“I also, I don’t think in these issues that I’m a liberal; I think that I’m an American. I think I’m acting almost as a historian on these particular things”

What a joke, you’re an American altright Keith an extemely liberal American.

erljr, thanks for the quotes and I for one don’t need to hear Olbermann state that he is a liberal, that much is obvious.

However, back to the subject at hand, whether he is merely anchoring tomorrow night and Abrams is able to keep him on a tight leash, we will have to wait and see. However, I’m sure it will be extremely difficult for Keith to restrain his partisan hack rhetoric, particularly if the Republicans retain the Senate (a very real possibility) and/or retain the House (a long shot). Olbermann has no place in MSNBC’s plans for the elections if they want to at least convey the appearance of non-partisan coverage.

I’m sure the usual suspects will disagree, but judging by the lineups for tomorrow, FNC has the fairest and most well rounded panels and anchors of any.

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050610.asp#4

Asked by the Houston Chronicle if he’s “liberal or conservative?”, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann admitted that “a lot of my personal world view is unmistakably sympathetic to things in a liberal play book,” but he insisted “my point of view is about delivering information and context. It has nothing to do with a political point of view.”

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/11/olbermann/index2.html

“you’ve become something of a hero to the liberals in the blogosphere. Was there a conscious choice made to reach out to them?”

“No, I don’t think so. I had gathered for a while that they had felt themselves very underserved in the media, and a reasonable analysis would suggest that’s true overall. But you can go out and, I think, find a certain kind of person who wants to sit there and be told what to think by the television. These tend to be authoritarian personalities, as John Dean has suggested in his book. I don’t know if it’s true for other political people. I don’t think you can get a bunch of liberals to watch one television network, because they’d be sitting there arguing the nuance of it. So I’m not courting the liberals.
I also, I don’t think in these issues that I’m a liberal; I think that I’m an American. I think I’m acting almost as a historian on these particular things, with the Rumsfeld commentary and now the Bush commentary. I get nauseated when I see someone perpetually wrap themselves in the flag — which is the logo that appears on Fox, that’s what they’re doing, and many other people do it.”

Now your OBSCESSION with getting Olbermann to say the exact words you want is as pointless as those, including Olbermann, who used to obscess about getting President Bush to admit a mistake. Once he did, they pounced. Of course, most of us heard him admit mistakes years before the looney left did.
Olbermann continues to get under your skin because he and MSNBC won’t come out and hold a press conference to tell you straight up that, yes, Keith Olbermann is liberal and he lets out his liberal viewpoint in what he says on his show. Duh! He proclaims it every night on his show. Do you have any doubt that Aaron Brown is liberal? Lou Dobbs, except on illegal immigration? Do you have any doubt that Brit Hume is conservative? Oh, yeah, Brit Hume has actually said the words!
If anyone reading this has any doubt about Keith Olbermann being liberal, I have some swampland in Arizona I’m selling. Any takers?

Not so fast ladyone,
Have you ever wondered why such a large percentage of Americans don’t like the way the President is handling the war in Iraq? The pollsters are mostly liberals, or they would be asking WHY we disapprove. Most of the people I know are MORE hawkish than the President and Rumsfeld. They take more of a Bill Crystal view. They think not killing Muqtada al-Sadr and not bombing mosques full of weapons and killers at the beginning of the conflict was a big mistake and continues to be a mistake; and we feel that making a course correction in that regard and that direction would change our minds about the “handling of the war” question.

I really just wanted to “correct” erljr who wrote:

“Those of you saying Olbermann won’t admit he’s liberal are wrong. He’s said it many times. Now the “screaming” liberal he doesn’t and won’t admit to.”

This statement is false. In fact, the complete opposite is the case. You can read the FAQ at OlbyWatch for more but the short version is that Keith not only does not admit to being a liberal but claims to be have no INTEREST in any particular electoral outcomes.

This is typical OlbyLoon behavior. There is not a single instance of Keith EVER copping to be a liberal yet erlyjr makes his claim AS IF he can back it up and hopes that the less informed reader will believe him. As the world’s leading expert on Olbermann, let me assure you that Keith has never made any admission about his liberal slant. How can you be sure? Because if he had we would have that quote emblazoned across the top of Olbermann Watch along with all of his other quotes claiming he has NO political agenda.

Post the quotes. Show us.

How MSNBC can put this type of one-sided “analysis” on on election night is “unknowable”, to borrow from Sec. Rumsfeld.

They can be sure that no conservatives will be watching.

Although Brit Hume and his panels lean right, they are the only ones who will give us the straight scoop without pointing fingers. Two years ago Shep hosted another panel on the Fox broadcast stations which was more ideologically balanced. I hope they will do that again, but I haven’t heard anything.
Out of all of them - including ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, C-Span, as well as the cable nets, FNC and Fox had the best coverage last time. FNC has had a policy of being up-front and honest about bias and trying to balance it out. All of the others need to come out of the closet and do the same if they want to compete.

Again, total speculation, but I could see Olbermann serving as the “reporter” who they toss to for results and so on, and Matthews will lead the discussion and do most of the interviews. Now, I know Spud/most of you were making the point that he’s not qualified to do that role anymore based on his actions. But I guess MSNBC thinks he is. We’ll see how it plays out and if it pays off on Tuesday.

Personally, I’ll probably be switching between the three cable nets through the night and probably over to the broadcast nets when they do their one hour (just one!?). Though after a certain point MSNBC will be the only one planning on being live, so that’s probably where I’ll end up if things are still interesting at that point.

Geez-Louise! What is it about this playing field that at lot of you folks don’t get? Yes, MSNBC leans left….so what? FNC leans right. Big deal.

I watch them all, including the major networks, plus I read blogs and newspapers, and listen to radio news to get a well-rounded input. Slam everybody, or slam nobody.

Don’t you get it? Unless its unanchored coverage by C-SPAN, EVERY outlet has a bias!

Wow, limitless! That’s a lot of knowledge!

You got that right. They may be watching now, but their ratings are going to be pretty mediocre on Election Night IMO.

While any observer, liberal or conservative, smart or dumb would know immediately that Olbermann is far-left after viewing one night of Countdown, it’s a major blight on Olbermann and MSNBC that they refuse to admit the nature of his work and program in general.

Wednesday night’s vitriol, along with the rant on 9/11/06, leaves absolutely zero doubt that Olbermann will do anything other than bash Republicans and cheer for democrats on that night. Here’s the question, though: if Republicans hold both houses, will he air a “special comment” bashing American voters? Or will he just do what he did in 2004 and say the election was a fraud with zero evidence to back him up?

Few will be watching, that’s for sure.