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Mediahohoho
07/16/09

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I like Olbermann. I think he's smart, a good editor, a smart writer and he concentrates on issues that I care about. I can't think of anyone on the right who matches up.

Man-Cow, on the other hand, is a ludicrous clown.
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i'm a bottle
07/16/09

@Mediahohoho: Yes, this guy's certainly a joke, but his listeners scare me. You can smell the seething violence beneath their Men's Warehouse suits as they nurse their Bud Lites on the stool next to you.
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Mediahohoho
07/16/09

@i'm a bottle: I think I'm lucky that I grew up in a shitty radio market and don't drive to get to work. What is it about people who need to have their worst instincts affirmed by "wild men" "willing to say anything" to entertain people who just don't want to think too hard? Even if you're well paid as WXXX's morning goofball man-of-the-people, doesn't there come a point where you realize you're nothing but a sad clown?
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i'm a bottle
07/16/09

@Mediahohoho: He's a sad little man. While Obama is giving highly inspirational -- though nuanced -- speeches in front of the NAACP promoting a politics of personal responsibility and social justice, we have this angry homunculus spreading destructive messages encouraging needless anger and hate in service of his own selfish ends. It's too bad Americans aren't savvy enough to see this guy for what he really is: laughable but still dangerous.
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i'm a bottle
07/16/09

@i'm a bottle: What a cynical, destructive and opportunistic existence; he's like Ann Coulter, he just says these inappropriate and fringe things for attention, to increase his relevance. I'm sure he would reinvent his politics if he were working a different market.
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Spirit Fingers
07/16/09

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Guy had two minutes of almost-celebrity and now he thinks he can do a Limbaugh. I'd scoff, but the right wing actually does embrace these guys. I bet they're outfitting him for a Fox News complimentary jockstrap as we speak.
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Hey_mikey
07/16/09

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You liberals, (I mean, we liberals), will never actually exercise actual political power because we are unable to support our media - as the right supports Fox et al. If you're a liberal and you don't like Olbermann, I mean, wtf? How cringing and picky are you going to be?
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Cicada
07/16/09

@Hey_mikey: I am "cringing and picky" enough to not need my political views spoon-fed back to me by an egotistical buffoon.
Honestly, if Keith Olbermann is the flag-bearer of liberalism then we're doomed anyway.
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Anthony De Rosa
07/16/09

@Hey_mikey:

The way the right supports Fox et al. is exactly why they're completely outside of power right now.

Embracing idiots is not a wise strategy, no matter what political affiliation they pretend to be.
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Awesome X
07/16/09

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A guy who is half-man, half-cow has no right to attack anyone's heritage.
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ChillbearLatrigue
07/16/09

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Attacking anyone's heritage and creed (although the descriptors here are not accurate) is reprehensible. Let alone calling someone a turd. However, aside from Obama's status a human being, he is also the President. The office itself deserves respect. I am frustrated with our President's reckless spending policies as well, but I attack those decisions and not the man, who is not a Kenyan national or a Muslim.

Not that there would be an excuse for Muller's line, but I would have liked to hear the whole quote. The Chicago Tribune audio didn't include anything else.
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misslinda
07/16/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: In defense of calling people turds, I have called the VP of my co-op board a turd on many, many occassions because of his reckless policies. It's a good word, and I'm not taking it out of my repertoire.
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ChillbearLatrigue
07/16/09

@misslinda: Duly noted. Misslinda may keep the word "turd" in her lexicon. I guess actually I should have changed my wording. The denigration of someone because of race or creed is reprehensible. The word turd is fine, but is inappropriate in this case.
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Island of Misfit Toys
07/16/09

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Mancow used to be featured on Fox and Friends.
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DaeSu
07/16/09

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I get the impression, John, that you think Olbermann, for all his liberal bluster, is as much of an insufferable tool as I do. I had to stop watching when I began yelling at the TV, even though I agreed with him.
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