Posted on 03/12/2008 1:36:13 PM PDT by cdchik123
Olbermann targets Hillary tonight
The Clinton campaign, which protests a lot already about MSNBC's coverage, might have another piece of evidence to use against the network. Keith Olbermann said on yesterday's "Countdown" broadcast that he's giving a "special comment" tonight about Hillary Clinton.
HuffPo's Rachel Sklar notes that the YouTube-friendly "special comments," which typically target the Bush administration, often generate hundreds of thousands of views online.
Of course, it's already been a rocky couple months between the Clinton campaign and the network. Chris Matthews and David Shuster had to issue public apologies for statements directed toward Clinton and her family.
And Tucker Carlson, a harsh critic of top Clinton aides, recently lost his show. While the Clinton campaign wasn't the official reason, I've heard internally that senior news executive Phil Griffin was not happy with Carlson's on-air statements about Clinton staffers
So will Olbermann, who also anchors election night coverage, be the next to suffer the Wolfsonian wrath? Guess we'll see after tonight's show.
Yep, Oberbite is a first class jerk.
I won’t watch Olberman under any circumstances - even this one.
The Kos Kids, DUmmies, HuffandBlowers and that ilk must be so conflicted! Back to Kroger for more popcorn and adult beverages!
PMSNBC will do anything, including this stunt, to try to get more than 5 people to watch that poor excuse for a network.
So where do the Trotskyites fit into this?
Olbermann will avoid the wrath of Hillary because he only draws about 400,000 viewers. I Love Lucy does better on TV Land. If this fool spouts off and nobody listens does he spout off?
Stalinists vs Trotskyites.
Lileks wrote a terrific parody of Olberman’s over the top rhetoric but I can’t find it. I wonder if someone can help.
It was in 2005 and in response to Olberman’s most famous essay, where he seems to believe he’s the first to speak the “truth” about our slide to fascism via George Bush.
Any Lileks fans remember?
I’ve been peeking in on DU just for entertainment...it’s hilarious. You’re either a racist (if you don’t support Obama) or a sexist (if you don’t support Hillary.) Civil war barely describes what’s going on among the democrats...it’s more like “Armageddon” politics.
Oberon. 100% DEM hack.
“So will Olbermann, who also anchors election night coverage, be the next to suffer the Wolfsonian wrath?”
Let us pray. ;>)
This guy is blaming us for the dems civil war:
Instead of Infighting Read “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72”
Posted by McCamy Taylor in General Discussion: Primaries
Mon Mar 10th 2008, 09:29 PM and you will discover why all this infighting and intra-party hatred is so destructive and so plain wrong .
I am going to keep this short and sweet. I have already written The Press v. John Edwards, The Press v. Hillary Clinton (the latter took four parts because the press hates her so much) and I am now about to start The Press v. Barack Obama which looks to be just as infuriating as the first two.
Remember 2000 and ‘Gore is a Liar’? Remember 2004 and “What Exit Polls”? This year is much worse. This year is a replay of 1972 with all of Pat Buchanan’s CREEPy dirty tricks that he created for Nixon being wielded by Karl Rove in a desperate attempt to get McCain elected so he can pardon their asses and protect Chevron’s Iraq oil leases.
In 1972 the game was get Muskie out, keep Humphrey and McGovern neck and neck until the convention so that Miami would be as bad as Chicago 1968, covince each side that the other was playing dirty tricks on it so that the party would be fractured after the convention and make sure that the weakest candidate—whomever Buchanan and Nixon decided that was-—was the winner. The used criminals, the FBI and the press to help them.
Here is Pat Buchanan’s game plan. Note that spreading smears about one Dem that are attributed to another Dem is the number one strategy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/natio...
Only three pages were produced. The Senate Watergate committee never learned that there was a fourth page. On it, Buchanan and Khachigian proposed:
“COVERT OPERATIONS — We should have as many of these down there as needed to conduct harassment exercises, and embarrassment exercises for the Democrats. They should have no connection at all with the GOP Observation Post, and should be directed out of here, as they have been in the past.
“They should be able to help put demonstrations together, get leaflets out, start rumors, and generally foul up scheduled events — and add to the considerable confusion and chaos that will inevitably exist.”
It continued:
“The preparation of attacks on one Democrat by another — and ‘endorsements’ of one Democrat by another, which has to be repudiated, are examples of what can be done. Nothing should be done here, incidentally, which can seriously backfire and anything done should be cleared by the highest campaign authority. The Secret Service, it should be noted, will be all over Miami; and any activity will have to take into consideration their capabilities.
“We should guard here against a) anything which enables the Democrats to blame us for the mess which takes place in Miami Beach; b) anything which can be traced back to us and c) anything which is so horrendous as to damage us, if the hand is discovered.”
The memo was labeled “CONFIDENTIAL”
Now, the reason I suggest reading Hunter S. Thompson’s masterpiece which was penned month by month for the Rolling Stone is because he had no idea of the larger web in which he and the McGovern camp (in which he was writing and which he supporting) had been swept up. So, you get a very interesting view of history. You get to see his rage at attacks on McGovern which he is convinced come from other Democrats-—of course we now know they came from Buchanan and CREEP and how this lead to retaliation and intra Party fighting. We see the drugged Muskie and how no one guessed someone might have been slipping him drugs. We see the Eagleton affair bring McGovern down-—and no one at the time guesses that the FBI could have been the source of the leak. The hostility at the convention was not natural. It was manufactured. The Dems should have been united against Nixon, but they end up divided.
Read the book and look for the similarities in what is happening to us now. It is all part of the plan.
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
George Santayana
“Marxists agianst the Leninists against the Stalinists aganist the Maoists..
It gets only a little better than this..”
you forgot the Trotskyites :)
Good, let the Dims tear themselves apart. Maybe if they do enough self immolation even a candidate as weak as McCain can win. I know I won’t be able to bring myself to vote for him, but he’s better (a little better) than the alternatives.
It’s the People’s Front of Judea vs. The Judean People’s Front.
SPLITTERS!
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