Keith Olbermann profile…
Newsday’s Neil Best profiles Keith Olbermann…
It is a stridently political show that has made him a standard-bearer for the liberal wing of cable news and a pop culture figure familiar enough to have appeared - playing himself - in a Marge Simpson dream sequence on “The Simpsons” last week.
Fittingly, the cameo put him in direct competition with himself at 8 p.m., illustrating his peculiar dual existence: George Bush-haunting crusader weekdays, Reggie Bush-lauding narrator Sundays.
Awkward?
“I would hope that people who don’t agree with anything I do politically can separate themselves long enough to remember these are football games,” he said. “I would be stupid to bring up politics. Unless Dick Cheney runs out onto the field in the middle of a game, he’s not getting in the broadcast.”
Let me be absolutely clear. When Bush is out of office, Fox News will still be in business. There will be plenty of material for KO to mock thanks to the collective and their hypocrisy, regardless of who wins the whitehouse.
Comment by elmonica — December 2, 2007 @ 2:56 pm
Let me be clearer. Bush will be gone in 2009 when the new president takes office. If that person happens to be a Democrat, then Olbermann is up a creek without a proverbial paddle. He’s completly whored himself out to the extreme-liberal side that he can’t dare criticize a sitting Democratic president or ANY Democrat politican without getting savaged by his fans. This is reason number one why you do NOT take sides on an issue if you’re a journalist. But since Olbermann isn’t a true journalist, I guess it’s simply not a concern for him. But it should be. He’s already alienated any GOP or moderate viewers he might once have had and if he alienates the ultra-liberals, then he’s toast in the ratings. That’s another reason why you do not pander to your audience the way Olbermann has.
Comment by Alison — December 2, 2007 @ 3:42 pm
Can you imagine if Clinton gets elected… for Olbermann, he might quit again! He’s already thrown himself onto her train, he’d spend all his time spiking her bad press (because he just ignores the stories he don’t want to talk about). God forbid she make a bad decision, or something happens that people talk about for a while… he’ll have to leave… history has shown he’d rather quit, than talk about things he doesn’t want to talk about.
Comment by ImNotBlue — December 2, 2007 @ 5:22 pm
Can you imagine if Clinton gets elected… for Olbermann, he might quit again! He’s already thrown himself onto her train, he’d spend all his time spiking her bad press (because he just ignores the stories he don’t want to talk about). God forbid she make a bad decision, or something happens that people talk about for a while… he’ll have to leave… history has shown he’d rather quit, than talk about things he doesn’t want to talk about.
The fix to the dilemma is simple - don’t talk about news you don’t like. There - wasn’t that easy? Change the ‘Clinton’ to ‘Bush’ and ‘Olbermann’ to ‘Fox News’ and you have the precedent.
Comment by Arthur — December 2, 2007 @ 7:47 pm
Okay, let’s for a moment imagine what you just said wasn’t the same totally inaccurate talking point the hater blogs have been pushing out to the uneducated masses since FNC’s beginning… and let’s pretend it’s true.
Would you be okay with that? Are you justifying bad behavior, with more bad behavior… or do you think KO would be wrong for doing this too?
Comment by ImNotBlue — December 2, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
Here’s what I find so hypocritcal of Olbermann. This is the guy who quit his first MSNBC gig because he couldn’t stand having to report on the Lewinsky business. He thought that stories involving sex scandals and politicans was unseemly. Olbermann has spent the last week utterly enthralled with the tales of Rudy Guliani and his then-mistress, now-wife Judy. So what’s the difference? Either you report on sex scandals or you don’t, right? In Olbermann’s case, the answer is NO, if they involve Democrats and yes if they involve Republicans.
Comment by Alison — December 2, 2007 @ 10:10 pm
In his love letter to Olbermann, Neil Best of Newsday completely doctored a quote from Olbermann in order to hide Olbermann’s complete ignorance of geography. Neil Best alleges that Olbermann asserted: “What, they don’t show NFC highlights in Colorado?” Actually, what Olbermann said was: “Do they not get the highlights west of the Rockies?” Of course, Denver is not “west” of the Rockies as alleged by Olbermann, and thus Neil Best took it upon himself to doctor what Olbermann actually said. Not only did Best doctor the quote to protect Olbermann, Best actually “thinks” that the doctored quote is somehow “evidence” of Olbermann’s “brilliance”. Strange dude ….
Comment by Tom — December 3, 2007 @ 1:08 pm