Keith Olbermann is just the sort of guy who would break a network rule against making campaign contributions, and he’s also the sort of guy who would refuse to go on air to apologize to his viewers for such a thing, and apparently this is why his primetime MSNBC show is now an hour-long presentation of Al Roker bloopers hosted by the “dun-dun” sound effect from Law and Order. There still hasn’t been word from the network on when, or if, Olbermann’s suspension will expire, but there is a serious lesson here people like Olbermann have to learn: Only giant corporations like General Electric are allowed to influence elections with campaign contributions, not their employees.
Network sources tell Playbook that Keith Olbermann was suspended because he refused to deliver an on-camera mea culpa, which would have allowed him to continue anchoring “Countdown.” Olbermann told his bosses he didn’t know he was barred from making campaign contributions, although he is resisting saying that publicly. Olbermann may not hold as many cards as he thinks. He makes $7 million a year and MSNBC’s prime time is not as dependent on him as it was before the addition of Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell, who make considerably less.
Keith Olbermann getting fired from his network and landing on some other teevee channel is like the changing of the seasons, and Chris Matthews just came out of the hole and failed to see his shadow. Expect Keith Olbermann’s Pompous Alaska to premiere on TLC before the end of the next year.
UPDATE: The report is now that Keith Olbermann will be back at work on Tuesday. So that’s when people can go back to more or less ignoring him. [Mike Allen/NYT]
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Oh, Politico, Politico
Wherefore art thou, Politico?
Deny thy Albritton and refuse thy fame.
Or if not, be but sworn to truth
and I'll no longer be a blogslut.
I don't know exactly what you're getting out here, but I liked it anyway.
You don't want to run afoul of the brass at the Sheinhardt Wig Company. No, sir.
In the lamestream liberal media, socialists are represented by two separate, but equally important, terrorists: the lesbian, who facilitates crimes, and the former sports anchor who persecutes the teabaggers. These are their stories.
CLANG CLANG!
That sounds like it would be a better show than Law and Order: Los Angeles.
A video of me taking a dump would be a better show than Law & Order: Los Angeles. As a self-proclaimed Law & Order junkie who has seen every episode and even visited the set, I am supremely disappointed with the cancellation of the original.
I was really looking forward to Sharia Law and Order: Tulsa, but the damned dustbowl legislaure banned it, the fuckers. Plus, I think Jack McCoy is making pretty good bank hawking Ameritrade or whatever it is.
I was fearful that McCoy was going to pull a Jon Voight or Ben Stein and betray their likable movie / television persona's by being obnoxious conservatives. (Tho Stein's piece on the stupidity of Sarah Palin and Joe Miller was worth an episode of Winning his Money.)
Is it even legal that Sam Waterston and Andy Griffith stomp for sanity? These iconic representations of an aging White Man's love for their country comes without resorting to calling the Commander in Chief a socialist?
Law and Order: Indignant Liberals Unit
That was brilliant
+50 (+) and not a rant – not bad !
I'm totally chuffed. I should've changed my screenname/made better comments sooner! GO, P-POINTS, GO!
If I get +100 p-points on this comment, TOPLESS PICS FOR ALL!
(P.S. I'm a dude.)
Don't make me have to down-thumb you after that brilliant comment above. Of course, the ladies might be swayed in your favor …
Only 5 more "thumbs-ups" on this comment before I haul out my "Andy Warhol" book and show you my t's!
YES! 108 "thumbs up"!
Even though KO is a big headed drama queen, MSNBC is done without him.
Confess, Jack — Have you made any political contributions? Mr. Mustard wants to know.
Also, I think I'll stop commenting now. I have 69 pee, which is the most excellent of p-scores. (Not that I pay attention to such things.)
A little part of me dies every time the comments on a post reach 70.
This is predictable. Look at MSNBC's line-up. You have Tweety McStuck on himself Mathews. he's so full of himself that he shits himself every other day. Followed by Ed, give me my union, Shultz. Then Tweety McStuck in himself AGAIN. Then come the Olbermann. Another prime timer so full of himself he can't look in a mirror because the reflection may reveal a flaw and his OBSESSION with FOX noise. Then comes Rachel, I'm a lesbian and you're not, Maddow. Then sucking the hind tit is Lawrence, the only opinion, O'Donnell cousin of the Xtine O'Donnell and black-sheep democrat of the O'Donnell family
When the egos get checked maybe we could get the noooooooz? Naw. What fun would Tweety have if he couldn't cut off his guest in mid-sentence and be held responsible for the bullshit that comes out of their mouths.
MSNBC = FOX News for libruls.
MSNBC == FOX News for libruls is a weak argument at best. And if I can remember this statement once I've sobered it up, I'll back it up. Fuck. Vodka, lemon juice, ginger and a sugar cube is a wonderful way to spend a suday.
Mmm…good idea.
Why WOULDN'T they give Christine O'Donnell her own show on MSNBC? It would be a ratings bonanza. People would watch, then take to the fucking twitter and talk about it all fucking day, until tomorrow.
Pretty soon, it would be nothing but Xtine and Best of Xtine. All the fucking teabaggers would go on there and be like hey, look, we took over this shit too, heh heh, and say the funniest things in history, for two solid years until the next election.
It would rescue that piece of shit channel. It's a genius move. Fire Olbermann and replace with Christine O'Donnell. Let the gods sort out the rest of them. You carry your weight or you're fucking out. First Prize: a new Cadillac. Second prize: steak knives. Third prize: you're fired. Game over.
Turn the fight for survival into a reality show. Daily ratings. Every day would be like American Idol, as those flush faced ranters fight to survive.
They could call it XOD OD.
The difference is, everyone on MSNBC is honest about their political leanings and their viewers, who read various newspapers like the Monitor and the Guardian Online and watch the Newshour and the BBC news, understand it's opinion.
Faux news, however, presents itself as "news" and the only other media their viewers pay attention to is hate talk radio, Newsmax and Drudge or Red state.
In other words, neither the anchors nor the viewers are deluded about what MSNBC is doing, whereas the Faux News audience have no idea they're being played.
Now I've handled the argument for me and natoslug, who can go back to drinking happily.
Well said. Now let's all have a nip at the bottle, shall we?
Yeah, "well said" just after you got through making the false equivalency of comparing MSNBC to Fox. If that was an attempt at trying to save your ass, it was some weak-assed tea.
Though I like Olbermann and agree with many of his opinions, not all, I don't think he has been injured. There is some big campaign to get the "O" reinstated in his job on @cspanwj which is misplaced I think. At his pay rate, he should have hired "people" to tell him what is in his contract and what is not. The "O" has just been suspended, his advisors are the people who should be fired if they did not tell him what was allowed. He makes as much as the "B" or the "L" so I do not think he'll be hurting anytime soon like the carpenter who has been out of work for months, or the teacher/cop/CNA who was cut. I'm sure it will turn into some book deal about the biz and another on air gig should he not do the bosses bidding.
I also am suspect of the timing, does this help the ratings of MSNBC?
If he'd done this before the World Series, I would be seriously suspicious.
He makes as much as Beck and Limbaugh? In your dreams. Limbaugh >$50M, Beck >$30M, Olbermann <$10M.
My point is, he's not hurting like other Americans so many may not feel sorry for him.
I'm pretty sure they actually bagged him for cancelling WPITW, which has always been the best segment on his show, certain Internet-Drama-tastic public feuds with our Wonkette editors notwithstanding.
Oh Wonkette – this is why we can't have anything nice. If you were just a little more sensitive then we wouldn't upset anyone's feelings – wait, why would we want that? Never mind, carry on.
I wish I cared. (Sorry.)
Too bad this didn't happen a couple of weeks back. At the Comedy Central do on the Mall, they could have used the PortaPotties for voting. On the doors would be "Support KO," "Don't Support KO," and "Don't Give a Shit." The latter oxymorans woulda been overflowing and in dire need of the Honey Wagon.
same, same.
Who is this guy, and why should I care?
REALLY?
-4
Have you no sense of humor?
For 2 minutes I cared (who is Olbermann?) because democracy! And then my interest divebombed off the chart. Excuse me, time to heat my TV dinner.
Me, too. I don't watch television. All I ever learned about the Teevee, I learned from Wonkette.
Then his suspension and he should congratulate himself on n was well deserved achieving whatever it is he didn't achieve.
I think.
Meanwhile, Fox News employees get a full company match for their political contributions.
FoxNews basicallly sponsored the teabaggers and organized their rallies under the auspices of the Kock brothers. Karl Rove, FoxNews contributor, is the criminal boss of American Crossroads who launders conservative donations. .All this makes me wanna inject heron into my eyeballs..or buy a big industrial sized bottle of jack at Costco (who donates to the GOP….. Ok, now i need some crack)
What? Costco used to be a blue company. Now I am sad, though there isn't one in Oklahoma.
I pulled a wingtard and pulled that one of my butt for the joke. If they are blue, that's good to know because I shop the hell out of that place. Their meat section is off the shizzam.
Costco is a C'Addle company, actually Issaquah but most would not know where that is, and they are pretty blue for a bidness.
That's what I thought. Bluest corporation in the southwest? An Oklahoma company, surprisingy enough: Sonic. Last time I checked (2004 after being mugged by the outcome of the election) they gave over 90% of their cash to Democrats. The were also the first company in the region to extend benefits to same-sex partners.
I suppose Bubba can't bear to boycott the deep fat fried food and the Blizzards. So think of that next time you drop by the Sonic drive-in to have your arteries reclogged.
True, yet, they were supporting the liquor initiatives that would have meant less money in state coffers.
Costco's not fully mortgaged with Satan yet, but they definitely took out a payday loan. (And failed! HA!) Seriously, though, I want to like Costco, but at the end of the day, they're a business. They want money more than they want to "do right".
Talking heads should not only be barred from making political contributions, they should not be allowed to vote or even to hold a firm opinion on any topic. They're paid to entertain the populace and should behave accordingly.
Dance, monkeys, DANCE!
You know, I don't mind that Keith is such a bloviating blowhard, because more often than not he's completely right, and half the time he's the first to admit he's such a bloviating blowhard, so I can't find fault with that.
That said, didn't Gawker already expose that MSNBC doesn't have these same "ethical guidelines" (though why having political opinions is against "ethics," I'll never know) as NBC, and in fact Joe Scarborough contributed to the campaigns of several Republicans back in '06?
This is either a monumentally weird publicity stunt, or an instance of 30-Rock-style royal fuckupitude. Considering it's NBC, it really could be both.
Oh quit waffling. It's both a monumentally weird publicity stunt AND a muonumentally weird moment of fucking up.
That's what I said: "it really could be both." As in at the same time.
Remember, this is NBC. They wrote Saved by the Bell for God's sake.
Oh fuck, you did. Sorry, I've been experimenting with drink mixes this afternoon and I kind of missed the end of your statement. Ginger and citrus goes well with both tequila and vodka, not so good with Bushmills or with peppermint schnapps. I wish I had something pithy to say, but right now I'm thinking that 1. my spelling skills are surprisingly good considering the blurriness of my computer screen, 2. tomorrow's going to start a bit rough, and 3. I need someone to go get me some more limes.
Have I mentioned that you're my hero?
This is just a very very special episode of Countdown.
First Jon Stewart criticises Olbermann at his rally, then MSNBC fires him? WAKE UP SHEEPLE! THE JEWS ARE KICKING OUT ALL THE…err…jews…FROM THE MEDIA!
Lock up your daughters THEY are
comingcumming for…What were we talking about?
I don't know, but all this talk of Jewish semen is getting me incredibly turned on…
Olbermann ain't Jewish.
Conspiracy denier …
I like you aisia, your different from other people here at the trailer park because you you're aware of what the queers are doing to the soil!
Geez, does this mean Lock Up will be on every night now instead of just their 48 hour weekend marathon?
My sources tell me that MSNBC will be replacing Olbermann with a crossfire type debate show featuring John Stewart on one side and Stephen Colbert on the other.
(I can dream, can't I)
That. Would. Be. AWESOME.
Shame about that reality thing though.
Isn't that kind of like the 69 pee score?
"You, sir, are a formidable opponent!"
It's been done.
"Jane, you ignorant slut."
Saw that at the Sanity Rally – failed badly.
So some executive at NBC is trying to be a bigger princess than Olberman, is that the gist of this feud? Why the hell not formalize it into some sort of duel? I suggest a two-knockdown pillowfight in lace teddies, and the loser has to join The View.
The guest host on Friday did make a joke along the lines of, "never get in the middle of a power struggle — I should know!" So yeah, that's the gist. As for your solution, I'll need to go shopping at the liquor barn to help erase the image from my brain.
Now there's a plan I can get behind…..I mean support…..I mean agree with.
My eyes!
Since Olbermann will presumably be homeless soon for lack of money, he is welcome to move into my apartment and bellow at me between blowjobs.
Uh, you pitchin' or catchin"?
In think he's one of those white boys wrapped a little too tight to enjoy a good blowjob. In fact, that's probably why he is so cranky.
Just not during, because that would be messy.
The US Chamber of commerce demands an apology for the toppling of their influence. The Fortune 500 feel existentially threatened by the couple of kilobucks he gave. Chinese and Indian corporations are deeply offended, they have lost face. Olbermann is literally disassembling the known political universe.
MSNBC should make him write many times on the blackboard and then stand in the corner.
This is the screwed-up country we live in now, where millions of dollars of anonymous big money have been dumped into the 2010 elections, and is not a problem. Yet one guy donating a few thousand at most is quite the scandal.
I’ll
fapdrink to that!For 7 million dollars a year I could not donate to politicians.
I'll do it for $5 million a year, and promise not to outsource my lack of donations.
And here I am doing it for free, like a sucker!
It looks like the bidding is over. You can't get no donations any cheaper than free.
Sign of the apocalypse: almost as many retwats on this thread as comments. How do you twat wonkette, anyway? Isn't is just 140 characters?
Or do you read the thing post and . . .I don't know. I taught Sunday School (little bastards kept giggling at the wrong time), helped serve communion, did a shit load of gardening, including searching everywhere for the peony tuber the (rescued) dogs see to have buried somewhere I don't want it buried (great way to show their gratitude) and now I'm baking pies. Plus doing laundry.
I'm too fucking old for this. And for watching a goddam football game when it's supposed to be Hopey.
Excuse me. I'm going to go down the last of the narcotic cough syrup as my reward for being such an industrious (and liberal) little old Xian lady.
God loves a cheerful giver, but few here on earth really give a fuck.
As liberals know all too well.
Conservitards will soon find out, if they don't know now. The scooter trash Teabaggers are neither “the Haves or the Have Mores” as Dubya described his Base.
MSNBC being "not as dependent on" on Olbermann as in the past doesn't seem like a position of strength.
There is no apology because Olbermann's actions resulted in no victims. Everyone knows it's the victims who apologize.
I regret if anyone was offended by the sucking chest wound I received by the courageous Dick Cheney.
…the “dun-dun” sound effect from Law and Order.
Richard Belzer calls it the “Dick Wolf Cash Register Sound.”
Keith Olberman
The Ox
Punishing Keith Olbermann for making campaign contributions to democrats is sort of like punishing your dog for sniffing crotches. Don't be to hard on him.
I thought O'Reilly was the crotch sniffer. I'd better start paying closer attention, there may be a quiz.
Ha ha! I bet there are a lot of people who are now regretting picking Rachel Maddow in the "Which MSNBC Anchor Listens To Edith Piaf and Weeps Every Night?" Trivia Quiz.
Someone needs to do "Special Comment". Hell, this comment is pretty fucking special. I guess I could probably do one of these a day, indefinitely.
Then it wouldn't be special. It would be "Daily Comment". Or "Daily Meta-comment".
That makes it even easier. You'll never know when the special one is about to hit.
In any event, "indefinitely" apparently only means until day after tomorrow. http://www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com/Content/D...
It's kinda like being "banned for life" from major league baseball. Only not as remunerative.
Phil Griffin, tonight's WORST! PERSON! IN THE WOOORRRLLD!!!
except he is going to be back Tuesday (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/07/keith-olbermann-to-return_n_780141.html) so why are we talking about it? Lets try to muster up some snark on Texas abolishing Medicaid… if that's possible.
Keithie is back on Tuesday:
http://www.nbcuniversal.presscentre.com/Content/ …
Hell, back in the '80s my friend Jeremy got suspended for five days for smoking a joint in the boys' room. This isn't a suspension — this is detention. Glenn Beck was out for longer having his ass operated on. Donovan McNabb wishes he'd only be out for two days, and nobody has any idea why that's going on. I think we know who won this battle of the princesses.
I know. The spittle didn't even have time to dry.
I certainly think it was supposed to be longer. But Griffin got scared when the petition that went online the minute he shut his phones off got 200,000 signatures the first couple of hours. He might be the "president," but he has bosses, too.
In a world where significant victories are nearly impossible, I will settle for this trivial victory of giving a millionaire, who makes millions for his corporate overlords, back his job. Yes!
Lame! Griffin is a puss. I wanted more nasty back and forth. I wanted screaming. I wanted this to be the lead on every other network for the next week.. well maybe not. Just saying that this "After several days of deliberation and discussion, I have determined that suspending Keith through and including Monday night's program is an appropriate punishment…" is a little weak.
Okay, OT, but shrub is on halftime at football now being interviewed. What an awful piece of shit.
Ken Lay is alive. Those were days about as innocent as we will ever get. That fucking con-job, house of cards, hollow-headed criminal enterprise known as Enron.
Shrub's fucking buddy. It was just a schematic for all future criminal enterprises.
It's just like, are they really going to shove that dick in our face during football? Going to rehab his presidency now? With 50,000 troops still in Iraq?
We're still paying for his fuck ups – from just the crass cronyism and corruption like Enron, to the monumentally historical fuck ups like the Iraq War – and someone was like, "yeah, let's help him sell his book and get his story out while the rubes are trying to enjoy a football game"? Fuck that shit.
Not to mention the arduous, and not at all celebrated, job that Barry's people are doing while they try to piece together the federal bureaucracy that the Rs wrecked. And shit like this little gem: Under Junior Bush, the IRS was downsized and people who get the Earned Income Tax Credit were more likely to be audited than any other group. Barry's supreme tax lord hired more auditors and, gee boys and girls, get this: rich people are more likely to get audited.
Seeing that dick throwing out a pitch in the World Series made me happy for the Giants. Know how he bought his share of the Rangers? Daddy's friends (who are always bailing him out of everything) matched his cash 6:1 to help him. Know how he got rich? He sold the fucking baseball team and took the earnings as if they were his in the first place. I hate that little lying dickwad piece of shit. Blood on that fuckers hands.
And Dallas is getting stomped. I love hearing the faint sob of a million Texas assholes watching "America's Team" go down the toilet.
Exactly. That's how I felt when the Giants won the World Series. (That, and knowing that Chimpy would be seriously bummed.)
AHAHAHAHA! I can go out in the yard and hear the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth emanating from my neighbors' living rooms all up and down the street!
What is the Cowboy Cheerleader routine for a funeral? Black panties and pompoms, and they form a circle around the widow and shake their bosoms at her mournfully? We have much to look forward to when Dubya chokes on The Final Pretzel.
They don't need the widow, they form that circle and point at each other. In Dallas, it's not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.
I'm hoping for a repeat of that wonderful 1989 (1-15) season. BWAHAHA!
The sheeple who hang on Keith's every utterance are just like the sheeple who hang on Beck's every verbal fart; just different kind of sheeple. I get all my news from Wonketeers and I'm not too fucked up. am I?
Our kind of sheeple. And that counts for something, right?
The Right says the very same thing about themselves vs. you and me. I want to be MY kind of sheeple.
I get all my information from both of them, so you wanna talk about fucked up…
redrum! REDRUM!!
You are a better man than I, sir.
Oops, thumbed you down by accident. I owe you two to make up for it.
No harm, no foul. I am so retarded I didn't know about the “thumb” stuff until your post. Still don't but have an inkling now. Trust me, I am not now or will I ever keep score. I do this shit for the sake of my five dogs. The more I vent here the less I want to kick something here at the house.
I have the same problem. Wonkette + smartphone + fat stumpy fingers = lots of random votes.
I feel for Keith, this is bogus. And it sucks for everyone who shares his values.
I have to say, I was sort of annoyed by Stewart trying to do the middle-of-the-road thing (Conflating MSNBC and FOX clips at the rally). To me, that's exactly what Obama does, this whole "I'm personally above the fray" thing. But face it, this shit isn't working out for us. I mean, we just got clobbered. And the Stewart Rally didn't stop that, and Obama's trying to "bring the country" together and constant compromise didn't stop that.
So…sorry, Mr. Stewart, sorry Mr. President. I'm way more worried about saving Social Security than how we might look if sometimes we're a little overly enthusiastic and not all entirely concerned with being entirely fair to the right wingers.
I agree. Bill Maher gave a rather scathing response to Stewart's rally to wit: if you're going to get 200,000+ people on the mall, why not rally for something?
For all those bitchin' re Keith, lets hope ;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA
Keith is coming back on Tuesday. Five bucks this was a pre-planned publicity stunt.
$7 million barely covers Chris Matthews' Glenlivet bill.
Or the dry-cleaning after he gets tingly pants.
Chris suffers from what doctors call "single-malt syndrome".
If he'd get his highlights done at an ordinary salon instead of at the salon at the Four Seasons, he'd be able to buy better booze.
Following on the heels of the NPR flapdoodle over not allowing staff to attend the Stewart/Colbert country fair (and the queasy firing of Juan Williams), it just floors me that so called mainstream news outlets step all over themselves to show off make believe objectivist creds. A reporter should be judged on the merits of his/her reporting. An honest reporter knows this and abides by this, and the editors overseeing them are the watchdogs. Analysts, pundits, prime time blowhards, opinionaters, bloviambulators,, and like are paid to express opinions.
Does anyone need reminding that Olberman is emphatically NOT a reporter?
The greater problem here is not that the news has become entertainment or too opinionated. The smack upside the head problem is that the right in this country has decided they don't need or want an objective press. By backing out of that covenant, and with the left unable to figure out how to talk to "normal folk" the right wing frames the debate every time.
That Keith Olberman donated $ to less than a handful of races is not his bosses or our business. His bosses should have the brains to differentiate between his show and Brian Williams'.
God. Stupid.
My guess is that the "Comcastic" solution to this will be to replace most of MSNBC with highlights from yesterday's "Local on the Eights" from the "Weather Channel" (weather reports aren't old until you've heard them), as well as some news programming like maybe a live webcam of a newspaper stand in the lobby of the RCA Building.
Actually, I'm not too sure about the last one since it would cost several hundred dollars to set up and would use electricity.
If it's the Comcast I know and love, they'll just replace MSNBC with a loop of lite rock and a recorded voice every 30 seconds that says "Your call is important to us! All of our representatives are currently assisting other customers; please stay on the line and the next available service representative will be with you shortly". Or maybe a vague promise that "the news will be delivered on Tuesday between the hours of 8 and 5; please ensure that you are available".
MSNBC: Bringing 57 hours of caught child predators, shameful prison sex, America's Heroes: Prison Guards, and well attired, but hushed and eerie tisk-tisking of all sorts of graphic, twisted, immoral and brutal crime every weekend since Windows '95.
A few things to realize:
- Phil Griffin has always hated Keith. The way I see it, MSNBC's election night coverage brought on the ire of Griffin and gave him an easy excuse to launch an offensive against Olbermann. That this happened just a day or so after the election should tell everyone that this was in the works beforehand.
- Keith is a prima donna. This isn't the first time he's been suspended or canned in his career, and it most likely won't be his last. His righteous indignation, while often somewhat or mostly legitimate, gets in the way of having good working relationships with his employers.
- My first thougt when I heard this is that of course Keith knew about the rule. Now, I'm less sure. And, the three he contributed to in the last weeks make me respect the guy even more. Two or the three (at least) campaigns were subjected to violence/intimidation in the later part of the election. It's not as if Keith was contributing to offensive, liberal firebrands. He was contributing against thuggish tactics by the right.
So, to end, fuck Phil Griffin. Fuck him with a rusty spoon.
"So, to end, fuck Phil Griffin. Fuck him with a rusty spoon."
Now that's something I could watch on continuous loop all weekend. Do it for the rating Phil!
where's that fab ESPN keith 'stache picture?
Since KO is going to return on Tuesday, will he be bringing Wimpy's promissory notes? Nah, not likely that. But as Fare la Volpe put it, before we must once again suffer the correct but interminable segments of a "bloviating blowhard," how about a small respite? Here is a most festive rendition of the "Waltz of the Flowers" from SFO.
Well, at least he probably voted instead of focusing on those samba moves.
Reporting on a story in a way that makes one side look better than the other is not definitively inaccurate journalism if the facts reported are actually true.
This is just how Fox News frames the argument. They run their fraudulent reporting, claim to be 'fair and balanced', and run false stories about 'the liberal media'.
It is called deflecting blame is not a new phenomenon. It leaves MSNBC powerless to contradict Fox's coverage without coming across as one of the evil 'liberal media' agents Fox made up in the first place.
I'm sure this long con is what attracted Alaska's Grifter Queen to Fox in the first place. Well, that and the dump truck of money they backed up to her frozen compound.
All that to say, Keith Olbermann's suspension never would have occurred if Fox News had never claimed to be 'Fair and Balanced'.
Isn't that basically the non-Supreme Court definition of a corporation? Wanting money more than doing right?
I'm sure the Dallas police will stand around looking "surprised" as they escort Wade Phillips from his next press conference, when some titty bar owner with a press pass and pistol plugs him in the gut. That's justice, Texas style!
Given that Ben Stein started his career as a Nixon speechwriter and and lawyer and all-around apologist (horray for nepotism!), and only transitioned into a movie/teevee/generic celebrity person after the fact, I'm not sure it's a 'betrayal' per se, so much as coming back home.
Seriously, dude claimed that Woodward falsified Deep Throat, and then after Felt revealed himself, said that Woodward and Felt are responsible for the Khmer Rouge. I've never seen a bigger Nixon apologist ever.
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