What’s so interesting about this is that he obviously went after Maddow and Olbermann because that’s the only way he’d be able to leverage this criticism without being attacked by the right-wing cablers themselves.

I mean, MSNBC hasn’t really been a fully liberal cable news network for a single year yet, while Fox News has been pretty clear on which politics they’ve they favored since 1996. And liberal talk radio isn’t close to being as big as conservative talk radio.

I mean, in actuality, H. W. Bush blames a lot of it on Fox News and right-wing talk radio. Can’t blame him. He’s pretty much a moderate in today’s Republican party.

I loved the irony too. It matches the hypocritical response to any push back from progressives, after getting our teeth bashed in for forty years by those to whom truth is defined by whatever wins elections.

I always bemoan incivility too, President Bush, but somehow I think some in the U.S. and around the world don’t see the equivalency of mean rhetoric with legitimate tough criticism of an illegal war and a mishandled one, decimated economies, and consolidation of unprecedented economic power into the hands of those who benefit most from all the above.

This is the true legacy of the Republican Party and Conservatives – pretty nervy to take umbrage when people finally start noticing after the last forty years.

“At the end of the day, Bush’s mention of Maddow and Olbermann should be great for ratings.” Somehow I doubt that.

Well stated. GHWB has never been noted for possessing a moral center or any intellectual coherence.
Much like a Fall leaf – blowing in the wind from one gutter to another. Don’t expect much that is either positive or truthful from him. It’s a genetic thing.

President Bush is absolutely correct about Maddow and Olberman. They are every bit as bad as Rush Limbaugh who is at the bottom of the barrel. I too would like to see the return of civility to this nation. President Bush blames cable. I would blame the Internet but it is really individual responsibility. ALL of us need to be cognizant of our language and return to civility. We cannot expect our TV hosts to be civil if we are not. It is time to set an example.

Do Maddow or Queef Unterman ever debate on their shows, or just rant? At least Rush, Bill, and Hannity always have lively, opposing views and guests on their programs. It’s easy to just sit there and preach to the choir. BTW, Atwater is always attacked for the Willy Horton ads. But it was some Dem (Gore?) running against Dukakis in the primaries that raised that issue in the first place.

Keith Uberdork/Doberman and Rachel Madcow are a disgrace. All they are is a propaganda to the left, in this case Obama and co. and they’re not very good at that either. There isn’t a stitch of journalistic professionalism in either of them. They are rabid, and I don’t really care who they target, they belong in a pitbull fight ring as the pitbulls.

[Glenn "Not Playing With a Full" Beck, Sean Manatee/Shammity, Bill Orally/O'Liely, and Fox and Frauds] are a disgrace. All they are is a propaganda to the [right], in this case [the GOP] and co. and they’re not very good at that either. There isn’t a stitch of journalistic professionalism in [any] of them. They are rabid, and I don’t really care who they target, they belong in a pitbull fight ring as the pitbulls.

See how easy that was?

Liberals….please take note of this saying:

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

Maybe one day the wingnuts will realize that winning cable news and talk radio ratings doesn’t win elections. So all this attention on Fox News and MSNBC really means nothing.

Wingnuts like to gloat about how Fox and Limbaugh are so dominant, but they have a long track record of losing elections for their preferred candidates. Even when they tried to keep Hillary afloat last year they failed miserably. So keep it up. It’s nice to keep the nuts contained in their echo chamber while the adults do the hard work of fixing this country.

“Sick puppies.” “I bailed out at 1800 ft & slaughtered my crew at ChiChi Jima” Bush has spawned quite an impressive litter himself.

@Nachi
Ha! Ha! Haaaaaa! Nachi, Olbermann, whoever you are — you just quoted from a book written by a conspiracy nut, and published by the conspiracy nuts at Progressive Press. Now I finally understand the Candy Land reality you live in. Wait a minute! I just realized you misquoted that book — it wasn’t 1800 feet, it was 3000 feet! Ha! you couldn’t even quote the book correctly.
So, I wonder will you also be buying this conspiracy nuts’ books about President Obama.
Here are some more “facts” from the same man, Tarpley, but on President Obama:
“Obama is exposed as a foundation operative and agent of Wall Street finance capital, controlled by Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Soros, and Goldman Sachs. Obama’s mother was an official of the Ford Foundation, the World Bank, and US AID. By all indications, Obama was identified for future political use by Brzezinski at Columbia in 1981-1983, during Obama’s secret lost years.”
And more:
“Barack Obama is a deeply troubled personality, the megalomaniac front man for a postmodern coup by the intelligence agencies, using fake polls, mobs of swarming adolescents, super-rich contributors, and orchestrated media hysteria to short-circuit normal politics and seize power. His guru and controller is Zbigniew Brzezinski, the deranged revanchist and Russia-hater who dominated the catastrophic Carter presidency 30 years ago. Trilateral Commission co-founder Brzezinski wants a global showdown with Russia and China far more dangerous for the United States than the Bush-Cheney Iraq adventure.”
Ha! Ha! Haaaaaa! Nachi, you crack me up.

Nachi seems to be a real winner! Thank you Ben Linus! Truthfully, I really can’t even watch Maddow or Olbermann. They simply turn my stomach. Also, their ratings are so low, I wonder why anybody even quotes them.

I wouldn’t denigrate canines by using the “puppy” label on those two disgusting jerks. And Chrissie Matthews should be added to this group of slime merchants. No wonder they have NO VIEWING AUDIENCE! Their numbers are in the toilet and one good flush will take them out.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Not Crazy For Fox

Dear Mr. Olbermann

I have watched your show/network a few times over the past couple of months and It is evident as to why you’re a perennial ratings loser. Approximately 50% of your coverage is spent either attacking Fox news or insulting the intelligence of Sarah Palin, George Bush and other conservatives/ Republicans. It is not difficult to figure out that one source of your bitterness is the fact that Fox news consistently kicks your far left behind every single night in the ratings. Perhaps if you spent a little more time on actual substance, you could one day climb out of the ratings basement. The obsessive attacks on your competitors points of view is all the more ridiculous when one realizes that Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews and your own show are just as left leaning as Sean Hannity, Bill O’reilly and Glen Beck are right leaning.

You also might want to try another novel concept, its called debate. Nothing is more boring than to listen to the same tired left wing commentators every night who are allowed to go unchallenged. There are more liberal voices on Fox News than CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC and ABC combined!

And lastly, tone down the foaming at the mouth commentaries. I’m sure its causing some of your viewers pets to seek safety under the bed. During your recent rant about alleged racism and Joe Wilson, I felt that at any moment you were going to jump through the television and chew the remote right out of my hand. So I hope you take these words of wisdom from your friend on the right. Just maybe one day you and your network will no longer be viewed as the Detroit Lions of cable news. I really believe Mr. Olbermann that the primary reason for your vile hatred of Fox News is that you wish you were on it.

Regards,

The Conservative Sage
Cleveland, Ohio

Maddow might be progressive, but there’s certainly no comparison between her programming and that of Beck, O’Reilly, Dobbs or other of the right-friendly ilk. In fact, Maddow’s rather right-friendly herself, having full-fledged debates and discussion with relatively high-profile Republican and conservatives.

There’s a reason these Republicans and conservatives choose to appear on Maddow. Likewise, there’s a reason why many Republicans and conservatives fear appearing on her show. Mr. Bush and his defenders are proving their blatant disconnection from reality by even inferring a comparison between right-wing punditry and Maddow.

Olbermann, well that’s a different story.

Keith Blabberon.