I wish Olbermann were a bit more circumspect. He seems to be making a very good, to-wit: the hapless Drop Out Governor is being used, wholly consumed, and rapidly by all manner of people, most notably, the good people in the RNC who are using her to deflect mud from other, legitimate candidates. The (White) Tea Partiers used her mightily in at the Gaylord in Nashville, trying to draw legitimacy to one of the fractured portions of the weary movement. Even the Democrats use the Drop Out Governor to provide a contrast between the them and her. To be sure, the Drop Out Governor takes home bags of money every time she appears at Republican and Tea Party events. Perhaps, this is all she cares about. If so, more power to her. But, I think we all have to recognize a certain sadness in a woman so desperately craving legitimacy just 18 months ago and now carrying for nothing and no one more than her purse. It is very sad. To that end, the point sought to be made was on-target. The messenger is so flawed, however.

for a guy that not many people watch, you spend a lot of time talking about his show. point is… if no one watches, does it really matter? Like if a tree falling in the woods…

just say’n

When Keith Olbermann loses his job at Mess-NBC, will he start beating his girlfriend and/or wife? Harry Reid claims he will. I can’t wait for THAT chapter to roll around. The beauty of saying stuff like this is that I’m immediately protected by claiming ‘SATIRE,’ which is a wonderful strategy employed by the Left with respect to Palin. I also suppose that using vernacular like ‘Light-skinned magic Negro’ to describe Obama is similarly protected by the ‘Satire’ label. Yes, I’m sure it is!

@TC: Your chosen image enhances the joke.

I realize that Dan Abrams is still fuming over losing his show on MSNBC, and resents the hell out of someone who succeeded on the network when Abrams failed so miserably (almost as badly as The Savage Wiener -AKA “Michael Savage”), but this is getting ridiculous.

Dan Abrams’ Salieri-like obsession with Keith Olbermann would be creepy were it not so pathetic.

@Jelperman: I’m not his agent or an appointed defender, but just a a couple of weeks ago, commenters were accusing Tommy of having a “man crush” on Olbermann or wanting a job with him and that’s just from a quick search.

This kind of stupid tea leaves interpretation certainly builds credibility.

In other words, what Tommy Christopher through sanctimonious coquettishness is saying is: “Keith Olbermann called Sara Palin a DICK”

But quitting Alaska Governor, back when she was first dumped under the spot light of American politics, was called the same. A TOOL supposed to bolster the sinking campaign of Mc5th choice.

A TOOL, because even to this day many male teabaggers see her as a piece of ass, to take the back seat (oh, there is some kind of double entendre?) to Mc5th Choice’s maverick presidency.

I guess Tommy Christopher won’t have any interpretation problems when I say “Tommy Christopher is a useless, screeching tool”

If Palin is really as insignificant as the left claims, their obsession with attacking her is baffling. But I may have to bow to Olbermann on this one. No one is a bigger expert at being a tool.

For the record, Dan Abrams has ZERO to do with what I write, other than founding an awesome website on which to do it.

Jelperman raises a good point, unintentionally. Notice how Olbermann pretends to be reading the name of our site for the very first time? So who’s being petty and pathetic?

http://www.mediaite.com/online/keith-olbermann-calls-mediaite-gullible-for-reporting-an-inconvenient-truth/

If Jelperman ever raises a good point, it is certainly unintentional. More like a miracle.

It took about ten seconds to look up the word “tool” as it was used by Olbermann (which is to say, as an insult):

One who lacks the mental capacity to know he is being used. A fool. A cretin. Characterized by low intelligence and/or self-steem.

That tool dosen’t even know she’s just using him.

Magister, anyone who thinks Mediaite’s hacks are in the pocket of MSNBC are the same kind of tea-bagging tools who think the pro-war, pro-torture Washington Post is a “liberal” newspaper.

MrGlennBovineKoldys,

the “coquettishness” wasn’t mine. As originally written, I used no euphemisms. It’s up to the site’s editors to determine what’s best for the site, and sometimes, things get cut. That’s just how the sausage gets made.

I infer from your comment that you’re a fan of Keith’s, so I ask you, do you like Keith Olbermann, the influential television voice of the left, or Keith Olbermann, the 3rd rate standup comic? Because it’s hard to be both.

“Sometimes I feel guilty being a white person.” Keith Olbermann

Yeha, Jelp, that low self-esteem thing is a bitch.

If Palin is really as insignificant as the left claims, their obsession with attacking her is baffling. But I may have to bow to Olbermann on this one. No one is a bigger expert at being a tool.

Palin gets attacked because she’s a moron with a vicious streak. She used her speech at the GOP convention to quote an avowed Nazi named Westbrook Pegler, who called for the assassination of FDR and Robert Kennedy, and who shared Heinrich Himmler’s belief that good honest folk like in the country, as opposed to the “degenerates” and “rootless cosmopolitans” (code for Jews and Gays) who live in big cities.

Imagine if Obama had quoted Louis Farrakhan at his convention, or if Clinton or Bush had quoted some Klansman at theirs. There’s a reason Palin’s fans shouted “Kill him!” at one of her rallies.

Will someone explain to Mr. Olbermann the difference between political commentary and insults? If he disagrees with Sarah Palin, why doesn’t he address her criticisms of big government, out-of-control spending, rising taxes, encroaching federal bureaucracy, etc. To ignore these issues night after night, while settling for the kinds of insults a third-grader would think is beneath him, makes Countdown into a joke.

Should have read ‘yeah’ up there. More coffee.

@Tommy Christopher: I actually spent a few minutes this morning looking for the clip, where Keith belittles the title “Investigative Reporter for Gawker” to John Cook via videolink and had hoped to contrast it with the way he puts so much stock in a Kos blogger’s count, as a response to Jelperman’s comment in the other thread, but no matter how I searched, I couldn’t get it to quickly come up.

@Jelperman: I don’t know that I would’ve said the same three months ago, but I kind of think that Mediaite has figured-out how to play it close to the middle. Sure, most of the correspondents have political proclivities, but in this post, Tommy is sort of admonishing Olbermann and defending Palin, while in the other post, folks seem to lean toward the opposite.

Exactly, Jelp. And Olbermann gets attacked because he’s a moron with a vicious streak. Get it? And it’s incredible that you ask ‘what if Obama had quoted Farrakhan’. He didn’t have to. His pastor for twenty years is best buddies with Farrakhan. But oh, yeah, that doesn’t count. Someone can watch Glenn Beck once and their views are forever altered. Yet Obama listens to Wright for twenty years and their views are in no way similar. You far lefties are a laugh riot.

For the record, Dan Abrams has ZERO to do with what I write, other than founding an awesome website on which to do it.

Attaboy, keep singing for your supper.

I infer from your comment that you’re a fan of Keith’s, so I ask you, do you like Keith Olbermann, the influential television voice of the left, or Keith Olbermann, the 3rd rate standup comic? Because it’s hard to be both.

It’s not the concern-trolling about Keith Olbermann that’s so annoying, it’s the ineptitude in your concern-trolling about Keith Olbermann. As far as Olbermann’s mix of news, commentary and shtick is concerned, it has worked well enough for over twenty years, whether at ESPN (where he and Dan Patrick made SportsCenter the premier sports show on cable, or on NBC where he and Patrick breathed new life into Sunday Night Football. So the idea that he should care what the flunkies for a failed MSNBC host have to say (which is nothing of substance) is absurd.

Olbermann isn’t going anywhere. MSNBC made the mistake of tampering with, and canceling a popular liberal show when they got rid of Phil Donahue (even though he had the best ratings on the network) to please the tea-bagger-types.

Donahue was tanking. It’s all about money. You seriously think if Donahue was raking in the money, they’d get rid of him? Where are you getting the numbers that Donahue was a huge success? Or does you just throwing it out there make it true?

Let’s banish Palin to Canada – so that the rest of us can stop threatening to move there:

http://bit.ly/ahQTbl

(satire)

Correction: I was looking for the John Cook interview because of kit9′s comment to the other thread.

It’s a free country. Go ahead and move. But it’s odd you’d let someone so insignificant as Palin force you out.

Why would jelpertool respond to a post that wasn’t directed at him? Btw, patty cakes loooooves him some olby!

I accept Tommy Christopher’s excuse about original works being edited before publishing.

However, he is still missing the larger point. There is no story. Sarah Palin was, has been called a “TOOL” since the 2008 campaign. That is not news. Furthermore, he stretched a NON NEWS story into a gossip piece including the always tantalizing element of sexual innuendo. And he is providing fodder for the babblesphere.

Tommy Christopher did write the whole article and its general tenor. Or not? Like this:

I know, you’re probably thinking what I was, “He’s not actually calling her a tool, is he?”

Uh. No. Keith Olbermann was not calling Sarah Palin a DICK. Tommy Christopher did.

Here is the quote:

“…many tea partiers believe Sarah Palin will be a tool to unseat impure Republicans and Democrats and usher in the Rapture, or something.”

I’ll tell you where Tommy Christopher pulled the idea that Keith Olbermann was calling Palin a DICK…

And Jeffy Bovine (Jeff Merrill) aka Olby Sucks here is your picture again. Tell us that doesn’t scream bareback cowboy.

http://www.ourchurch-graphics.com/member/r/royalkinggeteqh/Jeff3.jpg

OK, Jelp. And you keep posting anonymously instead of admitting you’re actually Keith Olbermann.

it has worked well enough for over twenty years

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Well enough to keep him perched firmly on the bottom rung everywhere he goes……

Olbermann isn’t going anywhere. MSNBC made the mistake of tampering with, and canceling a popular liberal show when they got rid of Phil Donahue (even though he had the best ratings on the network) to please the tea-bagger-types.

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This is funny. Makes no sense, but, funny!

Mr. Glenn Bovine Koldys: I don’t know if you explored that index in which Johnny-Jeff’s picture can be found, but there are some amazing pieces there, including a “Get Out of the Rapture Free” card, for sale, so not truly free, but it is laminated. That coincidence is just too strong.

Yes, MSNBC got rid of Donahue because his ratings were bringing in so much advertising money. And they wanted to please the tea baggers, even though the tea party movement didn’t exist when Donahue was on. Trying to follow this left wing ‘logic’ is tricky.

If you throw “logic” out the window patty cakes and philby make perfect sense.

Tea-baggers have been around since at least 1994, when they used to mail tea bags to members of Congress before the elections that year.

MSNBC admitted they got rid of Donahue because he was opposed to the war and allowed anti-war guests on his show. This is also why they got rid of Ashleigh Banfield.

LINK

While “Donahue” does badly trail both O’Reilly and CNN’s Connie Chung in the ratings, those numbers have improved in recent weeks. So much so that the program is the top-rated show on MSNBC, beating even the highly promoted “Hardball With Chris Matthews.”

Although Donahue didn’t know it at the time, his fate was sealed a number of weeks ago after NBC News executives received the results of a study commissioned to provide guidance on the future of the news channel.

That report–shared with me by an NBC news insider–gives an excruciatingly painful assessment of the channel and its programming. Some of recommendations, such as dropping the “America’s News Channel,” have already been implemented. But the harshest criticism was leveled at Donahue, whom the authors of the study described as “a tired, left-wing liberal out of touch with the current marketplace.”

He was so “out of touch” that he got better ratings than any other show on the network.

Being number one on MSNBC is like being first deck hand on the Titanic. Like all the Leno shuffling at parent NBC, they were clutching at straws and none of them work. Fox will kick their ass no matter what they try.

That’s the same old opinion piece that jelpertool posts all over the internet.