Olbermann's 'Federal Budget Debt a Good Thing' Staggeringly Stupid

NewsBusters ^ | 2-10-10 | Noel Sheppard

[EagleUSA]

Frontal lobotomy needed —— get this fool back on his meds.

[DGHoodini]

More like: toys in the attic, rabidly delusional.

Olbermann is about one rant away from “Going Cho”.

[GeronL]

Mind numbing stupid

[massgopguy]

5% under Reagan. 2.3% under Bush. 10% under Obama.

[GeronL]

How can you think Bush’s deficits were bad and O’s aren’t? How is the debt a good thing all of a sudden?

Everything is politics to leftists whether its kindergarten, comic books or anything else. Politics trump everything.

[1rudeboy]

Interesting numbers at the original website. Olbermann should avoid reading Media Matters press releases for a few days and do his own homework.

[OrioleFan]

The staggeringly scary part about all these Socialists, Progressives, and Liberals, is that they drink their own bathwater (actually believe the tripe and illogic they spew).

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[SQUID]

This idiot needs to go back to reporting about baseball.

[RangerM]

Something I’m trying to figure out is the accusation that Bush had $trillion+ deficits during his tenure.

The only way I can think of that it was $trillion+ is if you include TARP, but TARP was (in theory) LENDING the money, to be paid back. Yes, you could say that TARP required government to borrow the money, so it could be called a deficit at that time, however once the money is paid back (TARP), then how is it any longer a “Bush trillion-dollar deficit”?

[rightbrained]

I think he’s already had one or two.

[FrankR]

"On a nightly basis, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann pompously presents himself as being the smartest guy in the room as he belittles every leading Republican in the nation. "

So then...why is he playing second-string on a dying news network?

[Carlrob]

Hey Keef...Google is your friend.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html

[Belteshazzar]

Keith, like Barack, reads brilliantly from a teleprompter; which is proof only that both can read. But whether the ear bone is connected to the brain bone in either of them is the question. But if it is, which I fear is probably true, there is a level of mendacity in each that truly is breathtaking. Either way it is already overdue that they be assigned different duties, Keith can go back to sports and Barack can go back to neighborhood organizing.

[SWEETSUNNYSOUTH]

I’m thinking Zero should consider Olberman for the OMB czar.

[JrsyJack]

How can you think Bush’s deficits were bad and O’s aren’t? How is the debt a good thing all of a sudden?

Simple, like the free thinking uber-intelligent economic genius he is, he has extensively researched the issue and...is parrotting Paul Krugman's op-ed from last weekend's NYT. Unfortunately he could not comprehend Krugman's nonsense and got it wrong.

Either that or he is a total moron that believes: Obama = good, Bush = bad

[COBOL2Java]

The only question is when the folks at General Electric and NBC will recognize that this one-trick pony has become the laughing stock of cable news.

About the same time they recognize that AGW is a hoax...

[icwhatudo]

This is what Keith will use to try and prove he is right:

Budget Deficit as percent of GDP

The problem is its from 2007 and is predicting 2010 #'s. I guess when he saw it on media matters or think progress he didn't check the chart date.

[SparkyBass]

Olbermann's 'Federal Budget Debt a Good Thing' Staggeringly Stupid

Olbermann's 'Federal Budget Debt a Good Thing' Staggeringly Stupid

There. Fixed it.