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ericajane
10/20/09

Former New York Giant Tiki Barber with a taller than he is and quite pretty blond in Starbucks at Astor Place/Cooper Square at 12:45pm. Tiki was looking cool and relaxed in grey flannels and a beige sweater with matching newsboy cap.

#stalker #tikibarber #starbucks
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OMG! Ponies!
01/31/09

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Do they eat regular pancakes in Pittsburgh? Or does Pittsburgh Pancake mean something gross and scatalogical like Boston Pancakes does?
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WretchedGnu
01/31/09

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Um, well, although it's fashionable among a certain kind of leftist to denounce Olbermann as the O'Reilly of the Left -- thus demonstrating the startling and envious independence of one's mind -- the banal fact is that if you can't see the difference between Olbermann's monologues and O'Reilly's insane, fact-free blathering... well, I'm not sure how you managed to successfully cross the street this morning.
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Inescapable Picnic
01/31/09

@WretchedGnu: Seriously. Let's all put on our Aretha Franklin Critical Thinking Hats instead of bemoaning it all being the same.
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Joshua David Stein
01/31/09

@Inescapeable Picnic: Hey! hey! hey! HEY! Not saying the man is like O'rally at all. Also, it may be noted that one can shout without raising the volume of ones voice.
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unclevanya
01/31/09

@Joshua Stein: True, to be fair, Mediahoho was the commenter responsible for the "lefty O'Reilly" comparison.

But I think the first five words of your post sort of painted the picture that prompted such hasty analogies.

For all his histrionics, Olbermann actually thinks before he speaks, and cite facts based in reality. For all of Rachel Maddow's farm-fresh charm (personally I think she will have a short shelf-life), I'll take Olbermann any day. He says useful things in a theatrical way. He's not just another Big Media-constructed lobbybot like O'Reilly and Hannity.
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Mediahohoho
01/31/09

@Joshua Stein: If you got through the last 8 years thinking there weren't some very important things worth "shouting" (in a non-raised voice sort of way, or otherwise) about, then I'd like to check your pulse. Olbermann has been on top of issues like torture, the politicization of national security (and especially 9/11), the neglect of veterans and the theft of our civil liberties in a way that I'm glad someone with a microphone and an audience was. But since you think he's an idiot and "shouty" (and please, can we give that particular blogective another two seconds and forget it?), anyway, read one of his special comments and go ahead and top it. Can't wait to read it, Josh.

There are plenty of things to criticize Olbermann for (personally I think the feud with O'Reilly is beyond silly; it's like arguing with an annoying poodle, intellectually). But the way you went at him on this post was just reflexively Freeperish, like you'd digested the full plate at the Malkin/Hannity Diner and decided to spew. Usually, you're more thoughtful.

And of course Olbermann knew Colicchio was going to be part of the pre-game. It's his job.
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flossy
01/31/09

@Joshua Stein: He's not the O'Reilly of the left in that he isn't a deranged lunatic who screams over people he doesn't agree with and cuts off their mics if they dare continue. He is, however, an insufferably sanctimonious douchenozzle, who, despite the fact that I agree with 99% of his views, I cannot stomach for more than five minutes.

Just as O'Reilly epitomizes the angry, fact-averse right wing blowhard we all love to hate, Keith Olbermann is the archtypal supercilious, holier-than-though liberal blowhard that makes me want to spit my latte out of my Volvo's window in shame.
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mathnet
01/31/09

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Joshua David Stein In Love With Mathnet
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
01/31/09

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"Shouty McFucking Idiot Keith Olbermann"

Too angry. Much too angry.

Great, now another Gawker blaguer hates me.
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unclevanya
01/31/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Don't blame Josh. With so many articles to write tofay, he fueled up with a big bowl of Owen Thomas Bran.

Olbermann is not the lefty O'Reilly. Saying that elevates O'Reilly to the level of journalist, which is just plain wrong. O'Reilly is a carny barker.

Rosie O'Donnell is the lefty O'Reilly.
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Kobayashi Maru
01/31/09

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I saw Cash Cab the other day, and the contestant's hard question phone call was to, oddly, Tiki Barber. They got the question wrong, and the guy had to walk. There's a few things he's apparently unqualified to do.
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Mediahohoho
01/31/09

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See the thing is, he doesn't shout.

But you'd have to actually watch the show to notice that.
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Mediahohoho
01/31/09

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Lots of hate from someone who apparently has never seen Keith Olbermann's show in its entirety, but has heard that Keith is the left's version of Bill O'Reilly--because that's what someone else said, so he'll go with that--for the purpose of making a reality show reference that, in the end, doesn't even make sense.

Well, played, ineffectual anti-psychotic meds, well played.
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naugahydeinplainsight
01/31/09

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As penance, Keith should have to team with Tom for a spot on "The Wurst Person in the Woorrrrllldd!"
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Kid Twist
01/31/09

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Does anyone remember that time at Yankee Stadium when Chuck Knoblauch tried to throw the ball to first base and it sailed into the stands instead and hit this woman in the face who turned out to be of all people Keith Olbermann's mom? I still wish it had been Keith instead.
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randomnessish
01/31/09

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The other night I realized one single truth: that Keith Olbermann is the Leftist version of Bill O'Reilly. And with that, I slept the sound, contented sleep of one who knows everything worth knowing in the world.
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leonleonleon
01/31/09

@randomnessish: You only realized this yesterday?
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pufflehuff
02/01/09

@randomnessish: Hm, I dunno. Whereas Olbermann's Special Comment on gay marriage was heartfelt and right, O'Reilly's much more shouty and ugly and hate-filled, e.g. "you can marry 18 people, you can marry a duck."

[mediamatters.org]

[thinkprogress.org]

What does o'Reilly love? What indeed. Sexual harassment, it seems. Perpetrating, rather than receiving.

[www.google.co.uk]

Enjoy your education!
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