Steve

First I’d like to say I think you do the best work on this site. Don’t you get the impression people just don’t like Keith, even people who agree with his politics 100%? As you wrote, this isn’t the first time Scarborough has essentially called out Olbermann. Matthews was visibly upset during the DNC. There’s rumors of him throwing his weight around and forcing Maddow to cede guests to “Countdown” (cf. Ben Affleck). Mike Murphy called him “mega-crazy.” The hacked Journolist exchanges reveal that even Olbermann’s guests view him at best as a necessary evil. I could go on, but as a media insider I’d be interested to know if you also believe that Scarborough’s boldness is more or less inspired by personal distaste.

borderline-absurd???? (i agree with Pat, Steve is great) but come on? borderline?

This is especially rich coming from Olbermann, a man who actually envisioned a scenario in which someone went into a room with Hillary Clinton, and she never comes out again.

“Right. Somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/25/keith-olbermanns-idea-for_n_98557.html

I will be mortified if people do not demand Olbermann be fired for his comments on Brown. Anyone who tolerates his flat out slanderous lies is deranged.

In fact, I think the employees at msnbc should demand he be fired. This tarnishes the reputation and credibility of EVERYONE at msnbc for tolerating this slander.

Not only is Obly insulting Brown, he is insulting everyone who supports him.

Do yourselves a favor – salvage your weakening reputation msnbc – demand Obermann be fired.
This has to be the ugliest comment I have ever heard by someone on tv.
This is damaging to anyone associated with MSNBC.

So does this comment put him in Coulters catagory??? Get a grip you people. I understand you hate Olbe. He is the only one on MSNBC that gets away with this. All of Fox gets away with far worse!!!

Why does MSNBC keep this idiot on the air?He’s nothing but a washed up ex sportscaster.He has no political credentials at all and to top it all off acts like a raving maniac.I mean yeah several networks have passionate folks who could be called raving ideologues etc but Olbermann has reached a level of insanity that is just too much to put up with.NBC has mishandled many things lately with the late night implosion and a variety of other issues.Dumping Olbermann would actually send a signal that NBC hasn’t completely fallen to peices.I keep thinking what Comcast must be thinking.they’re too far along to stop payment on the checks to NBC and GE so maybe just maybe they’ll kick some asses once they take over.I certainly hope so because I believe NBC is heading down a road of complete failure as they push away viewers at every turn from every porperty.

oops property

Olbermann’s a sick freak, plain and simple. His attack on Hillary Clinton during the ’08 election proves he supports “violence against women.”

One last thought.Who does Olbermann actually think he is swaying with his over the top rant?Does he think anyone who would vote for Brown would watch his show?Those who would watch would not.He’s preaching to his own choir which makes it all the more absurd.

I am not sure the standards for homophobia, misogyny and racism are all that objective. With our first African-American president and the rise of the (White) Tea Parties, this has become abundantly clear. The loud-mouthed, tear-soaked, extreme rightist xenophobe, hero extraordinaire of the (White) Tea Partiers, Glen(n) Beck is, by 2008 standards, a racist. By 2009 standards, he has those who loudly proclaim otherwise. Did the standard change on us? Similarly, prior to January 2009, no serious person would have argued that there was an substantive difference between a Klan Rally and a (White) Tea Party, the burning cross being replaced by African tribal imagery in a difference in imagery only. By the new standards, Olbermann may well be making a statement which is not all that offensive. I find it offensive, and I find Olbermann himself offensive, but FOX in its sponsorship of the (White) Tea Parties seems to have mainstreamed neo-racism in America. I don’t think FOX and its minions can create a new standard then complain when someone seems to adhere to it. Perhaps, I am just comfortable with the simpler analysis which tells me FOX as a whole, with a few notable exceptions, and Olbermann are both reprehensible and repugnant.

Your point, Bluebogger, is very well taken.

dhg – You could say the same thing about BillO, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc., couldn’t you?

Things won’t end well for Mr. Olbermann. Dieing in his own arms, broken and forgotten.

Makes one wonder if it’s Olbermann’s Yankees fan in him that sparked much of this/his ‘episode’. He may love basball more than Politics. Dan Abrams, if you have any insight to that, feel free.

Swayed by Coakley’s NY populist move to have more Yankee fans in MA than there really are.

Aside from that, you also have to wonder how well Rahm Emanual, H. Reid are sleeping last week or so. If MA race doesn’t turn out in Dems favor, don’t think it will be enough for Cloakley alone to take the entire blame for it.

Something has to be demostrated to Country that the Dem fall stops in MA and before Nov. 2010 elections. You wonder if Dems in congress can hold rank and not demand for some strategic changes. Possible Democratic congressional members up in 2010 elections, will “need”, if not quietly demand a for a plausible scapegoat for their own self survival.

The collapse of the Obama administration is unfolding as a story only Charles Dickens could have envisioned. Keith Olbermann being the one dimensional, completely psychotic villain brought to ruin as he is finally recognized as the embodiment of evil.

NewsBusters: Scarborough Slams Olbermann Over Anti-Brown Tirade: ‘Sad And Pathetic’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/01/19/scarborough-slams-olbermann-over-anti-brown-tirade-sad-pathetic

Its tiresome defending not agreeing with Obama’s policies as defending yourself against racism. This may have worked in the past, but polls taken on MLK Day show that African-Americans think we are making progress in the nation — soon this argument will be useless and we can debate the merit of policies rather than the racial undertones the left is so willing to label upon those they disagree with.

I expect nothing less from Olbermann. Hopefully this will stop the left from branding him as truthful. He is a hateful ideologue on the same scale as those you so love to despise.

JimW – Really not quite as dramatic as you suggest. Seriously, it’s just a guy on cable news making an over-the-top comment like…well, like almost everyone at FOX does on a daily basis. Get a grip man.

More and more KO is becoming that spoiled toddler who is not getting enough attention so he acts up and misbehaves.

And C’mon, is there anything more hilarious that Olbermann calling somebody hompophobic in a piece where he begins by referring to the guy’s “bare bottom”? You cannot make that up!

1. It would be extremely helpful if EVERYBODY would stop the racist horsesh^t on all sides. Olby isn’t a racist, Beck is not a racist, nor is Matthews or O’reilly. Just grow the fuc& up and quit calling everybody names already.
2. Almost as stupid as calling everyone a racist is demanding any of these morons be taken off the air. Demanding their removal from the airwaves is the antithesis is what all you people claim to hold dear (evidenced by your postings here) namely, FREE SPEECH.

Point out differences, make an argument for why you’re right and quit manufacturing outrage.

Dissent on a network? You’ll never see something like this on Fox News, where every single opinion-host (not newscaster) is conservative – daytime as prime time.

Olbermann, like Brown, has been photographed showing a bit more skin than you may want to see:
http://tinyurl.com/yckve3d

Settle down Olbermann. This video below is the real reason why Democrats are on the way out.

The Message of Massachusetts
WSJ
Whether or not Republican Scott Brown wins today in Massachusetts, the special Senate election has already shaken up American politics. The close race to replace Ted Kennedy, liberalism’s patron saint, shows that voters are rebelling even in the bluest of states against the last year’s unbridled pursuit of partisan liberal governance. Tomorrow marks the anniversary of President Obama’s Inaugural, and it’s worth recalling the extraordinary political opportunity he had a year ago. An anxious country was looking for leadership amid a recession, and Democrats had huge majorities and faced a dispirited, unpopular GOP. With monetary policy stimulus already flowing, Democrats were poised to get the political credit for the inevitable economic recovery. Twelve months later, Mr. Obama’s approval rating has fallen further and faster than any recent President’s, Congress is despised, the public mood has shifted sharply to the right on the role of government, and a Republican could pick up a Senate seat in a state with no GOP Members of Congress and that Mr. Obama carried by 26 points. What explains this precipitous political fall? Democrats and their media allies attribute it to GOP obstructionism, though Republicans lack the votes to stop anything by themselves. Or they blame their own Blue Dogs, who haven’t stopped or even significantly modified any legislation of consequence.

Looks like Big Head forgot to take his lithium yesterday. Of all the media haters from left to right, he truly is the most vile and disgusting, a man who makes even Beck look reasonable by comparison. Add this to Ed Schultz’s encourgement of voter fraud, and I think I’ll be skipping MSNBC until the network becomes a 24 hour shopping network in about six months.

On the bright side, it is often funnier than Comedy Central. Is there any chance that Olbermann, Schultz, and Maddow really are rightwing performance artists who are trying to make liberals look bad? If so, it’s a genius act.

@Ted…yes you are right but that doesn’t excuse or justify Olbermann’s ridiculous rant.Didn’y you learn two wrongs don’t make a right?Just because of what goes on at Fox that doesn’t mean MSNBCDNC has to stoop to a lower level.

Scarborough murdered a girl, WHY is he even on TV?

It is also interesting that Palin endorses Brown. According to Palin lip service standards Brown has done PORN. The photo of Brown and the photo of Levi Johnston look the SAME.

@DEO, your second post is well taken. I agree. Too bad you became a complete half-wit tool with your first comment, which we all know is not true.

tigerprez, no one cares if you ever watch MSNBC as no one cares that I will ever be a Fox viewer. I think that it is really funny that the media plays with all of us. Oh for the day when we could turn on the news and hear “real” news. Am I showing my age here? The media certainly has become a huge business and that is all it really is. And we like little children come here and attack each other and they collect their huge paychecks and live like kings. Something is the matter with this picture.

dhg – if you read carefully you’ll discover I didn’t excuse anything. At any rate I’m sure you will be the first to speak out against the imbecilic comments that Beck et al will make any second now…just to be consistent of course.

KO’s comments are nauseating and those who say they are no worse than many comments made on Fox are missing the point – why is being no better than Glenn Beck acceptable? I have voted as a Dem since 1972 and comments like these have made me ashamed to say I am a Dem, so I now am an Independent. If Scott Brown wins in MA today, people like KO will bear part of the blame. They have disparaged anyone who had the slightest problem with the ill conceived health care bill and lumped them all together as birthers and racists. I have supported universal care since I was first aware of the issue and, to me, this bill does very little to solve the problems of the uninsured and I’m not a rich person with a so-called “cadillac” health plan; in fact, I do not have health insurance.

As for KO, MSNBC seems to find this sort of hateful venom to be a ratings maker for them so I’m not going to bother to email them with my displeasure. I will, however, be emailing the folks at Sunday Night Football to let them know I will not be watching next season if they continue to have him on their broadcasts.

Blueblogger – January 19, 2010 at 2:51 pm

Agreed! At some point, maybe the left and right will get tired of what you stated and aside from politics, the left and right have more in common than they do with the media.

My wife calls me a “football nut”, however, i CAN NOT watch Sunday night football because of Olbermann.

Is this the beginning of Olbermann’s on-air meltdown? If Brown actually does win in MA, I expect Olbermann to blow a gasket on air tonight–although it’s hard to imagine him getting any worse.

He is what he is, MSNBC tolerates it, NBC Football tolerates it, so he can continue to do it. MSNBC has fallen to third place in the ratings with CNN and FNC dominating the Haiti coverage….maybe it will just slip away into silence. I can only hope.

Why wasn’t KO reporting on Haiti? How disturbing of him!

TfT – Are you kidding!? This is mild compared to the wackaloons at Fox. Apparently you don’t spend a lot of time watching the head wackaloon, Glenn Beck. And don’t kid yourself, to rise to head wackaloon at Fox means you are completely nuts…and he is. Enjoy!

The people of Massachusetts should be grateful that they are from Massachusetts.

If not for that, Keith Olbermann would be calling THEM a bunch of racists too.

It’s interesting to me that the media will nonjudgmentally report that the reason that many Mass. folks have rejected Coakley is because they fear what Obama health care will do to their Romney-care and to their taxes.

Yet such is the case with senior tea party protesters (“teabaggers” to MSNBC ideologues) who yelled in town-hall and AARP meetings about their Medicare, and MSNBC hosts labeled THEM as being a bunch of racists, whose chief fear is the election of a black president.

Olbermann and company are STILL referring to THESE people as being racists at worst, reactionaries motivated by racial concerns at best.

At least the voters in Massachusetts have been spared Olbermann, Matthews, Maddow, and Shuster race-baiting them.

For all the complaining Olbermann has done about Fox and what they get away with, this is rich material.
The guy used to be half way interesting and sometimes entertaining. Then he went way beyond Bill O’Reilly in the egomaniac department. MSNBC should fire him but it is apparent they have no control anymore.

If the same suits that are working on the Leno/O’Brien situation are working on this ……

KO started changing as soon as he started with the “young” girlfriend. I have watched him for years. He just has gone nutz and as much as I hate to agree with some of you he has lost his rocker lately.

Cecelia says:
January 19, 2010 at 4:36 pm

That is a wonderful post and a spot on analysis. I knew if I kept reading down the posts, I would eventually find a voice of reason!

Thanks and again, good job!

It was not Chris Matthews who caused me to stop watching MSNBC entirely. That achievement belongs solely to Keith Olbermann. You can always choose not to watch a particular program. But on MSNBC there are always the promos, letting you know when Olbermann’s show will be on and what topics he’ll discuss. I just can’t change the channel quickly enough to avoid those promos, so I take the easy preventive measure. Doesn’t mean I watch FNC instead, though I do like Beck.

If KO keeps up this behavior he may soon be as hated as BECK!! Go KO.

Scagborough himself fits that definition perfectly. Another “Jesus Is My Co-Pilot.”

Scarborough would stick up for a misogynist creep like Brown. After all, he had a dead intern turn up in his office -an office that had his fingerprints all over it.

Hey timzank, here’s Glenn Beck admitting he’s a racist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0tgvWxC_6A