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Usually, the crazy rantings of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann can be dismissed as the norm and easily ignored. But on May 5, Olbermann gave a glimpse of an obsession with former Vice President Dick Cheney - a man that has been out of office for 471 days - that was just too bizarre to let go. Although Olbermann didn't outright absolve the Obama administration for not responding quick enough to the BP oil spill, he channeled the blame in a strange direction. "The effort to label the Gulf oil spill Obama's Katrina appears to have sputtered, even though, as we...

Looks like Keith Olbermann is getting defensive about his policy of prohibiting any guests on his show who disagree with him. An MSNBC Countdown promo features Olbermann making an absurd non sequitur of an argument in defending his echo-chamber approach. Keith claims he asks questions "to find out if I'm wildly incorrect about something," ignoring the obvious: that he's unlikely to find out if he's wrong if he hand picks guests who think he's right! View video here.

It has long been my habit to have a television on in the background as I go through my day. For reasons that escape me, the background noise has always helped me to better concentrate. In the old days, it was CNN that provided my daily soundtrack – until I grew tired of 45 minutes of every hour being dedicated to Michael Jackson and whatever problem was vexing the singing star while endlessly titillating the viewing public. A change was required and I struggled over where to go next. Were I to designate FOX as the voice in the background,...

I am coming late to this rodeo, but there's a good reason for that. I have been on this nasty horse before, long before many of my colleagues, and I have promised myself I would not mount again without taking 24 hours to first think about it. Well, the 24 hours are up, and here I come to write once again about what a reckless TV figure Keith Olbermann is -- and how irresponsible MSNBC and NBC News management are for giving him a national platform and the network's credibility to spread his innuendo, invective and smears. Olbermann tries to...

Someone should ask Chrissy Matthews what he now thinks of purges on the right after this little tantrum from Keith Olbermann: A week-long anchoring stint on MSNBC by Donny Deutsch ended abruptly on Wednesday, and four people briefed on the decision said the cancellation stemmed from an unflattering mention of that channel's No. 1 anchor, Keith Olbermann, a day earlier. Mr. Deutsch had labeled his hour on MSNBC "America the Angry," and Mr. Olbermann was shown briefly in a series of clips of media bloviators during a segment that pondered what role the media plays in fomenting the public's anger....

During the 2008 Presidential campaign, "mainstream" media confused the public over whether Obama ever released any real proof of his claim to being born in Hawaii. The confusion continues. Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek magazine, told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on February 20, 2009 that "The Obama campaign actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii hospital online." But Alter lied, since "the Obama campaign" never "actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii hospital online." Remarkably, no hospital in Hawaii yet lays definitive claim to be the birthplace of the sitting President. .. On the FactCheck.org website, the claim...

Responding to the claim by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann ( and some here in this forum) that the Tea Partyers are racist because there aren't any black people in the groups, the Dallas Tea Party made this video showing that they have more blacks and Hispanics in their group than the there among MSNBC's talk show lineup which... is all white. See it on Facebook Group The Politics of Race, Religion and Sex in America - it's hilarious and sticks it to Keithie

The ratings declines for Countdown with Keith Olbermann continue. Year over year declines for the first 3 months of 2010 ranged from 40-45% in the cable news advertiser target adults 25-54 demo, and between 21-29% among average viewership.While it’s hard to completely attribute cause and effect to TV ratings, it’s interesting to note that Countdown had better ratings (and a less severe year to year ratings and viewership loss) during the month of March, when Keith wasn’t on the air (he was off from 2/24 until last night) than it did during February (and was approximately on par with...

Fox News just ran a short story announcing a man was arrested for threatening to kill Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)and his family. If I heard correctly, the threat was made in a YouTube video.Nothing on the wires yet...

Keith Olbemann, a TV personality for MSBNC, could hardly contain his disdain when it came to sharing the results of a recent University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll asking Texans their views on both Evolution and Creationism. Mr. Olbermann began his report with the following insult: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but if you waste 15 million of them apparently you get Texas." Keith gleefully continued, "If a University of Texas poll is correct, that is how many Texans, 60% of the population, either belive humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time or are not sure. Oh...

Keith Olbermann’s father, who in his waning days played something of an unlikely role in the super-heated health care debate, died Saturday in New York of complications stemming from a surgery last September. Theodore C. Olbermann, who had worked as an architect and designed most of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlors built in the 1970s, was 80. On his prime-time MSNBC television show, Keith Olbermann cited his father’s health struggles and the medical care he received in urging Congress to overhaul the nation’s health care system — a cause the liberal host has championed. In a blog post after his...

heodore Olbermann, father of MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann, died this afternoon after suffering complications from a surgery last year. Keith posted a tribute to his father at his Baseball Nerd blog a short time ago. "He was my inspiration, and will always remain so," he wrote. "His bravery these last six months cannot be measured. He is as much my hero now, as he was when I was five years old."

Sad news: MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann’s father, Theodore Olbermann, passed away earlier this afternoon at age 81.

"As the Spittle Flies" is nearing the end of its run. This cable news soap opera -- a.k.a. "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" -- is alienating viewers as quickly as the angry and demanding diva has pushed away friends, family and colleagues over the course of his tumultuous career. When will the show end? Hard to tell. But the increasingly wild-eyed Keith is drawing rubberneckers in the same fashion as a six-car crackup beside the interstate. One media columnist observes a "creeping mania" brought on by plunging ratings and terminal jealousy. According to TV by the Numbers, the foam-at-the-mouth commentator seems...

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...

NBC insiders are starting to sweat Keith Olbermann. But not because of Olby’s politics. Thing is, Olbermann may have become a liability for NBC, literally: Olbermann…went after former MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams Wednesday night, claiming Abrams had been fired and had a grudge against the network. The tirade left NBC executives red-faced because Abrams, a lawyer, is still employed by NBC as a news analyst on legal issues.

A week ago Keith Olbermann slandered the Founders by falsely claiming… OLBERMANN: Not very many of the founding fathers were evolved enough to believe that black people were actually people. But this week, Olbermann denied the humanity of people who dare to disagree with him on nationalizing the health care system. OLBERMANN: … the protests of these sub- humans who get paid by the insurance companies… Whenever a conservative claims that the Left’s policies endanger America, liberal are quick to squeal “How DARE you question my patriotism!” Last week, Keith tried to say the Tea Parties were racist. He has...

February 02, 2010 The Fat Lady Sings for Keith Olbermann By Stuart Schwartz "It ain't over until the fat lady sings." The fat lady is doing more than singing for Keith Olbermann. And, like most of the other women in the life of MS-NBC's premiere leftist sexist, she's not interested in dating him. Rather, she merely wishes to see his well-padded bottom fade into the distance. In sports broadcasting, where Olbermann worked for twenty years, the phrase -- picked up from opera -- signifies the end of the game, the last minutes when hope of revival is past and fans...

On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann singled out Texas to mock the religious beliefs of the state’s residents during one of his regular "Quick Comments." He began the segment by mocking the majority of Texas residents: "A mind may be a terrible thing to waste, but if you waste 15 million of them, apparently you get Texas." After detailing statistics which show that most Texans did not realize that dinosaurs became extinct before humans existed, or that only about half believe in human evolution, Olbermann seemed to lament that he could not use the statistics to attack Republicans...

I once did a lot of freelancing for a daily newspaper called The Flint Journal, whose editorial pages regularly and vociferously called for “affirmative action.” They were located in a majority black city, but very often they had few black writers and no black editors. If you wanted to keep working for them, pointing this out was not a good idea. Last night, Keith Olbermann read reactions to his race-baiting rant the other night from conservative blogs Hot Air, GOPUSA, and the below bit from Meltdown with Keith Obermann Part 33: FORSMARK: The next time Keith Olbermann calls you racist...