Posted on 03/24/2006 8:04:54 AM PST by rcocean
On his Countdown show Thursday night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann devoted part of his "Worst Person in the World" segment to attacking former First Lady Barbara Bush over a donation she made to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, a donation she required be used to buy education software for Houston schools from her son Neil's software company. Olbermann snapped that if you "make the charity give the donation to your son, it's not a damned donation anymore!" However, the Countdown host neglected to mention that the Bush family had also given other donations without any requirement as to how the money should be spent.
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He is being an ass - in order to generate buzz.
NOT WORKING"
By the "tone" of your post, does this mean that you think there is no redeeming value in Keith's nightly sign-off incremental posting of the "Number of days since Bush declared 'Misson Accomplished'", and the up-to-the-SECOND of taping, US casualty count so far in Iraq???
(...OK...sarcasm off thingee goes in this spot...)
And to think this is the same network that fired Savage.
This totally explains what is wrong with the MSM. It is ignorance:
"buzz" is obtained with bees, or batteries, or a generator. By being an "ass", the MSM produces only what an ass produces.
Hey...isn't that Osama Bin Laden's niece?
Kaplan doing elsewhere what he did to CNN. Anyone check CNN's rating lately?
I know who Barbara Bush is, but who is Keith Olbermann?
The cartoon is very well done on Mike Wallace. How to make a telling hit, without an immense distortion of the subjects, (Wallace and ol' Lar) facial features. Not that there is anything against cartoon caricatures.
If one is not an admirer of the august and elder statesman like Walter, see the post on him. Run just prior to the Olberman segment. Walter is still beating up on the long deceased Joe McCarthy. Iraq is Vietnam, says Walter. Woodward and Bernstein, with Walter Cronkite, have found the secret of eternal youth. LOL
"This is television business"
If so, then why is Olbermann still on the air?
He gets a fraction of FOX's audience. He gets less viewers than Chris Matthews. In total viewers, he is in last place at 8PM.
Make no mistake, KO is on the air because Kaplan and some MSNBC execs want him on TV. From a purely business standpoint, he should have been fired years ago.
He may have only 30 viewers, but sadly my Southern Baptist pastor is one of them.
"I enjoy his Countdown, and I LEARN from his show."
Go figure!!!
Well, I work for the Nielsen ratings and we always skew the numbers upward, ;)
I never understood this. When MSNBC picked him up what made them think "ESPN commentator" was a sufficient résumé for political news commentator? Not that he's any good at it...
Who's Rebecca Lobo?
Look like first cousins to me.
Ratings, ratings, ratings...and he's surfing down there with the bottom-feeders.
http://www.olbermannwatch.com/archives/2006/01/index.html
I believe Rebecca Lobo plays for the WNBA team New York Liberty (which I always thought had a cool logo depicting the Statue of Liberty). I think she also won a womens' NCAA basketball championship with the UCONN Lady Huskies, one of the most dominant women's collegiate basketball teams.
Yeah, I had a (SBC) pastor who was a classic pinko. And his wife was the same way.Go figure!!!
No can do . . .
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