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    11/05/09

    In reply to Why Keith Olbermann Didn't Literally Kill Sean Hannity at This Baseball Game
    They NEED each other in order to have a villain, grow a following, build their ratings, and command high salaries. Don't believe the hype. #keitholbermann
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Why Keith Olbermann Didn't Literally Kill Sean Hannity at This Baseball Game
    Whys is it "right-leaning" Fox and plain-old MSNBC or CNN? Yes, Fox tilts to the right. However, MSNBC and CNN tilt to the left too. #keitholbermann
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    11/05/09

    @Gawkerati: I'm sorry, I have to disagree. CNN tilts to the stupid. #keitholbermann
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    11/05/09

    @Gawkerati: CNN tilts to the left? You're kidding. What anywhere else in the world would be considered center-right at most gets considered "left" here. Meanwhile, yes, MSNBC skews mildly left in terms of its overall editorial viewpoint. But neither even approaches the level of totally ideologically-driven propaganda at which Fox News consistently operates.

    However, even that is beside the point, really. Because my problem with Fox isn't that it's conservative. They have every right to be as conservative as they like, if they'd only be honest about it. What they don't have a right to do is to consistently misrepresent opinion as fact, misreport events, and create news, while pretending to be a "fair and balanced" source of information. #keitholbermann
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    11/05/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: I'll agree with everything you said, but lately MSNBC has been more than listing to the left, especially in primetime and though CNN has lost some of their lustre due to budget cuts , I'd still put them closer to the middle of the road. #keitholbermann
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    11/05/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Totally agree. And keep in mind that both Shuster and Matthews routinely interview the most insane far right assholes as people having legitimate political opinions. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you former Bush/Cheney bag man and total nutcase Frank Gaffney, who famously said this year that Saddam Hussein was behind the Oklahoma City bombing. There is no corollary to that on the left, none. That's just insane.
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    11/06/09

    @Mediahohoho: I've never seen Olbermann cry when discussing republicans, the way I see Beck cry when discussing Obama. I feel like crying every time that "person of color" John Boehner opens his mouth.
    People can call MSNBC "left leaning" but they regularly give Pat Buchanan airtime for his crazy old time republican nonsense, and Joe Scarborough (un)Fair his own show. The best that Fox could do was let Alan Colmes meekly defend the left from time to time. #keitholbermann
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    11/06/09

    @Gawkerati: AHAHA!!! The left? #keitholbermann
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    11/06/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: You are either blind, deaf and dumb...or I don't know what. MSNBC is 'mildly skewed' to the left? Have you ever watched the tv channel before? Olbermann is going to be getting the Nobel Prize in 2010 for "Righteous Liberal Indignation". Closely edging out Maddow. But not to worry, Ed Schultz, David Schuster and Chris Matthews are total right wingers. #keitholbermann
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    11/07/09

    @Lance Uppercut: No, you're just someone who's bought into the insanity that is American politics, where right is now center and full-on reactionary wingnuttery is treated as valid commentary. What I said was that this is how these people would be perceived anywhere else in the world, and I stand by that. #keitholbermann
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Why Keith Olbermann Didn't Literally Kill Sean Hannity at This Baseball Game
    It's called Invidiocy, and it works. Sometimes. However, when Henry Kissinger had his 700-page alibi coming out at the same time as Eddie Fisher's autobiog, he sought to dismiss as a lightweight the former husband of Liz Taylor, and it didn't catch. Nobody read Henry's masterwork. Boo-hoo. #keitholbermann
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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Keith Olbermann Passes Another Milestone on the Way to Becoming His Own Caricature
    Five bucks says more than half of you have not a clue about living in this utopian mecca you've made universal health care out to be. And yet, somehow, you wear this hilarious conviction that it is the answer.

    Having practiced at an NHS hospital in Manchester, UK, I'll tell you no system is perfect. And, newsflash, whether you're talking about Denmark, Sweden, UK, or Canada there are brazen inequities.

    No one is actually entitled to anything in life. No one TODAY is innately entitled to care from a doctor anymore than people were thousands of years ago (ohhh, all those uninsured cavemen and women! how did they do it?!) . We've decided we'll fight for people's rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Fair enough. But I'm not going to fight for your right to demand that a doctor treat you. As cold as it is to say, the frank reality is it's not a human right.

    The truth of the matter is we have a system that, for all its flaws, works for most. There are free-market solutions to address cost and aid the uninsured and under-insured. If you don't want to hear it, you don't want to hear it.
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    10/08/09

    @crooked_teeth: What exactly are those 'free-market solutions' to aid the un and under-insured? I DO want to hear it (I mean, you had the space). The emergency room? That's the only one I can think of and that's hardly any kind of real 'solution', medically or economically. And you're fine 'fighting for people's right to pursue happiness' but not health care? Well guess what: people tend to be pretty unhappy when they have a toothache for two years because they can't afford to go to a dentist or go bankrupt because they were in an accident or have to sell their house to pay for their child to have a heart operation. And if basic health care isn't a human right in a civilized society I'm honestly not sure what is. (How do you feel about the fire department?) Not to mention: what exactly is this "right to life" you're fine fighting for (begrudgingly, apparently) if it has nothing at all to do with health?
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    10/08/09

    @crooked_teeth: Ah, yes. The Fox News method: start with a premise that's a complete lie, and you get to say anything! Fun!

    But anyone with firing synapses is bound to realize that nobody thinks universal health care will be a "utopian mecca."

    They *will* argue, however, that it absolutely *is* a human right. And you might mount a reasonable argument against that idea -- but nothing you said actually addresses it at all. You basically just used several dozen words to say "me no like universal health care. And also, Liberty good"

    The reason that what you say sounds cold (basically, "I got mine, and everyone else can go to hell") is because it *is* cold. Heartless, really, but also clueless. Come back in 15 or 20 years and tell us how well the system is still going for "most."
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Keith Olbermann Passes Another Milestone on the Way to Becoming His Own Caricature
    Or maybe you can shut the hell up, John Cook.

    Your opinion on Olbermann's actions last night is in the minority, where the average IQ is 5.

    --kyle
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Keith Olbermann Passes Another Milestone on the Way to Becoming His Own Caricature
    Taking away from the labor of one man to give to another is pure tyranny.
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    10/08/09

    @Rob Yeahok: Name one society in which this doesn't happen in one form or another. Too bad for you you have to live on the planet with other humans, eh?
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Keith Olbermann Passes Another Milestone on the Way to Becoming His Own Caricature
    Jeez, I haven't had cable for over a year now -- when did Olbermann gain fifty pounds?
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    10/08/09

    @ifstone: It's just his head, and it was sometime around November 4 of last year.
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    10/08/09

    In reply to Keith Olbermann Passes Another Milestone on the Way to Becoming His Own Caricature
    HAHA, he did news commentary on a news commentary show.

    THE NERVE.
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    10/08/09

    @Muggs Bigglesworth: i definitely came to this gossip site to hear how a pundit should act like a real newsman in order to fix healthcare for the nation.
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