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Breaking: Keith Olbermann Is Still Not A Fan Of Fox News

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Here’s a shocker for you: Keith Olbermann is taking issue with Bill O’Reilly‘s proclamation that Fox News “is the most powerful media agency in the world.” On Countdown tonight, the MSNBC host took a few minutes to dissect that claim—though his comments didn’t exactly have the effect he intended them to have.

Here’s what Olbermann had to say in response to a clip of O’Reilly’s Fox boast:

“Interestingly, the thing O’Reilly thinks Fox has—power—power to do what, exactly? Since Fox launched, it helped a speaker of the house get a president impeached. The guy actually lost his job—that would have been the speaker of the house, and his successor. Then Fox championed a Republican presidential candidate who finished second in the vote. Then Fox demanded a war and got it, at the cost of 4,400 American lives. Then Fox championed an incumbent president riding the waves of two wars and terror panic who just barely won reelection.”

There’s more, but you get the idea. Basically, Olbermann blames Fox News for every Republican blunder of the late ’90s and the early to mid-2000s, then claims that the network is powerless because Obama was elected in ’08. He also tries to spin 2010′s midterm election results so that they sound like a disappointment for the right: after all, says Olbermann, conservatives “only” won one house of Congress on November 2.

If Olbermann was trying to prove that Fox News isn’t a powerful media agency, why would he blame that channel and that channel alone for everything from George W. Bush’s election to the collapse of the economy?

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  • The Lantern of Truth

    im ted . granny iris ! the scarey creeepy old man is bak !

  • tatboy

    This guy really should have gotten more education than a simple undergrad. A masters or something. Just doesn’t have the level of education to pull off a simple argument.

  • dhg

    Olbermann is the dumbest fool ever.Every time he opens his mouth about anything or anyone Fox News he gives them more power and publicity.

    That and he changes nothing.No one who watches Fox will stop because of his rants.As usual it’s all irrelevent.

    Must be nice to be a TV network with an hour to fill with pointless foolishness like this.

  • Cecelia

    “If Olbermann was trying to prove that Fox News isn’t a powerful media agency, why would he blame that channel and that channel alone for everything from George W. Bush’s election to the collapse of the economy?”

    Because he’s Keith Olbermann. All that makes perfect sense to the fathead.

  • Jackyboy

    I don’t know what to say. This is just bad, even for Keith.

  • DorkyMcForky

    Keith needs to get Fox New’s dick out of his mouth. O’Reilly might be a superdouchehead, but at least he has on people that disagree with him. Keith seriously has the EASIEST job in the world. Sit around and talk shit about your rival network/republicans and then have someone come and reinforce your beliefs by stroking your political cock. A 4th grader with an IQ of 4.5 could do Keith’s job. It’s embarrassing, really.

  • Kird

    MSNBC should move Matthews to the eight Eastern time-slot and move Olbermann to five. Let him go against Beck; they both have a similar style of programming.

    PS–
    Hi Keith

  • Cecelia

    It’s interesting that despite MSNBC efforts about green living in general and green technology in particular, that it’s Olbermann’s own fund raising with free clinics that he mentions as a comparison to what REAL power is about.

  • timzank

    “If Olbermann was trying to prove that Fox News isn’t a powerful media agency, why would he blame that channel and that channel alone for everything from George W. Bush’s election to the collapse of the economy?”

    Uh, maybe cuz he ain’t so good at thinkin’ things all the way through.

  • ChinaCat

    Thin-skinned Olbermann ALWAYS takes the Fox bait. A “journalist” with some level of class and perspective would have IGNORED O’Reilly’s comment and conducted his own show for his own audience, who don’t watch Fox anyway. His O’Reilly-envy is embarrassing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    Yeah, Keith really looked victorious on election night…

  • Pablo

    If a tree falls in the forest, and it lands on Keith Olbermann, is anyone surprised?

  • Rusty Shackelford

    Ya think Keith realizes Santa aint comin to town…….but comcast is. You better watch out.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    I’m seriously waiting for that outsized head to start expanding one day and EXPLODING all over the set and the TV camera in a Gotterdamerung worthy of a total EGO swept away by the flood of his verbal diarrhea.

    The problem is that he’s like that ALL THE TIME, according to the poor souls who work for him and have to push notes under his door while he self-reacharounds all over his keyboard. Fox ain’t powerful and yet it’s guided the nation’s destiny the last 15 years or so—even in the right direction with the election of The Won….

    One more complete contradiction in five minutes of blather is just another milepost on KeithO’s road to self-annihilation, career-wise.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    Rusty, good point. I’d love to be the fly on the wall when Steve Capus or whoever the new ComCast CEO presiding over MessNBC will be first calls Keith Overbite to the carpet in Zucker’s former lavish digs to tell him to get out of Dodge and 30Rock—-maybe they can trade him to CNN for a third-round draft pick.

  • rocky road

    It is strange to have a “news program” spend its time trashing another network. How is that news? All Olbermann does is punch up trying to get just a glimmer of the success of Fox. He has failed miserably.

  • DorkyMcForky

    Also, Keith DOES realize that all the money that O’Reilly makes selling his stupid books, mats, mugs, etc from the Fox News website goes to charity, right? I mean, I personally would never buy one of O’Reilly’s stupid ass books, but I would be 100 bucks that O’Reilly’s site this year has made more money for charity than Olbermanns health care clinic thing. Basically, his “have power for other than yourself” argument is moot.

  • DorkyMcForky

    *bet

  • antikythera

    Keith Olbermann ist ein Jude und irischen hassen Narr und die Deutschen lieben ihn dafür. Er liebt es, verkleiden sich in Frauen Tücher und haben seinen Hintern besser, Zwerge und die Deutschen lieben ihn für das auch. Er macht alle mächtig zum Lachen. Bitte, hör nicht auf, was du tust ist es unterhaltsamer, als gerade Rachel Maddow versuchen zu handeln feminin.

  • david r

    antikythera said:
    Keith Olbermann ist ein Jude und irischen hassen Narr und die Deutschen lieben ihn dafür. Er liebt es, verkleiden sich in Frauen Tücher und haben seinen Hintern besser, Zwerge und die Deutschen lieben ihn für das auch. Er macht alle mächtig zum Lachen. Bitte, hör nicht auf, was du tust ist es unterhaltsamer, als gerade Rachel Maddow versuchen zu handeln feminin.

    Translation: Keith Olbermann is a punk-ass chump.

  • WildMan

    Wow goofball Olbermann, I had no earthly idea you didn’t like FOX News. Course nobody has ever accused you of being Fair & Balanced so why in the world would we think you would be in tune with anything that is fair and balanced, you unbalanced, unglued wacko! You are so weird, Keith…I mean really, really weird as in real strange! Does anyone actually watch your show?

  • SmartAlec

    antikythera said:
    Keith Olbermann ist ein Jude und irischen hassen Narr und die Deutschen lieben ihn dafür. Er liebt es, verkleiden sich in Frauen Tücher und haben seinen Hintern besser, Zwerge und die Deutschen lieben ihn für das auch. Er macht alle mächtig zum Lachen. Bitte, hör nicht auf, was du tust ist es unterhaltsamer, als gerade Rachel Maddow versuchen zu handeln feminin.

    I think I agree, but I’m not sure.

  • felixw

    Once again, Fox covers the news, while MSNBC hosts spend their air time obsessing about Fox.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Johns/1681497708 Michael Johns

    felixw said:
    Once again, Fox covers the news, while MSNBC hosts spend their air time obsessing about Fox.

    It’s amazing how much dis-information comes out of that network. No wonder a majority of FOX viewers think Saddam was responsible for 9/11 and also believe that TARP was passed under Obama (it was actually Dubya). I’ll never forget months after the election when they Brietbarted Biden (they apologized for the “mistake” the next day). The panel wasn’t told that the quote was from months ago and that Joe was actually quoting McCain! They ripped him good. FOX actually apologized for misrepresenting what they claim Biden said months after the election? March 2009, Fox News’ Martha MacCallum: “Take a look at what was said in recent interviews this weekend.” Fox then aired a clip of Biden stating: “The fundamentals of the economy are strong.” The panel FOX assembled wasn’t told that Biden was quoting McCain and that it wasn’t recent. There are hundreds of similar examples of FOX’s deception. Let me know if you’d like an emailed list.

  • cjd ohio 1

    ok michael, but olbermann is still a fool

  • lazzzlo

    antikythera said:
    Keith Olbermann ist ein Jude und irischen hassen Narr und die Deutschen lieben ihn dafür. Er liebt es, verkleiden sich in Frauen Tücher und haben seinen Hintern besser, Zwerge und die Deutschen lieben ihn für das auch. Er macht alle mächtig zum Lachen. Bitte, hör nicht auf, was du tust ist es unterhaltsamer, als gerade Rachel Maddow versuchen zu handeln feminin.

    Per Google translate: Keith Olbermann is a Jew hating fool and Irish and the Germans love him for it. He loves to dress up in women’s clothes and have his butt better, dwarves and the Germans love him for that too. It all makes powerful laugh. Please, do not listen to what you’re doing it is fun, feminine, just trying to act as Rachel Maddow.

  • SmartAlec

    lazzzlo said:
    Per Google translate: Keith Olbermann is a Jew hating fool and Irish and the Germans love him for it. He loves to dress up in women’s clothes and have his butt better, dwarves and the Germans love him for that too. It all makes powerful laugh. Please, do not listen to what you’re doing it is fun, feminine, just trying to act as Rachel Maddow.

    Well in that case – I agree!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Johns/1681497708 Michael Johns

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    ok michael, but olbermann is still a fool

    That may be true, but he is dead on about FOX.

  • fenngibbon

    The amazing thing is that no one (or, at least, anyone with any influence) at MSNBC has ever realized just how, well, sad it looks for them to obsess about Fox News.

    On the plus side, every minute they spend stalking Fox News is one less minute they can spread falsehoods and distortions about real matters of consequence.

  • http://www.pmm.nl Ron C. de Weijze

    Great headline! Thanks for putting a smile on my face! *smile*

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: I still blame Pat for this artical! Olbermann is such a puppet-boy!

  • murf

    Ugh… Ever since the suspension, it seems the writers here are giving Queef more
    cover time than before.

  • RIChris

    Olbermann was suspended for his political contriubtions when he should be suspended for his contributions to the embarrassment that is MSNBC.

  • Dave Richards

    Michael Johns said:
    That may be true, but he is dead on about FOX.

    With all due respect, BULLSHIT!!!!

  • Judge Mental

    Michael Johns said:
    That may be true, but he is dead on about FOX.

    Which part? That Fox has no power or that Fox has been influencing policy and elections for years?

  • BR

    I hope that they never take Keith “The D-Bagger” Olbermann off the air. What better way to show what the left is really about. Insecure, thin skinned, hypocritical, narcissistic, and hate filled. What better example is there of a liberal?

  • NORBIT

    Hey Olbermann,

    Both you and your discredited politics – as well as your hate-mongering followers – are Old News…and on the way out!

    The Marxist Coup was attempted – and Thwarted!

    Too bad you don’t have your old NBC Football gig to go back to.

    ps) It’s called karma, Keith.

  • Scott_in_MI

    ChinaCat said:
    Thin-skinned Olbermann ALWAYS takes the Fox bait.

    Poor Bathtub Boy. He doesn’t realize that O’Reilly played him like a Stratocaster. When Bill O wrote the comment about being the most powerful news agency, he wrote it specifically for KO. He knew he would freak out and comment on it and, as the above video shows, Olberman bit hook, line and sinker.

    Keithy, how does it feel to be O`Reilly’s bitch? Maybe next time he’ll make you dance.

  • TonyClifton

    Keith will prove that Fox is not the most powerful news agency in the world by spending the next 2 weeks talking about Fox News.

  • writer

    Wouldn’t MSNBC save money by just rerunning Fox’s opinion shows in his time slot? All Keith does is repeat everything they say, so why not eliminate the middle man?

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Kird says:
    “MSNBC should move Matthews to the eight Eastern time-slot and move Olbermann to five. Let him go against Beck; they both have a similar style of programming.”

    Beck: far right guests all reactionaries.
    Olbermann: mainstream liberal guests, occasionally a radical.

    Beck: Lies routinely.
    Olbermann: lies less in a year than Beck does in a week.

    Beck: uses his platform to enrich himself
    Olbermann: uses his platform to raise millions for health care clinics

    Beck: rarely addresses actual news
    Olbermann: always addresses daily news

    Beck: annoying tone that’s embraced by his followers
    Olbermann: annoying tone that’s not embraced by his followers

    Yep, similar as night is to day.

  • writer

    GBR, when Beck had on Al Sharpton, you consider Sharpton to be a reactionary? And didn’t Beck’s rally raise millions for wounded soldiers? We already know you have an obsessive hatred for Beck, and the fact that you consider Olbermann’s far left guests to be ‘mainstream liberals’ says it all.

  • felixw

    Michael Johns said:
    It’s amazing how much dis-information comes out of that network. No wonder a majority of FOX viewers think Saddam was responsible for 9/11 and also believe that TARP was passed under Obama (it was actually Dubya).

    I have never heard a Fox host claim Saddam was responsible for 9-11 or TARP (a very profitable government program, as it turns out, and a big success for Bush in retrospect) was passed by Obama. Please share a link to a video clip that proves these ridiculous claims.

    Or perhaps try to find more plausible smears next time. These are just more lies, similar to what your buddies at MSNBC and Media Matters spread as part of their disinformation efforts.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    writer says:
    “Wouldn’t MSNBC save money by just rerunning Fox’s opinion shows in his time slot? All Keith does is repeat everything they say,”

    I’ve seen you make some remarkably stupid comments previously, but this one indicates an utter disconnect from reality. In the past I’ve asked you at what grade level you dropped out of elementary school, but this time I have to ask you when you got that traumatic brain injury.

    The more you write, the severe the damage looks .

  • writer

    The more you write, the severe the damage looks .

    Says the obsessive stalker of Glenn Beck.

  • Scott_in_MI

    GlennBeckReview said:
    writer says:“Wouldn’t MSNBC save money by just rerunning Fox’s opinion shows in his time slot? All Keith does is repeat everything they say,” I’ve seen you make some remarkably stupid comments previously, but this one indicates an utter disconnect from reality. In the past I’ve asked you at what grade level you dropped out of elementary school, but this time I have to ask you when you got that traumatic brain injury. The more you write, the severe the damage looks .

    OH MY GOD, this is the very first time you didn’t mention the object of your obession.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Scott_in_MI says:
    “OH MY GOD, this is the very first time you didn’t mention the object of your obession.”

    Did you just wake up from your daily hypnosis (The Glenn Beck Program)? Damn, Scott, I thought that you tracked my every comment here.

    Seriously, why do people write comments that are so easily proven false? Scott: I’ll assume for a second that you don’t know the truth about my other comments that have nothing to do with Mr. Beck and call your remark ignorant. That does qualify you to be a follower of Mr. Beck. He’s on now. Go listen to his show and do everything he says. That will impress your relatives tomorrow.

    When Beck tells his sheeple what to do, how to dress, how to pray, what to say and how to think, he is taking a massive dump on their Gadsen flags. As ironic as that is, these super-patriots don’t even notice that a control freak is ordering them around.

    Irony abounds in Beck’s Twilight Zone.

  • http://none pyrope

    Breaking: Keith Olbermann Is Still Not A Fan Of Fox News

    So, what’s new?

    Hundreds of millions are STILL not a fan of Keith -0lbermann.

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