Olbermann Stunned By Coburn’s Defense Of Nancy Pelosi & Anti-Fox News Comment

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by Colby Hall | 7:59 am, April 7th, 2010

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When news broke yesterday that Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) had made unfavorable comments towards Fox News (and perhaps more striking, favorable thoughts on Nancy Pelosi) one knew that Keith Olbermann was sure to pounce. And pounce he did, though in his own words, he was stunned. At a loss for words even.

Olbermann opened his segment with “the two inescapable tenets of the Republican party” Nancy Pelosi? Devil. Fox News? God. He then reported on the story, that Senator Coburn had shared some nice words about Speaker of the House Pelosi at a Town Hall meeting with constituents upset with the health care reform. “Don’t catch yourself being biased by Fox News” Coburn said, then suggested (in Olbermann’s words) that “what Fox News was doing was bad for America.”

Olbermann then had on guest Eugene Robinson, columnist for the Washington Post in what was a perfect opportunity for an intelligent and germane conversation about the relationship between Fox News, the GOP and opinion media in general. Instead, they openly wondered what Glenn Beck would be saying about Tom Coburn, specifically trying to guess how Beck would anagram Tom Coburn. Oddly, it was exactly the sort of sophomoric comedy that put them in the same realm of opiniotainment as the man they deride, Glenn Beck.

There is little doubt that the majority of GOP lawmakers profess many of the same traditional beliefs of Fox News opinion-makers, namely Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Neil Cavuto, and to some extent Glenn Beck. Its also true that pitched hyperbole can make for terrific television ratings, but its not yet proven to win elections. As such, the dance between Republican officials and Fox News will be fun to watch over the coming months. Something tells me, though, that they will get on the same page sooner rather than later.

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TfT

“Intelligent and germane conversation” on MSNBC? Bwahahahaha – you have higher hopes and expectations for MSNBC than I do.
The Real Royal King

I am no fan of Coburn, to be sure, but he is more nuanced than the left and more particularly the right seem to think.
MarkStr82Hell

Keith Olbermann stunned? What a shocker! The man is about as emotionally unstable as they come.
Keith is a closeted homosexual who suffers from bipolar disorder.
felixw

What a farce. Olbermann would never actually allow Tom Coburn on his nightly propaganda show. So how can you take seriously his selectively quoting Coburn. Memo to MSNBC: If you want to know what conservatives like Tom Coburn actually think, invite them on your shows and ask them some question. Meanwhile, don’t expect us to take seriously your distortion of some ten second sound bite.

If I didn’t know better, I would think that the MSNBC execs were trained at Pravda back during the Cold War.
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Sen. Coburn has been watching too much MSM. Nobody on the Fox NEWS programs has said anything about people going to prison or about Pelosi being a “bad” person. Coburn and other republicans should make sure they know what they are talking about before talking. They have to understand the left makes a game out of lying about what is said on Fox NEWS and Rush Limbaugh’s show. As far as Nanny Pelosi is concerned, I lived in S.F. for 17 years. I was involved in politics in the city. I have seen Boxer, Pelosi and Feinstein up close and personal. Pelosi and Boxer are ONLY nice to their friends and to people that can do their bidding. Pelosi and Boxer are cut-throat liars and I would not sit at a talble with them if you paid me. They are scum.
DVA55

Everyone on Fox News said that people would go to jail who didn’t purchase health insurance

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