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Olbermann Assumes NBC's Bill Moyers Chair In Liberal Outrage
NewsBusters ^ | February 15, 2007 | Tim Graham

Posted on 02/17/2007 4:01:11 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182

Keith Olbermann's arrival as the lone commentator at NBC Nightly News is the first overt commentator NBC's hired since PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers in 1995. A quick Nexis search shows Olbermann has been very rarely on NBC News airwaves. He actually anchored NBC Nightly News as a weekend substitute on April 12, 1998 (Easter Sunday, see accompanying photo) and May 9, 1998. In recent years, he's surfaced a few times on the Today show. He was interviewed to plug his "Worst Person In the World" book last September 15. He reported on major-league shortstop Alex Rodriguez on February 16, 2004, and co-hosted the Saturday edition of Today with Campbell Brown on August 23, 2003.

In the commentary and prime-time special clauses of Olbermann's new deal, there are obvious parallels with Moyers. They are two fiercely left-wing commentators who oddly deny a liberal bias when asked by the press. In February 1995 promotional spots NBC promised: "Bold, clear, balanced and fair. Now NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw has a new dimension -- Bill Moyers." Moyers began his new duties on February 14, 1995, and NBC had no plans to provide a conservative counter-weight.

Just like the odd denials of Steve Capus that it's "really sad and pathetic" to think Olbermann tilts NBC further to the left, in February of 1995, we reported in MediaWatch that the New York Times relayed February 1 that NBC News President Andy Lack dismissed questions about Moyers' liberal bias at PBS, insisting "that perception is inside the beltway, and perhaps inside about ten blocks of New York and ten blocks of L.A. I don't think the American people give a whit about it." The same day the Baltimore Sun quoted Moyers: "I'm not in politics. I have no agenda. I'm not pushing a platform. I have no ideology." Really? In a 1989 Esquire profile Moyers tagged Newt Gingrich as "Joe McCarthy with a southern accent.............."


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KEYWORDS: bias; msm; nbcnews; olbermann; olberwoman
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NBC dives further to the left and I hope the ratings show that for their News division.
1 posted on 02/17/2007 4:01:13 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Save for later read,


2 posted on 02/17/2007 4:06:16 PM PST by doesnt suffer fools gladly (Liberals lie.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Wow, couldn't they get Al Franken?


3 posted on 02/17/2007 4:10:21 PM PST by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: somemoreequalthanothers

Al's busy with a senate run, but maybe he and Michael Moore can make guest appearances.


4 posted on 02/17/2007 4:12:03 PM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This man is a lunatic.


5 posted on 02/17/2007 4:13:39 PM PST by popdonnelly ([Democrats] are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
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To: somemoreequalthanothers

Think about how screwed up NBC is to hire Olbermann as a commentator.


6 posted on 02/17/2007 4:14:00 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Anti-Bubba182

He lacks Moyers' intelligence but certainly shares Moyers' closed-mindedness.


7 posted on 02/17/2007 4:15:55 PM PST by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I'll give them credit for not pretending to be fair anymore.


8 posted on 02/17/2007 4:17:33 PM PST by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

"In a 1989 Esquire profile Moyers tagged Newt Gingrich as Joe McCarthy with a southern accent.............."

Joe McCarthy was right. He exposed commies like him.


9 posted on 02/17/2007 4:18:08 PM PST by miliantnutcase ("If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it." -ichabod1)
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I couldn't imagine a more objective commentator in all of media, in the universe even (sarc)
10 posted on 02/17/2007 4:23:43 PM PST by PatrickF4 (Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. - JP II)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I don't see how we can improve the nature of political debate in this country when a nut like this is considered a political commentator. Maybe it would be better if NBC News simply went out of business.


11 posted on 02/17/2007 4:26:45 PM PST by popdonnelly ([Democrats] are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
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To: Baynative

That, they might manage.


13 posted on 02/17/2007 4:43:24 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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NBC dives further to the left and I hope the ratings show that for their News division.

It's a race to the bottom. And NBC had to find a way to compete with Katie Couric.

14 posted on 02/17/2007 4:45:11 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Renewing Olbermann's contract was NBC's way of being "fair and balanced." They think Olbermann is a rightwinger.


15 posted on 02/17/2007 4:46:37 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Anti-Bubba182

You wouldn't think NBC could get any farther left and still be considered "mainstream", but by hiring Goebblesmann to do his unhinged rant on an acutal evening "news" program, they have gone totally moonbat. This will be good news for ABC, and maybe even good news for perky Katie. As far as NBC, it's just an overt admission that they've gone totally commie.


16 posted on 02/17/2007 4:48:11 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Anti-Bubba182

tagged Newt Gingrich as "Joe McCarthy with a southern accent."


He was pretty much wrong on both counts.


17 posted on 02/17/2007 4:48:20 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Think about how screwed up NBC is to hire Olbermann as a commentator.

Absolutely. People will say that this is a case of media bias and NBC will re-visit the scene from Casablanca: "Bias? Olbermann? I'm shocked! Shocked that you would consider him anything but a completely objective journalist!"

The old media is dying. They haven't got a clue as to why.

18 posted on 02/17/2007 4:50:15 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Olberman??????isn't that the chap who stole his hair from a mannequin????
19 posted on 02/17/2007 4:54:47 PM PST by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I think the leadership of the old media is mainly urban chattering class that lives in that bubble. They have no clue.


20 posted on 02/17/2007 4:56:10 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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