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bairdi
12-23-2008, 03:07 PM
No surprise here folks..........

Sean Hannity

http://mediamatters.org/items/200812170007?f=h_top

SeedyROM
12-23-2008, 06:05 PM
LOL, you mean Hannity beat Pills Windbag and Mike Savage!! What a triumph that must be!

Frankg
12-23-2008, 06:05 PM
Sean Hannity is a news commentator , not a newscaster so there's no way he could misinform anyone even if he wanted to .

Frankg
12-23-2008, 06:06 PM
No surprise here folks..........

Sean Hannity

http://mediamatters.org/items/200812170007?f=h_top
Sean Hannity is a news commentator , not a newscaster, so there's no way he could misinform anyone even if he wanted to .

bairdi
12-23-2008, 11:02 PM
Sean Hannity is a news commentator , not a newscaster, so there's no way he could misinform anyone even if he wanted to .
You don't need to be a newscaster to misinform frankie. Damn, if mediamatters monitored this site you and hog would have certainly been in the running. :p

Moby
12-24-2008, 05:06 AM
Sean Hannity is a news commentator , not a newscaster, so there's no way he could misinform anyone even if he wanted to .
Wow, Frank. That's a silly statement even for you.

Smurf-Herder
12-24-2008, 07:15 AM
No surprise here folks..........

Sean Hannity

http://mediamatters.org/items/200812170007?f=h_top

Media Matters for America was created by an ex-Clinton staffer and Hillary; and is a major media tool of the Soros Network.

Smurf-Herder
12-24-2008, 07:17 AM
IMO, the Misinformer of the year is the guy pushing the Palin thinking Africa is a country hoax.

The media was pushing it as if it were established fact; at least by one commentator on MSNBC.

SeniorChief
12-24-2008, 08:12 AM
I am surprised Obama and/or Biden didn't get this award.

bairdi
12-24-2008, 09:11 AM
IMO, the Misinformer of the year is the guy pushing the Palin thinking Africa is a country hoax.

The media was pushing it as if it were established fact; at least by one commentator on MSNBC.
If what you say is true..........same network, different culprit.

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Smurf-Herder
12-24-2008, 11:24 AM
If what you say is true..........same network, different culprit.

XPsV6ZhL15c

I'm not talking about people just reporting it. Everybody reported on it. MSNBC had it as established fact by a guest commentator. I can't remember the guy's name. He's a former speech writer for Clinton, I think.

Moby
12-24-2008, 11:28 AM
IMO, the Misinformer of the year is the guy pushing the Palin thinking Africa is a country hoax.

The media was pushing it as if it were established fact; at least by one commentator on MSNBC.
That guy only created one false story and Fox was fast enough to scoop everyone that morning with it.

You could just elect everyone that's on the Murdoch pay roll but Hannity is the best at it, followed closely by Beck and then maybe that bigger, fatter drug addict Rush.

Smurf-Herder
12-24-2008, 12:56 PM
That guy only created one false story and Fox was fast enough to scoop everyone that morning with it.

You could just elect everyone that's on the Murdoch pay roll but Hannity is the best at it, followed closely by Beck and then maybe that bigger, fatter drug addict Rush.


You're nothing but a partisan hack ........ in a Sarah Palin suit.

Moby
12-24-2008, 01:15 PM
You're nothing but a partisan hack ........ in a Sarah Palin suit.
Now you're getting really funny Smurfy. Didn't Fox report it as fact?

MSNBC is biased. I don't think anyone defends them. For some reason everyone tries to defend Fox. It doesn't make sense.

Frankg
12-24-2008, 01:30 PM
Pop quiz SirMoby

What is the difference between a news COMMENTATOR and news ANCHORPERSON ?

I don't think you or Baidi have a clue.

Hog Trash
12-24-2008, 01:43 PM
Misinformer of the Year.....and the winner is


No surprise here folks..........

Sean Hannity

http://mediamatters.org/items/200812170007?f=h_top
No doubt a rude, biligerant interrupter, which is why I rarely listen to or watch Hannity.

But "misinformer" sounds like an accusation of lying...This I'm finding very hard to believe.

Could you show me evidence of a lie please?.....I'm waiting!

Hog Trash
12-24-2008, 01:54 PM
IMO, the Misinformer of the year is the guy pushing the Palin thinking Africa is a country hoax.

The media was pushing it as if it were established fact; at least by one commentator on MSNBC.I heard with my own ears Obama saying the "58" states in America.

I'm sure he's not that dumb, and it was just a slip of the tongue.

Can we try to keep it real. {I'm referring primarily to the Libbie's, Smurf}

bairdi
12-24-2008, 02:11 PM
No doubt a rude, biligerant interrupter, which is why I rarely listen to or watch Hannity.

But "misinformer" sounds like an accusation of lying...This I'm finding very hard to believe.

Could you show me evidence of a lie please?.....I'm waiting!
A misinformer is a distributor of misinformation. If you want to call Hannity a liar that's perfectly fine with me. If you read the article you would have no question as to what misinformation Hannity spread.

Smurf-Herder
12-24-2008, 02:12 PM
Now you're getting really funny Smurfy. Didn't Fox report it as fact?

MSNBC is biased. I don't think anyone defends them. For some reason everyone tries to defend Fox. It doesn't make sense.

Fox reported it as a story.

The guy I saw on MSNBC was fanatical about it being true, even to the point of ignoring the host, who repeated that they were just allegations.

I wish I could remember who it was. Tall blonde, like a thin Chris Matthews. But not on often.

Hog Trash
12-24-2008, 03:16 PM
A misinformer is a distributor of misinformation. If you want to call Hannity a liar that's perfectly fine with me. If you read the article you would have no question as to what misinformation Hannity spread.Hannity, like a few others raised extremely relevent and reasonable questions about Obama's friends and associations,

and the only family member I heard any critisisim of was his wife who he included in his campaign,

making her fair game considering some of her comments and racist history when in college.

Of course you believe they were unfair and misleading because like most liberals,

you don't wish to know the truth about your candidate of choice and preferred no one else know it either.

The person in your post is biased in the same way as you and was referring to well known facts as lies.

I have read your post, but am still waiting for your evidence of lie's by Hannity...

Moby
12-24-2008, 03:35 PM
Pop quiz SirMoby

What is the difference between a news COMMENTATOR and news ANCHORPERSON ?

I don't think you or Baidi have a clue.
Don't you mean a "Journalist" instead of an Anchorperson? I know he's a commentator but he still provides opinions that people believe.

Just because a person chooses to not deliver facts and only expresses opinions doesn't mean that they can't mislead people. Look at Hog. Have you ever seen anyone that is more mislead?

We know that Hannity is not a journalist nor is anyone else while they appear on Fox News. They must do as their boss tells them and that's support the PNAC point of view.

SeedyROM
12-24-2008, 07:56 PM
Now you're getting really funny Smurfy. Didn't Fox report it as fact?

MSNBC is biased. I don't think anyone defends them. For some reason everyone tries to defend Fox. It doesn't make sense.

Asroc defended MSNBC and that fool Olbermann, go figure. Even CNN has a couple of shows that are biased. They dumped one, Glenn Beck starts a new show next year on Fox.

SeedyROM
12-24-2008, 08:00 PM
fyi guys, Hannity doesn't lie that often. In fact he uses fact checked sources. Hannity does spin issues but they all do. Hannity does drag stories along and pound the table continuously, that's talk show mania reminding people of discussed events. I've checked several facts Hannity discussed and found proof they were legit. Conservative commentators exist to expose issues that liberals hide from the public. They serve a purpose and in fact they keep many liberals honest. Libs are equally corrupt and left unchecked they'd steal the nation too.

If you doubt me, start a Hannity File thread and post debunked issues Hannity has lied about. It will be no longer than any liberal commentator. Hannity serves a purpose, like him or not. I actually watch the show once or twice a week, he's a likeable character and a patriot to the people!

Moby
12-24-2008, 09:43 PM
Asroc defended MSNBC and that fool Olbermann, go figure.
Well I guess you can always find a needle and call it a hay stack. I think Olbermann is funny, not as funny as Mathews but still kind of funny. I can't imagine why anyone would take either one seriously though. Mathews gets a boner on every issue, for every candidate for any reason. Olbermann is the matter to the anti-matter O'Rielly.

SeedyROM
12-25-2008, 03:50 AM
Well I guess you can always find a needle and call it a hay stack. I think Olbermann is funny, not as funny as Mathews but still kind of funny. I can't imagine why anyone would take either one seriously though. Mathews gets a boner on every issue, for every candidate for any reason. Olbermann is the matter to the anti-matter O'Rielly.

O'Reilly and Olbermann are nemisis's but Olbermann's show is more like Hannity. Olbermann hates on Bush and Reps in a silly an unpatriotic way and the hate is continuous every night. The SNL Olberman skit is funny. I don't care for his rants no more than I care for how close he is to the camera. Its like he's in your face taking up the whole picture tube.........caterpillar eyebrows and all!:lmao2:

Moby
12-25-2008, 07:58 AM
O'Reilly and Olbermann are nemisis's but Olbermann's show is more like Hannity. Olbermann hates on Bush and Reps in a silly an unpatriotic way and the hate is continuous every night. The SNL Olberman skit is funny. I don't care for his rants no more than I care for how close he is to the camera. Its like he's in your face taking up the whole picture tube.........caterpillar eyebrows and all!:lmao2:
It's unpatriotic to question our leaders? I can't think of any thing more important to our way of life then questioning our leaders.

Does this mean that on January 20, 2009 everyone employed by Moon, Murdoch and Mays will become unpatriotic as well or are they already there?

Smurf-Herder
12-25-2008, 11:05 AM
It's unpatriotic to question our leaders? I can't think of any thing more important to our way of life then questioning our leaders.

Does this mean that on January 20, 2009 everyone employed by Moon, Murdoch and Mays will become unpatriotic as well or are they already there?


Olbermann doesn't question. He attacks throughout his entire show.

He's nothing but a media puppet for the Daily Kos.

bairdi
12-25-2008, 12:32 PM
Olbermann tells it like it is.

Smurf-Herder
12-25-2008, 05:11 PM
Olbermann tells it like it is.

Olbermann's a hate-filled clown.


It figures you'd think he's great.

He'd make a great propaganda minister.

Has Obama picked a press secretary yet?

Hog Trash
12-25-2008, 05:16 PM
Hannity and Limbaugh are Republicans first and Conservatives second.

This distorts their views and opinions but doesn't necessarily make them liars.

Olbermann is a total fucking idiot who is not worthy of my time....Nuff said.

Because of these reasons, none of these men are reliable sources for news.

Moby
12-25-2008, 07:56 PM
Olbermann doesn't question. He attacks throughout his entire show.

He's nothing but a media puppet for the Daily Kos.
He's a puppet for Daily Kos? Come one Smurfy.

He's a meat head. He's emotional. He's full of shit and possibly on the mental instability scale similar to Rush and Beck even without the drug and alcohol abuse but a puppet for Kos? You really believe that Markos has the money to control MSNBC?

I think your occult conspiracy theory is much better even though it's crazy too.

Moby
12-25-2008, 07:58 PM
Hannity and Limbaugh are Republicans first and Conservatives second.
This is where you are wrong. Way wrong. These guys would not have been hired if they were conservatives and certainly not promoted since conservative values are not popular in the USA any more.

These guys are Neoconservatives. Murdoch and Mays are not going to take people spinning country music in tier 2 cities and turn them into media stars unless they support their political cause and that is not conservative politics.

Smurf-Herder
12-25-2008, 08:22 PM
He's a puppet for Daily Kos? Come one Smurfy.

He's a meat head. He's emotional. He's full of shit and possibly on the mental instability scale similar to Rush and Beck even without the drug and alcohol abuse but a puppet for Kos? You really believe that Markos has the money to control MSNBC?

I think your occult conspiracy theory is much better even though it's crazy too.


He's a regular blogger there and has repeated stories on Countdown that turned out to be untrue, whose only source for the exact wording of the spin he used originally appeared on the Daily Kos just beforehand.

I never said anything about money controlling MSNBC. I'm talking about shared political ideologies.

Hog Trash
12-25-2008, 09:07 PM
This is where you are wrong. Way wrong. These guys would not have been hired if they were conservatives and certainly not promoted since conservative values are not popular in the USA any more.

These guys are Neoconservatives. Murdoch and Mays are not going to take people spinning country music in tier 2 cities and turn them into media stars unless they support their political cause and that is not conservative politics.Could somebody please bump the turn table?!

You're so stuck on "PNAC", "NLP" and "Neocon" nobody can have a sensible, rational discussion with you anymore.

I admit, I get kinda flippy sometimes havin fun, but you stay flipped out all the time any more, and it ain't outa fun either.

You're a fuckin mess, Moby......You've been over programmed to the point of mindless zombeism......Is that a word? :confused:

bairdi
12-25-2008, 10:34 PM
Olbermann's a hate-filled clown.


It figures you'd think he's great.

He'd make a great propaganda minister.

Has Obama picked a press secretary yet?
The reason you and most conservatives hate Olbermann is because he is the most powerful liberal voice out there, he cannot be silenced by the right wing noise machine and, for the most part, he tells the truth, something which is usually counter to the right wing talking points.

Smurf-Herder
12-26-2008, 06:58 AM
The reason you and most conservatives hate Olbermann is because he is the most powerful liberal voice out there, he cannot be silenced by the right wing noise machine and, for the most part, he tells the truth, something which is usually counter to the right wing talking points.

Olbermann is a mentally disturbed hate monger.

Countdown is MSNBC's flagship show, because it gives them higher ratings - from all the mentally disturbed hate monger viewers.

Smurf-Herder
12-26-2008, 07:02 AM
MSNBC Takes Incendiary Hosts From Anchor Seat

MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel’s coverage of the election.

That experiment appears to be over.

After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage.

The change — which comes in the home stretch of the long election cycle — is a direct result of tensions associated with the channel’s perceived shift to the political left.

“The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into what’s supposed to be straight news programming,” said Davidson Goldin, formerly the editorial director of MSNBC and a co-founder of the reputation management firm DolceGoldin.

Executives at the channel’s parent company, NBC Universal, had high hopes for MSNBC’s coverage of the political conventions. Instead, the coverage frequently descended into on-air squabbles between the anchors, embarrassing some workers at NBC’s news division, and quite possibly alienating viewers. Although MSNBC nearly doubled its total audience compared with the 2004 conventions, its competitive position did not improve, as it remained in last place among the broadcast and cable news networks. In prime time, the channel averaged 2.2 million viewers during the Democratic convention and 1.7 million viewers during the Republican convention.

The success of the Fox News Channel in the past decade along with the growth of political blogs have convinced many media companies that provocative commentary attracts viewers and lures Web browsers more than straight news delivered dispassionately.

“In a rapidly changing media environment, this is the great philosophical debate,” Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, said in a telephone interview Saturday. Fighting the ratings game, he added, “the bottom line is that we’re experiencing incredible success.”

But as the past two weeks have shown, that success has a downside. When the vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin lamented media bias during her speech, attendees of the Republican convention loudly chanted “NBC.”

In interviews, 10 current and former staff members said that long-simmering tensions between MSNBC and NBC reached a boiling point during the conventions. “MSNBC is behaving like a heroin addict,” one senior staff member observed. “They’re living from fix to fix and swearing they’ll go into rehab the next week.”

The employee, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity because the network does not permit its people to speak to the media without authorization. (The New York Times and NBC News have a content-sharing arrangement exclusively for political coverage.)

Mr. Olbermann, a 49-year-old former sportscaster, has become the face of the more aggressive MSNBC, and the lightning rod for much of the criticism. His program “Countdown,” now a liberal institution, was created by Mr. Olbermann in 2003 but it found its voice in his gnawing dissent regarding the Bush administration, often in the form of “special comment” segments.

As Mr. Olbermann raised his voice, his ratings rose as well, and he now reaches more than one million viewers a night, a higher television rating than any other show in the troubled 12-year history of the network. As a result, his identity largely defines MSNBC. “They have banked the entirety of the network on Keith Olbermann,” one employee said.

In January, Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews, the host of “Hardball,” began co-anchoring primary night coverage, drawing an audience that enjoyed the pair’s “SportsCenter”-style show. While some critics argued that the assignment was akin to having the Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly anchor on election night — something that has never happened — MSNBC insisted that Mr. Olbermann knew the difference between news and commentary.

But in the past two weeks, that line has been blurred. On the final night of the Republican convention, after MSNBC televised the party’s video “tribute to the victims of 9/11,” including graphic footage of the World Trade Center attacks, Mr. Olbermann abruptly took off his journalistic hat.

“I’m sorry, it’s necessary to say this,” he began. After saying that the video had exploited the memories of the dead, he directly apologized to viewers who were offended. Then, sounding like a network executive, he said it was “probably not appropriate to be shown.”

In an interview on Sunday, Mr. Olbermann said that moment — and the perception that he is “not utterly neutral” — restarted months-old conversations about his role on political nights.

“I found it ironic and instructive that I could have easily said exactly what I did say, exactly when I did say it, if I had been wearing a different hat, and nobody would have taken any issue,” he said.

“Countdown” will still be shown before the three fall debates and a second edition will be shown sometime afterwards, following the program anchored by Mr. Gregory.

The change casts new doubt on what some staff members believe is an effective programming strategy: prime-time talk of a liberal sort. A like-minded talk show will now follow “Countdown” at 9 p.m.: “The Rachel Maddow Show,” hosted by the liberal radio host, begins Monday.

Mr. Griffin, MSNBC’s president, denies that it has an ideology. “I think ideology means we think one way, and we don’t,” he said. Rather than label MSNBC’s prime time as left-leaning, he says it has passion and point of view.

But MSNBC is the cable arm of NBC News, the dispassionate news division of NBC Universal. MSNBC, “Today” and “NBC Nightly News” share some staff members, workspace and content. And some critics are claiming they also share a political affiliation.

The McCain campaign has filed letters of complaint to the news division about its coverage and openly tied MSNBC to it. Tension between the network and the campaign hit an apex the day Mr. McCain announced Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. MSNBC had reported Friday morning that Ms. Palin’s plane was enroute to the announcement and she was likely the pick. But McCain campaign officials warned the network off, with one official going so far as to say that all of the candidates on the short list were on their way — which MSNBC then reported.

“The fact that it was reported in real time was very embarrassing,” said a senior MSNBC official. “We were told, ‘No, it’s not Sarah Palin and you don’t know who it is.’ ”

Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams, the past and present anchors of “NBC Nightly News,” have told friends and colleagues that they are finding it tougher and tougher to defend the cable arm of the news division, even while they anchored daytime hours of convention coverage on MSNBC and contributed commentary each evening.

Mr. Williams did not respond to a request for comment and Mr. Brokaw declined to comment. At a panel discussion in Denver, Mr. Brokaw acknowledged that Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews had “gone too far” at times, but emphasized they were “not the only voices” on MSNBC, according to The Washington Post.

Al Hunt, the executive Washington bureau chief of Bloomberg News, said that the entire news division was being singled out by Republicans because of the work of partisans like Mr. Olbermann. “To go and tar the whole news network and Brokaw and Mitchell is grossly unfair,” he said, referring to the NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

Some tensions have spilled out on-screen. On the first night in Denver, as the fellow MSNBC host Joe Scarborough talked about the resurgence of the McCain campaign, Mr. Olbermann dismissed it by saying: “Jesus, Joe, why don’t you get a shovel?”

The following night, Mr. Olbermann and his co-anchor for convention coverage, Mr. Matthews, had their own squabble after Mr. Olbermann observed that Mr. Matthews had talked too long.

Some staff members said the tension led to the network’s decision to keep Mr. Olbermann in New York for the Republican convention, after he ran the desk in Denver during the Democratic convention. MSNBC said that he stayed in New York to anchor coverage of Hurricane Gustav. But some workers say there were other reasons — namely, that Mr. Olbermann was concerned about his safety in St. Paul, given the loud crowds at MSNBC’s set in Denver.

NBC Universal executives are also known to be concerned about the perception that MSNBC’s partisan tilt in prime time is bleeding into the rest of the programming day. On a recent Friday afternoon, a graphic labeled “Breaking News” asked: “How many houses does Palin add to the Republican ticket?” Mr. Griffin called the graphic “an embarrassment.”

According to three staff members, Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal, and Steve Capus, president of NBC News, considered flying to the Republican convention in Minnesota last week to address the lingering tensions.

Up to now, the company’s public support for MSNBC’s strategy has been enthusiastic. At an anniversary party for Mr. Olbermann in April, Mr. Zucker called “Countdown” “one of the signature brands of the entire company.”

Just last year, Mr. Olbermann signed a four-year, $4-million-a-year contract with MSNBC. NBC is close to supplementing that contract with Mr. Olbermann, extending his deal through 2013 — and ensuring that he will be on MSNBC through the next election.

“I found it ironic and instructive that I could have easily said exactly what I did say, exactly when I did say it, if I had been wearing a different hat, and nobody would have taken any issue,” he said.

“Countdown” will still be shown before the three fall debates and a second edition will be shown sometime afterwards, following the program anchored by Mr. Gregory.

The change casts new doubt on what some staff members believe is an effective programming strategy: prime-time talk of a liberal sort. A like-minded talk show will now follow “Countdown” at 9 p.m.: “The Rachel Maddow Show,” hosted by the liberal radio host, begins Monday.

Mr. Griffin, MSNBC’s president, denies that it has an ideology. “I think ideology means we think one way, and we don’t,” he said. Rather than label MSNBC’s prime time as left-leaning, he says it has passion and point of view.

But MSNBC is the cable arm of NBC News, the dispassionate news division of NBC Universal. MSNBC, “Today” and “NBC Nightly News” share some staff members, workspace and content. And some critics are claiming they also share a political affiliation.

The McCain campaign has filed letters of complaint to the news division about its coverage and openly tied MSNBC to it. Tension between the network and the campaign hit an apex the day Mr. McCain announced Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. MSNBC had reported Friday morning that Ms. Palin’s plane was enroute to the announcement and she was likely the pick. But McCain campaign officials warned the network off, with one official going so far as to say that all of the candidates on the short list were on their way — which MSNBC then reported.

“The fact that it was reported in real time was very embarrassing,” said a senior MSNBC official. “We were told, ‘No, it’s not Sarah Palin and you don’t know who it is.’ ”

Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams, the past and present anchors of “NBC Nightly News,” have told friends and colleagues that they are finding it tougher and tougher to defend the cable arm of the news division, even while they anchored daytime hours of convention coverage on MSNBC and contributed commentary each evening.

Mr. Williams did not respond to a request for comment and Mr. Brokaw declined to comment. At a panel discussion in Denver, Mr. Brokaw acknowledged that Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews had “gone too far” at times, but emphasized they were “not the only voices” on MSNBC, according to The Washington Post.

Al Hunt, the executive Washington bureau chief of Bloomberg News, said that the entire news division was being singled out by Republicans because of the work of partisans like Mr. Olbermann. “To go and tar the whole news network and Brokaw and Mitchell is grossly unfair,” he said, referring to the NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

Some tensions have spilled out on-screen. On the first night in Denver, as the fellow MSNBC host Joe Scarborough talked about the resurgence of the McCain campaign, Mr. Olbermann dismissed it by saying: “Jesus, Joe, why don’t you get a shovel?”

The following night, Mr. Olbermann and his co-anchor for convention coverage, Mr. Matthews, had their own squabble after Mr. Olbermann observed that Mr. Matthews had talked too long.

Some staff members said the tension led to the network’s decision to keep Mr. Olbermann in New York for the Republican convention, after he ran the desk in Denver during the Democratic convention. MSNBC said that he stayed in New York to anchor coverage of Hurricane Gustav. But some workers say there were other reasons — namely, that Mr. Olbermann was concerned about his safety in St. Paul, given the loud crowds at MSNBC’s set in Denver.

NBC Universal executives are also known to be concerned about the perception that MSNBC’s partisan tilt in prime time is bleeding into the rest of the programming day. On a recent Friday afternoon, a graphic labeled “Breaking News” asked: “How many houses does Palin add to the Republican ticket?” Mr. Griffin called the graphic “an embarrassment.”

According to three staff members, Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal, and Steve Capus, president of NBC News, considered flying to the Republican convention in Minnesota last week to address the lingering tensions.

Up to now, the company’s public support for MSNBC’s strategy has been enthusiastic. At an anniversary party for Mr. Olbermann in April, Mr. Zucker called “Countdown” “one of the signature brands of the entire company.”

Just last year, Mr. Olbermann signed a four-year, $4-million-a-year contract with MSNBC. NBC is close to supplementing that contract with Mr. Olbermann, extending his deal through 2013 — and ensuring that he will be on MSNBC through the next election.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/business/media/08msnbc.html?partner=rssnyt

Hog Trash
12-26-2008, 07:48 AM
The reason you and most conservatives hate Olbermann is because he is the most powerful liberal voice out there, he cannot be silenced by the right wing noise machine and, for the most part, he tells the truth, something which is usually counter to the right wing talking points.Olbermann is a nobody who's has no influence on anything or anyone other than a small liberal following who have no desire of learning anything and just want to hear this nutcase spew hate.

His audiance is a bunch of mindless ditto brains who sit in front of their TV's and nod their heads in agreement while he rants...But hey, he makes a good living off you morons, so what the hell!

doctordog
12-26-2008, 02:30 PM
The reason you and most conservatives hate Olbermann is because he is the most powerful liberal voice out there, he cannot be silenced by the right wing noise machine and, for the most part, he tells the truth, something which is usually counter to the right wing talking points.

If you had them talk about anything but politics with passion there is virtually no difference between KO and Sean Hannity. Both are entertainment loons.

Smurf-Herder
12-26-2008, 06:32 PM
.... conservative values are not popular in the USA any more.



You're deluding yourself on that one.

Just look at how many blacks in California voted for Obama - and also voted against gay marriage.

SeedyROM
12-30-2008, 07:41 PM
Olbermann tells it like it is.

The reason you and most conservatives hate Olbermann is because he is the most powerful liberal voice out there, he cannot be silenced by the right wing noise machine and, for the most part, he tells the truth, something which is usually counter to the right wing talking points.


Good god man, Olbermann should be thrown of the air or executed on national television. I'd supply the bullets, tax deduction or not!!:thumbsup:

Olbermann is not powerful, the fucking loone was demoted after he accused Bush with the 9/11 conspiracy. He's got the homosexual genes raging from ear to ear with his in you face big head closer to the camera. The man dresses like a flamingo.

Olbermann does not always tell the truth, in fact he lies quite often contradicting his previous shows which lends creed to the hate he spews is biased. Any man who distorts his own reports with lies is a man who despises Amercians. The man is a manipulator who is equal to Hannity.

SeedyROM
12-30-2008, 07:44 PM
Correction, Olbermann was demoted twice. I forgot about the leg quivering homorants the flamingo made.

bairdi
12-30-2008, 11:05 PM
Good god man, Olbermann should be thrown of the air or executed on national television. I'd supply the bullets, tax deduction or not!!:thumbsup:

Olbermann is not powerful, the fucking loone was demoted after he accused Bush with the 9/11 conspiracy. He's got the homosexual genes raging from ear to ear with his in you face big head closer to the camera. The man dresses like a flamingo.

Olbermann does not always tell the truth, in fact he lies quite often contradicting his previous shows which lends creed to the hate he spews is biased. Any man who distorts his own reports with lies is a man who despises Amercians. The man is a manipulator who is equal to Hannity.
Listening to Olbermann is like breathing in a breath of fresh air. His special comments are freaking brilliant.

Hog Trash
01-01-2009, 06:11 PM
Listening to Olbermann is like breathing in a breath of fresh air. His special comments are freaking brilliant.Does this mean you also enjoy the aroma in the men's room of a Mexican truck stop? :scared1:

bairdi
01-01-2009, 08:06 PM
Does this mean you also enjoy the aroma in the men's room of a Mexican truck stop? :scared1:
Richard Pryor use to do a routine about his trip to Africa where he gave a ride to a bushman. In the skit, which was really funny, Pryor did all these facial contortions while talking about how bad the bushman smelled in the back of the car. The punchline was when he turned around, and the bushman was doing the same facial contortions because the way Pryor smelled was offensive to him. So I guess it's all relative Hawg.

Except for you and possibly senior chief, I doubt if any other member of this board would hang out in the men's room at a Mexican truck stop. What exactly does the aroma smell like?:lmao2:

Moby
01-02-2009, 09:59 AM
Good god man, Olbermann should be thrown of the air or executed on national television. I'd supply the bullets, tax deduction or not!!:thumbsup:

Olbermann is not powerful, the fucking loone was demoted after he accused Bush with the 9/11 conspiracy. He's got the homosexual genes raging from ear to ear with his in you face big head closer to the camera. The man dresses like a flamingo.

Olbermann does not always tell the truth, in fact he lies quite often contradicting his previous shows which lends creed to the hate he spews is biased. Any man who distorts his own reports with lies is a man who despises Amercians. The man is a manipulator who is equal to Hannity.
Is he really that much different then Hannity, Bill O, Beck and Rush? Sure he's nuts but it's not drug induced and he was actually a journalist. A sports journalist at that and we know how Americans love sports casters :)

Olbermann is not someone that I pay attention to but he was the first one to step up against all the misleading done by Muroch's and May's money. It's hard to judge Olbermann without judging at least 4 of the most influence people in the Republican mix.

Hog Trash
01-02-2009, 01:17 PM
Except for you and possibly senior chief, I doubt if any other member of this board would hang out in the men's room at a Mexican truck stop. What exactly does the aroma smell like?:lmao2:I would imagine your following statement describes it perfectly.Olbermann is like breathing in a breath of fresh air.

Smurf-Herder
01-03-2009, 03:57 AM
Listening to Olbermann is like breathing in a breath of fresh air.


You must love the smell of your own farts. :lmao2:

Moby
01-03-2009, 01:15 PM
You must love the smell of your own farts. :lmao2:
Solo Dutch Oven? :confused:

Smurf-Herder
01-03-2009, 01:29 PM
Solo Dutch Oven? :confused:

Considering how many out there probably agree, I consider it a Collective Dutch Oven. :D

bairdi
01-03-2009, 02:53 PM
You must love the smell of your own farts. :lmao2:
That's a pretty juvenile comment even for you smurfy. Is that the best you can do? :taunt:

Smurf-Herder
01-03-2009, 03:47 PM
That's a pretty juvenile comment even for you smurfy. Is that the best you can do? :taunt:

It's the best I can offer, for someone who looks up to Keith Olbermann.

SeedyROM
01-09-2009, 03:34 AM
Olbermann is a major hater. He's a low life hater who goes further than Ann Coulter. I can't find the other email that has links where Olbermann sides with the 9/11 conspiracy groups that claim Bush planned 9/11.


VIDEO OF THE WEEK:
ANTHRAX ATTACKS MAY BE 'INSIDE JOB'
National TV commentator, Keith Olbermann, says anthrax attacks in 2001 were
likely an "inside job" by the Bush/Cheney Administration. Watch this MSNBC
video and read the related Associated Press article here:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_13881.cfm


http://www.leechvideo.com/video/view2207748.html
On Wednesday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered the latest in a recent series of "Special Comment" attacks on President Bush, inspired by the recently passed Military Commissions Act, as he suggested Bush was as big a "threat" to America as the "terrorists." The Countdown host not only referred to the government "becoming just a little bit like the terrorists," but he also labelled some of Bush's "invocations" as "terroristic" and compared the wish of a 9/11 planner to end America to what President Bush himself "has wrought."


http://www.prisonplanet.com/olbermann-bush-administration-allowed-911-attacks-to-occur.html
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann perhaps went further than ever before last night in his special comment about the 9/11 anniversary, slamming the Bush administration for their “criminal neglect” in allowing the attacks to occur and identifying the continued exploitation of 9/11 “sociological pornography” as the only reason that Bush hasn’t been impeached.

SeniorChief
01-09-2009, 09:50 AM
Listening to Olbermann is like breathing in a breath of fresh air. His special comments are freaking brilliant.

He lives with his cat and mother in an apartment in New York City.
He's an idiot.

Smurf-Herder
01-09-2009, 09:37 PM
He lives with his cat and mother in an apartment in New York City.
He's an idiot.

He sounds like a repressed "40 Year old Virgin" :lmao2:

SeedyROM
01-11-2009, 03:16 AM
Listening to Olbermann is like breathing in a breath of fresh air. His special comments are freaking brilliant.

I thought you were smarter than that. NLP has eroded your mind. "A breathe of fresh air" sounds kind of gay. He's Hannity with caterpillar eyebrows. At least Hannity doesn't require camera close ups, that Ogerfuck is a creepy gay bastard. You need to be Olbersanitized!!

Moby
01-12-2009, 02:02 AM
It's the best I can offer, for someone who looks up to Keith Olbermann.
Olbermann is the funniest of the pundits and he does actually mention data from time to time. Sure he's on the same insanity level as Beck and Rush but at least he's almost funny at times.

How can anyone look up to any of the political pundits is beyond me but it is interesting to see those that defend Hannity, Rush, Savage, Beck or O'Rielly attack the counterpart.

It's a double standard since they're all nuts and no one should look up to or take seriously anything that any of them say. EVER!

Moby
01-12-2009, 02:04 AM
Olbermann is a major hater. He's a low life hater who goes further than Ann Coulter. I can't find the other email that has links where Olbermann sides with the 9/11 conspiracy groups that claim Bush planned 9/11.
I don't agree with that at all. Coulter hates most the people on Earth and lies about them. Olbermann just hates a few people that support Bush.

Hate is hate but Coulter is on a grand scale.

Hog Trash
01-12-2009, 08:16 AM
I don't agree with that at all. Coulter hates most the people on Earth and lies about them. Olbermann just hates a few people that support Bush.

Hate is hate but Coulter is on a grand scale.Ann Coulter does not hate everyone on earth, only the liberals...When it comes to liberals, Ann and me are on the same page.

If you could step outside yourself and see liberals for how they actually appear to sensible people, you would understand why.

SeedyROM
01-13-2009, 12:57 AM
I don't agree with that at all. Coulter hates most the people on Earth and lies about them. Olbermann just hates a few people that support Bush.

Hate is hate but Coulter is on a grand scale.

Olberman is a liberal attack dog equal to Hannity. His attacks are far more distasteful than Hannity. Olbermann uses unAMerican hate towards the president, his language is not appropriate towards any president including Bush.

Coulter lies, like what, give me an example or two. Libs fact check her ass as a way to keep her on her toes. If she lies, she gets far more negative press than the usual rants. Coulter actually points out problems in government and she's made millions doing it.