Uh oh…
Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda — worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.
- Keith Olbermann in the October 2007 issue of Playboy…
*Sigh*
How can someone so shallow, be so far off the deep end?
*Sigh*
Comment by ImNotBlue — September 10, 2007 @ 10:15 am
Give Me A Break!!
Comment by Ree — September 10, 2007 @ 10:22 am
Idiot! Greg Gutfeld was right about him.
Comment by Missy — September 10, 2007 @ 10:24 am
Another Al-Q tape coming today! Waleed Al Shehri was reported by OUR news orgs and GOVERNMENT as a hijacker.. Only one problem, he’s still alive along with several of the others named. See, thats the problem with lying, it gets ya caught in other lies. So, if KO was really the “stud” his supports claim he is, you’d see this REPORTED on the news.. Which backs up my claim that BOTH parties share the same bed. Its all fun and games to rip on each other in public… but when it comes down to laying facts, neither side has the guts. And with that said, lying about WHO murdered these people is disgraceful.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm
Comment by Terance — September 10, 2007 @ 10:25 am
I should add that this is as bad as when the term “N*zi” is invoked for any type of perceived wrong - it’s never permissible to do so, because typically the wrong is nowhere near the devastation that the N*zi’s caused. Same here - he’s calling Murdoch et al worse than al Qaeda, an organization that murdered >3,000 of our people, and continues to torture and kill in other lands to this day?
Keith is apparently still whining because Murdoch fired him from a simple little sports gig. How infantile of him.
Comment by Missy — September 10, 2007 @ 10:28 am
My question mark (in post #5) was used not to question al Qaeda’s murderous and torturous ways, but to question how Keith could equate their horrendous acts with those of Murdoch.
Why doesn’t Keith go over to Iraq (as EVERY OTHER MEDIA TYPE IN THE WORLD HAS DONE) and find out about alQaeda for himself?
Comment by Missy — September 10, 2007 @ 10:31 am
See, thats the problem with lying, it gets ya caught in other lies.
Comment by Terance — September 10, 2007 @ 10:25 am
This sounds a lot more like there was a mistake of some sort… not lying. To be a lie, they would have had to KNOW that he was alive, and then say that he wasn’t.
This just looks like the got it wrong… which is still disturbing… but not necessarily lying.
Comment by ImNotBlue — September 10, 2007 @ 10:40 am
Ok, ImNotBlue. I just think with the magnitude of 9/11 and everything it spawned.. such as Americans/Iraqis dying in a war based on MORE lies.. the 9/11 commission should’ve made sure to get the facts right. However, I’d be willing to bet any US based journalist/anchor who pushed this angle would be fired or suffer from a heart attack, car wreck, etc…..if they continued to follow the trail.
Comment by Terance — September 10, 2007 @ 11:05 am
Gosh he really is stupid.
Comment by Liz — September 10, 2007 @ 11:07 am
What would one expect from a jock with a rock on his neck. Even when he talks about the war he has no idea what is going on in A-rock….on his neck!
Comment by Roger C. — September 10, 2007 @ 11:20 am
What a despicable person, I have one word for Keith, RESIGN!
Comment by CompMike — September 10, 2007 @ 11:22 am
Ok if O’Reilly said that MSNBC was worse than Terrorist or the Klan…just how much s**t would hit the fan with those comments?..they freak out when anyone calls them liberal.
KO has said that FOX news is worst then a Terrorist group that murdered 3000 Americans…yep thats your new “Murrow” isn’t it?
Comment by mlong — September 10, 2007 @ 11:26 am
I don’t recall Murdoch murdering 3,000 people on 9/11. He should apologize for this statement. It’s. . . .it’s. . . I don’t even know what it is beyond stupid. But at least it shows you what his priorities are-let’s foam at the mouth about Fox and Murdoch 24/7 no matter what.
Comment by Alison — September 10, 2007 @ 11:27 am
No surprise here…typical Olbermann far-left B.S.
Combine this with his absolutely unwatchable performances dragging down an already weak NBC Sports football pre/half/post show with weak “commentary” and
calling himself out as “The Worst Person In The NFL”
for his mystifying, badly-written & performed Michael Vick
commentary that led most of us who heard it to think he was almost defending Vick…then falsely attributing comments & actions to the wrong coach and having to lead off his 2nd regular season “Worst Person” with yet another correction…
Note to K.O.: This isn’t the barely-watched “Countdown”, Sixth-Wheel…..this is the big time….making error after error, then trying to make your apologies & corrections look like slough-offs ain’t cutting it…My God, you’re making Chris Collingsworth appear downright watchable!
No wonder this clown rates 3rd place at best in the far
deep reaches of cable news……
Comment by Nick D. — September 10, 2007 @ 11:31 am
OK, after all of his recent comments, I can’t believe they are keeping him on to do the NFL stuff (or maybe I can), especially after what happened to Rush. As the poster above me said, NBC already has horribly unwatchable commentary.
As far as MSNBC, I wouldn’t be surprised if they make that quote into a new commercial or something.
Hmmm, does Keith write for Newshounds?
Comment by Sarah — September 10, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
What else can you say but the guy is nuts…why would HE be in Playboy anyway? I thought he belonged to the toe tappers?
Comment by moonbeam — September 10, 2007 @ 12:11 pm
Terence, the BBC report you cite has been proven WRONG. It’s called mistaken identity. Look it up.
Jeez, I didn’t realize you were one of the 9/11 conspiracy whackos.
So lemme guess, Bush & Cheney were behind 9/11 and the entire U.S. government is involved in the coverup, right?
Did you happen to watch the History Channel documentary that debunked every single ridiculous theory you people throw out there?
As for Olbermoron’s comments…what do you expect. He’s a little child who seeks attention in any way that he can.
Comment by bigred — September 10, 2007 @ 12:35 pm
So, Keith would approve the killing of 3000 more innocent Americans (and multiple tens of thousands across the globe) if only Fox would be unplugged? Such a clear thinker obviously deserves his own TV show. If you consider msnbc TV.
Comment by Bonhomme — September 10, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
Bigred, the news orgs/fbi are the ones who released these 19 hijackers’ pictures. Its not my problem they took the US Governments “word” for it. And didn’t bother to do any fact checking.. Nor is it my fault the fraudulent 911 commission didn’t do their job in ascertaining all the facts. I’ve read the entire report, have you? Further, your assertion that I’m part of any kind of 911 conspiracy is laughable. I actually believe dems&repubs conspire TOGETHER to strip our rights, steal oil and pay for it with soldiers’ blood. With that said, I don’t like Bush and don’t care for Clinton or the other crooks/perverts either.
Comment by Terance — September 10, 2007 @ 1:06 pm
^ and this is about Olbermann calling FoxNews worse than the KKK & Al Qaeda…..how exactly?
Comment by Obama in 08! — September 10, 2007 @ 1:09 pm
Terence, yes, I’ve read the entire report. Would love to hear how it’s so wrong. And if Shehri wasn’t on those planes, who was?
The BBC got the story wrong. Go pray at the altar of Olbermoron.
Comment by bigred — September 10, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
What is the context of the comment? The snippet above is bad but what was the general point?
Comment by JT — September 10, 2007 @ 2:12 pm
Bigred, I’m scared of KO’s funny hair and therefore never watch him. But, keep playing that card.. maybe you’ll eventually win something or another?? What plane are you talking about? The one carrying nukes across the country recently?
Comment by Terance — September 10, 2007 @ 2:39 pm
This guy is the biggest idiot on MSNBC. He is so jealous that his show gets beat every night by fox and O’reilly.
Keith should just go away.
Comment by Bill — September 10, 2007 @ 2:54 pm
“He’s a little child who seeks attention in any way that he can.”
bigred, you hit the nail on the head…he reminds me of Paris Hilton in that respect…attention whores, yet no one can really seem to figure out why they are still famous.
Comment by Sarah — September 10, 2007 @ 3:00 pm
“Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda — worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.” –Charlie Gibson, 2007
Yes I know Charlie Gibson didn’t say that, but it seems absolutely crazy to see that quote with “Charlie Gibson” after it. Shouldn’t we find it just as “crazy” that Keith Olbermann said that, he is, after all, a “news” man.
Comment by Obama in 08! — September 10, 2007 @ 3:10 pm
For a site that declares itself “unvarnished,” you certainly have a lot of comment posters just to the “Right” of Mussolini.
What is this, the “Lobby” of “freerepublic.com”? Or is FOX paying staffers overtime to “blog” again?
Rupert Murdock has destroyed something we fought a revolution and a civil war to protect: a free press. The Cable “News” outlets (and I INCLUDE MSNBC in this), pimping for ratings and vying for who gets to broadcast the next blonde lost in the VI for advertising bucks will, in history, be damned for their role as accomplices in the conversion of “Free Press” to “News-O-Matic Magazines.”
The victory of the Television Tabloid is a bitter pill for those of us old enough to remember Murrow, and who grew up with Howard K. Smith, Cronkite, and Huntley/Brinkley.
Comment by Tyler Durden — September 10, 2007 @ 3:15 pm
Consider the source. He is and always has been stuck on stupid
Comment by Don — September 10, 2007 @ 3:18 pm
Idiot! Greg Gutfeld was right about him.
Missy: Hopefully, Gutfeld will address this in his Greg-A-Log tonight on “Red Eye.”
Comment by Ira — September 10, 2007 @ 3:42 pm
He won’t be called on for saying this. Olbermann gets more free passes than anyone I’ve ever seen. But the more he gets away with, the more he’s going to continue to mouth off like this until one day he WILL say something so far out that his employers won’t be able to ignore. Don Imus anyone?
Comment by Alison — September 10, 2007 @ 3:45 pm
He’s exactly right. Fox Propaganda network continually dumbs down the news (and I use that word loosely in connection with the network). It’s mostly opinion and conservative opinion at that. They CONSTANTLY deride democrats and blame EVERYTHING on Clinton. Sorry. That’s not news. It’s opinion.
Comment by DJShay — September 10, 2007 @ 3:50 pm
Not quite as libelous but rating much higher on the creepy old man scale: “When you’ve been through as much tumult as I have, you learn that age is way down on the list of what’s important in a relationship. The first question is, Can you stand being with this person? If the answer is yes, the rest doesn’t matter.”
Comment by Caufield — September 10, 2007 @ 3:56 pm
actually, keith, as always, is right on in his assessment of fox noise.
Comment by mick stone — September 10, 2007 @ 3:59 pm
For a site that declares itself “unvarnished,” you certainly have a lot of comment posters just to the “Right” of Mussolini.
Hey it’s the Blog that’s “unvarnished”. The comments are just that…comments. Most of the vocal commenters on this blog tend to lean right. I would like it if more left leaning comments were posted but I don’t have any control over making people comment…
Comment by Spud — September 10, 2007 @ 4:10 pm
I knew Obermann was a moron, but I just never knew how much of a moron.
Comment by spiffo — September 10, 2007 @ 4:18 pm
I wouldn`t compare fox to the clan but they are nothing but a propaganda outlet for the gop. As for ratings, Olbermann sometimes beats Bill in the 25-54 demographic and is by far the highest rated show on msnbc. A lot of this is because o`relly is suckh a baby he carried his hate nbc show to far and got people to watch olbermann. He is a bit over the top for me but he is one of the few to take on Bush in the media.
Comment by jeremy — September 10, 2007 @ 4:33 pm
Geez, the rightards just cannot stand it when people tell the truth about Bush, his war and all the other things he’s done to this country.
Wake up, mouthbreathers, because you are in the minority.
Comment by Terry C - Bush Enablers R Nutz — September 10, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
You people who are complaining about the right-leaning comments: Go ahead and whine. So you are saying that you actually agree with your hero, who states that Murdoch et al have done more to damage our country than al Qaeda? Why don’t any of you elaborate on that fact? And what has Murdoch done that is so bad - he’s being demonized just for allowing a conservative point of view to be put forth as well?
You people are so used to your hero KO and others in the MSM allowing only their point of view put to be forth that you are in total shock when you hear another opinion being aired. You seemingly can’t believe that anyone would disagree with the far-left talking points that are sop indoctrinated into your thinking, and are ready to take Fox to task for allowing an opposing view to be put forth.
While you hate FNC for allowing such discussion, you also hate them for the ensuing “discussion”, characterizing most of their political programming as “shoutfests”.
Hopefully the 9/11 families will hear Keith’s remarks, and “Imus” him once and for all. His remarks about Murdoch were a cruel assault on all of the survivors of the people who died a very excruciating death six years ago tomorrow. Keith went way overboard this time, and must be held accountable for his very careless words.
Comment by Missy — September 10, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
Keith makes a very telling point. 19 guys, mostly Saudi Arabians, kill about 3000 in New York.
Thanks to the war hysteria aided and abetted by Fox News, our score is now, what? 100,000? 200,000? Granted Murdoch didn’t push the button, but he did publish a lot of crap about how Iraq actually had something to do with 9/11, which, of course, they didn’t.
But hey, it’s not *your* kids that are dying, and the war is being charged to your grandchildren you’ll never meet, so what’s the problem? Get the war porn on, Fox!
Comment by LittlePIg — September 10, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
Thanks God someone in the media is telling the truth. KO is one of the very few out there exposing Faux Newz as the propoganda central for repulicans that it truly is. Thanks KO and keep up the good work.
Comment by KozmoD — September 10, 2007 @ 4:37 pm
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/66588/chicken_and_waffles/
Comment by yvonnejim — September 10, 2007 @ 4:40 pm
I suppose Mr. Obermann is taking the view that when people who vote in a democracy are consistently misinformed about the public servants who work for them, the result is a kind of chaos that can only compare to that of terrorism.
I think that, in the case of the Faux News Network, one could tar them with a brush of misinformation and disinformation. But that brush equally tars other networks as well as newspapers in the run up to the Iraq war. Nobody asked serious questions of the Bush Administration. And everyone treated the President as if he were a Hollywood movie star, consistently throwing him “softball” questions. All of the news networks approached the question of a war in Iraq as if it were a certainty and I worked for one of the news networks at the time. It made me sick.
So Mr. Obermann is caught in the act of a lamp calling the kettle black. It’s easy to, after everyone in America was faced with the reality of what kind of administration we have after Katrina to question things. But Keith was quite silent in 2001 and early 2002 when the NBC and MSNBC network were beating the drums of war along with the rest of the press.
Comment by Mark Hollis — September 10, 2007 @ 4:42 pm
Keith Olberman is right.
OBL murdered 3000 Americans. He didn’t not destroy US reputation around the world and damage our constitution. FOX “news” helped do that. FOX “news” propaganda on behalf of the worst foreign policy in US history has done the kind of damage to USA that OBL could only dream of. FOX crowd has cheered on policy that has turned USA into a pariah state around the world, even among our allies. We are despised even in countries like England because the Bush foreign policy which was sold to the country through FOX propaganda.
So yes FOX “news” has done more damage to USA than OBL and they are more dangerous than OBL.
Comment by MikeD — September 10, 2007 @ 4:45 pm
KO is 100% correct in his assertion. Fox is nothing but right-wing propaganda, the unofficial official spokes- channel for the White House.
Comment by msdobie — September 10, 2007 @ 4:46 pm
“I don’t recall Murdoch murdering 3,000 people”
No, Murdoch through his media empire helped murder hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq. He used his media empire as a propaganda organ to sell this ruinous war which has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and 4000 American soldiers. He has blood on his hands.
Comment by MikeD — September 10, 2007 @ 4:51 pm
“Granted Murdoch didn’t push the button, but he did publish a lot of crap about how Iraq actually had something to do with 9/11, which, of course, they didn’t.”
You’ve got to be kidding me. FoxNews is ONE channel on cable. Where was ABC, CBS, NBC, MS-NBC, CNN, and the countless newspapers? I seem to remember all these TV outlets had their own “rah-rah for war” right in step with FOX. Rubert Murdoch is not the boogeyman, wake up people.
Comment by Obama in 08! — September 10, 2007 @ 4:53 pm
Cue the slobbering morons who actually watch Fake News and believe it. And you idiots STILL think Saddam has something to do with 9-11!
Fake NEws viewers are really the dumbest people in the country. They lick the anus of Fake News all day long, but when you ask them, hey, do you think the media is biased, then they answer OF COURSE, except for Fake News! I love it!
Comment by Britany Spears — September 10, 2007 @ 4:59 pm
Noboby listens to this big idiot. I don’t know why Spud panders to him, knowing he is nothing but a clown. Let Daily Kos handle him and his moronic statements in its space.
Comment by RGL — September 10, 2007 @ 5:09 pm
Were you neophytes directed from DU or moveon.org?
Anyway, can you explain why you’re not calling out MSNBC as well? I specifically remember they had on a program entitled “Countdown to Iraq” (or something like that) that showed in primetime prior to the war. Everyone was awaiting the eventual war in the first few months of 2003.
But Keith couldn’t go after his current employer now, could he? And neither can you, because Keith didn’t tell you to do so.
Comment by Missy — September 10, 2007 @ 5:13 pm
I see the Daily Kos is sending people here to stick up for KO nutty words.
Comment by Rightisright — September 10, 2007 @ 5:18 pm
I just hope the question was: “Has al Qaeda affected your ratings?”
Otherwise, as a Countdown fan … what’s wrong with you, Keith?!
Comment by ToddfromToronto — September 10, 2007 @ 5:19 pm
Fox News viewers are the dumbest slobbering stupid idiots this country has to offer.
Just ask them, hey do you think the media is biased, and of course the morons shout with glee, of course it is, except for Fox News.
And they still think Saddam has helped with 9-11.
Comment by Britany Spears — September 10, 2007 @ 5:21 pm
No, they were directed here by Daily Kos, who actually directed them to this comment thread. Amazing.
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/10/161258/957
Comment by johnny dollar — September 10, 2007 @ 5:22 pm
Which blue blog linked to this site to bring all the nut roots on today?
It’s nice to know how the lefties in this country really feel….Rupert Murdoch (who incidentally has given money to Hillary Clinton) is worse than Al Qaeda and FOX is as bad as the KKK.
Keep up the great work guys! Your “General Betray Us” ad this morning was a nice touch too.
And maybe you haven’t noticed, but it’s AL QAEDA who is murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq. Not Bush, Murdoch, FOX News or Bill O’Reilly.
Comment by bigred — September 10, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
Anyway, can you explain why you’re not calling out MSNBC as well?
Right offhand, because that wasn’t the subject of the comment in question. I didn’t mention the Ivory Billed Woodpecker for the same reason.
All the corporate media outlets are quite complicit in the war hysteria, but Fox has a special place in the pantheon for its over-the-top hate- and fear-mongering. The other outlets are doing to cash in on modern tabloid journalism, but Mr. Murdoch has a mean streak he is nursing as well. Why, I can’t say, but it is certainly there.
So sure, MSNBC got on the war wagon - there was good money to be made there. But at least they put Keith out there to provide an opposing point of view.
Keith isn’t always right, not by a long shot. But when it comes down to wasted resources, both in blood and in treasure, Fox News is way, way, waaaay out in front of Osama in terms of pushing terror. That’s something I was aware of long before I ever heard of a sportscaster on MSNBC doing political commentary.
Comment by LittlePIg — September 10, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
No, they were directed here by Daily Kos, who actually directed them to this comment thread. Amazing.
Actually I saw this referenced in an Eschaton comment thread. Kos is a little too over-the-top for me.
Comment by LittlePIg — September 10, 2007 @ 5:28 pm
Perhaps readers from Kos or Eschaton can explain why it was such an outrage when O’Reilly compared some hate comments in Kos to the KKK and got roasted for it. But Olbermann can compare Fox to the KKK and people rush to defend him.
Comment by johnny dollar — September 10, 2007 @ 5:33 pm
And maybe you haven’t noticed, but it’s AL QAEDA who is murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq. Not Bush, Murdoch, FOX News or Bill O’Reilly
A couple of points.
1) al-Queda is not a synonym for “dead Iraqi”.
2) George Bush is the Commander-In-Chief of the United States, so yes, the responsibility for the deaths of all the bystanders in Iraq killed by the American military is, in legal fact, his responsibility.
We took a sledgehammer to swat a fly.
Comment by LittlePIg — September 10, 2007 @ 5:34 pm
“it’s AL QAEDA who is murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq”
Hey, Bigred! Kindly give me a link for this BS quote of yours, eh?
Comment by Terance — September 10, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
This man, just like most liberals, is an idiot. Its good that they are putting him on for the games. It lets the world see what the left has to offer.
Comment by Tom P — September 10, 2007 @ 5:37 pm
Perhaps readers from Kos or Eschaton can explain why it was such an outrage when O’Reilly compared some hate comments in Kos to the KKK and got roasted for it. But Olbermann can compare Fox to the KKK and people rush to defend him.
So you can defend your side whilst others cannot defend theirs? Lots of O’Reilly’s folks came to his defense, as I recall. I certainly didn’t join in. Again, I’m not a Kossack; the Kos people are a bit over-the-top (as you folks appear to be for your side).
Comment by LittlePIg — September 10, 2007 @ 5:38 pm
At first reading the comments I thought, “What a pathetic bunch, to question anyone else’s intelligence based on a single comment taken entirely out of context.” But then it became clear it was just the reactionary noise machine at work again. Of course the FOXFans are here in force — what else have they got to occupy their sad little lives?
Comment by ruthie — September 10, 2007 @ 5:45 pm
He’s just telling the truth
Comment by Jan — September 10, 2007 @ 5:48 pm
Regarding #55, LittlePig, I think Olbermann had a cable news program since 2003. He only started doing the “special comments” when it was “safe” to speak up against the administration (2006). And once the Dems retook the Congress, we really started hearing the “truth” from Mr. Olbermann. Funny how he manages all this outrage when it seem very profitable for him to do so. Never for a minute believe it was the other way around.
Also let us not forget he does have a forthcoming book titled, “Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration’s War on American Values” For this book to be profitable, it would have to be filled with “special comments.”
Comment by Obama in 08! — September 10, 2007 @ 5:55 pm
DJShay, you are wrong. FNC does not constantly deride democrats. Its not, “Welcome to Fox News, lets look at the headlines. Democrats are commies. Nancy Pelosi is a loser. Harry Reid is an insignificant baboon.” You just have problems with the fact that FNC is not in bed with “Progressive” ideals like much of the media.
BTW, if FNC was such a right-wing propoganda met, why do they accept advertising from AARP, Progressive auto insurance, and Michael Moore. If they were right wing, they would want advertising from only right-wing groups in my opinion.
Keith Olbermann is not a Journalist in my view. He should shut his trap.
Keith Olbermann is out of touch with reality, the left-wing Kool-aid has melted his brain. He should go back to collecting baseball cards and thinking up catch-phrases for Sports Center.
Comment by jmkaib — September 10, 2007 @ 5:59 pm
i wondered where all the bed-wetting dillusional 28%ers were…. and I found them at this blog.
Comment by me — September 10, 2007 @ 6:41 pm
Fox News was not alone in the lead-up to war. CNN and yes, even MSNBC and Olbermann himself were right there, cheering this government along every step of the way. To pinpoint the deaths in Iraq to one news channel is BS. And Olbermann’s comment was over the top, out-of-line and just plain out factually incorrect. It is very telling that his minions have been directed here to “defend” him. They obviously know that he has said something that very much needs defending.
Comment by Alison — September 10, 2007 @ 6:51 pm
Fox News employs Oliver North, the man who gave cakes, bibles, money and missiles to the radical Iranian Mullahs.
Talk about dangerous, US troops will be killed because of Oliver North.
-GSD
Comment by GSD — September 10, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
And I agree with KO! Murdoch and Ailes has created thousand of monsters that we must and can’t deal with. FNC watchers are the most unhappy people I know. Still can’t figure it out. They control the white house but MAD at the world. go figure.
Comment by Harry — September 10, 2007 @ 7:13 pm
Missy, I think you make a good point. These comments are cruel to the victims of 9/11 and any al Qaeda attack worldwide. The comparison to the KKK also was regrettable. I used to enjoy watching KO’s show, but these comments are startling. How paranoid and hateful has KO become to spout this kind of nonsense? Why sink to this level?
Comment by Goldfish — September 10, 2007 @ 7:16 pm
all i’ve read is right-wing nut jobs on this posting with a few lefty loons on here.
YOU ARE ALL NUTBAGS AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED!
Comment by Aaron — September 10, 2007 @ 7:21 pm
#68, Goldfish, I agree, when I first read this, I was taken a back, other than Limbaugh or maybe O’Reilly, who would say such a thing. What is even scarier, are people comming here defending this comment with absolute conviction.
Comment by Obama in 08! — September 10, 2007 @ 7:39 pm
Terance, when dozens or even hundreds of people die every day in Iraq from car bombs, IEDs or suicide bombers, who do you think are the ones behind it? Oh wait.. I know. It’s not the terrorists (al qaeda, militias, etc.).. it’s the Americans. It’s all Bush’s fault in the warped world of you and the tinfoil hat Kos crowd.
Comment by bigred — September 10, 2007 @ 7:50 pm
Obama, I am a regular Countdown watcher. I was stunned to hear this. I was hoping this strange comment was a joke and that I only heard bits of it, but how funny is a joke that compares anyone or anything to terrorists, murderers and thugs? Not very. I know KO can be a bomb-thrower, and that’s part of his shtick, but this is ridiculous.
Comment by Goldfish — September 10, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
Bigred, I support the troops and have family serving. How about you? Btw, I read something about Al-Q being responsible for less than 15% of the violence a while back. I’m going to try and locate this information. And when I do, I’ll except you to renounce the republican party and become and independent! Believe me, the freedom involved in being able to rip on both sides is exhilarating!
Comment by Terance — September 10, 2007 @ 8:08 pm
You guy must never listen to Rush Limbaugh. He calls anyone that does not think like him an idiots. So I guess both side have their lightning rods.
Comment by erin — September 10, 2007 @ 8:22 pm
Bigred, don’t be shy now. I know its easy to blame Al-Q for the majority of problems in Iraq. But, that wouldn’t be very honest now would it? Just declare me the winner and save yourself anymore embarrassment.
“According to the report, al Qaeda in Iraq is responsible for 15 percent of the attacks in the country, often the most deadly. Sunni insurgents are blamed for 70 percent of attacks, and Shiite militias 15 percent. Shiite attacks, however, have sharply increased and are now probably higher than 15 percent.”
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3366118
Comment by Terance — September 10, 2007 @ 8:26 pm
You know KO stepped in it when “Screw them” Markos has to send the troops out to defend him…I mean the Kossacs really don’t have the time…afterall they have to prepare for tomorrow and their 9/11 celebrations with all their postings reminding everyone that Bush,Halliburton and the Jews were behind the attacks and not that “Freedom fighter” Bin Laden.
Comment by mlong — September 10, 2007 @ 9:16 pm
“What a pathetic bunch, to question anyone else’s intelligence based on a single comment taken entirely out of context.”
Yeah, you’d think this was News Hounds! ;)
Comment by Jim Treacher — September 10, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
“Yeah, you’d think this was News Hounds!”
Oh yea..thats the bunch that I always hear about at Johnny Dollar’s site..he notes when they flat out lie about FOX news and when called on it in their comment sections..remove those comments…Well “ruthie” welcome to a place that isn’t afraid of opposing viewpoints unlike News Hounds and KO. :)
Comment by mlong — September 10, 2007 @ 9:54 pm
Every time someone whines about Fox News I ask them for examples of heavily biased *journalism* and they usually give lists of *political commentators*. I guess its too much to ask the whiners know the difference.
Comment by DavidM — September 10, 2007 @ 11:10 pm
Terance, I know truth is a foreign concept to you, but I’ll just point you back to my earlier comment, #73 “the terrorists (al qaeda, militias, etc.).. ”
There are idiot blue bloggers coming on here blaming the U.S. troops, Bush & Murdoch for the hundreds of thousands of deaths of civilians in Iraq, instead of the ones actually committing the murders: THE TERRORISTS.
Al Qaeda aren’t the only ones, but as the article you cite points out.. they’re responsible for the most deadly attacks. Again, your whack job tinfoil hat friends are blaming the U.S. for all the innocent civilian deaths.
And since you asked, my family has shed more than it’s share of blood to serve and honor this country. And, I don’t agree with the Republicans on everything. However, unlike you, I don’t believe everything they say is a lie.
Comment by bigred — September 10, 2007 @ 11:39 pm
Just so there’s some fairness and balanceness in this uber-winger site, please take the time to read Colin Powell’s latest comments; he says (paraphrase) that no terrorist can destroy America. They can destroy buildings, they can kill people, but they cannot destroy what America is.
Only Americans can do that.
And that’s the essence of KO’s comments here. And the fact that you are all willfully distorting his comments shows exactly who you all are, and proves pretty handily that KO is exactly right on the money…
Comment by DR — September 11, 2007 @ 5:27 am
Bigred, I don’t believe everything the republicans say is a lie either. My point being, you sure wouldn’t know AL-Q was only responsible for 15% of the violence by listening to tv news.. and that includes all the networks. We should be going after the Sunni insurgents responsible for 70% of the carnage first.
Comment by Terance — September 11, 2007 @ 7:31 am
I’m curious…What other conservative news networks are there on cable or broadcast television? Exactly - NONE!
So liberal whiners - please STOP whining! You would have no conservative news on television here in America, as Chavez has no conservative news in Venezula. Thank GOD for FOX NEWS!
Comment by hawaiirod — September 11, 2007 @ 9:04 am
The man is a certified moron.
Comment by Damien — September 11, 2007 @ 9:11 am
Olbermann is an ass.
But more than that, he is a tool.
Look, anyone who conciously tries to ape Edward R. Murrow ought to be horsewhipped. Olbermann is, in large part, a creature of his writers. That’s what Lefties don’t get. He’s also a creature of a counterprogramming decision at MSNBC to grab niche market share and carve out a home for liberal viewers, just as Murdoch and Roger Ailes decided to carve out a home for Republican viewers at FOX News Channel.
The fact that Liberals are STUPID ENOUGH TO TAKE UP SIDES just shows how easily they can be manipulated by network executives. Olbermann has a job: attract liberals and moderate to liberals to MSNBC. He does that by bashing Bush and all who support his administration.
If the programming executives at MSNBC figured out that they would get higher ratings by replacing Keith with, say, Joe Scarborough, they would do it in a heartbeat. This is about money, not liberalism. The people from Kos and Eschaton who are visiting here seem immensely clueless about this in their anger at FOX and their willingness to defend an execrable man with pretense to the greatness of Murrow’s legacy.
He is the mirror image of Bill O’Reilly, and Liberals are just too bought into the Ideological Struggle to get that they’re the victims of a huge con.
Comment by section9 — September 11, 2007 @ 9:34 am
Keith, tell that to the family of Andrew King and all the other families who lost loved ones on 9/11. Fox has hurt them how exactly?
When you go to Iraq yourself to report, maybe someone will take you seriously!
Comment by moonbeam — September 11, 2007 @ 10:19 am
This is just the reaction he wants. Just turn him off, change the channel, ignore him. He’ll eventually go away.
Comment by jayfarr — September 11, 2007 @ 10:42 am
Thank God we have an alternate to the liberal media alpha bet networks to hear the other side. NBC is screwing up big time forcing this Keith Oberlman guy down our throats on the NFL pregame shows also. We don’t tune in for politics, just give us our football. Our family leaps for the remote whenever we see this screwball oberman or whatever his name is on the screen.
Comment by Mike — September 11, 2007 @ 11:11 am
FYI - sent to this site from Media Bistro.
- Countdown beat OF in key rating Friday night. KO has the fastest growing show in cable news. Faux ratings dropped for last two years on all shows despite faux tick ups with calls for more violence.
- I refuse to take any single statement out of context without reading the full article first. You can always spot bias when a single quote is used to express someone’s alleged controversial statement.
- It is not news that Murdock sees himself as the new “Hearst” and his Iraq/Iran war as the new Spanish war. War sells newspapers and increases ratings. Olbermann is showing there is an untapped viewer who has been longing for truth not just he said/he said, two-sides to every answer, high school journalism.
- Any attempt to argue with Factorfiends and ditto heads is pointless. Laughing at them works best and they just keep supplying the material.
Comment by P.A.M.B. — September 11, 2007 @ 11:15 am
He’s barking mad. I predict he’ll spend his dotage chained to a radiator in the basement of one of his children’s homes.
Comment by Mason Jahr — September 11, 2007 @ 11:51 am
He makes himself irrelevent with statements like that. There is no need to counter that statement.
Comment by Hunter — September 11, 2007 @ 12:15 pm
It is the global war on terror dem wits, where ever it may take us (U.S.).
Comment by kassie — September 11, 2007 @ 12:36 pm
Folks this all about ratings and nothing else. I expect Olbermann to continue to beat the cynical drum for as long as ratings increase. His comments have absolutely nothing to do with politics it’s all about ratings and making money for MSNBC. If Olbermann’s ratings start to decline he will take another tactic to keep the momentum up.
Comment by Rickie T — September 11, 2007 @ 12:43 pm
It would be a disturbing comment, if he had more viwers than an average third grade class. He should have stuck with ESPN. It is amazing how one can go from “has been” to “never was”.
Comment by John — September 11, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
Keith is doing very well, I’m proud he made that statement about Fox news they’ve been one way since they came into television. Oh by the way, MSNBC has now surpassed Fox news as the number one Primetime Cable news network. And the new Number one show in Primetime Cable News is: You guest it, Countdown with Keith Olbermann surpassed the O’reilly factor in viewers age 25 to 51, Sorry Bill O’reilly I guess O’reilly sexual Harassment suit in which he paid out 20 mil has caught up with him.
Comment by Tony — September 11, 2007 @ 1:11 pm
Keith is as looney-tunes as algore in heat!
A hell of a sight to see!
— Tipper
Comment by appman — September 11, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
“NBC is screwing up big time forcing this Keith Olbermann guy down our throats on the NFL pregame shows also.”
Mike, I’m with you in that my gag reflex gets a real workout every time I see or hear this guy on Sunday Night Football. But each time I choke down yet another urge to puke, I try to remember why he’s there: These appearances are a pathetic attempt by NBC to justify the obscene sum the network agreed to pay him for ranting on MSNBC, and then not attracting any viewers. Nutty though he may be, KO isn’t the greater fool here.
Comment by Don_m — September 11, 2007 @ 1:20 pm
KO is right. All three of those groups, including the dispicable Faux Noise, is GUILTY of encouraging violence.
Comment by Anonymous — September 11, 2007 @ 1:33 pm
Olbermann’s statement regarding Fox News v. Al Quada is shocking at first, but a second later makes complete sense (the pen is mightier than the sword kind of thing). The relentless 24/7, intentionally distorted coverage provided by Fox has done far more damage to this country than the 9/11 attacks in which 3000 Americans were killed. All one has to do to see this is to look at the way the average Fox viewer thinks. Fox is America’s version of Pravda… nothing but lies and propaganda.
Comment by Brian — September 11, 2007 @ 2:26 pm
KO is right. You sheep who watch FOX are programmed to believe that everything this inept government under George jr. is gospel. Start thinking for yourselves and you will realize that FOX news is causing the divide in our country that Al Queda could never have.
REMEMER 9/11 and who attacked us. Not IRAQ.
Comment by hr — September 11, 2007 @ 2:50 pm
Thanks to the tinfoil hatters for their hilarious comments! I can’t stop laughing.
“MSNBC has now surpassed Fox news as the number one Primetime Cable news network”
Since when? FNC has 9 of the top 10 shows, 14 of the top 15 in every ratings book.
And your hero Olbermann still has not surpassed O’Reilly in the ACTUAL ratings.. you know, the ones that count the number of people who actually watch the show. This is both in the DEMO and the OVERALL, where Bathtub Boy loses by well more than 1 million viewers every single night.
It’s so nice that on the anniversary of 9/11, a bunch of clowns who have never even watched FOX, claim to be experts about what is said on the networks, and claim that Rupert Murdoch is worse than the people who killed 3,000 innocent Americans. Brilliant.
Keep the comedy coming!
Comment by bigred — September 11, 2007 @ 3:25 pm
Tony,
You must be drinking the same koolaid as Mr O. and all of the other America haters. I guess you think if you say something enough it must be true. Mr. O. is such a good broadcaster that he has been cancelled everywhere else he has been. No one can stand to work with this jerk. Only netroots and liberal ca-ca’s watch him. Thankfully they are WAY less than ANY night on Fox. Get a life.
Comment by Bill — September 11, 2007 @ 3:37 pm
Countdown is the only news show that delivers complete and accurate news coverage based on fact. His opinions are reserved for the occasional special comments segments. FOX News distorts the truth,only delivers opinions and never documents anything with research journalism. This has definitely dumbed down the American public, which is sad considering the state of our public school system which fails to teach for knowledge or critical thinking. Also, we have never received the truth about 911 and continue to be lied to about everything from this administration.
Comment by floridablue — September 11, 2007 @ 3:56 pm
In the world of the far left, “if Bill O’Reilly does it”…great, so now we have moronic blowhards from both sides. Way to go Olbermann & supports, you have just become what you hate; FoxNews viewers.
Comment by Obama in 08! — September 11, 2007 @ 5:13 pm
The blue blogs must have placed more links to this post. I haven’t seen this many first-time posters here in a long time.
Comment by Goldfish — September 11, 2007 @ 6:46 pm
If ever ‘Blowbermann’s’ ratings exceed that of a test pattern, I’ll consider his idiotic comments somewhat relevent….. but we all know thats not gonna happen.
Comment by Oisac — September 11, 2007 @ 10:07 pm
Has anyone else ever noticed how angry he is all the time? He is so consumed by hate.
Comment by Steve — September 12, 2007 @ 1:32 am
Well I suppose if Fox didn’t propogate lies or half truths to America maybe KO might not have made such comparisions? But as a realist who understands that Corporations run the waves making it a conflict of interest to allow real news to get to the public, we need to decide what lies/truths we want to believe or find the real new elsewhere. So in comparing the lies/half truths that Fox allows for the public to believe and then people make decisions on those lies I can see how KO might make the comparisions that he does. Hmnnn…. just a thought.
Comment by Michelle — September 12, 2007 @ 2:11 am
Have to rather agree that Murdoch has cause irreapable damage to this homeland to the point that UNLESS the media outlet presnts JUST what the current viewer deems “politically correct” from a decidedly right leaning in these Bushlerized reigning years, the vociferious minions go full throttle in name calling and chanting it is the lefties/libs ,dems or whoever dares to NOT agree with the BushBrigade the unrighteous/etc…and Murdoch has helped to fund, fuel and promote such to the point of such shallowness that is beyond comprehsible belief that there are actuallually those that will willing lockstep and IGNOR REALITY and TRUTHMATICALS of all other ilkings..You SHOULD be very afraid folks, but think too many (at least that core 24% that claim to support do or die groupies) that have locked down their minds and refuse to comprehend the devastation that HAS been encouraged to to rumble forth and denigrate so much of this nations homeland treasure such as the Constitutional rights that we ALL thought were sacred !!!Cotinue to lockstep and go forth blindly, you too weill feel the consequences and they are not likely to be any too pretty !!!
Comment by Bozzy — September 18, 2007 @ 8:24 pm