Olbermann to do Special Comment tonight…
Keith Olbermann will be doing a Special Comment on the Iran NIE report tonight…
Tonight Keith Olbermann will give a Special Comment regarding the revelation that President Bush knew about the possible suspension of an Iranian nuclear program in August. Following is an excerpt of tonight’s Comment:
“A bright man, or an honest man, would have realized no later than the McConnell briefing that the only true danger about Iran was the damage that could be done by an unhinged, irrational Chicken Little of a president, shooting his mouth off, backed up by only his own hysteria and his own delusions of omniscience.
Not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mr. Bush. The Chicken Little of presidents is the one, Sir, that you see in the mirror.
And the mind reels at the thought of a Vice President fully briefed on the revised intel as long as two weeks ago — briefed on the fact that Iran abandoned its pursuit of this imminent threat four years ago — who never bothered to mention it to his boss.”
Oh, goodie….another pile ‘o bile about a story that hasn’t been fully researched and the press hasn’t fully uncovered….”Special Blather” about the unknown…from “The Unknowing”..I’ll stick {like most viewers} to O’Reilly tonight…
Comment by Nick D. — December 6, 2007 @ 7:49 pm
KO is the one Unhinged!Can someone get that guy some help?I think he’s having a nervous breakdown.Now look guys i’m not just saying that.I think he needs some help.No joke!
Comment by Shane — December 6, 2007 @ 8:14 pm
I happen to like K.O.’s program a lot - but even I am miffed at his pontifications of late. As an equestrian, I took great offense that he attacked Lou Dobb’s children for riding horses and inferring that all barn managers and grooms are undocumented workers. While I am sure there are some as there may be in substantial American businesses, it was such a gross generalization and clearly an attack about a sport that is considered upscale (it doesn’t have to be, but cutting corners is hard) and children who have ridden all their lives. Do we all check paperwork of a barnworker before we entrust them to our horse - no - just like I don’t ask the grocery clerk or department store cashier. And, I don’t see a ton of Americans beating down the barn doors to take those jobs - only a few dedicated kids who couldn’t afford to ride any other way but to work at the barn!
Now Iran - we all know the White House gaff there - the press has covered it extensively over the last two days.
Comment by TV Colleague — December 6, 2007 @ 8:31 pm
Excellent News. I appreciate you giving me advance notice Spud.
In contrast with Fox News viewers, I have normal viewing and reading habits and sometimes need a little extra motivation to tune in to KO’s program on a slow news day.
Comment by elmonica — December 6, 2007 @ 8:37 pm
Special Comment? More like Special Vomit.
Comment by spiffo — December 6, 2007 @ 8:41 pm
The thing to remember is KO like many Bush haters will side with Terrorist and Dictators if it allows them to bash Bush…So Iran allegely ended their nuclear program…their still producing uranium and thats still a problem..it wouldn’t take no time to restart the program to add that uranium to a bomb.
Also KO and his masters at Clinton’s Media Matters like to forget is Iran is suppling weapons to the terrorist groups in Iraq and that Ahmadinejad has threaten to wipe Israel off the map(of course most Liberals like KO wouldn’t mind that).
KO and the rest of the Left have returned to a 9/10 world where the ideal that a Radical group or Nation would try to kill large numbers of people is unbelievable.
Comment by mlong — December 6, 2007 @ 8:52 pm
I’m sure the word “resign” will be included.
Comment by Ira — December 6, 2007 @ 8:59 pm
I cannot believe that any news organization would allow anyone to spew such vitriol about a sitting President. Like him or hate him, you should honor the position.
Calling him “Chicken Little” is beyond comprehension.
Comment by jerziegrl — December 6, 2007 @ 9:15 pm
Iran probably stopped their weapons program after we began the war on terror because they were afraid they would be next. Just like, after we invadd Iraq, Libya decided to finally cooperate with the Int’l Community.
Comment by jmkaib — December 6, 2007 @ 9:22 pm
Keith….just stick to the “humorous slant” shtick, please!!
Comment by KOAZ — December 6, 2007 @ 10:04 pm
jmkaib;
Exactly..and doesn’t Olbermann realizing he is praising the same Intelligence Agencys he and his band of hapless lefties have been using to bash President Bush over “no WMD” in Iraq?
Another thing doesn’t the fool (Olbermann) realize that the administration uses the media as a tool against Iran.
And if, God forbid, Iran was to develop and use a “nuke” Olbermiss would be special commenting all over himself about how it’s all Bush’s fault.
Note for Olbermann - Under Bush Huessain has been removed, Libya halted it’s WMDs’, N. Korea has come around and Iran stopped it’s nuke program in 2003. Seems like Bush has done more than Clinton or any Democrat could ever dream of.
Comment by 186 — December 6, 2007 @ 10:42 pm
Spud, now you are advertising Olbermann’s upcoming show. Are you doing this for O’Reilly. As I have said before you are Olbermann’s lapdog.
Comment by Rob — December 6, 2007 @ 10:53 pm
America seems like a pretty pathetic place when the only defense for a sitting president’s warmongering lies is “you should honor the position”!
If the president wasn’t lying on Tuesday, then the only other possibility is that he’s stupid. Either way, HE should be the one showing some honor for the position!
Comment by berberry — December 6, 2007 @ 11:34 pm
hey rob speaking of a lapdog can we see if spud will fill us in on the next body language segment…LOL get over yourself. no offcen to anyone on this board but its simple if you dont like Keith then avoid him at all costs dont watch his program or even talk about him
why do you see him get ratings because you call Bi*ch and moan like my god change the damn stastion and he will dissapear if you nitwits stop commenting on anything that Involves Keith Olbermann
Comment by chris — December 6, 2007 @ 11:43 pm
jerziegrl, I hope you have the same feeling when Fox News goes after the next Democrip in the White House. I’ve noticed that most of the people who tell us to “honor the office” with Bush in it are the ones who did the same thing about 9 years ago because THEY didn’t like the political hack in the job.
Comment by Cory Strode — December 7, 2007 @ 12:35 am
Keith will spin his rage on the backs of a once great network. A network that relies upon a man, hated by everyone who ever worked with him. A man who sated his sexual needs via groupies who emailed him. A man, clearly hated by the former Sports colleagues forced to share airtime with him. He is, indeed, a mess, a failed, fat mess.
Comment by CandyCorn — December 7, 2007 @ 1:15 am
Was I right or was I right? {See Comment #1}
A “friend” e-mailed a video of K.O.’s “Special Babble” tonight….God, what a pathetic performance! This “news” involving the intelligence estimate…can one reasonably competent journalist {sorry, MSNBC, you’re disqualified based on past performance} report this story in context and with a factual basis?
And, of course, MSNBC simply cannot utter the words that cry out to be said: if this estimate is accurate, then the Bush policies in the region clearly stopped a nuclear weapons program by a bigoted, dangerous regime…THAT’S A VICTORY, KEITH….
If the estimate is flawed or incorrect, then keeping our guard up against Iran will serve to protect us in the long run….not like a Clinton administration that hands over vital nuclear materials & equipment to North Korea and simply can’t believe that, given a two-term Clinton presidency for a head start, they created…gasp!…weapons.
jmkaib listed several Bush accomplishments, and I praise him for seeing through the muddle of Media Matters & Countdown-speak…good for you.
Here’s the lowdown: no responsible journalist can say with certainty right now exactly what President Bush knew about any of this…suppositions by hack commentators who ran out of fake-edit Fox clips to run don’t cut it.
If you read Olbermann’s text, you clearly see so many qualifiers you can barely figure anything out except this: the host of a failing network that lost its physical home and moved in with Momma {NBC @ 30 Rock} and is facing drastic staff cuts soon, is still pissed off about lagging miles behind his competition, and thinks presenting distortions, innuendo, and bald-faced lies will serve his fading public.
Bile, even when spewed by a loser with a 6 X 8 set {where you gonna broadcast from next, Keith? The freakin’ parking lot?}, is still bitter and, by the way, is useless when it leaves the body….which is where this useless “Special Comment” should have stayed.
Does anyone….anyone at all…think this garbage-speak by Olbermann will force President George Bush to resign?
Not.
Will it sway an American people who ignore Olbermann by the hundreds of millions to some unspecified action?
Not.
I will clean the risque language up for you folks, but K.O. needs to learn a valuable lesson before his next “Special Comment”: it is much like uh, self-gratification: Why even start stroking if you can’t..uh…’finish’?
Comment by Nick D. — December 7, 2007 @ 4:21 am
chris… do me a favor… use a spell check, then a grammar check… and clean up what you wrote.
Oh, and after that… go post it on NewsHounds, so you can tell those people to “change the channel” too.
Comment by ImNotBlue — December 7, 2007 @ 4:27 am
Keith Olbermann is a coward and has no business being on television. Anyone who has the same people kissing his butt and no oppostion and no debate will never get my support.
Comment by A.W — December 7, 2007 @ 5:18 am
Spud, why are you captivated with KO. It is getting old
Comment by Kirk G — December 7, 2007 @ 6:08 am
Boy, I guess no one watched the special comment.
It seems that no one here cares that Bush lied to the American public about Iran and is trying to lead us down the path to another war, another illegitimate war…
Someone needs to point this out and none better than Keith Olbermann.
His special comment tonight was a home run and completely accurate. Even if you have to hit the mute button during the whole thing because you hate KO, just read the quotes from Bush that he posts on the screen. He posts quotes from points up to early Aug 07, and quotes after Aug 07. Before Aug 07 Bush was all “WE MUST STOP THE IRANIAN NUKE PROGRAM!”. After Aug 07 Bush was all “WE MUST STOP THE ABILITY FOR IRANIANS TO GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE OF STARTING A NUKE PROGRAM!”. As KO said, his change in comments about Iran were subtle, but its quite obvious that Bush was briefed well before last week about this, and did not let the American people know. Good job Mr.Bush. Good job!
Bush is a liar and has no business being president. Information like this is not meant to be withheld from the American public so he can run ANOTHER baseless fear campaign.
Can we say “Bush approval ratings below 20%”…I think it is going to happen.
Comment by So what? — December 7, 2007 @ 7:06 am
My issue isn’t so much what he’s saying, but that he’s saying it under the guise of doing a “news” program when it’s very evident that it’s nothing but an hour-long opinion show. I initially really liked Countdown. Then Olbermann began to attack Fox and Bill O’Reilly non-stop. It’s gone beyond ridiculous to just being tiresome now. Who does he think really cares about his own personal hatred of Fox beyond a few people within the news industry? And honestly, I doubt anyone at Fox is sweating anything he says about them given MSNBC’s poor ratings and horrible financial shape. He began to have the same guests on, over and over and over again, saying the same things over and over and over again. It got old. Then when he began to win praise from the blue blogs and websites, that adulation went to his head and he began to pander to these special interest groups non-stop, truth be damned. I’m a liberal Democrat and I grew weary of his antics, I can’t imagine what a moderate would think. I don’t want OPINION from my newscasts, I want news. I know that’s a stunning concept but I’d really love to see a newscaster try it for once. Hearing news from any one side isn’t a good idea. There are wrongs and rights on both sides of the political spectrum. Just hearing one side puts you in a dangerous echo chamber that can collapse around you when the truth enters into the equation. I think he’s probably maxxed out to the audience he’s pandering to and I wonder what’s going to happen when a Dem is elected in ‘08. Does he go on the attack against them or does he become, in effect, the liberal version of the Fox News cheerleaders? For those who hate Fox for their GOP slant, it’s a neverending source of amusement to me that they are the same ones who think Olbermann is so great. They are both wrong if they are trying to present opinion as news. It’s damaging to the news industry and to their own reputations but there are some too blind to see it. Too bad. Countdown once had real promise. Now it’s just a pale shadow of what it used to be and what it could be. I hope that when Olbermann looks in the mirror in the morning that selling himself out to get more viewers was worth it.
Comment by Alison — December 7, 2007 @ 11:34 am
I cannot believe that any news organization would allow anyone to spew such vitriol about a sitting President. Like him or hate him, you should honor the position.
Like the lunatic fringe did when Clinton was President?
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The thing to remember is KO like many Bush haters will side with Terrorist and Dictators if it allows them to bash Bush
Excuse me? It is republican presidents who make a polity of enabling tinpot dictators worldwide with arms and funds and ignoring their treatment of their own people… until they need to invade a country to cure their political erectile dysfunction.
Comment by Arthur — December 7, 2007 @ 12:47 pm
Alison,
We disagree on politics, President Bush, and Fox News, but your take on the failures and weaknesses of “Countdown” is superb and spot-on….MSNBC seems to think that masquerading pure far-left opinion as “news” & “fact” is journalistic integrity…and they are wrong….
So what?…..
I saw a clip of the comment, and since no responsible, accurate journalist can verify much of Olber-Slur’s assertions, I found it an exercise in far-left fantasy.
A.W…..
There is a serious difference between cowardice and falsification, although I see your point.
Interesting posts from you all!
Comment by Nick D. — December 7, 2007 @ 12:49 pm
Sadly, it seems that the BDS-afflicted ones do not care if the facts or common decency get in the way. They prefer an unhinged fool shouting screwball insults. And Olbermann has found his niche.
Comment by eddiebear — December 7, 2007 @ 1:07 pm
#25: Well that tactic certainly has worked for BOR
Comment by myview — December 7, 2007 @ 1:50 pm
Olbermann looks in the mirror in the morning that selling himself out to get more viewers was worth it.
Comment by Alison — December 7, 2007 @ 11:34 am
Can Olbermann actually see HIS reflection? I didn’t think vampires had reflections.
Spot on Allison, bravo!
Comment by Obama in 08! — December 7, 2007 @ 1:58 pm
Ahh, Mr. Olbermann… Can we not give it a rest? Nobody wants to hear this stuff. It’s been run completely into the ground. It doesn’t matter one way or another now, anyway; Bush will be gone in, like, a year. At least O’Reilley has fresh material.
Comment by Phil — December 7, 2007 @ 2:06 pm
26: maybe so. I personally find BOR a fool as well. But as in every other comparison between BOR and KO, Bill’s niche is bigger than Keith’s.
Comment by eddiebear — December 7, 2007 @ 2:21 pm
I agree totally, Allison. Plus I don’t understand why he utilizes loudness for force. I guess he’s trying to portray outrage but it sounds fake and silly.
#23 “Like the lunatic fringe did when Clinton was President?”
Do you understand the lunatic fringe never sounds good, from right or left side? Just because the right did it does not excuse the left doing it. Craziness doesn’t solve anything.
Comment by Char — December 7, 2007 @ 3:45 pm
The trouble is that the left has been hijacked by the far-left. And its people like KO that helped it happen. I think that it is a shame that my grandfather’s once proud democratic party has turned into what it is today.
Comment by Tom p — December 7, 2007 @ 5:34 pm
Gee…..from the comments above, it looks like about 80-90% of posters/commenters here agree with me that Olber-Dud is just a waste of prime-time airwaves…and, folks, you are right!
Just think of the satisfaction we’ll be feeling when, in January of 2009, President Bush turns over the U.S. Executive Branch to another Republican after the Democrats implode under the weight of their hypocracy and surrender tatics….and Keith O., in his miniscule way, makes it happen.
Comment by Nick D. — December 7, 2007 @ 7:01 pm
Tom P….
My grandfather was a proud FDR Democrat who spent much of his valuable bar time arguing politics with 1930’s Republicans…but when the U.S. was attacked 66 years ago today, he was in line to sign up, to defend his nation against an attacking enemy.
There was no discussion about how he didn’t like parts of the New Deal so he shouldn’t join up….it simply wasn’t a matter of if you were a Democrat or Republican, Liberal or Conservative…..our country needed defense, and he felt it was his duty to serve. And millions signed up because they felt it was their patriotic duty.
Millions.
Today, with an all-volunteer military too small to cope with what I believe is World War III, that attitude has been shrunken by years..hell, decades…of mainstream media complaining about virtually everything any Republican does, proposes, or even floats as an idea.
After September 11, 2001, our nation, shocked and bruised by a vicious, deadly attack in our political & economic centers, was ready to back our President…Democrats and Republican, Liberal & Democrat…then, it started.
The far-left complained about virtually any common sense approach to investigate, capture or detain anyone suspected of terrorist activities…pouring water over the heads of terrorist suspects was “torture” while bodies of our soldiers being beaten & shot on civilian streets then dragged through cities until they were hung from bridges…and the left just shrugged…after all, we shouldn’t be there disposing a vicious dictator and trying to stabilize a vital region of the world…because WE are the evil doers, we are the bad guys.
The left proposes we negotiate with terrorists because, well, TALKING is so, so social, so interpersonal…I mean, if we just sit down and grant them status as moral equivalents, well, they wouldn’t hurt us after that.
And it will show that “we care”…..
Please.
And this kind of verbal hubris is what’s been spewing forth from many on MSNBC’s payroll…it’s always “Bush is wrong, Bush is stupid.” Then, when the President changes course and follows ideas preached by the left, it’s always “Bush is too late.”
And the saddest part of all is how much pleasure the Democrats seem to derive from any Bush miscue or problem.
They rejoice in America looking bad, all the while proposing no solutions to our problems but tax those whose wealth leads to new business growth and hand the money of to a bloated, ineffective U.S. Federal government for…well, more bloated ineffectiveness.
Remember, and history & hopefully the electorate should, it was solely the Democratic Party of Harry Reid & Nancy Pelosi that declared surrender and loss in Iraq even before a new military plan went into effect…a plan that seems to be working far better than just 6 months ago.
That sound you might hear from outside is Douglas MacArthur’s casket spinning mightily…in frustration and shame.
Comment by Nick D. — December 7, 2007 @ 9:01 pm
“And the saddest part of all is how much pleasure the Democrats seem to derive from any Bush miscue or problem.”
So true . . . they are hateful,spiteful people and even worse, most of them worship probably the worst president in history - Bill Clintoon.
Comment by PF — December 7, 2007 @ 9:20 pm
Don’t forget Jimmy Carter!
Comment by kbass — December 7, 2007 @ 9:45 pm
Now, let’s be fair here {even if you don’t wannabe}…Bill Clinton was Abe Lincoln compared to Jimmy Carter! {You are correct, kbass!}.
Actually, I believe the decline of the Democratic Party {note: I didn’t say “Democrats”} really began its momentum with the strange follies of Election 2000, where the bitterness and rancor began bubbling forth from the far-leftists, and they simply couldn’t stop polluting the already cesspool-like pond of political garbage.
For some reason, they couldn’t accept The Supreme Court’s ruling, then remained confounded when George Bush beat John Kerry by over 3 million votes.
It had to be a conspiracy…some dark tentacles reaching out from the far-right to snatch “their” Presidency & Congress away from them…..
I don’t want a case, or even a bottle, of what these people drink…maybe someone should break it to them that you’re supposed to add the sugar BEFORE you drink the Kool-Aid.
What is truly sad to me is, in a time of international war and growing economic uncertainties {Everyone should read Steven Pearlstein’s Washington Post commentary “Dark Days Certainly Ahead For Economy” and use it as a wake up call},
we haven’t found a way to come together as a nation, as a super-strong unit like this nation used to be able to….
Maybe it’s all the attempts to sub-divide us as small ethnic/gender victims groups and create wedges based on religious, socio-political, economic, and racial differences…..and, sadly, all the evidence I’ve seen shows me the sources of these divisive efforts are the far left…and shame on them.
And Keith Olbermann had actively promoted himself as the frontman, the pitchman for this divisiveness and pulling apart of America…for the cheap ploy to save his job and program…and uses virtually every cheap, word-twisting, political-spinning, journalistically unethical ploy and trick imaginable to fuel his small liberal audience.
Yet, throughout the small audience increases for “Countdown” over the past year or so, please remember this: the real star is Bill O’Reilly…Christ, he’s on almost as often as Boring-Mann…and until MSNBC started using slanted edits of “The O’Reilly Factor” on “Countdown”, you could walk outside in a downpour, yell out “It’s wet out here” and get more listeners than K.O.
Comment by Nick D. — December 10, 2007 @ 5:32 am