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Since August 29, 2008, when Sarah Palin was first introduced as John McCain’s Vice Presidential choice of a running mate, reactions to Palin were and continue to be extreme. The extremity of Palin hatred started within hours of the announcement, as did the hideous rumors (about her son Trig for instance) that were passed from one leftist website to the next without one shred of evidence to back them up. The goal, simply put, was to destroy Sarah Palin by any means possible. Being as passionate as they always are, progressive bloggers, media pundits, leftist groups and even comedians started...

Of all networks to go on to accuse Fox News hosts of faux anger, Anthony Weiner chose MSNBC. You know, MSNBC--home to Ed Schultz, who into his mid-40s was a Republican, going so far as to seek the Republican nomination for Congress as a "fresh conservative voice." MSNBC. Keith Olbermann's hang-out, the man whose stagey histrionics have made him a laughingstock even at his sister network's Saturday Night Live. Weiner made his allegation in the course of responding to Mika Brzezinski, who asked whether he regretted "losing it" on the House floor last week in a vein-popping diatribe that became...

If you were one of the 400 members of the listserv Journolist, perhaps one of the most vicious insults you could hurl at a colleague is: You’re just like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. If the reader holds neutral — or even positive — views about the Fox News hosts, the insult may not sting. But in the cloistered world of liberal listserv enclaves, Hannityism is a cardinal sin. After all, Fox is a “dangerous,” “deranged” “cesspool” that, possibly, the FCC should be investigating. The feelings against MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, then, must run deep. “He’s become O’Reilly on the...

We asked in May: "Which producer for a dorky cable anchor has been complaining to colleagues that she's tired of his notoriously nasty behavior?"

You may (or may not) have noticed that there's been a bit of a feud running between MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and the Daily Caller, the website run by (former MSNBC's) Tucker Carlson. The Caller — via its Twitter account, especially — has poked fun at Olbermann with such headlines as "Keith Olbermann talks too much about himself: We watch, because we’re paid to." Olbermann hasn't taken the taunts sitting down, responding via Twitter with, "@TheDailyCaller unfortunately I don't read you because I don't have to." Olbermann has said Carlson has a "bow tie contained brain" and named Carlson among his...

Obeying President Obama's dictum that it's always educational to check in with what the other side is saying, I checked in with MSNBC's Countdown the other night. Sure enough, there was Keith Olbermann himself barking up I will admit, interesting leftist views on issues A, B, or C. But what got my attention was, well, a bit of outright, easily verifiable factual untruth. If we were talking Joe Biden, the word would be gaffe. It seems Keith, who has never had an easy time with women or blacks in authority if they have decided to take a stroll off the...

One of NewsReal Blog's Biggest All-Time Hits has been our Meltdown with Keith Olbermann series. Now we've collected the first half of the series as a PDF ebook which you can download for free here. This 28,000-word, 56 page collection features posts 1-24 (all the posts from 2009) written by David Forsmark, chronicling the MSNBC demigod-in-his-own-mind Keith Olbermann at his worst. Also included is an introduction by Peter Collier. If you enjoy the ebook then we encourage you to donate to support NRB here. Our suggested donation for the ebook is $5. This ebook is the first installment in...

When the Left joins in one chorus of mockery, you know they are mad and maybe even nervous. The most recent examples include both Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. When the mainstream media and statist blogs recognize a conservative person or movement gaining popularity then they immediately go on the offensive. Make people seem right-wing, stupid, racist, and nut jobs – then no one will pay attention to them. It’s an old trick but it often works. Glenn Beck has been the target of that negative strategy many times, and now that he is starting a school – the...

The leftwing blogosphere has a big problem: dissent. Last week we saw Keith Olbermann leaving the Daily Kos because he was attacked there for mildly criticizing Barack Obama. And this week, the administrator of the Democratic Underground, David Allen aka Skinner, was forced to deal with a recent wave of purges (tombstoning). One reason was due to simple liberal crackup temper tantrums among the DUers as happened when their most prominent member, William Rivers Pitt of Karl Rove indictment hoax fame, was tombstoned last month for threatening physical violence upon a fellow DUer who turned out to be a homeless...

Gibbs To Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews & Jon Stewart: "I appreciate the pulse, the hand on the pulse of America by those who live on cable table TV. I don't actually think that's where all of real America lives."

Is leftist network MSNBC falling out of love with President Obama? It certainly looks like it. Keith Olbermann, for instance, was less than impressed with Obama’s BP speech. “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days,” the man who became (in)famous for doing everything in his power to discredit and disgrace conservatives said on his show yesterday. When guest Howard Fineman asked Olbermann whether he believed Obama had aimed too low, he responded: ”I don’t think he aimed low, I don’t think he aimed at all. It’s startling.” A little later he...

Apparently Obama is having trouble wooing even the most liberal media darlings. Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews go back and forth trashing Obama’s gulf speech as full of hot air. I did not watch his speech, but based on their commentary it sounded like it was a typical Obama speech – lots of smooth talk with no substance. Olbermann: “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days.” Olbermann: “Nothing specific at all was said.” Matthews: “No direction.” Olbermann: “I don’t think he aimed low, I don’t think he aimed at all. It’s...

Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman react to President Obama's Oval Office Address on the oil spill. Here are the highlights of what the trio said: Olbermann: "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days." Matthews compared Obama to Carter. Olbermann: "Nothing specific at all was said." Matthews: "No direction." Howard Fineman: "He wasn't specific enough."

June 15, 2010 MSNBC Trashes Obama's Address: Compared To Carter, "I Don't Sense Executive Command" Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman react to President Obama's Oval Office Address on the oil spill. Here are the highlights of what the trio said: Matthews compared Obama to Carter. Olbermann: "Nothing specific at all was said." Matthews: "No direction." Howard Fineman: "He wasn't specific enough." Olbermann "I don't think he aimed low, I don't think he aimed at all. It's startling." Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a "commander-in-chief." Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a...

Congressman James Clyburn thinks that Greene, the unlikely victor in a South Carolina Democrat primary, was paid to run for office. Could it be true? The incredulity over Alvin Greene's surprise win in the Democrat primary for South Carolina's Senate seat shows no sign of abating. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D—SC) openly accused the unprepossessing 32-year-old, who won without holding a single campaign event, of being a political pawn: "There were some real shenanigans going on," Clyburn told a radio talk show. "I don't know if he was a Republican plant; he was someone's plant." Greene has denied this,...

Last night I took a sickening trip into the Alternative Progressive Universe that is MSNBC and settled in to the orbit of Planet Olbermann with its toxic and hate-filled atmosphere. If you ever have the chance to visit Planet Olbermann on any given night, you have to suspend all rational thoughts or beliefs on this mostly dead planet. Olbermann sought to boost his argument that Israel’s boarding of a so-called Peace Flotilla was somehow illegal and to support this, he brought on a satellite (Carter-Era Ambassador), Edward Peck. In falling within the gravitational pull of Planet Olbermann, Peck said that...

Keith Olbermann, who ran approximately 943,347 stories on how Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney and probably even George W. Bush should go to prison because—as it turned out—Richard Armitage “leaked’ the name of a CIA bureaucrat whose husband had already listed her in Who’s Who, Friday night had this response to the revelation that Bill Clinton was dispatched to find out what it would take to get Congressman Joe Sestak to quit running against Obama’s Most Valuable Defector Arlen Spector: Move along, folks, nothing to see here. Americans are taking this advice when it comes to Olbermann’s show, and...

I walk into Tiffany’s—flush with blogging income–and purchase their very reasonable 18k Gold Paloma’s Marrakesh Bangle (inspired by the intriguing patterns of Morocco) for $4,950. Later I discover to my horror that the melt value of the gold is significantly less than $4,950. Now that I think about it, there were no signs telling me this in the store, although the salesperson did prattle on quite a while about “craftsmanship.” Do I have legal recourse? If you answered “yes” to the question above please proceed straight to the Comments section, pausing only long enough to leave a snarky message (or,...

If anyone in the liberal media has no business calling anyone a coward for refusing to take on people with opposing opinions, it's Keith Olbermann. The fragile Countdown host is so defensive about his policy of inviting only yes-people on his show that, as noted here, he recently devoted an MSNBC promo to lamely explaining away his Bert Lahr imitation. But that didn't stop Olbermann on this evening's Countdown from pummeling Sarah Palin for declining to come on MSNBC. For good measure, the vulgarist variously referred to the former vice-presidential candidate as an "idiot-woman" and twice as an "idiot." Here's...

Comcast, a giant media conglomerate, is currently in the process of purchasing NBC Universal. Comcast is the nation's largest cable service provider, serving 39 states and the District of Columbia. When negotiations are completed, Comcast will have controlling interest of the NBC network, its News Division and NBC Universal's cable networks--which include MSNBC and CNBC. The deal's price tag is an estimated $30 billion. Besides the business aspects regarding Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal, which I won't go into here, some speculate Comcast's controlling interests of NBC Universal may lead to a huge shake-up in the management of its news...