Did Keith ever have it? I know he has his far left friends and admirers, but Olbermann has never been on the same intellectually honest plane of Beck or Limbaugh. They stand head and shoulders above Olbermann, always have, always will.

Olbermann is one of the most emotionally unbalanced people we’ve ever seen on TV.

Your nation is in a world of hurt; your nation seems to be dying of dumb. Palin has been one part of this problem. But as he swallows the brains of the young, Olbermann is a bigger problem by far.

What a shocker: Olbermann didn’t understand our Stewerts criticism! Perhaps if he’d stop insulting voters, telling dick jokes, and kicking the sh*t out of young blonde women on his show, he might join the land of the living. Our advice: Don’t hold your breath. This man is a lingering mess.

At one point Olbermann “owned” his schtick, now his schtick “owns” him.

I would speculate that Olbermann needs different friends around him to advise him he could have much broader influence if he didn’t come off so desperate. He’s become the parody of the parody he once cited.

Legacy does matter.

Olbermann let his popularity during the Bush administration go to his head and has become a true nutcase like some celebrities become when they let their fame go to their heads and actually believe they are smarter and more enlightened than everyone else just because of their celebrity.He has allowed his notorious off screen persona merge into his on screen persona.He has allowed his own personal feelings,grudges,persecutions and on and on to take over his life and his work.All Olbermann ever was was a sportscaster,nothing more and certainly not a political authority or a voice of the people.He’s a voice of his own world and that’s a really scary place.Olbermann believes every word he says and becomes incensed when anyone else doesn’t.He is full of anger,hate and rage.

Very well written and level-headed piece, Tommy. I often watch Olbermann because I even though I disagree with him often, I like to balance what I know with the opposite point of view. Lately he has seemed to be so outrageous, that I need to go elsewhere to get that balance. I want to like him, but its near impossible now.

I’m sure there are plenty of other people on TV who are just as thin-skinned, egocentric, and mean-spirited as Olbermann can be, but someone ought to stop him from acting that way on the air. I don’t know why no one at his network will rein the guy in from his worst tendencies, because he’s been making a fool of himself a lot lately. He had some great moments during the Bush administration, and now his show is often unwatchable and the Special Comments are embarrassingly overwrought.

TfT – Have you ever considered a career as a comedian?

Well, gee, Tommy, didn’t you just tell folks who have argued that Olbermann has LOST it…to go high-five each other over saying “olberdouche”…

Frankly, your readers oughtn’t to have to take an ideological purity test or to ecumenically blast Beck and Limbaugh, in order to be taken seriously by you.

I’m looking for the video now, but you have mischaracterize what WAS Richard Wolffe’s breathless report about a source in the WH telling him that the WH had been set-up by an intragovernment agency over the failure to heed intelligence in the underwear bomber fiasco.

Wolffe was every bit as stoked as Olbermann, and it was obvious that he later began to walk back this claim only after his WH source or the Administration, itself, advised him to lay off.

Translation, Richard Wolffe as partisan as Olbermann but smarter than Olbermann to walk back the “set-up” Obama Admin conspiracy theory.

Ohh, and Maybe Tommy aware of that.

I’ll begin by saying that I tried to listen to his eleven minute rant, but the guy really needs to hire an editor or something because his monotone isn’t interesting enough to hold anybody’s interest for that long.

And, while I think his Chicken Little routine is way over the top, I also trust that Barney Frank and Congress will do what they can do to temper the damage. I mean, Rachel Maddow said in the earlier clip that Exxon can match or top the contributions of every living American, but Exxon doesn’t get to vote and campaign finance are public records, so it’s not like MultiVac will be choosing the next President.

Also, a couple of the more conservative commenters pointed out on the Maddow thread that MSNBC is currently owned by GE and I’ll take it further to say that every other national news outlet is owned by some type of corporation (aren’t all companies corporations?) and though there’s still a handful of local stations that aren’t part of a larger chain, the majority of their owners also have other interests.

(Heck, the fellow who used to own the station profiled in that TVGuide show, also owned the Ford dealership)

This is almost scary to watch. It is a tragedy in the making. Olbermann, who once had a promising career many years ago, has clearly lost his mind. It should not surprise anyone. He has been heading down this road for a long time. In Florida, there was an anchor not that many years ago, who took out a gun on live TV and ended his life. I hope the same doesn’t happen in this case, but nobody should be shocked if it does.

btw: Floyd Abrams is an honorable man who raised a fine son.

I don’t watch Beck. Has he done anything similar to Olbermann, as to suggest that an attorney is a Nazi for taking on a controversial case and client?

“Ohh, and Maybe Tommy aware of that.”

And maybe it’s become rather obvious today, that Tommy indeed knows a thing or two about walking stuff back.

Cecelia,

If you’re looking for that video, try the link I provided.

If I was any of these companies mentioned in this over the top, head spinning diatribe, I would seriously look at pulling sponsorship. Freedom of speech is one thing, but this is just garbage and is basically Hate Speech.
Tommy does not surprise me in his adoration of Keith given past blogs, but this one did surprise me in that TC actually grew a pair to even take on Keith.

Floyd Abrams is a very famous and well respected First Amendment attorney and expert on constitutional law. Even if he were not related to Dan Abrams, this media site has a duty to come down hard on Keith Olbermann, a graduate of Cornell Agricultural college, who seems to have no respect for anyone unless they fit into his extremely narrow view of the world. Olbermann is one loathsome maniac in a class all by himself. Yes, Tommy, a class all by himself. You’re only exposing your blind liberal bias if you compare him to Glenn Beck, who just today did an amazing show exposing rabid anti-Semitism imbedded in Karl Marx socialist philosophy.

Yet another MSNBC hit piece by “liberal” Mediaite.

@”I don’t watch Beck”< that's a screaming laffer!! Can one assert they "don't watch Beck" if they listen to him 3 hours a day on the radio? WHo cares LOL.
Suddenly Olbermann is a petty mean-spirited PERSONAL offender? Not hardly, he's been this way for years. He has simply moved to new oxen to gore.

Jim W – What the hell is this “duty” to come down hard on KO all about? Glenn Beck is a moron who makes a lot of money from morons like you who just nod and smile at anything that idiot has to say. Truly pathetic.

@Ted, I realize the dealing with a shmuck like you comes with posting here and all that, so it doesn’t bother me. Mediaite, if it were a true “media” site, wouldn’t gloss over Olbermann with an insipid line like “Keith is miles away from the bottom of that barrel.” Keith Olbermann IS the bottom of the barrel.

As others have pointed out – including Mr. Christopher – Floyd Abrams is one of if not the most noted scholar on the First Amendment. The man is a serious and respected figure who has defended free speech from attempts from the right, left or center to limit it. If you’re not familiar with him, do a quick search. You may disagree with his views on the First Amendment but you can’t dismiss them.

For Mr. Olbermann to smear – there’s no other word for it – Mr. Abrams simply for having a different view of the free speech rights of Americans exercised through corporations is pretty shameful. It’s one thing if Olbermann wants to go after “wingnuts” and their silly and ugly comments. It’s another to start going after decent honorable people like Mr. Abrams.

At some point – and it’s getting closer – MSNBC will have to decide whether they wish to continue to employ a person prone to such repeated attacks on public figures.

“Cecelia,

If you’re looking for that video, try the link I provided.”

I did link to the one your provided. There’s another one that I’ve seen. It may be Maddow interviewing him, that I’m thinking about, so I apologize for saying your mischaracterized Wolffe.

BTW– I would have thought that Olbermann calling tea party protesters “poor dumb manipulated bastards” would have been worth a link for your premise here.

@Ted: But Beck does voices, he has props, he writes on a chalkboard, while Olbermann just sits there and drones on in purple prose like he’s the smartest man in the world.

The list of “decent” people that Olbermann has savaged with his hammer of moral certitude is far too long to post here.
The only difference between performance artists Olbermann and Beck is that Olbermann actually believes his own B.S.

@”I don’t watch Beck”< that's a screaming laffer!! Can one assert they "don't watch Beck" if they listen to him 3 hours a day on the radio? WHo cares LOL.

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I don't listen to talk radio either, but perhaps you know my habits better than I do, Kreskin.

It's not surprising that you'd attribute groupie status to anyone with a defense of Beck (or anyone else) against many unreasonable attacks on this board that generally go beyond a talk show host into the real target of splattering mud on my particular political ideology or on Fox.

THAT is the sort of logical leap on your part that is indicative of a mirror-image groupieness…that is just as obsessive as any type-casting personae that you wish to place upon me– someone you don't know from Moses.

And if you didn't "care" really about my habits, then spare me the inference.

Jim W – When you reach the bottom of the barrel you’ll find Glenn Beck, he’s a pathetic lunatic who feeds off morons like you.

It should be mentioned too, that Olbermann makes these attack without allowing his targets on air to defend themselves, or allowing anyone else to do it on their behalf.

Oh, NOW he has gone too far? Not before when he was calling conservatives Nazis and other assorted hate filled names? Like mashed up bags of meat with lipstick. What kind of sick soul could come with that one? NOW it is personal, so that’s the difference. I get ya…

It should be mentioned too, that Olbermann makes these attack without allowing his targets on air to defend themselves, or allowing anyone else to do it on their behalf.

Indeed.

Any fair-minded journalist would either invite the target on his show to respond or allow a representative or stand-in to defend the person. Or at least contact the person off-air and let them respond.

He does none of these things. Not a one. Never has. Nope.

I’m not sure what else he has to do for Mr. Christopher to decide to turn in Olbermann fanclub book.

Yes Keith Olbermann is losing it. Listen to him rave. He’s barking mad. It’s cruel of his employers to let him destroy himself on TV. Get the guy some help.

Wouldn’t it be great to see Floyd Abrams on Countdown giving his particular take on the SCOTUS decision.

Wouldn’t you think that ANY reporter (or anyone who feels as passionately about this decision as Olbermann feels) would wish to hear this side and to have the opportunity to challenge it?

We know that ain’t happening. Essentially, because as with most bullies, Olbermann is a coward at bottom.

Ted… you don’t exist. And Tommy Christopher’s supplicating to Keith Olbermann is revolting. Is this article the best he can do when some obvious lunatic calls his boss’ well-respected, Jewish father a Nazi? For God’s sake! Tommy should be fired.

Wouldn’t it be great to see Floyd Abrams on Countdown giving his particular take on the SCOTUS decision.

Exactly. If Abrams’ position is so wrong, Olbermann could expose it.

And the audience might even learn that there’s more than one side on an issue. Imagine that! Olbermann admitting, implicitly if not explicitly, that he just……might……be…..wrong.

But as he said a few years ago, “I’m not liberal, I’m just right.”

C’mon Mr. Christopher, take down those Olbermann photos from the walls.

Jim W – And you should repeat 4th grade – you’re an idiot.

It is stunning: calling Floyd Abrams a Quisling?

Imagine if Scott Brown had done that? I can’t even begin to guess what Olbermann would be calling Brown.

I disagree with the notion that Floyd Abrams should appear in a debate with Keith Olbermann. Floyd Abrams to far too important to lower himself into the sewer with Olbermann and “Ted.” I also think the Dan Abrams should take a good, hard look at the dung we get from MSNBC.

Jim W. Dung? Glenn Beck feeds you a great big sugar coated bowl of dung on a daily basis and you eat it up and ask for seconds. Break free from the grip of this parasite!!

Anyone familiar with the stories of Olbermann’s career at ESPN would make the judgment he is at best an unstable guy (to be fair, he performed a mea culpa years after the fact for his behavior there). For one thing, his mood toward women with whom he disagrees is in a word, creepy. He’s never been the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit, but a 50-year-old journalist devoting entire segments to a 22-year-old’s breast implants is weird, very weird (to give just one example). Olbermann said “Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda.” He gleefully read the Sanford e-mails on air, not particularly caring that there was a wife and four young children humiliated by their husband and father’s transgression. He told the president of the U.S. to “SHUT THE HELL UP!,” based on a deceptively-edited NBC video and argued forcefully President Bush had equated playing golf to the loss of soldiers in Iraq when he had done so much thing. There are many more examples. I’m not surprised Olbermann’s losing it, I’m more surprised people like Tommy ever thought he had it.

“Countdown” has always struck me as a show designed almost as much to soothe Olbermann’s ego than to be a viable political opinion program (though he’s been very successful so what do I know): A small group of liberal journalists liable to nod their heads at his assertions and tell him something he already believes; no dissenting opinions; “Special Comments” that are far too long to be effective (evidence to me of a man who thinks everything he says is unique and important). The show is little more than a nationally-broadcast blue blog comments section, which gives it a large cult audience but prevents it from making Olbermann the figure in the national discussion that his bete noires Beck, Limbaugh, and O’Reilly are, a notoriety that Keith desperately, transparently desires. Olbermann has long been more or less an object of ridicule rather than the eloquent “truth to power” crusader he sees himself as, and people like Mr. Abrams who find themselves in Keith’s unhinged sights should regard the verbal assault much in the way one would regard being condemned to hell by a man who sells pencils in the middle of Time Square. Be taken aback, but consider the source and get on with your day.

KiKi says:
January 22, 2010 at 8:09 pm

Oh, NOW he has gone too far? Not before when he was calling conservatives Nazis and other assorted hate filled names? Like mashed up bags of meat with lipstick. What kind of sick soul could come with that one? NOW it is personal, so that’s the difference. I get ya…

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Exactly!

Cecelia is absolutely right! No one on this site seems to care what comes from MSNBC and Olbermann until it gets personal, and even then someone like Tommy Christopher can’t bring himself to say anything more than “Keith is miles away from the bottom of that barrel.” I can’t even go into the historical ramifications of “writers” like Tommy Christopher. Maybe, because he’s obviously not Jewish, it isn’t personal for him… yet.

when olbermann does something this vile and disturbing, he should warrant his own article. there is absolutely no reason to inject liberal bias, and try to sugar coat the lunacy of Keith Olbermann, by claiming “he might be a loon, but Beck is worse!” Not only is it inaccurate, but it just sounds childish, and ruins your whole article.

Keith has attacked hard working voting Americans, he smeared a politician just for winning an election, he has attacked a pagent contestant, he calls anyone who disagrees with him a racist, and now he has attacked your boss’s father.

He isn’t losing it, he has lost it.

If Olby calling Floyd Abrams a Nazi, or his comments about Ded Scott, don’t prove it to you, then nothing will.

Nice try sarah n italy but I never hear a peep out of you when Beck or Limbaugh or BillO or Hannity or (fill in the blank) make personal attacks; this is called hypocrisy. And its Dred Scott not Ded Scott, Jesus.

PS – Beck really is a lunatic, what you call childish, others call the truth.

it’s sara, not sarah, Jesus.

if someone makes a personal attack that warrants criticism, i criticize.

have you ever heard of a little thing called *typo*? i make them all the time. get over it. life is too short.

I think I hear the Waaaaaaaahmbulance!

So the Daddy of the guy who started this site got flamed by Keith Olbermann. Who cares?

The simple fact is, Keith Olbermann is right: Once corporations have the right to meddle in elections and governance without restriction, we will have a Fascist state on our hands. Fascism, as Mussolini pointed out, was the the intermarriage of business and the government, or corporatism: where the corporate sector makes the decisions and the government does as it’s told.

For Tommy Christopher to squeal like a stuck pig when Floyd Abrams is called a Quisling only proves that the truth hurts. Abrams, like Quisling, tried to foist fascism on a country (Norway) that didn’t want it. I’d prefer the term Fifth Columnist myself, but Quisling fits Abrams to a T.

But then, what would Media Shite be without this kind of clutch-the-pearls concern-trolling?

Cecilia, Olbermann does in fact invite right-wingers on his show (including a standing offer to Liz Cheney), but they want no part of a show where the host won’t allow them to filibuster or get away with lying.

So who’s the coward?

Sarainitaly, “Quisling, after Norwegian politician Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany to conquer his own country and ruled the collaborationist Norwegian government, is a term used to describe traitors and collaborators.”

And there you have the filth that is Jelperman and Olbermann. You might think they are the same person, wouldn’t you?

Wouldn’t you…..

Jelperman

If Olbermann is correct, how on Earth did democracy in the Republic survive for oh, the 226 years before McCain-Feingold? Regarding the lack of dissent on Keith’s show, you’re completely incorrect. Olbermann never made a standing offer to Liz Cheney (Rachel Maddow did). Olbermann has in fact defended the lack of ideological fairness on “Countdown” in the DailyKos comments by arguing it would take away from the “civility” of the program. Suggesting Olbermann invites right-wingers on his show is a lie and suggesting said right-wingers are afraid to go on is a best a bizarre self-rationalization.

P.S. Off the top of my head, Michael Medved, Betsy McCaughey, and John Ziegler have all challenged Olbermann to on-air debates. Has it happened yet?

@Jelperman….”Olbermann does in fact invite right-wingers on his show (including a standing offer to Liz Cheney), but they want no part of a show where the host won’t allow them to filibuster or get away with lying.”
Jelperman, thank you for the belly laughs! Olbermann has never invited “right-wingers” on his show. Maybe you are thinking of the mild-mannered guest appearances by inhouse contributor Pat Buchanan. Liz Cheney has a standing invitation? Absurd! She would have him messing his trousers in 3 minutes, and we all know it.
http://olbermannwatch.com/

If I remember correctly, after he berated her. Didn’t Betsy McCaughey challenge Olbermann to a debate on his show, and Olbermann said that if she wanted to say something on MSNBC she could buy time on the Network?

Back in 2007, Michael Medved challenged Keith Olbermann to come on his show and debate his accusation that Medved is a defender of slavery. Olby refused.

Olbermann is an intellectual coward. He bullies from a far, but never lets his targets respond on his show.

m says:
January 22, 2010 at 6:52 pm

Yet another MSNBC hit piece by “liberal” Mediaite.

Again, one story… criticizing one host on MSNBC (while complimenting another)… amounts to “balance” on Mediaite… right, M? Sure that logic wouldn’t work if M was talking about FNC talking to a Democrat or Liberal (even though the ratio for that would be heavily in FNC’s favor)… but that’s what double standards and false logic are for I guess.

Jelperman says:
January 22, 2010 at 10:12 pm

Olbermann does in fact invite right-wingers on his show…

That is a lie. He doesn’t invite them on the show, and he never has had anyone who disagrees with him on the show. If I’m wrong, I challenge you to prove it. Show me where he debated someone on his show. Ready, set, go…

I used to be a big fan of Olbermann, but he lost me after the “Teabagger” debacle. And his one sided show format grows tiresome after a while.

I guess when Bush left, so did any reason he had to host his own show, sadly.

I remember when I first saw Keith Olberman. He was a sports guy here in LA. He used to do a late-night sports wrap-up show on Sunday night after the late news. He was funny, witty, and kept you interested in whatever sports story he was recounting.

One night, he had a somewhat different thing to talk about. Instead of sports per se, he discussed a recording a colleague of his had made some years before. It’s an audio, and apparently the guy just went profanely ballistic on some subject or other. What outraged Olberman was that he couldn’t play the audio on the air, because the station’s censors were worried about the FCC. He went off on this subject for several minutes, and while I at least sort of agree with him, I also wondered at Olberman’s obsessiveness. He spent way too long on this, and at the time I remember thinking the whole thing was strange.

Then he got hired nationally, went east, did various sports shows I only paid brief attention too…and then suddenly he’s a political commentator. No one ever explained to me how this transformation occurred, or why someone at a network thought it a good idea. Sure, he talks a good line, but is that all that’s necessary to be a political commentator these days? You could argue, I suppose, that Limbaugh didn’t have any chops either when he started…but he started small, in Sacramento, and labored in obscurity for years, until a nationwide network picked him up and he gained a larger audience. Olberman, near as I can tell, talked about sports, and then about politics…and his politics are often pretty hard to swallow. Regardless of what he says, though, it’s hard to figure out why someone thought he would be good at this.

Olbermann has always been outrageous and vile. Liberals just liked him that way when he was ranting and raging against Bush and conservatives. He’s always made personal attacks on people, made outlandish claims about them and liberals just lapped it up. Now that he’s attacking people on the left and raging about liberal pals, you disapprove. Oh, and comparing his antics to Beck and Limbaugh is absurd. They’re provocative, but they’re not raging haters.

The light has been turned on and they are scrambling as fast as they can.. they are screaming at each other because it most certainly cannot be themselves that are to blame.. they continue to underestimate the estimation of the people to understand reality(common sense) AND their ability to see the intentions of those in power.. the disarray is most palpable.

The third week of January, 2010.. thank you.

This site would do well to leave Olbermann off its radar entirely. He deserves to be left alone as there is nothing of consequence to comment on anyway. Good Grief! Dan Abrams must be pissed-off about someone calling his father a Nazi, and Tommy Christopher’s stupid: “Keith is miles away from the bottom of that barrel. As a longtime fan of Keith’s, I would remind them that a great deal of his appeal has always been that he takes pride in being better than them, not better at being them.” I don’t even know what the last sentence means.

The most ridiculous attribute of this rant is that the ruling he fears is a (partial) striking down of a campaign finance law which went into effect in 2003. Presumably Olbermann is therefore also describing, in his rant, life in America prior to 2003. What a nut!

In the last couple of years I used to enjoy most of Olbermann’s rants, especially when directed at the sometimes comic and often illegal shenanigans of the Bush administration.

Now his ranting seems to be more evil — dark and mean-spririted — without the humor or sarcasm they used to contain. He is going too far now and sounding scary.

I used to watch, but I get sick of the lectures, his over the top reactions to everything, he just isn’t any fun any longer.

Keith apologized marginally for the Brown attack, but then went off on one that was perhaps even more bizarre. I don’t know Floyd Abrams, and can’t personally testify to his character, but still I found Keith Olbermann’s attack on him outrageous for two reasons. The first and most obvious was the fact that the same evening Keith’s own legal consultant, whom Olbermann claims to respect enormously, agreed with Abram’s position. Logically, it just didn’t make sense that Keith could civilly talk with Jonathan Turley who agreed with Abram’s position, and then turn around and so viciously attack Abrams as to challenge his very humanity. Secondly, Abrams is an attorney-his job is to advocate for his clients-that is the bedrock of our judicial system. You can attack parties in litigation, but to attack their attorneys for providing legal advocacy is to challenge our entire system of justice. If olbermann has a problem with Abrams, what does he think of the attorneys who represented the Oklahoma city bombers, or those who represent serial murderers? Should we just deny those sides legal representation? Someone needs to sit Keith down and set some boundaries that keep him within the realm of the rational. The last thing we need is another Glenn Beck-regardless of which side of the political spectrum he or she sits.

How ironic that Obama-man is angry that the Court doesn’t impose harsh limits on free speech. One of the greatest beneficiaries of the first amendment is KO himself, whose hate speech would be the first thing many people would want to prohibit.

By the same token, I don’t see how Keith can call people Nazis, and his whole network can spew out biased political commentary all day long, but a corporation can’t take out an ad. Then again, intellectual clarity and even-handedness have never been KO trademarks.

ChickaBOOMer — Keith Olbermann: Still Crazy After All These Years
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2010/01/keith-olbermann-still-crazy-after-all.html

In 2006 “Strap-On” might have had some good tirades but those days are long behind him. His rants seem to get crazier by the day, almost as if he’s pushing the envelope to boost his ratings.

It’s sad, because MSNBC could be a news channel again someday, but not with Strap-On and company.

For the record, both Olbermann’s and Maddow’s shows offered Liz Cheney a chance to appear, and Cheney refused. Probably because she knows she can go on MSNBC in th morning, and won’t be called out for her lies and bullshit on fellow torture enthusiast Joe Scarborough’s morning circle-jerk.

This is because just as Cheney’s ghoulish daddy is responsible for the murder of inmates in Guantanamo (who somehow “hanged themselves” in spite of having their hands and feet bound), Joe Scarborough had an intern named Lori Klausutis, who turned up dead in his office under fishy circumstances.

By the way, since when is Pat Buchanan “mild-mannered”?

Jelperman says:
January 24, 2010 at 12:47 am

So one “conservative” woman has been offered a chance to be yelled at one television, by folks who made a career out of slandering and slamming her family… and that’s proof of what, exactly? It was a stunt (you’d agree to that, yes?)… not an actual invite.

But answer my question… who has KO interviewed who disagreed with him?

to: TfT says:
January 22, 2010 at 4:50 pm

Did Keith ever have it? I know he has his far left friends and admirers, but Olbermann has never been on the same intellectually honest plane of Beck or Limbaugh. They stand head and shoulders above Olbermann, always have, always will.

Maybe? , this is just ONE reason – that I NEVER watch him (nor many of his “friends”)!

“For the record, both Olbermann’s and Maddow’s shows offered Liz Cheney a chance to appear”

I’m aware of the Maddow offer, but the part about Olbermann is the first I’ve heard. Can you provide a link, or even the date when the offer was made or announced so that I can check the transcript?

Also, when you say the “Olbermann show” made the offer, does that mean one of the many nights that Keith isn’t there? Or was it an offer to actually appear on the program with Olbermann, the man himself?

Sorry I’m late. Lots of good comments here. I’ll just add that I don’t want ANY of my pundits OR politicians to be Celebrities with a capital C. I realize that by virtue of their functions they’ll be famous, but Personality Politics is a huge part of the problem with our supposed representative democracy. Its inanity infects the press’ motivations, & unfortunately the electorate’s objectivity & even self-interests, almost as deeply as their Globocorporate editors affect the what when & where of what’s allowed to be part of the general “news“-cycle.

Having said that: Beck, Limbaugh, Olb, Maddow, & yes, most of today’s “journalists” are hyperbolic dilettantes in search of self-aggrandizement. At best they fit into the paradigm in an innocuous way that doesn’t ruffle any important corporate feathers.

Re the REAL issue at hand: Corporations are NOT U.S. citizens. They are not even necessarily U.S. entities. In most cases they are multinational entities & in all cases, where their members/ owners/ employees are U.S. citizens, they already have freedom of speech as well as voting rights. They should NEVER have been given “personhood.” Nader was right about this but nobody listened because he’s not as telegenic as, say, Obama, or for that matter Olbermann.
As for the relentless race & racist & Nazi-baiting, it is tiresome & boresome & a genuine distraction from what affects most people’s lives. In other words it works perfectly for the Powers-that-be. And here we all are talking about it yet again… Sigh.

G.E. is a big corporation, but don’t wait for Olbermann to criticize them. (They sign his checks) And while Hannity and O’Reilly may have on guests who disagree with them, don’t expect the same from Keith. As flustered as he gets just sitting there by himself, he’d probably have a stroke if he actually had to defend some of his ridiculous assertions.

Is Keith Olbermann Losing it?

Depends what your definition of ‘is’ is.

2011 new style!

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I’ll tell you what’s “Wrong” with Olberman. My brother and I went through the same hideous, medical nightmare as Olberman did with his father. Watching the one you loved and looked up to, the one who always protected and loved you no matter what, your father, being slowly butchered to death piece by piece, his body wasting away, becoming putrified and foul with horrible infections upon infections upon infection, enduring what basically amounts to medical torture in a 4 month nonstop fight to live, only to become so overwhelmed by it all you BEG for death from the last people on earth who want to let you go, your medical team and your family….(  the NEXT amputation they would’ve needed to perform was disarticulation of his pelvis …even his surgeon said “this is turning into a nightmare”) well folks, that little life event does some really screwy things with your head for a long, long time afterwards, especially if it’s your father and you’re the son ( Or if a daughter, your mother )