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Keith Olbermann and David Letterman Discuss Glenn Beck, The Tea Party, And The 2012 Election

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Last night, while Bill O’Reilly was theorizing that David Letterman may have gone sour on President Obama, the talk show host was a few blocks away, making fun of all of those wacky Republicans with Keith Olbermann. The two discussed Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally (which Olbermann hilariously posited was merely about restoring money), the Tea Party, and Letterman’s old pal Sarah Palin.

Letterman pointed out that people like O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh are all “wildly intelligent” and asked Olbermann if they really believed the things they say. Olbermann then told a story about meeting Limbaugh in 1980 when the future megastar desperately wanted to get on an ESPN football show. Olbermann remarked that some people will do anything to get on television. He did, however, note the irony that he was saying this while guesting on a TV talk show.

The interview was light hearted. But, really, we’re just waiting for another meeting between Letterman and O’Reilly, something the Fox News host promised would happen in the next few weeks during last night’s show.

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  • rocky road

    Olbermann and Letterman are in the ratings dumpster. Did Olbermann talk about getting fired from NBC football? I doubt it.

  • Azarkhan

    The serial philanderer and the psycho rat. Hope Mediaite pays you well, Jon.

  • sarjohnson

    Do either of these guys have a sense of reality? Making money rally? Who did that money go to Keith? Oh, right… the families of special ops who are killed serving the country…

  • WideAwakeNow

    Olbermann mentions Glenn so much because he is an obscure wannabe and he’s jealous of Glenn’s position of prominance in the country right now. (Read: It eats him alive) Glenn is admired and loved by millions for his common sense approach to the country’s problems & their solutions. Olbermann & Letterman…….. will never get it.

  • felixw

    It’s great to have these guys comparing notes on how the government can run our lives better than we can ourselves.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Geez, Dave needs a bigger couch when Keith comes on.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Olbermann is the one person that can be legitimatly be called INSANE.

  • BR

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Geez, Dave needs a bigger couch when Keith comes on.

    Fron the size of his gut? Or the size of his head?

  • murf

    They could use Olbermann as a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

  • ImRubberYoureGlue

    BR said:
    Fron the size of his gut? Or the size of his head?

    Olbermann is shaped like a pear. Huge ass on a huge ass.

  • Liberty_Hound

    The more people like Obiteme and Letterhead express their dislike for Glenn and Rush the more it helps Glenn and Rush. So thanks guys for your promotion.

  • Big Eddie

    Two seriously flawed dumb guys yakking . Remember when Letterman was funny ?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    Few comments here, and of those posted no one has a good thing to say about Letterman or Olberdick. Geez, I wonder why.

  • felixw

    Big Eddie said:
    Two seriously flawed dumb guys yakking . Remember when Letterman was funny ?

    That was a long, long time ago. But, yes, he once was very funny. Today he just seems out of touch. He has all his fashionable liberal views, but doesn’t seem to realize that they aren’t so fashionable any more. The truth is that Letterman has now become one of the smug, hidebound elites that he used to ridicule.

  • Azarkhan

    Trump tells Letterman mosque is insensitive-

    http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=hdkUVruzaG

  • Arkansas Steve

    Andy,
    Olberdick pretty much describes Keith. You appear to have that right.
    Letterman is the most OVERPAID person in the entire television industry.
    I think his sweet, wonderful mother is embarrassed by him.

  • WildMan

    Are Dave and OversizeBUTT lovers Keith bigmouth goes on Letterman’s show quite often but, I don’t think he has ever been on Jay Leno, even though Jay is on NBC. The real question is why do the Executives at either network give that clown Keith Overbite the time of day? He is the only guy on the planet that washes his hands before going to the bathroom and not wash them afterwards. This is a well known fact by New Yorkers.

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

    Keith Odorboy is so hated in NBC now that his Mess-NBC gig might bite him in his HUGE ASS just like the NFL football job just left town. When he left ESPN, the only dude who stayed in touch was equally BIGASS Dan Patrick, despite the fact that universally loved Chris Berman who went to high school with Odorboy, wouldn’t stay in touch with the OBNOXIOUS asshole KO. Which reminds me that KO & Letterboy ara a matched pair of worthless DNC parrots, and Letterman’s ratings are below Beck’s and of course Leno hates KO along with everyone else at the network. The only time Letterserialdickinghisstaff’s show gets any ratings is when O’reilly comes on, so the dickhead has to beg him just for one more shot in the arm. Between their two ridiculously overpaid salaries, Letterboy and robobiyotch Couric are going to sink the “Tiffany Network’s” entire non-entertainment budget.

  • TCinAZ

    No talk about how much Keithleen has to pay Tur to Keep her, or to call his “dear friend” as if she’s his MessNBC colleague, huh? Too bad.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Khadija-Baaroun/802238500 Khadija Baaroun

    Haters gonna hate, I enjoy reading your silly comments about K.O, makes me want to watch him even more.

    Oh and like Dave said, big head, big brain.

  • TfT

    Two libs going after a conservative…..yawn. These people need to get new writers, new material.

    Olbermann is so jealous of the success of Beck and FNC in general it is driving him off the deep end.

  • ChrisNH

    Fantastic! Two anguished Lib media hacks moaning and whining about how the government of their dreams could have gone so wrong. The beauty of unfettered Liberalism is that you only have ONE direction that you can point your finger. Obama, hysterically, wants to point in every other direction than his own, which is why he richly deserves his reputation of being ‘child-like.’

  • LeptisMagna

    When the right nut-jobs resolve to name calling, it’s only fair to ignore them.

    GO KEITH!

  • Kitsune

    So, why is it when the left insults the right, it’s “Funny, clever, and insightful”, but if the right fires back, it’s “hateful, racist, and morally/intellectually bankrupt”?

    Why is it just fine for Olbermann to go berserk on anybody he wants, but nobody can even dare to THINK of criticising Obama, Pelosi, Olbermann, or ED?

  • Penguin60

    With those guys yukking it up, whose running the Mensa meeting???? Oh, sorry nevermind.

  • writer

    Back in Indiana, Letterman used to be a regular guy. But after moving to NY and making millions, it dawned on him that he was just a bit smarter than everyone else.

  • felixw

    LeptisMagna said:
    When the right nut-jobs resolve to name calling, it’s only fair to ignore them.

    GO KEITH!

    Hmmm, someone who is opposed to name-calling, and is also a Keith Olbermann fan. Yeah, Olbermann who called Michelle Malkin “mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic…a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.”

    Ah, the American left…you couldn’t make this stuff up.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Kitsune says: “Why is it just fine for Olbermann to go berserk on anybody he wants, but nobody can even dare to THINK of criticising Obama, Pelosi, Olbermann, or ED?”

    It’s not just fine, and he’s been called out for it and apologized. Who claims that people cannot be criticized? I’ve criticized ED and C. Matthews. I’ve criticized Obama. Nobody is above criticism.

    The issue is how people are criticized that is at issue. If one uses deceit as Beck does virtually non-stop, then that becomes an issue. In The Backlash (W. Bunch) the author points out how Beck rouses people off their couches. That worked both ways. Beck roused me off the couch with his nasty, mean-spirited, childish manner and utter hogwash spewed as “truth.” Thus, the dawn of The Glenn Beck Review. This week I studied the Cloward and Piven theory that Beck cites as guiding of this Administration. As usual, Beck has no idea about how that theory is not applicable to the federal government; but that doesn’t stop him from his onslaught of deceitful propaganda (as if he knows what he’s talking about).

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/09/glenn-becks-tree-of-revolution.html

  • http://none pyrope

    Since David Letterman and Keith Olbermann cannot BE Mr. Beck, the best they can hope for is to attract attention by talking about him.

    I guess the same can be said for the above denizen of this site.

    But, the funny thing is, both Letterman and Olbermann look as though they’ve just swallowed feces.

  • http://none pyrope

    Khadija Baaroun said:
    Oh and like Dave said, big head, big brain.

    The same is true about hydrocephalics but….

  • TCinAZ

    LeptisMagna said:
    When the right nut-jobs resolve to name calling, it’s only fair to ignore them.

    Too TRUE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MaJLbJDuAc

    GO KEITH! GO! Right Back To Your Bathtub!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    pyrope says: “Since David Letterman and Keith Olbermann cannot BE Mr. Beck, the best they can hope for is to attract attention by talking about him.

    I guess the same can be said for the above denizen of this site.”

    Actually the best this “denizen” is hoping for is that by exposing Beck as an unrepentant liar and a hypocrite, people will start to have more skepticism toward this self-described “rodeo clown” and messenger of God. I realize that the vast majority of his army of the misinformed are beyond the pale. My effort is to reach those not yet snared by Beck’s web of lies, flawed analysis and yellow propaganda. Examine and please share this URL:

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com

    This has been a public service announcement.

  • CAconservative

    As a relative new-comer to TV, Glen Beck, has completely eclipsed the alphabet-news shows. How has he managed to do that in such a short time? Maybe, it’s because he doesn’t spin the truth!

  • http://none pyrope

    GlennBeckReview said:
    My effort is to reach those not yet snared by Beck’s web of lies, flawed analysis and yellow propaganda.

    I do not stalk Mr. Beck the way you seem to–I have a life outside of occasionally watching Mr. Beck (although I do watch him more of late). I will also say that I have been at times uncomfortable with some of his remarks–most recently his embellishing (or expediting) the story of his visit to the National Archives. So, what I do know is this: I have made a life out of reading people, and I think I’ve done fairly well at it. In Mr. Beck, I see passion and goodness that only comes from having found repentance and redemption for a past that was not necessarily admirable. It proves that we can all start again on a clean slate. I realize that Mr. Beck points out some things that make a certain segment of the country recoil with a tendancy toward denial, but in checking the history of the events (both current and past) that are brought to light by Mr. Beck, I have found truth time after time. Mr. Beck is exposing some very troubling events and actors in current politics and he is giving the history of how things got to be the way they are. As an immigrant and naturalized citizen beginning in 1968, I find this information extremely valuable because I want to know as much as possible about the country that has seen fit to offer me its citizenship. A LOT of what I have learned from Mr. Beck was never taught in the classes I took while preparing for naturalization, and (more disturbing perhaps) I have found that these things are not taught in any of our public schools. So, you can attack Mr. Beck on every issue for which you might find some scrap of inuendo, and that is your right, but I assure you that in the grand scheme of things anything you might say is taken with a grain of salt because, on the whole, Mr. Beck is indeed trying to restore honor to this country that he and I love so much, and the fact that he is but a mortal and prone to weaknesses found in all mortals, is of little consequence when one considers the man in his entireity.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    pyrope says: “A LOT of what I have learned from Mr. Beck was never taught in the classes I took while preparing for naturalization, and (more disturbing perhaps) I have found that these things are not taught in any of our public schools.”

    That’s because by-and-large what Beck conveys is complete bullshit!

    Start here and re-educate yourself:
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/09/glenn-becks-tree-of-revolution.html

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