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Keith Olbermann Unfairly Slams Fox’s Ed Henry Over Hoffa Reporting

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It’s official now: Keith Olbermann actually hates Fox News more than Media Matters does. Olbermann capped off his “Worst Persons” segment Tuesday night with an excoriation of Fox News’ handling of the Jimmy Hoffa Voter Encouragement Crisis/Incendiary Rhetorapocalypse, and while Media Matters fairly lauded Fox Chief White House correspondent Ed Henry‘s reporting (while condemning other elements of Fox’s coverage), Olbermann slammed Henry as “mediocre,” and falsely accused him of ascribing violent intent to Hoffa.

Olbermann’s central point, that Fox News personalities took Hoffa’s remarks out of context to make then seem violent, is a fair one, but his slaps at Ed Henry are unwarranted, and inaccurate. According to Olbermann, “This was started by the mediocre Fox White House correspondent Ed Henry, who quoted merely seven words from the middle of one of Hoffa’s sentences, which were ‘Let’s take the son of bitches out.’ He implied Hoffa was talking about Republicans, and suggesting violence against them.”


In fact, Henry directly quoted sixteen of Hoffa’s words, but he also took pains to contextualize the remarks by paraphrasing Hoffa. Liberal media watchdog Media Matters (likely the source of Olbermann’s item) had a far more accurate view of Henry’s reporting:

Henry made clear during that segment that Hoffa’s comments were references to voting out Republican members of Congress, not to violence. And roughly 20 minutes later, he explained on Twitter that the “full quote” of the “take these son of a bitches out” comment is “Everybody here’s got to vote. If we go back & keep the eye on the prize, let’s take these sons of bitches out”

I can’t read Ed’s mind, but what Olbermann describes as “walking back his rookie mistake” on Twitter appears to be an effort to further contextualize Hoffa, and was likely spurred by the way Megyn Kelly leapt on the quote when he first related it. I’ve always known Ed to be very cautious about sensationalizing, or stirring up undue controversy. If he asked you to get a Coke out of the vending machine, he’d probably add, “But that’s not a knock on Pepsi, and Dasani also has a lot to offer.”

Henry had nothing to do with editing the clip package that Megyn Kelly and panel used to slur Hoffa as a mafioso, and when Henry reported on Hoffa’s remarks later in the day, made certain that the accompanying clip contained the full quote.

Setting aside the issue of Olbermann’s qualifications to judge a journalist like Ed Henry “mediocre,” the inaccuracies in his diatribe undercut whatever valid points he tries to make about Fox News. Olbermann ought to apologize to Henry and correct the record. If not, he should resign.

Give Olbermann a point over Henry (and many others in the media), though, for not referring to the Teamsters president as “Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.” James Hoffa is, indeed, the son of notoriously vanished Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, but he is not a “junior,” as the two have different middle names (Hoffa the elder was James Riddle Hoffa, while his son is James Phillip Hoffa).

“Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.” is a convenient conversational shorthand, but it’s not accurate, and although friends sometimes call him “Jimmy,” that, too, leads to confusion. News organizations ought to differentiate Hoffa from his father the same way he does: by using either “James” or “Jim” Hoffa.

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  • MSNBCnya

    Keith who?

  • Anonymous

    I remember reading all these same kind of articles when the left blamed Palin for the violience in Arizona, and claimed that “reload” and “cross hairs” really were not responsible, but were simply words taken out of context.  Oh wait a minute, that never happened.  Palin was libeled over that whole incident.  I notice how there is no discuss of the shooting in NV and tying it to the recent “take out the SOBs” rhetoric of Hoffa; although the two could easily be equated…..well, easily if a conservative had said it.

    Ah but enough of my pointing out the double standards.

  • Anonymous

    No one cares.

  • Texan

    At least nobody saw it…

  • Anonymous

    Wow, what a shocker. Olbermann presents a false premise to push a false narrative. Hell, that’s Olbermann’s SOP. That’s his claim to fame.

  • Anonymous

    “We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers.
    And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is
    only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working
    people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war,
    they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s
    going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win
    that war,”

    Keith is not the only hack in the room.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_K2CIUYARSHAHYKXYRIHA3JZK4A Anne-Laure

    This guy called the Tea Party “sons of bitches”.

    Isn’t that enough ?

  • TruDat

    Far left-wing loon Olbermann lying??  Say it ain’t so!!  I thought both he and his toupee were dead.

  • Anonymous

    I think that we should take them out to dinner and a party,aGuillotine party.

  • Guest

    hahaha…you beat me to it.

  • Funny Stuff

    Pretty funny to see someone who works at Current TV try and slam someone as “mediocre”. Only time anyone hears Keith anymore is articles like this.

  • Anonymous

    Leave it to Christopher to make it look like he’s defending someone at Fox while excoriating Fox at the same time.  Typical of him,  and very, very transparent. 

  • Anonymous

    Beat me to it as well. More people will see this here on Mediaite than on Current.tv…..

    Notice Tommy never addressed this at the time.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U80e24OrRB0&feature=fvst

  • Anonymous

    But he meant it in a very, very civil way. Otherwise, President Obama would have told him to knock it off, being committed to bipartisan cooperation and civility as he is.

  • Anonymous

    Tommy!!!!! When are you going to report that this all goes back to the standard set by the left after the Tuscon shooting?!

  • Anonymous

    Then why are you writing about something you never saw?

  • Anonymous

    Thats what it looked like to me. He gives Henry props while at the same time back-handing Fox. Rip n Read Olbermann has far more to answer for than anyone else in the media today. 

  • Anonymous

    There not?

  • Anonymous

    No, thats GLEN BECK!

  • Anonymous

    Glen Who?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “Olbermann slammed Henry as “mediocre,” and falsely accused him of ascribing violent intent to Hoffa.”

    Like MSNBC and Liberals did here: 
    http://www.thegrio.com/politics/tea-partiers-goes-after-obamas-gangster-government.php
    (note Ronnie’s comments at 2:20)

    They falsely accused Palin and Bachmann of literal violent intent – even though her video is full of talk about voting in November. ( http://tinyurl.com/3qb3cwk )

    and here: 
    http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-louisville/the-tea-parties-sure-aren-t-what-they-used-to-be

    “Olbermann’s central point, that Fox News personalities took Hoffa’s remarks out of context to make then seem violent”

    As did MSNBC wrt Bachmann here:
    http://www.thegrio.com/politics/tea-partiers-goes-after-obamas-gangster-government.php

  • Anonymous

    Ummm. I think he is referring to when it was broadcast. But the video is above for anyone to see. In fact more people might see it here than when originally broadcast.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares what the hell Keith Nobody thinks……Ohh forgot, Tommy wrote this…nuff said!!

  • Anonymous

    they’re

  • Anonymous

    ?

  • Anonymous

    deflector shields set to maximum captain!!

  • Anonymous

    I actually think Glenn Beck (I’m not a fan BTW) gets more of an audience on radio than Olbermann does on Current.

  • Anonymous
  • TruDat

    Olbermann is your consummate lefty.  He’s loud, obnoxious, foul-mouthed, wrong on every issue, hypocritical, and all-around boorish.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Or how about going back to days when Olbermann was telling the POTUS to “shut the hell up” and calling him a fascist? 

  • Tom

    What web site is Keith on now?

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    1) Olbermann believes Ted Koppel is a failed journalist, so it shouldn’t be surprising that he may not think highly of Ed Henry. (BTW: Who is Current’s White House correspondent and who did they have on the ground at the Labor Day rally, or were they totally dependent on the reporting of others?)

    2) I’m sure that someone who follows sports will correct me, but I’m hard-pressed to see how someone covering the White House for multiple years and employers can be called a “rookie”.

    3) And though it’s not important, Dasani is Coca-Cola’s brand of water. I’m sure the choice of Coke wouldn’t bother them, as long as Henry didn’t ask for a bottle of PepsiCo’s Aquafina.

    (It’s been years since I’ve heard stories about Coca-Cola sending secret shoppers into restaurants to order a Coke, where they could see if they got Pepsi. I assume that practice has passed)

  • Anonymous

    He said Nobody saw it. I think that is pretty clear. Maybe you and Texan are just exaggerating a tad to make a point. Ya think?

  • Anonymous

    Relaced the word lefty with righty and you just described Jabba the Rush.

  • Anonymous

    Then why do you fear him so much?

  • Anonymous

    Glad you agree.

  • Anonymous

    i dont know how anybody can listen to these guys….olberman,matthews, schultz, rush, hannity, beck

  • Anonymous

    When Olby comes on TV , does he say ” Hi Tommy ” and greet each viewer by name ?

    Or does he just say ” Hello , you sons of bitches ! ” ?

    Why or why not?   Please explain , using proper grammar .

  • Guest

    No voltman stay with us……apparently this brodcaster’s name is Keith….not Glen

  • http://twitter.com/Big_Taters Big Taters

    Keep it up Tommy, he may return to relevancy one day if you keep your fingers crossed. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    How trite and boring! Why waste this time and space on someone who performed his job so poorly he was fired. I stopped giving O’Beckerhead any credence once Ailes canned him. Why should I give Mr. Olbermann any credence.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    What a typically trite and tedious post. Thank you ever so much.

    Now go grate some cheese.

  • Anonymous

    I do believe his ratings are quite low. But perhaps you’re on to something.

  • Anonymous

    Do I? I don’t think Mocking = Fear. Do you “fear” Glenn? I doubt it.

  • Anonymous

    He’s the guy who does that parody of a news commentator on that CurrentTV thing. He used to be on something else or on somebody’s show, I’m not sure. I never thought he was all that funny, just mean.

  • Anonymous

    Robert , you old son of a bitch !

    Turpentine with a twist of lime makes for a refreshing drink in the afternoon .

    Have a tall glass today !

  • Anonymous

    Pesto does sound good tonight. I’ll start picking the Basil now.:)

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Tommy and Ed have always seemed to have had a good relationship and based upon the public perception, they’re most likely friends or at least they have a cordial relationship.

    And, if you watch the Megyn Kelly clip Zara embedded in the first post, she clearly grabbed hold of a “violent” interpretation and though one of her guests were more incendiary, she did nothing to walk it back or to frame the quote in the context of voting.

    It appears to me that while Tommy has a point of view, he’s accurate in saying that Ed Henry didn’t edit the snippet for Megyn and that she’s responsible for her broadcast.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Thanks for the suggestion Big Petty, but I have a wonderful chili in the crock pot and a six pack of Carta Blanca being hyper-chilled for the Teapublican debate tonight.  Just need to make some jalapeño cornbread, and I am set. I’d invite you over, “but-for” that rash you’ve got.

  • Guest

    Olberman instills fear in a similar fashion to the way hemorrhoids instill fear.

  • Guest

    Wow…two bullseyes in a row…

  • Guest

    As long as you remove “wrong on every issue” and add the word “successful”

  • Anonymous

    You’re kidding, right? It’s right there in the Mediaite archives. Let me know if you have trouble finding them.

  • Anonymous

    My, my, research. That’s something you, unfortunately, don’t see enough of in these blogs.
    You and Tatboy have kind of fleshed this thing out a bit more. Thanks.

  • VideoSavant

    Attacking Ed Henry as mediocre is really classy, not to mention dumb. Ed Henry was recently hired away from CNN because FOX valued his abilities. I suspect that FOX wasn’t the only one looking to pry Henry from CNN.

    Keith, on the other hand, has been fired from so many networks and burned so many bridges that the only outfit to hire him is run by media-mogul-in-his-own-mind Al Gore.

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you stop being such a curmudgeon and maybe go help your neighbors.  Your diarrhea of the keyboard is unwanted.

    Good Lord, you a piece of human garbage.

  • Librablue

    Is Olbermann on drugs? Considering how irrelevant to the news business Olby is, Ed should be wearing this as a badge of honor.

    Not sure why Tommy is making such a fuss over whether or not Hoffa is or isn’t a “junior”. I guess he was desperate to find something to give Olby points on no matter how trivial it is.

  • http://www.steinbergblog.com Larry Steinberg

    Does Mediaite own stock in the Al Gore network. Nobody cares what Olberman says, just look at his viewership.

  • TruDat

    I guess that’s your flimsy way of saying you agree with me.

  • TruDat

    I guess that’s you flimsy way of agreeing with me.

  • NomoBeeHO

    Sorry, Dan. Sorry MEDIAite.

    If this buffoon isn’t good enough for MSNBC, then he ISN’T good enough for ME.

    I’m STILL not watching.

  • Anonymous

    I believe by your reply that you just agreed with me.  dear sir.

  • NomoBeeHO

    Key FOOLbermann, and others, PAY Dan Abrams and MEDIAite to write these stories and PUFF those that NOBODY watches.

  • TruDat

    I take that as your surrender and agreement that Olbermann is an apt representation of your average dull-witted liberal.

  • Anonymous

    I believe you just did (again) dear sir.

  • Anonymous

    Keith is so “Over-man,” but he would have sent one of his news team members to cover the event if “he” wasn’t busy working on “his” show.

    He’s the news director of a news team that consists of just him! 

    Current TV is ”taking out” one “SOB.”

  • Anonymous

    Glen who?  Glenn (with two “n’s” Beck?) 

    Glenn Beck has more subscribers for his yet to appear on-line show and more radio listners than Keith “Overreach” now has viewrs (or ever had at MSNBC).

  • Anonymous

    Keith is right again. This is FOX’s standard operating procedure.  Edit the footage to meet their narrative.

  • Anonymous

    I fear all hate mongers on both sides.

  • Anonymous

    I saw your write up on Daily Kos “targeting” vs. Palin’s target map (good work BTW). But no… I don’t remember your full-throated defense of the political speech of the right after Tucson. I also don’t remember your denunciation of the Democrats and the leftist blogosphere  that made political hay out of the tragedy.
    And where is an article with your name attached to it pointing out the hypocrisy going on by the left right now? The same left that called for “civility” after Tucson. The same president that called for a toning down of the rhetoric. The words of Dunik, Obama, ect. were not subtle. They used the shooting like a hammer to silence those on the other side.

    Let me help.

    http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/09/06/jonah-goldberg-hoffa-thered-be-no-controversy-if-we-didnt-have-bonfir

    http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/09/06/jonah-goldberg-hoffa-thered-be-no-controversy-if-we-didnt-have-bonfir

    I know your opinion of Newsbusters… but do they not have a point?

  • Anonymous

    Nobody cares.But you have to comment on it. Do you care?

  • Anonymous

    Are you also agreeing that Beck is a representation of your average dull-witted conservaitive.   Just wondering.  

  • Anonymous

    Oberdork, first place idiot of the year.

  • Anonymous

    If your meaning of sucessful is to gather up fear and hate among consevatives that listen to their Idol on am radio during their lunch. Then I guess Rush is successful. Laughing all the way to the bank.

  • Anonymous

    The Nevada shooter was just doing as directed by Hoffa and Obama to take the sons of bitches out.  I arrived at this conclusion by using the democRAT Gabby Giffords standard.

  • Pit Boss

    The only time I ever hear about that scumbag Beck is on Mediaite now. He used to be everywhere, now he’s only broadcasting on a medium that is pretty much extinct.

  • Anonymous

    If Hoffa had not been drunk, he would have used Biden’s BARBARIAN Sons of bitches at the gate.  Hey, wasn’t Hoffa’s old man taken out by the mob?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KSH52GTU7ATNOTCD52RAL3P6XA Jon

    Ed Henry gets attacked by the TV ratings equivalent of a test pattern (color bars or bulls-eye). It’s still not going to make Keith any more relevant.
     

  • Pit Boss

    Oh for shame! He used the “B” word! *GASP*

    Adults can handle “strong” language. Apparently there are few adults on here.

  • Anonymous

    That was so nice of Olbermann because with him,  ” Jealosy is the most sincere form of flattery “.

  • Anonymous

    Radio extinct? Don’t think so.

    And “Current TV” has viewers? 

    “Scumbag”; why that’s so “civil” of you!

     

  • Sandra

    I saw all three sited pieces, and Fox News asking President Obama to repudiate what Ed Henry reported on the news (not his twitter) is only another distortion of the truth.  

     If anything I hope the President stands behind Hoffa, and says, “we need to get rid of the TP son’s of bitches.”   Wolves in sheeps clothing (TP) who want to destroy what America has worked two hundred years to achieve, saying they are “christians” – they most certainly are not; they have no concept of what it means to be Compassionate Christians.

  • http://www.facebook.com/chasrmartin Charlie Martin

    Tommy, if people were forced to resign over unjustified slurs — much less professionals who respond appropriately to amateur moves like Obama’s attempt to step on the debates — neither you no Olbermann would have a job.

  • http://www.facebook.com/chasrmartin Charlie Martin

    Tommy, if people were forced to resign over unjustified slurs — much less professionals who respond appropriately to amateur moves like Obama’s attempt to step on the debates — neither you no Olbermann would have a job.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, I thought all Olbermann’s slams were unfair.  This man should be sitting at a desk in a room all by himself and not on any media.  He is very strange.

  • Anonymous

    i agree you’re not smart enough to know the difference between there and they’re

  • TruDat

    Pull your scrotum up and we’ll be happy to grate some cheese.

  • TruDat

    Same reason you fear Beck.

  • Anonymous

    You Rightys are Trekkies too? Geek alert!

  • Anonymous

    You Rightys are Trekkies too? Geek alert!

  • Anonymous

    No shit!

  • Anonymous

    He’s the Frank Burns (M*A*S*H) of the blogs. Olbermann is the guy you love to hate.

  • Anonymous

     Beg my forgiveness you jdubbelluness. Its called a typo, I do not have spell check like most. I guess I’ll have to triple check everyting just to please you dear sir.

  • Anonymous

    I thought that was Bill-O.

  • Anonymous

    Glen who? Glenn (with two “n’s” Beck?) ………………………sorry. But not a fan.

  • Anonymous

    Every message on this thead is only about Keith. OMG. Why didn’t you guys say that in the beginning? (You know, In previous messages not mentioning Keith).

  • Anonymous

    Glen who? Glenn (with two “n’s” Beck?)…….Sorry. Not a fan.

  • http://hotair.com/ StewartIII
  • Jp7077

    Just wait………….Keith has staked out his last hope of an audience………the Michael Moore and Janeane Garofalo type leftists……..and will be going after them with a vengence. The Hate and frothing at the mouth has just begun. If I didn’t dislike this pompus windbag……I’d actually feel story for him…………..er………nah………….maybe not. Keith Olbermann’s “Meltdow” will be much more entertaining than Countdown ever was.

  • Anonymous

    you mistyped the “y” and the ” ‘ “?  riiiiiigggggghhhhhhtttttttttt…

  • Anonymous

    The numbers these clowns refer to for “Beck”, come from “Blaze”. Golly gee go figure!

  • Hack it Up Tommy

     Have you people gone blind. The President was the one whining about civil talk yet you want him to stand behind this. No one could be this dumb.

  • Hack it Up Tommy

     Have you people gone blind. The President was the one whining about civil talk yet you want him to stand behind this. No one could be this dumb.

  • Anonymous

    ‘Fox” lost those clips!

  • Anonymous

    False narrative! What? The fact that “Fox” did edit for the sheeps,….. an ordered outrage of playing an EDITED clip!!!???

  • Anonymous

    Was that “Koch” calling for “war”? No, he’s a “tea” god so that’s ok!

  • Anonymous

    Allan Lichtman, the American University professor whose election formula has correctly called every president since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election, has a belated birthday present for Barack Obama: Rest easy, your re-election is in the bag.
    “Even if I am being conservative, I don’t see how Obama can lose,” says Lichtman, the brains behind The Keys to the White House.
    Lichtman’s prediction helps to explain a quirk in some polling that finds that while Americans disapprove of the president, they still think he will win re-election. [Check out political cartoons about the 2012 GOP field.]
    Working for the president are several of Lichtman’s keys, tops among them incumbency and the scandal-free nature of his administration.Undermining his re-election is a lack of charisma and leadership on key issues, says Lichtman, even including healthcare, Obama’s crowning achievement.
    Lichtman developed his 13 Keys in 1981. They test the performance of the party that holds the presidency. If six or more of the 13 keys go against the party in power, then the opposing party wins.“The keys have figured into popular politics a bit,” Lichtman says. “They’ve never missed. They’ve been right seven elections in a row. A number that goes way beyond statistical significance in a record no other system even comes close to.”
    Lichtman’s earned quite the reputation. In 1992, it seemed likely former President George H.W. Bush would be re-elected, having reached historic highs in popularity after he launched a war that pushed Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. But Lichtman thought otherwise and that factored into former Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton’s decision to challenge Bush.“I got a call from this woman with a thick southern drawl. It was Clinton’s special assistant. She wanted to know if it was true that a Democrat could win. I assured her it was and I sent Clinton a copy of my book and a memo and the rest is history.” [See photos of the Obamas behind the scenes.]
    In 2005, Lichtman also hit a home run when he said that the political stage was looking so bad for Republicans that Democrats could pick a name out of the phone book and win in 2008, the year a little known first-term senator became the first African-American to win the presidency.
    Now Lichtman’s predicting a repeat performance by Obama.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    There was a vlogger from Paducah, who gained some measure of fame with his “Ask a Gay Man series. Almost all of his AAGM-branded videos (after a point) started with the greeting “Hey bitches”, which is also how he referred to his audience in many of his others, plus he’d occasionally identify himself as their “number one bitch”.

    And of course, Sir Elton told us that “The Bitch is Back

  • Anonymous

    Why is anyone covering Queef anymore?… can you spell L

  • DietCokeHead

    You have Koch on your mind 24/7. Perhaps you should hook up with Barney Frank and scratch that itch. I’m sure he would be willing to help.

  • Texan
  • Chukkalady

    Since when do sportscasters become news commentators?  APPARENTLY NEVER!

  • Anonymous

    Sorry KO, it is obvious that Hoffa’s statement of hate caused the guy in Carson City to shoot up that IHOP.

    You convinced me of that after your brilliant irrefutable disquisition  on how Jared Loughner, who no one has ever  shown to have listened to or have read things by  SP was nevertheless driven to commit the Tucson shooting because of SP. 

    Therefore, it is obvious that the guy who killed in Carson City was driven to his by the hate of Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.

  • Anonymous

    Totally irrelevant as you are.

  • Anonymous

    But KO, what about that “big black cloud” being racist?

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    Simple way to see when chili is done :

    Grab a handful from the pot and throw it against the wall . If it sticks , it’s ready .
    If it doesn’t stick , it’s also ready .

    Have BFD grab a rag and get to cleaning !

  • BR

    Keith “Tokyo Rose” Olbermann.

  • Bob

    Glenn Beck = has-been exiled to web-only nothingness. When it comes to the aging, tech-unsavvy Boomers that make up his base, you don’t exist if you’re not on the TV.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

    Right on…….Who the heck is going to hear, or see, this blathering idiot, anyway?

    He’s a has been, nothing more, nothing less!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

    Beck’s new show starts this  Monday…..We’ll have to wait and see the extent to which he blows the heads off the  MSM, Media Matters, MoveOn, etc…

    Nothing can stop him now. He is no longer blindfolded and handcuffed by television any longer.
    Catch me here, Tuesday Sept. 13th….

  • Norbit

    These gradeschool arguments are so easily dissembled.

    It’s the orchestrated effort – condoned, if not promoted by the White House – to demonize these misrepresented Tea Party people; but this is what Marxists do.

    They can’t win the argument with their failed dysfunctional policies, so they demonize whoever stands in their way to more power.

    The real story here is exposing Obama for the calculating, devious, ideological hack he is.  people that is most revolting

  • Norbit

    The real story here is that Tommy biatch-slapped the one time Icon of the Left – and right in the Headline, no less!
    How the mighty (self-aggrandizing) have fallen.

    Kudos to you though Tommy for taking that brave first step.
    Pretty soon you’ll be tossing “Megaditto’s!” up and down the halls of Mediaite.
    - and suddenly, President Palin doesn’t sound all that bad anymore, eh? 

  • Pit Boss

    You’re right, he was so persecuted. His exit from Fox was his decision, it had nothing to do with the fact that dozens of advertisers pulled out of his show and his ratings dropped by over half after the elections.

    Just read Cleon Skausen. It’s the same BS only with the word “socialist’ replacing “communist.” Beck’s whole act is stolen from a dead, racist Mormon. not sure if you were aware.

  • Pit Boss

    Frank Burns was awesome! The show sucked after he left.

  • Pit Boss

    It’s his zombie-like, gun-toting lemmings that are the dangerous ones to real Americans.

  • Robert

    Ogremann is such an idiot.

  • Anonymous

    Beck still has the third most listened to radio show in the nation.  He has more listeners in one day than Olbermann has viewers in a week.

    You can ”peddle the prattle” with rants and raves, but his audience is bigger than Obey’s; he’ll most likely have more subscribers via the net than “Current TV’s” Olbermann has a night on cable. 

  • ObamaSux

    I didn’t know Queef Oberwoman was still on.  He must be broadcasting from Tammy’s room.

  • TPRTR

    Who is this douche bag? I have never heard of him. Why would anyone devote any time to discussing this idiot?

  • CarmanK

    Olbermann is a truth teller and they are rare on the TV these days. His standard of journalism is impeccable. Henry deliberately edited out the word that explained the call to action. He then followed up with well Hoffa really meant to take out the sob’s with votes. It is really pathetic that the 4th estate has failed the american people so miserably in the past 30 years. And those who listen to FOX the cunning, deceitful animals on TV are the ones who are most uninformed about the issues that matter. Does it not bother you, that the Wall Street Journal condones the bilking of the american economy by the WALL STREET HUSTLERS and still oppose re regulation. Does it not bother you, that the TBAGGERS would rather let children starve, than tax the rich?? Does it not bother you, that there is Martial Law in BENTON HARBOR, MI, where TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION exists on American soil, in 21st century america?? Does it not bother you, that the CEO of WHIRLPOOL could make an announcement telling the people of BENTON HARBOR to stop complaining, and embarrassing his company, or he would move his jobs. there are men of integrity, like Olbermann, Lawrence O’Donnell, Ed Schultz who still care enough about truth and speak out ABOUT THE ABUSE OF POWER BY the Koch brothers, ALEC, FOX MEDIA, GROVER NORQUIST and Eric Cantor.

  • ObamaSux

    Carman is another one who watches PMSNBC during her time of the month.

  • Anonymous

    Olbermann criticizing someone else as “mediocre”?  That’s hilarious coming from a guy on a network that very few even knows exists.

    And MSNBC gave Olbermann, Maddow and Matthews a shot at true journalism during the 08 election. The result? They were banned from ever doing serious journalism again on the network. 

  • Anonymous

    Olbermann criticizing someone else as “mediocre”?  That’s hilarious coming from a guy on a network that very few even knows exists.

    And MSNBC gave Olbermann, Maddow and Matthews a shot at true journalism during the 08 election. The result? They were banned from ever doing serious journalism again on the network. 

  • Anonymous

    The buzzards are circling overhead…

    Herr Olbermann would have to ascend 20,000 feet to reach mediocre. He is the biggest idiot on television and it is a matter of time before he is sitting on a street corner in New York City with a tin cup. He is assuring himself of irrelevance with each passing day.

    Stick him with a fork – he is D O N E.

  • http://smallthoughtsfromasmallmind.wordpress.com/ Small Thoughts

    Olberman is to viewers as oil is to water. Ignore him.

  • Jamiesola

    You, Tommy Christopher, distort Olbermann’s reporting more than Olbermann distorts his. You also need to go back to school, at least I hope you don’t make a living out of this because your writing stinks! 

  • NeverWrong

    Yo Keefey, your are so NOT relevant that I can’t believe Mediate is giving a nutjob like you the time of day. Why don’t you and your buddy, Al Gore, go off and find some more global warming spot to fly his fossil fuel’d jet into and show us again what hypocrites your wackos on the left are.

  • http://twitter.com/jtLOL ‘Jim’ ‘Treacher’

    Wait, I thought intent didn’t matter. Remember when Palin put up a map with crosshairs on it, which made it her fault that Jared Loughner went on a shooting rampage? Even though even her most furious detractors didn’t claim that was her intent?

    Either you think violent rhetoric contributes to a climate of hate or you don’t. Or, if you’re Tommy Christopher, whatever works to promote your agenda.

  • CarmanK

    Fortunately for me, I don’t have that problem any more. But, it is just as well, because if I was still in my child bearing years, the CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALS promoted by FOX and Kochroaches would declare my uterus public domain. At least, I am not among those FOX devotees, who has polled as the most uninformed in the nation’s population. TOO BAD TRUTH is scary for you!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wayne-Doering/100002921944696 Wayne Doering

    James Hoffa Jr. was right on the money when he stated that “Let’s take these sons of bitches out of office”.
    Ever since day one for Boenher as speaker of the house, he has sat on his ass and never allowed a single bill to create a single job to pass the house period!!!!!
    If the Repugs continue to set and do nothing you can expect the unemployed to take action!!!!!!

  • Cikader

    Keith is a jornalist with such integrity that Oprah has him picked to take up her next show.

  • Ggh

    keith,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,gay
    hoffa……………..under concrete
    obama………………….needs banana

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