Kudos Tommy for calling him on it.

WOW Tommy. I usually stay away from your posts because….well, just because. But I must say, congrats on a good post.

TfT, maybe he’s just baiting us?

There was a time when Olbermann served a purpose – when he was a lone voice speaking out against the shady dealings of the Bush Administration. But like most people who spend too much time being praised, it went straight to his ego and he quickly became a parody of himself. If MSNBC had any sense whatsoever (cue the anti-MSNBC comments), they would send this blowhard on his way before he embarrassed them any further. Unfortunately, he wields way too much power there. He’s doing far too much damage to his cause by becoming the left-wing Beck – hell, judging from Beck’s oddly non-partisan comments lately, he’s on track to out-Beck Beck!

Tommy, let me join the chorus: this was your finest column. Thank you! For all of us who know and have been enriched by knowing a transgendered person, your heartfelt piece was very moving.

I won’t comment about KO which is unusual for me.

I’ve always thought he was a buffoon but those who follow his every word have been somewhat laugable in my book. However, tonight I just came from reading a thread by Michael the owner of the site KeithOlberman’org which bills itself as the Unofficial Fan Forum for Keith Olbermann and others: LeftBent.com.

http://keitholbermann.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=23178&start=75

This is the lead thread title Tea Bagger Flies Plane Into Austin, TX IRS Office

Having read all six pages all I can say is that KO has gathered some scary folk to him with his rantings.

BTW, what’s with the eye patch?

is it at all possible that, you know, keith olbermann was being SARCASTIC (shocking for him, i know!) in his response to ann coulter’s remarks? she engaged in transphobia (or, at the least, poked fun at crossdressers) and homophobia when she spoke of olbermann in his dead mother’s clothing and called rachel maddow ‘macho’. but this is a really cute article in the way that it made ms coulter out to be the innocent victim of big bad olbermann. A+!

Burger King never got the respect while they were attacking McDonald’s in their commercials. Pepsi constantly ridiculed Coke in their commercials and failed by doing so. You’d think the brainpower over at MSNBC would get the hint (Comcast just may force the hint with firings) and instruct their “news reporters” to strictly promote everything Obama and Democrat instead of just wasting 2 hours a night attacking Fox News and Sarah Palin and the “no good” Republicans. The “shtick” is over a year too tired and needs to go. Negativity, in this case, does not sell. Good article but we all know Olby is a blowhard even when he claims to be serious or when he’s being sarcastic. He’s a huge failure.

This has every thing to do with my feelings about Ann Coulter who is an ignorant mean spirited bitch! And, yes she looks like a transgender. Which is to say that she doesn’t look like she was born female! I agree. The same can be said for Blanche Lincoln. She too looks like she used to be a man. She takes a lot of shots at a lot of people. While many have the right to defend her, many also have the write to trash her in return. By the way, I also think she might want to cut her hair because she looks like an Afghan. Not the people. The dog. Think about! Rail thin body. Long hair parted down the middle like the long floppy ears of the dog.

To Ohplz, THANK YOU!

Ohplz you are exactly right about Olberman’s Not Worse Person segment. He was dishing right back at Coulter comments about his mother. Coulter does go where most fear to tread. Since his mother passed away a few months ago it was her as usual MEAN comments. I am not taking up for Olberman as I feel exactly like Cubby when it comes to his behavior these days. Sorry for those of you that didn’t GET IT.

I will never understand why the righties defend Coulter and Rush. I would think if they had any sense they would be embarrassed by their behavior.

So, just now Olbermann’s over the top hypocritical hyperbole is getting attention? Reminds me of his horrendous slur against Michelle Malkin (mashed up bag of meat with lipstick).

You liberals really should get rid of this guy. I don’t like Rachel Maddow, but at least she’s not a full bore, 120% tool like Olbermann.

Puh-leeze…Coulter can attack him around his dead mother and question his manhood but Olbermann is out of line? Coulter can spout the most un-PC hate speech on the planet but this guy wants to defend her? I think of myself as being about as liberal as they come, but this is PC police to the extreme. Olbermann can get out of line at times, and god knows he has a huge ego but this is reaching.

If I am not mistaken Olbermann’s ego went way over the top after that 24 year old moved in with him!!!

Coulter and Olbermann can both be hateful. I think the main difference is, Coulter knows she’s doing it and is doing it on purpose to rile the left. Olbermann actually thinks he’s an unbiased journalist when he’s being hateful. Coulter winks at her meanness. Olbermann is outright insane.

Tommy… Did you or any of the other people making comments here attacking Olbermann for his remarks actually listen (and read since they were also on the screen ALONG WITH CITATIONS) to the remarks Ms. Coulter made? Are you unaware that she made ad hominem attacks with suggestive sexual biases? I’m asking seriously, can you not understand that Olbermann was using sarcasm, as other posters here have pointed out? Do you not hear that he’s turning her words back at her to show how hateful and ultimately inane they are?
“timzank”… Tommy didn’t ‘call him on it’, Tommy missed the point entirely.
“writer”… show me any references where Olbermann was hateful by making suggestive remarks about people’s sexual identity or preferences out of hand.

Apoligize for what. Letting that thing (Coulter) breath his air.??? Coulter is a waste of space.

Transman and transpeople? Those are real terms? Wow.

Good post. As someone said in another thread about another person, there’s a lot that Ann Coulter says which is worth taking issue. Heck, I’ve even done it myself on more than one occasion, but the whole “man” thing really isn’t right.

BTW: If you’ll pardon the self-pimp… Keith briefly mentioned Sen. Inhofe’s family in his “bronze” award and I just happened to have posted a couple of links from their hometown media about the attention their igloo received and Olbermann’s “award”, the other day. In case anyone is interested.

You know what’s so weird? If Ann Coulter wasn’t Ann Coulter, she’d make the same types of insults/jokes about herself.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/06/AR2009080604105.html
Olbermann once imagined the fate of “a poor kid” born to a transgendered man who became pregnant, adding: “Kind of like life at home for Bill [O'Reilly]‘s kids.”

I try to ignore Ann Coulter because she lies all the time, and why listen to hate speech, when you don’t have to? But Olbermann, though probably not capable of giving a sincere apology, should really think about what his problem is with transgender people and why he uses that as an insult. I wonder how they might feel, when even some of my fellow progressives (because I read the blogs, and it is far from the first time I have read/heard this kind of comment about Coulter) think it is hilarious to say she’s really a man.

Does anyone at NBC News realize that Olbermann Is the face of their broadcast network, not just the MSNBC cable channel that no one ever watches?

Great post, Tommy. Such poor taste and gross insensitivity in attacking political opponents must be called out, especially when the subject is known for less than kind behavior in their own schtick.

We’ll start rescuing our political discourse from the sewer it has become when we lead by example and treat all others with respect whether we agree with them or not.

Rachel is a great example to follow in exposing the fallacies of the right. She still only receives sniping or ad hominem attacks bereft of factual basis and analysis, yet she doesn’t use it as an excuse to lower her standards to those of the attackers.

I do like the way Grannie says she is not going to comment on a particular subject, then proceeds to comment on it. Sort of a Henny Youngman lead in.

More to the point, among moderates, liberals and progressives, there is a sense that Coulter is fair game for any insult. She certainly has gone a long way to invite that. And, as wholly despicable and worthless I believe Coulter to be, Olbermann’s comments did go too far. Far too far. Of course, why should last night be different than any other Olbermann night. He owes Coulter an apology, and he owes all of us an apology.

Before, however, we absorb that the self-righteousness of the members of the PHOX Phan Klub, TfT and Writer, let’s remember that each and every one of you have done the same thing with reference to Olbermann on a regular basis and same of you have gone to the same lengths to repeatedly demonize our President.

Shame on all of us.

J Baustian says:
February 20, 2010 at 4:07 am
Does anyone at NBC News realize that Olbermann Is the face of their broadcast network, not just the MSNBC cable channel that no one ever watches?

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That is demonstrably untrue. NBC News viewership blows FOX out of the water. Something like 11,000,000 : 1,800,000. Get a new “meme” as is to often repeated.

Either TfT just found another reason to dislike Olbermann, or she’s more enlightened than I give her credit.
I’d be pleased to say I’m wrong, if indeed that is the case.

Facebook, are you serious? Olbermann blasts Scott Brown for being sexist. Then he calls women such as Michelle Malking some of the worst names in the book. He claims most disagreements with Obama are based in racism. But he disagrees with Obama on gay marriage and Afghanistan. So is Olbermann also a racist? And he never sees his own hypocrisy when he does that? The man is mentally ill.

If one calls Malkin some of the worst names in the book, one has been enlightened.

I always find it interesting how people react to being Olby’s Worst Person in The World. If he is so unimportant why does it get so much attention from being TWPITW?

Looks to me like Tommy Christopher got sand in his vagina. Awwwwww, does your pussy still hurt, Tommy?

I met Ann “thrax” Coulter once.

She was standing at the urinal next to me in the men’s room.

Keith wants diversity all the time. I guess he does not under stand that he is a black mark on MSNBC,

Quick! Someone needs to dial Whine-1-1 so the Waaaaaaahmbulance can come pick up Tommy Christopher.

I don’t see what the big deal is. Each side has their insult artists (pundits/ bloggers/ authors) that play the insult game. Coulter does it. She is very good at it, and she is very nasty. She might be one of the nastiest mainstream players. This is fine. It is a reality of politics. However, part of the deal as an insult artists will have insults hurled back at them. So why are we crying for Coulter here? She is nasty insult artist, and just received a nasty insult. She is free to insult back. Those who enjoy the dialog can sit back and watch. It is not cup of tea personally, but to each his own.

Coulter knows she’s being mean and is purposely doing it. Olbermann is just as hateful, if not more so, but genuinely believes he’s completely unbiased. I guess you could use the sociopath vs. psychopath comparison. A sociopath knows the difference between right and wrong but doesn’t care. A psychopath doesn’t even know the difference. Ann is the former. Keith is the latter.

Hot Air — Video: Coulter’s stand-up routine at CPAC
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/20/video-coulters-stand-up-routine-at-cpac/

Sorry, Tommy, while I agree with you about Olbermann needing to apologize, he won’t do it unless Jon Stewart wags his finger at him.

I think Olbermann owes an apology to transgender individuals. In comparing Coulter to them Olbermann has insulted transgender individuals everywhere.

Since psychopaths can’t distinguish between right and wrong, Keith never sees a reason to apologize for anything he says. And before I hear “Coulter is another one”, see my post above where I explain the difference.

Coulter’s insult was personal and I think worse for who it was meant for, I don’t care whether she “gets her meanness” or not. She insults and makes fun of GLBT people all the time. And Keith should apologize to transgender people for using their identity as an insult. Just. Not. OK. Other than that, I can’t for a second fault him for hating Coulter, who used his dead mother to make fun of him.

Coulter fires at Olbermann. He fires back. No problem with that. But what had Michelle Malkin done to Keith when he called her a lip-sticked, mashed up bag of meat? Coulter being hateful doesn’t excuse Olbermann being hateful, or vice versa.

blueblogger says:
February 19, 2010 at 10:07 pm

I will never understand why the righties defend Coulter and Rush. I would think if they had any sense they would be embarrassed by their behavior.

I’ll ignore the snark, and cut to the chase… doesn’t it seem a bit hypocritical to you to complain the Rush and Coulter are mean, and indefensible… and then defend Olbermann for essentially the same thing? Shouldn’t you say, “It was wrong for them, it was wrong for him,” not “It’s okay IF…”.

I guess it’s okay for KO to be -phobic because he was just “responding,” albeit nastily. But that’s a double standard… isn’t it?

The Real Royal King says:
February 20, 2010 at 10:44 am

1) What are you talking about?
2) Man, you’re still talking about that place!
3) Does the fact that we’re all just bloggers… and he’s a television host have any impact on the situation? Shouldn’t it?

The Real Royal King says:
February 20, 2010 at 10:46 am

Really… you’re now comparing broadcast to cable. *Sigh* So… very… transparent…

The Real Royal King says:
February 20, 2010 at 12:39 pm

If one calls Malkin some of the worst names in the book, one has been enlightened.

VERUS

And, as wholly despicable and worthless I believe Coulter to be, Olbermann’s comments did go too far. Far too far. Of course, why should last night be different than any other Olbermann night. He owes Coulter an apology, and he owes all of us an apology.

From the same person. So which is it? Comments should go “too far,” or comments can’t go far enough and that’s a good thing?

Are you really just one person, or are there multiple people posting under your name?

blueblogger says:
February 20, 2010 at 1:34 pm

If he is so unimportant why does it get so much attention from being TWPITW?

I could say the same thing about Sara Palin… couldn’t I? But then what would you say?

Good going Keith, we need more of you to stop all this junk of nonsense that is going on…. I applaud you.

CJ says:
February 21, 2010 at 9:23 pm

What is “junk of nonsense?” And how does a -phobic response to Coulter, “stop” anything?

Keith doesn’t owe Ann Coulter an apology, he owes trans people an apology.

Keith is a straight cisgender guy. Trans folks are not his nor Ann Coulter’s football to toss around.

This is what happens when people don’t understand that “fag”, “dyke” and “tranny” aren’t just impolite curse words that you shouldn’t call people. If you use people’s identities as insults, you insult all those people not just the person you’re insulting–no matter how you word it.

But what had Michelle Malkin done to Keith when he called her a lip-sticked, mashed up bag of meat?

Given her track record of
cyberstalking those who disagree with her, I think Olbermann went easy on her.

Jelperman says:
February 22, 2010 at 11:43 am

So again… ends justify means… and you can slander whomever you want, and whatever group you want, if the target is someone you really really dislike… right?

Take my wife… I mean my husband who dresses in my stuff. That was my Henny lead in- Hello..has anyone ever seen “Psycho”? I am sure thats what AC was referring too about his dead mothers slippers. Olberass being psycho…cue the music. But he is so sensitive to her every comment -like when she comments on his “Guys and Dolls suits”- he tries to rally Broadway goers against her. He is like Elmer Fudd to her Bugs Bunny and it’s just as funny to watch. He always shoots himself in the face.

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Good article Tommy!
No one deserves to be treated that way but Ann does ask for it.
The challenge for a real man is to not return it, which is easy if you are a real man. She aknowledges that women are much more vicious than men, and therefore includes herself, and so is all woman. This aknowlegement is her self awareness that real men are her natural superior in the civility department. To extend this thorey of the temperment of the sexes is to also note that the more vicious a man is the more womanlike. So the next time you and I hear a man attack a person’s sexuality in the manner we are discussing, you’ll know what I’m thinking about him, but I’ll never say it.