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As the Spittle Flies

by Mojambo ( 190 Comments › )
Filed under Media, Politics, Progressives at March 8th, 2010 - 11:00 am

I still expect Keith  Olbermann to one day do something desperate on live TV (such as exposing himself) and in a fit of psychotic rage – be carried out by security guards and guys in white uniforms. If we really want to “torture” prisoners just strap them into chairs and make them listen to one of Olbermann’s “Speshul Komments”.

Keith Olbermann: As the Spittle Flies

by Stuart Schwartz

“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 determined to do to his audience what a bio-toxin does to a small town in Iowa in the recent hit zombie movie, “The Crazies” — empty the homes. February saw ratings plunge beneath last year by 43% among 25-54 viewers and 29% in total viewership.

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But his audience grew in the same way that his 24-year-old girlfriend moved into his Trump Palace apartment for love, not the six-figure salary and on-air slot that NBC provides to every California coed with no experience and party-hearty Internet photos.

But this is the age of new media, and Nielsen ratings are readily available online.  And a simple check of the weeks surrounding those dates show aggregate ratings declines ranging from 10% to almost 20%. NewsBusters took a look at his numbers and concluded that Countdown has been in “free-fall” since Obama’s inauguration.

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The Fat Lady Sings for Keith Olbermann

by Mojambo ( 142 Comments › )
Filed under Media at February 2nd, 2010 - 7:30 am

I predict that one day Olbermann will have such a melt down on his show “Countdown to No Ratings” where he curses, spits, tears at his hair – that even MSNBC will have to pull the plug on him and call for medics to take him over to a mental institution for observation. He is a perfect example of the Peter Principle at work – he rose to his true level of mediocrity. He was a forgettable sportscaster and then got promoted to spew Leftist pap at MSNBC. He never, ever has an opposing viewpoint on his show because like a certain husky, pony-tailed blogger – he cannot debate.  (By the way last night on O’Reilly – a man I find insufferable most of the time – he had on as guests the leftist mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsome, and the angry leftist columnist from Time Magazine, Joe Klein. At least there is balance on Fox.)

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.

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By the end of 2009, media observers were noting the “abysmal” state of Olbermann’s ratings. And now the thirty-day moving average of ratings shows him steadily sinking as Bill O’Reilly leads the charge of FOX News to the top. The FOX blowout of Keith and friends during the State of the Union this past week prompted National Review to ask, “[A]t what point does MSDNC pull the plug on its all-Left format?”

And so the fat lady is not just singing for Olbermann and MS-NBC: Rather, she is belting out an aria that rushes Katrina-like past the designer finery of Old Media grandees in the audience of Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera, rattles the Swarovski crystal chandeliers above their heads, hurtles across Central Park, and pierces the floor-to-ceiling windows of Olbermann’s  $4.2-million 40th-floor Trump Palace roost.

It is from here that Olbermann leads the progressive media battle on behalf of America’s downtrodden, joined by neighboring New York Times staffers and mainstream media executives, fighting their self-described war on privilege from foxholes developed by Donald Trump. The various Trump Towers dotting upper Manhattan are, collectively, a progressive Pentagon, headquarters for the media war on Middle America…with Olbermann among the most polished of its brass.

…That is, until America began paying attention. The result: The audience of Countdown has sunk to roughly 20% of FOX News-viewers led by Bill O’Reilly. And now the fat lady is howling her delight as she joins a decades-long string of females in Keith’s life — beginning with his mother, who thought her son needed psychological help — whose fist-bumps will come when he has exited their lives.

Olbermann does not like women, especially attractive and/or accomplished women. Nor is he particularly fond of men. He is forever the awkward, angry teenager of his high school days who mystified psychologists, the überdork whose cruel taunts of the athletes he covered as a sports broadcaster were legendary, even as he yearned to be thought of as the stud that covers studs. Give it up, a Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist suggested after watching Olbermann ridicule the appearance of an overweight athlete. He noted that the hefty lefty is “so bloated he looks as if he swallowed Dan Patrick [his ESPN co-anchor] back in 1997.”

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Women are anathema to Olbermann. He delights in demeaning them, and the more attractive or accomplished they are, the more malicious he gets. Conservative Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, who relishes her role as policymaker and  mother, is a frequent object of his anger; columnist Michelle Malkin is a “big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick” because of her intelligence and traditional values; Sarah Palin is a moronic “Bush in a skirt”; and there’s nothing wrong with Hillary Clinton — who had the nerve to oppose Barack Obama in the Democrat primaries — that a good beating won’t cure.

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GE Shareholder upset over MSNBC

by Phantom Ace ( 28 Comments › )
Filed under Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Media at April 22nd, 2009 - 10:38 pm

MSNBC which is the Think Progress of cable new networks is upsetting GE shareholders. MSNBC which is owned by GE is an outlet of Leftists and Islamist propaganda. This association with radical views hurts the brand name of GE. As investors, the shareholders are upset because it hurts their bottom line.
Drama at GE shareholders meeting

The hostility between Fox News Channel and MSNBC reached a fever pitch Wednesday when a Fox producer infiltrated the GE shareholders meeting.

Just before GE re-elected board members, company brass were hit with questions from shareholders critical of an alleged leftward political slant at MSNBC.

But one of those questions came from Jesse Waters, a producer on “The O’Reilly Factor” whose criticisms were cut short when his microphone was cut off, according to several attendees. Waters apparently did not publicly identify himself as a Fox employee.

Waters has built a reputation as an ambush interviewer, specializing in on-the-street confrontations. But this is arguably the boldest move by a Fox newsie to utilize the tactic inside their chief rival’s tent, as it were.

O’Reilly and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann have been involved in a running feud for several years, but the pissing match between the two has of late started to envelope other parts of the News Corp. and GE empires.

GE pointed out that Waters had Fox News cameras waiting outside the Orlando meeting.

Attendees who spoke to THR said shareholders asked about 10 politically charged questions concerning MSNBC as well as one about CNBC.

First up was a woman asking about a reported meeting in which Immelt and NBC Uni CEO Jeff Zucker supposedly told top CNBC executives and talent to be less critical of President Obama and his policies.

Immelt acknowledged a meeting took place but said no one at CNBC was told what to say or not to say about politics.

During the woman’s follow-up question, her microphone was apparently cut off. A short time later, Waters asked a question and his mic was cut, too.

“The crowd was very upset with MSNBC because of its leftward tilt,” one attendee said. “Some former employees said they were embarrassed by it.”

This is why politics and business don’t mix. MSNC has gone over board, they have Radical leftists like Maddow and Islamist sympathizers like Keith Olbermann. They have to right to say what they want, but the Shareholders have more of a right to voice their opinion. They are part owners and have a right to be concern about GE’s brand name. It is their money.

Kathy Griffin Says ‘D-Word’

by DJM ( 7 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at January 3rd, 2009 - 2:01 pm

This is news?

I was going to respond with more, but, hell, I’d have to use d-words and h-words, and r-words…Shit, I’d have to use words starting with all sorts of letters!

Screw it. Instead I’ll just post some pictures of a few DICKS:

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