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Take a look at this video of Olbermann waddling around Yankee Stadium over the weekend. What is he wearing?! Is that a duster or a lab coat or maybe a butcher's smock?When is the last time you saw one of those - other than the bad guys in Pale Rider? And what does he have underneath that ridiculous jacket? Did he steal 25 sweatshirts from the Yankee store and is trying to smuggle them out?

When President Obama, The New York Times, MSNBC, Sheriff Dupnik and many, many others called for a change in the tone of political discourse, who knew it was actually a call to ramp up the violent imagery, thuggery, and now, even vile threats?The Wisconsin protests have been chock full of comparisons of Republicans to the worst elements in history, threats to reporters and counter-protesters, mean-spirited rantings, and police-defying stormings of government buildings. Now, we get actual, specific threats to lawmakers and their families. Congratulations liberals! You’ve really shown you can step it up from Palin’s “targeted” congressional districts!

As we now all know, Harry Reid LOVES cowboy poets. Luckily, my good friend Todd Greenberg has some experience with cowboy poetry: They used to bring cowboy poets to our schools in Arizona.  I can't believe this is federally funded stuff.  Don't get me wrong... cowboy poetry can be cool, I guess, and it's good work if you can get it, but last thing I wanted to do in H.S. was get dragged to the amphitheater to watch four old guys dressed like cowboys and dramatically read poetry like it was down home Summerstock/Shakespeare and tell us about campfire life. I...

If you read JedEckert.com, you know that our sources inside NBC have been very good at providing context and background to the always entertaining Keith Olbermann saga. And this latest news makes perfect sense as we observe the overall narrative of the self-absorbed, self-destructive, troubled TV personality.Here's what we've been told: The stand-off between Keith and MSNBC execs lasted much longer than anyone on the outside knew. As of 7:30pm on Tuesday night, bitter recriminations were still flying back and forth. Keith was still demanding that the network apologize to him before he would take the anchor chair.MSNBC, on the...

NPR has been looking to unload Juan Williams for a long time. They will tolerate only one way of thinking- only the furthest-left, ultra-politically-correct dogma. Like Pravda during the old Soviet Union, you either toe the line or end up in a gulag. Since there are no gulags in the United States… yet, NPR will have to settle for a contract termination. But make no mistake, if they had their way, I am sure Juan, alongside most of talk radio, the entire staff of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and others would be in a re-education work camp this...

May not be the chief TV critic for the Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal - just my friend Todd Greenberg. I thought it was entertaining enough to post (and right on target!): They open up with smooth jazz. Oh yeah.  This is going to be fun. Parker says they're not going be partisan, they're going to do something "different.". Parker can barely open her mouth. Its weird. Parker tells Spitzer to stop interupting her -  says she won't tell a Democrat (Spitzer?) which Republican told her they won't run if Palin runs. Confused. I thought she said they...

Opposition to the Ground Zero mosque has moved beyond just conservatives like Gingrich and Palin. The Anti-Defamation League is now opposed, saying that "the building of an Islamic Center at this location is counterproductive to the healing process."... At some point, it would be helpful for President Obama to weigh in on the issue. He told America that he has a special understanding of Islam because of time spent in Muslim countries as a child-- so he would have credibility would help reduce the tension surrounding the controversy. It would also be nice to hear him stand up for America...

On June 8, Keith did a truly despicable thing. As part of his hapless, petty war on Fox News, a war he has completely and utterly lost - check out the latest ratings news, the Stalker uses a Ground Zero controversy to attack Rupert Murdoch: ...our winner: Rupert Murdoch. His "New York Post" has been beating the drum of race hatred here in New York. A columnist inspired a protest of a Muslim county center in lower Manhattan which the newspaper has incorrectly described called the "ground zero mosque." Well, Rupert got what he wanted, 500 protesters showed up at our...

Looks like Zucker is history, and you know what that means… Let the dominoes begin to fall! The New York Post is reporting the Jeff Zucker is history. Additionally, our sources say trhat Zucker has actually been answering to a Comcast liaison for months. He is no longer in charge and makes no decisions on his own. Good thing for NBC. His reign over programming has been nothing short of a disaster. There is also widespread chatter inside MSNBC that their days of being a propaganda machine for Obama are over. Comcast is not likely to keep the formula of...

What exactly is VoteVets? We've seen them lurking around MSNBC and various anti-war organizations ostensibly to support our fighting men and women. The veneer wore off quickly as we all realized this was just another anti-Bush group - this one under the guise of military veterans. They have even admitted to taking money from the Democracy Alliance - the Doctor Evil-esque, far-left funding project of George Soros. If anyone really doubted where these guys stood, there was always their campaign to close Gitmo.Now, they have twisted their transparent, faux pro-military message into something truly offensive. The Vets have taken what...

Apparently, the left will stoop to any level - any at all - in order to make a cheap political point. With the horrible accident ongoing and the fates of some miners still not known, the propagandists have already begun linking the West Virginia mining disaster to Tea Parties, global warming, and capitalism. Oh, and remember when President Bush somehow got blamed for the Sago mine disaster?! Surely, the Chosen One could have done something for these poor down-trodden workers...

President Obama and his allies won the political battle on health care but lost the debate on substance. And instead of fighting on the merits and trying to convince the American people of their brilliance, the left wing is dealing from the bottom of the deck and playing their political trump card - by calling critics racist (with scant evidence). But for some reason, one man has been eerily silent - the President of the United States.Nobody supports calling John Lewis the n-word. No credible leader is calling Barney Frank a f----t. All clear thinking Americans reject this kind of...

The Manning Report could not broadcast this Tuesday afternoon. Momentarily it was possible to view the message that they had been hacked. It is now impossible to use the website that is loaded with audios, videos, postings and opinions about Obama's ineligibility to be president.

This could be the most alarming story yet to come out of the health care debate.Forget about all the inane squabbling on Capitol Hill. Forget what the polls say. Forget the Tea Party rallies, the town hall meetings, the strong-arm tactics of MoveOn and the SEIU, the debunked sob stories... For a moment, let's just look at what physicians say they will do if Obamacare becomes a reality.The Medicus Firm, a national physician search firm, recently surveyed 1,195 doctors, and what they found should shock you more than Nancy Pelosi after another eyelift:  46.3% of primary care physicians (family medicine...

Keith Olbermann will not host his own show, but has taken time from taking care of his father for a little blog war. Now, why would an already-imploding blowhard pick an immature fight with a popular young sports columnist? Nobody wants try to get inside the head of the increasingly unstable Keith, but going after Bill Simmons seems like another sign that his fragile emotional state is nearing Armageddon and why NBC execs are increasingly worried.Last week, “The Sports Guy” wrote a column arguing that Tiger Woods comeback on the golf course would be more difficult than Ali returning to...

There may be nothing to this, but thought it was worth imparting. We spoke today to a highly-placed Democrat who thinks there might be a plot to, at the very least, show Nancy Pelosi that she is still a mere mortal. The speaker has been up and down the Hill threatening Democrats that they better stay in line on Obamacare or else lose their chairmanships, party support in upcoming elections, etc. Allegedly, some of these members may not be willing to sacrifice their own political careers to save the Obama presidency. The possibility exists that a breakaway faction could threaten...

Saw this story last night on The O'Reilly Factor and Mediaite, so I started digging as well. One thing is for sure, Rev. Wright may have one of the biggest egos in the country.

Sources within NBC News have confirmed that things are more dire than we originally thought. Veteran correspondents are cringing and are openly embarrassed by Olbermann's self-absorbed theatrics.Please keep in mind that nobody - nobody at all - is saying that Keith may not actually be concerned for his father or that there is not a genuine health issue. However, some are suggesting that his bizarre reactions are really symptoms of a much more troubling mental issue for a guy allegedly once accused of stalking multiple women.The latest in this spectacle is the bizarre roof-top special comment that appeared on Monday's...

While the Olympics continue in Vancouver, we're hearing that things continue to fall apart at "The Place for Politics." Despite having Olympic lead-ins to their prime-time line-up, ratings continue to be abysmal. Keith the Stalker has not been able to get out of his ratings slump for almost a year, and his bizarre personal behavior has begun to worry some NBC execs. Nobody knows when or if he will actually even show up to host his own show for one thing.

President Obama told us that there was a new sheriff in town - that the days of buying votes were over. Didn’t last long… Just look at the most recent incarnation of health care “reform.” We all knew about the bribes to Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson, but now, Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) has put out a more complete list of just how much change has been going on: Full List