Now - one does not have to be a rocket scientist to realize that Media Matters is merely clips, either sound or video, of what someone has said; not unlike what Ian did with ExposetheLeft.com before he joined hotair.com, which does the same thing.

Now how O’Reilly can actually put the notion out there that being “called on the carpet” with authentic clips of what he actually has said on Fox and on Radio are nothing more than smears and he succeeds in getting these wacky people to buy in to it, is amazing. What better proof of something said than a video or sound clip, so I guess the bigger question is why are these Right Wingers so uptight about the fact checking that follows their vitriol?

The other thing is that Bill Clinton is correct about Fox News. I live in NYC I know people who have been employed there, and being Right leaning it is a prerequisite to work there - you must be Conservative and they go as far as asking you, albeit illegal, what your political leanings are, period. People outside of “here” meaning The Big Apple can believe the hype, but it just isn’t true.

Whether Chris Wallace wears his Right leanings on his sleeve doesn’t really matter, however he is required to do Fox’s bidding and if you refuse to believe it, well you are foolish and needs some good old NY street smarts. O’Reilly does their bidding every night at 8PM.

I mean how dumbed down has America become? How did we get to a point where we are not allowed to question our President, where we must believe Rush, Michelle and Ann and believe that the news and the media has been hijacked by this vast Leftwing Conspiracy??

It’s silly and moreover anyone who buys into it needs an intervention, and not from Rush Limbaugh….

Keith Olberman is slanted Left, he makes no bones about it, just as Michelle Malkin or Debby Schussel make no bones about their idiology. When people are impassioned by their ideaology there is name calling. Michelle Malkin calls Olberman a pig, Rush calls Chelsea Clinton a dog, Ann Coulter calls the 9/11 widows harpies and calls Bill Clinton a serial killer, Bill O’Reilly calls Rosie O’Donell and idiot, that Right Wing talk show host from Boston, one of the better bloviaters, can’t remember his name, recently called Hillary a bitch but quickly changed it to witch on air with Tucker Carlson, George Allen calls an Indian Maccao and so on and so forth…the beat goes on and one person on The Left calls a Fox reporter a monkey….

Please people, ROTFLMAO….

This is “Inside Cable News”, not “Inside the Rightwing Blogosphere”. O’Reilly may be a more apt figure for comparison, and he certainly can be characterized as a partisan commentator in the same general category as Olbermann, but do you have examples of O’Reilly doing something similar on his show?

I think Olbermann was over the top on this one, but I also think that he’s become so marginal that his behavior no longer really has any impact on anyone outside of his fan club. In my experience, marginalization often leads to bad behavior, especially in an industry where popularity, compensation and self-worth are often interchangable.

KO’s show, when it started, was really pretty good…then something happened to him. I rarely watch it anymore; he’s just too mean spirited for me now.

The name calling from all sides is becoming reprehensible and obnoxious. It makes me sad to see so much lack of respect portrayed in all forms of media, be it news, TV shows, films, or print. Rudeness seems to be the norm these days, especially for politicians and news commentators. However, Chris Wallace does not fall into this category. He has always appeared to be fair and impartial to me. I thought that he handled himself with dignity during President Clinton’s tirade. And, I do feel sorry for President Clinton. I’m not a fan of his, but I think that we all have bad days, and this was one of his. Unfortunately for him it wasn’t in the privacy of his own home…it was in the world’s face.

You cannot be serious with the rah-rah Pro-Fox article, I mean really Michelle calls Keith a pig, but that’s OK?

Again what is your point?

If this comment stands without an apology being issued, we’ll know that standards of NBC have sunk to new lows. No one should be able to get away with what Olbermann did to Wallace.

I’ve seen Wallace interview people many times and watched the video ofhim with Clinton twice; he comes off as a class act and nobody’s fool. O’Reilly is a lowbrow blowhard, but even he doesn’t bathe in the sewer the way Olbermann does.

To me, Olbermann’s rant communicated little except that (1)he’s really, REALLY pissed at Fox News and everyone who works there, including the janitors, (2) he thinks that BushChipHitlerCo is personally responsible for the fact that only a few dozen people watch his show regularly, and (3) his microphone needs a really thick spit shield.

As for the commentors, they are entitled to their opinions. I neither endorse nor condemn them as long as they a) keep it clean, b) play fair, and c) aren’t too rude. I’d like to have no rudeness at all but given the volatile nature of discussions involving Olbermann…or for that matter O’Reilly…trying to establish a zero rudeness policy would necessitate wiping out 99% of the comments.

It’s obvious to anyone who looks at this thread that people are just talking past one another. Those who hate Olbermann find what happened as just another example of why they hate him. Those who like Olbermann find what happened as evidence that there’s a voice on the left willing to go toe to toe with the other side.

My only concern and my blog entry’s only concern is his treatment of Wallace. Everything else you read here is not germaine for me.

To get to this site I clicked on a link on Michelle Malkin’s site. The text that I clicked on was:

“And then there was that execrable MSNBC pig daring to call Chris Wallace a “monkey.”

That took me to hotair.com the 2nd line in the story calls Keith a “douche” a link to t
a video of Keith’s commentary provided on hotair with instructions to click on the “retard” (Keith) to watch. Another link on hotair.com brought me hear.

On this site I see that Keith is called childish names like Odoerman, Dobermann, and Older-man.

I guess all of these people agree that Keith crossed a line by name calling. I guess Michelle Malkin had some point to make by calling him an execrable MSNBC pig. Irony is…

This article was right on, and not biased at all. To claim that the article is ‘pro-foxnews’ is idiotic… how could someone read this article and think that it supports fox is beyond me.

Also you should note that they use the Orielly “talking points” as a justification for Olberman making rude comments.

I’m sorry, but could this person please show me the “talking points” where Bill Oreilly makes “ad hominem” attacks on Tom Brokaw? Or actually, where Bill O. makes any ad hominem attacks (aside from calling someone a pinhead)?

Olberman is a tool of the highest order, and the fact that he would go off on Chris Wallace, makes me wonder if tomorrow he’ll be going off on Lehrer from PBS!

I know this is cheating but here’s a little hint —

All that news footage we routinely see of Osama sashaying through those desert terrorist training camps, they were taken during the Clinton years. Sure doesn’t appear to me that he’s too concerned about his wellbeing. Or maybe… you’re the only one who has the footage showing OBL cowering in a cave cursing that terrorist tactician, Bill Clinton!

Fess-up Rex

Keith is a graduate of a second tier Ivy League school (couldn’t get admitted to Yale or Harvard or Princeton), is bottom tier “journalist” (check his ratings), and a very average sports commentator.

Perhaps Ms. Olderman is envious of real journalists. Like I said, I’m still laughing at “her” interview with Bill Clinton.

The problem, in the Clinton interview case is not that Chris Wallace asked the question; the problem is how Chris Wallace FRAMED the question, testifying to the same malarkey about Clinton doing too little to stop Osama (with the implication, oft repeated on FNC, that Clinton was to blame for 9/11). In short, he repeated a right-wing lie about Clinton to Clinton’s face, and didn’t even have the stones to admit it was HIS question, and said it came from “viewer mail.”

KO may have been over the top in his disdain for Chris Wallace, but he was NOT out of line, sir.

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Clinton did try several times to kill Osama, Bush tried ZERO times. Clinton did leave comprehensive information on where Osama was and how to get him, which was ignored by Bush. Bush has done a horrible job going after Osama and we’re nowhere nearer to catching him now than 5 years ago.

how exactly do you know any of that? where do you keep your crystal ball? no wait, let me guess, you keep it in front of your couch, in the form of a tv, and when you look in it, you see Olbermann telling you dirty little secrets.

As for fighting them there versus here, well there’s a hell of a lot of them fighting us there and nothing has happened here (or to US interests abroad, for that matter) since 9/11, so it looks like that worked! I actually am of the opinion that the way things are going is, and always was, the long term goal - put troops abroad to act as magnets to fight the Islamists away from the US. It could never be stated overtly as such, but, in essence, it is a solid strategy.

As for WMD, guess you missed that they have found some - maybe not as much as everyone in the world’s intelligence services though there were, but they’re there. I guess a couple of Sarin-filled artlllery shells exploded in a major US metropolitan area would be OK?

That might be because Spud’s post is about Olbermann’s name-calling, not the accuracy of his political cant. It’s about one network “anchorman” referring to another, much more successful journalist as “a monkey”.

That should a no-brainer for you, unless you have been brainwashed so much there is no way to bring you back to reality.

In my opinion, Wallace was very professional throughout the Clinton interview. He handled whatever Clinton threw at him with a neutral emotion that serves him well as a journalist.

It seems to me that these “special comments” are geared more towards making a splash on liberal blogs and You Tube than they are as commentary for the general viewer. To me, he’s more interested in popularity amongst his own crowd than he is at being accurate and informative. Am I the only one extremely turned off by the change in camera angles that project a rehearsed sermon rather than news? Is he trying to be more an actor than a journalist? If so, he’s succeeding in achieving a pseudo-Sean Penn aura.

Keith Dobermann is a former SportsCenter anchor and now the host of Countdown on MSNBC which routinely places at the bottom of the ratings in the 8pm timeslot. He throws paper balls at the camera and plays with his puppet theater and I think he even begged his viewers to vote him as Playgirl’s sexiest male newscaster.

This sounds like a (mostly) interparty Dem discussion, so I hesitate to insert myself (not a Clinton pun), but I must say, allowing that Chris Wallace is a “fellow journalist” of Keith Olbermann’s is to do a disservice to Wallace much more significant than Olbermann’s “monkey” epithet.

Clearly Olbermann is completely out of his league in televised commentary, his league being the fever swamps of the left blog world. Spurlee (#3) and 1angryC have it right, I think; let’s just hope that MSNBC delays firing him until he brings on the Loose Change crowd and accuses Bush of 3,000 counts of first degree murder…

Olbermann’s transparent attempt to suck up to Clinton– going so far as to hand him a personal donation in the middle of the interview– looks especially pathetic when compared to Wallace interview.