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TV Critic: Keith Olbermann Should Join Fox News
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Posted on 01/22/2011 4:52:39 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Critic: Keith Olbermann Should Join Fox News By Noel Sheppard Created 01/22/2011 - 6:23pm

By Noel Sheppard | January 22, 2011 | 18:23 Noel Sheppard's picture

It's been less that 24 hours since Keith Olbermann's abrupt departure from MSNBC, and folks are all atwitter with predictions about where he'll end up.

TV critic Tim Goodman's suggestion that the former "Countdown" host should go to Fox News is destined to anger people on both sides of the aisle:

Yes, it sounds insane (for both sides). But think about it. Every other lightweight “liberal” that Fox tries to toss on the air to make things “fair and balanced” has no real gravitas. Olbermann? When it comes to television, he is the voice of the left. There’s your balance (screw fair – nobody with a brain that hasn’t been pickled by Kool-Aid believes that nonsense). Can you image what kind of ratings Death Star would be created if he joined Fox News? It would turn MSNBC to dust and leave CNN so much further behind in the ratings that it would be battling BET for numbers. It would also allow Roger Ailes to lord it over every liberal in this country and he might swallow whatever pride he has about Olbermann to have that kind of club at his disposal.

And – wait for it – it would be the most audacious reach across the aisle in television history. The left would have to actually tune their television to Fox News to find Olbermann. And the right would have to suffer through all those promos for his show – like sizzle reel Kryptonite – before settling in on Bill O’Reilly. A nation heals.

And, seriously, who wouldn’t want to watch O’Reilly and Olbermann toss to each other every night? It would be a sneer and snark fest for the ages.

Although this wouldn't surprise me, I'd be very sad to see it happen.

In my view as a media analyst, Keith Olbermann represents all that is wrong in journalism today. He makes a hobby out of distorting the truth, and when that's not good enough to further his agenda, he just flat out lies.

Him battling with folks like Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and Greta Van Susteren would be fabulous theater as it drove Fox's ratings, but it would also drag down that network's credibility.

MSNBC is a laughing stock because of this arrogant, egotistical blowhard, and has become more so as a result of similarly vitriolic additions to its prime time lineup.

Let's hope Roger Ailes recognizes this and doesn't take Goodman's advice.


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1 posted on 01/22/2011 4:52:41 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Fox??

H*ll, even Giraldo El-Big-Nose-O has more class than Olberman.

Not much more, though.


2 posted on 01/22/2011 4:54:01 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Sub-Driver

Put him on after red-eye...lol


3 posted on 01/22/2011 4:54:54 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Da Coyote

Gerry told O’Reilly yesterday that he was a republican. I find that really hard to believe.


4 posted on 01/22/2011 4:55:50 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I think I’d rather see him claiming unemployment because he can’t get a job with anyone.


5 posted on 01/22/2011 4:56:11 PM PST by Morgan in Denver (Democrats: the law of unintended consequences in action.)
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To: Sub-Driver

As I remarked in another thread, conservative publications often hire stupid liberals to ‘represent the opposing viewpoint’. Of course, they run off at the mouth and make their position look more absurd than it actually is, which was the idea when they got hired.


6 posted on 01/22/2011 4:56:24 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Sub-Driver; All

Do not be surprised when James Murdoch.....Rupert’s son...and Al Gore’s buddy.....takes over Fox News, that he will hire Olbermensch. James Murdoch is a flaming liberal who will dump the GOP element from FNC


7 posted on 01/22/2011 4:57:05 PM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (NAFTA, WTO, UN, IMF are all Statist organizations)
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To: Sub-Driver

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2661669/posts

Already did! LOL


8 posted on 01/22/2011 4:58:09 PM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: Sub-Driver

Shep Smith is getting a tingle down his leg just thinking about it.


9 posted on 01/22/2011 4:59:14 PM PST by digger48
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To: Sub-Driver

Fox already has a resident hate spewing crazy leftie. His name is Alan Colmes.


10 posted on 01/22/2011 4:59:26 PM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: MsLady

No kidding! If he’s a Republican, he’s the biggest RINO on the planet.


11 posted on 01/22/2011 5:01:21 PM PST by JaguarXKE (Life - It's 10 percent circumstances and 90 percent how you react to circumstances - Sarah Palin)
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To: Sub-Driver

Back in November when MSNBC ‘indefinitely’ suspended Olbermann, I suggested that Ailes hire Olbermann, team him with Juan Williams and name the show Fair and Unbalanced.


12 posted on 01/22/2011 5:02:21 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: Sub-Driver
Bathtub boy is going to try to oust Whoppie from the View. He will fit in nicely with those other harpies and Matt Hasselbeck's wife will be able to smack him around like a rented mule.

I have also heard that gay porn film directors have been calling his cell every 10 minuets since he left 30 Rock last night.

13 posted on 01/22/2011 5:03:35 PM PST by skimask
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To: vbmoneyspender

He is a nasty , mean spirited liberal hack. He spent his time just bashing Palin. A LOON.
GOOD RIDDANCE.
If Fox hired him they would lose all their viewers.


14 posted on 01/22/2011 5:04:02 PM PST by JaneNC (I)
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To: Sub-Driver

I hear Glenn Beck could use a bathroom attendant.


15 posted on 01/22/2011 5:04:56 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Sub-Driver
And, seriously, who wouldn’t want to watch O’Reilly and Olbermann toss to each other every night?

I can barely stand O'Reilly on a good day, and am never masochistic enough to take more than a minute of Olberman.

16 posted on 01/22/2011 5:05:11 PM PST by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: Morgan in Denver
I understand that he had 2 years remaining on his 7M a year contract for which he will be paid.
17 posted on 01/22/2011 5:05:18 PM PST by JPG (There is hope for America and her name is Sarah Palin.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Goodman is right, it is insane and so is he. Fox has Sheppy and Whorealdo for libs already, they don’t need more.


18 posted on 01/22/2011 5:06:09 PM PST by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Sub-Driver

Olbermann isn’t liberal so much as he is insane and hate filled.

Fox would be crazy to hire this madman.

However, mercifully his contract forbids his working for another news station for a year and, by then, hopefully the memory of him will have totally faded from our minds.


19 posted on 01/22/2011 5:06:29 PM PST by altura
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To: Sub-Driver
Bad business, it would turn off conservative fans of the channel and bring scant few liberal ones in. I don't get as irritated with talking head opinion givers like Olbermann, it's the sneaky ones who are supposed to be objective but only give one side while ignoring the other. That is the entire MSM complex.
20 posted on 01/22/2011 5:09:12 PM PST by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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