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more about #keitholbermann more comments → uptown: 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. #keitholbe... more » Gawkerati: 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 more » Tremonius: 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 aut... more » crooked_teeth: 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... more » Kyle Brady: 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 more » Rob Yeahok: Taking away from the labor of one man to give to another is pure tyranny. more » ifstone: Jeez, I haven't had cable for over a year now -- when did Olbermann gain fifty pounds? more » Muggs Bigglesworth: HAHA, he did news commentary on a news commentary show. THE NERVE. more » Mediahohoho: Have you given any thought to actually fact-checking what Olbermann said, or is your point that he shouldn't have chosen the medium he did for that me... more » zagger: You guys should have listened closer to what Olbermann was saying instead of how he was saying it. He made several good points about healthcare; he'... more » Mediahohoho: So? About 45,000 people die every year because they lack health insurance. I'm fairly sure those are the deaths to which he was referring. Or maybe it... more » leeward0016: Keith,you think health care is bad.Disguise youself and try an inner city ER,hell,try any ER,claim some backpain or stomach ache,if you say chest pain... more » cockfightbarmitzvah: In a media landscape where Glenn Beck & Fox News have done so much damage to the health care debate by not only indulging in the lies and deceptio... more » huntalison: While Olbermann clearly likes using big words while talking about big issues, I think his special comment was actually a refreshing take on an issue t... more » MBM: The SNL version still felt longer. more » -
#feuds
Why Keith Olbermann Didn't Literally Kill Sean Hannity at This Baseball Game
Keith Olbermann and Sean Hannity snapped cutesy pictures of one another at a World Series game, even though Hannity's boss Rupert Murdoch just yesterday said there was a nasty "personal" feud going between the TV opinion hosts. He wishes. More » -
#gasbags
Keith Olbermann Passes Another Milestone on the Way to Becoming His Own Caricature
Keith Olbermann's hour-long, uninterrupted, endless "Special Comment" last night was actually called "The Fight Against Death." You will lose that fight, Keith. We all will. More » -
#attendance
Keith Olbermann Will Explain Where In the World He's Been
Keith Olbermann has worked 13 days this month, leaving Countdown to be guest-hosted by Lawrence O'Donnell or David Shuster on eight nonconsecutive nights. This is after a two-and-a-half week vacation in July. He's back tonight, and MSNBC says he'll explain. More » -
#tributes
Sarah Palin, 'The World's Greatest'
Since most Sarah Palin fetishists think she's Christ reincarnated with a folksy twang and fertile vagina, it stands to reason that someone would eventually make a Palin video tribute set to the music of R. Kelly. That time is now. More » -
#excuses
Olbermann Plays the Bereaved Son Card in the Richard Wolffe Fiasco
Tonight Keith Olbermann explained why he was ignorant of the fact that one of Countdown's regular political analysts/guest hosts is a working lobbyist — he's been too distracted grieving his mother's death. Boy, doesn't that sound familiar?!
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#mediawars
Bill O'Reilly Flexes His Independence
On Monday night, in response to a Times report alleging that Fox and NBC had brokered a deal to end his feud with Bill O'Reilly, Keith Olbermann lashed out at the world. Tonight it was O'Reilly's turn to rebel. More » -
#controversies
Richard Wolffe's Ethical Swamp Grows Even Murkier
MSNBC and Richard Wolffe have been taking heat for Wolffe's employment at the network as a political analyst and guest host for Keith Olbermann while also working as a lobbyist/publicist. Now Wolffe's secret Obama book proposal has been revealed. More » -
#feuds
Keith Olbermann Against the World
Tonight Keith Olbermann returned from vacation and used his "Worst Persons" segment to emphatically rebuff the Times report stating that he and Bill O'Reilly's feud has been muzzled by corporate chieftains. He also addressed the Richard Wolffe situation online.
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#shills
MSNBC: The Place for Publicists
Richard Wolffe used to be a Newsweek reporter, but now he's a strategist at PR firm Public Strategies. On Friday he guest-hosted MSNBC's Countdown. His first topic: how awesome healthcare reform is. Guess what his clients think of healthcare reform?
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#corporateconspiracy
The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald posted a scathing column about the armistice between GE and News Corp meant to end Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann's fueding. It's a chilling read, and brings in a tangentially related player: Richard Wolffe.
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#journalismism
NBC Agrees to Muzzle Journalists Following Fox News Pressure
Friday night is for dumping embarrassing news, as media companies well know. So it is that the New York Times now surfaces a secret deal in which NBC is said to cravenly promise to ease its criticism of Fox News. More » -
#mediacrack
Donny Deutsch, Howard Dean Also Journalists Now
In your woozy Tuesday media column: MSNBC pulls in the crazies for airtime, Gallant former journo beats Goofus current journo, NYT family members catch the swine flu, and the LA Times is all fucked up. More » -
#usefulidiots
The Company Keith Olbermann Keeps
Remember Erich "Mancow" Muller, Keith Olbermann's radio-clown pal who kept getting MSNBC airtime because Olbermann found his waterboarding conversion politically useful to flog even though it was a hoax? He just called Barack Obama a "Kenyan-Muslim turd" on the radio. More » -
#gawkerneverforgets
Surprise! Mancow Wasn't Telling the Truth When He Blamed Cops for His Waterboarding Hoax
One of the strangest explanations Chicago shock jock Erich "Mancow" Muller gave for why his publicist had called his waterboarding "a hoax" was that he risked arrest if she said otherwise. For real? Like Mancow's original stunt, that's a fabrication. More » -
#matrices
The Political Empathy Matrix
How to determine your Political-Empathy quotient: On one axis find your political ideology somewhere between the two poles of Conservative and Liberal. On the other axis we have "Us"(inclusive) vs. "Them"(exclusive). Yes. More » -
#tvnews
Keith Olbermann's Ego Trumps the Truth
Oh man, Keith Olbermann took to his nightly airwaves to try and shame CityFile, Wonkette and us for raising questions about his unexplained vacation last April. We're not sorry. More »
