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Al Gore Takes A Swipe At MSNBC’s Liberal Cred While Confirming Olbermann Is ‘Fine’ At Current TV

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After several reports on the relationship between the network and anchor Keith Olbermann, Current TV head Al Gore made several statements today confirming that Olbermann is “fine” at the network and attacking MSNBC for being “all over the lot” politically, while Current was “consistent” in its progressivism.


RELATED: Current TV Source: Keith Olbermann Has Not Responded To Request To Cover New Hampshire

Gore spoke to the AP in a report published last night, explaining that Olbermann was a pivotal member of the team and that he considered the beauty of Current TV to be its strict point of view:

Former Vice President Al Gore on Friday described Current TV as the “consistent” liberal TV network compared with MSNBC, and said it will keep Keith Olbermann in the fold.

“He’s fine,” said Gore, chairman of the network in 63 million U.S. homes, dismissing rumors that Olbermann was seeking to leave. “He has been the key to our ability to pivot and develop our whole network as a progressive news and commentary network.” [...]

“They’ve got a few progressive shows on MSNBC in prime time,” Gore said, “but they’ll start the day with a conservative show in the mornings, and then they’ll get the prison channel on the weekends. They’ll be all over the lot in the middle of the day. We’re consistent.”

Current TV officials have said that Olbermann’s absence at programming meetings is due to his being on vacation, and the network brass seems to publicly be on his side. Current CEO Joel Hyatt attributed MSNBC’s liberal tendencies to Olbermann’s work, and blasted the network as lacking “authenticity” to the AP. MSNBC and Olbermann did not respond to Current’s remarks, but it sounds like a very different tune from the lawyer-laden reports of the past week, and appears to confirm that the network and the anchor are committed to staying together.

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  • http://twitter.com/MarkH76248 Mark Hawkins

    Al Gore is almost as strange as Olbermann. They are made for each other

  • Anonymous

    lol

    That other midget’s a dwarf and I’m an inch taller!

  • Anonymous

    Al and Keith in political heaven–no diversity whatsoever. Except for schools of thought ranging from Jane Hamsher to Markos Moulitsas.

  • http://www.youtube.com/artist/Doleful_Lions Doleful Lions™

    “He’s fine,” said Gore, chairman of the network in 63 million U.S. homes, dismissing rumors that Olbermann was seeking to leave. “He has been the key to our ability to pivot and develop our whole network as a progressive news and commentary network.”

    In 63 million homes , yet watched by less than  200,000 . Al , you can put lipstick on it …..but you know .
    Has any one told Al that, “ BSkyB axes Al Gore’s Current TV from its pay-TV lineup” yet ?

  • Anonymous

    Its come to this:  they’re actually debating who is more biased and consistently distorts the “news” more.

  • Anonymous

    Catfight! We’re more loony left than they are…what a great argument. 

    Remember Gore, these were the exact same words Griffin was spouting a year ago about Olbermann. If he’s “fine”, then why is he still broadcasting in front of a black board and looking like he’s going out for a walk in the park every day? 

    Are we taking bets on how much longer Olbermann lasts on Current? I give him a year tops. 

  • Gloves Scott Donahue

    AlGore-TV was running a two hour special on” Toilets of the World” recently. He may not want to criticize anybody else’s programming.

    The only job of Current-TV’s employees is to not rub AlGore the wrong way. He pays $540/hour for that.

  • david r

    Olbermann is on a binge.  He’ll be back.

  • http://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew The Morning Spew
  • http://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew The Morning Spew

    Anyone else remember when Al Gore said he was Pro-Life?
    http://themorningspew.com/2012/01/13/the-video-that-every-pro-lifer-should-see/

  • Anonymous

    As for Olbermann, Gore’s statement reminds of the dreaded “vote of confidence” a team’s management makes about a coach about to get axed… the very need for a statement to be made correlates with the fact they end up gone.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    if we wanted your opinion, we’d watch Fox News to find out what it is today

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    it is true, though, that MSNBC actually has a diversity of opinion, something you can’t say about Fox News

    Morning Joe in the morning ranges from center-right to conservative.

    Mathews goes on leftwing binges depending upon which way the political winds are blowing, but he’s often taking the center right or blue dog position on issues…ironically it’s the pushing out of moderates from the Republican party that has forced Matthews to become more progressive.

    The daily rundown is also fairly centrist.

    Of course Shultz, Maddow and the rest of the line up are patriotically progressive

  • Anonymous

    Uh, who cares?

  • Anonymous

    ‘Being all over the lot politically’ is Gore’s ‘dog-whistle’ for: “You’re not SUPPOSED to deal in facts and be balanced…you’re supposed to be what everyone calls you…MSDNC.”

    Leftists love their dog whistles.

  • Anonymous

    and if we wanted yours we would watch Current, or MSNBC, or CNN, or ABC, or NBC, or, CBS to find out what it is today.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ FedsTakeOverMediaProofClickMe

    Unelected officials have taken over Washington and are orchestrating the daily news. 99% of the comments and replies you’re reading online come from an NSA software program spamming the internet. Comments are created before the stories are ever reported. The oldest, first, highest, best, and most popular rated comments are all propaganda. They are conducting Psy-ops (psychological operations) for domestic spying. They have 1000′s of handles and are determined to bury the truth and attack anyone leaking it. The link in my name exposes the cover up
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    so I’m checking, by your count, 6 independent sources…and you are getting a script to repeat by just ONE….way to take me down “python”

    BTW, if we wanted your opinion, we’d watch Fox News to find out what it is today

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    please list out the diversity of opinion on Fox News…

    i know…you can’t

    they not only all have the same ideology, but they also all repeat the same tag lines about the issue of the day…

    they even tell their guests what to say.

    every show you’ll find the same quote from a different speaker

    wake up

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    Pretty scary that this guy was almost our President.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    that sounds kind of interesting actually

    do you know when it plays again?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    right because BUSH was such a great president

    if we wanted your opinion, we would have tuned into fox news to find out what it is today

  • Anonymous

    “independent sources” – bwaaaahaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    You wake up, A$$ wipe…you’ve posted the same thing 3 times and nobody give a Fu*k.  Shut up and go get fitted for a hair piece.

  • Anonymous

    Troll at work.  Beware of boredom!!!1

  • Anonymous

    Even when I was a kid, and that’s not a recent time period, and I watched westerns or historical dramas in the movies or on TV, I wondered why everybody depicted on the screen had straight, white teeth long before widespread oral hygiene, or where they “went” when they had to “go”.   I’ve read stories about the German composer Beethoven who stayed in his apartments day after day working on his music until his “chamber pot” was full and then some.  When the maid showed up, she was expected to take it somewhere and dump it.  Um. where was that “somewhere, and in Vienna, with hundreds of thousand of people in those days, didn’t EVERYONE take chamber pots “somewhere” to do the same thing.  The doc on Current TV just showed how it’s done TODAY in parts of the world.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Edwards/588445226 David Edwards

    I dont know man. I think FOX has more liberal viewpoints on its show than MSNBC has conservatives

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    Gore is right in everything he saying about MSNBC.  Without Keith all they have is rachel. It also seems like MSNBC try’s too hard to make Morning Joe the centerpeace of MSNBC when as far as the viewers go and the ratings go. There are not.

  • http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

    As opposed to the opinions of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and any other so-called news organizations.  They are leftist propoganda machines.  GW may have not been the greatest President, but he was far better than the current crap we have now.

  • Anonymous

    They actually do pretty well in the ratings.  The only morning cable news program ahead of them is Fox & Friends.  They’re ahead of CNN, HLN, CNBC, Fox Biz

  • Anonymous

    Sad that he WASN’T, actually.    Bush was a disaster for this country.

    He hastened our decline with his unfunded wars of choice, his blowing a hole in the budget with tax cuts we couldn’t afford, his attack on civil liberties (that Obama has sadly maintained), and his tarnishing of our reputation around the world

    His “with-us-or-against us” attitude caused many countries (who were otherwise friendly) to choose the latter.

    We could almost completely eliminate the deficit if we let the Bush tax cuts expire.

  • http://twitter.com/PR_uno JQ

    Fox news (sic) does not meet Canadian standards. The only reason why they meet ours is because they met the qualification St. Raygun had.  Probably tried to lied his way into Heaven. 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    We would have less debt and a white president.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    snif

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    An alternate version of the world is presented in which Al Gore is
    president, Osama is no longer a problem, flying cars run on vegetable
    oil, universal healthcare exists, crime is virtually non-existent,
    education is well-funded, Dick Cheney has shot Justice Scalia, Karl Rove and Tucker Carlson in a tragic hunting accident. Basically, it’s paradise on earth.”

    Family Guy episode, meet the quagmires

  • http://www.facebook.com/tonykoch1 Tony Koch

    sucks… used to watch current for the Pods now with it turning into MSNBC cant watch it anymore

  • Anonymous

    TROLL ALLERT:  All bridges unguarded.

  • Anonymous

    Bill O’Reilly is probably all like “LMFAO”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    Wow!
    I just put on the Maher thread about how well it bodes for the country when Liberal Indoctrinates turn on themselves, and then I scroll down to this!
    Serendipity.

    heh-heh

    11-06-12

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    So what’s the big argument about, whether you want to bankrupt the country in 10 years or 5?
    lol

  • Hout Bosques

    BD isn’t a troll at all. That’s a fair take on msnbc: in the evening, you get the headliner progressive in Maddow, the working class labor supporter in Big Ed, & the inside-the-sausage-machine classical liberal in O’Donnell; Morning Goe starts out the day with a big crap of winger rant; & the in-between shows are pretty much indistinguishable from CNN – with the exception of watching Ratigan romping off madly in all directions, in case your blood sugar’s down & you forgot to pack you daily hit of Adderall. Then on the weekends you get to go to prison, except for one respite with Chris the Fresh-faced liberal.

    Thing is, it’s unlikely to change all that much, because unlike the old white bigot demo Fuppet News panders too, not a lot of libs watch TV watch in the a.m. or thru the day. I get the impression that WaPo Wonk columnist Ezra Klein & most recently SALON reporter Steve Kornacki are being prepped, groomed & courted (I understand Current TV is also courting them, Kornacki in particular) for possible future vehicles, but that’s to beef up the Up contingent to reflect the youngerish demo both msnbc & current are tussling over. But other than that, we’ll probably more likely to find out at some point that Andrea Mitchell & her crypt-keeper husband died years ago on a luxury cruise accident than see any sea change to the msm hesaidshesaid CNN-sound-alike middling gruel msnbc dishes out.   

    Believe it or not, Fuppet News fans, advertisers are quite aware & conscious of the different demos each of FNC & msnbc serve, & that if you’re trying to sell bulk toilet paper & Depends your go-to is FNC, & if you’re trying to sell stuff than youngerish family types are into, your go-to is msnbc (I have no clue who goes to CNN.).

  • Hout Bosques

    BD isn’t a troll at all. That’s a fair take on msnbc: in the evening, you get the headliner progressive in Maddow, the working class labor supporter in Big Ed, & the inside-the-sausage-machine classical liberal in O’Donnell; Morning Goe starts out the day with a big crap of winger rant; & the in-between shows are pretty much indistinguishable from CNN – with the exception of watching Ratigan romping off madly in all directions, in case your blood sugar’s down & you forgot to pack you daily hit of Adderall. Then on the weekends you get to go to prison, except for one respite with Chris the Fresh-faced liberal.
    Thing is, it’s unlikely to change all that much, because unlike the old white bigot demo Fuppet News panders too, not a lot of libs watch TV watch in the a.m. or thru the day. I get the impression that WaPo Wonk columnist Ezra Klein & most recently SALON reporter Steve Kornacki are being prepped, groomed & courted (I understand Current TV is also courting them, Kornacki in particular) for possible future vehicles, but that’s to beef up the Up contingent to reflect the youngerish demo both msnbc & current are tussling over. But other than that, we’ll probably more likely to find out at some point that Andrea Mitchell & her crypt-keeper husband died years ago on a luxury cruise accident than see any sea change to the msm hesaidshesaid CNN-sound-alike middling gruel msnbc dishes out.   

    Believe it or not, Fuppet News fans, advertisers are quite aware & conscious of the different demos each of FNC & msnbc serve, & that if you’re trying to sell bulk toilet paper & Depends your go-to is FNC, & if you’re trying to sell stuff than youngerish family types are into, your go-to is msnbc (I have no clue who goes to CNN.).

  • Anonymous

    I bet Big Al’s gettin’ plenty o’ progressive p*ssy since Tipper ditched him.

  • Hout Bosques

    BSkyB is Murdoch. You expected something DIFFERENT from the owner of Fuppet News?

    (Just think: the Supreme Court hadn’t made Bush the younger president, then … no invasion of Iraq, no Bush tax cuts, no or very little deficit, no “growth thru austerity” bullshit, no unfunded Iraq liability of $5 Trillion, no massive unemployment, no Great Recession, no bullshit Republican voter fraud initiatives, serious advances on global warming, 8 years further ahead in energy independence … how horrible.)

  • Hout Bosques

    There’s no such thing as left dog whistles: we say what we mean out loud, because we have no need to hide the bigotry we don’t have – unlike wingers.

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    CURRENT TV trying to raise their ratings on the back of pathetic MSNBC…….ROFLMAO (REALLY!!!)

  • Hout Bosques

    You must be a newbie here; WiddleBaby is a regular & no troll.

  • Anonymous

    Hey douche bag the original name for fixed news was gop-tv.;Some people say’ that’s their idea of fair and balanced?The SPIN STARTS HERE on fixed not the news.

  • http://www.youtube.com/artist/Doleful_Lions Doleful Lions™

    Turner reported that BSkyB sources say it’s simply not renewing its five-year deal because Current TV has performed “very poorly,” and proven to be one of the “least-watched” channels on its platform. According to U.K. ratings data, the channel’s share of viewing was 0.024 percent in the past year, with its best series averaging 43,000 viewers. Its average peak-time audience in its best month in 2011 was 4,700 viewers – on a platform that reaches 10 million homes.

    Did you expect a different outcome with a .024 market share and a best monthly average of only 4700 viewers ?

  • Anonymous

    How did you become so delusional?

  • Anonymous

    So Morning Joe is Joe & 4 liberals around him on most mornings is a conservative show. WOW Al Gore’s mind at work.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    Yeah but Fox does not go overboard in trying to make Fox and Friends the centerpeace of there network. When everyone knows it’s O’Relly. And CNN has it’s own iusse’s in there programing lineup.

    I’m saying for some resion management as a whole for some resion seem to think that Joe is the big draw of the network. And that spot is rachel madow’s. Morning Joe to me only one set like’s them. And that’s the 1 % of this country and the GOP.

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of cover ups – that’s what a dog does to stuff like your comments, they cover it up !!

  • Anonymous

    Al who ?
    Current what ?
    Keith who ?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    And that;s why they have not beaten Fox. They have not gone all the way as for as being progressive. 

    Here is a few point’s… Why did it take so long to get Pat Buchanan ? When everything that comes out of his mouth is racsit BS. Why even have him onw the network in the frist place.

    And was not ever fired the right way. From everything I read Pat left for his book tour. And got sick and went on Medical leave. And Phil Grfien did a interview and said Pat was gone and didn seem to have the gut tell Pat to his face.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps, but for my part, Morning Joe and Rachel are my two favorite shows on MSNBC.

    The GOP doesn’t like Morning Joe because they think he’s a RINO.

    I don’t love everything about the show (it can be a little bit NY centric and little bit boys-clubbish, but in general I like it and prefer it to other morning shows.

    And I’m not part of the 1% either.

    I like Rachel because she’s partisan but still upbeat and has a sense of humor….not shrill.

    Ed & Lawrence are too shrill for my taste.

  • ClarkFL

    You and I actually agree on a lot of thing about MSNBC, and I’m a Conservative. Joe is a RINO, but his show is one of the only ones I can even stomach. I like it better than Fox and Friends. i prefer table conversations instead of the couch.

    Rachel is partisan, but she isn’t mean about it. If you put up a good argument for why you believe what you believe and aren’t just a name calling jerk, then I can respect it and watch it. Lawrence and Ed are too shrill for me too. Same goes for Hannity. Its always the same thing with them. MSNBC is honestly making a huge mistake keeping Ed at 8:00 pm, when that slot should have went to Rachel after Keith was fired.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Its his new buzz word.

    It is very apparent from another post, he does not know what it means.

  • Anonymous

    Hout watches PMSNBC which panders to the Richard Simmons and Rosie O’Donnell demo.

  • http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

    Delusional?  Really, I live in a place called reality, not a fairy tale you leftist partisian hack live in.  Our country is in a state of crap due to the continuing policies of our current president(not worth P).  If you do not see the bias in the media, you are either an idiot or a moron.  Though you do have the compacity to type and spew words on a screen, I will simply call you, DELUSIONAL.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    Rachel said on real time the night keith left. She didn’t want the 8:00 timeslot. I think Joe say’s what he has to to get by. I don’t think any other netowork want’s him or will put up with him or Mika. 

     I like the couch better. The only good thing about Morning Joe with Willie. MSNBC lost a 30 to 40% due to Keith leaving. Between that Cenk leaving, And in doing so show what is wroing with MSNBC in terms of management.

    And giving Cenk’s spot to Al Sharpton witch in the long run will hurt. And how Al got that spot.  Or like Ed being made to Apolgize to Laura Inguam to keep her interview on the Today show a month later.

    Those thing are what hurt MSNBC as far as being Progressive.

  • Anonymous

    Hell ya he better say he’s fine – olbermann is one meltdown away from having a “postal/columbine” style meltdown.

  • TVNewsViewer

    Al who ? Bloated global warming hypocrite. Guy who said the oceans would rise and proceeds to buy beach front property
    Current what ? Liberal/Progressive network that nobody watches
    Keith who ? Exactly.

  • Anonymous

    You had to post this stupid “novelette” twice? I think you better check the ratings again…when have twice the viewers that anybody else does…THAT’S where the money is. And Fox is getting twice the bucks for a spot as MSNBC, which is operating in the red..and makes a nice tax write off.

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    How pitiful when you are relegated to admitting that Keith Olbermann is the BEST you’ve got!!
    LOL!!

  • Anonymous

    Bush wasn’t the best Prez we’ve had…but he’s head and shoulders above what we have now:
    The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was
    actually January 3rd 2007, the day the Democrats took over the House of
    Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th
    Congress.
    The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for
    the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
    For those who
    are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s
    Fault”, think about this:January 3rd, 2007, the day the Democrats took over
    the Senate and the Congress:The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77The GDP for
    the previous quarter was 3.5%The Unemployment rate was 4.6%George Bush’s
    Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB
    CREATION!
    Remember that day…January 3rd, 2007 was the day that
    Barney Frank took over the House
    Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking
    Committee.The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what
    part of the economy? – - – -BANKING
    AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!

    THANK YOU
    DEMOCRATS (especially Barney) for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6%
    Unemployment…to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION
    Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
    FIASCOES!

    (BTW: Bush asked
    Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie &Freddie -starting in 2001 because it was
    financially risky for the US economy). Barney blocked it and called it a “Chicken Little
    Philosophy” (and the sky did fall!)And who took the THIRD highest pay-off
    from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMAAnd who fought against reform of
    Fannie and Freddie?OBAMA and the Democrat Congress, especially BARNEY!!!!

    So when someone tries to blame Bush…REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007….
    THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!”Bush may have been in the car but the
    Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel they were driving
    the economy into the ditch. Budgets do not come from the White House.. They
    come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is
    the Democratic Party.Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget
    process for 2008 &2009 as well as 2010 &2011.
    In that first
    year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on
    spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending
    increases.
    For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely,
    passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama
    could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to
    complete the 2009 budget.
    And
    where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that
    passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as
    President to complete 2009. Let’s remember what the deficits looked like during
    that period: If the Democrats
    inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican
    budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight
    decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of
    spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the
    budgets.
    In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is “I inherited a deficit that I
    voted for,and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since
    January 20th.”

  • Anonymous

    I thought you were working late, repairing Barry Dalton’s hair piece?

  • Anonymous

    Then quite sitting up with those Leftest bones in your mouth when you hear that whistle.

  • http://www.madcharles.com/ MadCharles

    How bad is it when Al Gore says you suck ? Pretty bad

  • Anonymous

    Please don’t tell me they’re new Fox News hosts.  I just got done memorizing Greta, Sean, Bill, and The 5.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    bluestormrising

    Jersey Shore gets more viewers than Fox News…

    once again, you’re missing the point

    it isn’t always the number of viewers that concerns advertisers most (though it is important), it’s the demo of your viewer…

    Ideally you want your message to spread beyond just the actual viewers, and since hard-right Republicanism is a limited niche of consumers, for SOME advertisers Fox is less attractive.

    Also, Fox is known for stretching the truth when it sees fit, which takes away credibility from the network, and by extension takes away credibility from the brands being advertised.

    Finally, you don’t want people reacting negatively to your brand based on what channel your commercial appears on. For example, I’m a Cardinals fan, so when Pujols decided to attend the Beck prayer/political vigil a couple of years back, I was not happy, and stop being a fan of Pujols. Not because I don’t think athletes have the right to free speech, but because when I turn into sports I don’t want to think about politics.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    I have more of a problem with how Michael Steele has been let into the fold than Buchanan.

    With Buchanan, what you hear is what you get. You know exactly his point of view and his dinosaur racism and chauvinism. By having him on, the less rightwing talking heads can debate him, and thus expose his tired old views to the light of reason.

    But Steele is a duplicitous political operative who has demonstrated no problem with spinning and twisting the truth to fit his personal ambitions and political goals. 

    Steele isn’t even an honest broker of his own beliefs.

  • Anonymous

    Good post, BD, although I think your take on Matthews is reductionist. He’s been around long enough to have seen firsthand the ideological convulsions in the Democratic Party when it lost much of its white working-class base in the aftermath of Civil Rights, the fierce internal debate over Vietnam and the flowering of the culture wars in the ’70s.

    You know, Archie Bunker versus Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue. 

  • Anonymous

    I like the way you write, Hout. Kinda reminds me of…me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    weak, Monty

    that’s all you got?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    if you had a drop of decency and the ability to think for yourself, you’d remember that this mess was created by GW, not Obama.

    Clinton left GW with a surplus, and GW handed Obama a wet bag of economic turds

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    I don’t wear a “hair peice” grandpa

    embraced my baldness years ago and started shaving it…

    i’m too sexy for your barbs, too sexy for your barbs…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    now you’re just babbling

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    how would you formulate such an equation?

    it’s meaningless

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    if you are literally doing that, you need serious help

    seek counseling immediately

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    what’s it like being a sad little man?

  • Anonymous

    When and Al and Keith come up with a show as good and thoughtful as the one Chris Hayes does on MSNBC, they’ll have something. They won’t, though; not wired that way.

    Well, Keith isn’t. His idea of thoughtful is boiling-point dogmatism and ginning up echt left dissidence (e.g., Whatshisname and the ‘Young Turks” and Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC)..

  • Anonymous

    I bet with that “shaved head” look you are the hit at Halloween

    Costume parties…just pull a condom over it and go as Penis DiMilo.

    To paraphrase GaGa…”You were born that way.”

  • Anonymous

    ….and this from the Queen of Babble.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    if i understood what you babbled, I’d say, “good one”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    that’s an odd thing to dub yourself, but ok

    your call

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    you will be missed

  • Pablo

    You don’t leave a surplus, dummy. It’s the year end accounting, not a pile of cash in a safe in the White House. Furthermore, who passed those budgets Clinton signed? I’ll give you a hint: He’s running for POTUS.

  • Pablo

    The Fox Report, Studio B and Geraldo at Large. .

  • Anonymous

    You probably haven’t understood too much since your hairline started receding
    & took your mind with it.

  • Pablo

    They’ll be all over the lot in the middle of the day. We’re consistent.

    “Biased” is the word you’re looking for, Al.

  • Pablo

    Don’t bother Hout with facts. He knows who he hates and by golly, he’s gonna get his rage on in at least 500 words. 

  • Pablo
  • Anonymous

    So, Al says Current is better because it is more “pure.”

    That kind of ideological rigidity is something Olbermann is famous for and something that makes a lot of liberals and lib leaning centrists increasingly uncomfortable these days.

    You’d think Gore would be smarter and better than that, but, alas, maybe there’s a deeper reason for why he always seemed so wooden and stiff. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    A speaker of the house can’t “pass a budget”, dummy.

    He can bring it up for a vote, and then each Representative, regardless of party, gets to vote for or against it.

    And although budgets are initiated in the House, they have to be voted on by both chambers.

    Then it’s the president’s prerogative to sign it or not. If he vetoes it, then it goes back to both houses where it must receive 2/3 vote to override the veto.

    Ok, I just nitpicked your nitpick, it’s your turn to nitpick my nitpick of your nitpick, dummy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    At least he puts forward ideas.

    All you do is nitpick and snipe.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    thanks, Pablo

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    do you have a hair fetish, bluestormrising?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    How is Fox Report liberal?

    Plus, isn’t it “supposed to be” a news show, not an opinion show? (me thinks you just admitted that even the news on fox isn’t really news…welcome to reality)

    I’ll give you Geraldo, I guess, but he’s an empty suit who garners little or no respect by liberals at large…he’s just an entertainment guy.

    I had to google Studio B. That’s Shep Smith again. Again, how is he a liberal?

    Does occasionally expressing some human emotion and reason now qualify you as a Liberal?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    For God’s sake Al, shut up!  MSNBC is an objective, unbiased, and a straight down the middle network and you just screwed it all up.  You are not supposed to state that any left leaning news or commentary is progressive or left leaning.  Progressives are not progressives, Al, they are just like everyone else.

    Well, what can you expect from a man who stated that the just beneath the surface of the earth, the temperature is millions of degrees.  At least Al shuts most of his lights off at his Bel Mead mansion now, after being caught leaving them all on 24/7.  Love a guy who demands I go back to candles while he burns more power than a city block.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1642124320 Tony Weese

    it is true, though, that MSNBC actually has a diversity of opinion, something you can’t say about Fox NewsOMG – how far left must be to think this way?

  • Anonymous

    One thing for sure about your hair fetish…you can still groom your arm pits.

  • Pablo

    You think Obama is center-right, don’t you, Barry?

  • Anonymous

     Having listened to a few comments by your DNC chair, I was thinking that was what was expected.  Altho Steele was much more civil than that witch from the DNC.  But then maybe thats what you all like. 

  • Anonymous

     How far left can you go??????

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    True about steele, But I think he’s harmless as far as making the GOP anything. I have more of a iusse with Martan Bashr. He got his big brake falsely editing a Documentcy about Micheal Jackson.Made him look like a peddo,  And even went to court over it.

    And on the other side you have Al Sharpton who was backing Micheal on his end .

     If MSNBC had such high standers for being a reporter. why bring in a guy like Martan. And why would you bring in the same guy that was working against Martin in Sharpton. I can picture what it like when those 2 are in a elavater together.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    then your a GOP type then,

  • Anonymous

    Agreed! The moron CONMAN  speaks!!! I,m sure all 12 people that watch that show are concerned.

  • Anonymous

    I especially like that fing blow hard nastty fatass Mr. Ed!! That’s a smart one:)

  • Anonymous

    Bluestorm you’re gonna make their heads explode! Facts, figures and historical fact are the last thing libbies want to hear!!! Just doesn’t fit into their little world of unicorns and rainbow dust.
    ABO

  • Anonymous

    I think barry needs to get a job and get out of his mother’s basement…..what out for that daylight IF you DO go out!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TCXQQ24WGSAL2HGWFPMWYSU4MU Ms. D

    Gore jumped on the Global Warming bandwagon to enrich himself and live a life of excess.  The man is the biggest kind of hypocrite.  The Democrats loved him and embraced every word he uttered.  To think….he could have been the POTUS!!  That is a scary thought…He would have made Carter and Obama look like conservatives.

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