Keith Olbermann Special Comment on Hillary Clinton (and Geraldine Ferraro)

13th March 2008

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I’m a critic of Keith Olbermann, while being at the same time grateful for his needed critique of the war and the White House’s conduct visa via the war, in a media gulf of such analysis; especially on television.

But Keith’s insistent need to show that he’s smarter than everybody with his constant obscure references to historical minutia and hardly known classic literature; his over bloated continual joking about important issues while at the same trying to carry the mantel of Edward R. Murral, and his incessant obsession with Bill O’Reilly (that I’m now convinced is born out of jealousy) where he then often acts like a leftwing version of O’Reilly in excoriating him; are turn offs. (Not that O’Reilly doesn’t deserve to be excoriated, but get off the next man’s jock sometime. I find it to be no coincidence that the man who is his direct ratings competition is the one he harps on when there are tons of others who are as bad as O’Reilly).

Yet, in my mixed feelings bag, I must again give Keith credit for being the only person in all of television media to actually take Clinton to task for her southern strategy and her double speak, double standards about campaign conduct.

Last Night’s “Special Comment”:

He’s still overly shrill at some points; but this is the only real analysis of the situation in the main stream media.

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1 On March 13th, 2008, D. Yobachi Boswell said:

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2 On March 13th, 2008, Jason P. said:

Part of his bag comes from being on ESPN too long. They ruin people; I have concluded. (”Back in the day” when Rich Eisen and Stewart Scott where teamed on ESPN, I thought, then, they had a good program. Now, not so much. They got “too full” of themselves. Poor analysis, poor understanding of issues.)

But back to Olbermann.

He did actually say something worth noting in that piece. I watched and it was one of his better rantings.

In my local media market, the news stations are lined up one after another: MSNBC 32, CNN 33, Headline 34, CNBC 35…Fox 48…comedy central 55…ok, the last is not “news”, but the (last two) are like comedy hours whenever they talk. One is trying to be serious (Fox), the other, is never serious, but actually says more truth than the one being serious.

So, you got Liberal (MSNBC), A possible middle (CNN), Conservative (Headline) and Conservatives on Money (CNBC) all in order. Then the crazy right (FOX) and the funny left (Comedy.)

All these media outlets are positioned to give us maximum exposure to their particular dialog. Maybe, Keith has no friends, is trying to be another Dennis Miller, who at one time was all the rage on HBO with his diatribes. (Then he went conservative.)

It is hard to get wheat out of so much bullshit.

How’s about this comment from Glenn Beck: “I’ve never worked for a poor person.” (I really think he meant to say (with.)

That’s a wrap.

3 On March 13th, 2008, cooper said:

I wish pundits would stop being entertainment, that is a serious problem in this country. I liked him until he made a comment about Britney Spears one night, a typical misogynistic opinion about her fat ass which frankly didn’t belong on any kind of show purporting to cover news, so for me he is gone the way of Bill Maher. I rarely watch him at all any longer.

The media covers things the way they are told to cover things,that is a fact and the sooner we understand it is not worth watching any of it because the way they slant from day to day depends on which way the wind blows and nothing else.

MSNBC is not liberal it is a pretentious bunch of misogynistic assholes. CNN, if you get rid of Beck and Dobbs ins the most liberal but their coverage lately is annoying. ABC a major network actually has some of the most real coverage of news out there.

That was a great statement though so Kudos to him. I may have to place that on my sidebar.

The democratic party is heading toward destruction as I see it, will be gone possible after this election …maybe for the best.

4 On March 14th, 2008, MarvalusOne said:

I seem to be in the minority…I like Keith. Maybe it’s because I don’t take him too seriously and when he goes on his tangents, I tend to tune him out…but this particular segment was spot on…and I think he is the only newscaster who would openly call out HRC like he did…

Cooper is right…the Democratic party is shot to all hell and will never be the same again…all because of selfishness and infighting and the inability to concede and play together against the bigger enemy…damn shame…

5 On March 14th, 2008, D. Yobachi Boswell said:

ESPN does perpetually create overbloated assholes. Do you hear Collin Cowheard on the radio. He’s almost a nobody and thinks the world of himself, and saying things lound somehow then makes him right.

6 On March 14th, 2008, D. Yobachi Boswell said:

Cooper, I saw that Spears comment. I stopped watching him for the most part when he really got full of himslef about a year ago. I can only take him in small spirts.

And I agree MSNBC is not liberal, none of the mainstream media is liberal, it’s all corporate. They all do whatever they think gets them ratings and is good for their corporate image; which is why they sat back and cheer leaded us into were even though they new the arguments and evidence for war were crap.

7 On March 14th, 2008, D. Yobachi Boswell said:

MarvalusOne, the fact that you don’t take a “news” man seriously proves the point. How can you be the newscaster when the people who even like you think you’re just a
comedian?

Even as a Bill Mahr/John Stewart type, if that were what he was supposed to be, but he’s not; he’s still too over bloated and not nearly as funny as he thinks he is.

As far as the democratic party falling apart, I just like that white liberal racism is being exposed. No, not that all white liberals are closet racist, it’s just that being a “liberal” doesn’t make you not a racist. And I love that the first Black President stuff, that I’ve always hated; about Bill Clinton is dead too.