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MSNBC drops Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor chair... David Gregory will anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night.... Developing...

I was just watching MSNBC whining, because I refused to watch O'Reilly serving softballs to Obama. The RNC was showing a video tribute to the 9/11 victims. After the tribute, Olby breaks back, and makes note that what he has to say is for our ears only, that he doesn't want to disturb his colleagues at the convention (Olby is in NY studio). He then says, if any network showed these terrible disturbing images at such length, they would be skewered by everyone for their insensitivity, including the RNC. He went on to say he lost close friends in 9/11,...

NO wonder Keith Olbermann is so enamored of Rachel Maddow: She is helping the paranoid blowhard rid MSNBC of disloyalists. Maddow tried to replace all the staffers who work on the 9 p.m. time slot, which she takes over on Monday, but management refused. "She is Olbermann's protégé and is behaving like he does," said one insider. SNIP

"Gustav proves there is a God in heaven."--Michael Moore

On Wednesday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann's latest "Special Comment" attack on President Bush accused the President of "panoramic and murderous deceit," and of "creating" an America that "includes 'cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives,'" contending that "they are those in, or formerly in, your employ, who may yet be charged some day with war crimes." He further accused Bush, whom he referred to as having an "addled brain," of "laying waste to Iraq to achieve your political objectives" in an "insurance-scam, profiteering, morally bankrupting war." Outraged by Bush's declaration that he had given up...

The New York Times shills for Bush Derangement Syndrome on MSNBC: Riding a ratings wave from “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” a program that takes strong issue with the Bush administration, MSNBC is increasingly seeking to showcase its nighttime lineup as a welcome haven for viewers of a similar mind. Here are the numbers: Bill O'Reilly is number 1 with over 2 million viewers. Olberman is number 20 with 677,000 viewers. The other MSNMC host who foams at the mouth daily is Chris Matthews, listed at number 34 with about 400,000 viewers. With the exception of two CNN shows, CNN Presents...

ALGONQUIN – Village clerk and local clown Jerry Kautz said he was “living in a nightmare” after a Springfield man who used the same clown handle was charged Tuesday with possessing child pornography and traveling overseas to have sex with a minor. “I’m heartsick,” Kautz said Thursday after getting a threatening e-mail from someone who mistook his “Klutzo” clown character for that of the accused man, Amon Paul Carlock. “There is nothing more slimy than for someone to be an entertainer and take advantage of children,” Kautz said. “I hope he gets everything he has coming to him.” The accused...

Morning programs P2+ (25-54) FOX & Friends – 886,000 viewers (411,000) American Morning- 345,000 viewers (145,000) Morning Joe – 255,000 viewers (64,000) Robin & Co. – 270,000 viewers (141,000) 6PM - P2+ (25-54) Special Report with Brit Hume – 1,127,000 viewers (327,000) Lou Dobbs- 689,000 viewers (186,000) Tucker Carlson- 217,000 viewers (58,000) Mad Money- 172,000 viewers (a scratch with 16,000) Prime News- a scratch with 109,000 viewers (a scratch with 42,000) 7PM - P2+ (25-54) FOX Report with Shepard Smith – 1,204,000 viewers (317,000) Situation Room – 450,000 viewers (123,000) Hardball– 313,000 viewers (109,000) On the Money – 180,000 viewers...

Collingsworth. Costas. Olberman. MIND-NUMBINGLY bad television.

Take a look at this chart of Keith Olbermann and Paula Zahn's demo performance from March 2006 to March 2007. After a few tough summer months, Countdown took the lead in October, and hasn't looked back since. But both shows have trended down in the past several months. Zahn averaged 164,000 demo viewers in March, down from a high of 231,000 in November. And Olbermann averaged 200,000 demo viewers in March, down from 253,000 just two months ago in January...

This month's Hustler magazine arrived today (no scolding prudes, please), and it has an article kissing up to the far left's favorite "journalist", Keith Olberman. Larry has also given a column gig to Robert Scheer, who was fired from the LA Times for being too far left for the MSM(!). Larry needs to knock off the commie crapola and spend his money on better-looking women for his mag.

Anyone else catch it? I was flippin channels, and caught one of the co-hosts talking something about O'Reilly ragging on NBC & MSNBC for being so "leftist". And Imus replied, well that's because Matthews and Olberman are allways attacking him.."because they are so insecure"! "What?..Olbermans' got an audience of a couple hunded thousand?" 'Maybe a million?" "He has no impact!". "He Couldn't sell his book to save his life". "I've been here forever, and i've seen 'em come and go".. "The whole Freak Parade..." It continues..Imus just slammed Matthews & Olberman for running their mouths, "all over" the coverage of...

This review is taken from the November 2006 issue of The American Spectator. To subscribe to the monthly print edition, click here. The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders by Keith Olbermann (Wiley, 267 pages, $22.95) GEORGE M. COHAN USED TO SAY, explaining why he always refused to record his songs, "You gotta see me to appreciate me." The same might be said of Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's Countdown. There are performers and there are writers and never the twain should meet. Usually they don't because they are such different species that Nature herself keeps them...

Olbermann and MSNBC are knocking heads over a new contract. The controversial host of Countdown With Keith Olbermann is said to be seeking "north of $4 million" a year, according to an industry source, to re-up on his pact that comes due in April. That would represent roughly a four-fold increase over his current deal, believed to be in the $1 million-per-year range. Olbermann is looking for such a big pay raise because Countdown has been on fire, playing a big part in the current audience uptick at the network. In the key 25-54 demo, its ratings are up 25%...

One of the most ingenious aspects of the false charge of an intentional liberal bias in the news media is the unstated inference that if there is a liberal bias there by necessity cannot be an intentional conservative bias. A new piece of hard evidence that there indeed a conservative bias in at least one quarter of the media, a Rosetta Stone of jaundiced journalism. It’s apparently a printout of a channel's daily editorial memo, marching orders e-mailed to key staffers on how and where to slant the news. And how to adjust the facts to match the political conclusions...

Keith Olbermann just needed to find his voice. He'd been a droll sportscaster, a serious news anchor and a bickering critic of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. But none of those personas really clicked. Then he found one. A little over a year ago, as the White House fumbled and botched the Hurricane Katrina recovery, Olbermann finally blew up. He concluded a broadcast of his MSNBC cable news show, "Countdown,'' with an indignant rant in the rat-a-tat-tat cadence of his idol, Edward R. Murrow. He called it a "Special Comment.'' And just like that, Olbermann found his voice -- the...

There are many Keith Olberman videos on YouTube. The liberals have rated them is uch a way as to be in the "most popular" list. I suggest a different approach. YouTube has a new catagory in their "Flag as inappropriate list," namely "Hate Speech." Many of Olbermans's video are cleary hate speech. He hates Bush, Runsfeld, Fox News, O'Reily and others. Please go to Olberman's YouTube Videos and flag them as hate speech.

On Tuesday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann fretted about an Oval Office meeting of President Bush and several conservative talk radio hosts -- verbally tagged by Olbermann as "right-wing radio yackers" and labelled on-screen as the "Legion of Doom" -- as the Countdown host contended that Bush was devoting "90 minutes worth of your taxpayer dollars" to the meeting. And in an amusing faux pas, Olbermann's staff, for the second time in less than a year, accidentally displayed a photograph of former liberal Democratic Senator Max Cleland instead of conservative talk radio host Neal Boortz. During the show's opening...

BILL O'REILLY SCORES #1 BOOK WITH 47,236 SOLD IN OPENING WEEK, BOOKSCAN REPORTS... WOODWARD 'DENIAL' MOVES 28,135 IN LIMITED RELEASE... ELIZABETH EDWARDS SELLS 18,561... NYT FRANK RICH OFF TOP SPOT WITH 15,919 FOR WEEK [34,942 TOTAL]... ELSEWHERE, HUFFINGTON 'FEARLESS' 1,926 FOR WEEK... KEITH OLBERMANN 'WORST PERSON' SMALL AT 1,784 COPIES SOLD... CABLE NEWS RACE MON., OCT. 2, 2006 VIEWERS FOXNEWS O'REILLY 1,990,000 CNN LARRY KING 1,520,000 FNC SHEP SMITH 1,492,000 FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1,490,000 FNC GRETA 1,478,000 FNC BRIT HUME 1,388,000 CNN COOPER 1,034,000 CNN LOU DOBBS 970,000 MSNBC OLBERMANN 834,000 CNN BLITZER 776,000 CNN ZAHN 736,000 CNNHN NANCY GRACE 544,000...

I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that a TV host who clownishly closes shows by throwing wadded-up balls of paper at the camera would indulge in middle school-worthy taunts about a person's weight . And yet . . . I actually was surprised when on tonight's show, Keith Olbermann unleashed a string of jibes aimed at Roger Ailes' physique. So surprised that when Olbermann first began his barrage, with a comment about Ailes doing something "between pies," I actually wondered whether I had misheard him or misunderstood his intent. But Olbermann's mean-spirited motive soon became unmistakeable. Displaying what was...