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13 Mar 2010 20:34

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Culture: Keith Olberman writes the sweetest, most sincere obit ever

  • “He was my inspiration, and will always remain so. 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.” We have nothing to add to Keith Olbermann’s heartfelt obit for his own father. source
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05 Mar 2010 22:16

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Culture: ChatRoulette officially over now that The Daily Show has covered it

  • That “Mexican food” analogy is painfully true. The Daily Show covered the topic du jour of the light media set – Chatroulette. He seems to agree with us on its faddish nature, except while noting the high level of nudity. Then, Stewart takes a spin through the site, which he jokes is loaded with reporters, and finds some – including a hilarious self-parody by Keith Olbermann and a bunch of other famous faces (Katie Couric and Brian Williams – sweet!).
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19 Feb 2010 12:50

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Politics: “Tamed, not eradicated”: Is Keith Obermann right on racism?

  • “Where are they? Where … are they?” Keith Olbermann’s recent statement on racism in the Tea Party movement strikes us as a little true, a little untrue, a little harsh, and a good bit needed. (The context which he brings to his criticism, going from Don Imus to John Mayer, helps his point some.) Now, there are black tea party members (who apparently stick out like sore thumbs if the photo we used with that article says anything), but the overarching point that he’s getting at is one much-better-explained than his MSNBC counterpart Chris Matthews – race is a complex thing in this country and the relative uniformity of the Tea Party movement is an example of how far we still need to go. Is he wrong? Are we? Let us know.
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11 Oct 2009 21:52

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Politics: Max Headroom: Al Gore stutters, Keith Olbermann doesn’t

  • Inconvenient for Al Phelim McAleer, co-director of “Not Evil Just Wrong,” a right-leaning film refuting Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” happened to be at Gore’s first Q&A in four years, Gore stumbled through McAleer’s question. Then McAleer’s mic was cut. Hm.

  • Fox & the GOP in bed?White House Communications Director Anita Dunn made a harsh-tongued accusation against Fox News this morning, calling them the “communications arm of the Republican Party” and saying Obama treats talking to them like a debate.

  • It’s about … deathLast week, Keith Olbermann devoted a show to the health care debate. He prefaced it by saying that the debate was “about … death.” And he goes on, and on, and on. And a lot of it is pretty good and substantial. (Watch the whole thing here.)

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08 Sep 2009 20:39

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Politics: Remember that Glenn Beck attack site? The lawyers got it

  • “Glenn Beck Raped And Murdered A Young Girl In 1990 (dot com)” was nailed. Hard. Last week’s hilariously blatant slander golden boy, GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com, was taken down in an attack by lawyers on both its host, data center and registar. However, the site bounced back in alternate form: GB1990.com. In other news, Fark’s Drew Curtis took Keith Olbermann to task for his criticism of the attacks, which are a parody of Glenn Beck’s own tactics. source
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15 Aug 2009 10:00

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Politics: Well, that truce between O’Reilly and Olbermann didn’t last long

  • We were hopeful at both companies to put a more civil tone in these discussions. No one at GE ever told anyone at NBC how to cover the news or what to cover.
  • General Electric spokesman Gary Sheffer • Regarding renewed interest in the debate between Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. After stories came out about the truce last month, both talk-show gabbers went back to their bag of tricks, with O’Reilly attack NBC owner General Electric. It’s given him some big ratings, while Olbermann, who isn’t playing to his network either, is kinda holding steady ratings-wise. Moral of the story: They shouldn’t have told anyone about the truce. • source
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02 Aug 2009 12:02

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Politics: A Olbermann & O’Reilly truce? TV’s biggest talking heads cool it

Bill and Keith’s hands were forced by their parent companies, News Corp. and GE. That’s right: The fight had actually started hurting the corporate overlords. source
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30 May 2009 09:07

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Culture, Politics: The Mancow waterboarding stunt was just that – a stunt

  • I know nothing about waterboarding. I had never done it before, I have no formal training in it, and I’ve never had it done to me. The only thing I knew was what I saw on the internet.
  • Klay South • The man who performed an act of “waterboarding” on Mancow. He said he faked it to raise money and gain publicity for his organization, Veterans of Valor, which helps wounded vets. Both he and radio host Mancow were very quick to admit that the whole thing was a hoax. Great job, guys! Maybe Keith should get back his money. • source
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23 May 2009 19:33

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Politics: Waterboarding for charity: Keith Olbermann gives Mancow props

  • $10,000 Amount Olbermann gave the charity Veterans of Valor after radio host Mancow was waterboarded for 10 seconds – it’s like a dunk tank for terrorism
  • $0 Amount Sean Hannity, who Olbermann initially offered the charity donation for, got after chickening out and never mentioning waterboarding again source
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27 Mar 2009 19:58

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Culture, Politics: CNN isn’t doing so hot in primetime right now; MSNBC is

  • +30% increase in MSNBC’s prime-time ratings helped largely by kingpin Keith Olbermann; they’re now in second place, ahead of CNN (Fox News is still way atop the heap)
  • +1% increase in CNN’s prime-time ratings in the same period; annoying ugly woman Nancy Grace on sister network Headline News routinely trumps CNN right now source
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