Posted on 07/22/2010 10:28:17 PM PDT by TheHawksNest
If you were one of the 400 members of the listserv Journolist, perhaps one of the most vicious insults you could hurl at a colleague is: You’re just like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.
If the reader holds neutral — or even positive — views about the Fox News hosts, the insult may not sting. But in the cloistered world of liberal listserv enclaves, Hannityism is a cardinal sin. After all, Fox is a “dangerous,” “deranged” “cesspool” that, possibly, the FCC should be investigating.
The feelings against MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, then, must run deep.
“He’s become O’Reilly on the left– completely predictable, unfunny, and arrogant,” said Georgetown University Professor Michael Kazin in May 2009. “To my mind, what they do is no different form Hannity and O’Reilly,” said the New America Foundation’s Michael Cohen, “At least Hannity and O’Reilly engage with the other side (if mainly just to yell at them). Olbermann is just an echo chamber.”
(Cohen later elaborated he was arguing that both MSNBC and Fox News play to political extremes).
At issue was a segment Olbermann had run about Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California who stirred debate in 2009 when she defended traditional marriage.
Following the segment, the subject on Journolist was “I hate Keith Olbermann again,” and the members of the list let it rip.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
They shoot, but they miss 'cause the same people keep showing up time after time after time...
At least someone who dislikes both Olbermann and O’Reilly can’t be totally deranged.
That’s going to cause Keith Olbermann to hide under his desk again.
Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor and CNN contributor, said Olbermann’s root problem is his misogyny. “I can’t take him anytime. I think to write off his mysogyny as limited to Musto is just not accurate. That very much defined much of how he talked about Clinton as well as others.”
You know...Zelizer may be onto something here. I never really could put my finger on it before, but Olbermann reminds of a couple of guys I’ve worked with in the past. One in particular had deep resentment towards women, (though he’d never admit it aloud), especially strong women who would disagree with him to his face.
Very interesting.
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Dislike them both? Yes. See them as just the same? That’s a complete psychotic break with reality.
I don't care who you are, that there is some real "Fair and Balanced".
Olbermann uses misogyny as a weapon to degrade and demean women with whom he disagrees. Perhaps the most obvious example in recent memory was when he called Michelle Malkin a "big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it."
“At least Hannity and O’Reilly engage with the other side (if mainly just to yell at them). Olbermann is just an echo chamber.”
Of the three, O’Reilly bothers me the least. He can be a pompous jerk, and a bit of a bully at times. But he also has a wide range of guests, and does do good interviews when his ego doesn’t get the better of him.
Hannity can be entertaining, but I don’t look to him for news or serious debate. He’s pretty much a talking points guy, and talks over, rather than to, most of his guests.
Olbermann is far, far worse than anything I’ve seen on Fox. He’s *always* been a consistently mean, smug, sanctimonious, and staggeringly self-important jerk, even way back in his sportscaster days.
Blogger Lindsay Beyerstein said maybe the time was now to take down Olbermann. “When we liberals were fighting for political survival after 9/11, it was important to be disciplined and to pick our internal battles very carefully. Now that the Democrats are in charge and progressivism is ascendent, we can afford to demand more from our leaders.
“We can certainly afford to smack down Keith Olbermann when he spouts misogynist garbage,” she said.
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I’ll bet Olbermann thought he was one of the beautiful people, a real insider, one of the TRUE opinion makers of our times.
LOL, Keith! Yer a tool. A useful idiot. (But we knew that.) The REAL elite opinion makers are poised to purge you from their ranks when they’re done with ya.
Oh, and Lisdsay, your good buddies, your fellow travelers, will come for you too, eventually. A line will be crossed that’s too far even for you and it will be too late. Let the purges resume.
Yes, MSNBC is fair and balanced. Olby hates women and Madcow hates men.
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Democrat Bob Beckel on Hannity's show is the same. A mention of a conservative woman's name turns him into an evil lunatic. Not that he has far to go in that regard but it's very evident when the fangs come out.
the only time I’ve ever seen olbermann was when he was a guest on the jay lenno show. My instant reaction was...this guy is a complete assclown. Immediately I thought of a cross between sean penn and captain kangaroo.
This is one thing I can agree with Professor Pollack on -- that is exactly what spending most of your day around elitist, arrogant liberals is like.
Obama himself must have been one of the biggest blowhards around the U of Chicago.
I’ve only watched clips of Olbermann’s meltdowns. If you haven’t seen the video of Jon Stewart making fun of him, it’s pretty funny:
http://vodpod.com/watch/2908316-jon-stewart-mocks-keith-olbermann-over-scott-brown-attacks
I’d say that’s pretty well put.
that’s keith olbermann? Sheesh, I’ve never seen him before in my life. I guess I got him mixed up with chris mathews. It was chris mathews I saw on the jay lenno show.
Lou Dobbs called Olbermann a med-taking closet case and I bet he’s got the inside info. It goes beyond schtick with Olbie, the seething hatred he has inside him is palpable. The race is on to see who pops a mainspring first, Penn or Olbie.
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