Comments on: Olbermann Fails to Credit Mediaite While Slamming Drudge for Thievery

By: Pat Doherty

Pat Doherty — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:36:11 +0000

Ted

Long time. I see you’ve kept up that unintentionally hilarious habit of using big boy words that you know are negative-sounding, but don’t particularly understand. “Dumb ass gas bag” is more your style. I eagerly await your response where you say I’m the one who doesn’t understand big words.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:41:06 +0000

Good God Pat, do you ever tire of being a cliche? If anyone knows anything about self righteous, pseudo intellectual vanity, it would be you. Dumb ass gas bag.

By: ImNotBlue

ImNotBlue — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:26:05 +0000

WriterRoss says:
December 15, 2009 at 1:34 pm

…all the things those of you ragging on him for having a brain will never have.

I don’t think any of us WANT the brain he has. He can keep the massive ego (which got him fired from how many jobs?), the hypocrisy, and the nasty bitterness that is his hallmark. No… he (and perhaps you) can keep that.

By: MartiniShark

MartiniShark — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:20:39 +0000

How exactly is it jealousy to point out inaccuracies in the programming? The post here is about KO getting incensed about actions that he is guilty of perpetrating himself in the very same segment. He’s accused Drudge of thieving, while lifting content from this site in the exact same broadcast. Another time he was critical of ABC for wrongly editing a video and then as he ran the same video he himself had convenient edits, without attribution. He’s borderline pathological.

Olbermann may in fact run a brilliant show. The problem is we are talking about COUNTDOWN.

By: WriterRoss

WriterRoss — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:34:41 +0000

Good luck making yourselves all feel better. Olbermann is fantastic and wise and runs a brilliant show. Your jealousy is raging, revealing all the things those of you ragging on him for having a brain will never have.

By: ImNotBlue

ImNotBlue — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:33:16 +0000

m says:
December 15, 2009 at 1:03 pm

I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.

Oh… and the only reason Olbermann might have an “issue” with Mediaite is because of Dan Abrams and Rachel Sklar. Olbermann bragged about getting Abrams “removed” from MSNBC, and Rachel was “removed” from HuffPo for writing something mildly critical of KO.

By: m

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:03:02 +0000

I think that he didn’t credit Mediaite was probably intentional. “Liberal biased DURRR” Mediaite obviously has great relations with Olbermann.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:08:00 +0000

You assume Olbermann gives a rat’s ass about being honest.

By: germ

germ — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:00:04 +0000

Olbermann’s #1 last night was laughable. By, at first connecting murders by independent actions by deranged killers and creatively editing videos by Beck and O’Reilly to support his claims (which if you watched those shows as well would know how badly his edits were) then actually defending the nastiness of Garafalo’s comments “racist, teabagging rednecks”.

I guess Olberdouche’s ego doesn’t understand hypocracy..

By: Pat Doherty

Pat Doherty — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:09:01 +0000

I always get a kick when Keith Olbermann puts on his Edward R. Murrow face and purports to defend journalism from these right-wing interlopers. This is a guy who owes his career to the fact he could amusingly describe a Ken Griffey Jr. home run, not because he broke any stories. Unlike his bete noire O’Reilly, Keith has no background in ostensibly “serious” journalism. He was hired as a personality. Olbermann doesn’t do any original reporting, he simply rips stories from various blue blogs. Countdown appears to be a program designed more than anything else to massage Keith’s ego: no dissenting opinions; a small group of reliably left-wing personalities to affirm his views; entire segments devoted not to the news, but what Limbaugh/Beck/O’Reilly have said about the news so he can feel like he’s taking them on; “Special Comments” that run 10-15, sometimes 20 minutes long, that are nothing but exercises in self-righteous, pseudo-intellectual vanity, notable only for the “is this guy serious?” feeling one gets and utterly wrong-headed literary allusions that must have come from some last-minute skim of Wikipedia.

By: StewartIII

StewartIII — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:02:44 +0000

NewsBusters — Olbermann’s Conniption: ‘There is No Liberal Media’; Insists Corporate Ownership Absolves Media of ‘Liberal’ Designation
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/12/15/olbermann-s-conniption-there-no-liberal-media-insists-corporate-ownership

By: MartiniShark

MartiniShark — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:12:12 +0000

Is this not the same dolt who had a piece that was critical of a news outlet’s spurious video editing in a piece and then edited the accompying video without notification himself?

Also, I do not think Brietbart claims no objectivity, he has set up his news service as a response to the left-leaning news services and to provide another perspective that either goes ignored or is misrepresented.

By: rmbltmbl

rmbltmbl — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:10:31 +0000

Is it surprising, though?