Olbermann Calls Mediaite “Gullible” For Reporting An Inconvenient Truth
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On Countdown tonight, host Keith Olbermann called Mediaite “gullible” for posting a video clip critical of his evaluation of the Tea Party movement – most notably the apparent lack of diversity amongst their ranks. The low-budget clip (made by the Dallas Tea Party movement) invited Olbermann to visit their Tea Party convention, and more pointedly, criticized the MSNBC talent line-up for lacking their own diversity. Somehow pointing this out makes us “gullible.” Then again – some people will believe anything.
We’re gullible? Well then, we are in fine company with the many other media websites that also covered the very same story, including Politico and TVNewser. And truth be told, we were the only site that first highlighted Olbermann’s point-of-view. But, judge not, lest ye be judged — so let’s look at the diversity of guests championed by Olbermann.
According to Olbermannwatch, the admittedly anti-Olbermann website claims to have looked at the guests on Countdown for the last two weeks and found just two African-American guests compared to 46 white guests. Oops.
The opposite of gullibility is suspicion, or having the idea or impression that something or someone is of questionable, dishonest, or dangerous character or condition. Consider Mediaite suspicious of Olbermann’s specious claims.
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Someone please give Keith a pacifier.
In the Age of Twitter citing the number of web sites that simply pick up and repeat is meaningless.
Poor keefy is resorting to attacking the messengers. Too damn funny! ;)
Don’t care what this blowhard thinks
If Keith is looking here, I hope he reads some of my posts about him. Big fan, Keith. Big fan.
Insecuritus Maximus is soooo predictable. How about his old trick of pretending not to know the name
( Mediaite) until he reads it again.
I wonder if Keith and Real Royal look alike. They certainly sound alike.
KOKOKlown being,well, KOKOKlown.
You know, I don’t think he likes Mediaite. He goes after Mr Floyd Abrams in the most libelous scurrilous way and calls out Mediaite merely for reporting what is no secret and completely factual report.
Hey, what did Dan Abrams do the perpetually put upon and maligned oh so lovely and gracious KKKlown?
What an asshole. I can’t believe I used to watch his show.
They need to up his meds.
Socalgal, I think he needs a fast push IV of industrial strength valium to soothe that seething raging roiling personality! :)
Apparently, in order to work for Mediaite, one has to attack Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow or MSNBC. This is because Dan Abrams was dumped by the network for Maddow.
Jelperman says:
February 23, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Apparently, in order to work for Mediaite, one has to attack Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow or MSNBC. This is because Dan Abrams was dumped by the network for Maddow.
If that makes you feel better and helps you hold back the tears you just keep right on believing that, Jelpe.
Olbermann reminds me of the Fredo character in The Godfather. “I’m smart. I can do things.”
Jelper, Maddow has been treated decently here for the most part. Olby should be glad he still has a fan base, namely you. Hang in there.
COLBY?
Don’t you know by now…you are only allowed to report one side of the story, and you can only question those people you already know agree with everything you say?
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh…I thought everyone knew that….get with the program!
btw: Dan Abrams rocks!!!
Perhaps it’s a little simplistic to wonder why none of the folks that Olbermann cites are on their “Mount Rushmore”, but one does have to wonder why every one (no matter their ethnicity) isn’t listed in the sidebar on msnbc.com. I mean, if you go to cnn.com and click on “cnn tv”, you’re presented with their entire line-up and there’s a link to a bio interface which lists everyone employed by all of their networks, including executives.
While the other day, I was looking for something from one of the afternoon MSNBC shows and I still can’t find mention of the program, anywhere on the website.
I realize that MSNBC and MSNBC.com are somewhat different entities, but there’s obviously still some kind of contractual link between the two and I really doubt MS is limiting the cable network’s real estate to the point, they can’t list all of their shows. Let alone, list or bio all of their anchors.
Media feud?
It’s on!
Upon hearing this, both of Olbermann’s viewers simultaneously removed Mediaite from their “favorites” tab.
I’ve heard that instead of having guests, Keith is going to get one of those plastic birds that dips its beak in water, then nods till the beak gets dry. As long as Keith sees someone agreeing, he’s happy.
* Gets a big tub of popcorn, a super large drink and settles down to watch the fight* I hope Mediate uses the Folding chair! :P
NewsBusters: Hypocritical Olbermann Defends Racial Makeup of MSNBC But Accused FNC of Racism
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/02/24/hypocritical-olbermann-defends-racial-makeup-msnbc-accused-more-diver
I love how he pretends he doesn’t know the name of Mediaite and ‘looks down’ as if reading it off a paper. God what a tool. And, who the hell are these people of color Keith is claiming appear on MSNBC all the time. Aside from the daytime anchor, who doesn’t even have true anchor duties-she co-anchors, who is he talking about? The primary anchor lineup is as lilly white as you can get. Hell, they’re downright pasty.
And it’s sick that Keith mentions his father in a laughably transparent jab for sympathy points. If he doesn’t want to go-just say so, don’t use your sick dad as a self-serving and absurdly disingenuous excuse. As if-Keithy would be on the first plane to Texas if not for his sick father. The more I think about his willingness to use his ill father as a cheap prop, the more grotesque it gets. He really is shamelessly vile.
Perhaps Colby will be named WPITW since you did a follow-up on this.
Countdown=Meltdown
HELLOOOOO?
I see the Mark Koldys Klown Klub has dragged Mediaite, again, into their perennial bitching about Keith Olbermann. On top of Mediaite’s own faux pass by Colby Hall giving credibility to a handful of bitter teabaggers. But I guess Colby Hall and Mark Koldys need something to write about. Something. Anything.
First of all the false, not to mention idiotic, parallel of equating MSNBC line-up as some kind of proof that MSNBC is actually “worse” than the teabaggers at large is no indication of any type of racial bias from MSNBC. The infotainment industry is based on its ability to draw viewers and advertisers, so it doesn’t matter what kind of paranoid conspiracies are spun by an ignorant racist like Glenn Beck; the Fox gNOpig Propaganda Network will continue to broadcast his show. Did the Dallas teabaggers mention Fox gNOpig Propaganda’s own line-up? No.
Then Colby Hall also lends credibility to the stupid Dallas teabaggers demanding, er, inviting Keith Olbermann to their circle jerk, as if anyone has a duty to pay attention to idiots ranting about their “opinion” This is exactly the same BS the shit flinging Baboon Beck is using with his “White House” phone.
If Mediaite and specifically Colby Hall wants to share the fine company and work of Mark Koldys, well… I suggest a look at the comments above. And Mark Koldys’s “recaps” at both sites where he delights his faithful six sheep with his oozing hatred of anything outside of the Fox gNOpig Propaganda Network.
Raise your leg Koldys sheep!
Jeff Merrill (Olby Sucks), Janet Hawkins (Hagzilla), Observer Dan (Trickletown)… HEY, WHERE IS MARKY?! Is he busy linking his “blog” to other people’s work?
Before I forget, here is the mug of a teabagger racist:
http://www.ourchurch-graphics.com/member/r/royalkinggeteqh/Jeff3.jpg
Back in the days before “Olbermann Watch” defaulted to Koldys (and I am not sure why that happened), it was critical of Olbermann but not as obsessive about Olbermann as it is now. I sometimes wonder if some measure of Olbermann’s survival is not because of a sympathy factor. In my view, Olbermann lost such relevance he may have once had, admittedly little, the moment W became a lame duck. Yet, we have one website wholly dedicated to trashing and bashing Olbermann, generally without any of the abundant substantive material out there to do so, and another site which spends much of its time doing so (devoting much of the balance of its time to attacking the website NewsHounds and its contributors in the most personal of terms). Without this planned negativity, we would be left with noting more than a banal fansite. So, it strikes me we have simple profiteering going on, the building of a couple of sites by the willing mud-throwing of a mere handful, literally, of chronically obsessive people. I suppose that such abuses of capitalism and the First Amendment are to be expected. But, what of the collateral damage. Mud-throwers and feces-tossers are not sympathetic figures. Their object, targets and victims often become sympathetic, however undeservedly so.
As a corollary, I imagine that through the work of responsible sites such as Mediaite, which tastefully and substantively remind us of Olbermann’s work, or lack thereof, Olbermann’s days are numbered, or his days will be reordered in dramatic, stunning ways. Then, what is left for the mud-throwers and feces-tossers other than muddy and ****** hands?
With every work he speaks he is making his show more irrelevant every night. Gotta love him for that.
You can have a good show and not have so much hate in your life. I will be praying for you Keith.
He’s irrelevant, but you wankers can’t stop talking about him. It’s bad enough that Dan Abrams is envious of Olbermann’s success in television, but why make these hapless writers for Mediaite obsess over Keith O, too? They didn’t lose shows on MSNBC.
Sort of like Sarah Palin is irrelevant, but the left can’t stop talking about her.
Palin is a retard, and thus good for a laugh.
Just to clarify my above comment for my own piece of mind…
I’m on record with comments to this and to other websites defending Jimmy Carter’s assertion concerning a large swath of Tea Party adherents and by no means, do I necessarily disagree with Keith’s assertion.
My question is why aren’t the correspondents of color featured on the masthead of the MSNBC site and why aren’t there links to every show and bios for every personality? One could argue that the Dallas group’s 33% of their steering committee is larger than the rate of diversity cited by Mr. Olbermann, but I don’t think 33% is reflective of the Texas membership as a whole.
It’s just that most of their “criticism” is achieved by showing the “Mount Rushmore” of MSNBC anchors and if the diversity of the network was reflected on the website, the Dallas video would have a little less sting.
Olbermann is a drooling maniac, and thus good for a laugh.
It’s nice we can all a get a good laugh, many people from the Drop Out Governor of Alaska, a few people from Olbermann. As long as we’re all laughing, we’re living.
You were confusing that ‘few’ people with his ratings. Many more are laughing.
That’s the faux royal king’s little way of giving olbermann an “attaboy,” while taking a childish slap at Mrs. Palin.
I watch Olbermann occasionally for the same reason I used to watch Coach Woody Hayes. I know it’s just a matter of time till he completely snaps, and it’ll make for good television.
I like your analogy, Writer. Correct on Olbermann. Correct on the infamous Hayes. Sounds like you watch Olbermann more often than I. I would actually like to watch Glen(n) from time-to-time for largely the same reason, but it is a terrible time for me (MSNBC is on at the gym) and Glen(n) makes me feel like I just ate a platter of blinky raw oysters. How can you stand watching Olbermann?
The Hayes reference really caught my attention. I’m not a Big 10 guy (although I understand Texas has been asked to leave the Big 12 and join), but Hayes was always entertaining.
I like to see what the ‘other side’ is saying. But more often I pick up that info from Rachel. Olbermann is more like a child having a tantrum.
Sad. I liked Dan’s show and I like Keith’s show. I wish I knew what went down between those two as they clearly are not friends like they used to be.
But I have to side with Keith here. Mediaite is taking the low road. MSNBC has plenty of minority talent on air. Even a basic Google search can turn that up. To run with the retarded propagandistic Dallas Tea Party video and take their meme that there are no minorities on MSNBC is beyond wrong and shows laziness just shy of ineptitude by Mediaite staff.
But Keith took a very low road tonight by trashing Dan personally (even though it was a creative slam).
I’d like Mediaite to at least TRY and employ basic journalism and I’d like Keith to not be so personal in his attacks.
That’s just me.
Sort of like when MSNBC crops their videos of the tea partiers to make sure no minorities are shown. And they cropped that picture of the guy carrying the gun to make sure no one could see he was black. Olbermann’s bias is only considered ‘journalism’ by an asshole such as shootfromthemouth.
Writer,
Let me get this straight: You think that the reason that you don’t see minorities at TeaBagger rallies is because they all stand on the edges and get “cropped out” by the “liberal media”? That is awesome! I can’t wait to tell my friends about your comment. By the By, they actually showed the black guy carrying the rifle and cropped out his six white friends who also came with guns. What do you write “writer”? Is it as well thought out as this posting?
Actually, the “two” minority guests were Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, who appeared twice.
“To run with the retarded propagandistic Dallas Tea Party video and take their meme that there are no minorities on MSNBC is beyond wrong and shows laziness just shy of ineptitude by Mediaite staff.”————-Then you must agree that for MSNBC to push the demonstrably false meme that the Tea Party movement has no minority participants is also “beyond wrong and shows laziness just shy of ineptitude by [MSNBC] staff.”
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