oh, and here’s the fair and balanced guest tally:

Robert Kuttner from the liberal American Prospect
Eugene Robinson, liberal Washington Post columnist
Leo Gerard, President of United Steel Workers
Lee Fang from the Uber-liberal ThinkProgress.org
Melissa Harris-Perry from the liberal Nation magazine

That’s right- 4 liberals, Zero conservatives (or even moderates!), 1 union thug.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This site is not intended to duplicate or take anything away from OlbermannWatch.com. They are the best. Please, please read them everyday. Think of this daily message to Comcast as a supplement to their excellent work.

Countdown to the End

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:53:24 -0500

Well, well, well, another messy battle between Keith Olbermann and the brass at MSNBC. Bill Zwecker at the “Chicago Sun-Times reports:”

PICKING ON BRISTOL: Speaking of Olbermann, an MSNBC insider reports the talk-show host was “called on the carpet” by his bosses for declaring Bristol Palin “the worst person in the world” on his show last week — calling it “tacky” and “a cheap shot that was uncalled for.”

Olbermann had criticized Palin for making an abstinence public service announcement — given she has had a child out of wedlock.

Another fight and another suspension? Olbermann was once again absent from his own show after being called out by his bosses. No official word from MSNBC, but it makes sense that on the eve of the Comcast takeover, nobody there wants to cause any problems- nobody except maybe Olbermann.

We’ll continue to watch this death spiral with anticipation of chaos in the next couple months. Stand by…

Check out “Mediate for more and video”.

Up Until 7:30pm on Tuesday, Nobody at MSNBC Knew Who Would Actually Host Countdown!

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:05:00 -0500

If you read this blog, you know that our sources inside NBC have been very good at providing context and background to the always entertaining Keith Olbermann saga. And this latest news makes perfect sense as we observe the overall narrative of the self-absorbed, self-destructive, troubled TV personality.

Here’s what we’ve been told:

The stand-off between Keith and MSNBC execs lasted much longer than anyone on the outside knew. As of 7:30pm on Tuesday night, bitter recriminations were still flying back and forth. Keith was still demanding that the network apologize to him before he would take the anchor chair.
MSNBC, on the other hand, made it clear that a refusal to host the show would result in an even longer, more serious suspension.
One source has told us that the network even had another host ready to go in case Olbie stormed off to his bathtub. Does anyone know where Thomas Roberts was last night? Because we’re told he was in an MSNBC greenroom.

What is at work here? Certainly, Keith has history of implosion everywhere he has worked. There would be nothing unusual about another hysterical break-up with Olbie slinking off like Gollum to his cave of self-pity. But there could be a calculated gamble going on here. Let’s take a look at some more evidence:

Comcast comes in soon, and already, Jeff Zucker has been left in the dust.
With his greatest protector gone, Phil Griffin now needs to take control, save his own job, and assert his authority. (Don’t forget the episode where Olbermann famously told The New Yorker, “Phil thinks he’s my boss.”)
There has been much speculation about Comcast brass and their dislike for the rancor of venom of Countdown.
Olbermann’s audience is dwindling while at the same time, Rachel Maddow has been surging (well, surging by MSNBC standards!). She is now their break-out star. For the month of October, Maddow beat Olbermann in the “key” demo of 25-54-year-olds.

But here is where it gets interesting. Olbermann recently switched representation to ICM. So already, we know he is looking to make some changes.

Is he trying to provoke MSNBC?

Olbermann has two years left on his contract. But our same sources tell us that ICM has already been shopping him to CNN. That network will desperately be looking for another 8:00pm show after the imminent failure of Parker Spitzer. (There is nobody left at CNN or anywhere else who thinks that stinker will last even another few months.)

If he is really looking at CNN than provoking his MSNBC bosses could have the desired effect of cutting him loose. BUT, Comcast could also take him off the air and eat the two years.

Let CNN be warned

Hiring Olbermann changes their entire culture. His baggage (“How dare you, Mr. President”) is enough to ruin decades building trust with their audience.

Not to mention having this creature in their midst.

Liberal Lynch Mob Finally Gets Juan Williams

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:13:16 -0400

NPR has been looking to unload Juan Williams for a long time. They will tolerate only one way of thinking- only the furthest-left, ultra-politically-correct dogma. Like Pravda during the old Soviet Union, you either toe the line or end up in a gulag. Since there are no gulags in the United States… yet, NPR will have to settle for a contract termination. But make no mistake, if they had their way, I am sure Juan, alongside most of talk radio, the entire staff of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and others would be in a re-education work camp this morning.

What was Juan’s crime? He told the truth about his own personal feelings - something you really have to keep buried these days. Anyone who says they weren’t a little anxious about Muslims or middle-eastern people on planes after 9/11 is not just a liar. They’re a damn liar. I remember being on a flight a few months after the attack when a man in a turban (not even a Muslim, but a Sikh!) took his seat. The other passengers all looked at each other with knowing glances. “If this guy gets up to use the bathroom, he’s going down!”

But you are not allowed to say these things lest they offend the most protected class of people in the history of the world. You simply can’t say anything that might in the smallest way make Muslims feel the least bit uncomfortable. Witness the Seattle cartoonist who dared suggest a “Draw Allah” contest. That woman has been forced to into hiding on the advice of our own FBI. Our country either cannot or will not protect her! This is beyond outrageous. This is madness.

America needs to stand together united against this fascism. If we are going to have free speech, then let’s have it. If you or your beliefs are so fragile that you can’t stand being offended once in awhile, then get out. This is what we do here in America, we debate, we argue, we make fun and, yes, we occasionally offend each other.

If this is not for you-fine. Please take your delicate constitution along with your Sharia law, burqas, veils, fatwas, and honor killings, and please get out. There is plenty of room for your way of thinking in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Not that I care, but just in case some you more feeble-minded readers might think that I am talking about ALL Muslims. I am not. I am talking about Muslims who do not celebrate our freedom. I am talking about anyone who wishes to impose their way of thinking on everyone around them. I am talking about the ones who threaten (even to kill) anyone who dares criticize the most extreme aspects of their religion.

Your intolerance is creating enemies where they did not exist before.

And not for nothing, but isn’t NPR the same radio network that just took a bunch of money from George Soros?! Where is that cash going? To hire new reporters. A coincidence?

OLBERMANN'S BIGOTRY PROBLEM

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:48:55 -0400

Recently, hit-and-run driver Rick Sanchez was let go from CNN in part because he called Jon Stewart a “bigot.” Sadly, this is tactic that is more common than ever, as playing the race card has become the last refuge of the president’s die-hard supporters. Quite frankly, it is all they have left. And playing that particular card is as low as it gets. It is a smear that sometimes stains forever. It is an easy insult that comes usually with very little evidence, but carries a heavy burden. The charge is constantly leveled against the Tea Party despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Take a look at this recent study from a graduate student at ULCA.

Now, is Keith Olbermann the original Rick Sanchez?

CNN was right to fire Sanchez. But what about others? Let’s take a look at the big guy over at MSNBC. Certainly, he’s too smart for this. He wouldn’t fall back on this specious argument to defame his perceived enemies…

10/15/10:Brian Kilmeade, FOX News

But our winner, Brian Kilmeade. There is stupid and there is bigoted and there is paranoid and there is Islamaphobic. But it takes a big man to combine all four of them

10/14/10: Bill O’Reilly

Lost in that, of course, is the fact that Bill-O, without the benefit of a script, revealed himself to be just another Fox News bigot and Islamophobe.

07/06/10: Rush Limbaugh

Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama and presumably every other black person in this country has not succeed despite the fact that they`re black, when this country is still filled with racists like this homunculus Limbaugh. They`ve succeeded because they`re black, and only because they`re black. Well, you heard it. It`s naked, ugly racism. It`s the distillation of Rush Limbaugh`s view of our country. The only other thing I can say is, Oprah, please, crush this schmuck, huh? Rush Limbaugh, overt racist, today`s worst person in the world

05/14/10: Sen. James Inhofe(R)-Oklahoma Senator(bigot and Bonus: “homophobe”)

James Inhofe of Oklahoma, still making a jack ass out of himself… He`s now fighting the repeal of Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell, because he says the military is full of homophobes like himself… Apart from the question of why Inhofe assumes that our military heroes are as bigoted as he is, Inhofe also has his categories all wrong.

05/05/10: Rush Limbaugh

So while it looks like he`s a terrorist, we know Rush Limbaugh is a fraud, and a fake, and a liar, quack, charlatan, opportunist, racist, buffoon, blowhard, sham, hypocrite, shyster, wind bag, demagogue, propagandist, reactionary, for- flusher, phony and fanzanoon (ph), and mountebank (ph). And worst of all, he`s just Rush Limbaugh, today`s worst person in the world.

11/19/09: Glenn Beck

Beck is just part of the ADL report which takes stock of the ugliest aspect of those town hall meetings and the tea bagger rallies, the birther movement and Joe Wilson`s “you lie.” But the September 12th rally in Washington, the report notes, featured the worst in racist, violent imagery since Obama was elected. That event, heavily promoted, of course, by Beck, a man who projects his own hate onto others.

11/05/09 Republican Party

But today was when the Republicans say, “We own this.” There is racism in here. There is bigotry. There`s refusal to acknowledge the outcome of an election that was a pretty clear-cut decision. There is a misunderstanding of a vital health care issue. There are a lot of things going on here. But they`re being stoked up into a rage and this was not — correct me if I`m wrong about this — but this was the day the Republican Party said, “Yes, we`ll take this. We`ll run on this. We`ll become the party of hate.”

09/15/09: Congresswoman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina

But our winner, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina. You can tell when she`s about to say something that will shame her district and her state; her lips are moving… she continues her outer space argument against health care reform by saying the following: “in a recent article, conservative commentator Thomas Sowell, an African-American, examined some of President Obama`s claims about the health care reform legislation moving through the Congress. I wanted to quote some excerpts from his column that I found insightful.” The article and the points Congresswoman Foxx raised had nothing to do with race. So she cited the fact that Mr. Sowell is African-American for what reason? Because the president is African-American? Because if one of them disagrees with him, that carries more weight somehow? Because they are all supposed to think alike? There is no reason to raise Mr. Sowell`s race, except to introduce race into the health care debate. So when somebody suggest that many of Obama`s critics are motivated, in whole or in part, by latent racism, which they`re trying to pave over with any excuse they can think of, this is what we`re talking about. Congresswoman Foxx having to tell you that one of the president`s critics is also one of them. Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, fifth district North Carolina, latent racist, today`s worst person in the world

05/05/09:Sam, Joe the Plumber, Wurzelbacher

Our number one story in the COUNTDOWN Sam, Joe the Plumber, Wurzelbacher proudly resuscitates the slur queer in defense of his bigoted views against gay marriage.

01/05/09: Radio Host Bill Cunningham

The bronze to racist radio host Bill Cunningham, syndicated by the Premier Radio Networks, belittling more efforts to fight poverty because, quote, “poor people were not and are not poor because they lack money. They are poor because they lack values, ethics and morals.”

12/11/08: Bill O’Reily, Gretchen Carlson / FOX News

But our winners Bill O. and another shared honor with his factious fixed news colleagues Gretchen Carlson about that imaginary war on Christmas… the cause of these racist and anti-Semites has been picked up by Bill O`Reilly and Gretchen Carlson and FOX News.

09/30/08: Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann

But the winner, the most un-American member in the American House of Representatives, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, Republican from Minnesota. She read into the Congressional record part of an article from the right wing publication “Investors Business Daily,” which purports to explain the mortgage crisis by blaming a Clinton era rule change. Congressman Bachmann read aloud that the rule pushed, quote, “Fannie and Freddie to aggressively lend to minority communities to offer, quote, home ownership as a way to open the door for blacks and other minorities to enter the middle class.” In other words, Congresswoman Bachmann blamed the meltdown on blacks and other minorities. In other words, Congresswoman Bachmann is a racist!

12/05/07: Mitt Romney / Lou Dobbs

Governor Romney, Mr. Dobbs, you might even get your racist way some day. And then who in the hell would be left to pick up after you?

10/05/07: Glenn Beck

I thought he had retired, CNN`s Glenn Beck, saying to Sharita Mckenzie (ph) of the Muslim Peace March organization, quote, how do we know the difference? I mean you are reasonable. How do we know the difference between you and those that are trying to kill us? Probably through talking to them, not being paranoid, using common sense, recognizing how few of them are trying to kill anybody. You know, the same way you tell the difference between Glenn Beck and somebody who isn`t a bigot or isn`t trying to tear the country apart.

08/02/07: Bill O’Reilly

Winner Bill-O, explaining his stance on immigration reform, and remember, that is code for we don`t like Mexican people. So Bill-O says, quote, most Americans don`t want to hurt any poor Mexican people. They want to know who they are. They want to know where they are and what they`re doing. They don`t want them clustering in neighborhoods and changing the tempo of the whole neighborhood. You know, the same way the anti-immigrant bigots didn`t want my immigrant German ancestors changing the tempo of the whole neighborhood in 1900. The same way the anti-immigrant bigots didn`t want Bill`s immigrant Irish ancestors changing the tempo of the whole neighborhood in 1850. Bill O`Reilly, today`s Worst Person in the World!

01/02/07: Craig Barker of Katie, Texas

But tonight`s winner, when our leaders act like that, who can be surprised when our citizens act like this. Craig Barker of Katie, Texas, he`s upset that an Islamic mosque is being built on the land adjacent to his, and that the new owners asked him to remove his cattle from their land, so he is protesting the new neighbors by holding pig races to offend their Muslim sensibilities. Craig Barker`s new neighbors are said to be indifferent about the protests. Mr. Barker, a note for you, Muslims do not hate pigs, they just don`t eat pigs. If you are going to be a bigot, please, be an informed bigot.

Hmmm. I guess I was wrong.

Guys like Sanchez and Olbermann diminish real bigotry when they use false smears just to score cheap points against people they don’t like.

The Review is in: Parker Spitzer is painful

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:56:00 -0400

May not be the chief TV critic for the Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal - just my friend Todd Greenberg. I thought it was entertaining enough to post (and right on target!):

They open up with smooth jazz. Oh yeah. This is going to be fun. Parker says they’re not going be partisan, they’re going to do something “different.”.

Parker can barely open her mouth. Its weird.

Parker tells Spitzer to stop interupting her - says she won’t tell a Democrat (Spitzer?) which Republican told her they won’t run if Palin runs. Confused. I thought she said they weren’t going to be partisan?

Spitzer opens up talking about how Obama should fire Giethner. Parker opens up criticizing Palin. Tells her to stop pretending she’ll run. Oh… they’re taking opposite views. Something different? I get it.

Guests are now Andrew Breitbart and Tom Frank. Breitbart really? This segment is called “The Arena.”

Blah blah blah We’re having a reasoned discussion. Spitzer is dominating this segment. Talking about Giethner, Palin, and the Tea Party.

I regret choosing to watch this. What I really want is a slice of pizza.

They’re asking about the Shirley Sherrod story. Breitbart gave a non-answer answer. Let’s end the segment on a two-month old story.

Looks like a lot of taped pieces. Palin bashing coming up.

Elizabeth Warren is next. Oh my f’n God. I’m going to kill myself. She’s creating the new consumer protection agency. This block is called “The Headliner.” Professional wrestling starts at 9pm. John Cena lost his match at Hell in a Cell last night so now he has to join Nexus. Will he go through with it? Who were the masked men who attacked him?

My roommate Steve just told me he finally saw The Godfather. He’s talking about it like it just came out. He said it was amazing. Duh?

I have no idea what they’re talking about.

Guest Aaron Sorkin coming up.

This segment is called “Person of Interest.” They’re playing A Few Good Men clip. They show the walk-up and play the jazz music again.

Start off by talking about The West Wing. Parker asks about Palin. Sorkin calls her an idiot. Still on West Wing. Spitzer wants a West Wing sequal.

They play a Social Network clip. Sorkin says please don’t not see the movie because of his politics. This clip is good. I will go see this movie.

Here’s the Spitzer solo segment. Its about some guy he prosecuted when he was AG. Smooth jazz walk-up. They like each other now.This segment is called “Unfinished Business” - a rehash of a case he prosecuted back in the day. I am now in my room looking at photos of Ashley Dupre, don’t worry door is open. Remember the song from her Myspace?

They’re acknwledging they have been tough on Palin. This is the equivalent of me telling Jennifer I do not like her skirt. I would never say that to Jen, she dresses tastefully and with class unlike other ladies of our staff.

This next segment is “Political Party” with some no names to talk about everthing. One panelist wrote a play in the third grade about the Exxon Valdez. Another panelist she won a wing-eating contest. They are talking about Palin’s fashion. Now they’re being positive about her. What celeb would you like as a presidential candidate? This is sooooooooo painful.

The guy from The Nation is talking about his cavities. Guilty pleasures is the topic.

Its over. This was worse than watching Olbermann. But it did give me an idea to spice up my life… Smooth Jazz.

Time magazine is practically irrelevant. The only reason it is still around at all...

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:25:00 -0400

Time magazine is practically irrelevant. The only reason it is still around at all is because it bares the name of the parent company. So, they continue to prop up this long dead publication. Anything published in that rag is usually not even worth commenting on. Like the tree falling in forest, Time has no audience. None. When is the last time, anyone said to you, “Did you see that article in Time?”

That being said, we need to point out their completely disingenuous cover story this week. Once again, the establishment media is trying to frighten people with the creepy, right-wing militia bogeyman. How long can they continue this tactic with no evidence that militias offer any threat at all?

Well. I guess there was the Ft. Hood gunman. Oh yeah, he was a radical Muslim.

OK, than what about the Discovery Channel whacko? Oh, that’s right, I forgot, he was a radical environmentalist disciple of Al Gore.

Remember that guy who flew the airplane into the Texas building hoping to get the IRS? Surely, he was some kind of militia nutjob? Take a look at his manifesto. Turns out he was a George Bush-hating communist!

The Arkansas recruiting center shooter? Would-be Times Square bomber? Underwear bomber? Not a militia member among them. All radicalized Muslims.

Sheepskin factory arsonist? Crazed animal rights whacko.

The ridiculous article even repeats the lie that there are more threats now against the president:

Readier for bloodshed than at any time since at least the confrontations in the 1990s in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas, the radical right has raised the threat level against the President and other government targets.

This is provably false. Take a look at the CBS News story: Secret Service: Threats Against Obama No Higher than Normal

The effort here could not be more transparent. The Democrats are on the ropes, and there is only weapon left. The dinosaur media can only help their friends in the White House by hyping this foolish fear of “Tea Party radicals” and now, even more sinister - armed right-wingers in their scary camouflage!

Nobody is falling for it. And the only thing Time does is make blogs like this one more legitimate.

Keith Who? Rachel Who?

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:55:32 -0400

Comcast execs - pay attention. The biggest problem for your MSNBC primetime line-up may not be the arrogance, ignorance, or depravity of your hosts. To be sure, few folks wouldn’t get nauseous watching an accused stalker sneering at a former president while barking “How dare you!” out of the comical fake tan of his bloated face. But in order to do that, you’d have to know the bloated one was even on the air. According to a new poll at Politico, 42% of registered, likely voters have never even heard of Keith Olbermann. 55% couldn’t tell the difference between Rachel Maddow and Maureen Flannagan… exactly.

Comcast could flush these twits off the air in a heartbeat, and nobody would even know. Nobody that is except for their apologists in the media - people like the infamous Brian Stelter. Look at today’s headline, “Comcast Spends Big Pressing for Merger.” This one is all about how rich and powerful the scary, evil corporation is. Why they even hire lobbyists! I am shocked!

We’ve discussed Stelter’s motives before. This time, it is all about a warning. Brian Stelter and the New York Times are on to you, Comcast, and your greedy corporate ways. So, don’t even think of ousting our beloved Keith.

Remember that you heard the news about Jeff Zucker here first. With his demise, the first line of defense for the stalker is down. Football fired him already. Ratings keep falling.

We’d say that Keith is yesterday’s news, but according to the Politico survey, he was never there to begin with.

The Week the Democrat Media Industrial Complex Died

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:15:13 -0400

Colbert embarrasses himself, the Democrats in congress, and amnesty advocates in one ridiculous hearing.
Whistleblower says the DOJ is packed with reverse-racists.
The White House chef is the only one who hasn’t announced he’s leaving the administration.
Jobless claims “unexpectedly” jump.
Obama gets earful from black supporter at town hall.
Jon Stewart says he is saddened by Obama
Axelrod is called out by his lib buddies for hiding them from the mainstream.
AND Jeff Zucker and Jon Klein leave liberal media empires in tatters. Good riddance boys.