World Series Forecast

Here are the forecaster’s problems.

The Detroit Tigers’ pitching dominance over the New York Yankees – the .144 OBA over four gruesome games – is not the indicator that you might think. The Yankees have been aging rapidly for three seasons, and they had just barely scratched out a victory over a Baltimore team without line-up depth or a dominant starting pitcher. Joe Girardi made a fateful remark in mid-series, about how his hitters had to “adjust” – manager-speak for telling them they had to stop going up there expecting the room service fastballs they would get from 60% of the pitchers they faced during the regular season. Yes, the Tiger pitching was superb. Yes, we all spent too much time talking about the Yanks’ demise. But between the two extremes it is almost impossible to get a good gauge on just how good the survivors are.

The Giants’ comebacks against the Reds and Cardinals were historic and epic. And they are also not the indicators you might think. Both losing teams have a lot of talent but neither was a juggernaut and the fact is that San Francisco’s valiant efforts have deranged their own rotation. It is stand-up-and-cheer heart-warming to see Marco Scutaro and Barry Zito finally make a World Series but it is imperative to remember that they are not going to win the World Series by themselves. 2012 was the second time in his career that the 36-year old Scutaro has batted better than .282 in a major league season and the third time he has hit more than one homer in a major league season.

As to Zito, the Giants could not have done it without him but his 15 wins divided up as follows:

Zito Vs. Playoff Teams (4-2)

Vs. Atlanta Braves     2-0

Vs. Oakland A’s         1-0

Vs. St. Lou. Cards      1-0

Vs. Tex. Rangers       0-1

Vs. Cin. Reds              0-1

Zito Vs. Non-Playoff Teams (11-6)

Vs. Az D-Backs          4-0

Vs. LA Dodgers          3-2

Vs. Col. Rockies         2-0

Vs. Chi. Cubs              1-0

Vs. Pitt. Pirates          1-0

Vs. Mil. Brewers        0-1

Vs. L.A. Angels         0-1

Vs. Hou. Astros         0-1

Vs. N.Y. Mets             0-1

These are the simplest of analytics here but they are offered simply to imply one fact about the World Series: drop the story lines of the first two rounds of the playoffs, and judge the Classic on who has the better, sounder team.

The Tigers have a confused bullpen, which reduces it to the level of the Giants when Santiago Casilla failed – and the Giants fixed that situation within hours with Sergio Romo. The Giants have a confused rotation, and you can’t straighten that out in anything less than a week. The Tigers have the kind of offense that is not seen by National League pitchers and its most potent bats (Cabrera and Fielder) live to butcher off-speed left-hand pitching like Zito.

There is also Justin Verlander in this equation and if the Giants can’t stop him at least once, the  Fister/Sanchez/Scherzer trio have only to produce two solid starts.

I’m thinking the Tigers could do this in five. If the Giants stage an upset – especially if they come from behind to do it – they will earn (and I will happily crown them) the single-season comeback kings of the game’s modern history. Unless one of the troubled starters (Lincecum? Bumgarner? turns in an MVP-level performance, I just don’t think they have a path to do it this time.

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First Apple Daily is a satire site, two I have been resaerching this, which you show that you do not know how to do, and this women is showing herself not to be believable here is what I found nvestigation into the Sex Scandal involving ex-Vice President Al Gore has many readers wanting to know more information on how this happened, when this happened, and why there has been a lag in reporting the possibility of a crime as heinous as attempted rape. Here is the time line of what is alleged to have occurred when Ex-VP Al Gore took a trip to the city of Portland, Oregon in October 2006.
October 24, 2006, Masseuse Molly Hagerty received a call from the hotel bell man who asked her to come to the Lucia Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon to give a massage to a VIP. Time to report was 10:30 pm.
Molly Hagerty first reported to Portland Police December 15, 2006 almost 2 months after the alleged assault. Molly Hagerty reported the incident to police and in January, 2007 her attorney contacted Portland Police to explain that Molly Hagerty did not want to participate in the investigation any longer, as she would pursue the case in civil court.
January 6, 2009, Molly Hagerty contacted Portland Police and informed them that she wished to make a second statement regarding her alleged sexual assault in October 2006. Read this new statement to police here.
In this police report Molly Hagerty explained, in her own words, exactly what took place while she was in the Lucia Hotel room with Vice President Al Gore. It is very graphic in nature, and individuals under the age of 13 are not advised to read this material.
In her second report to the Portland Police, Molly Hagerty never revealed in her statement a witness, video (secret) tape, or DNA on her cloths.
Portland Police investigated as much as possible, as they would say, and ultimately closed the case stating there is not enough evidence to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this alleged sexual assault actually took place on October 24, 2006. Also this what a repsonse said that makes this case even more not believe able, You left out the parts about her making and canceling three appointments with Portland Police to give a statement and the fact that she had asked the National Enquirer for $1 million for her story but apparently settled for a smaller sum. If she didn’t want money but wanted Gore to “pay” for his crime, why had she intended to pursue a civil suit rather than a criminal complaint? And her statement in Jan 2009 wasn’t her second statement because she never made a first statement–the initial contact was only through her attorney. I am so tired of reading columnists who are supposedly trying to clarify all this and then they leave out half the salient facts. Here is another one A close friend of a Portland massage therapist who accused former Vice President Al Gore of groping her says the therapist told her soon after the 2006 encounter that she’d been violated and assaulted by “someone in the higher ups.”

Donna Burleigh of Keizer said her best friend didn’t identify the person, but when Gore returned to Portland years later, her friend “freaked out.”

“She freaked and split. She said her predator was back and coming to town. She up and left,” Burleigh said.

Burleigh said she knew her friend had obtained a lawyer and thought she was trying to pursue a civil case, so she was surprised to see the National Enquirer splash the allegations on its website this week.

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“She’s not out for freakin’ money. This lady, all she wants is this man accountable for his actions,” Burleigh said.

Within a few days of the Oct. 24, 2006 encounter at the Hotel Lucia in downtown Portland, Burleigh said she spoke by phone with her friend.

“She told me ‘Donna, I was assaulted by someone in the higher ups.’ It broke my heart, and I said, ‘God, I’m sorry.’ ”

Her friend didn’t go into details, Burleigh said, but said it was during the course of her work. She kept saying “things are going to come to a head” and worried that there’d be “all kinds of media coverage,” Burleigh said.

“She said she was meeting with a rape crisis unit, stuff like that,” Burleigh said. “She said it was a high authority person who has a lot of power. She was scared of him.”

Burleigh said her friend was insulted by what occurred, stressing that she takes her licensed massage therapist job seriously. The therapist also has health problems and the incident made them worse, Burleigh said.

“When she got violated, she has not been the same since,” Burleigh said. “She was talking about how she wanted to go to the hospital because she was having panic attacks, then it started getting worse.”

The editor of the National Enquirer said Thursday the tabloid didn’t pay the Portland massage therapist for its story. The statement rebuts reports that the paper paid $1 million for the story that it broke a day earlier online.

“We did not pay the therapist or any representative of hers,” Editor-in-Chief Tony Frost said. “In fact, she was unaware the story was being published.”

The statement said the tabloid initially heard about the story through a tip. “We had to do a great deal of work to establish that the information was correct and to determine the validity of certain documents that our reporters later discovered.”

According to Portland police, no one from The Enquirer contacted the bureau to discuss the allegations, or requested the police reports or sought interviews with investigators.

Randall Vogt, the woman’s attorney, had reported to Portland police in December 2006, two months after the encounter, that Gore made “unwanted sexual advances” during a massage session. But the woman didn’t show up for three interviews with police because Vogt said she didn’t want the publicity. Then, on Jan. 8, 2009, the therapist came to Portland police with a lengthy written statement, detailing her allegations of Gore’s sexual advances and answered detectives’ questions.

Portland police didn’t investigate or contact the district attorney’s office and closed the case, citing insufficient evidence. This month, on June 3, the therapist returned to Portland police, asking for a copy of her statement, presented some clarifications and said she was going to take the case to the media, police said. Police are expected to release the clarifications today.

In her 2009 statement, the therapist told police she was called to Hotel Lucia about 10:30 p.m. after Gore gave an environmental talk at the Rose Garden. She told police he pushed her hand to his groin, fondled her buttocks and breasts, thrust his tongue in her mouth and threw her down on the bed and climbed on top of her as tried to push him away.

According to police reports, the woman said in 2009 that she’d been a licensed massage therapist for about 12 years. She said she had a professional diploma from The Oregon School of Massage, completed training at Northwest Acupressure Institute and preliminary Chinese medicine studies at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. She received her bachelor of science in liberal studies at Portland State University in 2002.

Burleigh, who runs S&D Exotic Bird Rescue out of her Keizer home, said she and the therapist share a love of birds and other animals. They met about seven years ago, when she brought a Macaw named Toto to Burleigh and she found it a good home. The macaw was too loud for the apartment where the therapist was living. The therapist was also on the rescue’s board of directors, and helps people find new homes for their animals via Craigslist.

“She’s a big-hearted person, with birds of her own — Quakers, African Gray, Senegal,” Burleigh said. Neighbors of the therapist said the woman is outgoing and known for striking up conversations. “She’s a very spiritual person,” said Pepe Moscoso, an artist and photographer who lives in the same Southeast Portland apartment complex. “We’d talk about the Zodiac and other astrological things.”

She always talks to him and his wife when they’re walking outside with their daughters.

“She’s friendly enough to stop and say hi to you on the sidewalk,” neighbor Rusty Pranger said. She tries to speak Russian phrases to some of their immigrant neighbors, he said.

Law enforcement experts said the time delay in reporting the details of the crime poses a “tremendous” challenge for investigators and prosecutors. The veracity of the complaint could be compromised, said Broward County Sheriff’s Sgt. Adam Hofstein, supervisor of the special victims unit that handles sex crimes in Fort Lauderdale. “Your forensic evidence is waning, the time weighs on people’s recollections and their credibility.”

Yet, Hofstein said, in a case like this, “We are still going to take all the steps. You are still within the statute of limitations, you still have a felony.”

Harry O’Reilly, a retired New York City detective sergeant who headed its special victims unit and now teaches sex crime investigative tactics to law enforcement, said police might consider massage therapy somewhat of a “dubious profession,” and may not follow up since the victim didn’t provide details until more than two years later and it does not rise to a rape allegation.

But since the case involved such a high-profile person, “one would follow it up — not necessarily because of the gravity of the case, but because of the people who were involved and the potential consequences.” and here is something that also happened that did not make sense The cover of The Enquirer has a picture of her holding a plastic bag with a pair of pants that allegedly are stained. The headlines indicate they contain Al Gore’s D.N.A. from semen. Interestingly, in a 2009 interview with the Portland P.D., she told them that the pants did not contain any of Gore’s D.N.A.. Here is what Saloon saidWho knows what, exactly, to make of the news that Al Gore has been accused by an Oregon masseuse of making repeated, unwanted sexual contact with her back in 2006?

Early on Wednesday, the National Enquirer reported that the the masseuse had provided an account to Portland police of a hotel room encounter with Gore in October ’06. Apparently, Portland police were first made aware of her accusations back in late ’06 by the woman’s attorney. However, she declined to come forward herself or to press charges. But then, last year, she did go to police, providing them with a graphic account of the alleged incident. Copies of a police report from early ’07 and of the woman’s 2009 statement have now been made public.

For all we know right now, there might be validity to her claims. Still, three reasons to be skeptical jump out:

1) The Portland police declined to investigate the woman’s claims any further after she made her statement, citing a lack of evidence.

2) The allegations were apparently known two years ago to at least one Portland media outlet — the Portland Tribune, a weekly paper that declined to report on them. The paper’s editor tells Ben Smith that the allegations didn’t meet the “test points” that the paper uses to determine whether a story is likely to be true.

3) We have seen plenty of cases of baseless (if vivid) sexual allegations against celebrities before. Tucker Carlson was once accused of rape by a woman he’d never met, for instance. Something similar happened with magician David Copperfield last year, too. (Plenty of celebrities have been guilty of sex crimes, too, of course.)

Gore has yet to make any public statement on the matter.
So again you are exploiting rape and wanting to assume that you know what happened in this case, I think that rape is serious but to me the facts do not add up, so to me this does not look like he did it, so again keep bashing and showing that you do not put facts up. You really are pathic. Keep showing why KO is this generations Murrow and why you have zero clue what tolerance is.

I may have missed it, but if not, will you do a column on the new Red Sox Manager?

LOL, no matter how Keith tries to turn this he comes out like an Asshole.

“Current has a ragtag operation” ITS A NEW TELEVISION CHANNEL MORON! Ofcourse its gonna be ragtag. It blows my mind that he had the possibility to be a part of something new from the start, help shape it to become the next great hope in american political news, but all he wanted was a paycheck and left when he didn’t feel “comfortable” enough.

Ex0dus111 1 month ago

Exactly! You can’t demand a bigger and bigger salary and then bitch about there not being enough money to give you a bigger studio or more limo drivers (albeit ones that may occasionally have a little BO or actually try to talk to you), Well, actually, I guess you can. Bathtub Boy did. But that just shows what a prick he is.

Frickin’ prima donna.

Again you show that you do not listen to truth or facts, that is a made up talking point. again here is the evidence that you love to igonre that shows that KO was unjustily fired. I do not listen to people like you who keep putting made up crap. Current being a ragtime operations is a BS excuse. ragtime operations do not make people who are have a thorat infection that is serious in KO’s industry have work, that shows that they do not care about who they are hiring, they do not get rid of thier co-Ceo that knows what he doing, that is how made up that statement is here is again is the facts and what happenedWow you also seem to want to lie about KO’s career. KO was not fired from ESPN or MSNBC. I want you to explain to me why was KO able to a last show at ESPN, I did not realize Nick that people that were fired could do that. Nick what happened at ESPN is that they could not find a agreement when it came to reneogationating his contract. He wanted to be in New York, because he was single and cannot drive and had family there. ESPN wanted him to stay in Bristol, so they left on mutal agreement. At MSNBC the first time he quit because he did not want to talk other things beside Lewensky scandal. He was then traded to Fox, he got fired from Fox for reporting the truth about Murdouch selling the LA Dodgers. Which at Fox is not allowed. He was than hired back from MSNBC, and when he left in January of 2011 he was again allowed to do a last show and mangement even said that KO left on his own aka mutal agreement and he got paid the rest of his contract, that shows pacfically that KO was not fired from MSNBC just like ESPN. Also KO was rehired by ESPN to work with Dan Patrick before he left ESPN. Nick keep lying about KO’s career history.
Nick also I want you to explain when has a professional responsible business ever put out a letter that is a personal attack on the person that they letting go, so again explain Nick how this ego and KO’s fault. Also KO keeps his fans up to date on twitter about his abences and what is going on and when the subs are going to on and letting the subs like Press tweet when he going to be on. He also saying who on the show and his staff doing twitter saying who on when Shuster is on, while Current will not take responsible for thier mistakes like the tenichal problems which is business which in the couter-suit they claim is thier job. Nick why did Current want KO to do a commerical for a corporation and have a corporate sponser, when they advertised that they were corporate free, also giving corporation his website, wow trying to make KO a hypocrite to his audience and people like me who are fans, and love that he stands on principle. Why did Current leak the primary story to the press, and KO and his lawyer only confirm that lawyers that were involved that Current said were saying, Nick how is that sabtoging them, when they were putting out email and letters and putting out qutos about KO, and all KO does is defend them and confirm that lawyers involved, along with making KO go against his principles and make them go again what they stood for by being corporate free. Wow Nick that shows that Current is sabtoging themselves and unjustily fired KO.
Nick KO was unjustily fired and that is the truth and thier is nothing that going to change that. Also nick explain why when articles about KO come out he or his team aka lawyer and manger always quoted, but with Current it sources, and that Hollywood story says sources and they say that KO was the one responsible why not deny when KO said they had told him it was his manger. Who is it the manger or KO. and they cannot deny that they blackmaiel and threaten to fire staff, all showing that they not KO realeased the salary. They also never reprimended KO for saying that he was on a preplanned vacation to fans on twitter, showing that they had approved it. So again I would be pissed if KO does not get the justice he deserved for being unjustily fired.
Nick keep making me love KO and respecting him more and more and showing why KO will be aroud for year to come. KO keep being yourself and showing why you are this generations Murrow and you will always have a fan in me. Lov eyou faults and all. Again Hyatt is someone that fired some with AIDS and you take what he says seriously. Dude I researched this over and over again and nothing shows that KO personality is why he not at Current. Keep showing how igorant you are on KO.

“At MSNBC the first time he quit because he did not want to talk other things beside Lewensky scandal.”

Yeah, he wanted to cover real news like the fact that Carrie Prejean didn’t support gay marriage. Like the majority of California voters who passed Prop 8.

Listening to Olbermann’s list of whines,I can completely understand Current’s dissatisfaction with him.
matbroomfield 4 months ago

Wow KO needs to sue over what happened at Current, you again do not listen, this has been debunked, again here is what happened first KO was dealing with a thorat infection KO was working while he had a thorat infection which is a big no in his industry and you are putting out that made up crap that has been debunked over and overe again that his attiude is what got him fired, Hope I reading his timeline where is KO being a dick, all he doing he telling you his opoin on Yankee fans that is not what being a dick looks like, I guess you are like Cenk and TC in that KO thinks that Cenk will not get ratings and thinks he does not tell the truth, and Cenk grants a interview and that shows that KO is two faced, wow I want you, TC and Cenk to explain how is that two faced, because I do not have to be a fan of KO to know that is not what a two face is, just like I do not have to be a fan to know that working while you are having thorat problems and getting told by a impocomptent mangement that wants to say they are professinal responsible and in charge of buiness side but will not fix a set or give KO a new studio and will not even let him rest his voice, and KO’s mad explain how is KO’s attitude got him fired, Why Hope should I believe a guy that fired someone with AIDs when it comes to honesty and morals, wow keep showing Hope how KO got unjustily fired at Current there is no proof that KO’s attitude got him fired, and KO telling you what he thinks of Yankee fans is not what being a dick is. You two show that KO is right about Yankee fans, you two disgust me with your bashing of KO because Yankee fans can never be critized. So I want you to explain why KO who works in broadcasting should be working why he sick, wow so I guess you think that broadcaster should loose thier voices. Here is another oneSorry but keep shwoing that you where not KO fan, KO’s attitude has zero to do with what happened at Current, I want you to explain why KO was promised to be news cheif and never got it, wow I guess wanting what he promised shows that his attitude was the problem, Hope I read his lawsuit and the conter-suit and nothing in there shows that KO broke the contract and I care crap about his attitude, nothing shows Hope that KO’s attitude is why he not at Current, that Hope has been debunked over and over again, Hope KO giving what he thinks of Yankee fans is not what being a dick looks like, you and bmer bashing KO and not letting KO disagree with you about Yankee fans that is what dickish bevahior is. Hope keep showing that you were no KO fan and that you not KO are the dick. Hope I want you to work with tenichal problems and studio falling apart and mangement that puts out negitive articles about you and than come bakc with that made up crap about KO’s attitude. Hope it not KO’s job to praise Yankee fans up the wall, people like you make me sick, if KO does not agree with you, you go with the made up talking points that he got fired for a bad attidue and that he a dick, because you and bmer cannot take that not everyone thinks that Yankee’s and there fans are the greatest since silece bread Hope keep showing me that KO’s attitude hasd and always will have zero to do with what happened at Current and that you have zero idea what being a dick is, you are being one right now with your BS about KO being bad because he angry at Yankee fans. KO keep being yourself and again will be pissed if you do not get the justice you deserve for being unjustily fired. Also Bmer you just keep showing that you not kO are the dick, so because KO read your tweet on the air that means that he has to tell you how great Yankee fans are. I have read his timeline Bmer there is nothing there that showing he being a dick, that is pure BS by you and hope who hate it when Ko critizes things that you do not want critized. Wow so again KO personality and this is from someone who cares crap about his personality was not the reason he was at Current. He doing the right thing by suing, you love to put up crap that has been debunked over and over agian showing that you do not know who KO is and showing that you do not care about facts and truth. Keep making me love and respect KO more.

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You sure show that you love to bash and not listen to facts, lewinsky thing happened before he left quit MSNBC the first time. Also Prejean you seem to want to bash and lie about KO than listen, KO called out Prejean not because he she did not support gay marriage but because she is a hypocrite, in that she used her right to free speech to say that she did not like gay marriage, but than got angry at others for using thier freedom of speech to call her out, so sorry you got that one wrong again. It was never about gay marriage that she got called out it was about hypocrocracy. Here is it is Keith Olbermann debuted a new and recurring segment on his show tonight called “Countdown’s WTF Moment.” The first WTF moment centered on Miss California Carrie Prejean, who was thrust into the public eye after she expressed opposition to gay marriage during the Miss America pageant. (Donald Trump, the pageant owner, said in a press conference today that Ms. Prejean would be allowed to keep her crown despite the fact that several racy and previously undisclosed photos have come to light.)

Olbermann expressed astonishment at Ms. Prejean’s claim that Satan was trying to tempt her when Perez Hilton asked her the question regarding gay marriage, cast a dubious eye on her claims to have been betrayed by the photographer who snapped the semi-nude photos, and rebutted her statement that her free speech rights have been attacked and that she has been punished for taking. Also the fact that Prejean was trying to say that she was a christian that would not do anything dirty and behold nude photos of her apear, again getting on her for her hypocricracy. Carrie Prejean, formerly Miss California, is suing pageant officials for libel, slander and religious discrimination after she was stripped of her crown for missing several scheduled appearances.

In a segment titled “The revenge of Carrie Prejean,” Keith Olbermann, who figures prominently in the lawsuit, interviews another person named in the suit, the Village Voice’s Michael Musto, over their place at the heart of this tangled situation.

WATCH:
WOw I am a historian and what she was suing the pagent for was beyond stupid, free speech does not go to private business which American Pageant is, free speech only protects you against the government, also your religon was not on trail, again the fact that you said that you never took nude photos and again it was there, this OO was why KO went after her. It actually had nothing to do with gay marriage.
But we beseech readers – in the interest of open, fair debate – to watch and listen to the MSNBC host’s take on Prejean below. He doesn’t mention gay marriage once, instead focusing on the illogical argument that Carrie was somehow simply exercising her right to free speech.

Keith Olbermann on Carrie Prejean
As referenced in the quote above, Olbermann argues:

The First Amendment has nothing to do with getting flak for speaking one’s mind; it simply protects a citizen from being imprisoned for that act.
Moreover, Carrie wasn’t punished for her answer, as she claims. She’s received national acclaim and didn’t even lose her crown, despite blatantly violating her contract!
All of Prejean’s supporters say it’s unfair to attack someone for exercising her freedom of speech. But what if she said she believes all African-Americans should be slaves? Would critics be allowed to pounce on her then? It’s just her opinion, right?

Also, let’s not forget: Prejean sa

Read more celebrity gossip at: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2009/05/keith-olbermann-calls-out-carrie-prejean/#ixzz2AJuIZ6QX.
Also his put out his opoin in what are know as special comments about prop eight Keith Olbermann delivered a rousing, emotional, 6-minute special comment on Prop 8 Monday night. Olbermann, who has never married, vehemently disagrees with its passage and the ban on gay marriage.

“I am not personal vested this,” he said, “yet this vote is horrible. Horrible… This is about the human heart.” After going through the history of marriage in the United States, and reminding viewers not only that marriage between black and white people used to be illegal in 1/3 of the country, but illegal between slaves, he made a plea for love and the spread of happiness.

“The world is barren enough… with so much hate in the world, so much meaningless division… this is what your religion tells you to do?… this is what your heart tells you to do?… You are asked to stand now on a question of love.”
So sorry Prejean and gay marriage do not go together when it comes to KO. KO went after Prejean for hypocricracies and that she does not get what free speech means, and he did a specail comment on his opoin on gay marraige. So once again you show that you have no clue as to who KO is, and that you lie when you say you do and do not say different beacuse that will be another lie. KO unlike you knows what facts are, you seem to not get it that you OO are everything that you claim that KO is. Keep showing why he this genrations Murrow, and why he will be arounf for years to come. You just make me love and repsect him more and more. KO sorry you got unjustily fired at Current. I will be pissed if you do not get the justice that you rightly deserve for being unjustily fired. Love you faults and all.

So back to baseball…. KO is such an uncoordinated wimp that he probably throws a baseball more “girl-like” than Barack Hussein Obama!

F… Keith Olbermann………he deserves every inch of these insults…..LOL
blueatomx 5 months ago

Awesome… LOL!
USA4July1776 5 months ago

Wow again you OO shows how igorant they are on KO, again that car serive story is not true, they guy never drove KO, here again is what happened, because you do not like to listen to the facts The driver admited that he never drove KO and Current never deined when KO said that the services stopped picking him up because of unpaid bills showing that they know that they were the ones to blame for not being able get KO to Countdown. Those emails do not show that KO has tempory or that he was threatening, they show that he was dealing with a imcoptent staff that like Current would rather complain than take responsiblity. Current says they are charge of the business aspect fixing set problems is part of the business of putting on a good show, Current never takes responsiblity for not fixing the set and tenichal problems they do not deny that they tried to sabtoge KO by making him do a commerical for AT&T and have AT&T sponser Countdown thus trying to make KO a sell out and going against what he believes and fights for on his show. Also damging thier brand by showing that they are not coporate independent. They never deny this, KO’s promotes Countdown and even in October that they claim he did not when all you had to look on a fan site and see that he was on Letterman in late October, Current is just unahppy that KO would not promote they way they wanted, and not realizing which they also do not deny that he was willing to do those shows but he wanted to be able to answer the questions honesty which Current would not let him. They think KO putting out qutos that just is confirming what they are saying in the company about lawyers looking at the contract to see what can be done on the primary stuff. Other than that was defending Current and correcting newspaper articles, while Current was putting out letters and emails and basically talking to the press which bascially shows that they were sabtoging themselves and showing how unroganized and unprofessional they were way before that article and quto were written, also if you follow how the media puts out info when it come to stuff like this, they will always put KO’s name or anyone that works for him’s name out, so if you see source that means that it is Current, which shows that Current was the one releasing the salary but wanted to pin it on KO, they even do not deny when KO said manger when it comes to the black mail, but than say that KO was the one, basically showing that KO or his manger never released that info beacuse was it KO or his manger cannot be both. Also from that letter to now have made this personal and have been all over the press, while again KO has mostly been slient that shows that they broke the contract. Keep making me love and respect KO more. Also company’s provde this things like car service KO never asked for it. Also KO in real life actually rides the subway, here is another That Scinece is called a head injury not brain damage, also KO does not have a personal limo driver, that story Science turned out not to be true, the person that was suppose to have drove KO and said this basically came out and said that he had never drove KO. So keep lying, also you claim to read KO on twitter, so please Science if KO has his own Limo driver why are the pictures like last night that he shows are him reading the subway, wow some driver, also him not being able to drive Science does not mean that he has brain damage, I guess you are going say that people that are visaul imparied are also brain damged because they cannot drive, you really are putting up BS posts and showing that you the unintellngent one, not me and not KO. KO had a head injury that is why he cannot drive, head injuries and brain damage are not the same, you can have damage with out hitting your head, and you can have a regualry head injury that has nothing to do with your brain. Keep showing that you the one that has zero inteillgence and that KO is the intelligent one. Love how you believe debunked stoires. Again keep showing how igorant you are on KO. YOu just love to show why he is this generations Murrow and why you have no idea and never will have a an idea about who he is. KO never broke the contract and Current was not able to pay the drivers, which make sense because they never seemed to pay the electrity bill because KO was in the dark or fix his set. Keep proving that KO cannot make crap up and that you cannot tell the truth. You really love to prove that KO is this generations Murrow and you love to embarrass yourself in showing how igorant you are on him.

Wow
Paul thanks for showing that you are all about name calling. You really show that you are everything that you claim KO is, and show why KO is this generations Murrow. This is one of the most dumbest posts I have read today.

KO is a drama queen, closet case, far left fruitcake. He’s suffering from grand delusions and mental illness. He never grew up. If he finds another job and someone dumb enough to hire him, he’ll be fired AGAIN and for the same reason. Bathtub boy should just end it all on 11/6/12 when his messiah is booted out of office. He’d be doing our nation a great service.

“In a few years, Keith, I will fire you.”

jksonny 4 months ago

Again because you do not like hearing the truth here is what happened at Current Again you show that you do not listen to truth or facts, that is a made up talking point. again here is the evidence that you love to igonre that shows that KO was unjustily fired. I do not listen to people like you who keep putting made up crap. Current being a ragtime operations is a BS excuse. ragtime operations do not make people who are have a thorat infection that is serious in KO’s industry have work, that shows that they do not care about who they are hiring, they do not get rid of thier co-Ceo that knows what he doing, that is how made up that statement is here is again is the facts and what happenedWow you also seem to want to lie about KO’s career. KO was not fired from ESPN or MSNBC. I want you to explain to me why was KO able to a last show at ESPN, I did not realize Nick that people that were fired could do that. Nick what happened at ESPN is that they could not find a agreement when it came to reneogationating his contract. He wanted to be in New York, because he was single and cannot drive and had family there. ESPN wanted him to stay in Bristol, so they left on mutal agreement. At MSNBC the first time he quit because he did not want to talk other things beside Lewensky scandal. He was then traded to Fox, he got fired from Fox for reporting the truth about Murdouch selling the LA Dodgers. Which at Fox is not allowed. He was than hired back from MSNBC, and when he left in January of 2011 he was again allowed to do a last show and mangement even said that KO left on his own aka mutal agreement and he got paid the rest of his contract, that shows pacfically that KO was not fired from MSNBC just like ESPN. Also KO was rehired by ESPN to work with Dan Patrick before he left ESPN. Nick keep lying about KO’s career history.
Nick also I want you to explain when has a professional responsible business ever put out a letter that is a personal attack on the person that they letting go, so again explain Nick how this ego and KO’s fault. Also KO keeps his fans up to date on twitter about his abences and what is going on and when the subs are going to on and letting the subs like Press tweet when he going to be on. He also saying who on the show and his staff doing twitter saying who on when Shuster is on, while Current will not take responsible for thier mistakes like the tenichal problems which is business which in the couter-suit they claim is thier job. Nick why did Current want KO to do a commerical for a corporation and have a corporate sponser, when they advertised that they were corporate free, also giving corporation his website, wow trying to make KO a hypocrite to his audience and people like me who are fans, and love that he stands on principle. Why did Current leak the primary story to the press, and KO and his lawyer only confirm that lawyers that were involved that Current said were saying, Nick how is that sabtoging them, when they were putting out email and letters and putting out qutos about KO, and all KO does is defend them and confirm that lawyers involved, along with making KO go against his principles and make them go again what they stood for by being corporate free. Wow Nick that shows that Current is sabtoging themselves and unjustily fired KO.
Nick KO was unjustily fired and that is the truth and thier is nothing that going to change that. Also nick explain why when articles about KO come out he or his team aka lawyer and manger always quoted, but with Current it sources, and that Hollywood story says sources and they say that KO was the one responsible why not deny when KO said they had told him it was his manger. Who is it the manger or KO. and they cannot deny that they blackmaiel and threaten to fire staff, all showing that they not KO realeased the salary. They also never reprimended KO for saying that he was on a preplanned vacation to fans on twitter, showing that they had approved it. So again I would be pissed if KO does not get the justice he deserved for being unjustily fired.
Nick keep making me love KO and respecting him more and more and showing why KO will be aroud for year to come. KO keep being yourself and showing why you are this generations Murrow and you will always have a fan in me. Lov eyou faults and all. Again Hyatt is someone that fired some with AIDS and you take what he says seriously. Dude I researched this over and over again and nothing shows that KO personality is why he not at Current. Keep showing how igorant you are on KO. KO again keep being yourself and sorry that you got unjustily fired at Current. OO loves to show why you are this generations Murrow and that OO loves to put out debunk talking points and show that they do not know what truth means.

Wow
Paul
keep lying about who KO is, he has no grand illusions that is pure BS and you no it. Paul KO is prefectly stable and if you say different you are lying. I do not listen to people like you who think that name calling is showing that KO is not well, sorry that is not the case. Paul KO is this generations Murrow, and tells truth to power how is that suffer from grand dillusions, oh yeah only in your made up fantasy is KO that. Paul you are again are showing that you are everything that you claim KO is. Also in your igorance on who KO is,you would have known that Olbermann does not think that Obama is the messiah, Keith Olbermann excoriated President Obama on his Friday show for halting the impending toughening of environmental regulations against smog.

The announcement from the White House that it would keep widely criticized 2006 regulations in place until at least 2013 did not sit well with Olbermann. In the voiceover introduction to his show, he thundered, “what the hell is going on in the White House?”

Olbermann said that Obama had given a huge gift to polluters and corporations, and had delivered an equally large “whack across the knees” to his base.

“It seems, in short, to reduce his campaign logic to ‘what are you going to do, vote for Rick Perry?’” Olbermann said. He noted that Obama’s EPA administrator had called the 2006 standards “not legally defensible,” and scoffed at the president’s stated excuse for not updating them — that, since the standards were going to be reviewed in 2013, he did not want to ask states and businesses to undergo two rounds of tinkering with their environmental policies.

“So, if you’re having trouble breathing, or if you just occasionally do breathe, kindly help the president out and hold your breath until the year 2013 or later,” Olbermann said. Later, speaking to a guest about the issue, he was equally scornful.

“Who on earth in the White House thinks this is a positive for them and in which delusional parallel universe do they live?” he asked.

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Also here In a Special Comment Tuesday, Keith Olbermann tore into President Obama over his tax cut compromise, calling him “goddamned wrong” and accusing the president of betraying his base.

Olbermann called the compromise, which the New York Times has reported will mostly benefit the wealthy and actually raise taxes on the poor, a “searing and transcendent capitulation,” saying that Obama had “bowed” to the rich by accepting tax cuts that will bring no benefit to the economy. He also expressed shock that the Democrats had been forced to compromise on an issue that, to Olbermann, they could have easily won.

“This President negotiates down from a position of strength better than any politician in our recent history,” he said.

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But Olbermann reserved his greatest ire for what he perceived as the administration’s arrogant and dismissive attitude towards the base of the Democratic party. He said that a “senior member” of the administration had tried to sell him on the deal on Monday. When Olbermann told him that “the base has just vanished,” the official said that “they must not have read the details.”

This set Olbermann off:

There, in a nutshell, is this Administration. They didn’t make a bad deal — we just don’t understand it.
Just as it was our fault, Mr President, for not understanding your refusal of even the most perfunctory of investigations of rendition or domestic spying or the other crimes of the Bush Administration, or why you have now established for those future Administrations who want to repeat those crimes, that the punishment for them will be nothing.

Just as it was our fault, Mr. President, for not understanding Afghanistan. Just as we didn’t correctly perceive, sir, the necessity for the continuation of Gitmo. Or how we failed to intuit, President Obama, your preemptive abandonment of single payer and the public option. Or how we couldn’t have foreseen your foot-dragging on “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” Just as we shouldn’t have gotten you angry at your news conference today and made all the moderate Democrats wonder why in the hell you get publicly angry so often at the liberals who campaigned for you and whether you might save just a touch of that sarcasm and that self-martyrdom for the Republicans.
And of course, Mr. President how we totally betrayed your Administration by not concluding our prayers every night by saying “Thank you for preventing another Great Depression, you are entitled to skate along on your own wonderfulness indefinitely and if you get less than you could have on health care reform or taxes, well, that’ll be okay, we’re happy to pay $10,000 for a $300 car because hey, it could’ve been $20,000, right? And because we only expect you to do one thing correctly during a presidency and you had pretty much cleared that obligation when it proved that you were, indeed, not John McCain.”
Olbermann noted that independent Senator Bernie Sanders has threatened to filibuster the tax bill, and said he should be supported in doing so:

“It is not disloyalty to the Democratic party to tell a Democratic president he is wrong; it is not disloyalty to tell him he is goddamned wrong…it is not disloyalty to remind the President that he was elected by people to whom he had given a clear outline of what he would do for them, and if he does not steer out of the skid of what he is doing to them, he will not only not be re-elected, he may not even be re-nominated.” Also here Keith Olbermann tore into President Obama for contemplating a compromise with the Republicans over the debt ceiling that includes cuts in Social Security and major changes to Medicare.

Obama has repeatedly offered to raise the age of Medicare eligibility, and has put Social Security cuts firmly on the table in his attempts to craft a deal with the GOP to raise the debt ceiling.

In a Special Comment on his Monday show, Olbermann spoke out strongly against any tinkering with Medicare and Social Security. He delivered what he called a “sermon” about what he called America’s “greatest accomplishment”: the social safety net that includes the two programs.

Olbermann then issued a stinging warning to President Obama about what might occur if he agreed to alter Medicare and Social Security:

“I cannot foresee what will happen politically if you craft a compromise to a manufactured political crisis … I cannot forecast if you have made yourself unelectable next year or if there’s just enough greed and self-serving amnesia to reduce such an attack on that safety net to a political blip … I find I cannot forecast if the rest of us, battered by your compromises here and your ‘it’s a start’s’ there, will bother any longer to defend you. I find I can’t forecast if I will still be able to support you … if this deal with the Republicans takes a dollar away from those people who do not have a dollar to spare while preserving the millions for those who have millions more, if this deal, sir, keeps intact funding the mechanisms we have for killing people while cutting the mechanisms we have for keeping people alive and healthy, then it is a betrayal of everything that makes this country great.”
Wow this does not sound like someone who just praises the president. So again keep showing why you Paul are everything that you claim KO is and do not say different because that will be a lie. Only people that live in your made up world Paul think that KO is bad. Keep lying about who KO is that is all you know how to do. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, love you faults and all.

With all due respect, love your politics, and miss your intellect and point of view on the t.v., but you couldn’t be more wrong about the 2012 World Series. It will be the Giants in six. I accept liberal or conservative bias as a way of life in the US. But east coast bias when it comes to baseball will not be tolerated! Cheers, Keith. Hope to see you hosting your own show soon.

Great points, Keith. I’d love to say I have a point of view on this one but I’m on the fence. Usually it irritates me not to have an opinion. It will be a solid series either way.

Oh my! That’s a tough one to decide. My eight ball is stuck, the tarot cards are scattered, and my Ouija board is tilted so I really can’t depend on any of them to predict this outcome. My best guess would be my instinct which isn’t very sharp concerning baseball but here goes…
The Tigers may be at a disadvantage in that they’ve had a lot of ‘down-time’ because of their early win over the Yankees. Also they really didn’t have much of a competition with the Yankees who are dwindling, especially in batting. Being treated to an early victory was not to their advantage. This may cause some lag in the first game, but they do have some come back power.
If on the other hand, the Giants come out swinging and gain an early lead in runs, they usually do better. That’s a big if. The momentum is with them since they are coming off that dramatic win against the Cardinals. They did prevail against them in their winning streak. But can they maintain that sort of energy and momentum?
I say the Tigers might come on in the first couple of games. This might inspire the Giants to fight harder and do their winning ways again. I hope the Giants will come back strong. But I wouldn’t begrudge the Tigers either. May the best team win and I am looking forward to the contest!

I know KO that I have a friend that is rooting for the Giants. You again wrote a excellent piece and show why I will always be calling you this generations Murrow, because you show that you do not know how to make stuff up and lie about things. Sorry again that you got unjustily fired at Current. I will be pissed if you do not get the justice you deserve for the abuse that you went through there. Again as long as you are yourself you will always be perment on my wall, ipod and ipad and life. You will always be the only one that I watch and get me back to watching news again. Expect if you came back to MSNBC I would not watch Shultz, Odonell and Mathews, but I have my own problems with them. Keep being yourself because I care nothing about your ego or personality, want both to stay the same, you never have to be prefect for me because thier is no such thing as prefection. I do have to say this KO, I am not happy with you when you decided to work with a thorat infection, I care more about your health than you being on the air. Espically with something that if not treated can kill your career, not just you but any broadcaster. Know that you are on to bigger and better things. Keep being yourself and you will have a perment fan in me. Love you faults and all.

If we have three Verlander/Zito match-ups, the Tigers will only need to get lucky for one out of the other four games, If Cain wins both his starts, it gives the Gigantes 2 Ws against three Verlander Ws; that’s a 3-2 score with 2 games left; the G’s will need to win both, while Da-trite needs one out of two for the magic #4…
That looks like the Tigers in 6 games.

Keith, you’re a mental case and it’s no surprise that you’ve been fired by every company that was dumb enough to hire you in the first place. Have you seen a shrink yet? Obviously not given your tweets and your constant insanity. You’re just a spoiled rich kid punk who could never make a real baseball team. Heck, you can’t even drive a car! Just come out of the closet, would you? Everyone knows you’re a fruit.

KO is not mental case, and Paul I do not listen to people that are total igorant on KO work history, he has not got fired from every job here again is KO’s work historyYou put a list that is all wrong and is all been debunked. OO you do not even know KO career, KO has not been fired from MSNBC and ESPN, again here is what happened Keep showing that you would rather bash KO than listen to the truth, that he has never naplenmed a bridge and that he unemployable has always been debunked and always will be, I look at those articles and you have to live in fantasy world if you think that shows that KO is a jerk or that he unemployable, I already apologized for what happened with Suzie but people like you want to put that out because KO has to be a bad guy here is what KO did A long, long time ago, one of my bosses at ESPN told me that during times of contention, I always showed too much backbone.
Well, he was damned right.
A whining sacroiliac sent me to the chiropractor’s last week and the X-rays proved my old boss literally correct. I am part of that hidden minority, the spinal mutants, who have six lumbar vertebrae instead of the customary five. I do have too much backbone.
This was the final sign that it was time to do something that for months has been crystallizing out of the gauzy haze of the unconsciousness that surrounds us all: I need to apologize to ESPN.
This began to become evident weeks ago when the deputy mayor of Indianapolis attacked Chris Mortensen, one of my reportorial role models. I once watched Mort protect a source who not only publicly denied what he’d told Mort in private but also questioned his ethics. Just this month, Mort went on the air and criticized the thoroughness of his own reporting on a story. Mortensen is the gold standard, and this hack politician slashed him and said ESPN was “a sports channel first and a news organization fifth.” I was amazed to find my hackles rising and myself rushing to defend my old employers on my radio sportscast.
It all became remarkably clear after that. This isn’t about my skeletal freakiness, or Chris Mortensen, or even, particularly, the primary area of wounded feelings for my former bosses and colleagues, Mike Freeman’s book about the network. This isn’t even about specific events or people, although nearly everybody at ESPN merits an apology from me, and I give it willingly and with great sadness, but with some hope that it will explain if not erase my actions, and might even be of some inspiration to any who might be afflicted in the same curious way I’ve come to learn I am.
This is about not knowing why you do things — literally, not knowing for years and years — and then suddenly beginning to scratch the surface of understanding. That earlier imagery about the gauzy haze is almost factually precise: It feels as if I’ve been coming out of a huge fog bank.
Enough preamble. After five and a half years there, I left ESPN at the end of June 1997. My decision inspired a lot of head-scratching, everything from graffiti on a wall in a syndicated comic strip, to shouts of “traitor” from a viewer at a World Series game. There have been a lot of explanations conjectured, by myself and others, but heretofore I have never definitively stated why I left — in large part because until recently, I didn’t really know. In point of fact, I couldn’t handle the pressure of working in daily long-form television, and what was worse, I didn’t know I couldn’t handle it.
Not the broadcasts themselves, mind you — I’ve rarely had as much fun in life as I used to during those hours on the air with Dan Patrick. I’m talking about an inability to digest all that led up to those hours, about which I had no clue at all. And unless somebody at ESPN had the insight to look for a big-picture pattern, nobody else had any clue at all. I think some executives, most notably John Walsh, had a sense that something was wrong. But whatever any of them said about “insecurity” or “perfectionism,” I know I just took it as an attack and stiffened my extra-long spine.
On top of everything else about it that can destabilize the soul, television is fraught with a million commonplace things that can go wrong. A surprisingly large number of things can go wrong even when everybody involved is giving their all. It’s the nature of a medium so complex it would’ve made Rube Goldberg blanch.
But I didn’t see it that way.
I have lived much of my life assuming much of the responsibility around me and developing a dread of being blamed for things going wrong. Moreover, deep down inside I’ve always believed that everybody around me was qualified and competent, and I wasn’t, and that some day I’d be found out. If you think that way, when somebody messes up, you can’t imagine that it just “happened.” Since they’re so much better than you are, how could they not complete a task successfully? They have to be not trying hard enough — and when they don’t try and the show goes to hell, who gets blamed? You do.
In other words, you start thinking like George Steinbrenner, circa 1977.
Mix that in to the very public nature of the field, and especially the high-profile nature of a job like hosting “SportsCenter,” and you have a combustible combination.
The results can probably be summarized by this conversation I recall from the weeks after the infamous launch of ESPN2 in 1993. After three hours of live shots failing, news breaking, entire 20-minute segments of the show being swapped during commercial breaks, tapes physically falling apart, and production assistants wiping out as they ran through the snow to try to get us information, the producers, my co-host Suzy Kolber and I somehow managed to cover Michael Jordan’s first retirement professionally and entertainingly.
Afterwards, the coordinating producer, Norby Williamson, greeted us like the survivors of a World War I foxhole at Ypres. “Great job. Great show,” he said.
“The hell it was,” I said.
Wrong answer.
You suspend — no, let’s be exact about this, I suspended — the whole human part of the equation. It never occurred to me that most of the problems were the result of mere events. Even the chaos that surrounded the entire launch of the experimental show “SportsNight” was merely the inevitable result of the fact that it was experimental.
And it never, ever occurred to me that if it failed, I wouldn’t be found out, fired, banished, finished.
The oddest thing about all this, is that even when I left — and in six weeks I will have been gone longer than I was there — executives like Walsh and Howard Katz underscored that I was welcome to return at some distant future date, despite all the Sturm und Drang. And, man, I was usually producing both the Sturm and the Drang. Months later, Katz even approached me about contributing to ESPN Classic, shortly after the company had bought that network.
Of course, I could not know that the major bone of contention, the veritable sixth lumbar vertebra of contention, still awaited: Freeman’s book. I should herein point out that none of this should reflect on Mike: He did an exhaustively thorough job, and more to this point, he didn’t misquote me, not once, nor did he use anything I said out of context. Nor did he cajole or sweet-talk me into discussing topics I didn’t want to discuss. Also, this isn’t some kind of loudspeaker confession from George Orwell’s “1984.” I’m not going to renounce most of my criticisms of the place. I did not consort with Goldstein. I don’t think I was wrong on the issues — I think my methodology was wrong. Outstandingly wrong.
My answers to Freeman constituted the ultimate act of somebody who lived in terror of being blamed. After I left for NBC in 1997, I was unprepared for a question I would literally hear daily — on the street, at events, even on the air on MSNBC: “Why’d you leave ‘SportsCenter’?” If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as “Why’d you start washing your hair every day?” and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you’re going to start second-guessing yourself. I eventually got up to about my millionth guess.
So. The logic was impeccable. To answer that question, I couldn’t take the blame (responsibility) for the disaster (career growth) about which I was being persecuted (sympathetically asked about). Why did I leave “SportsCenter”? Obviously, because it was a medieval torture chamber (fairly typical television workplace providing a high level of ego gratification and creative freedom).
There’s a lot in Freeman’s book that I regret. I won’t inundate you with details, but a few require specificity. Referring to ESPN’s executives, I told Freeman that “other than Steve Anderson, I don’t think any of them are any good.” Well, that was ridiculous then and it is ridiculous now. Without even judging how good they were, just to keep a monolith like ESPN on the air every day requires as many good executives as they have at NORAD.
As suggested earlier, I don’t regret my stances on the work environment there, but to say that some actions management took were merely “covering their ass legally” was to subtract the humanity from the equation. It never dawned on me that some of these guys had been thrown in at the deep end of the pool, or would have to expose, prosecute and fire friends and colleagues who themselves had done things that until a decade before had been standard operating procedure at every corporation in America.
I now read with horror of my ESPN2 co-host, Ms. Kolber, sequestering herself in the women’s bathroom and weeping over how I treated her. She told Freeman that as things deteriorated, I wouldn’t talk to her. She’s wrong: I couldn’t talk to her. I pumped up some small-scale complaints into a scenario in which she was at fault for everything ESPN2 hadn’t become. I wasn’t completely obtuse back then, and if anything would have cut through my neuroses, it would’ve been a colleague’s tears. If I had known, I think I could’ve jumped over the fence I’d built around myself and said what the inner guy always knew: No TV show is worth crying over. Suzy: I’m sorry.
There are lots of little gratuitous shots in there that also reflect an insensibility to parts of reality. I get queasy at all of them, but one stands out as representative. Freeman accurately quotes me as complaining about how a labor-intensive participatory field piece I did in 1996 about what the first-base coach does and says during a game, got little airtime. A year later, ESPN ran a similar piece in which the coaches of the Anaheim Angels wore microphones. I complained to the relevant coordinating producer, Jeff Schneider, and he replied that the new ESPN-Disney-Angels connection explained why one piece ran and the other didn’t. It is almost certain that Schneider was joking, or tweaking me, or, most probably, protecting me from a fact I could never have admitted to myself or have survived hearing from him or anybody else: My coaching piece just wasn’t that good.
Several ESPN folks suggested to Freeman that I was trying deliberately to violate the rules — appearing on other networks and writing for publications without notifying them just to tweak management. That was almost right on the money. But it wasn’t as simple as merely trying to annoy ESPN or John Walsh or whoever else. It was me trying to give myself an excuse to get out from under the pressure of working in an environment of my own creation in which I daily expected the blame ax to fall. It was prepackaged sour grapes.
Oddly, I did figure some of this out then, which is why, even after we’d finalized my departure I went back and proposed to them that I do one show a week. That really was instinct cutting through all of these neuroses. That was, should’ve been, and remains my ideal TV schedule: one or two days a week, and the other five or six to remember that I’m not going to be blamed for everything by anybody — even myself.
So, I’m sorry. It should have been done differently. It wasn’t. Then again, I’m only finding out now about that extra vertebra and the extra steps I have to take to learn how to be, well, flexible. Wow so Suzie is beating up on a guy that was able to man up and apologize for what happened wow that shows that she would not know what character is just like you, also Suzie is not great herself on stuff like working well as you and others want people to believe because jack does not want to hear that KO ego is not why he not on Current, here is what KO said about SuzieBelow is an excerpt from Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside The World of ESPN, which is finally in paperback so those readers anxious for more Bristol back-biting don’t have to carry around the cumbersome hardcover. The new version includes more bitchy anecdotes from Bill Simmons, further details about Tony Kornheiser’s on-air insults about Hannah Storm, and, of course, more from Keith Olbermann, who maintains that he didn’t treat his one-time co-anchor Suzy Kolber as horribly as most people think.
Keith Olbermann:
I hate to put this on the record, but I’m really annoyed that Suzy has portrayed herself as this sweet bystander victim all the time. I swear on my niece’s head that this is true. When those touch-and-go negotiations for her to stay in ’96 ended, we were all working in a trailer while they rebuilt the newsroom, and Dan I were even sharing a computer. And one day she comes in and tells everybody—and I mean every on-air guy on the network was in this double-wide—”I’m leaving for Fox. It’s been real.” And as soon as she was out the door everybody stood and applauded. McQuade came over to me and said “Well at least her time here produced something positive. You get her computer.
Two-and-a-half years later, maybe the day after I got to Fox, now she’s leaving there to go back to Bristol and she sweeps through the news bullpen to say goodbye and damned but it doesn’t happen again. She says her farewells and as soon as she’s out of earshot, the row of writers stands up and starts applauding and cheering.
I liked Suzy then and I like her now but she wasn’t just sinned against.”
“Suzy’s statement seven or eight years later that I had caused her to go into the bathroom and cry really affected me. I mean, it provoked genuine introspection and sincere guilt. But, honestly, that was the first I’d ever heard of it. I mean, we shared an office desk for six months and she never even hinted that however I had treated her it was a problem.
In fact I had been proactive in trying to help her, because Norby and Mike Bogad were really pushing her around during the earliest rehearsals. My agent, and a very good woman friend of mine at ESPN, came to me and said “you know, you can be a little intimidating sometimes, you should take Suzy out to dinner and be her friend.” That floored me, but I took their word for it, and I tried to remind her that while she was the newcomer, they had bent over backward to try to get her, and the very biggest wigs at Cap Cities had personally pushed for her, and while it made sense for me to lead things off because I was by that time established with the brand, she should not just sit there if they shunted her off to the side or sent her on these punishing trips to Edmonton to interview Doug Flutie or whatever. I said I’d back her up completely. That night, we parted closer than ever. And the next day she was in Norby’s office demanding that she get the lead story instead of me! Wow hearing that just makes me love and show that KO gets along with others just fine.
Murdouch, this is guy who would not know what truth is if you put in his face, Jack do you realize that Murdouch has no idea what honesty is, he also like Hyatt thinks that it okay to blackmail his employees like he did KO hereOn Countdown tonight Keith Olbermann used a Special Comment to detail how Rupert Murdoch blackmailed him when he worked for Fox Sports.
Here is the video:
After retelling the story of how he got fired from Fox Sports for reporting that Rupert was looking to sell the LA Dodgers, Olbermann got to the new details,
The second half of my story I have never told publicly before. It’s time. In June of 2000 after a year and a half of doing two one hour cable shows a night for Murdoch and baseball from 7 AM to 5 PM on Saturdays, I got sick. My doctor told me that if I didn’t among other things slow down at work; he would be treating me for heart disease within the decade. I took him very seriously. I told my employers about cutting back maybe from the six days to 5, and offered to give back to Fox some of my salary in the process because my health was at risk maybe even my heart.
They immediately took me off the air. They refused to put me back on until I had gotten a letter from my doctor guaranteeing them that I was well enough to work. By itself that was hardly an evil thing to do. In fact, I recognized it as a prudent business decision, and I complied because I didn’t know what they intended to do with it. They blackmailed me with it.
Wow a guy who thinks like Hyatt and Brohem thinks that someone should work while they are sick that shows that Murdouch is a boss no one even KO should work for, also jack, KO got fired from there for telling the truth, KO found out that Murdouch was selling the Dogers he even went to someone asking if Mourdouch would be okay with the story, which they said yes and than he was fired when Murdouch, because Jack honesty is not allowed when Murdouch organization is in it, I should listen to a guy that is underinvestigation for warptapping when it comes to how KO is, you really love to show me that KO is easy to work with and that you like Current have zero clue what being hard to work for. MSNBC let’s see they thought that it was okay for Scaurbough to donate also and if KO had not gotten caught would have let Scraubough get away with donating so you show again how hypocritical MSNBC is on that here is MSNBC suspended host Keith Olbermann today, following revelations that he made campaign contributions to three Democrats in the elections — a violation of MSNBC policy.
But a search of OpenSecrets.org reveals that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough and MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan have also made contributions to political campaigns. Here’s what we found…
In March 2006, Scarborough, who hosts the show Morning Joe, gave $4200 to Derrick Kitts (R-OR). And, as the Daily Kos points out, a month later Kitts was a guest on Scarborough’s show.
Between 2005-2008, Pat Buchanan made five contributions to Republican candidates, totaling $2250.
Chris Hayes, the Washington editor for The Nation, is a frequent contributor to MSNBC shows, and often fills in for Rachel Maddow on her show. The Upshot reports that he gave $250 to Alabama Democratic candidate Josh Segall this year before he signed his contract with MSNBC.
NBC News producer Mary Murray, who also does reporting for NBC News and MSNBC, gave $250 to John Waltz (D-KY) this year. In 2008 she gave the same amount to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
Update: New York Times reporter Brian Stelter Tweeted that Hayes, in fact, would not be subbing for Olberman after all.
Later Update: Alex Pareene at Salon notes that CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow donated to former Congressman Christopher Shays (R-CT) in 2009 — one of a number of donations Kudlow made to Republican candidates over the years.
Even later update: Chris Hayes Tweeted that it was his decision to decline to host “Countdown” tonight, and that his donations were all made prior to his MSNBC contract. Also MSNBC has had others like Geogary who spoke at a republican event, hereThe National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), which calls itself “the voice of small business,” is one of the Republican party’s strongest allies. The group spent over $1 million on outside ads in the 2010 campaign — all of it backing Republican House and Senate candidates (and, Bloomberg News reported last month, “another $1.5 million that it kept hidden and said was exempt” from disclosure requirements). The group is the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Obamacare law and bankrolled state governments’ challenges to the law. The NFIB has also taken stances against allowing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases, opposing regulations on businesses, and supporting curtailing union rights.
Given the group’s obvious Republican alliance, it comes as little surprise that the NFIB’s three-day 2012 Small Business Summit, which begins Monday, will feature headliners Karl Rove and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).
But the first name and photo on the invitation for the $150-per-person event — Tuesday’s “keynote address” speaker — is NBC’s Meet the Press host David Gregory. He is marketed by NBC as an anchor and “trusted journalist.”
The Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics states:
Journalists should:
— Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived.
— Remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility.
— Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and shun secondary employment, political involvement, public office and service in community organizations if they compromise journalistic integrity.
Regardless of whether Gregory is being paid for this event and of what he says in his keynote, allowing the NFIB to raise money for its political mission using his name, reputation, and celebrity appears to be at odds with journalistic ethics.
Gregory did not to respond to a ThinkProgress request for comment. So your article just shows what a hypocrite krutz, where does krutz get on Georgary case for speaking at a even or when ED was suppose to speak at a Wisconsin event, so Krutz has no creadiblity when it comes to KO. Also all those stories have been disaproved, KO never had people put notes outside his box that came from suggestions jack and a disgulted employer made the other stuff up, also dealing with personal problems like his parents death that shows that KO bad and hard to work with, also dude that shows that MSNBC was not watching Countdown because he was not getting angry after his parents died, that shows that MSNBC wants to lie, mangement wants to re-write the history of who put them on the map, that how BS, also this came from gawker I suppose to believe gossip site on how KO cannot get work, maybe you should read Carter when it comes to this and than tell me that KO is unemployableGiven Keith Olbermann’s abrupt removal at Current and his typically temperate response — “Current’s statement are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently” — it seems as if his next stop will be a puppet show shot from a basement somewhere. He’ll never work in this town, or any other, again, right?
Wrong. Many of his past employers will testify to his unmanageability and unpleasantness, but the fact of the matter is that somewhere, sometime, after some kind of cooling-off period, Mr. Olbermann will be coming to a television near you.
That has less to do with the greater fool theory, which suggests that there will always be someone naïve enough to think that they can accomplish what others have not — that is, make Mr. Olbermann behave like a professional when he is not on the air. (Remember that former Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt — two of the principals at Current — blew through many stop signs to get to Mr. Olbermann. They made very hopeful statements when the deal was cut, which were followed by very frustrated noises thereafter.)
No, the mistake that the executives at Current made was to think that by giving Mr. Olbermann a stake in the enterprise and a title of chief news officer, he would forgo the drama that has characterized his stints at CNN, Fox, ESPN and MSNBC. After all, you can’t rail against the Man when you are the Man.
But Mr. Olbermann is talent, and a big baby to boot — any reporter who has covered him could tell you all about that — so the idea that he would default to the good of the many over the needs of the one is just not in his nature. The title was used as leverage, nothing more, when Mr. Olbermann became dissatisfied and starting communicating with his employers through lawyer letters months ago. Mr. Olbermann is a ferocious fan of team sports, but that’s not how he plays the game.
He is the equivalent of a supremely talented left-handed pitcher with a strong arm — and some obvious control issues — that can give whatever team hires him a lot of quality innings. On the bench and off the field? He will complain about his coach, his teammates, the quality of the field and the stadium lights.
He did not solve the miserable ratings math at Current — as my colleague Brian Stelter pointed out, in his 40 weeks on Current TV, he had an average of 177,000 viewers at 8 p.m., a shadow of his former incarnation at MSNBC where he drew a million-plus people a night.
That’s not all his fault. Anybody who has watched the Keith-less version of Current could understand why they wanted him so badly in the first place. Beset by technical problems that had Mr. Olbermann broadcasting his show with a black backdrop in a kind of hostage/protest motif, Current was not and is not ready for prime time.
The channel’s election coverage has been tendentious and painful to watch, and the depth of its bench can be measured by the fact that it is bringing aboard former Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer of New York to replace him. Current will have to do some renovating to make room for all of the baggage he brings with him, from both his scandal-ridden exit from the governorship and his ratings-challenged turn at CNN.
Which brings us back to Mr. Olbermann. Anchoring a show on television looks easy. Buy a nice suit, get a nice haircut and read the words on the prompter in the right order with some semblance of conviction. But it’s not. As cable stations proliferate, the desperate search for people who can credibly show up every night — or not, as Mr. Olbermann was frequently on strike at Current — and hold an audience’s attention will only become more acute. Mr. Olbermann has a terrible relationship with actual humans, but a very good relationship with the camera.
When I was working on a magazine piece about Mr. Olbermann, we went to a Yankees game and he explained the camera voodoo:
“Mechanically, if you look very carefully in a camera, it has a series of reflections and dimensions to it, you can look past that,” he said. He holds up his hands in the shape of a box. “Here’s the camera, here’s the front of the camera, here’s the lens of the camera, but if you look deeply enough, you can see the inner rings at the far end of the lens and maybe a glimmer of light very deep in the distance. You can always see something that might be an inch or two below the surface. Whenever I can, I try to focus there, not on the prompter or the front of the lens.”
Maybe that’s overexplaining something that is actually innate, but history has shown that even though Mr. Olbermann’s employers do not like him, the camera, and the people at the other end, like him just fine. As Jonathan Wald, the producer for Piers Morgan put it, somewhat more industrially, in a tweet on Saturday night, “Stars star and producers produce.”
And that means he will find work. He is a free agent in a business that is remarkably akin to pro sports, full of divas who are great at hitting the curve or making impossible catches, but baffled by the rest of life. Think Terrell (“I love me some me”) Owens. Or Randy Moss. Or Babe Ruth. Or Ted Williams. Jerks, louts and narcissists, all tolerated because within the four corners of the diamond, the football field and, yes, the television studio, they can do what others cannot.
So some executives will eventually plug their noses and write a check and a contract that they hope will contain Mr. Olbermann’s less attractive aspects. He and they will say that this time it will be different, and it may be. Just don’t expect him to be part of the team.
Wow jack so even Carr who would agree with you about KO’s behavoir says that KO is employable and will come back, that is how made up that statement is. You really love to show me why I love KO and why his personality had zero to do with what happened at Current, that article even tells about Hyatt and AIDS aka firing someone with AIDS and you want me to believe KO’s the bad guy. Keep making me love and respect KO more and more and show that all you wnat to do is bash him and put up gossip articles that can easily get refuted, you also do not get what I do about KO is that he a professional and someone that is not afraid to stand up for what he believes in which is what mangement hates about him and why he has a hard time with them, it what people love, keep lying about KO that is all you know how to do, you keep showing why I am a fan and always will be. Jack you also show why KO got unjustily fired from Current you have no evidence that KO is unemployable, only a gossip site by mangement that for the first two aka MSNBC and Fox are hypocritical and includes Current, and one with someone who has just as bad a reputation as KO suppose to have, and who wants to still get on KO’s case about something that he apologized for showing that she has zero crediblity and sounds like it just a revenge post. KO keep being yourself again will be pissed if you do not get the justice for being unjusticly fired from Current. Jack why does KO been in this industry for 33 years if he so unemployable that is how BS your argument is. KO keep being yourself and showing off your great personality and showing why KO is this generations Murrow and why he will be around for years to come, keep being yourself KO and you will always have a fan in me, again Current needs to stop lying and tell people the truth that your personality and ego is not why you got fired and that you work fine with others, Hyatt needs to explain why he and Brohem thinks it okay to make thier broadcating stars to work with a throat infection, that jack shows that Current never cared about KO, just like MSNBC who wants to re-write history and is okay with people that speak at partisain events and other employers doanting but KO the bad guy, that he unbelieveable MSNBC is on that topic. All that shows jack is why I do not watch Current and MSNBC and how dishonest those mangements are. You really love to show that KO works fine with others. KO keep being yourself and you will always be perment on my wall, ipod and ipad and life and why you got unjustily fired from Current. jack you just make me love and respect KO more and more with your BS crap about who he is. Jack thier is no and you just showed once again there is no evidence that KO personality was what got him fired. Keep lying about KO and showing that KO has zero clue how to lie and that you Jack have zero clue how to tell the truth about KO and his past employment. KO love you faults and all. Here is KO true oo job history not your made up debunked version Mike thanks for showing me that you are beyond ingorant on KO’s job history. KO Mike was never fired from MSNBC or ESPN, also Mike KO was rehired by both of those companies, wow some bad personality there, Mike do you live in alternte reality, Mike you do not do last shows which KO did at both MSNBC and ESPN if you been fired. KO and even MSNBC have said that KO quit, he even got his salary that also Mike does not happen when you are fired. So no Mike he has no history of being fired by every employer that is pure BS and again has been debunked. He only be fired from Fox and that was for reporting the truth and Current and that was unjutily because they promised him the moon and never delivered. Also MIke he did not leave for the same reasons, you really hate listening to facts. ESPN he left because he and his bosses could not agree on a new contract, he wanted to go to New York, they wanted him to stay in Bristol, the reason he left the second time was that Patrick had quit ESPN and thier was nothing that he really did, so no ESPN had nothing to do with KO working well with others and personality and ego, so wrong there. MSNBC he left first time because he hated doing repaeted news of Monica Lewinsky, they sold him to Fox Sports, Fox is where he got blackmailed and fired for reporting the truth about Murdoch and the Dogers. So wrong there Mike, MSNBC a second time he left because a they scwered him over on campaign crap and he felt that they were taking creavity control away, again had nothing to do with personality and ego. So Mike you just again show how ingorant you are on KO. KO personlity again is not the reason he got fired at Current, again I care crap about that Mike, and I looked at the evidence thier is no proof Mike that KO broke the contract, none, zipo. Keep embarrassing yourself with made up debunked crap. I do not listen to people who are beyon igorant of KO’s job past espically ones that put out that debunked crap that KO was fired from MSNBC and ESPN. Mike I do not have to be a fan to tell you, people that are fired do not get rest of salary and last shows, KO got a salary from both the times that he worked at ESPN and MSNBC and did a last show that he thanked and said goodbye to people, that shows even to people that are not fans and people that unlike you know what commen sense is and uses it that KO was never fired from those networks. Mike sorry but you lie throught your teeth when you put out the debunked crap that KO’s ego and personality are bad they are not. Mike all you do is make me love and respect and show why he this generations Murrow. Sorry only got fired from Current and Fox, quit MSNBC and ESPN both times, that does not show that he hard to work with only that mangers have zero clue how to handle independent, prefetionist like him. I do not oo listen to people about KO who are so igorant when it comes to his work history, those people show that have no idea what facts are. OO you do not do last shows like KO did at MSNBC and ESPN if you were fired, you do not get a salary if you are fired, KO is this generations Murrow, you would not know what Murrow is. You oo are the one that is showing that you are Krusty the clown, you cannot refute anything that I say, so you decide instead to be the grammer and spelling police, people that are like that show that they are everything that they claim KO is. KO has worked in this industry for 33 years, that is the truth. OO I know that people that lie about KO’s career show that they are not to be listened to when it comes to KO, because they show that they do not know what facts are. OO you just showed that you do not have common sense. People that live in the real world not your fantasy world know oo that if someone does a last show and still gets a salary, that means OO that they quit and did not get fired. You show that you are beyond igorant when it comes to KO and you know that you are igorant when it comes to KO, but you are such a gutless coward that you only care about putting up debunked crap, like the lies about KO’s career than listen to the truth. You show with that post that KO is this genertions Murrow and you Oo are Krusty the clown and do not say different because I know like all your other posts that will be a lie and just show how igorant you are on KO. OO keep showing that KO can never lie and that you do not know what facts are and what truth is. OO KO only been fired from two places and they were by bad bosses, one that thinks like you telling the truth is bad aka Murdouch and one that wants to be lazy and not take responsibity for what happened at Current, that is it, the other places he quit out. There is no evidence but in your mind OO that KO was fired from MSNBC and ESPN. You do not even know what being fired is and what quiting is that is how made up your posts are.
OO quiting is when you do a last show and still get a salary like what happened at MSNBC and ESPN, getting fired is no salary and no last show that is what happened at FOX and Current, anyone with a brain that they like to use unlike you know that. You are so igorant on who KO is. YOu show again with this post why KO is this generations Murrow and show that you do not know what facts are. Keep lying about KO’s job history, the facts are and always will be and if you say different you would be lying and showing that you do not know what a fact looks like. KO quit ESPN in 1997 because of contract neogations falling apart, went to MSNBC quit MSNBC the first time because he wanted to do real news not just report on MOnica Lewnsky all the time, went to FOx got blackmailed by a guy that is know been in a scandal for hacking phones showing that he not to be trusted when it comes to honesty about anything, fired for telling the truth about Murdoch selling Dogers. Went to MSNBC, quit again because he did not like the hypocricracy that went on there and thought that he was loosing support and got a offer from Current. Than got unjustily fired and if you say different you be lying and showing how igorant you are on KO. There is no evidence that his personality is why he not there. This shows that he worked pretty steady in his career also
You again show why KO is this generations Murrow and why he will be around for years to come, you Oo are Krusty beacuse your post has no facts and truth in them. You even lie about KO’s career and put up stuff that has been debunked over and over again. Keep making me love and respect him and showing why I am a life long fan.
I do not listen to people on KO who put up that debunked crap about KO’s career because I know that people like you who say that, have no facts and are not wanting to argue facts all you want to do is show and if you say different than that will be a lie beacuse KO has quit MSNBC and ESPN both times. People like you show why we need KO and why KO is this and always will be this generations Murrow. KO keep being yourself and you will always be perment on my wall, ipod and ipad and life. Love you faults and all. So Paul keep putting out a debunked lie. KO has been working in broadcasting business for 33 years at different jobs. Wow I wonder if you worked that long, also KO is not a rich kid. He was raised in a upper middle class family, that is not what a rich child looks like. Paul I watch KO had his prefectly fine mentally, I guess in your world peoeple that tell the truth and show why they are this genrations Murrow are bad. Also Paul the reason why KO cannot drive if you would listen is That Scinece is called a head injury not brain damage, also KO does not have a personal limo driver, that story Science turned out not to be true, the person that was suppose to have drove KO and said this basically came out and said that he had never drove KO. So keep lying, also you claim to read KO on twitter, so please Science if KO has his own Limo driver why are the pictures like last night that he shows are him reading the subway, wow some driver, also him not being able to drive Science does not mean that he has brain damage, I guess you are going say that people that are visaul imparied are also brain damged because they cannot drive, you really are putting up BS posts and showing that you the unintellngent one, not me and not KO. KO had a head injury that is why he cannot drive, head injuries and brain damage are not the same, you can have damage with out hitting your head, and you can have a regualry head injury that has nothing to do with your brain. Keep showing that you the one that has zero inteillgence and that KO is the intelligent one. Love how you believe debunked stoires. Again keep showing how igorant you are on KO. YOu just love to show why he is this generations Murrow and why you have no idea and never will have a an idea about who he is. KO never broke the contract and Current was not able to pay the drivers, which make sense because they never seemed to pay the electrity bill because KO was in the dark or fix his set. Keep proving that KO cannot make crap up and that you cannot tell the truth. You really love to prove that KO is this generations Murrow and you love to embarrass yourself in showing how igorant you are on him.I guess in Paul fantasy world the only people that are fine mentally are people that can drive, wow Paul people have all sorts of reasons for not driving that does not mean they need to see a shirink or that they have metnal problems, it means that like KO they have a injury that pervents them from see right while driving. Also KO is not gay. So Paul explain to me, how do you know a person is gay, because straight people are so spouse to know how to drive, and have children and family by now. Wow Paul that is not remotely what gay and straight look like. KO has dated women before, he even dated igraham, also I do not listen to people when it comes to who show that they are homophobis like you are. This is the most stupidieset thing that I have read all week. KO fine mentally and always has been only people like Paul who do not know what honesty is and love to make stuff up about people’s private lifes says that. KO tells truth to power, and shows why he this generations Murrow and can never lie. Paul hates KO because he suppose to tell him how bad people that are gay are, and he suppose to let the people that Paul wants to critized to critized, Paul do yourself a favor and learn what mentally ill is. KO standing up to bosses like he did at Current and other places is shows that he cares more about vaules and morals than he does issues and do not put that debunked crap about Current because here is what happened there Again because you do not like hearing the truth here is what happened at Current Again you show that you do not listen to truth or facts, that is a made up talking point. again here is the evidence that you love to igonre that shows that KO was unjustily fired. I do not listen to people like you who keep putting made up crap. Current being a ragtime operations is a BS excuse. ragtime operations do not make people who are have a thorat infection that is serious in KO’s industry have work, that shows that they do not care about who they are hiring, they do not get rid of thier co-Ceo that knows what he doing, that is how made up that statement is here is again is the facts and what happenedWow you also seem to want to lie about KO’s career. KO was not fired from ESPN or MSNBC. I want you to explain to me why was KO able to a last show at ESPN, I did not realize Nick that people that were fired could do that. Nick what happened at ESPN is that they could not find a agreement when it came to reneogationating his contract. He wanted to be in New York, because he was single and cannot drive and had family there. ESPN wanted him to stay in Bristol, so they left on mutal agreement. At MSNBC the first time he quit because he did not want to talk other things beside Lewensky scandal. He was then traded to Fox, he got fired from Fox for reporting the truth about Murdouch selling the LA Dodgers. Which at Fox is not allowed. He was than hired back from MSNBC, and when he left in January of 2011 he was again allowed to do a last show and mangement even said that KO left on his own aka mutal agreement and he got paid the rest of his contract, that shows pacfically that KO was not fired from MSNBC just like ESPN. Also KO was rehired by ESPN to work with Dan Patrick before he left ESPN. Nick keep lying about KO’s career history.
Nick also I want you to explain when has a professional responsible business ever put out a letter that is a personal attack on the person that they letting go, so again explain Nick how this ego and KO’s fault. Also KO keeps his fans up to date on twitter about his abences and what is going on and when the subs are going to on and letting the subs like Press tweet when he going to be on. He also saying who on the show and his staff doing twitter saying who on when Shuster is on, while Current will not take responsible for thier mistakes like the tenichal problems which is business which in the couter-suit they claim is thier job. Nick why did Current want KO to do a commerical for a corporation and have a corporate sponser, when they advertised that they were corporate free, also giving corporation his website, wow trying to make KO a hypocrite to his audience and people like me who are fans, and love that he stands on principle. Why did Current leak the primary story to the press, and KO and his lawyer only confirm that lawyers that were involved that Current said were saying, Nick how is that sabtoging them, when they were putting out email and letters and putting out qutos about KO, and all KO does is defend them and confirm that lawyers involved, along with making KO go against his principles and make them go again what they stood for by being corporate free. Wow Nick that shows that Current is sabtoging themselves and unjustily fired KO.
Nick KO was unjustily fired and that is the truth and thier is nothing that going to change that. Also nick explain why when articles about KO come out he or his team aka lawyer and manger always quoted, but with Current it sources, and that Hollywood story says sources and they say that KO was the one responsible why not deny when KO said they had told him it was his manger. Who is it the manger or KO. and they cannot deny that they blackmaiel and threaten to fire staff, all showing that they not KO realeased the salary. They also never reprimended KO for saying that he was on a preplanned vacation to fans on twitter, showing that they had approved it. So again I would be pissed if KO does not get the justice he deserved for being unjustily fired.
Nick keep making me love KO and respecting him more and more and showing why KO will be aroud for year to come. KO keep being yourself and showing why you are this generations Murrow and you will always have a fan in me. Lov eyou faults and all. Again Hyatt is someone that fired some with AIDS and you take what he says seriously. Dude I researched this over and over again and nothing shows that KO personality is why he not at Current. Keep showing how igorant you are on KO. KO again keep being yourself and sorry that you got unjustily fired at Current. OO loves to show why you are this generations Murrow and that OO loves to put out debut, Paul KO quit ESPN because of a contract disagreement, he did a last show and got a salary, Paul people that get fired do not get to do a last show and say goodbye or get there salary, he was hired back and ended up quiting again. He quit MSNBC first beacuse he wanted to do something other than Lewnisky and MSNBC did not, so he left or said he was sold to Fox sports, was blackmailed at Fox and reported on a true story about Murdouch selling the Dogers and was than fired, wow I did not know that telling the truth and being fired for it and being blackmailed there showed that KO had mental problems, oh that is right is shows that KO is mentally and has always been mentally sound. He went to MSNBC a second time and was there for eight years, he was at ESPN first time for five. Wow expect for Current, KO has even been steady working at the same job for a while with five at ESPN and eight at MSNBC, wow that again shows that Paul would not know what a mental illness is if it bit Paul on the head, he quit because MSNBC mangement is beyond hypocritical with the fact that they do not mind aka Geogary and SHultz people being speakers at fundraisers and Scrabough who only got caught a punished when he donated when KO was unustily punished for it. So MSNBC has a dishonest mangement team, they even do not want to see and keep acknowledging that KO was the one that brought them the success that they have. So wow I did not realize again like Fox mangement aka MSNBC dishonesty mangement was showing that people had mental problems, or that is right it does not. Paul also I have been on twitter, you think that trolls that love to bully and name call people should be allowed to say whatever they want and not get called out. Wow you again show that Paul thinks that name calling and lying about people’s careers and saying made up crap, shows that Paul hates facts. Paul those are the people that KO calls out that shows someone that loves to tell the truth and expose real bullying. This is not what mentally ilness looks. Also he talks politcs and baseball and puts out sunsets and answers questions. Paul I want you to explain how is that mental ilenss. Oh that is right it does not because Paul has no idea what a mental ill person looks like. Also Current KO was dealing with imcomptent mangement, which say that they handled the business part of things but did not want to fix set problems only wanted to complain about them and put blame on others, the one owner Hyatt fired someone with AIDS at his other business and was sued, and while at Current, got rid for no reason at all his co-ceo who knew the business, knew how to handle egos and yes KO has a big ego everyone in his business does, but ego is not why he not at Current, he’s is just right for someone in his industry. So that shows that I should not believe Hyatt when he says anything. His president Broham should know that when someone has a thorat infection aka a broadcaster, you do not try to make them work, espically when they are about to do Super Tuesday, the night before Super Tuesday is not important compared to your broadcaster vocal health. The fact that Brohem did this shows that he cared crap about KO and would have rathered worked him until he vocal chorads were so damaged they prevented KO from every working again even at Current. I was beyond pissed when I read that email. Paul I do not have to be a fan to know that KO is mentally sound, I also know that he is not a and never was a rich kid, yes he went to Hackly but going to a prep school or even a private school Paul does not make a person rich. Also going to Ivy League school like Cornell is also not mean that you are a rich child. Also calling out trolls Paul and putting up cool sunset and sundown photos and tweeting baseball and politics and interacting with people, shows that you are mentally stable, having worked in the brodacasting business and worked steadily in it, shows that you are mentally stable. Driving Paul has nothing to do with mental health. Again Paul I do not listen to people that think it okay to make fun of people that are gay when it comes to mental health. You show Paul and do not say different that KO’s mentally and always been mentally fine, you show that Paul loves to show how much of a homophobe that he is, and that KO unlike Paul knows more about tolerance. Paul wants to show that he igorant about who KO is and what his career and job history are. Paul you show why KO is this generations Murrow and make me love and respect him more with this made up BS piece. I know that anyone putting this out shows that they have no idea who KO is and that they would rather make fun of the mentally ill which is pahtic than listen to the truth. KO keep being yourself and you will always be perment on my wall, ipod, ipad and life. Love how you show Paul what tolerance and what mental stableness is. Also how you have no idea how to be mentally ill or how to be homophobe. Wow keep embarrassing yourself Paul with BS posts like this that shows that Paul does not live in the real world and loves to make lies up about people along with showing what a homophobe he is. KO sorry you got unjustily fired at Current, I will differently be pissed if you do not get the justice that you deserve for being unjustily fired there. Again you are the only one that will get me to watch news again. Love you faults and all.

You lost me a “KO is not”…. KO is a mental case and a wacko fruit. I know people at ESPN too. Many of whom would love to kick his fat ass.

Paul
I doubt you know people from ESPN that would want to kick his ass. I also know that I would not listen or trust anyone that you knew at ESPN that say that because I know that people that think that it okay to name call others and say stupid crap that has been debunked like saying KO is mentally ill, or that he is gay when he is not, or lying about his past show that they not KO were the problem and that KO had every right to get mad at them. So you again show that you are igorant about who KO is. KO is not and never was and never will be mentally ill, you Paul have no idea what mental illeness is, just like you have no idea what tolerance is. Paul I do not listen to people that say KO is gay when it shown that he has not or put out that debunked crap about being fired or lie about his mental state, and just name call. This shows me that person is igorant on who KO and also if I hear people saying that they want to kick someone, that shows that they not KO was the problem and that they are unprofessional to admit that KO was right about what happened and that they do not like it. So Paul I would not believe anyone that you say that you know at ESPN when it comes to KO,and seeing your posts which are made up crap, shows that you know nobody from ESPN and that you love to lie.
Paul people like you show that KO is stable mental and always will be and that you live in a fantasy world if you and do not say different because I will know that is a lie, when you make BS crap up, that just shows that you take metal illness and people unlike KO who are truely mentally ill lightly. Paul KO is not and never has been and never will be mentally ill that is a BS lie and you know it, and if you come on here and say differnt I know that all you care about is living in your made up world and your igorance on who KO is. Paul you show that KO unlike you and your so called friends why he is this generations Murrow and why he his personality has never been a problem. Wow I should believe a person that name calls and uses homophobia slurs to try to tell me that KO is bad. Paul you cannot refute anything that I say. Paul where is your proof that KO is not stable, or yeah that right Paul knows that KO is mentall stable and has never had a mental illness just like Paul knows that KO has never been fired from MSNBC and ESPN, and that Paul knows that KO is no asshole and that he lies when he says that he knows people that work with KO at ESPN. You show that KO unlike you has no idea what honesty, Paul keep showing that you have no idea what a mental illness is and that you are so igorant on who KO is and that you Paul are the asshole and that KO has no idea how to be a asshole. Paul if you say different than I will know that all paul cares about is embarrassing himself with his made up lies about who KO is, from people that are just as clueless about who KO is as he is. Paul keep showing that you are everything that you want KO to be minus the mental ill. Keep showing why KO is this generations Murrow, and why he can never lie and why Paul can never tell the truth, and Paul if you say different I know that will be a another lie, from a guy who would not know what a metnal illenss is and what mental unstatbility is. Paul I know not to listen to people that lie about KO and know that they are lying because unless they live with that person about KO’s mental health, I know that I do not listen to people that lie about KO’s job history and say homophobic crap that is not true, I know not to listen to people that think because someone does not drive that he is mentally ill or unstable, if these are the people that you know, than I know that the reason that they hate KO was because he called them out on thier lies and unprofessionalism and that is if I believed you had friends there. Paul you just show why KO is this generations Murrow and that you are so igorant on KO that is not funny. Do not say different because that will be another lie. Paul keep making me love and respect KO more and more. Paul keep lying to me about KO, you cannot refute what I said in the last post that is how i know that you are lying here and that people you claim you know at ESPN are lying about who KO is and that they not KO were the problem and do not say different because I know that will be another made up Paul lie.
KO keep being yourself and showing Paul that you have zero clue how to mentally unstable and why you are no asshole and that Paul is everything that he wants you to be. KO sorry you got unjustily fired at Current, and will not be happy if you do not get the justice you deserve for being abused there. Care crap about your personality, love you personality and your ego, that makes you so loveable are your flaws along with your strengths. Keep being yourself and you will be the only you are the one that I will watch. Paul I know that everytime you talk about KO that is oppiste is true about him because I know that he is mentally sound and that he does not have a rich background because I researched his past I know that he not gay and that he been in the business for 33 yeras in a stable job and only got unjustily fired two times. So I know that this post you wrote has no facts and honesty in it, and that all it does is a show why KO is this generations Murrow and make me love and respect him more. Keep showing how igorant you are on KO that is all you know how to do and keep embarrassing yourself with your made up crap about who KO is, because all you know about him has been debunked and do not say different Paul beacuse I will know that is just another lie because that is all you know how to do is lie and name call. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me.

The good news is that since mentally unstable KO was fired (yet again) he now has plenty of time to rehearse for his audition to “La Cage”…..

Patrica
One of my friends is for the Giants. KO keep being yourself and showing why you are and always will be this generations Murrow, love you faults and all, will be pissed if you do not get the justice that you deserve for being fired from Current. Again I care crap about your personality and ego love them both because that makes you so loveable. Love how you show what tolerance is. Keep being yourself and you will always be perment on my ipod, ipad and life, and why you will always have and be the only one that gets me to watch news again love you faults and all.

Paul
Wow you show that you do not know KO’s job history, he was only fired two times, here again is his historyAgain you show that you do not listen to truth or facts, that is a made up talking point. again here is the evidence that you love to igonre that shows that KO was unjustily fired. I do not listen to people like you who keep putting made up crap. Current being a ragtime operations is a BS excuse. ragtime operations do not make people who are have a thorat infection that is serious in KO’s industry have work, that shows that they do not care about who they are hiring, they do not get rid of thier co-Ceo that knows what he doing, that is how made up that statement is here is again is the facts and what happenedWow you also seem to want to lie about KO’s career. KO was not fired from ESPN or MSNBC. I want you to explain to me why was KO able to a last show at ESPN, I did not realize Nick that people that were fired could do that. Nick what happened at ESPN is that they could not find a agreement when it came to reneogationating his contract. He wanted to be in New York, because he was single and cannot drive and had family there. ESPN wanted him to stay in Bristol, so they left on mutal agreement. At MSNBC the first time he quit because he did not want to talk other things beside Lewensky scandal. He was then traded to Fox, he got fired from Fox for reporting the truth about Murdouch selling the LA Dodgers. Which at Fox is not allowed. He was than hired back from MSNBC, and when he left in January of 2011 he was again allowed to do a last show and mangement even said that KO left on his own aka mutal agreement and he got paid the rest of his contract, that shows pacfically that KO was not fired from MSNBC just like ESPN. Also KO was rehired by ESPN to work with Dan Patrick before he left ESPN. Nick keep lying about KO’s career history.
Nick also I want you to explain when has a professional responsible business ever put out a letter that is a personal attack on the person that they letting go, so again explain Nick how this ego and KO’s fault. Also KO keeps his fans up to date on twitter about his abences and what is going on and when the subs are going to on and letting the subs like Press tweet when he going to be on. He also saying who on the show and his staff doing twitter saying who on when Shuster is on, while Current will not take responsible for thier mistakes like the tenichal problems which is business which in the couter-suit they claim is thier job. Nick why did Current want KO to do a commerical for a corporation and have a corporate sponser, when they advertised that they were corporate free, also giving corporation his website, wow trying to make KO a hypocrite to his audience and people like me who are fans, and love that he stands on principle. Why did Current leak the primary story to the press, and KO and his lawyer only confirm that lawyers that were involved that Current said were saying, Nick how is that sabtoging them, when they were putting out email and letters and putting out qutos about KO, and all KO does is defend them and confirm that lawyers involved, along with making KO go against his principles and make them go again what they stood for by being corporate free. Wow Nick that shows that Current is sabtoging themselves and unjustily fired KO.
Nick KO was unjustily fired and that is the truth and thier is nothing that going to change that. Also nick explain why when articles about KO come out he or his team aka lawyer and manger always quoted, but with Current it sources, and that Hollywood story says sources and they say that KO was the one responsible why not deny when KO said they had told him it was his manger. Who is it the manger or KO. and they cannot deny that they blackmaiel and threaten to fire staff, all showing that they not KO realeased the salary. They also never reprimended KO for saying that he was on a preplanned vacation to fans on twitter, showing that they had approved it. So again I would be pissed if KO does not get the justice he deserved for being unjustily fired.
Nick keep making me love KO and respecting him more and more and showing why KO will be aroud for year to come. KO keep being yourself and showing why you are this generations Murrow and you will always have a fan in me. Lov eyou faults and all. Again Hyatt is someone that fired some with AIDS and you take what he says seriously. Dude I researched this over and over again and nothing shows that KO personality is why he not at Current. Keep showing how igorant you are on KO. Paul you do not do last shows like he did no ESPN and MSNBC if you been fired. You do not get paid. Keep showing that you love to bash gays and love to make crap up about KO. You really make me love and respect him more and more. Keep embarrassing yourself with igorance on who KO is that is all you do.

Keith tends to write off the Giants (like he did with Vogelsong being chosen as a 2011 All-Star). In March I predicted the Giants would beat the Yankees in 7, avenging their 1962 loss fifty years later (no Bobby Richardson in the bottom of the 9th this time). By Yankees, I actually meant Phil Coke and Austin Jackson. Just kidding. Remember, the Yankees hit .201 against the Rangers in 2010 and the Rangers hit over .300– then Texas ran into the Giants. As for the Yankees getting old– did they age 20 years in 2 weeks? They were playing good baseball in September. And a lot of the lineups struggled in the playoffs. The Giants (other than Panda and Scutaro) did. So it’s not about old age. It’s just baseball. Go Giants!

Meh. Go Giants!

Miss you, Keith. ;)

KO keep showing me why you are this generations Murrow, love that you called Palin out on her racism and show how tolerant you are. I know that anyone that says that you have a problem mentally is showing that you are prefectly stable and know that they are showing how igorant they are about you and know that I you are complete opposite of what they know and that when they make up the lie that they know people, that those people where the problems and that they are too corwardly and too unprofessional to admit that they were the ones that started the problem and that they are lying when they say different. KO again you show that you great you, you may have faults and even personality faults but I love those faults just like I love you. Would be upset if you were prefect. Keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, love you faults and all.

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Also do not come on here and say that you know people that say something about KO, first I know that has zip to do with how KO is, because I know that in situtations that KO was hurt by that person or was exposing something that person did not like. Also do that do when you think it okay to lie about his mental health, and saying that you do not like someone’s personality does not mean they are bad person, it does not change that KO’s personality for example is why he was unjustily fired and all the proof shows that he was unjustliy fired, it does not change that he quit MSNBC and ESPN both times. KO career in TV has been stable, anyone saying different I know right off the bat is lying and showing how igorant they are when it comes to KO.

Also all you do is make me love and respect KO more and show that KO is the excat opposite of what you say.

You just make me love him more and more. Do not want KO prefect just want him to be himself, KO keep showing how tolerant you are and why you are this geneartions Murrow, love you faults and all.

perfect NOT prefect
generation’s NOT geneartions

WOw
Keep showing OO that you are the arrogant one, who that you are everything that you claim KO is. I love how you think that being the spelling police shows that KO is suppose to be bad. All this post shows why I love KO and why you are beyond igorant about who he is. Keep embarrasing yourself and showing why KO is this genertions Murrow. Love how you KO proves and never say different because that will be another lie.

“spelling police”

Only as much as Bathtub Boy is to critics on Twitter.


Bathtub Boy is a whiny, hypocritical, selfish, self-centered, narcissistic, egotistical, pompous, arrogant ag school prick. And if he, or you, don’t like that characterization, my answer is simiple. Disprove it! Because he CAN’T.

Wow OO
Thanks again for lying about who KO is, KO has already apologized for that oneKeith Olbermann apologized for his comments about Massachusetts Senator-Elect Scott Brown Friday night just one day after being called out by Jon Stewart over the remarks.

Monday night, Olbermann described Brown as “an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea-bagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees.”

The comment was immediately met with criticism from the right, most notably from Olbermann’s own MSNBC colleague Joe Scarborough, who described the comment as “reckless.”

Olbermann responded to that criticism by doubling down the next night, adding “sexist” to his litany of complaints against Brown.

But on Thursday’s “Daily Show,” Stewart described Olbermann’s comments as “the harshest description of anyone I’ve ever heard uttered on MSNBC” and performed an impression of Olbermann’s trademark special comments.

Friday, Olbermann played Stewart’s critique in full, offered himself as a guest for “The Daily Show,” and responded with an apology.

“You know what, you’re right,” Olbermann said to Stewart. “I have been a little over the top lately. Point taken. Sorry.” So you are once again disproved about who KO is. You shown with that one that you do not even know how to research, because if you had reseraced you would have known that KO had apologized for those comments. Also I would not believe your comments about KO even if you paid me, because I know that they are about as truth as Berne Madoff was to his clients. You shown that KO is not a narracist you would not know what a narracist is if it walked up and bit you on the head, he not intolerant that is you. Oh by the way even though KO apologized he was proven right about Scott Brown, but again OO would not what facts are if they bit you on the head, he also not argogant, you Oo have shown that you not KO are the one that is arrogant. You just put crap up here that has been debunked over and over again about KO and than name call. OO you showed that you are everything that you claim KO is, and that KO is excat opposite of what you say he is, and I care crap about his personality, love him for who he is. OO thanks for showing that you do not know what research means. I have to laugh that you think that you have exposed KO and that I would fall for it. Sorry never going to happen OO, because I know that you are only embarrassing yourself with your made up lies and fantaies about who you want KO to be. OO I do not listen to people who think that Koch brothers are okay and do not want to admit that corporate coruption is bad. OO KO has prove you wrong over and over again. You have to beyond nave to think that KO is any of those things and to say one of the dumbest things that I have heard today, I have to laugh that you think that KO has proven you right, that is so BS and such a lie that it is not even funny. You put something up that KO has apologized for and you think that KO has never disaproved you. He did right there. All you shown OO is that you would not what disaproving and aproving mean, you do not even know what research is, if you done it you would have seen that KO apologized and do not put that BS that Medite put out, because KO even apologized for that one. OO you again keep showing that you have been wrong about KO over and over again but, you hate facts and truth and love to hear hate speech that you want to put your head in the sand and live in your own world and just put up embarrassing BS that been debunked, KO has proven that he not even remotely any of those things and you have shown that you are everything that you claim he is. OO you put debunk crap than once it is debunk or I have shown it not to be true, you just re-use it, Wow you sure show that you so igorant on who KO is, that it is not even funny. OO I do not listen to people calling KO names and than putting up debunk crap and stuff he apologized for and than put out more debunked crap because KO has been proving you wrong over over and over again but you are to corwardly to admit it. Thanks for showing me again how igorant you are on KO, and showing why KO is this generations Murrow and showing why he will be around for years to come. OO if you come out and put any of this debunk names that you have been proven wrong over and over again which you know are wrong and are to corwadly to admit because OO has to lied too and has to believe the hate speech that she so loves to hear, and do not say different because that will show that all you care about is lying about who KO is and what he is and do not say different because that will be another lie from you. OO all this shows is that you would not know what research means if it bit you. KO was right about Brown but even than he apologized. Showing that he will even apologize for things that he does not even need to be apologizing for. Wow some bad guy, KO keep showing OO why you are this generations Murrow and that this blogger lies through thier teeth when they say that you have never proved her wrong, because you prove this blogger wrong ever night while you were on. This blogger thinks that you are arogant for apologizing for something that in the end turned out to be true about Scott Brown wow OO showed that they have zero clue what arogance is, why I’m not suprised. OO thanks for making me love and respect KO more and more, that is all this BS post is doing. I do not listen to name calling when it comes to KO because I know that person been proven wrong about KO but is to afraid to admit it. KO keep being yourself and you will have a fan in me.

Time to replace your knee pads.

“KO was right about Brown”

Yes, he really does support violence against women and enjoys putting his genitals in another man’s mouth. -_-

I’d like to think that Murrow’s fist would deliver a bigger blow to Bathtub Boy’s head than that subway car.

I can’t disprove what you say about Brown.
But neither can I disprove that Bathtub Boy is a child molestor.

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oregon bird
490 Fans
11:48 AM on 01/24/2010
I didn’t really see an apology. I saw self-congratulation, and a soft little back-peddle.

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saintaug1
178 Fans
11:28 AM on 01/24/2010
Not sure what’s up with this guy Oberman, but every time I’ve seen him, he’s making unfounded, malicious remarks about other people. The guy is a reflection of the left that the voters in Mass just denounced.

GringoLingo
221 Fans
10:58 AM on 01/24/2010
The good news is that regardless of what Olbermann says, a great majority of the people do not listen.

Bulbul
53 Fans
07:46 AM on 01/24/2010
A little over the top ? Not really Keith, so much so that you are on you way to a comical figure .

The last sane American
299 Fans
07:19 AM on 01/24/2010
Keith,

What a stunning revelation!

And just recently?

UpFromLiberalism
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. .
604 Fans
03:27 AM on 01/24/2010
we’ve all seen two year olds who control their temper tantrums better.

independent64
12:57 AM on 01/24/2010
Keith was full of hate in his maniacal rant against Scott Brown, but that’s OK if you are soooo upset? And who do you adore? Ted Kennedy? I’d take a centerfold before him any day.

12:39 AM on 01/24/2010
Keith loves to talk about his “ivy-league” education at Cornell, except that is another of his “exaggerations”. He went to the State Agricultural School at Cornell – not considered “ivy-league” by anyone but Keith.

Jazzman323
67 Fans
12:14 PM on 01/23/2010
Not to worry Keith. Nobody watches your show anyhow.

handypom
yes, i know my micro is empty. .
12:03 PM on 01/23/2010
“sorry”. . . . wow, he put a ton of thought and effort into that apology.

Please-Play-Fair
299 Fans
12:35 PM on 01/23/2010
Um … that was not an apology. And Olbermann still doesn’t get it. I don’t care that he rants and screams and makes over the top comments. But when you throw words like racist, sexist, and supports violence against women comments … that is beyond over the top. It’s inappropriate, irresponsible, and unprofessional.
Olbermann didn’t apologize … and the apology should be to Scott Brown and his family.

Trustandalwaysverify
198 Fans
01:08 PM on 01/23/2010
Do not forget Olbermann’s contract was renegotiated after GE got all that money from the stimulus….
I wonder if his commentaries are ever influenced by that fact.

Truthandreason
52 Fans
01:01 PM on 01/23/2010
The sportscaster also described Michelle Malkin as a “mashed up bag of meat with lipstick.”
What a classy guy.

ErikDInOKC
01:55 PM on 01/23/2010
I listen to Rush and Beck routinely. They have never uttered the the type of sewage that bubbled and gurgled from Olbermans mouth. Baseless accusations and name calling is the cornerstone of Olbermans show. Not with conservative radio. To say as much is just a lie. To be fair, Olberman was correct about the soft porn photo spread in cosmo. Point taken. But, If we are to look in the past at Obama’s character we see an example of someone who used illegal drugs like cocaine. Interesting to me that such an example a very very poor choice by someone who is running for president was so easily smoothed over and ignored by the MSM. Obama said he used cocaine but he never sold it. WOW, now that is quite an accomplishment.

FTracy3
My micro-bio is as empty as the rest of my life. .
605 Fans
02:05 PM on 01/23/2010
I just watched the clip. That’s an apology? “I’ve been a little over the top lately. Sorry”..No retraction of what he said about Brown?

Exactly right about bathtub boy! He’s a spoiled “only child rich kid” who grew up in NYC and who thinks Bristol is “the sticks”. This bozo has never been west of the Hudson river in his life. He doesn’t drive a car. He sits in an empty apartment, with his poor cat, and rails at the TV and republicans and gets carpel tunnel from his endless series of tweets from a twit. That Katy chick went out with him for his money but realized that the wet noodle she had to deal with was simply because she was female. He’s just “not into women”. He’d rather sniff jocks and pretend to be a “real man” through Osmosis with real athletes. And his sordid stretch at the deplorable MsNBC was a real hoot-fest. He did nothing at that so-called “network” to change the reality; that Maddow is the most masculine member of that freak show lineup of hosts and guests. I can only hope and pray that KO goes out in a blaze of glory on 11/6/12 when Obama is finally booted. Perhaps lighting himself on fire like the Vietnamese monk did in the early 1960′s? Doing so on the front porch of “The News Corporation” building in Manhattan? Now I’d PAY to watch that spectacle!

God bless Katy for escaping.

Wow OO, for posting one of the most dumbiest things that I heard in a long time. KO and katy sperated but are still friends like here Thanks to a breaking story and sheer chance, Keith Olbermann wound up interviewing his ex-girlfriend on Wednesday’s “Countdown.”

That evening, the biggest story in the news concerned Michael Enright, the man who stabbed a cabdriver because he was Muslim. It turned out that Katy Tur, who is a reporter for WNBC in New York, had been in close contact with Enright for weeks. She had spoken to him five times and traded emails with him, all about a documentary that he had made about soldiers in Afghanistan.

Tur had also dated Olbermann, although Mediaite reports that the pair split over a year ago.

“The first time I spoke to this guy, I was struck by how incredibly polite he was,” Tur told Olbermann. “He was ‘yes, ma’am,’ ‘no, ma’am,’ very polite on the phone.”

Olbermann closed the interview by calling Tur his “dear friend.” Wow that shows that they had a good relationship but just where not good as a couple happens alot when dating. Also OO I do not listen to people who want to bash and assume they know how people that are celebrites break up, people like that show that they care nothing about truth and only care about gossip. OO unless you were there when they were dating, than you have no right to assume that you know why they broke up. You really show that OO is everything that they claim KO is. Your post is showing me that you are the arrogant one and that KO has no idea how to be arrogant. I some who loves his personality and would care crap if he was make me love him more, that is how I know that you are lying. You really are so igorant when it comes to who KO is and do not say different because that will be another lie.

I love how trolls come here and show that they are everything that they claim KO is. I espcally love the ones that like OO that do not research and get proven wrong .

“dumbiest”?

You’ve lost any right to call someone else names.

Then again, I shouldnt’ be surprised. You’re a fan of Bathtub Boy. Your stupidity is to be expected.

I can’t blame Katy. She realized that KO is a closeted homo. Of course, she doesn’t hate him since she gets her hair done but a guy who’s more open about his reality, unlike Keith. His self hate is obvious on the air and his psychosis is something he put out there for all to see. He’s the perfect MsNBC/DNC poster child; immature, irrational, over-emotional, hate-filled, arrogant, and a closeted gay. He’s a white version of Obama. No wonder he was so “all in” for the pretend prez.

Wow OO
I hate to break it to you but Brown is all those things and more, he loves to say that he is pro-choice but he not here is voting record. Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) released a new ad on Friday geared toward moderate Massachusetts voters who are suspicious of Brown’s social conservatism. Brown has been trying hard to paint himself as a moderate pro-choice Republican in spite of his party’s extreme anti-choice positions — and his own voting record.
The ad features a woman claiming that Brown is pro-choice and supports equal pay:
Scott Brown is pro-choice, and he supports a woman’s right to choose. I like that Scott Brown is independent, he really thinks for himself. His record shows that he supports women, he supports families. When my daughters grow up, I want to make sure that they have good jobs with equal pay, and I know Scott Brown will fight for that. I support Scott Brown because I know he wants to get our economy moving forward again. I’m a mom, I have a family, and I know that Scott Brown will fight hard for families.
Though the ad claims “his record shows that he supports women,” Brown’s voting history actually reveals the opposite. The senator has co-sponsored several anti-choice bills, including the Woman’s Right To Know Act, which would force a woman to wait 24 hours before getting an abortion and review pictures and information about her fetus. He supported the notorious Blunt Amendment –which would allow employers or insurers to deny women any health coverage they morally oppose — and sought to prevent insurers from using any federal funds to cover abortions in the Affordable Care Act. Brown has also voted to defund Planned Parenthood and voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act, in spite of his ad’s promise to “fight for” equal pay.
Brown has tried to distance himself from the Republican Party’s anti-woman platform and asked Reince Priebus to include a rape exception in the GOP’s anti-abortion plank. So far, he has not convinced Massachusetts of his secret pro-choice sympathies; the Massachusetts Right to Life recently announced their support for him as “a senator who votes pro-life.” Beloved Massachusetts boxer Mickey Ward also pulled his support from Brown after discovering his anti-LGBT and anti-union stances. Emily’s List denounced this new ad, accusing Brown of “straight-up lying” and demanding that he “take it down and apologize.” Wow Emily list a group that supports women and you telling me that KO was lying about him, you show that you have no idea what supporting women means, here is some more Meanwhile, Warren held her own rally in Northampton, packing a gymnasium in the Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School, where she said she would overturn the Defense of Marriage Act and targeted Brown’s record on women’s rights.

“Scott Brown had one chance to vote for equal pay for equal work,’’ Warren told the crowd. “He had one chance to vote for insurance coverage for birth control and he had one chance to vote for a prochoice woman to the United States Supreme Court. He voted no, he voted no, and he voted no. Let me make this clear: I want to go to Washington to stand up for women.”n All this stuff aka like abortion are helpful to rape vicitms but you would rather bash KO and put out debunk crap and listen to trolls on huffington post that also like you have zero clue what an apology is, wow Whew. Great news, everyone. We no longer need to be upset that Rep. Todd Akin, an actual member of the House and an actual Senate candidate, said that women have magical ladyparts to protect them from rape sperm when they are victims of “legitimate rape.” Because that’s not what he meant at all. As he explained on Mike Huckabee’s radio show:
I was talking about forcible rape. I used the wrong word.
Ohhhh. Well, obviously talking about “legitimate rape” is totally out of line. But talking about “forcible rape”? That just makes everything better, doesn’t it?
It also puts him in line with the rest of the Republican Party—including, of course, the party’s vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan:

Paul Ryan also co-sponsored HR 3, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion” bill in which Republicans tried to redefine rape so that it only applied to “forcible” rape so those fake rape victims would stop exploiting loopholes to cash in on fabulous gifts and prizes. Republicans pulled that part out of the bill so everyone would stop criticizing them, and then they tried to sneak it back in anyway.
The Romney campaign took the oh-so-bold step on Sunday night of announcing that “Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akin’s statement.” This morning, after thinking about it, Romney added that Akin’s comments were “offensive”:

“Congressman’s Akin comments on rape are insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong,” Romney said. “Like millions of other Americans, we found them to be offensive.” [...]
“I have an entirely different view,” Romney said. “What he said is entirely without merit and he should correct it.”

But now Akin has explained that he holds the same position as Romney’s running mate: that there is a distinction between “forcible rape” and not-really-rape.
So, Mitt, are you still offended? Do you still disagree? Still hold an “entirely different view”? If so, sounds like you and your little buddy need to sit down an. Wow he a hypocrite he goes after Akin but says does not call out Ryan, so again show me where KO was lying. Yes this is the kind of things that Murrow would be calling out, also OO here is what Brown is on racism The chief of the Cherokee Nation on Wednesday demanded an apology from Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) for what he called an “uneducated, unenlightened and racist portrayal of native peoples” by senior staff on his campaign and in his Senate office.

At a recent campaign rally, senior Brown staffers led a crowd of Brown supporters in a series of “war whoop chants” and “tomahawk chops,” an attempt to mock Elizabeth Warren for citing her Native American ancestry in a Harvard guidebook.

“The Cherokee Nation is disappointed in and denounces the disrespectful actions of staffers and supporters of Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown. The conduct of these individuals goes far beyond what is appropriate and proper in political discourse. The use of stereotypical ‘war whoop chants’ and ‘tomahawk chops’ are offensive and downright racist,” said Bill John Baker, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, in a statement. “The individuals involved in this unfortunate incident are high ranking staffers in both the senate office and the Brown campaign. A campaign that would allow and condone such offensive and racist behavior must be called to task for their actions.”

During the first debate between Brown and Warren, Brown told the audience that he could tell by looking at Warren, who was born in Oklahoma, that she does not have any Native American lineage. He later denied having said that.

Brown, asked by reporters to respond to criticism of his senior staff at the rally, said that Warren committed the “real offense” for listing herself as Native American. “That’s not something I condone. That’s certainly something, if I am aware of it, I would tell that member not to do it again,” he said. “I know everyone is in the throes of the political season. I ask everyone to show real class and decorum on both sides.”

At separate rally, however, a Brown supporter let out another “war whoop” and Brown didn’t respond, though he didn’t actively condone the act, either. The video was posted on a local GOP website and spotted by BlueMassGroup, which also found audio of Brown laughing at Native American jokes in reference to Warren.

Warren says she was told growing up that she descended from a Cherokee woman. Brown’s campaign has demanded proof, but records from that time barely exist.

Brown, by denying the charge he himself had made at the debate, and by refusing to apologize, risks losing the high ground on what he clearly sees as an advantageous issue.

“The Cherokee Nation is a modern, productive society, and I am blessed to be their chief. I will not be silent when individuals mock and insult our people and our great nation,” Baker said. “We need individuals in the United States Senate who respect Native Americans and have an understanding of tribal issues. For that reason, I call upon Sen. Brown to apologize for the offensive actions of his staff and their uneducated, unenlightened and racist portrayal of native peoples.”

Baker, of course, is not an unbiased observer. He was a Democratic delegate to the party’s national convention in Charlotte, N.C.

Wow so I want you and all the trolls on Huffington post to show where KO got it wrong, also for your first blogger, what part of I am sorry is not apologizing. OO you live in a fantasy. OO you show everyday that KO proves you wrong and that you are so igorant on him it not funny and do not say different because that is a bold face lie, you love to supprt sexist racist like Brown even after they have been proven that, wow keep making me love and respect KO and show me that you love to defend rape, you think that Ryan should be allowed to say crap like that Brown to support it. Keep showing that OO is everything that you say that KO is. I do not live in your world OO but the real world and KO unlike you knows what tolerance is. Murrow OO would be calling this stuff out, so please again show why KO is this generations Murrow and you would not know Murrow if he bit you. You love to show how igorant you are on Murrow and KO. Sorry but Brown is all those things.

Wow you get my case for calling you what you are, you name call KO all the time, and you complain when I tell the truth about the comments that you post. You do put out dumb comments, a lot OO all that I so easily get refuted, also that story is made up, by Gibbs after he had a head injury because KO was not suppose to say what he wanted about consentily covering Lewinsky so, sorry thier is no such thing as Bathtub boy and I know that people like you who say that show that you are igorant and will never have a clue who KO is. You name call all the time and you get on my case because I call you out on it and tell the truth about your posts. You show that you do not know how to research, wow comments by trolls on Huffington Post that is some researching showing KO apologized and that he bad. Give me a break you love to bash KO and call him names, but you cannot take it when someone is telling you the truth about all including this one posts that you put, you never shown that KO is anything that you say. Wow keep embarassing yourself. I tell the truth about what you write and also that you think that being the spell police helps you. DO not make me laugh you show that you are nothing but a bully and you get on my case. Wow keep showing me why KO is this generations Murrow.

Also I am sorry I meant MSNBC and not the WSNBc, that is a sincre apology.

Since you think it fun to put out the select blog posts that you like, here one from Nomanselnic saying that KO apologizedKeith Olbermann is the best commentator on TV. Jon Stewart was right that Olbermann did not articulate legitimate grounds to justify his harsh remarks about Brown and Olbermann, like the man of integrity and honesty that he is sincerely apologized — also showing humor and humility.

Well done, Keith.
here is another one here is another by CN-Anz about this Hmmm, perhaps you’re right, RI. Keith should leave ‘apologies’ like the ones you’ve described to the true ‘professionals’ in that shameful field of expertise – the punditry over at Cluster-Fox immediately comes to mind, for instance… ;)
Also here someone calling like that person out who thinks that KO did not apologize this is from Nexiboys Coward? THAT’S harsh. Granted, he WAS over the top and shouldn’t have said it, but it will be a cold day in hell before we EVER see Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, O’Reilly, and their ilk apologize or even admit to being over the top. Of course, the right wing views apologizing as a sign of weakness. This how stupid it is to post select blog posts, you expect me to believe that because one blogger who is a troll like you said that he did not apologize that show that is true, wow you really do show that I am right about you and that you need to get off your high horse about calling people names. You think that it okay to bully KO and call him names, but when I say something back to you, you get all upset, wow you showed that not only do you post made up crap, but that you are a hypocrite. You show everyday how uncredible you are about KO and about facts. Showing me that KO is really this generations Murrow, wow you do not know who Murrow is I would be dead before I every thought the way you do about KO, you show again you do not live in the real world. If you do not want people name calling you than stop with it, also if you are so hate name calling and saying BS about it when it comes to KO. Than do not call KO names that is the point that I made with that comment. You do not get to start the name calling and still continue to do it and than get all upset. YOu show you are everything that you claim KO is.

Wow here another blogger since you love to believe troll blogger who like you would not know an apology if it went up and bit you here is what a blogger said to your Bubba guy Styer Or perhaps he didn’t tell you he’d apologized to Brown. You don’t know . . .
This why I care crap about you posting ramdon comments from blogger and why you doing that shows me that KO apologized and that he not everything that you claim he is. Putting up bloggers that agree with you OO is not showing that KO did not apologize and that he is a bad guy, that shows that OO knows that KO apologized and just cannot expect it.

OLBERMANN: The Republicans and the Tea Partiers will tell you what happens tonight with Scott Brown tonight, whether he wins or comes close, is a repudiation of Obama policies, and surely one of Obama’s policies from the viewpoint of his opponents is that it’s okay to have this sea change in American history, to have an African-American President. Is this vote to any degree just a euphemism the way state’s rights was in the 60s?

FINEMAN: Wow, that is a good question.

Yes, because the state that gave Barack Obama a 26-point win in November 2008 has suddenly discovered its inner Bull Connor. That’s not “a good question,” it’s a baldfaced smear on the people of Massachusetts. They elect one Republican, and suddenly in Keith Olbermann’s eyes, everyone there wears a hood and burns crosses. It’s absurd, and Fineman should have said so immediately instead of playing along with Olbermann’s vicious fantasy world in which 2010 Massachusetts has become 1966 Mississippi.

Fineman himself goes off the rails with this, however:

FINEMAN: Maybe not in Massachusetts, but maybe in some places, there are codes, there are images, ah, you know, there are pickup trucks, uh, you could say there was a racial aspect to it one way or another.

OLBERMANN: What were the Scott Brown ads, though? Every one of the Scott Brown ads had him in a pickup truck.

FINEMAN: That’s why I mentioned pickup trucks. I mean, my mind goes back to Fred Thompson down in Tennessee.

Pickup trucks are now racist? I’m curious; do the people who make trucks also qualify as racists? How about the truck manufacturers that advertise on NBC and MS-NBC? I wonder if they like the implication that pickup trucks and the people who buy them are really latent haters and bigots. Maybe someone should let them know about it, huh?

OLBERMANN: The Republicans and the Tea Partiers will tell you what happens tonight with Scott Brown tonight, whether he wins or comes close, is a repudiation of Obama policies, and surely one of Obama’s policies from the viewpoint of his opponents is that it’s okay to have this sea change in American history, to have an African-American President. Is this vote to any degree just a euphemism the way state’s rights was in the 60s?

FINEMAN: Wow, that is a good question.

Yes, because the state that gave Barack Obama a 26-point win in November 2008 has suddenly discovered its inner Bull Connor. That’s not “a good question,” it’s a baldfaced smear on the people of Massachusetts. They elect one Republican, and suddenly in Keith Olbermann’s eyes, everyone there wears a hood and burns crosses. It’s absurd, and Fineman should have said so immediately instead of playing along with Olbermann’s vicious fantasy world in which 201o Massachusetts has become 1966 Mississippi.

Fineman himself goes off the rails with this, however:

FINEMAN: Maybe not in Massachusetts, but maybe in some places, there are codes, there are images, ah, you know, there are pickup trucks, uh, you could say there was a racial aspect to it one way or another.

OLBERMANN: What were the Scott Brown ads, though? Every one of the Scott Brown ads had him in a pickup truck.

FINEMAN: That’s why I mentioned pickup trucks. I mean, my mind goes back to Fred Thompson down in Tennessee.

Pickup trucks are now racist? I’m curious; do the people who make trucks also qualify as racists? How about the truck manufacturers that advertise on NBC and MS-NBC? I wonder if they like the implication that pickup trucks and the people who buy them are really latent haters and bigots. Maybe someone should let them know about it, huh?

Wow you show that you do not know racism and that you do not even listen to segments but only bash. This was not KO saying that pick up trucks are racist, here is what mediate said about it and they are right wing and almost always anti-Olbermann A segment from last night’s Countdown is generating a lot of heat in the conservative blogosphere, with the general consensus being that Keith Olbermann cried “Racism!” on the Massachusetts special election, and cited Scott Brown’s pickup truck as an example.

I watched the exchange between Keith and Howard Fineman last night, and I don’t think the right is being fair to Keith. In fact, I think they might owe him an “attaboy” or two.

Here’s the segment in question: (h/t Eyeblast)

Granted, he asks the question, but as Fineman points out, it is a good question, and certainly not out of left field. Every mainstream media outlet asked whether the President’s race would be a factor during the 2008 election (including Fox News), and many on the right came out and explicitly said he only got elected because he was black. Now, it’s an outrage just to ask if the Massachusetts special election might have had a racial component to it? No sale.

It’s Fineman who brings up the pickup truck, at which point Keith references the Scott Brown ads. In the end, they conclude that no, race was not much of a factor.

I don’t think the answer is so black-and-white, pardon the pun. Barack Obama has been held up to a scrutiny whose intensity is unmatched. There are a lot of factors involved, not the least of which is the compression of the political news cycle in an attempt to retain the public’s interest following that historic campaign. Still, there is at least a superficial Jackie Robinson syndrome at work here.

White president ruins economy, blunders into unnecessary and costly war, presides over the worst terrorist attack in US history…and gets re-elected.

Black President doesn’t fix worst economy since Great Depression in his first year in office, get sweeping healthcare reform completed in his first year in office, or end either of the two wars he inherited in his first year in office…and both sides seem ready to run him out of town on a rail.

An honest person would have to agree that Barack Obama’s status as the first black President plays some role in shaping people’s expectations, media included. After that, it’s a matter of degree.

The thing I find most annoying about Brown’s pickup truck is that, aside from campaign signs, I can’t imagine what he’s picking up with it. My dad was a carpenter for almost 40 years, and needed his pickup truck. The idea that Scott Brown thinks he can be “one of us” by driving around an empty-bedded overcompensationmobile is what I find offensive.

Finally, I think the right should be fair, and give Keith Olbermann kudos for saying “the Republicans and the Tea Partiers will tell you…”

See? Keith said “Tea Partiers,” not “tea-baggers.” He cares.

Follow Mediaite, so again why does a author and site that is almost always negative to KO says that KO never said that pick ups is racist wow because he did not, also the only people that are saying that Oo are sites that love to defend racism when there side does it. Wow i tend not to listen to those sites, wow you show that KO unlike you knows tolerance and you do not keep lying about who KO is. You really love to show how igorant you are on KO. Keep shwoing me why you have been proven wrong and do not say different because that is a lie, keep showing why KO is this generations Murrow with you BS post that like everything else with you gets debunked and shows that you are all the names that you love to call KO with.

OLBERMANN: The Republicans and the Tea Partiers will tell you what happens tonight with Scott Brown tonight, whether he wins or comes close, is a repudiation of Obama policies, and surely one of Obama’s policies from the viewpoint of his opponents is that it’s okay to have this sea change in American history, to have an African-American President. Is this vote to any degree just a euphemism the way state’s rights was in the 60s?

FINEMAN: Wow, that is a good question.

Yes, because the state that gave Barack Obama a 26-point win in November 2008 has suddenly discovered its inner Bull Connor. That’s not “a good question,” it’s a baldfaced smear on the people of Massachusetts. They elect one Republican, and suddenly in Keith Olbermann’s eyes, everyone there wears a hood and burns crosses. It’s absurd, and Fineman should have said so immediately instead of playing along with Olbermann’s vicious fantasy world in which 201o Massachusetts has become 1966 Mississippi.

Fineman himself goes off the rails with this, however:

FINEMAN: Maybe not in Massachusetts, but maybe in some places, there are codes, there are images, ah, you know, there are pickup trucks, uh, you could say there was a racial aspect to it one way or another.

OLBERMANN: What were the Scott Brown ads, though? Every one of the Scott Brown ads had him in a pickup truck.

FINEMAN: That’s why I mentioned pickup trucks. I mean, my mind goes back to Fred Thompson down in Tennessee.

Pickup trucks are now racist? I’m curious; do the people who make trucks also qualify as racists? How about the truck manufacturers that advertise on NBC and MS-NBC? I wonder if they like the implication that pickup trucks and the people who buy them are really latent haters and bigots. Maybe someone should let them know about it, huh?

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OLBERMANN: The Republicans and the Tea Partiers will tell you what happens tonight with Scott Brown tonight, whether he wins or comes close, is a repudiation of Obama policies, and surely one of Obama’s policies from the viewpoint of his opponents is that it’s okay to have this sea change in American history, to have an African-American President. Is this vote to any degree just a euphemism the way state’s rights was in the 60s?

FINEMAN: Wow, that is a good question.

Yes, because the state that gave Barack Obama a 26-point win in November 2008 has suddenly discovered its inner Bull Connor. That’s not “a good question,” it’s a baldfaced smear on the people of Massachusetts. They elect one Republican, and suddenly in Keith Olbermann’s eyes, everyone there wears a hood and burns crosses. It’s absurd, and Fineman should have said so immediately instead of playing along with Olbermann’s vicious fantasy world in which 201o Massachusetts has become 1966 Mississippi.

Fineman himself goes off the rails with this, however:

FINEMAN: Maybe not in Massachusetts, but maybe in some places, there are codes, there are images, ah, you know, there are pickup trucks, uh, you could say there was a racial aspect to it one way or another.

OLBERMANN: What were the Scott Brown ads, though? Every one of the Scott Brown ads had him in a pickup truck.

FINEMAN: That’s why I mentioned pickup trucks. I mean, my mind goes back to Fred Thompson down in Tennessee.

Pickup trucks are now racist? I’m curious; do the people who make trucks also qualify as racists? How about the truck manufacturers that advertise on NBC and MS-NBC? I wonder if they like the implication that pickup trucks and the people who buy them are really latent haters and bigots. Maybe someone should let them know about it, huh?

Sorry OO but medite debunk that one here it is, Wow you show that you do not know racism and that you do not even listen to segments but only bash. This was not KO saying that pick up trucks are racist, here is what mediate said about it and they are right wing and almost always anti-Olbermann A segment from last night’s Countdown is generating a lot of heat in the conservative blogosphere, with the general consensus being that Keith Olbermann cried “Racism!” on the Massachusetts special election, and cited Scott Brown’s pickup truck as an example.
I watched the exchange between Keith and Howard Fineman last night, and I don’t think the right is being fair to Keith. In fact, I think they might owe him an “attaboy” or two.
Here’s the segment in question: (h/t Eyeblast)
Granted, he asks the question, but as Fineman points out, it is a good question, and certainly not out of left field. Every mainstream media outlet asked whether the President’s race would be a factor during the 2008 election (including Fox News), and many on the right came out and explicitly said he only got elected because he was black. Now, it’s an outrage just to ask if the Massachusetts special election might have had a racial component to it? No sale.
It’s Fineman who brings up the pickup truck, at which point Keith references the Scott Brown ads. In the end, they conclude that no, race was not much of a factor.
I don’t think the answer is so black-and-white, pardon the pun. Barack Obama has been held up to a scrutiny whose intensity is unmatched. There are a lot of factors involved, not the least of which is the compression of the political news cycle in an attempt to retain the public’s interest following that historic campaign. Still, there is at least a superficial Jackie Robinson syndrome at work here.
White president ruins economy, blunders into unnecessary and costly war, presides over the worst terrorist attack in US history…and gets re-elected.
Black President doesn’t fix worst economy since Great Depression in his first year in office, get sweeping healthcare reform completed in his first year in office, or end either of the two wars he inherited in his first year in office…and both sides seem ready to run him out of town on a rail.
An honest person would have to agree that Barack Obama’s status as the first black President plays some role in shaping people’s expectations, media included. After that, it’s a matter of degree.
The thing I find most annoying about Brown’s pickup truck is that, aside from campaign signs, I can’t imagine what he’s picking up with it. My dad was a carpenter for almost 40 years, and needed his pickup truck. The idea that Scott Brown thinks he can be “one of us” by driving around an empty-bedded overcompensationmobile is what I find offensive.
Finally, I think the right should be fair, and give Keith Olbermann kudos for saying “the Republicans and the Tea Partiers will tell you…”
See? Keith said “Tea Partiers,” not “tea-baggers.” He cares.
Follow Mediaite, so again why does a author and site that is almost always negative to KO says that KO never said that pick ups is racist wow because he did not, also the only people that are saying that Oo are sites that love to defend racism when there side does it. Wow i tend not to listen to those sites, wow you show that KO unlike you knows tolerance and you do not keep lying about who KO is. You really love to show how igorant you are on KO. Keep shwoing me why you have been proven wrong and do not say different because that is a lie, keep showing why KO is this generations Murrow with you BS post that like everything else with you gets debunked and shows that you are all the names that you love to call KO with. So once again you want to post made up debunk crap. You really show why KO is this generations Murrow. Keep showing that you have zero clue what racism looks like. You enjoy posting crap that only sites that defend racism are calling out and you expect me to believe you when it comes to KO, sorry OO but I live in the real word and i know that anything that you post about KO is not going to be true and that you need to tell the truth that KO has proven you wrong and that KO fans have proven you wrong and people with commen sense have proven to you that you have never been right about KO and never will be and do not say different because that is another OO lie. You really show that I will always be right about KO being this generations Murrow and sorry i know that everything OO you print on KO is dead wrong and will always be debunked, all you are doing now is embarrassing yourself with you igorance and if you say different that is also a lie, you OO do not know what a fact is, you think that websites that defend racism and are the only ones that say that are what tolerance and facts are. You do not know what hypocricacy means. Keep making me love KO that is all you do.

The idea that Scott Brown thinks he can be “one of us” by driving around an empty-bedded overcompensationmobile is what I find offensive.

I don’t find it any more offensive than the Obamas acting like they’re regular people because they spent a couple of hours one day passing out some food at Martha’s Kitchen.

First I would not believe the teaparty when it comes to racism, they are about as hypocritcal on that subject as you are, they do not get that founding fathers were fighting the revolution because we wanted to have a voice in parlement not that we wanted to be free of taxes, that is what taxation without repsentation says. So anyone that believes what the tea party says on racism shows how igorant they are on the subject, also here again is Mediate debunking and showing you that you would not know who Murrow is and who KO is Sorry OO but medite debunk that one here it is, Wow you show that you do not know racism and that you do not even listen to segments but only bash. This was not KO saying that pick up trucks are racist, here is what mediate said about it and they are right wing and almost always anti-Olbermann A segment from last night’s Countdown is generating a lot of heat in the conservative blogosphere, with the general consensus being that Keith Olbermann cried “Racism!” on the Massachusetts special election, and cited Scott Brown’s pickup truck as an example.
I watched the exchange between Keith and Howard Fineman last night, and I don’t think the right is being fair to Keith. In fact, I think they might owe him an “attaboy” or two.
Here’s the segment in question: (h/t Eyeblast)
Granted, he asks the question, but as Fineman points out, it is a good question, and certainly not out of left field. Every mainstream media outlet asked whether the President’s race would be a factor during the 2008 election (including Fox News), and many on the right came out and explicitly said he only got elected because he was black. Now, it’s an outrage just to ask if the Massachusetts special election might have had a racial component to it? No sale.
It’s Fineman who brings up the pickup truck, at which point Keith references the Scott Brown ads. In the end, they conclude that no, race was not much of a factor.
I don’t think the answer is so black-and-white, pardon the pun. Barack Obama has been held up to a scrutiny whose intensity is unmatched. There are a lot of factors involved, not the least of which is the compression of the political news cycle in an attempt to retain the public’s interest following that historic campaign. Still, there is at least a superficial Jackie Robinson syndrome at work here.
White president ruins economy, blunders into unnecessary and costly war, presides over the worst terrorist attack in US history…and gets re-elected.
Black President doesn’t fix worst economy since Great Depression in his first year in office, get sweeping healthcare reform completed in his first year in office, or end either of the two wars he inherited in his first year in office…and both sides seem ready to run him out of town on a rail.
An honest person would have to agree that Barack Obama’s status as the first black President plays some role in shaping people’s expectations, media included. After that, it’s a matter of degree.
The thing I find most annoying about Brown’s pickup truck is that, aside from campaign signs, I can’t imagine what he’s picking up with it. My dad was a carpenter for almost 40 years, and needed his pickup truck. The idea that Scott Brown thinks he can be “one of us” by driving around an empty-bedded overcompensationmobile is what I find offensive.
Finally, I think the right should be fair, and give Keith Olbermann kudos for saying “the Republicans and the Tea Partiers will tell you…”
See? Keith said “Tea Partiers,” not “tea-baggers.” He cares.
Follow Mediaite, so again why does a author and site that is almost always negative to KO says that KO never said that pick ups is racist wow because he did not, also the only people that are saying that Oo are sites that love to defend racism when there side does it. Wow i tend not to listen to those sites, wow you show that KO unlike you knows tolerance and you do not keep lying about who KO is. You really love to show how igorant you are on KO. Keep shwoing me why you have been proven wrong and do not say different because that is a lie, keep showing why KO is this generations Murrow with you BS post that like everything else with you gets debunked and shows that you are all the names that you love to call KO with. So once again you want to post made up debunk crap. You really show why KO is this generations Murrow. Keep showing that you have zero clue what racism looks like. You enjoy posting crap that only sites that defend racism are calling out and you expect me to believe you when it comes to KO, sorry OO but I live in the real word and i know that anything that you post about KO is not going to be true and that you need to tell the truth that KO has proven you wrong and that KO fans have proven you wrong and people with commen sense have proven to you that you have never been right about KO and never will be and do not say different because that is another OO lie. You really show that I will always be right about KO being this generations Murrow and sorry i know that everything OO you print on KO is dead wrong and will always be debunked, all you are doing now is embarrassing yourself with you igorance and if you say different that is also a lie, you OO do not know what a fact is, you think that websites that defend racism and are the only ones that say that are what tolerance and facts are. You do not know what hypocricacy means. Keep making me love KO that is all you do. You really show that you are everything that you claim KO is. Keep making me love and respect him more and that KO fans unlike you live in the real world, you would not know what the real world and commen sense are. Love how you lie and show how igorant you are about KO and his fans. You really make me love and respect him more and more.

And this guy went on to replace BB at Current?! LMFAO : _-)

Sorry OO but medite debunk that one here it is, Wow you show that you do not know racism and that you do not even listen to segments but only bash. This was not KO saying that pick up trucks are racist, here is what mediate said about it and they are right wing and almost always anti-Olbermann A segment from last night’s Countdown is generating a lot of heat in the conservative blogosphere, with the general consensus being that Keith Olbermann cried “Racism!” on the Massachusetts special election, and cited Scott Brown’s pickup truck as an example.
I watched the exchange between Keith and Howard Fineman last night, and I don’t think the right is being fair to Keith. In fact, I think they might owe him an “attaboy” or two.
Here’s the segment in question: (h/t Eyeblast)
Granted, he asks the question, but as Fineman points out, it is a good question, and certainly not out of left field. Every mainstream media outlet asked whether the President’s race would be a factor during the 2008 election (including Fox News), and many on the right came out and explicitly said he only got elected because he was black. Now, it’s an outrage just to ask if the Massachusetts special election might have had a racial component to it? No sale.
It’s Fineman who brings up the pickup truck, at which point Keith references the Scott Brown ads. In the end, they conclude that no, race was not much of a factor.
I don’t think the answer is so black-and-white, pardon the pun. Barack Obama has been held up to a scrutiny whose intensity is unmatched. There are a lot of factors involved, not the least of which is the compression of the political news cycle in an attempt to retain the public’s interest following that historic campaign. Still, there is at least a superficial Jackie Robinson syndrome at work here.
White president ruins economy, blunders into unnecessary and costly war, presides over the worst terrorist attack in US history…and gets re-elected.
Black President doesn’t fix worst economy since Great Depression in his first year in office, get sweeping healthcare reform completed in his first year in office, or end either of the two wars he inherited in his first year in office…and both sides seem ready to run him out of town on a rail.
An honest person would have to agree that Barack Obama’s status as the first black President plays some role in shaping people’s expectations, media included. After that, it’s a matter of degree.
The thing I find most annoying about Brown’s pickup truck is that, aside from campaign signs, I can’t imagine what he’s picking up with it. My dad was a carpenter for almost 40 years, and needed his pickup truck. The idea that Scott Brown thinks he can be “one of us” by driving around an empty-bedded overcompensationmobile is what I find offensive.
Finally, I think the right should be fair, and give Keith Olbermann kudos for saying “the Republicans and the Tea Partiers will tell you…”
See? Keith said “Tea Partiers,” not “tea-baggers.” He cares.
Follow Mediaite, so again why does a author and site that is almost always negative to KO says that KO never said that pick ups is racist wow because he did not, also the only people that are saying that Oo are sites that love to defend racism when there side does it. Wow i tend not to listen to those sites, wow you show that KO unlike you knows tolerance and you do not keep lying about who KO is. You really love to show how igorant you are on KO. Keep shwoing me why you have been proven wrong and do not say different because that is a lie, keep showing why KO is this generations Murrow with you BS post that like everything else with you gets debunked and shows that you are all the names that you love to call KO with. So once again you want to post made up debunk crap.

Dude keep showing that you hate facts here is what went on with that. KO donated his own money to cadidates because he was afraid of thier safety, MSNBC who shows that it hypocritical on this supends him and leaves Scaubough out until they are caught with people that are angry at them for thier hypocricracy and they let Geogary donate, so sorry you show that you have no idea what hypocricray looks like, here is it all I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you! Keith Olbermann, a man who earns millions, an American citizen and (until today anyway) a free man living in a free country… actually donated $7,200 to three candidates running for public office. And I’m even more surprised to find out they were all… DEMOCRATS! Oh, the horror. Who would have guessed?

Let’s see, $7,200… why, that’s probably less than two hours pay for him. Have you ever given any candidates what amounts to two hours of your earnings? Were you suspended for it? These were not some secret donations Olbermann made under cover of darkness, in an alley behind a bar, or by slipping an unmarked envelope under a door someplace. No, they were perfectly legal donations properly reported by the candidates who received them.

So, how then could Olbermann get suspended from his job? Without pay too. I hope he’s saved a few dollars. Seems his company, the GE owned, National Broadcasting Company, Inc. cable channel MSNBC has a policy whereby their air-personalities, their entertainers and performers must get some sort of executive permission before they make political donations. And Keith apparently failed to get his bosses to approve his in advance.

Who among us needs to get their employer’s permission before making an open and legal political donation? Could such a corporate policy pass the laugh test in court? Did Olbermann then go out of the normal programming policies at MSNBC to use his own show “COUNTDOWN” to support these candidates? Is he even being charged with doing that? Did any of the three win their elections? Does anyone at GE, NBC or MSNBC care? And what about the fact that MSNBC airs a daily show featuring the wife of Alan Greenspan without ever notifying its audience of her and her husband’s decades of political activity? Maybe the Greenspans have quit all politics. Perhaps, Keith Olbermann is a “Media Lone Wolf,” a solitary contributor inside the otherwise pristine hallways of GE, NBC and MSNBC.

What about any other GE, NBC or MSNBC employee who may have made donations to political candidates? Has anyone else been suspended, and without pay? Maybe none of them – not a single one – has ever donated even a dime to any political candidate as long as they’ve worked for GE, NBC or MSNBC. Do you find that remotely possible? Pat Buchanan maybe? Or “Morning” Joe? Or all the rest? Are all of them holding onto their dollars with tight fists, refusing to put their money where their mouths are? Or do you think Keith Olbermann is the only GE, NBC or MSNBC employee ever to make a legal political donation while failing to get his employer’s permission to do so in advance? Maybe Keith’s been using steroids too, you think?

What can I, or other MSNBC viewers do to effectively register my shock at this outrage against civil rights and basic democracy? How can we protest this? I can tell you what I’m doing. Effective immediately I’m suspending MSNBC from my viewing schedule – until further notice, without pay – and certainly without permission – until Keith Olbermann is back on-the-air. And if he never reappears on MSNBC – I will never watch that channel again. And, just in case I cheat a little and maybe tune in anyway… you can be sure I’ll NEVER report such a grave personal weakness to any rating service that happens to call me. I’ll tell them I’m watching FOX NEWS. here is another Keith Olbermann has been suspended from MSNBC without pay, effective immediately. The suspension comes in response to a Politico story that reported that the anchor had made three donations to Democratic congressional candidates last week. Political donations apparently violate MSNBC’s ethics policy—although other MSNBC employees, including Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and commentator Pat Buchanan, have made similar donations in recent years. (Actually, it may be that the NBC rules under which Olbermann was suspended under don’t apply to MSNBCers.)

This situation brings up several interesting issues of journalistic ethics. Like former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie, Olbermann says that journalists shouldn’t vote. Still, his progressive affinities are well known and actually the bedrock of his show. So what’s the point of a donation ban? If Olbermann donates to Democrats, will conservatives realize he’s a liberal? This is just as silly as NPR forbidding its employees to go to the “Rally for Sanity.”

Media outlets should give up this insane act in which they pretend that their reporters are robots without biases. Everyone knows that’s not true! People have lots of biases. Look, this is incredibly simple. Reporters and journalists and media figures should be judged on one thing and one thing only: whether what they say and report turns out to be true. Why do people not get that? If we had a media culture where people were hired and fired based on their record of truth-telling (or not), the world would be a much better place. Also here is another There is a double standard at work with regard to Keith Olbermann’s suspension, not only between other personalities appearing on MSNBC as commentators, but also at the very top level of the food chain.

Comcast now owns is about MSNBC after their acquisition was completed earlier this year is approved (and it will be, I’m sure), despite protestations from many of us. A look at campaign finance disclosures for several organizations shows that Phil Anschutz, chairman of Comcast, content partner with Comcast, donated large sums of money to the First Amendment Alliance, one of the largest outside groups targeting Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections.

The Anschutz Corporation, wholly owned by Phil Anschutz, gave $50,000 on 9/24/2010 to the First Amendment Alliance. The two candidates targeted by the First Amendment Alliance? Jack Conway and Michael Bennet.

Keith Olbermann gave to Jack Conway’s campaign along with Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords.

In addition, the Anschutz family donated $169,900 to Republican candidates and committees during the 2010 election cycle, according to Open Secrets.

Additionally, Comcast Corporation has contributed $125,000 to the Republican Governors’ Association in the 2010 cycle (as of 9/30/2010). (Added: Comcast notes it has also donated the same sum to the DGA)

There’s been a lot of chatter about MSNBC policy, and whether Olbermann should have gotten advance approval for his donations to Jack Conway, Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords on October 28th. The policy I’ve seen reads like this:

NBC and MSNBC TV require permission of the president of NBC News. (MSNBC.com is a joint venture of NBC Universal and Microsoft.)

“Anyone working for NBC News who takes part in civic or other outside activities may find that these activities jeopardize his or her standing as an impartial journalist because they may create the appearance of a conflict of interest. Such activities may include participation in or contributions to political campaigns or groups that espouse controversial positions. You should report any such potential conflicts in advance to, and obtain prior approval of, the President of NBC News or his designee.”

That language clearly says “should” and not “must”. Further, anyone who thinks Keith Olbermann is an impartial journalist should have their head examined. He’s not, never has been, never will be, and is not presented as one.

But it leaves this question lingering for me: How is it that the parent corporation of NBC and chairman of that corporation, Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough are accorded First Amendment rights to political speech and Keith Olbermann is not?

GET THIS: From the NYTimes:

The News Corporation is one of the biggest suppliers of content to Comcast, with contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

UPDATE: PCCC has a petition you can sign to MSNBC: Tell MSNBC that if they want to keep their viewers, they must put Keith back on the air NOW!

And if you’re on Twitter, progressives are tweeting MSNBC with their displeasure there too.

Gawker says NBC News denies their standards apply to MSNBC commentators.

For an understanding of the relationship between Anschutz and Comcast, see this Muckety map (Flash required). It’s a combination of hockey teams, media, ticket sales and Qwest Communications. Some question the associations. They exist. I’ve linked to them. Here’s another.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has issued a statement demanding Olbermann’s immediate reinstatement.

“It is outrageous that General Electric/MSNBC would suspend Keith Olbermann for exercising his constitutional rights to contribute to a candidate of his choice. This is a real threat to political discourse in America and will have a chilling impact on every commentator for MSNBC.

“We live in a time when 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists, when the Republican Party has its own cable network (Fox) and when progressive voices are few and far between.

“At a time when the ownership of Fox news contributed millions of dollars to the Republican Party, when a number of Fox commentators are using the network as a launching pad for their presidential campaigns and are raising money right off the air, it is absolutely unacceptable that MSNBC suspended one of the most popular progressive commentators in the country.

“Is Rachel Maddow or Ed Schultz next? Is this simply a ‘personality conflict’ within MSNBC or is one of America’s major corporations cracking down on a viewpoint they may not like? Whatever the answer may be, Keith Olbermann should be reinstated immediately and allowed to present his point of view.”

Jed Lewison over at Kos takes on the Joe Scarborough donations and hypocrisy in MSNBC’s response.

Statement from Comcast:

“The joint venture between Comcast and GE has not yet received regulatory approval. Comcast is not in any way involved with decisions made currently by NBC News. We have pledged that when the transaction is concluded, Comcast will abide by the same policies for NBC’s news and public affairs programming that have been in place since GE acquired the company in 1986. Comcast is committed to the independence of NBC’s news operations.

We hope to acquire NBC Universal in the coming months, but by law we play no role in current operations. Mr. Philip Anschutz is not the chairman of Comcast Corporation, nor is he on its board, or in any way involved with the management of the company.”

ThinkProgress notes another possible tie between Comcast and Olbermann’s suspension.
Wow so once again you show that KO is this generations Murrow, and do not be crazy and say that partisan means different, because KO partisan to the truth and that is what Murrow is. So you would be lying if you say different. SO again show me that KO is bad. KO keep showing why you are this generations Murrow and OO what real journalism is. Sorry you got unjustily fired at Current. As long as you are yourself than you will always have a fan in me. Keep showing how igorant you are on KO that is all you know how to do.

BASEBALL BASEBALL BASEBALL! Talk about BASEBALL or go away. Please… this is a great blog about baseball. I beg you, go away… baseball.

JOsh
I more than willing to talk baseball, i just hate when we have trolls come on here and think that it okay to bash KO, they need to go away. Let you adnd others talk baseball, and me to learn more about the sport.

Please…..I concur. If your rants are political/personal and NOT baseball related, find some other venue to bitch and name-call about whomever you choose. That’ll leave the rest of us here to lament the lack of baseball until March. Meh…..

As I said hamblin,
I would rather listen to you and KO and others talk baseball. I just hate the trolls that come here and think that it okay to bash KO. KO again great interview that made me love and respect you more and show why you are this generations Murrow. Love you faults and all.

so tigers are gonna win the next 4?
there is no stat for heart
something that the great verlander doesnt have and the giants have tons of

One game is not a series. It was better for the Tigers to get blown out rather than lose a heart breaker. A long, long way to go.

This blog has officially been hijacked. We are now en route to Cuba. Fasten your safety belts. Put trays in upright positions. Someone please call the Blog po-po. Go Giants! :)

Thanks for the laugh,

Anytime, pal. Hugs.

Wow a video by James Okeffe
Thier is no such thing as voter fraud, here is truth abou this,
August 8, 2012 |

Right-wingers are in a tizzy over excerpts from a new book by two of the GOP’s leading voter-fraud hucksters alleging that Minnesota’s Democratic Senator Al Franken would not have won a statewide recount in 2009 were it not for ex-felons voting illegally.

They are jumping to the false conclusion that illegal felon voting in November 2008 not only tipped a recount in which Franken won by 312 votes—out of 2.4 million cast between the two men—but that tougher state voter ID laws would have changed the result. Both claims are wrong.

“And that’s just the question of voting by felons,” wrote the Washington Examiner’s report by Byron York, chief political correspondent. “Minnesota Majority also found all sorts of other irregularities that cast further doubt on the Senate results.”

The problem with this assertion—from a new book by The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund and George W. Bush Justice Department attorney Hans von Spakovsky—is that it is not just factually wrong, according to Minnesota Supreme Court records, the Minnesota prosecutor who investigated most of the cases, and some of the country’s top election scholars, but it is intended to rile a segment of the Right that thinks it is patriotic to demonize voting by non-whites and disrupt voting for everyone else.

“They are talking in code to their base,” said Rutgers University’s Lori Minnite, co-author of Keeping Down The Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters . “My guess is that von Spakovsky and Fund know exactly what they are doing.”

“There is no basis in fact, whatsoever, in these inaccuracies propagated by the Minnesota Majority here, none,” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Wednesday. “After the most closely scrutinized election in Minnesota history in 2008, there were zero cases of fraud. Even the Republicans lawyers acknowledged that there was no systematic effort to defraud the election, none.”

“In Hennepin County, 650,000 people voted,” he continued. “The Minnesota Majority presented us with 1,500 cases that they felt there were problems with voting. Our own election bureau gave us 100. At the end of the day, we charged 38 cases. And all but one of them are felons voting who were still under the penalty [of not legally applying to regain individual voting rights]. There was no fraud.”

In many cases, former felons are not aware that they have to go through a legal process to regain their voting rights, unlike getting a driver’s license.

“How many of the former felons were registered to vote but never voted,” said Kathy Bonnifield, executive director of Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota, which issued its report on scapegoating felons in November 2010—five months after the rightwingers first raised the spectre of illegal felon voting. “There is a lot of devil in those details.”

The GOP’s Voter Fraud Propaganda War

We must first consider the Right’s devilish messengers and then their dubious details.

John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky are ideologues whose assertions about widespread fraudulent voting have not just been debunked by scholars, but by George W. Bush’s Justice Department itself—where in 2006, von Spakovsky, a lawyer, led the firing of seven U.S. attorneys for not zealously pursuing voter fraud.

The scandalous firings were hardly a federal law enforcement triumph; the full force of the DOJ could only find three-dozen cases in a country where presidential elections see upwards of 130 million voters. (Von Spakovsky was then appointed by Bush to the Federal Election Commission). Between 2002 and 2005 federal prosecutors under von Spakovsky only brought 38 cases of voter fraud nationwide, winning 24 convictions. and here is some more from this article Fund, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and conservative websites, authored a 2004 book about the threat of sloppy election administration and especially voter fraud—which he claims are about people voting illegally or impersonating others at the polls. There is no doubt that elections are complicated and rife with human error, but Fund’s sophistry is to cite isolated problems as indicative of a national crisis, slickly ignoring any sense of scale and pushing ‘solutions’ that help the GOP by targeting perceived Democratic voting blocks.

Von Spakovsky’s vigilantism and Fund’s paranoia are vividly displayed in the contention that Al Franken would not be a sitting U.S. Senator today were it not for illegal voting by former felons that had illegally cast a ballot in November 2008. It is also noteworthy that the source of this conclusion, according to York’s Examiner report, happens to be the Minnesota Majority, whose “method” of identifying felon voters was to compare voter lists with the most rudimentary information in government databases—a methodology that has been trashed by one of the nation’s leading election statistical scholars, Michael McDonald of George Mason University.

“There are solid reasons to suspect that Minnesota Majority has overstated the number of illegal votes,” McDonald writes, asking, “Why is it always the Democratic areas that are investigated?” Going further, he notes that this crew of voting vigilantes does not care about publicly smearing innocent people who were wrongly identified as felons. “I find it distasteful to publicize the names of people in the Minnesota Majority report whose charges were dismissed, perhaps because they were flagged due to the bad luck of having the same name and birth year as a felon.”

“The numbers are a complete lie,” Freeman’s spokesman said before the Hennepin County Attorney came on the phone. “They keep going on television and repeating this lie, even though we debunked this with the work we had to do.”

Their conclusions are consistent with research done by Bonnifield’s group, Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota, following the 2008 senatorial recount. Her November 2010 report found only 26 voter fraud convictions across the state at that time. They were all ex-felons who registered to vote but never voted (32 percent) or who voted (68 percent) before restoring their voting rights. This distinction is very important because it further debunks the GOP’s voter ID case.

Bonnifield sent a questionnaire to every Minnesota county prosecutor and found not one allegation of voter fraud was prosecutable beyond the issues facing the ex-felons—there was no double voting, underage voting, voter impersonation, coercion of elderly or disabled voters, or non-citizen voting. Instead, 76 percent of the investigations brought no charge.

In other words, York’s assertion, “it’s not just a question of voting by felons,” is bogus. Confusion by ex-felons, one-third of who registered but never voted, is the only issue. Moreover, the numbers cited by York and his sources about the extent of felon voting may be from more elections than just the November 2008 race sparking the recount.

A spokesman for The Minnesota Court Information Office, operated by its Supreme Court, Tuesday said there were 14 voter fraud convictions across the state in 2009, 11 in 2010, and 132 in 2011. The Court records did not say when, or in which election—before 2008, during 2008, or after 2008—the illegal registrations or voting occurred.

In contrast, York arrogantly and erroneously states that 1,099 felons voted illegally in 2008, and that 177 have been convicted, while another 66 are awaiting trial. This 1,099 figure is close to the total number of voter fraud complaints that were submitted and investigated, of which the vast majority were found to be baseless, according to the Hennepin County Attorney, whose office handled the majority of these allegations.

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and here Fund and von Spakovsky contend that county prosecutors chose to ignore the bulk of illegal voting, according to York, because the state’s standards for obtaining convictions are lax. “The accused can get off by claiming not to have known they did anything wrong,” he said, citing their book. “Still, that’s a total of 243 people either convicted of voter fraud or awaiting trial in an election that was decided by 312 votes.”

That is another statement that should make any lawyer cringe—and von Spakovsky, a lawyer, should know better. The issue of criminal intent is a fundamental precept in American justice. It is the rule and not the exception in criminal law that intent must be in evidence to convict someone of violating a law. By glossing over that distinction—a typical Fund move—these provocateurs are seeking to heighten a sense of unfairness among their clan. Ignoring criminal intent has never been a legal standard or even controversial.

Attacking Elections Is Not Patriotic

There are many reasons why the GOP’s voter ID arguments—including this rubbery analysis—are an overreaching solution in search of a barely-existent problem.

In a state where 2.9 million people voted in November 2008, even if there were 243 illegal voters—and that includes people who have not yet been proven guilty—less than one-thousandth of 1 percent of the state’s electorate registered or voted illegally. The GOP’s ‘solution,’ forcing millions of voters to present specific government-issued photo ID to get a ballot, is using a bulldozer to swat a fly.

Moreover, having a photo ID requirement to obtain a ballot would do nothing to end the confusion surrounding ex-felons prematurely registering to vote. They can do that with a driver’s license. If illegal felon voting is in fact a problem, then the solution lies with telling probation officers to better-inform their charges, not new statewide voting rules.

But the myth of voter fraud refuses to die among the GOP. Minnesota’s Republican-led Legislature passed a voter ID law that was vetoed this spring by its Democratic governor. It subsequently put a state constitutional amendment on voter ID on the November 2012 ballot. Secretary of State, Mark Ritchie, a Democrat, has been sued over ballot language, precluding him from commenting on this new attack by right-wingers on the senatorial recount that he oversaw in 2008-2009.

But beyond arguments over voter ID, there is a bigger point. Republicans increasingly have been trying to tilt the rules surrounding all aspects of voting in recent elections—from restricting voter registration drives, to rules validating voter registration applications, to presenting more specific forms of ID to get a ballot, to toughening the rules for counting provisional ballots given to people who lack that ID, to suing afterwards if the vote count is close. All of these tactics are in play in the 2012 presidential election.

Beyond ignoring the facts, the implicit racism in this latest charge may be its most repugnant feature, as many felons are presumed not likely to be white.

The further assumption that felons vote for Democrats and not Republicans should also be disputed. There are a lot of felons in white majority states that vote for Republicans. In Minnite’s book, she cited the 2004 Washington state gubernatorial recount, where the GOP also claimed that felon voting benefitted the winner, Democrat Chris Gregoire.

In that recount litigation, the court found people with felony convictions who had not yet restored their voting rights had voted illegally—because local election officials mailed them ballots. There was no finding of an intent to defraud. In contrast, the court found that the only showing of an intent to fraudulently vote was by four illegal voters who supported the Republican candidate.

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Fund and von Spakovsky contend that county prosecutors chose to ignore the bulk of illegal voting, according to York, because the state’s standards for obtaining convictions are lax. “The accused can get off by claiming not to have known they did anything wrong,” he said, citing their book. “Still, that’s a total of 243 people either convicted of voter fraud or awaiting trial in an election that was decided by 312 votes.”

That is another statement that should make any lawyer cringe—and von Spakovsky, a lawyer, should know better. The issue of criminal intent is a fundamental precept in American justice. It is the rule and not the exception in criminal law that intent must be in evidence to convict someone of violating a law. By glossing over that distinction—a typical Fund move—these provocateurs are seeking to heighten a sense of unfairness among their clan. Ignoring criminal intent has never been a legal standard or even controversial.

Attacking Elections Is Not Patriotic

There are many reasons why the GOP’s voter ID arguments—including this rubbery analysis—are an overreaching solution in search of a barely-existent problem.

In a state where 2.9 million people voted in November 2008, even if there were 243 illegal voters—and that includes people who have not yet been proven guilty—less than one-thousandth of 1 percent of the state’s electorate registered or voted illegally. The GOP’s ‘solution,’ forcing millions of voters to present specific government-issued photo ID to get a ballot, is using a bulldozer to swat a fly.

Moreover, having a photo ID requirement to obtain a ballot would do nothing to end the confusion surrounding ex-felons prematurely registering to vote. They can do that with a driver’s license. If illegal felon voting is in fact a problem, then the solution lies with telling probation officers to better-inform their charges, not new statewide voting rules.

But the myth of voter fraud refuses to die among the GOP. Minnesota’s Republican-led Legislature passed a voter ID law that was vetoed this spring by its Democratic governor. It subsequently put a state constitutional amendment on voter ID on the November 2012 ballot. Secretary of State, Mark Ritchie, a Democrat, has been sued over ballot language, precluding him from commenting on this new attack by right-wingers on the senatorial recount that he oversaw in 2008-2009.

But beyond arguments over voter ID, there is a bigger point. Republicans increasingly have been trying to tilt the rules surrounding all aspects of voting in recent elections—from restricting voter registration drives, to rules validating voter registration applications, to presenting more specific forms of ID to get a ballot, to toughening the rules for counting provisional ballots given to people who lack that ID, to suing afterwards if the vote count is close. All of these tactics are in play in the 2012 presidential election.

Beyond ignoring the facts, the implicit racism in this latest charge may be its most repugnant feature, as many felons are presumed not likely to be white.

The further assumption that felons vote for Democrats and not Republicans should also be disputed. There are a lot of felons in white majority states that vote for Republicans. In Minnite’s book, she cited the 2004 Washington state gubernatorial recount, where the GOP also claimed that felon voting benefitted the winner, Democrat Chris Gregoire.

In that recount litigation, the court found people with felony convictions who had not yet restored their voting rights had voted illegally—because local election officials mailed them ballots. There was no finding of an intent to defraud. In contrast, the court found that the only showing of an intent to fraudulently vote was by four illegal voters who supported the Republican candidate.

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and finally here f the Republican Right were confident in its candidates and message, they would trust voters to listen and decide, and abide by the outcome. Instead, they are trying to game the rules and cast doubt on the public’s confidence in the process—including the prospect of recounts in swing states this fall. And they consider these activities patriotic.

OO Okefee is no jouranlist truth is by showing him you show that you are so igorant on what journalism and truth is, f the Republican Right were confident in its candidates and message, they would trust voters to listen and decide, and abide by the outcome. Instead, they are trying to game the rules and cast doubt on the public’s confidence in the process—including the prospect of recounts in swing states this fall. And they consider these activities patriotic. From James O’Keefe’s latest video on “Voter Fraud in America,” we learn:

If James O’Keefe says someone isn’t a citizen, you should ask to see their passport.
If James O’Keefe says someone is deceased, you should ask to see their death certificate.
If you show up at someone’s house with a video camera or call them on the phone, refuse to identify yourself, and demand answers about someone’s citizenship, you’re probably not going to get a response. (Ambush interview subject to O’Keefe associate: “You haven’t told me who you are. You’re an ‘independent agency’? That’s cool. Who are you with?” O’Keefe associate replies “Thank you, sir,” and drives off.)

As usual, O’Keefe’s videos tell us much more about his deceptive methods and sloppy “journalism” than they do about the subject matter. And as the videos continue to crash and burn, they also tell us quite a bit about his allies in the voter ID movement, who are eager to use his efforts to push for laws that make it harder to vote.

O’Keefe’s little lies all serve his big lie: That there is a widespread epidemic of voter fraud in this country that necessitates voter ID laws. Both data and common sense show that this simply isn’t the case. But those who seek passage of such laws are apparently willing to use any means necessary, even if it means highlighting the work of an activist who long ran out of credibility.

Indeed, since he began releasing dishonest voter fraud videos in January, O’Keefe has become the toast of the voter ID movement. He has been praised by New Black Panthers Party fabulist J. Christian Adams for having “exposed the truth about voter fraud” and lauded by longtime vote fraudster John Fund (“In Washington, it was child’s play for O’Keefe to beat the system”), spoke at the national summit for the Tea Party-backed True the Vote, and appeared with South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson to discuss the need for voter ID.

On at least two occasions, right-wing members of Congress, specifically Reps. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Steve King (R-IA),have raised O’Keefe’s videos during congressional hearings, with King on one occasion questioning FBI director Robert Mueller about the tapes.

O’Keefe’s videos have even been cited by state legislators in Mississippi, Minnesota, and New Hampshire as an impetus for pushes for voter ID laws in those states.

When you mischaracterize the status of all three of the voters you are supposedly reporting on, your reporting has no credibility. And with the rest of the voter fraud movement depending on O’Keefe to promote their issue, it’s quickly becoming apparent that their own credibility is lacking as well. So keep showing that you have zero clue what you talk about here is even more O’Keefe falsely claimed that ACORN tapes were a “nationwide ACORN child prostitution investigation” that implicated many ACORN employees. Discussing the ACORN videos created by O’Keefe and fellow conservative activist Hannah Giles, O’Keefe falsely claimed that the video campaign was a “nationwide ACORN child prostitution investigation” implicating many ACORN employees. But in at least six of the eight heavily edited videos produced by O’Keefe and Giles and distributed by Andrew Breitbart, either the activists did not clearly tell the ACORN employees that they were planning to engage in child prostitution; or the ACORN employees refused to help them or apparently deliberately misled them; or ACORN employees contacted the police following their visit.

Law enforcement officials criticize O’Keefe’s “highly selective editing of reality.” Three separate investigations cleared ACORN workers of any criminal wrongdoing, and a December 22, 2009 report by the Congressional Research Service stated that California and Maryland criminal laws may have been violated by the undisclosed taping done by O’Keefe. California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Jr. pointed out that the videotapes were “severely edited by O’Keefe.” In a statement, Brown said, “The evidence illustrates … that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality. Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor.” Likewise, a March 1 New York Daily News article reported that “a law enforcement source” said of O’Keefe and Giles: “They edited the tape to meet their agenda.” A March 2 New York Post article, headlined “ACORN set up by vidiots: DA,” reported of O’Keefe and Giles’ ACORN tapes: “Many of the seemingly crime-encouraging answers were taken out of context so as to appear more sinister, sources said.”

Breitbart and O’Keefe withheld exculpatory LA ACORN video for two months. For more than two months after Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com website began posting videos in which O’Keefe and Giles posed as a pimp and prostitute in ACORN offices, O’Keefe and his cohorts withheld video that directly contradicted what they said the videos showed. In September 2009, Giles and Big Government editor-in-chief Mike Flynn had both falsely claimed that every ACORN office O’Keefe and Giles visited had offered to help them. Also during September 2009, both Breitbart and O’Keefe were asked directly by reporters whether any ACORN offices had refused to help; Breitbart and O’Keefe chose not to disclose the existence of a tape that showed at least one ACORN worker who refused to help. In a video released November 16, 2009, O’Keefe finally acknowledged that a Los Angeles ACORN worker they filmed in August 2009 “would not assist us obtain a house for our illegal activities.”

O’Keefe pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal charge of entering Senate office under false pretenses. As reported by The Times-Picayune on May 26:

The four defendants who were arrested in January in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs federal complex in New Orleans pleaded guilty Wednesday morning in federal court to entering real property belonging to the United States under false pretenses.

Magistrate Judge Daniel Knowles III sentenced Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan each to two years probation, a fine of $1,500 and 75 hours of community service during their first year of probation.

James O’Keefe, as leader of the group and famous for posing as a pimp in ACORN office videos, received three years of probation, a fine of $1,500 and 100 hours of community service.

O’Keefe’s BigGovernment video omits relevant clip in claiming that “Census supervisors” were “systemically encouraging employees to falsify information on their time sheets.” In a ten-minute video posted on BigGovernment.com, O’Keefe stated that he had been hired as a Census worker and attended two days of training. He said, “What I found were Census supervisors systematically encouraging employees to falsify information on their time sheets.” The video includes clips of census leaders, who according to O’Keefe, “didn’t seem to have a problem with the discrepancy” of the hours recorded on his time sheet versus the hours he claimed to have worked. O’Keefe omitted a clip that was later aired by ABC, which shows a census leader emphasizing the importance of accurately reporting on miles driven by census enumerators.

Friend of O’Keefe reportedly objected to past transcript distortion. A September 18, 2009, New York Times article reported that Liz Farkas, a college friend of O’Keefe’s while at Rutgers University, said she “grew disillusioned” after O’Keefe asked Farkas to help deceptively “edit the script” of a video involving a nurse at the University of California at Los Angeles. Also this is debunked showing that you love to put out made up crap here is what happened This is a fact, and it will piss of liberals, but: James O’Keefe has had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any other journalist. His newest victory occured in Virginia, where a reporter from his Project Veritas approached Patrick Moran — son of Rep. Jim Moran, nephew of party chairman Brian Moran — and asked him about how he might forge documents to cast voters in the name of 100 dead people. Moran almost wriggled out of it, encouraging the reporter to focus on GOTV instead. But for agonizing minutes, Moran indulged him and discussed the upsides and downsides of the plan.

Moran resigned within hours, telling Politico that he was “joking.” It didn’t stop AP stories about the sting and the resignation. The speedy decision, and the five-second news cycle that we get during the final stretch of the campaign, probably spares the Democrats more damage. But consider what O’Keefe’s stings have done up to now. Here is more Conservative activist James O’Keefe and his associate Hanna Giles will face a lawsuit from a former ACORN employee featured prominently in their 2009 undercover sting video, after a federal judge refused to throw out the case.

According to Courthouse News, U.S. District Judge M. James Lorenz decided last week that a breach of privacy claim from Juan Carlos Vera, a one-time employee of ACORN’s office in National City, Calif., had merit.

ACORN is a now-defunct housing and community advocacy group targeted by O’Keefe in a highly publicized and heavily edited 2009 sting video. The fallout from O’Keefe’s operation eventually prompted Congress to strip the organization of federal funding, eventually leading to its bankruptcy.

Vera sued O’Keefe and Giles in 2010, claiming that they had violated California privacy laws in their filming of the high-profile video, which was featured prominently on cable news and right-wing blogs. In the hidden-camera video, O’Keefe and Giles come to Vera seeking advice on setting up a prostitution ring involving underage sex workers from Mexico. Vera has maintained that O’Keefe vowed to keep the meeting confidential, a claim that O’Keefe has denied. Vera eventually obliged their request, though it’s not entirely clear why. He reportedly claimed to have gone “along with the conversation in hopes of getting information from the couple that he could provide to law enforcement in the event they were telling the truth.” He later contacted authorities about the unusual visit, but was fired in the aftermath of the selectively edited video’s release.

In his ruling, Lorenz found a “genuine dispute as to whether [Vera's] expectation of privacy was reasonable,” Courthouse News notes, which he used as grounds to deny O’Keefe’s motion to have the suit dismissed.

“ACORN is in the business of providing counseling and support for the community on various matters,” Lorenz wrote in his decision. “By its very nature, the organization handles personal matters with individual clients. Defendants walked into ACORN and asked for plaintiff’s help with tax forms. … Specifically, they solicited his help with setting up an illegal prostitution business with underaged girls. … Plaintiff, as a worker for an organization like ACORN, reasonably believed that the content of the conversation was sensitive enough that it would remain private.”

“Based on the surrounding circumstances, plaintiff reasonably believed that the conversation was private because it was held in his office with no one else present, and he believed that no one else was listening in on his conversation,” Lorenz wrote, also noting that the three had “paused their conversation” when other supervisor’s entered the room where they were talking.

“Defendant O’Keefe testified that he had previously recorded investigative videos like this without obtaining permission from the person being recorded. He misled plaintiff to believe that the conversation would remain confidential by posing as a client seeking services from ACORN and asking whether their conversation was confidential. Defendants further affirmed the confidential nature of the conversation by asking plaintiff whether the conversation was recorded,” Lorenz wrote.

The case is set to begin with pretrial hearings in October.

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Also this guy was not comminting voter fraud, here is what happened A new video released today by conservative provocateur and self-styled journalist James O’Keefe may do something that no other O’Keefe video thus far has accomplished: Be legit. It actually shows someone getting close to committing voter fraud. While O’Keefe has had tremendous impact, most of it can be attributed to the hysteria his work generates in the conservative media, along with Republican lawmakers’ eagerness to take cues from said media, as was the case with Planned Parenthood. And while the filmmaker has managed to find unquestionable impropriety among low-level field staffers at places like ACORN, he’s yet to get the goods on anyone very senior. He brought down execs at NPR, but that was only because the radio network badly botched the situation. Even Glenn Beck’s website debunked that tape.

And those were the successes. Beyond that, there’s a whole series of laughably bad “bombshells” that completely fizzled. There was the hit on the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein for drinking beer with sources (gasp!); the Occupy Wall Street sting that wasn’t; and a whole series of flops on voter fraud. And then there were O’Keefe’s calamities. These include the time he tried to seduce a CNN reporter onto a boat filled with sex toys; the time he was arrested and charged with a felony (but convicted of only a misdemeanor!); and the time he may have actually committed fraud himself in New Hampshire. There is also this horribly embarrassing music video he made to promote himself.

But today, O’Keefe — whom, in case it’s not already clear, we are no fans of — released a video that actually shows the son of Virginia Democratic Rep. Jim Moran, also his field director, give advice about how to commit voter fraud. There are no misleading editing tricks (we watched the full raw video) and Patrick Moran’s comments were detailed, extensive and clear. In light of the video, he resigned immediately, and the campaign sent out a statement saying his actions were “clearly an error in judgment.”

In the video, O’Keefe’s operative approaches Patrick at a Cosi and says he and a friend have a list of 100 names of inactive Democratic voters. His friend wants to drive around in a van and vote for all 100 of them by pretending to be them. Patrick advises against this, saying it’d be easier and less risky to just use the van to get people to the polls. But when the operative insists — for some extra right-wing catnip, he says he cares about the election so much because his girlfriend needs an abortion — and Moran readily dishes out tips about how to commit identity theft and pose as other people at the polls. He suggests faking utility bills, saying they shouldn’t be too hard to produce, though bank statements would be better. He says it will be harder with the state’s new voter ID law, but still doable. He calls the operative “hardcore” for wanting to try to do it.

Moran doesn’t actually do anything illegal, and he’s speaking hypothetically, but there is no doubt that Moran is advising O’Keefe’s man how to do something illegal. It was right for him to resign and right for the campaign to accept his resignation.

However, the video does not prove anything new about voter fraud or much of anything beyond exposing one staffer on a congressional campaign. It merely discusses methods that could be used to commit voter fraud and shows a Democratic strategist talking about, but not actually engaging in, fraud. An extensive multi-year investigation conducted by the Department of Justice, which we assume has more resources than O’Keefe’s investigators, found scant evidence of in-person voter fraud. And as Moran says, there are so many easier and less risky ways to get 100 people to the polls than via this scheme.

Still, a small, grudging tip of the hat to James O’Keefe, who finally did something sort of right and exposed something fishy. So wow he got no voter fraud in this. Keep showing why KO is this generations Murrow.

History, do you get paid by the word by the mental case KO?

KO by the way, love here that you are thinking about coming back, by seeing what is out there, I am sorry you have people that want to believe the lies about what happened at Current, and I am someone that cares nothing about your ego or personality. Keep being yourself and showing why you are this generations Murrow and you will always have a fan in me, love you faults and all.

I think KO should get hired by QVC and sell a signature line of bathtubs. He could personally demonstrate them, complete with shower cap. I would watch that.

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Paul, if KO is so bad why does he keep getting hired and has worked consitently in this business, when I hear this lie, i know that the person who wrote has no idea who KO is and shows why he this generations Murrow. Sorry but only people that live in fantasy worlds PUal believes that crap.

KO kept (past tense) getting hired because the NYC democrat/media complex is a small yet inbred group of like minded left wing elitists. And keep in mind that THIS is the crowd that KO has alienated completely. It’s not the right wing (everyone outside of that dnc/media cabal). It’s HIS group of like-minded Obamabots. If KO can’t get along with those lefty maggots, he cannot get along with ANYONE. He’ll never work again in that business. He’ll have to create his own outlet and of course he’ll fail because he can’t work with anyone… not even himself. I suggested his calling; QVC bathtub sales that he personally demonstrates complete with his shower cap and back brush.

Paul
I do not get paid for anything, I am a fan, and you are BS troll you has no idea what mental illness is. KO is not a mental case and you keep showing that he is not a mental case. All you show is your igorance on who KO is. Paul I do not know KO, so how could I get paid that is how BS your posts are. Keep showing your igorance on mental illness and KO you really are a pathic.

sorry meant that I do not know him personally and do not work for him. I diffently know him comapred to you who puts out crap like saying that he mentally ill, when he not even remotely close to what a mentally ill person looks like. Paul I live in Austin Tx, KO lives in New York City, how in the world I know him to get paid, KO does not even know who I am or that I exist. That is how stupid this post is. You show again that I know more about who KO is than you do. You show that you are so igorant on what mental illness and what it looks like. You name call people like KO and I suppose to believe that KO is mentally ill. YOu lie about his work history. Paul people that use brains know that when people in broadcasting do last shows that means that they quit the network not that they were fired. If they still are getting thier pay check aka MSNBC that means that they quit and were not fired. This how BS your posts are. You make me love KO more and show, and make me love his personality and ego. I know not to listen to people like you that say crap like that has been debunked. You really show that you live in fantasy world. Sorry but anyone that puts up that made up lie that KO is mentally lie show that they are igorant on mental illnesses.
KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, love you faults and all.

History, yes indeed I know what mental illness is. I’m a health care professional. And KO is mentally ill. He has many of the symptoms and I fear for those around him. He’s clearly unhinged, deranged, and irrational. I fear for the safety of those around him when Barack Hussein Obama (mmm, mmm, mm!) is thrown out of office next month. He might just take others out before himself.

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Paul again you seem to love to write the most stupidiest post that I have every heard of. So in our world because a company is small and claim that they are progressive that means that they can treat thier employees like they did with KO like crap and I should just be on thier side because they are suppose to have the same idology. That is beyond the most stupidest crap that I have heard of in me my life. First Paul you cannot refute like Current could not why KO got unjustily fried and abused here it is again I love KO and why his personality had zero to do with what happened at Current, that article even tells about Hyatt and AIDS aka firing someone with AIDS and you want me to believe KO’s the bad guy. Keep making me love and respect KO more and more and show that all you wnat to do is bash him and put up gossip articles that can easily get refuted, you also do not get what I do about KO is that he a professional and someone that is not afraid to stand up for what he believes in which is what mangement hates about him and why he has a hard time with them, it what people love, keep lying about KO that is all you know how to do, you keep showing why I am a fan and always will be. Jack you also show why KO got unjustily fired from Current you have no evidence that KO is unemployable, only a gossip site by mangement that for the first two aka MSNBC and Fox are hypocritical and includes Current, and one with someone who has just as bad a reputation as KO suppose to have, and who wants to still get on KO’s case about something that he apologized for showing that she has zero crediblity and sounds like it just a revenge post. KO keep being yourself again will be pissed if you do not get the justice for being unjusticly fired from Current. Jack why does KO been in this industry for 33 years if he so unemployable that is how BS your argument is. KO keep being yourself and showing off your great personality and showing why KO is this generations Murrow and why he will be around for years to come, keep being yourself KO and you will always have a fan in me, again Current needs to stop lying and tell people the truth that your personality and ego is not why you got fired and that you work fine with others, Hyatt needs to explain why he and Brohem thinks it okay to make thier broadcating stars to work with a throat infection, that jack shows that Current never cared about KO, just like MSNBC who wants to re-write history and is okay with people that speak at partisain events and other employers doanting but KO the bad guy, that he unbelieveable MSNBC is on that topic. All that shows jack is why I do not watch Current and MSNBC and how dishonest those mangements are. You really love to show that KO works fine with others. KO keep being yourself and you will always be perment on my wall, ipod and ipad and life and why you got unjustily fired from Current. jack you just make me love and respect KO more and more with your BS crap about who he is. Jack thier is no and you just showed once again there is no evidence that KO personality was what got him fired. Keep lying about KO and showing that KO has zero clue how to lie and that you Jack have zero clue how to tell the truth about KO and his past employment. KO love you faults and all. Here is KO true oo job history not your made up debunked version Mike thanks for showing me that you are beyond ingorant on KO’s job history. KO Mike was never fired from MSNBC or ESPN, also Mike KO was rehired by both of those companies, wow some bad personality there, Mike do you live in alternte reality, Mike you do not do last shows which KO did at both MSNBC and ESPN if you been fired. KO and even MSNBC have said that KO quit, he even got his salary that also Mike does not happen when you are fired. So no Mike he has no history of being fired by every employer that is pure BS and again has been debunked. He only be fired from Fox and that was for reporting the truth and Current and that was unjutily because they promised him the moon and never delivered. Also MIke he did not leave for the same reasons, you really hate listening to facts. ESPN he left because he and his bosses could not agree on a new contract, he wanted to go to New York, they wanted him to stay in Bristol, the reason he left the second time was that Patrick had quit ESPN and thier was nothing that he really did, so no ESPN had nothing to do with KO working well with others and personality and ego, so wrong there. MSNBC he left first time because he hated doing repaeted news of Monica Lewinsky, they sold him to Fox Sports, Fox is where he got blackmailed and fired for reporting the truth about Murdoch and the Dogers. So wrong there Mike, MSNBC a second time he left because a they scwered him over on campaign crap and he felt that they were taking creavity control away, again had nothing to do with personality and ego. So Mike you just again show how ingorant you are on KO. KO personlity again is not the reason he got fired at Current, again I care crap about that Mike, and I looked at the evidence thier is no proof Mike that KO broke the contract, none, zipo. Keep embarrassing yourself with made up debunked crap. I do not listen to people who are beyon igorant of KO’s job past espically ones that put out that debunked crap that KO was fired from MSNBC and ESPN. Mike I do not have to be a fan to tell you, people that are fired do not get rest of salary and last shows, KO got a salary from both the times that he worked at ESPN and MSNBC and did a last show that he thanked and said goodbye to people, that shows even to people that are not fans and people that unlike you know what commen sense is and uses it that KO was never fired from those networks. Mike sorry but you lie throught your teeth when you put out the debunked crap that KO’s ego and personality are bad they are not. Mike all you do is make me love and respect and show why he this generations Murrow. Sorry only got fired from Current and Fox, quit MSNBC and ESPN both times, that does not show that he hard to work with only that mangers have zero clue how to handle independent, prefetionist like him. I do not oo listen to people about KO who are so igorant when it comes to his work history, those people show that have no idea what facts are. OO you do not do last shows like KO did at MSNBC and ESPN if you were fired, you do not get a salary if you are fired, KO is this generations Murrow, you would not know what Murrow is. You oo are the one that is showing that you are Krusty the clown, you cannot refute anything that I say, so you decide instead to be the grammer and spelling police, people that are like that show that they are everything that they claim KO is. KO has worked in this industry for 33 years, that is the truth. OO I know that people that lie about KO’s career show that they are not to be listened to when it comes to KO, because they show that they do not know what facts are. OO you just showed that you do not have common sense. People that live in the real world not your fantasy world know oo that if someone does a last show and still gets a salary, that means OO that they quit and did not get fired. You show that you are beyond igorant when it comes to KO and you know that you are igorant when it comes to KO, but you are such a gutless coward that you only care about putting up debunked crap, like the lies about KO’s career than listen to the truth. You show with that post that KO is this genertions Murrow and you Oo are Krusty the clown and do not say different because I know like all your other posts that will be a lie and just show how igorant you are on KO. OO keep showing that KO can never lie and that you do not know what facts are and what truth is. OO KO only been fired from two places and they were by bad bosses, one that thinks like you telling the truth is bad aka Murdouch and one that wants to be lazy and not take responsibity for what happened at Current, that is it, the other places he quit out. There is no evidence but in your mind OO that KO was fired from MSNBC and ESPN. You do not even know what being fired is and what quiting is that is how made up your posts are.
OO quiting is when you do a last show and still get a salary like what happened at MSNBC and ESPN, getting fired is no salary and no last show that is what happened at FOX and Current, anyone with a brain that they like to use unlike you know that. You are so igorant on who KO is. YOu show again with this post why KO is this generations Murrow and show that you do not know what facts are. Keep lying about KO’s job history, the facts are and always will be and if you say different you would be lying and showing that you do not know what a fact looks like. KO quit ESPN in 1997 because of contract neogations falling apart, went to MSNBC quit MSNBC the first time because he wanted to do real news not just report on MOnica Lewnsky all the time, went to FOx got blackmailed by a guy that is know been in a scandal for hacking phones showing that he not to be trusted when it comes to honesty about anything, fired for telling the truth about Murdoch selling Dogers. Went to MSNBC, quit again because he did not like the hypocricracy that went on there and thought that he was loosing support and got a offer from Current. Than got unjustily fired and if you say different you be lying and showing how igorant you are on KO. There is no evidence that his personality is why he not there. This shows that he worked pretty steady in his career also
You again show why KO is this generations Murrow and why he will be around for years to come, you Oo are Krusty beacuse your post has no facts and truth in them. You even lie about KO’s career and put up stuff that has been debunked over and over again. Keep making me love and respect him and showing why I am a life long fan.
I do not listen to people on KO who put up that debunked crap about KO’s career because I know that people like you who say that, have no facts and are not wanting to argue facts all you want to do is show and if you say different than that will be a lie beacuse KO has quit MSNBC and ESPN both times. People like you show why we need KO and why KO is this and always will be this generations Murrow. KO keep being yourself and you will always be perment on my wall, ipod and ipad and life. Love you faults and all. So Paul keep putting out a debunked lie. KO has been working in broadcasting business for 33 years at different jobs. Wow I wonder if you worked that long, also KO is not a rich kid. He was raised in a upper middle class family, that is not what a rich child looks like. Paul I watch KO had his prefectly fine mentally, I guess in your world peoeple that tell the truth and show why they are this genrations Murrow are bad. Also Paul the reason why KO cannot drive if you would listen is That Scinece is called a head injury not brain damage, also KO does not have a personal limo driver, that story Science turned out not to be true, the person that was suppose to have drove KO and said this basically came out and said that he had never drove KO. So keep lying, also you claim to read KO on twitter, so please Science if KO has his own Limo driver why are the pictures like last night that he shows are him reading the subway, wow some driver, also him not being able to drive Science does not mean that he has brain damage, I guess you are going say that people that are visaul imparied are also brain damged because they cannot drive, you really are putting up BS posts and showing that you the unintellngent one, not me and not KO. KO had a head injury that is why he cannot drive, head injuries and brain damage are not the same, you can have damage with out hitting your head, and you can have a regualry head injury that has nothing to do with your brain. Keep showing that you the one that has zero inteillgence and that KO is the intelligent one. Love how you believe debunked stoires. Again keep showing how igorant you are on KO. YOu just love to show why he is this generations Murrow and why you have no idea and never will have a an idea about who he is. KO never broke the contract and Current was not able to pay the drivers, which make sense because they never seemed to pay the electrity bill because KO was in the dark or fix his set. Keep proving that KO cannot make crap up and that you cannot tell the truth. You really love to prove that KO is this generations Murrow and you love to embarrass yourself in showing how igorant you are on him.I guess in Paul fantasy world the only people that are fine mentally are people that can drive, wow Paul people have all sorts of reasons for not driving that does not mean they need to see a shirink or that they have metnal problems, it means that like KO they have a injury that pervents them from see right while driving. Also KO is not gay. So Paul explain to me, how do you know a person is gay, because straight people are so spouse to know how to drive, and have children and family by now. Wow Paul that is not remotely what gay and straight look like. KO has dated women before, he even dated igraham, also I do not listen to people when it comes to who show that they are homophobis like you are. This is the most stupidieset thing that I have read all week. KO fine mentally and always has been only people like Paul who do not know what honesty is and love to make stuff up about people’s private lifes says that. KO tells truth to power, and shows why he this generations Murrow and can never lie. Paul hates KO because he suppose to tell him how bad people that are gay are, and he suppose to let the people that Paul wants to critized to critized, Paul do yourself a favor and learn what mentally ill is. KO standing up to bosses like he did at Current and other places is shows that he cares more about vaules and morals than he does issues and do not put that debunked crap about Current because here is what happened there Again because you do not like hearing the truth here is what happened at Current Again you show that you do not listen to truth or facts, that is a made up talking point. again here is the evidence that you love to igonre that shows that KO was unjustily fired. I do not listen to people like you who keep putting made up crap. Current being a ragtime operations is a BS excuse. ragtime operations do not make people who are have a thorat infection that is serious in KO’s industry have work, that shows that they do not care about who they are hiring, they do not get rid of thier co-Ceo that knows what he doing, that is how made up that statement is here is again is the facts and what happenedWow you also seem to want to lie about KO’s career. KO was not fired from ESPN or MSNBC. I want you to explain to me why was KO able to a last show at ESPN, I did not realize Nick that people that were fired could do that. Nick what happened at ESPN is that they could not find a agreement when it came to reneogationating his contract. He wanted to be in New York, because he was single and cannot drive and had family there. ESPN wanted him to stay in Bristol, so they left on mutal agreement. At MSNBC the first time he quit because he did not want to talk other things beside Lewensky scandal. He was then traded to Fox, he got fired from Fox for reporting the truth about Murdouch selling the LA Dodgers. Which at Fox is not allowed. He was than hired back from MSNBC, and when he left in January of 2011 he was again allowed to do a last show and mangement even said that KO left on his own aka mutal agreement and he got paid the rest of his contract, that shows pacfically that KO was not fired from MSNBC just like ESPN. Also KO was rehired by ESPN to work with Dan Patrick before he left ESPN. Nick keep lying about KO’s career history.
Nick also I want you to explain when has a professional responsible business ever put out a letter that is a personal attack on the person that they letting go, so again explain Nick how this ego and KO’s fault. Also KO keeps his fans up to date on twitter about his abences and what is going on and when the subs are going to on and letting the subs like Press tweet when he going to be on. He also saying who on the show and his staff doing twitter saying who on when Shuster is on, while Current will not take responsible for thier mistakes like the tenichal problems which is business which in the couter-suit they claim is thier job. Nick why did Current want KO to do a commerical for a corporation and have a corporate sponser, when they advertised that they were corporate free, also giving corporation his website, wow trying to make KO a hypocrite to his audience and people like me who are fans, and love that he stands on principle. Why did Current leak the primary story to the press, and KO and his lawyer only confirm that lawyers that were involved that Current said were saying, Nick how is that sabtoging them, when they were putting out email and letters and putting out qutos about KO, and all KO does is defend them and confirm that lawyers involved, along with making KO go against his principles and make them go again what they stood for by being corporate free. Wow Nick that shows that Current is sabtoging themselves and unjustily fired KO.
Nick KO was unjustily fired and that is the truth and thier is nothing that going to change that. Also nick explain why when articles about KO come out he or his team aka lawyer and manger always quoted, but with Current it sources, and that Hollywood story says sources and they say that KO was the one responsible why not deny when KO said they had told him it was his manger. Who is it the manger or KO. and they cannot deny that they blackmaiel and threaten to fire staff, all showing that they not KO realeased the salary. They also never reprimended KO for saying that he was on a preplanned vacation to fans on twitter, showing that they had approved it. So again I would be pissed if KO does not get the justice he deserved for being unjustily fired.
Nick keep making me love KO and respecting him more and more and showing why KO will be aroud for year to come. KO keep being yourself and showing why you are this generations Murrow and you will always have a fan in me. Lov eyou faults and all. Again Hyatt is someone that fired some with AIDS and you take what he says seriously. Dude I researched this over and over again and nothing shows that KO personality is why he not at Current. Keep showing how igorant you are on KO. KO again keep being yourself and sorry that you got unjustily fired at Current. OO loves to show why you are this generations Murrow and that OO loves to put out debut, Paul KO quit ESPN because of a contract disagreement, he did a last show and got a salary, Paul people that get fired do not get to do a last show and say goodbye or get there salary, he was hired back and ended up quiting again. He quit MSNBC first beacuse he wanted to do something other than Lewnisky and MSNBC did not, so he left or said he was sold to Fox sports, was blackmailed at Fox and reported on a true story about Murdouch selling the Dogers and was than fired, wow I did not know that telling the truth and being fired for it and being blackmailed there showed that KO had mental problems, oh that is right is shows that KO is mentally and has always been mentally sound. He went to MSNBC a second time and was there for eight years, he was at ESPN first time for five. Wow expect for Current, KO has even been steady working at the same job for a while with five at ESPN and eight at MSNBC, wow that again shows that Paul would not know what a mental illness is if it bit Paul on the head, he quit because MSNBC mangement is beyond hypocritical with the fact that they do not mind aka Geogary and SHultz people being speakers at fundraisers and Scrabough who only got caught a punished when he donated when KO was unustily punished for it. So MSNBC has a dishonest mangement team, they even do not want to see and keep acknowledging that KO was the one that brought them the success that they have. So wow I did not realize again like Fox mangement aka MSNBC dishonesty mangement was showing that people had mental problems, or that is right it does not. Paul also I have been on twitter, you think that trolls that love to bully and name call people should be allowed to say whatever they want and not get called out. Wow you again show that Paul thinks that name calling and lying about people’s careers and saying made up crap, shows that Paul hates facts. Paul those are the people that KO calls out that shows someone that loves to tell the truth and expose real bullying. This is not what mentally ilness looks. Also he talks politcs and baseball and puts out sunsets and answers questions. Paul I want you to explain how is that mental ilenss. Oh that is right it does not because Paul has no idea what a mental ill person looks like. Also Current KO was dealing with imcomptent mangement, which say that they handled the business part of things but did not want to fix set problems only wanted to complain about them and put blame on others, the one owner Hyatt fired someone with AIDS at his other business and was sued, and while at Current, got rid for no reason at all his co-ceo who knew the business, knew how to handle egos and yes KO has a big ego everyone in his business does, but ego is not why he not at Current, he’s is just right for someone in his industry. So that shows that I should not believe Hyatt when he says anything. His president Broham should know that when someone has a thorat infection aka a broadcaster, you do not try to make them work, espically when they are about to do Super Tuesday, the night before Super Tuesday is not important compared to your broadcaster vocal health. The fact that Brohem did this shows that he cared crap about KO and would have rathered worked him until he vocal chorads were so damaged they prevented KO from every working again even at Current. I was beyond pissed when I read that email. Paul I do not have to be a fan to know that KO is mentally sound, I also know that he is not a and never was a rich kid, yes he went to Hackly but going to a prep school or even a private school Paul does not make a person rich. Also going to Ivy League school like Cornell is also not mean that you are a rich child. Also calling out trolls Paul and putting up cool sunset and sundown photos and tweeting baseball and politics and interacting with people, shows that you are mentally stable, having worked in the brodacasting business and worked steadily in it, shows that you are mentally stable. Driving Paul has nothing to do with mental health. Again Paul I do not listen to people that think it okay to make fun of people that are gay when it comes to mental health. You show Paul and do not say different that KO’s mentally and always been mentally fine, you show that Paul loves to show how much of a homophobe that he is, and that KO unlike Paul knows more about tolerance. Paul wants to show that he igorant about who KO is and what his career and job history are. Paul you show why KO is this generations Murrow and make me love and respect him more with this made up BS piece. I know that anyone putting this out shows that they have no idea who KO is and that they would rather make fun of the mentally ill which is pahtic than listen to the truth. KO keep being yourself and you will always be perment on my wall, ipod, ipad and life. Love how you show Paul what tolerance and what mental stableness is. Also how you have no idea how to be mentally ill or how to be homophobe. Wow keep embarrassing yourself Paul with BS posts like this that shows that Paul does not live in the real world and loves to make lies up about people along with showing what a homophobe he is. KO sorry you got unjustily fired at Current, I will differently be pissed if you do not get the justice that you deserve for being unjustily fired there. Again you are the only one that will get me to watch news again. Love you faults and all. also exlpain why Carr says he can work again Paul. Again Paul people have said this about KO since he left ESPN. This Paul has been debunked over and over again. So sorry Current claiming to be progressive does not show Paul that KO can never work again. This shows that you do not get that bad mangement can happen anywhere. Also Paul Current is not progressive, and do not put out the hosts. They think that it okay to lie to viewers about who they are, they say they are corporate independent but than they go and try to get KO to go against his principles and do a commerical for AT&T. This Paul is not what progessives are about. Cenk Paul keeps critizing Obama so wow they are not Obamabots. KO Paul has critized this president. So the fact that you say that shows that you know that KO can easily get a job in broadcasting but you do not want to admit it. Again you show that you are beyond igorant about who KO is. Paul I laugh at people like you who put up that BS lie and try to make it true. Sorry Paul KO can work again if he wants to in his idustry. Keep showing me why KO is this genrations Murrow and that you are beyonf igorant about who KO is.

279 days since Bathtub Boy was fired by MSNBC (for the second time).
210 days since Bathtub Boy was fired by Current.

Karma will not be good to Keith. All those broken relationships. All those burned bridges. All those hate filled distortions. At the end of the day, he’ll have his mirror to stare into and admire. From his bathtub, per usual….

Paul
Thanks for showing that you have no idea how to use your brain or your commen sense, this is also a debunked lie, I want people who say that explain why when KO quit ESPN he went to MSNBC than when he quit MSNBC he went to FOx and when he got fired from fox he was a consultant on MSNBC and than he went to MSNBC again. Than when he quit MSNBC he went to Current. WOw I did not know that is what burning a bridge means. Sorry but that is another made up lie. Keep bashing Ko and showing how igrant you are on him.

Wow
Paul I would not listen to you on mental illness if they paid me. Again you have not shown that KO is mentally ill and that you do not know mental illness. I care crap that you say that you are in the health industry. To me that does not mean that you know mental ilness. KO is not and never was and never will be mentallly ill, that Paul is made up and always will be. Why Paul has KO been in this industry and working staedy if he mentally ill. That is how clueless you are on mental illness. Paul I watched KO on MSNBC, you have to be living on planet dumb or in a fantasy world if you think that he dilluted, wow I did not realize that calling out hate speech was being dillutated and irational. I did not realize calling out coporate courption is what dilluated and irational are.
I want you to explain Paul how is preforming when you have a throat infection like he did at Current how is that dilutlaed and iraional, he was promised to be CN and never got it, how is that diluated and irational. Paul KO has not shown one system of being diluated and irational. I guess in your world Paul, when a employer promises you something aka news cheif and you do not get that means that you are diulated and irational. Wow keep showing that you would not know what dialutaed and irraional looks like even if it bit you on the nose. You Paul have not shown me that KO is mentally ill, once again you show and do not say different that you have zero clue what mentally ill looks like. You do not even know what dilluated and irrational looks like. Paul keep embarrassing yourself, Ko Paul is not never has been and never will be metally ill. that is made up BS and has been debunked. If you say that one more time I will know that all Paul cares about is showing how igorant he is on mental illness and how igorant he is on KO.
Paul keep lying about who KO is and what metnal illness is. only people that live in your made up world believe that BS. I do not have to anything Paul to know that KO is not and never will be mentally ill, wow Paul you show that you do not know what irrational behavior is. Do not put his work history, because a he has worked staedy and been in his career 33 years. He has not shown irrational behavior on air and if you say different I will know that is a lie.
Also Paul KO will be just fine if Obama looses or wins. Paul I would be dead and gone before I belived that made up BS about you knowing mental illness, you show that you do not even know what being dilluated and irrational are. YOu think that KO wanting what is his contract are being dilluated and irrational, you think that KO telling you the truth about Fox and corporate courption is being dilluated and irrational. Paul that is not even what those terms mean and do not put out defendstions or say different because that will be be another lie. KO is metanlly and always Paul will be menatlly stable that is the whole truth and always will be the facts.
Keep shwoing that you have zero clue what mental illeness is, keep showing me how mentally stable KO is. You show that you are about igorant on mental illness again as you are on KO. Only people that love to lie and show thier dishonesty would be believe crap like that. KO keep showing Paul what mental stableness is, and keep showing why you are this generations Murrow. Love you faults and all, sorry you got unjustily fired at Current.
Love the stupidity of some people that claim to be fans of yours on the subject.

OO
You like Paul do not know what being fired looks like. OO I did not know that people were fired could do last shows, nice to know, that is how BS your post is. KO OO quit MSNBC and he was unjustily fired from CUrrent, and KO is not bathub boy that is an person called JOhn Gibson. OO keep showing your igorance on who KO is. Only people that have zero clue what brains and commen sense think that doing last shows means people are fired. You keep showing that KO is this generations Murrow.

So Paul do you get, I love history. When I become a fan of someone I read about there past.
Paul the reason why KO has a hardtime with mangement is that KO is someone that will never compromise his bielfs, just so he can work. He someone Paul that care more about being credible with his audience and himself.
Paul the other thing that KO has which you and others do not get, is that he also a prefectionist, he expects best himeself and he expects the best in others. This is why we you claim and this is if I believed you that you had friends in KO’s industry would have problems with him, because he expected more out of them, than they were willing to give.
Also Paul I know people in the health industry, my mom a co-ceo at a non-profit health clinic, and all the doctors thier would not say that KO is mentally ill, they would be laughing that you even think that. So do not put that BS made up excuse on me. KO is always will be mentally stable and anyone that says different I know will only care about bashing and showing how igorant they are on him.
Paul you are showing that you cannot and do not say different because that will be another lie, because KO is never suppose to tell you the truth about what is going on in this country, he not suppose to tell you that even though and he has critized it Obama’s healthcare plan is, it still the best thing that we have to making sure everyone has healthcare in this industry. Telling you how bad are healthcare is and why we need to take the insurane comapnies away, that is telling the truth Paul and showing just how mentally sound KO is.
Keep making me love and respect KO more and show why he will be around for generations to come, KO again sorry that you got unjustily fired at Current, will not be happy if you do not get the justice that you deserve. I know that anyone saying that you cannot work again are showing that they are beyond igorant about you and your past, do not have to be a fan to know that one. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me. Love you faults and all.

Keith Olbermann Eyeing Return To TV: Report
Posted: 10/25/2012 4:12 pm EDT Updated: 10/25/2012 4:18 pm EDT

jackdaniel58
A bridge too far- you’ve burned them all down.

sjlatty
Anyone that hires him will be guilty of financial malpractice.

POV of the other side
Olbermann is the worst person in the world.

moAb
Run Forrest, runnnnnnnnn!

dkjretired
He was a horrible sportscaster and continued as a despicable commentator while at MSNBC and current. He is the type of person who can never say anything good about anything. If he had been broadcasting the World Series game 1, he would have vilified the Giant on his fourth at bat when he didn’t hit a home run after hitting home runs his first three time up. Plus, most of his reports are either distorted or outright lies.

SpookyTwo
Media is much better without Olbermann.

gerald bostock
Olbermann’s got a loose screw, both personally AND professionally.
Something’s wrong with him.

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thehummelr
Retired Military
I left him when he started the Friday night Mr. Rogers routine.
LALC
Yah, he was the antithesis to O’Reilly, who was practically all Olbermann could talk about. He talked just to listen to himself! Uggh. Then there was the “special commentary”, OMG. One of them sinched it for me & I happily never watched again! Edward R Murrow he was not.

34Redsox
I lay 20 bucks on the table he won’t last 2 months.
SpookyTwo
I’ll bet you double or nothing that he will get fired from his next job before he gets hired for it.

fohi
Please come back Keith. You were always the easiest liberal to laugh at. You turn off so many people, we need you.

rbergstrom
Like the massage therapist said to Al Gore when he started to take of his clothes. No, No, No.

orion54
He’s begging for work….he’s $50 away from scrubbing toilets in a homeless shelter….he a drunk too.
General Dru-Zod
i hope he and gore spend the next decade and all their millions suing each other!!!

theprez21
Seriously, who would take on Keith O. at this point? He has has burned so many bridges, some of them twice for good measure.

jkstafford
Olbermann, desperate for any revelance beyond being a brash, narcissistic dolt.

smeek71
the fact the guy is a total punk is why people hate him…..
degrading women and his total disdain for the average guy leads most intelligent people to shun a social pariah as this toolbelt..just one time i would love to see this phony or his lame wanna be scary larry actually do there insulting in person..in a room where real american men who upon hearing their vulgar and degrading bs would teach them a lesson.they talk tough in their bubbles..but if either one of these clowns insulted my wife or daughter like they do …but if this doesnt bother you…then enjoy this truth teller..pathetic

DontTreadOnMe89
The guy is trash and no one from either side with a mind of their own can stand him.

TheDreadedMarco
The guy drew less than anyone currently on MSNBC prime time. Even though Current, by its own account, is available in 60 million homes in the U.S., Olbermann averaged 177,000 in-demo viewers a night when he worked there.
He’s not a draw.
He’s impossible to work with.
He’s a rampant narcissist. (That’s more a diagnosis than an insult.)
So, yes, Viacom makes sense: They’ve not had the pleasure of firing him yet. But if they bring him on-board — for that incredible ratings mountain of maybe a third-of-a-million viewers that will follow — they’ll get around to the pink slip soon enough.

Trollbaby
When you leave all your former employers and it’s under bad terms, maybe it’s you, not everyone else?

jkstafford
D. E. S. P. E. R. A. T. I. O. N.
Thy name is Keith.
lovebirdfan
He is good at his job
jkstafford
Uh huh, he is so good at it that he’s no longer employed in the industry. LOL!!!!

Wow
OO once again goes to blogs and find bloggers that agrees with OO and OO thinks that is what facts are. OO you show once again that you are ingorant on facts. Those Oo like yours are not facts but opions and people opins that agree with you. YOu relly love to show how KO proves you wrong and how igorant you are on him. Keep embarrassing yourself and showing why KO on to bigger and better things. I do not listen to people that think when KO does a last show like he did on MSNBC both times that means he was fired. People that say that show that they have no idea what commen sense is. You show why KO is this genertations Murrow and why you would not know who KO is if he walked up and bit you. YOu really make me love him more with this embarrassing posts. This OO are opoin aka bloggers that agree with you. Keep lying about KO that is all you do.

ignorant NOT ingorant
opinions NOT opions
opinions NOT opins
really NOT relly
ignorant NOT igorant
generation’s NOT generations
opinion NOT opoin

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SOYLENT RED
Detroit, 50yrs of democrat progress. .
Perfect fit for the View.

carogonza
I miss Keith

Slash14
Me too, I have not laughed hard since he got fired.

bayliner102
Keith was spotted in Manhattan last week with a 3 carat diamond on his left hand. When he was asked about it by a reporter he replied “I just got engaged to myself.” That man does love him some Keith.

bayliner102
If there’s a network out looking for a guaranteed ratings loser then Keith is definitely their man.

paintppa1
so, et’s play the game, WHAT IDIOTIC NETWORK OR CURRENT SHOW WOULD HIRE HIM?
i’ll start with Jersey Shores or Really, Really Desperate Housewives.

idiot sensor
They are looking for the someone to capture the 21′st ranking

Slash14
I heard from Harry Ried that Olbermann had a offer to work at FOX, as Bill and Hannity’s coffee boy. It is the best offer he recieved

Zweiback
“Forbes cited sources that said Olbermann reached out to multiple networks, in a desperate attempt to find a bridge he hadn’t already burned.”

Again Oo shows that OO would not knows facts if it bite them, this are lying opoins that OO puts up, mostly people that agree with OO. You say that KO is not this generations Murrow and you think that bloggers opoins are facts and show who KO is. Wow you really show that you do not know how to use your brain or your commen sense. You really do show that KO is this generations Murrow and that you have zero clue who he is and what journalism is. THanks again for making me love and respect KO more and showing that he is a awesome journalist that has not burnt a single bridge. Keep embarrassing yourself with your igorance about who KO is. I have to laugh with the stupidty of your posts.

Look, this is a site about baseball. If Bill O’Reilly loved baseball and did baseball posts that said nothing about politics, what he says should be treated on its merits. So why don’t the morons who come here to attack Olbermann go back to their KKK meetings and leave the rest of us alone so we can enjoy the greatest game?

Micheal Green
Trust I would love to stand back and listen to you and others talk with KO about baseball, and learn more about the game. I only go after them because I hate people that put debunk lies about him, actually I hate it when people do that about anyone.
I wish we could get these trolls away from here, so you guys can talk about baseball, and I can listen and learn more about the sport.

History Of The Democrats And The KKK…..(Why the Democrats started the KKK)
Live Leak ^

Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 11:59:36 AM by IrishMike

The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats.

An estimated 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites died at the end of KKK ropes from 1882 to 1964.

The documentation has been assembled by David Barton of Wallbu More..ilders and published in his book “Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White,” which reveals that not only did the Democrats work hand-in-glove with the Ku Klux Klan for generations, they started the KKK and endorsed its mayhem.

“Of all forms of violent intimidation, lynchings were by far the most effective,” Barton said in his book. “Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and their platforms consistently called for a ban on lynching. Democrats successfully blocked those bills and their platforms never did condemn lynchings.”

Further, the first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, no Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to former slaves and, to this day, the party website ignores those decades of racism, he said.

“Although it is relatively unreported today, historical documents are unequivocal that the Klan was established by Democrats and that the Klan played a prominent role in the Democratic Party,” Barton writes in his book. “In fact, a 13-volume set of congressional investigations from 1872 conclusively and irrefutably documents that fact.

“The Klan terrorized black Americans through murders and public floggings; relief was granted only if individuals promised not to vote for Republican tickets, and violation of this oath was punishable by death,” he said. “Since the Klan targeted Republicans in general, it did not limit its violence simply to black Republicans; white Republicans were also included.”

Barton also has covered the subject in one episode of his American Heritage Series of television programs, which is being broadcast now on Trinity Broadcasting Network and Cornerstone Television.

Barton told WND his comments are not a condemnation or endorsement of any party or candidate, but rather a warning that voters even today should be aware of what their parties and candidates stand for.

His book outlines the aggressive pro-slavery agenda held by the Democratic Party for generations leading up to the Civil War, and how that did not die with the Union victory in that war of rebellion.

Even as the South was being rebuilt, the votes in Congress consistently revealed a continuing pro-slavery philosophy on the part of the Democrats, the book reveals.

Three years after Appomattox, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting blacks citizenship in the United States, came before Congress: 94 percent of Republicans endorsed it.

“The records of Congress reveal that not one Democrat � either in the House or the Senate � voted for the 14th Amendment,” Barton wrote. “Three years after the Civil War, and the Democrats from the North as well as the South were still refusing to recognize any rights of citizenship for black Americans.”

He also noted that South Carolina Gov. Wade Hampton at the 1868 Democratic National Convention inserted a clause in the party platform declaring the Congress’ civil rights laws were “unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void.”

It was the same convention when Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the KKK, was honored for his leadership.

Barton’s book notes that in 1868, Congress heard testimony from election worker Robert Flournoy, who confessed while he was canvassing the state of Mississippi in support of the 13th and 14th Amendments, he could find only one black, in a population of 444,000 in the state, who admitted being a Democrat.

Nor is Barton the only person to raise such questions. In 2005, National Review published an article raising similar points. The publication said in 1957 President Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, deployed the 82nd Airborne Division to desegregate the Little Rock, Ark., schools over the resistance of Democrat Gov. Orval Faubus.

Further, three years later, Eisenhower signed the GOP’s 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats, and in 1964, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act after former Klansman Robert Byrd’s 14-hour filibuster, and the votes of 22 other Senate Democrats, including Tennessee’s Al Gore Sr., failed to scuttle the plan.

Dems’ website showing jump in history

The current version of the “History” page on the party website lists a number of accomplishments � from 1792, 1798, 1800, 1808, 1812, 1816, 1824 and 1828, including its 1832 nomination of Andrew Jackson for president. It follows up with a name change, and the establishment of the Democratic National Committee, but then leaps over the Civil War and all of its issues to talk about the end of the 19th Century, William Jennings Bryan and women’s suffrage.

A spokesman with the Democrats refused to comment for WND on any of the issues. “You’re not going to get a comment,” said the spokesman who identified himself as Luis.

“Why would Democrats skip over their own history from 1848 to 1900?” Barton asked. “Perhaps because it’s not the kind of civil rights history they want to talk about � perhaps because it is not the kind of civil rights history they want to have on their website.”

The National Review article by Deroy Murdock cited the 1866 comment from Indiana Republican Gov. Oliver Morton condemning Democrats for their racism.

“Every one who shoots down Negroes in the streets, burns Negro schoolhouses and meeting-houses, and murders women and children by the light of their own flaming dwellings, calls himself a Democrat,” Morton said.

It also cited the 1856 criticism by U.S. Sen. Charles Sumner, R-Mass., of pro-slavery Democrats. “Congressman Preston Brooks (D-S.C.) responded by grabbing a stick and beating Sumner unconscious in the Senate chamber. Disabled, Sumner could not resume his duties for three years.”

By the admission of the Democrats themselves, on their website, it wasn’t until Harry Truman was elected that “Democrats began the fight to bring down the final barriers of race and gender.”

“That is an accurate description,” wrote Barton. “Starting with Harry Truman, Democrats began � that is, they made their first serious efforts � to fight against the barriers of race; yet � Truman’s efforts were largely unsuccessful because of his own Democratic Party.”

Even then, the opposition to rights for blacks was far from over. As recently as 1960, Mississippi Democratic Gov. Hugh White had requested Christian evangelist Billy Graham segregate his crusades, something Graham refused to do. “And when South Carolina Democratic Gov. George Timmerman learned Billy Graham had invited African Americans to a Reformation Rally at the state Capitol, he promptly denied use of the facilities to the evangelist,” Barton wrote.

The National Review noted that the Democrats’ “Klan-coddling” today is embodied in Byrd, who once wrote that, “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.”

The article suggested a contrast with the GOP, which, when former Klansman David Duke ran for Louisiana governor in 1991 as a Republican, was “scorned” by national GOP officials.

Until 1935, every black federal legislator was Republican, and it was Republicans who appointed the first black Air Force and Army four-star generals, established Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a national holiday, and named the first black national-security adviser, secretary of state, the research reveals.

Current Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has said: “The first Republican I knew was my father, and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.”

Barton’s documentation said the first opponents of slavery “and the chief advocates for racial equal rights were the churches (the Quakers, Presbyterians, Methodists, etc.). Furthermore, religious leaders such as Quaker Anthony Benezet were the leading spokesmen against slavery, and evangelical leaders such as Presbyterian signer of the Declaration Benjamin Rush were the founders of the nation’s first abolition societies.”

During the years surrounding the Civil War, “the most obvious difference between the Republican and Democrat parties was their stands on slavery,” Barton said. Republicans called for its abolition, while Democrats declared: “All efforts of the abolitionists, or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient [to initiate] steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences, and all such efforts have the inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people.”

Wallbuilders also cited John Alden’s 1885 book, “A Brief History of the Republican Party” in noting that the KKK’s early attacks were on Republicans as much as blacks, in that blacks were adopting the Republican identity en masse.

“In some places the Ku Klux Klan assaulted Republican officials in their houses or offices or upon the public roads; in others they attacked the meetings of negroes and displaced them,” Alden wrote. “Its ostensible purpose at first was to keep the blacks in order and prevent them from committing small depredations upon the property of whites, but its real motives were essentially political � The negroes were invariable required to promise not to vote the Republican ticket, and threatened with death if they broke their promises.”

Barton told WND the most cohesive group of political supporters in American now is African-Americans. He said most consider their affiliation with the Democratic party longterm.

But he said he interviewed a black pastor in Mississippi, who recalled his grandmother never “would let a Democrat in the house, and he never knew what she was talking about.” After a review of history, he knew, Barton said.

Citing President George Washington’s farewell address, Barton told WND, “Washington had a great section on the love of party, if you love party more than anything else, what it will do to a great nation.”

“We shouldn’t love a party [over] a candidate’s principles or values,” he told WND.

Washington’s farewell address noted the “danger” from parties is serious.

“Let me now � warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally. � The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism,” Washington said.

Because, unlike (D) Robert Byrd, we are not KKK members.

Wow OO
You show that you so igorant on history it not even funny, even history of the parties. I have to laugh that you think that democrats are like the KKK. OO do yourself a favor and learn what facts are. First you show that you OO and others that put out this BS, do not know what the dixiecrats were aka southern democrats, so that was only a section, also what you do not get and others that put this BS up, is that democratic party was what the republican party is now. Meaning OO that all the people that were in the conservatives would have been democrats and all the liberals would have been republicans. Than Johnson aka LBJ aka a democrat signed what is known as the Civil Rights Act, Nixon who was a republican saw a way out and put together what is known as the southern stagery which brought all the Dixiecrats who were Oo the ones that where the racist and KKk members to the republican party, you like to use Bryd but Thumand who republicans hold dear was a member of the democratic party before it changed and became the party of civil rights and brought all the liberals and progressives in. SO again you are showing that you are igorant on your knowledge about parties history, or I should say the history of the parties in this country. You do not even get that dixiecrats which were the racist and KKK members were conservative. I have to laugh with how fact free this post is. YOu are not getting that republican party use to be what modern democrats are today and what you say is the modern democratic party, and that conservatives are what the modern republican party is today. This is the most stupidiest and embarrassing posts I can say as a historian that you have posted yet. Only some that does not think would be putting out this made uo debunked BS. I sorry but you need to get that parties and idealouges in those parties change. So I hate to break it to you, you are celebrating the conserative dixiecrats that make up the republican party today. I have to laugh with how igorant you are on history, you just show why KO is this generations Murrow and make me love and respect him more. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me. In the wake of the passing of Sen. Robert Byrd, the Ku Klux Klan, an organization Byrd briefly belonged to, is coming to the defense of the West Virginia Democrat who served in the Senate for 51 years.

The Daily Caller reports:

As politicians and columnists across the country debate the life and legacy of the late Sen. Robert Byrd, the West Virginian’s membership in the Ku Klux Klan has been a sticking point for many. Today’s KKK, though, says Byrd did nothing to warrant such ire.
“He wasn’t a Klansman long enough to get his sheet broke in,” said Travis Pierce, national membership director for the Ku Klux Klan, LLC, one of several groups that uses the KKK name. “It’s much ado about nothing.”
The late Byrd knew that his one-time association with the Klan would remain a part of his life — even after death: “It will be in every obit,” he predicted.

Politico’s David Rogers reports:

By Byrd’s account, opposing civil rights legislation in the ’60s was his greatest legislative mistake, and he would say his eyes were opened later upon seeing a father unable to get water for his young son when the “colored” drinking fountain wasn’t working. In his later years, he struggled to make amends and getting money to help finish the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial became a passion. And Byrd’s famously close relationship with his black Senate driver, Jim Allen, was part of this transition.
“It’s impossible for anyone to try to whitewash the KKK and its overall symbolism,” said Ken Hechler, a former Democratic congressman from Byrd’s home state. “But at the same time… we honor those people who publicly admit the error of their ways.” Wow so Bryd said that he was wrong in being against civil rights and the KKK says that he was not in long enough to get a sheet, Byrd’s seniority and leadership of the Appropriations Committee enabled him to steer a great deal of federal money toward projects in West Virginia.[8] Critics derided his efforts as pork spending[9] to appeal to his own constituents. He filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and supported the Vietnam War, but later backed civil rights measures and criticized the Iraq War. He was briefly a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, but later left the group and denounced racial intolerance.[10] Wow he even came out and say that raical intolerance is bad. In 1946 or 1947, Byrd wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.”[20] However, when running for the United States House of Representatives in 1952, he announced “After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan.” He said he had joined the Klan because he felt it offered excitement and was anti-communist.[10]
In 1997, Byrd told an interviewer he would encourage young people to become involved in politics but also: “Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don’t get that albatross around your neck. Once you’ve made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.”[21] In his last autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a KKK member because he “was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision—a jejune and immature outlook—seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions.”[22] Byrd also said, in 2005, “I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times … and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what happened.”[10] Again he only joined because he like all the people during his time hated communism, which republicans were fighting also. Wow, and than in 1952 he started renoucing the KKK. In opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, he conducted the longest filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, nonstop. In the 1960s, he opposed the civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 to end segregation and enforce the voting rights of African-American citizens. He always insisted he had never been a racist, but was opposed to excessive federal authority. He notably was quoted as saying that
“all the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.”[5]
He attributed the movement for integration to Communist agitators.[5]
Starting in the 1970s, he moderated his position on race, but continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of states’ rights in the context of Southern society at the time,[6] never fully renouncing his earlier viewpoints.[7][8] Wow you are going to go after Bryd that had the ability to admit that he was not only wrong on Civil Rights but being a KKK member, to Strom Thrumd who became a republican after the southern stargey and would not fully renouce his racism, wow you really show that you have no understanding about what hatered is. Throughout the 1960s, Thurmond generally received relatively low marks from the press and his fellow senators in the performance of his Senate duties, as he often missed votes and rarely proposed or sponsored noteworthy legislation.
Thurmond was increasingly at odds with the national Democratic Party, some of whose leaders were supporting the civil rights movement led by African Americans in the South seeking enforcement of their right as citizens to vote and an end to racial segregation. On September 16, 1964, he switched his party affiliation to the Republican Party, which was seeking to revive its presence in the South by appealing to conservative voters.
He played an important role in South Carolina’s support among white voters for the Republican presidential candidates Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1968. South Carolina and other states of the Deep South had supported the Democrats in every national election from the end of Reconstruction, when white Democrats re-established political control in the South, to 1960. However, discontent with the Democrats’ increasing support for civil rights resulted in John F. Kennedy’s barely winning the state in 1960.
After Kennedy’s assassination, President Lyndon Johnson’s strong support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 angered white segregationists even more. These ended segregation and committed the federal government to enforce voting rights of citizens by the supervision of elections in states in which the pattern of voting showed that blacks had been disfranchised. Goldwater won South Carolina by a large margin in 1964.
In 1968, Richard Nixon ran the first GOP “Southern strategy” campaign appealing to disaffected southern white voters. Although the segregationist George Wallace was on the ballot, Nixon ran slightly ahead of him and gained South Carolina’s electoral votes. Due to the antagonism of white South Carolina voters toward the national Democratic Party, Hubert Humphrey received less than 30% of the total vote, carrying only majority-black districts. The black population of South Carolina had decreased markedly in the early decades of the twentieth century, as tens of thousands took part in the Great Migration to northern and midwestern cities for work.
In 1966, former governor Ernest “Fritz” Hollings won South Carolina’s other Senate seat in a special election. He and Thurmond served together for just over 36 years, making them the longest-serving Senate duo in American history. Thurmond and Hollings had a very good relationship, despite their often stark philosophical differences. Their long tenure meant that their seniority in the Senate gave South Carolina a good measure of clout in national politics, despite its modest population.
At the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Thurmond played a key role in keeping Southern delegates committed to Nixon, despite the sudden last-minute entry of the California governor, Ronald Reagan, into the race. Thurmond also quieted conservative fears over rumors that Nixon planned to ask either Charles Percy or Mark Hatfield—liberal Republicans—to be his running mate. He informed Nixon that both men were unacceptable to the South for the vice-presidency. Nixon ultimately asked Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew—an acceptable choice to Thurmond—to join the ticket.
At this time, Thurmond led the effort to thwart Johnson’s attempt to elevate Justice Abe Fortas to the post of Chief Justice of the United States. Thurmond’s conservative position left him unhappy with the decisions of the Warren Court. He was glad to disappoint Johnson and enable the presidential successor Richard Nixon to make the appointment for Warren’s vacancy.
Thurmond decried the Supreme Court opinion in Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, which ordered the immediate desegregation of schools in the American South.[16] This had followed continued Southern resistance to desegregation following the 1954 US Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. Thurmond praised President Nixon and his “Southern Strategy” of delaying desegregation, saying Nixon “stood with the South in this case”.[16]
[edit] This OO is what happened to the Dixiecrats when people like JFK and LBJ supported Civil Rights, they bolted and went to the republicans aka the party shift. So again you show that you are igorant when it comes to facts and honesty which is not suprising with how igorant you are on who KO is. Again make me love and respect KO more and more.

History, I’m glad you respond to the traitors and bigots. They need to be responded to. After all, they didn’t respond to Hitler in 1933 and look what happened–and he’s their hero, after all.

Thanks,
Micheal
I am again sincerly sorry that the trolls take away from the baseball discussions that you have here. For someone that not a baseball fan and does not know much about the sport, I have to say that not only KO but alot of you guys are very knoweldgeable as well, it fun hearing the conversations here. Hope that it continues minues the trolls.

So far, the San Fran Giants have been beating the Tigers like a Red Headed Olbermann! BTW “history”, it’s “Michael”, not “Micheal”. And do you get paid by the word or are you actually the mentally ill KO?

Wow
So in your view people that are standing up for government and courpt coupration are bad, wow you really show that you hate facts and show that you would rather let corporations run a muck than listen to the real problems of this country. You really make me love and respect KO more and more. Also you need to learn that not everything on You Tube has facts in it. You really show that you do not know what facts are. You love to show how igorant you are about KO and show why he is this generations Murrow.

Washington Times
Letters to the Editor
June 7 – Arlington, VA
During the past several months in the American press, the Democrats have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due to their attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very ironic. I remember the Nazis. Let me share a little about them and recall some of their exploits.

First of all, “Nazi” was gutter slang for the verb “to nationalize”. The Bider-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the Nazi Party was “The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany”. Hitler and the Brownshirts advocated the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, national resources, manufacturing, distribution and law enforcement.

Hitler came to power by turning the working class, unemployed, and academic elite against the conservative republic. After Der Fuhrer’s election ceased being a political conspiracy and was transformed into a fashionable social phenomenon, party membership was especially popular with educators, bureaucrats, and the press.

Being a Nazi was “politically correct”. They called themselves “The Children of the New Age of World Order” and looked down their noses at everyone else. As Hitler acquired more power, he referred to his critics as “The Dark Forces of Anarchy and Hatred”. Anyone who questioned Nazi high-handedness in the German press was branded a “Conservative Reactionary”. Joseph Goebbels, minister of communications, proclaimed a “New World Order”.

The Nazi reign of terror began with false news reports on the Jews, Bohemians and Gypses who were said to be arming themselves to overthrow the “New World Order” and Hitler demanded that all good people register their guns so that they wouldn’t fall into the hands of “terrorists and madmen”.Right-wing fanatics of the “Old Order” who protested firearms registration were arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for “fomenting hatred against the Government of the German people”.

Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up and Hitler ram-rodded an “Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act” through Parliament that gave the Gestapo extraordinary powers. The leader then declared that for the well-being of the German people, all private firearms were to be confiscated by the Gestapo and the Wermotten (federal law enforcement and military). German citizens who refused to surrender their guns when the “jack-boots” (Gestapo) came calling, were murdered in their homes. By the way, the Gestapo were the federal marshals’ service of the Third Reich. The S.W.A.T. team was invented and perfected by the Gestapo to break into the homes of the enemies of the German people.

When the Policia Bewakken, or local police, refused to take away guns from townsfolk, they themselves were disarmed and dragged out into the street and shot to death by the S.A. and the S.S. Those were Nazi versions of the B.A.T.F. and the F.B.I. When several local ministers spoke out against these atrocities, they were imprisoned and never seen again.

The Gestapo began to confiscate and seize the homes, businesses, bank accounts, and personal belongings of wealthy conservative citizens who had prospered in the old Republic. Pamphleteers who urged revolt against the Nazis were shot on site by national law enforcement and the military. Gypsies and Jews were detained and sent to labor camps. Mountain roads throughout central Europe were closed to prevent the escape of fugitives into the wilderness, and to prevent the movement and concealment of partisan resistance fighters.

Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught the children to report their parents to their teachers for anti-Nazi remarks. Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely condemned as “right wing fanatics”.

Millions of books were burned first and then people. Millions of them burned in huge ovens after they were first gassed to death. Unmarried women were paid large sums of money to have babies out of wedlock and then given medals for it. Evil was declared as being good, and good was condemned as being evil. World Order was coming and the German people were going to be the “peacekeepers”.

Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren’t Republicans, or “right wing”, or “patriots” or “militias”. They were Socialist monsters.

– Thomas Colton Ruthford

Wow
Again OO you show that you have no idea what opoin is and what facts are. This is OO someones opoin. Also this is a made up lie. As someone who studies history I have to laugh with how made up this is. I love how this person has no idea what dictatorship is. Are federal government is not like the Nazi’s and is in no way like what Hitler and the Nazi’s did in Germany. Anyone that is saying this lives in a parnoid world and just wants to bash the government because fedarlization is so bad. Excuse me, I want this person and you OO to understand in your made up fantasy world about what federal government is. Is that any economic system that is under a dictatorship is going to be a destory. Capitolism would not servive under a dicatatorship, that is how stupid and dumb Oo this letter is, you and this letter writer show that you are igorant not just about Nazi germany and dictatorships but about what the federal government does. Also I am be appealed that you are comparing our government not Nazi Germany. Also this person cannot get in thier head that we are not any form even close to being a socalist government. OO we are leaning more and you and this person would know if you would stop bashing and lying about the left and would actually listen to facts and truth, leaning more towards a corprate controlled country than we are to socalism. Also I would want you and this person to have to answer this why is France a socailist coutry with a democracy and they have healthcare for everyone, vacation time and parents can be thier for children not have to work two or three jobs to get by, and where is the fear. This is how made up this letter and this argument is.
OO keep embarrassing yourself by showing that you have no idea what dictatorships and what socialism is. Social and communism are not bad economic systems, that can work under government, but when it comes Oo to dicatorships and that is what this letter writter and you do not get and what anyone with commen sense and unlike you and this author so not do, use thier brains. They woud know that it not socialism that was bad, it was the fact that Hilter was a dictator. English long form National Socialism) was the ideology of the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany.[1][2][3][4] It is a variety of fascism that incorporates biological racism and antisemitism.[5] Nazism used elements of the far-right racist Völkisch German nationalist movement and the anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture which fought against the communists in post-World War I Germany.[6] It was designed to draw workers away from communism and into Völkisch nationalism.[7] Major elements of Nazism have been described as far-right, such as allowing domination of society by people deemed racially superior, while purging society of people declared inferior which were said to be a threat to national survival.[8][9]
Nazi philosophy claimed that an Aryan master race was superior to all other races.[10] To maintain what it regarded as the purity and strength of the Aryan race, the Nazis sought to exterminate Jews and Romani, and the physically and mentally disabled.[11] Other groups deemed “degenerate” or “asocial” received exclusionary treatment by the Nazi state and included homosexuals, blacks, Jehovah’s Witnesses and political opponents.[11] The Nazis promoted German territorial expansionism to gain Lebensraum (“living space”) for German settlers and to bring labor, food and materials into the nation for growth.[12][13]
Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler had objected to the party’s previous leader’s decision to use the word “Socialist” in its name as Hitler at the time instead preferred to use “Social Revolutionary”.[14] Upon taking over the leadership, Hitler kept the term but defined socialism as meaning a commitment of an individual to a community.[14] Hitler claimed that true socialism does not repudiate private property unlike the claims of Marxism, and claimed that the “Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning” and said that “Communism is not socialism. Marxism is not socialism.”[15] Nazism favoured private property, freedom of contract, and promoted the creation of national solidarity that would transcend class differences.[16][17] The Nazis outlawed strikes by employees and lockouts by employers, because these were regarded a threat to national unity.[18] Instead, the state controlled and approved wage and salary levels.[19]
Contents [hide]
1 Etymology
2 Position in the political spectrum
3 Origins
3.1 Nationalism, antisemitism and racism
3.2 Response to World War I and fascism
4 Ideology
4.1 Social class
4.2 Sex and gender
4.2.1 Opposition to homosexuality
4.3 Racial policy
4.4 Religion
4.5 Economics
4.5.1 Anti-communism
4.5.2 Anti-capitalism
5 See also
6 References
6.1 Notes
6.2 Bibliography
7 External links
Etymology

The full name of Adolf Hitler’s party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party). The acronym Nazi was formed from the first syllable of NAtional and the second syllable of SoZIalist. Such acronyms, usually formed from the initial letters or syllables of successive parts of compound names, were popular in the Third Reich. Another such example was Gestapo for GEheime STAatsPOlizei (Secret State Police).[20]
Position in the political spectrum

Führer Adolf Hitler (first from left side), Hermann Göring (second from left side), Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels (third from left side), Rudolf Hess (fourth from left side).

Nazis alongside members of the far-right reactionary and monarchist German National People’s Party (DNVP), during the brief Nazi-DNVP alliance in the Harzburg Front from 1931 to 1932.
A majority of scholars identify Nazism in practice as a form of far-right politics.[21] Far right themes in Nazism include the argument that superior people have a right to dominate over others and purge society of supposed inferior elements.[8] Adolf Hitler and other proponents officially portrayed Nazism as being neither left- nor right-wing, but syncretic.[22][23] Hitler in Mein Kampf directly attacked both left-wing and right-wing politics in Germany, saying:
Today our left-wing politicians in particular are constantly insisting that their craven-hearted and obsequious foreign policy necessarily results from the disarmament of Germany, whereas the truth is that this is the policy of traitors [...] But the politicians of the Right deserve exactly the same reproach. It was through their miserable cowardice that those ruffians of Jews who came into power in 1918 were able to rob the nation of its arms.[24]
Hitler, when asked whether he supported the “bourgeois right-wing”, claimed that Nazism was not exclusively for any class, and indicated that it favoured neither the left nor the right, but preserved “pure” elements from both “camps”, stating: “From the camp of bourgeois tradition, it takes national resolve, and from the materialism of the Marxist dogma, living, creative Socialism”.[25]
The Nazis were strongly influenced by the post-World War I far-right in Germany, which held common beliefs such as anti-Marxism, anti-liberalism, and anti-Semitism, along with nationalism, contempt towards the Treaty of Versailles, and condemnnation of the Weimar Republic for signing the armistice in November 1918 that later led to their signing of the Treaty of Versailles.[26] A major inspiration for the Nazis were the far-right nationalist Freikorps, paramilitary organizations that engaged in political violence after World War I.[26] Initially, the post-World War I German far right was dominated by monarchists, but the younger generation, who were associated with Völkisch nationalism, were more radical and did not express any emphasis on the restoration of the German monarchy.[27] This younger generation desired to dismantle the Weimar Republic and create a new radical and strong state based upon a martial ruling ethic that could revive the “Spirit of 1914″ that was associated with German national unity (Volksgemeinschaft).[27]
The Nazis, the far-right monarchist and reactionary German National People’s Party (DNVP), and others, such as monarchist officers of the German army and several prominent industrialists, formed an alliance in opposition to the Weimar Republic on 11 October 1931 in Bad Harzburg; officially known as the “National Front”, but commonly referred to as the Harzburg Front.[28] The Nazis stated the alliance was purely tactical and there remained substantial differences with the DNVP. The Nazis described the DNVP as a bourgeois party and called themselves an anti-bourgeois party.[29] After the elections in 1932, the alliance broke after the DNVP lost many of its seats in the Reichstag. The Nazis denounced them as “an insignificant heap of reactionaries”.[30] The DNVP responded by denouncing the Nazis for their socialism, their street violence, and the “economic experiments” that would take place if the Nazis rose to power.[31]
Te exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II, who fled Germany into exile amidst an attempted communist revolution in Germany, initially supported the Nazi Party, and his four sons of the exiled German royal family, including Prince Eitel Friedrich and Prince Oskar, became members of the Nazi Party, in hopes that in exchange for their support, the Nazis would permit the restoration of the monarchy.[32]
There were factions in the Nazi Party, both conservative and radical.[33] The conservative Nazi Hermann Göring urged Hitler to conciliate with capitalists and reactionaries.[33] Other prominent conservative Nazis included Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich.[34]
The radical Nazi Joseph Goebbels, hated capitalism, viewing it as having Jews at its core, and he stressed the need for the party to emphasize both a proletarian and national character. Those views were shared by Otto Strasser, who later left the Nazi Party in the belief that Hitler had betrayed the party’s socialist goals by allegedly endorsing capitalism.[33] Large segments of the Nazi Party staunchly supported its official socialist, revolutionary, and anti-capitalist positions and expected both a social and economic revolution upon the party gaining power in 1933.[35] Many of the million members of the Sturmabteilung (SA) were committed to the party’s official socialist program.[35] The leader of the SA, Ernst Röhm, pushed for a “second revolution” (the “first revolution” being the Nazis’ seizure of power) that would entrench the party’s official socialist program. Further, Röhm desired that the SA absorb the much smaller German Army into its ranks under his leadership.[35]
Prior to becoming an anti-Semite and a Nazi, Hitler had lived a Bohemian lifestyle as a wandering watercolour artist in Austria and southern Germany, though he maintained elements of it later in life.[36] Hitler served in World War I and after the war his battalion was absorbed by the Bavarian Soviet Republic from 1918 to 1919, where he was elected Deputy Battalion Representative. According to historian Thomas Weber, he attended the funeral of communist Kurt Eisner (a German Jew), wearing a black mourning armband on one arm and a red communist armband on the other.[37] Further that Hitler’s political beliefs had not yet solidified, and at that time he supported the idea of a classless society and was an anti-monarchist.[37] In Mein Kampf, Hitler never mentioned any service with the Bavarian Soviet Republic, and he stated that he became an anti-Semite in 1913 in Vienna. This statement has been disputed with the contention he in fact was not an anti-Semite at that time.[38] Hitler altered his political views in response to the Treaty of Versailles of June 1919, and it was then that he became an anti-Semitic, German nationalist.[38] As a Nazi, Hitler had expressed opposition to capitalism; he regarded capitalism as having Jewish origins, and accused capitalism of holding nations ransom in the interests of a parasitic cosmopolitan rentier class.[39]
Hitler took a pragmatic position between the conservative and radical factions of the Nazi Party, in that he accepted private property and allowed capitalist private enterprises to exist as long as they adhered to the goals of the Nazi state. However, if a capitalist private enterprise resisted Nazi goals, he sought to destroy it.[33] Upon the Nazis achieving power, Röhm’s SA began attacks against individuals deemed to be associated with conservative reaction, without Hitler’s authorization to do so.[40] Hitler considered Röhm’s independent actions to be violating and possibly threatening his leadership, as well as jeopardizing the regime by alienating the conservative President Paul von Hindenburg and the conservative-oriented German Army.[41] This resulted in Hitler purging Röhm and other radical members of the SA in what came to be known as the Night of the Long Knives.[41]
Although he opposed communist ideology, Hitler on numerous occasions publicly praised the Soviet Union’s leader Joseph Stalin and Stalinism.[42] Hitler commended Stalin for seeking to purify the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of Jewish influences, noting Stalin’s purging of Jewish communists such as Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Karl Radek.[43] While Hitler always intended to bring Germany into conflict against the Soviet Union to gain Lebensraum (“living space”), he supported a temporary strategic alliance between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to form a common anti-liberal front to crush liberal democracies, particularly France.[42]
Origins

See also: Early timeline of Nazism
Nationalism, antisemitism and racism

Johann Gottlieb Fichte, considered one of the fathers of German nationalism.
One of the most significant ideological influences on the Nazis was the German nationalist Johann Gottlieb Fichte, whose works had served as inspiration to Hitler and other Nazi members, including Dietrich Eckart and Arnold Fanck.[44] In Speeches to the German Nation (1808), written amid Napoleonic France’s occupation of Berlin, Fichte called for a German national revolution against the French occupiers, making passionate public speeches, arming his students for battle against the French, and stressing the need for action by the German nation to free itself.[45] Fichte’s nationalism was populist and opposed to traditional elites, spoke of the need of a “People’s War” (Volkskrieg), and put forth concepts similar to those the Nazis adopted.[45] Fichte promoted German exceptionalism and stressed the need for the German nation to be purified (including purging the German language of French words, a policy that the Nazis undertook upon rising to power).[45]
Völkisch nationalism denounced soulless materialism, individualism, and secularized urban industrial society, while advocating a “superior” society based on ethnic German “folk” culture and German “blood”.[46] It denounced foreigners, foreign ideas and declared that Jews, national minorities, Catholics, and Freemasons were “traitors to the nation” and unworthy of inclusion.[47] Völkisch nationalism saw the world in terms of natural law and romanticism, viewed societies as organic, extolling the virtues of rural life, condemning the neglect of tradition and decay of morals, denounced the destruction of the natural environment, and condemned “cosmopolitan” cultures such as Jews and Romani.[48]
During the era of Imperial Germany, Völkisch nationalism was overshadowed by both Prussian patriotism and the federalist tradition of various states therein.[49] The events of World War I including the end of the Prussian monarchy in Germany, resulted in a surge of revolutionary Völkisch nationalism.[50] The Nazis supported such revolutionary Völkisch nationalist policies.[49] The Nazis claimed that their ideology was influenced by the leadership and policies of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the founder of the German Empire.[51] The Nazis declared that they were dedicated to continuing the process of creating a unified German nation state that Bismarck had begun and desired to achieve.[52] While Hitler was supportive of Bismarck’s creation of the German Empire, he was critical of Bismarck’s moderate domestic policies.[53] On the issue of Bismarck’s support of a Kleindeutschland (“Lesser Germany”, excluding Austria) versus the pan-German Großdeutschland (“Greater Germany”) of the Nazis, Hitler stated that Bismarck’s attainment of Kleindeutschland was the “highest achievement” Bismarck could have achieved “within the limits possible of that time”.[54] In Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Hitler presented himself as a “second Bismarck”.[54]
The concept of the Aryan race which the Nazis promoted stems from racial theories asserting that Europeans are the descendants of Indo-Iranian settlers, people of ancient India and ancient Persia.[55] Proponents of this theory based their assertion on the similarity of European words and their meaning to those of Indo-Iranian languages.[55] Johann Gottfried Herder argued that the Germanic peoples held close racial connections with the ancient Indians and ancient Persians, who he claimed were advanced peoples possessing a great capacity for wisdom, nobility, restraint, and science.[55] Contemporaries of Herder utilized the concept of the Aryan race to draw a distinction between what they deemed “high and noble” Aryan culture versus that of “parasitic” Semitic culture.[55]
Notions of white supremacy and Aryan racial superiority combined in the nineteenth century, with white supremacists maintaining that white people were members of an Aryan “master race” which is superior to other races, and particularly the Semitic race, which they associated with “cultural sterility”.[55] Arthur de Gobineau, a French racial theorist and aristocrat, blamed the fall of the ancien régime in France on racial degeneracy caused by racial intermixing, which he argued destroyed the purity of the Aryan race.[56] Gobineau’s theories, which attracted a strong following in Germany,[56] emphasized the existence of an irreconcilable polarity between Aryan and Jewish cultures.[55]

Aryan mysticism claimed that Christianity originated in Aryan religious tradition and that Jews had usurped the legend from Aryans.[55] Houston Stewart Chamberlain, an English proponent of racial theory, supported notions of Germanic supremacy and anti-Semitism in Germany.[57] Chamberlain’s work, Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899) praised Germanic peoples for their creativity and idealism while asserting that the Germanic spirit was threatened by a “Jewish” spirit of selfishness and materialism.[57] Chamberlain used his thesis to promote monarchical conservatism while denouncing democracy, liberalism, and socialism.[56] The book became popular, especially in Germany.[56] Chamberlain stressed the need of a nation to maintain racial purity in order to prevent degeneration, and argued that racial intermingling with Jews should never be permitted.[56] In 1923, Chamberlain met Hitler, whom he admired as a leader of the rebirth of the free spirit.[58]
Beginning in the 1870s, German Völkisch nationalism began to adopt anti-Semitic and racist themes and was adopted by a number of radical right political movements.[59]
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1912) was an anti-Semitic forgery created by the police of the Russian Empire. Anti-Semites believed it was real and the Protocol surged in popularity after World War I.[60] The Protocols claimed that there was a secret international Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.[61] Hitler had been introduced to The Protocols by Alfred Rosenberg, and from 1920 onward Hitler focused his attacks on claiming that Judaism and Marxism were directly connected; that Jews and Bolsheviks were one and the same and that Marxism was a Jewish ideology.[62] Hitler believed that The Protocols were authentic.[63]
Radical anti-Semitism was promoted by prominent advocates of Völkisch nationalism including Eugen Diederichs, Paul de Lagarde, and Julius Langbehn.[48] De Lagarde called the Jews a “bacillus, the carrier of decay…who pollute every national culture…and destroy all faith with their materialistic liberalism” and he called for the extermination of the Jews.[64] Langbehn called for a war of annihilation of the Jews and Langbehn’s genocidal policies were published by the Nazis and given to soldiers on the front during World War II.[64]
Johann Gottlieb Fichte accused Jews in Germany of having been, and inevitably continuing to be, a “state within a state” in Germany that was a threat to German national unity.[45] Fichte promoted two options to address this: the first was the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine to impel the Jews to leave Europe.[65] The other option was violence against Jews, saying that the goal would be “…to cut off all their heads in one night, and set new ones on their shoulders, which should not contain a single Jewish idea”.[66]
The Nazis claimed that Bismarck was unable to complete German national unification because of Jewish infiltration of the German parliament, and that their abolition of parliament ended the obstacle to unification.[51] Using the “stab in the back” legend, the Nazis accused Jews, and other populaces it considered non-German, of possessing extra-national loyalties, thereby exacerbating German anti-semitism about the Judenfrage (the Jewish Question), the perennial far right political canard popular when the ethnic Völkisch movement and their politics of Romantic nationalism for establishing a Großdeutschland were strong.[67][68]
Nazism’s racial policy positions may have developed from the views of important biologists of the 19th century, including French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, through Ernst Haeckel’s idealist version of Lamarckism and the father of genetics, German botanist Gregor Mendel.[69] However Haeckel’s works were later condemned and banned from bookshops and libraries by the Nazis as inappropriate for “National-Socialist formation and education in the Third Reich.” This may have been because of his “monist” atheistic, materialist philosophy which the Nazis disliked.[70] Unlike Darwinian theory, Lamarckian theory officially ranked races in a hierarchy of evolution from apes while Darwinian theory did not grade races in a hierarchy of higher or lower evolution from apes, simply categorizing humans as a whole of all as having progressed in evolution from apes.[69] Many Lamarckians viewed “lower” races as having been exposed to debilitating conditions for too long for any significant “improvement” of their condition in the near future.[71] Haeckel utilized Lamarckian theory to describe the existence of interracial struggle and put races on a hierarchy of evolution, ranging from being wholly human to subhuman.[69]

Georg Ritter von Schönerer
Mendelian inheritance or Mendelism was supported by the Nazis and also mainstream eugenics proponents at the time. The Mendelian theory of inheritance declared that genetic traits and attributes were passed from one generation to another.[72] Proponents of eugenics used Mendelian inheritance theory to demonstrate the transfer of biological illness and impairments from parents to children, including mental disability; others also utilized Mendelian theory to demonstrate the inheritance of social traits, with racialists claiming a racial nature of certain general traits such as inventiveness or criminal behaviour.[73]
During his youth in Austria, Hitler was politically influenced by Austrian pan-Germanist proponent Georg Ritter von Schönerer, who advocated radical German nationalism, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Slavism and anti-Habsburg views.[74] From von Schönerer and his followers, Hitler adopted for the Nazi movement the Heil greeting, the Führer title, and the model of absolute party leadership.[74] Hitler was also impressed with the populist anti-Semitism and anti-liberal bourgeois agitation of Karl Lueger, who as the mayor of Vienna during Hitler’s time in the city used a rabble-rousing oratory style that appealed to the wider masses.[75] Unlike von Schönerer, however, Lueger was not a German nationalist, but a pro-Catholic Habsburg supporter.[75]
Response to World War I and fascism
During World War I, German sociologist Johann Plenge spoke of the rise of a “National Socialism” in Germany within what he termed the “ideas of 1914″ that were a declaration of war against the “ideas of 1789″ (the French Revolution).[76] According to Plenge, the “ideas of 1789″ that included rights of man, democracy, individualism and liberalism were being rejected in favour of “the ideas of 1914″ that included “German values” of duty, discipline, law, and order.[76] Plenge believed that ethnic solidarity (Volksgemeinschaft) would replace class division and that “racial comrades” would unite to create a socialist society in the struggle of “proletarian” Germany against “capitalist” Britain.[76] He believed that the “Spirit of 1914″ manifested itself in the concept of the “People’s League of National Socialism”.[77] This National Socialism was a form of state socialism that rejected the “idea of boundless freedom” and promoted an economy that would serve the whole of Germany under the leadership of the state.[77] This National Socialism was opposed to capitalism due to the components that were against “the national interest” of Germany, but insisted that National Socialism would strive for greater efficiency in the economy.[77] Plenge advocated an authoritarian rational ruling elite to develop National Socialism through a hierarchical technocratic state.[78] Plenge’s ideas formed the basis of Nazism.[76]

Oswald Spengler, a German cultural philosopher, was a major influence on Nazism; although after 1933 Spengler became alienated from Nazism and was later condemned by the Nazis for criticizing Adolf Hitler.[79] Spengler’s conception of national socialism along with a number of his political views were shared by the Nazis and the Conservative Revolutionary movement.[80] Spengler’s views were also popular amongst Italian Fascists, including Benito Mussolini.[81]
Spengler’s book The Decline of the West (1918) written during the final months of World War I, addressed the claim of decadence of modern European civilization, whicht he claimed was caused by atomizing and irreligious individualization and cosmopolitanism.[79] Spengler’s major thesis was that a law of historical development of cultures existed involving a cycle of birth, maturity, aging, and death when it reaches its final form of civilization.[79] Upon reaching the point of civilization, a culture will lose its creative capacity and succumb to decadence until the emergence of “barbarians” create a new epoch.[79] Spengler considered the Western world as having succumbed to decadence of intellect, money, cosmopolitan urban life, irreligious life, atomized individualization, and the end of biological fertility as well as “spiritual” fertility.[79] He believed that the “young” German nation as an imperial power would inherit the legacy of Ancient Rome, lead a restoration of value in “blood” and instinct, while the ideals of rationalism would be revealed as absurd.[79]
Spengler’s notions of “Prussian socialism” as described in his book Preussentum und Sozialismus (“Prussiandom and Socialism”, 1919), influenced Nazism and the Conservative Revolutionary movement.[80] Spengler wrote: “The meaning of socialism is that life is controlled not by the opposition between rich and poor, but by the rank that achievement and talent bestow. That is our freedom, freedom from the economic despotism of the individual.”[80] Spengler adopted the anti-English ideas addressed by Plenge and Sombart during World War I that condemned English liberalism and English parliamentarianism while advocating a national socialism that was free from Marxism and that would connect the individual to the state through corporatist organization.[79] Spengler claimed that socialistic Prussian characteristics existed across Germany, including creativity, discipline, concern for the greater good, productivity and self-sacrifice.[82] He prescribed war as a necessity, saying “War is the eternal form of higher human existence and states exist for war: they are the expression of the will to war.”[83]

The book Das Dritte Reich (1923) translated as “The Third Reich”, by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck.
Spengler’s definition of socialism did not advocate a change to property relations.[80] He denounced Marxism for seeking to train the proletariat to “expropriate the expropriator”, the capitalist, and then to let them live a life of leisure on this expropriation.[84] He claimed that “Marxism is the capitalism of the working class” and not true socialism.[84] True socialism, according to Spengler, would be in the form of corporatism, stating that “local corporate bodies organized according to the importance of each occupation to the people as a whole; higher representation in stages up to a supreme council of the state; mandates revocable at any time; no organized parties, no professional politicians, no periodic elections.”[85]
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck who initially was the dominant figure of the Conservative Revolutionaries influenced Nazism.[86] He rejected reactionary conservatism, while proposing a new state, that he coined the “Third Reich”, which would unite all classes under authoritarian rule.[87] Van den Bruck advocated a combination of the nationalism of the right and the socialism of the left.[88]
Fascism was a major influence on Nazism. The seizure of power by Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini in the March on Rome in 1922 drew admiration by Hitler who less than a month later had begun to model himself and the Nazi Party upon Mussolini and the Fascists.[89] Hitler presented the Nazis as a German fascism.[90][91]

Benito Mussolini (centre in suit with fists against body) along with other Fascist leader figures and Blackshirts during the March on Rome.
In November 1923, the Nazis attempted a “March on Berlin” modelled upon the March on Rome that resulted in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich.[92] Other Nazis — especially more radical ones such as Gregor Strasser, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler — rejected Italian Fascism, accusing it of being too conservative or capitalist.[93] Alfred Rosenberg condemned Italian Fascism for being racially confused and having influences from philo-Semitism.[94] Strasser criticized the policy of Führerprinzip as being created by Mussolini, and considered its presence in Nazism as a foreign imported idea.[95] Throughout the relationship between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, a number of lower-ranking Nazis scornfully viewed fascism as a conservative movement that lacked a full revolutionary potential.[95]
Ideology

From 1920 to 1923, Hitler formulated his ideology, then published it in 1925–26, as Mein Kampf, a two-volume, biography and political manifesto.[96]
Though Hitler for “tactical” reasons had rhetorically declared a 1920 party platform with socialist platitudes “unshakable,” actually “many paragraphs of the party program were obviously merely a demagogic appeal to the mood of the lower classes at a time when they were in bad straits and were sympathetic to radical and even socialist slogans…Point 11, for example…Point 12…nationalization…Point 16…communalization…. put in at the insistence of Drexler and Feder, who apparently really believed in the ‘socialism’ of National Socialism.”[97] In actual practice, such points were mere slogans, “most of them forgotten by the time the party came to power…. the Nazi leader himself was later to be embarrassed when reminded of some of them.”[97] Historian Conan Fischer argues that the Nazis were sincere in their use of the adjective socialist, which they saw as inseparable from the adjective national, and meant it as a socialism of the master race, rather than the socialism of the “underprivileged and oppressed seeking justice and equal rights.”[98]
Social class
In 1922, Adolf Hitler discredited other nationalist and racialist political parties as disconnected from the mass populace, especially lower and working-class young people:
The racialists were not capable of drawing the practical conclusions from correct theoretical judgements, especially in the Jewish Question. In this way, the German racialist movement developed a similar pattern to that of the 1880s and 1890s. As in those days, its leadership gradually fell into the hands of highly honourable, but fantastically naïve men of learning, professors, district counsellors, schoolmasters, and lawyers — in short a bourgeois, idealistic, and refined class. It lacked the warm breath of the nation’s youthful vigour.[99]
Despite many working-class supporters and members, the appeal of the Nazi Party was arguably more effective with the middle class. Moreover, the financial collapse of the white collar middle-class of the 1920s figures much in their strong support of Nazism, thus the great percentage of declared middle-class support for the Nazis.[100] In the poor country that was the Weimar Republic of the early 1930s, the Nazi Party realised their socialist policies with food and shelter for the unemployed and the homeless — later recruited to the Brownshirt Sturmabteilung (SA — Storm Detachment).[100]
Sex and gender
Further information: Women in the Third Reich

Homophobia: Berlin Memorial to Homosexual Victims of the Holocaust; Totgeschlagen—Totgeschwiegen (Struck Dead—Hushed Up)
Nazi ideology advocated excluding women from political involvement and confining them to the spheres of “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” (Children, Kitchen, Church).[citation needed]
Opposition to homosexuality
Further information: Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
After the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler promoted Himmler and the SS, who then zealously suppressed homosexuality, saying: “We must exterminate these people root and branch … the homosexual must be eliminated.”[101] In 1936, Himmler established the “Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung der Homosexualität und Abtreibung” (“Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion”).[102] The Nazi régime incarcerated some 100,000 homosexuals during the 1930s.[103] As concentration camp prisoners, homosexual men were forced to wear pink triangle badges.[104][105]
Racial policy
Further information: Nazism and race and Racial policy of Nazi Germany

The Master Race: the Meyers Blitz-Lexikon (Leipzig, 1932) depicts German war hero Karl von Müller as an exemplar Nordic type of the Herrenvolk.

Europe, with pre-WW2 borders, showing the extension of Generalplan Ost, i.e., the massive depopulation and ethnic cleansing within German Lebensraum.
Several of the founders and leaders of the Nazi Party were members of the Thule-Gesellschaft (Thule Society), who romanticized Aryan race superstitions with ritual and theology.[106] Originally, derived from the Germanenorden, the Thule Society shared the racist superstitions of Ariosophy and the society’s activities consisted of anti-Semitism lectures and excursions of Germanic antiquity.[107] The Thule Society member, Dietrich Eckart, coached Adolf Hitler in public speaking, and Hitler later dedicated Mein Kampf to Eckart.[108] The DAP had initial support from the Thule Society — but after Hitler had taken over the Party, by denigrating their superstitious approach to politics, the society’s members were quickly marginalised to allow the party to become a mass movement.[109]
Hitler viewed individual races as being part of a hierarchy, and he espoused the “aristocratic idea of nature”. This view led to his assertion of superior and higher qualities of the Aryan race.[110] Hitler claimed to have first developed his worldview while in Vienna from 1907 to 1913, concluding that the Austro–Hungarian Empire comprised racial, religious, and cultural hierarchies; he viewed “Aryans” as the ultimate master race inhabiting the top, whilst Jews and Gypsies were at bottom.[111] Other research suggests that Hitler’s virulent antisemitism was a post-war development, influenced from the Russian civil war.[112] The idea of the Russian roots of Nazism has been explored by Walter Laqueur[113] and Michael Kellogg.[114]
The racist subject of Nazism was Das Volk, the German people living under continual cultural attack by Judeo-Bolshevism. Nazi Party leadership sought to unify the Volk, and strongly encouraged stoicism, self-discipline and self-sacrifice to achieve final victory.[115] Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels frequently employed antisemitic rhetoric to underline this view: “The Jew is the enemy and destroyer of the purity of blood, the conscious destroyer of our race … As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see, in the Hebrews, the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation’s goods.”[116]
In the pseudoscientific treatise, The Myth of the Twentieth Century — according to Terrence Ball and Richard Bellamy, the second-most important book to Nazism, after Mein Kampf[117] — Reichstag Secretary, Alfred Rosenberg proposed that, “[F]rom a northern centre of creation which, without postulating an actual submerged Atlantic continent, we may call Atlantis, swarms of warriors once fanned out, in obedience to the ever-renewed and incarnate Nordic longing for distance to conquer and space to shape”.[118]

Sketch plan of Treblinka extermination camp. Between the years 1942 and 1943, more than 850,000 Jews were murdered there and only 54 survived.
According to Nazism, through struggle and proper “breeding”, the “strong” would subdue the “weak” and rise to dominance.[110] For example, Nazi policy since 1920 emphasized that only people of “German blood” could be considered German citizens thus excluding people of Jewish descent,[119] a view that ultimately resulted in the killing of millions of people in the Holocaust.

A wagon piled high with corpses outside the crematorium in Buchenwald concentration camp
To maintain the “purity and strength” of the Aryan race, the Nazis sought to exterminate Jews, Romani, and the physically and mentally disabled.[11] Other groups deemed “degenerate” and “asocial” who were not targeted for extermination, but received exclusionary treatment by the Nazi state, included homosexuals, blacks, Jehovah’s Witnesses and political opponents.[11] One of Hitler’s ambitions at the start of the war was to exterminate, expel, or enslave most or all Slavs from central and eastern Europe (i.e., Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, etc.) so as to make living space for German settlers.[120]
Hitler declared that racial conflict against Jews was necessary to save Germany from suffering under them and dismissed concerns about such conflict being inhumane or an injustice:
We may be inhumane, but if we rescue Germany we have achieved the greatest deed in the world. We may work injustice, but if we rescue Germany then we have removed the greatest injustice in the world. We may be immoral, but if our people is rescued we have opened the way for morality.[121]
In Germany, the idea of creating a master-race resulted in efforts to “purify’ the Deutsche Volk through eugenics; its culmination was compulsory sterilization or involuntary euthanasia of physically or mentally disabled people. The ideological justification was Adolf Hitler’s view of Sparta (11th c.–195 BC) as the original Völkisch state; he praised their dispassionate destruction of congenitally deformed infants in maintaining racial purity:[122][123]
The number of Germans of African descent was low; however, some of them were enlisted into Nazi organisations like the Hitler Youth and the Wehrmacht.[124]
Religion
Further information: Religious aspects of Nazism, Religion in Nazi Germany, Positive Christianity, German Christians, and Kreuz und Adler

Members of the German Christians organization celebrating Luther-Day in Berlin in 1933, speech by bishop Hossenfelder

Hitler with Cesare Orsenigo, the Catholic Church’s nuncio to Germany, in 1935.
The Nazi Party Programme of 1920 guaranteed freedom for all religious denominations not hostile to the State and endorsed Positive Christianity to combat “the Jewish-materialist spirit”.[125] It was a modified version of Christianity which emphasized racial purity and nationalism.[126] The Nazis were aided by theologians, such as, Dr. Ernst Bergmann (philosopher). Bergmann, in his work, Die 25 Thesen der Deutschreligion (Twenty-five Points of the German Religion), held that the Old Testament and portions of the New Testament of the Bible were inaccurate. He claimed that Jesus was not a Jew and of Aryan origin, and that Adolf Hitler was the new messiah.[126] At the same time the Nazis utilized Protestant Martin Luther in their propaganda. Nazis publicly displayed an original of Luther’s On the Jews and their Lies during the annual Nuremberg rallies.[127][128] The Nazis endorsed the pro-Nazi Protestant German Christians organization.
The Nazis were initially highly hostile to Catholics because most Catholics supported the German Centre Party. Catholics opposed the Nazis’ promotion of sterilization of those deemed inferior, and the Catholic Church forbid its members to vote for the Nazis. In 1933, extensive Nazi violence occurred against Catholics due to the their association with the Centre Party and their opposition to the Nazi regime’s sterilization laws.[129] The Nazis demanded that Catholics declare their loyalty to the German state.[130] In propaganda, the Nazis used elements of Germany’s Catholic history, in particular the German Catholic Teutonic Knights and their campaigns in Eastern Europe. The Nazis identified them as “sentinels” in the East against “Slavic chaos”, though beyond that symbolism the influence of the Teutonic Knights on Nazism was limited.[131] Hitler also admitted that the model of the Nazis’ night rallies was inspired by the Catholic rituals he witnessed during his Catholic upbringing.[132] The Nazis did seek official reconciliation with the Catholic Church and endorsed the creation of the pro-Nazi Catholic Kreuz und Adler organization that supported a national Catholicism.[130] On 20 July 1933, a successful concordat (Reichskonkordat) was signed between Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church which demanded loyalty of German Catholics to the German state in exchange for acceptance of the Catholic Church in Germany. The Catholic Church then ended its ban on members supporting the Nazi Party.[130]
Historian Michael Burleigh claims that Nazism used Christianity for political purposes, but such use required that “fundamental tenets were stripped out, but the remaining diffuse religious emotionality had its uses”.[132] Burleigh claims that Nazism’s conception of spirituality was “self-conciously pagan and primitive”.[132] However, historian Roger Griffin rejects the claim that Nazism was primarily pagan, noting that although there were some influential neo-paganists in the Nazi Party, such as Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg, they represented a minority and their views did not influence Nazi ideology beyond its use for symbolism; its noted that Hitler denounced Germanic paganism in Mein Kampf and condemned Rosenburg’s and Himmler’s paganism as “nonsense”.[133][134]
Economics
Further information: Economy of Nazi Germany

Deutsches Volk–Deutsche Arbeit: German People, German Work, the alliance of worker and work. (1934)
Hitler believed that private ownership was useful in that it encouraged creative competition and technical innovation, but insisted that it had to conform to national interests and be “productive” rather than “parasitical”.[135] Private property rights were conditional upon the economic mode of use, if it did not advance Nazi economic goals then the state could nationalize it.[136] Although the Nazis privatised public properties and public services, they also increased economic state control.[137] Under Nazi economics, free competition and self-regulating markets diminished; nevertheless, Hitler’s social Darwinist beliefs made him reluctant to entirely disregard business competition and private property as economic engines.[138][139]
To tie farmers to their land, selling agricultural land was prohibited.[citation needed] Farm ownership was nominally private, but discretion over operations and residual income were proscribed.[citation needed] That was achieved by granting business monopoly rights to marketing boards, to control production and prices with a quota system.[citation needed]
Anti-communism
Historians Ian Kershaw and Joachim Fest argue that in post-World War I Germany, the Nazis were one of many nationalist and fascist political parties contending for the leadership of Germany’s anti-communist movement. The Nazis claimed that communism was dangerous to the well-being of nations because of its intention to dissolve private property, its support of class conflict, its aggression against the middle class, its hostility to small businessmen, and its atheism.[140] Nazism rejected class conflict-based socialism and economic egalitarianism, favouring instead a stratified economy with social classes based on merit and talent, retaining private property, and the creation of national solidarity that transcends class distinction.[16]
During the 1920s, Hitler urged disparate Nazi factions to unite in opposition to “Jewish Marxism.”[141] Hitler asserted that the “three vices” of “Jewish Marxism” were democracy, pacifism and internationalism.[142]
In 1930, Hitler said: “Our adopted term ‘Socialist’ has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true Socialism is not.”[143] In 1942, Hitler privately said: “I absolutely insist on protecting private property … we must encourage private initiative”.[144]
During the late 1930s and the 1940s, anti-communist regimes and groups that supported Nazism included the Falange in Spain; the Vichy regime and the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) in France; and the Cliveden Set, Lord Halifax, and associates of Neville Chamberlain in Britain.[145]
Anti-capitalism

Nazi anti-Semitic and anti-capitalist theme in a cartoon telling Germans not to buy from Jewish shops. It portrays a stereotypical depiction of Jews as affluent capitalists.
The Nazis argued that capitalism damages nations due to international finance, the economic dominance of big business, and Jewish influences.[140] Nazi propaganda posters in working-class districts emphasized anti-capitalism, such as one that said: “The maintenance of a rotten industrial system has nothing to do with nationalism. I can love Germany and hate capitalism.”[146]
Hitler, both in public and in private, expressed strong disdain for capitalism, accusing modern capitalism of holding nations ransom in the interests of a parasitic cosmopolitan rentier class.[147] He opposed free-market capitalism’s profit-seeking impulses and desired an economy in which community interests would be upheld.[135] He distrusted capitalism for being unreliable, due to its egotistic nature, and he preferred a state-directed economy that is subordinated to the interests of the Volk.[147] Hitler told a party leader in 1934, “The economic system of our day is the creation of the Jews.”[147] Hitler said to Benito Mussolini that “Capitalism had run its course”.[147] Hitler also said that the business bourgeoisie “know nothing except their profit. ‘Fatherland’ is only a word for them.”[148] Hitler admired Napoleon as a role model for his anti-conservative, anti-capitalist and anti-bourgeois attitudes.[149]
In Mein Kampf, Hitler effectively supported mercantilism, in the belief that economic resources from their respective territories should be seized by force; he believed that the policy of Lebensraum would provide Germany with such economically valuable territories.[150] He believed that the only means to maintain economic security was to have direct control over resources rather than being forced to rely on world trade.[151] He claimed that war to gain such resources was the only means to surpass the failing capitalist economic system.[150]
A number of other Nazis held strong revolutionary socialist and anti-capitalist beliefs, most prominently Ernst Röhm, the leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA).[152] Röhm claimed that the Nazis’ rise to power constituted a national revolution, but insisted that a socialist “second revolution” was required for Nazi ideology to be fulfilled.[40] Röhm’s SA began attacks against individuals deemed to be associated with conservative reaction.[40] Hitler saw Röhm’s independent actions as violating and possibly threatening his leadership, as well as jeopardizing the regime by alienating conservative President Paul von Hindenburg and the conservative-oriented German Army.[41] This resulted in Hitler purging Röhm and other radical members of the SA.[41] Another radical Nazi, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels adamantly stressed the socialist character of Nazism, and claimed in his diary that if he were to pick between Bolshevism and capitalism, he said “in final analysis”, “it would be better for us to go down with Bolshevism than live in eternal slavery under capitalism.”[153]
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Paul
Do you live in a fantasy word. Paul again I do not get paid, you show that you would not know someone who gets paid to a some that is telling you the truth about KO. Paul again let me make this clear since you seem to love to lie than listen. I do not work for KO, KO Paul does not even know who I am, I do not exist to him for all he knows. He has never met me and I have never met him.
What I am Paul is something that you have never heard of, that is called a fan, fans Paul will defend the people that are they are fans of when they see them being bashed and lied about, like you are doing here.
Also Paul you once again are showing that you would not know what mental ilness is if it bit you. You think that anyone that disagrees with you and says stuff that you do not like, like KO does, that they are mentally ill. Sorry Paul that is not the case. Paul keep lying about who I am and showing that you would not know what a fan is from someone that is paid.
Paul if you would know anything about KO, you would know that KO does not need people to defend him, he does that all the time on twitter, and very well for that matter. Paul I am someone that hates people like you, who think that you can lie and put out debunk crap about people, and lie about a persons mental status because that person disagrees with there thinking, or that matter calls people out that they do not want to be called out.
Paul you show that you have zero clue who KO is and for that matter who I am, why I’m I not suprise, you already keep showing that you have no idea what mental ilness is. Paul keep embarrassing yourself with your made up lies.
Here is the truth Paul I would defend KO from people like you because he has shown me to be a good human being. Is he prefect, no but there is no such thing as prefection and I would be mad if he was or trying to be. Paul KO shows everyday that he is human that has faults like all of us.
Has he had problems with mangement, yes but that does not make him Paul mentally unstable, that again shows that he cares more about standing for what he believes in and compromising his beilfs, than working for the sake of working.
Does that mean that he can never come back, wrong, he Paul gets viewers, and do not meation CUrrent because anyone that uses thier brain unlike you, knows that KO was not given the tools to be sucessful there, this why I have to laugh at the people that say that. Sets falling apart and ear pieces that you need to listen to the producers and telapromters that fall apart. These are not the tools that get if you are trying to build a channel or a show to get a audience. Mangement that does not get that you have to build the infustrature before you get the line up, and not listening to you when you say that because they think that they know better than someone, who has been the business for 33 years. This is why I laugh at people that put up that made up start up excuse. Even small businesses and start ups, know that they you keep the people aka Mark Rothosel that know the industry that they worked in, and worked well with the star and knows how to handle egos around. When I heard that I knew that Current was the bad guy and that start up is a made up excuse by people that just do not want to listen to the facts.
Paul I know not to listen to people aka Hyatt that fired someone with AIDS when it comes to sickness and even honesty and morals. People that do that show that they have no idea what a moral and what vaules are. Also I can research Paul, I love KO but I do not take his word, I know that he has been wrong on stuff, he hsa no idea how to lie, so when I look at articles that show Current putting out memos when it comes to the primary story, and talking thier heads off to the press about what they claimed happened, but when KO just confirms that thier are lawyers, and goes after reporters saying that he comptemt there and saying that everything is right, doing the stuff that a professional mangement does, I know that Current was sabtoging themselves and showing how disorganzied they are and how unprofessional and that they did not want the public to see. So it easier to fire KO and lie about what happened.
Paul KO left MSNBC and ESPN in better shape and do not say different because that is a lie, than when he first came, his fanbase is intact. I was amazed with how many people want him back and do not put out articles and bloggers that agree with you. That just shows that all you care about is bashing and showing your igorance on KO. This is how I know that people that put up that lie that KO can never come back are not to be listened too. Even Daivd Carr who article was negative on KO, said that you do not say that KO done, because he knows that KO can gain a audience. He would have done it at Current if he had the resources at his disposel.
So again Paul you are showing that you have no idea who I am, who KO is, and what a fan is and what mental illness.
Paul I am a fan and I am a fan if KO was the bad guy when it came to Current, which he not, because Paul I care crap about KO’s personality or his ego, love them as much as love him, because they make KO who he is. This Paul is why I know that he was the victim at Current, and that he needs to sue, to get the salary that was promised.
Paul I also know that KO not telling you what you wanted to hear, or going after who wanted to go after, is not what irational and dilusional mean, and do not say different because that is a lie and will agian show that you have no idea what mental illness is. I hate Fox Paul but no one on Fox is mentally ill. They just lie and like to make stuff up and be a proganda outlet. KO likes to be a journalist and tell the truth, and go after the lies that need gone after and the expose the people like the Koch brothers that are dangerous to this country. This is what Murrow did, and that is why I will always call him this generations Murrow.
KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, sorry you got unjustily fired at Current, love how you keep gaining new fans and viewers. Love you faults and all.

Also Paul do not use that BS job crap. KO has been working in broadcasting business steadly. He went to ESPN, and when he quit that because of contract negoations falling through, he went to MSNBC, when had he the guts like he always does to stand up to MSNBC and say that need to do other stories beside the Lewinsky one, and when they did not listen, he went to FOx sports. Where he was blackmailed which Murdoch did not lie, and Murdoch crediblity on anything is about as laughable and Madoff’s crediblity is to his clients aka phone hacking scandal. He was fired for telling the truth about Murdoch selling the Dogers. Than he went back to MSNBC and worked there for eight years, he worked at ESPN for five. Paul to people in the real world that is what we call career stablity and do not say different Paul because that will be another lie. So again KO is meantally sound and do not say different because that will be a lie. Standing up to mangement because you will not compromise Paul has nothing to do with mental illness, and do not say different on that one, because that again will show that you are igorant on mental illness. You really love to show why I will always be a KO fan.

ko proves once again that he knows jack shit about baseball

i expect a full printed apology and a promise never to write about the sport again

upset? you dick

Walt
Thanks for showing that KO does know about baseball and that he should be writing about sports. I did not know that KO disagreeing with you about something meant that he did not know about baseball or sports. Thanks for making me love him more than I already do. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me.

Walt, I think his personal feelings about the Yankees and the Giants get mixed in with his posts. The heart can almost always steer the head away from reality. ;)

Patrica
Thanks for being reasonable on this. I wish people would understand that people are human beings and that as human beings we are not prefect. So yes personal feelings can get in the way of writing. Again one of the reasons that I love KO so much is that he not afraid to show that he is a human being with faults and strenghts. He shows that he not prefect, as said before Walt may want to rethink that beacuse KO or other easterners may have a hardtime putting personal feelings about a team aside, that does not mean that they do not know baseball or not as big of a fan. So to me this is situtation were we could all learn. KO should try to set personal feelings aside when he writes about the Giants or the Yankees even. Walt needs to put his predijuces aside when he hears easterners talking about the Giants or other western teams, and learn that easterners are just as smart about baseball as westerners are.

You are the best, history! And so right that we are all human, too. Well, I feel a bit alien at times. (The outer space kind.) Why not just love everybody as they are? All flawed. Teams don’t really matter. Race, religion, regions…unimportant. We are here for such a short time. Wish we could all love one another. Hugs. .

Also KO keep showing why you are this generations Murrow. Keep writing about baseball, it great hearing your knowledge on the game. I know that even if you did go back to sports that I would watch. For someone that has not been a sports fan, espically watching you do highlights in a sport that I have never liked aka football, I was enjoying and actually laughing at the highlights. Never change KO you are great the way that you are.

Thanks, I try.
Again KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan. YOu love to show why you are this generations Murrow. Love you alway faults and all. Patrica you are diffently a cool person and right on as usual.

generation’s NOT generations
it’s great NOT it great
especially NOT espically

Again the pathic spelling police that cares more about showing off thier igorance than learning and reporting truth about KO, Moore and occupy and democrats. Keep embarrassing youself that is all you do OO.

“For these two reasons alone (we haven’t even mentioned Cliff Lee) I like the Rangers and fast: five or six games.” – Keith Olbermann, October 25, 2010

“I’m thinking the Tigers could do this in five.” – Keith Olbermann, October 23,2012

As mentioned previously, the continuing problem here is picking the team with the best PLAYERS as opposed to picking the team with the best TEAM.

Try to avoid the hat trick.

John, it’s always fun when the experts are wrong. And I don’t say this to knock Keith. But there was no WAY the Giants were supposed to sweep the Tigers. As a real expert, Yogi, once said, good pitching stops good hitting, and vice versa.

Micheal
That is not knocking anyone down, it just telling like KO always does like it is. Ko again that was a great interview with King. Also I care more about you, so take as much time as you want off and enjoy life. I can wait, love that I do not have to watch TV or news.

Well Keith,
You forgot an important ingredient when you forecast the World Series outcome; you forgot to include heart in the equation, and as we all witnessed, the SF Giants have a TON of Heart. SF lays down for no team. GO GIANTS!!!!
Emerson, A Huge Giants fan and a Keith fan (except when you diss the Giants).

The chipmunk is on the right?
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Wow
OO you really love to show how igorant you are on KO, you really show why he this generations Murrow. This is probably one of he dumbest vidoes that you have posted here. Keep showing how KO has proved you wrong and that OO is to much of coward to admit that KO never lies and that Oo has no idea what honesty and journalism are. Keep embarrassing yourself.

ignorant NOT igorant
generation’s NOT generations
the NOT he

Wow
This is duo that shows that they love to defend people that lie and put out hate speech. Moore like KO Oo stands up for the people and he unlike Anthony and Opie and you fights talks about what really hurting this country. The corporations and courpt coropation. You think that it okay to bash him and KO, because in OO’s world, corporte coruption is good and we need to be praising the Koch Brothers. You show with this video how igorant you are about what is going in this country. Thanks for making me love Moore more and respect him more, and embarrassing yourself by posting lying hate videos of people like you who have zero clue what honesty and truth and facts are. Keep embarrassing yourself that is all you know how to do.

the duo NOT duo
talks NOT fights talks
what’s or what is NOT what
corrupt NOT courpt
ignorant NOT igorant
going on in NOT going in

282 days since Bathtub Boy was fired by MSNBC (for the second time).
213 days since Bathtub Boy was fired by Current.

Wow OO
Again KO was not fired OO from MSNBC, Again OO you show how igorant you are on what firing looks like and what quiting is. OO you do not do a last show like KO did both times at MSNBC and still get a paycheck which KO did if you had been fired, you really show your igorance on KO and his career/ job history. YOu really show why I am and always be a fan of Current. Keep embarrassing yourself with how igorant you are when it comes to facts.

Also again you love to be the spelling police and show that you would rather lie about people than listen to the truth. You really are pathic.

“Again KO was not fired OO from MSNBC…”

Keith Olbermann: “I think the same fantasy has popped into the head of everybody in my business who has ever been told what I’ve been told: That this is going to be the last edition of your show.”

Wow
Again you love to believe made up debunk stories by Gibson than listen to truth. You show just how igorant you are on facts. Keep showing how igorant you are on KO and why he this generations Murrow.

generation’s NOT generations

“Again KO was not fired OO from MSNBC…”

Keith Olbermann: “I think the same fantasy has popped into the head of everybody in my business who has ever been told what I’ve been told: That this is going to be the last edition of your show.”

KO was fired from MsNBC, Current, Fox, ESPN, and by Katy Tur.

Olbermann should sue Obama for killing half of his audience when he took out bin Laden.
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Oo
Do you love to embarrass yourself, you show that you love to be the spelling police along with showing how igorant you are on KO and history and facts and journalism in generallly. You reallly show why KO is this generations Murrow and why you care more about bashing than listening to the truth. Keep embarrassing yourself with igorance on history and espically KO. You really show why KO is this generations Murrrow, and do not say different because that will show that you care nothing about truth. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me. Love you faults and all.

Wow
Again, you show that have zero clue who KO is and who is. OO I have to laugh that you think that quot a shows that KO was fired from MSNBC and two that KO can never work again. Sorry Oo but that is not what that quto means. OO if you are still getting a pay check like KO has at MSNBC than you are not fired, if you do a last show which he has at MSNBC than you are not fired. That quto does not mean that KO was fired or that he cannot work again. KO just know in his Larry King inteview OO said that almost every company that hired him from MSNBC, to ESPN to even CNN and CBS has hired him back. So that is how made up that he even hard for his mangers are. and why I never listen and know that people like you who put up that debunk crap that KO career is over with, just want to show how igorant you are with KO. Do you love to show that you have zero clue what quots means. OO someone unlike you who likes to use thier brains and commen senes can tell you that quto does not show that KO was fired at MSNBC or that he can never come back. You really are igorant on KO and what qutos are and what fired and quiting are. Thanks OO for again showing me why KO is this generations Murrow and why you get proven wrong about KO over and over again. All you are doing is showing how KO can never burn his last bridge and how he quit MSNBC. Keep making me love KO more and more that is all this beyond igorant post is doing.

Wow
Again you show that you do not know what that quto means and that you are igorant about what KO says as you are on who he is and what he represents. This does not show that KO cannot come back and that he was fired. This is what he always says when peope like you like to put that debunk crap out, telling you guys over and over again that he can never burn that last bridge and do not say different OO because that will be another of your made up lies. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, love you faults and all.

Wow
Paul you show again that you have zero clue or I should say are igorant about KO’s job history. KO Paul quit MSNBC both times, he quit ESPN both times. He was never fired from katy Tur, you Paul have zero clue how they broke up, and the fact that KO Paul was intervewing her showed that they either the break up was mutal, meaning that they both knew that it was not working, or they just decieded to be friends.
Also he was fired from Fox Paul because KO told the truth about Murdouch selling the Dogers, also Paul Murdouch blackmailed KO when it came to his health, On Countdown tonight Keith Olbermann used a Special Comment to detail how Rupert Murdoch blackmailed him when he worked for Fox Sports.

Here is the video:

After retelling the story of how he got fired from Fox Sports for reporting that Rupert was looking to sell the LA Dodgers, Olbermann got to the new details,

The second half of my story I have never told publicly before. It’s time. In June of 2000 after a year and a half of doing two one hour cable shows a night for Murdoch and baseball from 7 AM to 5 PM on Saturdays, I got sick. My doctor told me that if I didn’t among other things slow down at work; he would be treating me for heart disease within the decade. I took him very seriously. I told my employers about cutting back maybe from the six days to 5, and offered to give back to Fox some of my salary in the process because my health was at risk maybe even my heart.
They immediately took me off the air. They refused to put me back on until I had gotten a letter from my doctor guaranteeing them that I was well enough to work. By itself that was hardly an evil thing to do. In fact, I recognized it as a prudent business decision, and I complied because I didn’t know what they intended to do with it. They blackmailed me with it.

The head of Fox Sports Net, the operation told my agent that since they had a document that indicated that I was well enough to return to work they were now going to change my schedule. Instead of anchoring six days a week in the Los Angeles studio, they were going to have me anchor four days then fly to and from different interviews, events, and promotions, etc. in other cities two different times per week. In short, they were threatening to work me into illness or into the hospital or both.
They offered an alternative. They would cut my work schedule not to five days, but to three, and they would cut my salary by 60%. And they expected an answer overnight. They got it. I took the deal. I had no choice. They were blackmailing me about my health, and Fox blackmail works. And that’s the way it works. Lord only knows, if it works so well against someone with resources and a high profile like mine, how often was it used against lesser figures in the company?
Olbermann pointed out that Rupert’s crew will do anything to you to get you to do what they want. He speculated that this is why nobody whistle blows on Fox News and News Corp. Until Keith Olbermann brought it up, I had never really thought about why so very few former Fox employees talk about their time at News Corp after they leave.

I have always thought that part of the reason for the silence was that there are very few television jobs available. Most people aren’t as lucky as Keith Olbermann. They don’t have the ability to do both news and sports. Jobs are scarce, so don’t go burning your bridges. It does seem to be the case that many in the media are rightfully afraid to cross News Corp. The culture there seems intent on destroying all enemies, real or imagined.

Keith Olbermann was right. The facade of fear and power that surrounded News Corp is cracking. The News Of The World scandal has damaged the aura that surrounded both Murdoch and News Corp. My best guess is that News Corp will survive this scandal but the Murdoch control of the company won’t. The scandal is a game changer. The greater the financial damage from this scandal, the more likely it becomes that more people step forward to tell their story of life inside Rupert’s empire.

The revelations are coming fast and furious. Each new detail from the across the pond creates another crack in the News Corp armor. The News of The World Scandal has it all, corporate corruption, media corruption, and law enforcement corruption. This story is not going away, and if the company wants to stop the financial bleeding they may have to dump Rupert Murdoch.

Keith Olbermann spoke up about it, but how many other News Corp employees have been subjected to the same treatment?

I have a hunch that we’ll never know.
Also the fact that Murdouch was invovled in a scandal, Paul that shows that Murdouch has no idea what ethics are and that he should not be believed in saying who KO is and what happened at Fox.
Current he was unjustily fired there and do not say different because that will be a lie. It well known that KO was abused there, here is what KO job history is again Again you show that you do not listen to truth or facts, that is a made up talking point. again here is the evidence that you love to igonre that shows that KO was unjustily fired. I do not listen to people like you who keep putting made up crap. Current being a ragtime operations is a BS excuse. ragtime operations do not make people who are have a thorat infection that is serious in KO’s industry have work, that shows that they do not care about who they are hiring, they do not get rid of thier co-Ceo that knows what he doing, that is how made up that statement is here is again is the facts and what happenedWow you also seem to want to lie about KO’s career. KO was not fired from ESPN or MSNBC. I want you to explain to me why was KO able to a last show at ESPN, I did not realize Nick that people that were fired could do that. Nick what happened at ESPN is that they could not find a agreement when it came to reneogationating his contract. He wanted to be in New York, because he was single and cannot drive and had family there. ESPN wanted him to stay in Bristol, so they left on mutal agreement. At MSNBC the first time he quit because he did not want to talk other things beside Lewensky scandal. He was then traded to Fox, he got fired from Fox for reporting the truth about Murdouch selling the LA Dodgers. Which at Fox is not allowed. He was than hired back from MSNBC, and when he left in January of 2011 he was again allowed to do a last show and mangement even said that KO left on his own aka mutal agreement and he got paid the rest of his contract, that shows pacfically that KO was not fired from MSNBC just like ESPN. Also KO was rehired by ESPN to work with Dan Patrick before he left ESPN. Nick keep lying about KO’s career history.
Nick also I want you to explain when has a professional responsible business ever put out a letter that is a personal attack on the person that they letting go, so again explain Nick how this ego and KO’s fault. Also KO keeps his fans up to date on twitter about his abences and what is going on and when the subs are going to on and letting the subs like Press tweet when he going to be on. He also saying who on the show and his staff doing twitter saying who on when Shuster is on, while Current will not take responsible for thier mistakes like the tenichal problems which is business which in the couter-suit they claim is thier job. Nick why did Current want KO to do a commerical for a corporation and have a corporate sponser, when they advertised that they were corporate free, also giving corporation his website, wow trying to make KO a hypocrite to his audience and people like me who are fans, and love that he stands on principle. Why did Current leak the primary story to the press, and KO and his lawyer only confirm that lawyers that were involved that Current said were saying, Nick how is that sabtoging them, when they were putting out email and letters and putting out qutos about KO, and all KO does is defend them and confirm that lawyers involved, along with making KO go against his principles and make them go again what they stood for by being corporate free. Wow Nick that shows that Current is sabtoging themselves and unjustily fired KO.
Nick KO was unjustily fired and that is the truth and thier is nothing that going to change that. Also nick explain why when articles about KO come out he or his team aka lawyer and manger always quoted, but with Current it sources, and that Hollywood story says sources and they say that KO was the one responsible why not deny when KO said they had told him it was his manger. Who is it the manger or KO. and they cannot deny that they blackmaiel and threaten to fire staff, all showing that they not KO realeased the salary. They also never reprimended KO for saying that he was on a preplanned vacation to fans on twitter, showing that they had approved it. So again I would be pissed if KO does not get the justice he deserved for being unjustily fired.
Nick keep making me love KO and respecting him more and more and showing why KO will be aroud for year to come. KO keep being yourself and showing why you are this generations Murrow and you will always have a fan in me. Lov eyou faults and all. Again Hyatt is someone that fired some with AIDS and you take what he says seriously. Dude I researched this over and over again and nothing shows that KO personality is why he not at Current. Keep showing how igorant you are on KO. Paul KO did a least show both times that he worked at ESPN and MSNBC, Paul you do not do last shows if you have been fired, KO still drew a paycheck when he left MSNBC and ESPN, again Paul that does not happen if you been fired. Paul again you show that just like you are igorant on mental illness you like OO are igorant on what fired means aka Fox and Current and what quiting means. You show that KO is prefectly stable and that you have zero clue what mental stableness looks like and if you say different than you will just be lying and embarrassing yourself with your igorance on the subject. You show that you have no idea who KO is, and why he this generations Murrow. Keep lying about KO that is all you know how to do. You just make me love and respect KO more and more. I sorry that you were abused at Current and that you got unjustily fired there. Love your King interview, you really made me love and resepct you more and more, again keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, love your personality and everything else about you including ego. Love you faults and all.

As a 50 year Giants fan, I want to thank the team for the wild ride!
And, thanks fo faux sports for the barrage of promos, plugs and non-baseball bull. It cheapened the broadcast as much as the lame announcers.. .

That is why I record the game, delay starting to watch, so I can fast forward through the Fox Bullshit. 37 minuted of commercials and talking heads before the first pitch is thrown. At least they did not constantly put down the Giants and San Francisco, like they did in 2010; totally out of place in baseball, keep your politics to your Faux news (AKA Republican Re-election Central).

fox, who on their fake news channel, like to go out of their way to attack people for being unamerican, for four nights, turned the anthem into a commercial…nice

Walt
Thanks for telling the truth on that one. KO again thanks for the remender why thier is no objective in jouranlism. Everyday you show why you are this generations Murrow and why you will be around for years to come. Again sorry that you got abused at Current and will not be happy if you do not get the justice that you deserve. You were great on Larry King. I hate that I will not get to watch part 2 until after eight when I get home from rehersal. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me. I love everything about you from your ego to personality, to your strenghts and your faults, keep being yourself and you will always be perment on my wall, ipod and ipad and life. You make me respect and love you more and more everyday. Love you faults and all.

Elizabeth Warren’s new campaign song:

Wow
OO thanks for showing that you are just as hateful as Scott Brown is. You really show that KO knows what tolerance is and you would not know what concept means if it bit you on the head and do not say different beacuse that is a lie. You really show why KO is this generations Murrow. This is the most stupidiest videos that I have seen you post so far.
KO again you were great on Larry King and take your time coming back. You just make me love and respect you more and more. Keep being yourself and not only will you be perment on my wall, ipod and ipad and life, and you will always have a forver loyal and trusting fan. OO by the way keep misinterpting KO qutos, it just shows how igorant you are on him and why KO has proved you wrong about him over and over again.

“Both camps say they did hear about supporters who were holding signs for Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren that heckled and shouted homophobic slurs at one of Republican Senator Scott Brown’s staffers, Ross Hemminger. Hemminger is the Youth Coordinator for the Scott Brown for Senate campaign.”

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/19806545/2012/10/12/senate-candidates-from-mass-respond-to-hateful-incident-outside-debate-venue#ixzz2AqGo4jtc

Wow again you show that you have zero idea what facts are. NEW YORK — Scott Brown recently got in hot water for falsely claiming that his Senate race opponent, Elizabeth Warren, was using paid actors in her commercials. But it turns out that Brown is perhaps the one who should have known more about the people appearing in his ads.

In a television advertisement running as recently this week, Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) reelection campaign featured a union construction worker whose publicly accessible Facebook page is riddled with insults against Brown’s Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren and President Barack Obama.

(Editor’s Note: This post contains strong language that some readers may find objectionable.)

On one post made in August, well before Brown’s ad appeared, the worker, George Patriarca, calls Warren a “DOUCHEBAG.” On another he labels the president a “faggot,” and on a third he says, “there is a Muslim in the White House.”
First you think that Warren supporters that have nothing to do with the campaign is showing that Warren is supporting Homphobia, when Brown had used a guy in a commerical that used a homophobic slur on Warren, wow you really show that you are igorant about stuff, here is more about what you claim as a bad incident, with Warrento the Weekly Standard, Warren’s supporters heckled Ross Hemminger, Youth Coordinator for the Scott Brown for Senate campaign, with demeaning anti-gay words.
A Warren supporter with a United Auto Workers sign was caught on video saying Hemminger “likes it up the a–” while other Warren supporters mocked Hemminger in “effeminate voices,” saying things like, he “sounds kind of gay” while laughing at him as he was rallying Brown’s supporters.
Warren’s Campaign Manager Mindy Myers wrote to Hemminger and apologized for the actions of Warren’s supporters:
Ross,
It has come to my attention that some of our supporters made very inappropriate comments to you outside the Springfield debate hall tonight. On behalf of Elizabeth and our campaign, I am writing to express our deepest apologies. Elizabeth completely denounces this kind of behavior, and we are very sorry it occurred.
Sincerely,
Mindy
Mindy Myers
Campaign Manager
Elizabeth for MA
So she has already apologized and disannouced this and you think that you are going by facts. No you are showing that you think that it okay when Brown says racist crap about Warren’s background, and hires someone in his commerical that says something homphoibic, but when a supporter does something that the campaign is against and apologizes and disannouces you think that bad. Wow you really love you show how igorant you are when it comes to facts and honesty. Also with the union thing in your the article that you posted you forgot this part When asked what she thought about the idea of union members possibly being fined, Warren said she did not approve; however, her answer came after some back-and-forth with Sacchetti.

In a statement, Mark Erlich, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters, addressed the video of what appears to be a union carpenter posted online.

“The New England Carpenters Union never has and never will fine a member for not participating in political activity and does not pay members for their participation,” Erlich said.

Read more: http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/19806545/2012/10/12/senate-candidates-from-mass-respond-to-hateful-incident-outside-debate-venue#ixzz2AqWSNE6D, also I tend not believe articles from Weekly standard another hate site for the republicans, this tape easily could have been editied by them. Also when other hate sites are the ones picking it up, tells me that thier really is no truth to it. ANyway she apologized, so keep lying and showing that you are as igorant on Warren as you are on KO. Keep making me love and respect both. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me. Love you faults and all. OO keep showing why KO knows tolerance and you do not, you do not even get when a campaign has apologized for something that is how BS this post is. YOu really are igorant on KO and Warren and history and now tolerance, keep embarrassing yourself and showing why KO is this generations Murrow.

Wow
You show once again that you igorant about the video’s that you post. I have to laugh that you think that Mathews looks miserable. I could hear Mathews laugh and and having fun. Keep embarrassing yourself OO with your igorance. You cannot even tell when someone is having fun. You really are pathic and just want to come on here and embarrass yourself with your igorance on Olbermann, history, democrats and other subjects. You Oo show evertime you post why KO will always be this genrations Murrow. Keep making me love and respect him more with this BS post. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, love you faults and all.

“Again KO was not fired OO from MSNBC…”

Keith Olbermann: “I think the same fantasy has popped into the head of everybody in my business who has ever been told what I’ve been told: That this is going to be the last edition of your show.”

Again OO
Wow another quto that does not show that KO was fired from MSNBC and also does not show that KO cannot work again. Again OO get this in your head when you do last shows and get to thank your audience and staff and others there, that is not what being fired means, did KO get that at Current, no we just got Spitzer. OO when you still get your salary like KO got at MSNBC, is that firing no, KO Oo was not fired from MSNBC that is whole truth and by saying different you show that you love to be igorant on what firing is and what quiting means. You really love to put stuff up that you do not even know what they mean. Keep embarrassing yourself and showing how igorant you are about KO’s career and job status, along with not knowing what qutos mean. You really show why KO is this generations Murrow and why he will be around for years to come. Keep bashing KO that is all you know how to do. Sorry KO quit MSNBC both times and if you say different you will be lying and showing like you are know that you are igorant on what firing is and what quiting is and what facts are. Keep making me love and respect KO more that is all this post does, along with just embarassing yourself by showing how igorant you are on KO.

Fired by two different employers in less than seventy days. Damn. That HAS to be some kind of a record.

Wow
He was not fired by two employers less than seventy days, that again is a made up lie that you love to tell because you love to show how igorant you are on KO and his career. Again here is KO’s career you show again that you have zero clue or I should say are igorant about KO’s job history. KO Paul quit MSNBC both times, he quit ESPN both times. He was never fired from katy Tur, you Paul have zero clue how they broke up, and the fact that KO Paul was intervewing her showed that they either the break up was mutal, meaning that they both knew that it was not working, or they just decieded to be friends.
Also he was fired from Fox Paul because KO told the truth about Murdouch selling the Dogers, also Paul Murdouch blackmailed KO when it came to his health, On Countdown tonight Keith Olbermann used a Special Comment to detail how Rupert Murdoch blackmailed him when he worked for Fox Sports.
Here is the video:
After retelling the story of how he got fired from Fox Sports for reporting that Rupert was looking to sell the LA Dodgers, Olbermann got to the new details,
The second half of my story I have never told publicly before. It’s time. In June of 2000 after a year and a half of doing two one hour cable shows a night for Murdoch and baseball from 7 AM to 5 PM on Saturdays, I got sick. My doctor told me that if I didn’t among other things slow down at work; he would be treating me for heart disease within the decade. I took him very seriously. I told my employers about cutting back maybe from the six days to 5, and offered to give back to Fox some of my salary in the process because my health was at risk maybe even my heart.
They immediately took me off the air. They refused to put me back on until I had gotten a letter from my doctor guaranteeing them that I was well enough to work. By itself that was hardly an evil thing to do. In fact, I recognized it as a prudent business decision, and I complied because I didn’t know what they intended to do with it. They blackmailed me with it.
The head of Fox Sports Net, the operation told my agent that since they had a document that indicated that I was well enough to return to work they were now going to change my schedule. Instead of anchoring six days a week in the Los Angeles studio, they were going to have me anchor four days then fly to and from different interviews, events, and promotions, etc. in other cities two different times per week. In short, they were threatening to work me into illness or into the hospital or both.
They offered an alternative. They would cut my work schedule not to five days, but to three, and they would cut my salary by 60%. And they expected an answer overnight. They got it. I took the deal. I had no choice. They were blackmailing me about my health, and Fox blackmail works. And that’s the way it works. Lord only knows, if it works so well against someone with resources and a high profile like mine, how often was it used against lesser figures in the company?
Olbermann pointed out that Rupert’s crew will do anything to you to get you to do what they want. He speculated that this is why nobody whistle blows on Fox News and News Corp. Until Keith Olbermann brought it up, I had never really thought about why so very few former Fox employees talk about their time at News Corp after they leave.
I have always thought that part of the reason for the silence was that there are very few television jobs available. Most people aren’t as lucky as Keith Olbermann. They don’t have the ability to do both news and sports. Jobs are scarce, so don’t go burning your bridges. It does seem to be the case that many in the media are rightfully afraid to cross News Corp. The culture there seems intent on destroying all enemies, real or imagined.
Keith Olbermann was right. The facade of fear and power that surrounded News Corp is cracking. The News Of The World scandal has damaged the aura that surrounded both Murdoch and News Corp. My best guess is that News Corp will survive this scandal but the Murdoch control of the company won’t. The scandal is a game changer. The greater the financial damage from this scandal, the more likely it becomes that more people step forward to tell their story of life inside Rupert’s empire.
The revelations are coming fast and furious. Each new detail from the across the pond creates another crack in the News Corp armor. The News of The World Scandal has it all, corporate corruption, media corruption, and law enforcement corruption. This story is not going away, and if the company wants to stop the financial bleeding they may have to dump Rupert Murdoch.
Keith Olbermann spoke up about it, but how many other News Corp employees have been subjected to the same treatment?
I have a hunch that we’ll never know.
Also the fact that Murdouch was invovled in a scandal, Paul that shows that Murdouch has no idea what ethics are and that he should not be believed in saying who KO is and what happened at Fox.
Current he was unjustily fired there and do not say different because that will be a lie. It well known that KO was abused there, here is what KO job history is again Again you show that you do not listen to truth or facts, that is a made up talking point. again here is the evidence that you love to igonre that shows that KO was unjustily fired. I do not listen to people like you who keep putting made up crap. Current being a ragtime operations is a BS excuse. ragtime operations do not make people who are have a thorat infection that is serious in KO’s industry have work, that shows that they do not care about who they are hiring, they do not get rid of thier co-Ceo that knows what he doing, that is how made up that statement is here is again is the facts and what happenedWow you also seem to want to lie about KO’s career. KO was not fired from ESPN or MSNBC. I want you to explain to me why was KO able to a last show at ESPN, I did not realize Nick that people that were fired could do that. Nick what happened at ESPN is that they could not find a agreement when it came to reneogationating his contract. He wanted to be in New York, because he was single and cannot drive and had family there. ESPN wanted him to stay in Bristol, so they left on mutal agreement. At MSNBC the first time he quit because he did not want to talk other things beside Lewensky scandal. He was then traded to Fox, he got fired from Fox for reporting the truth about Murdouch selling the LA Dodgers. Which at Fox is not allowed. He was than hired back from MSNBC, and when he left in January of 2011 he was again allowed to do a last show and mangement even said that KO left on his own aka mutal agreement and he got paid the rest of his contract, that shows pacfically that KO was not fired from MSNBC just like ESPN. Also KO was rehired by ESPN to work with Dan Patrick before he left ESPN. Nick keep lying about KO’s career history.
Nick also I want you to explain when has a professional responsible business ever put out a letter that is a personal attack on the person that they letting go, so again explain Nick how this ego and KO’s fault. Also KO keeps his fans up to date on twitter about his abences and what is going on and when the subs are going to on and letting the subs like Press tweet when he going to be on. He also saying who on the show and his staff doing twitter saying who on when Shuster is on, while Current will not take responsible for thier mistakes like the tenichal problems which is business which in the couter-suit they claim is thier job. Nick why did Current want KO to do a commerical for a corporation and have a corporate sponser, when they advertised that they were corporate free, also giving corporation his website, wow trying to make KO a hypocrite to his audience and people like me who are fans, and love that he stands on principle. Why did Current leak the primary story to the press, and KO and his lawyer only confirm that lawyers that were involved that Current said were saying, Nick how is that sabtoging them, when they were putting out email and letters and putting out qutos about KO, and all KO does is defend them and confirm that lawyers involved, along with making KO go against his principles and make them go again what they stood for by being corporate free. Wow Nick that shows that Current is sabtoging themselves and unjustily fired KO.
Nick KO was unjustily fired and that is the truth and thier is nothing that going to change that. Also nick explain why when articles about KO come out he or his team aka lawyer and manger always quoted, but with Current it sources, and that Hollywood story says sources and they say that KO was the one responsible why not deny when KO said they had told him it was his manger. Who is it the manger or KO. and they cannot deny that they blackmaiel and threaten to fire staff, all showing that they not KO realeased the salary. They also never reprimended KO for saying that he was on a preplanned vacation to fans on twitter, showing that they had approved it. So again I would be pissed if KO does not get the justice he deserved for being unjustily fired.
Nick keep making me love KO and respecting him more and more and showing why KO will be aroud for year to come. KO keep being yourself and showing why you are this generations Murrow and you will always have a fan in me. Lov eyou faults and all. Again Hyatt is someone that fired some with AIDS and you take what he says seriously. Dude I researched this over and over again and nothing shows that KO personality is why he not at Current. Keep showing how igorant you are on KO. Paul KO did a least show both times that he worked at ESPN and MSNBC, Paul you do not do last shows if you have been fired, KO still drew a paycheck when he left MSNBC and ESPN, again Paul that does not happen if you been fired. Paul again you show that just like you are igorant on mental illness you like OO are igorant on what fired means aka Fox and Current and what quiting means. You show that KO is prefectly stable and that you have zero clue what mental stableness looks like and if you say different than you will just be lying and embarrassing yourself with your igorance on the subject. You show that you have no idea who KO is, and why he this generations Murrow. Keep lying about KO that is all you know how to do. You just make me love and respect KO more and more. I sorry that you were abused at Current and that you got unjustily fired there. Love your King interview, you really made me love and resepct you more and more, again keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, love your personality and everything else about you including ego. Love you faults and all. Again OO you show that you have no idea who KO is. You really show why he this generations Murrow and why he will be around for years to come. Keep showing that you love to embarrass yourself with your igorance when it comes to KO.

“you do not do last shows if you have been fired”

You do when you are fired on air during your last show.

“I think the same fantasy has popped into the head of everybody in my business who has ever been told what I’ve been told: That this is going to be the last edition of your show.” (MSNBC)

He didn’t tell anyone he was quitting. He was told he was fired. AGAIN.

“I was literally given 30 seconds to say goodbye at the very end of my last edition of “Sportscenter.”” (ESPN)

“As God as my witness, in the commercial break just before the moment, the producer got into my earpiece and he said can you cut it down to 15 seconds so we can get in this tennis result, Stuttgart?” (ESPN)

Wow
OO those qutos so not show that he was fired, again you show that OO has zero clue what firing is and what quiting is. OO again if you do last shows like KO did at MSNBC and ESPN, then you have quit. Where OO was the last show that he did at Current, that is how BS this post is. It also show that OO has no idea what reading comprehension means and how to interupt qutos. Only people who live in fantasy worlds and have no idea what the real world is, would believe that qutos that talk about KO quiting MSNBC and ESPN would be firing, because they would like you have no idea what firing and quiting is. As I said up top OO, when you do a last show you are quiting, when you get a the rest of your pay check you are quiting. This is what these qutos talk and always will talk about, and if you say different like you are doing here all it shows that you are beyond igorant on KO’s career and job history and facts. Again all you are doing is once again showing that KO quit MSNBC and ESPN and that OO would not know what quiting is from being fired and if OO says different OO would be lying. You show that you are igorant when it comes to reading comprehension, you think that qutos that show that KO even in his own words said that he quit MSNBC and ESPN, as somehow being the oppiste, shows that you are igorant when it comes to facts. OO never say that KO got fired from MSNBC and ESPN that is OO and always will be a debunked lie. KO like you just prove there once again by putting quotes that show it, quit those two networks. If you say different you will be lying and showing that OO loves to be igorant when it comes to facts again here is what happened He was not fired by two employers less than seventy days, that again is a made up lie that you love to tell because you love to show how igorant you are on KO and his career. Again here is KO’s career you show again that you have zero clue or I should say are igorant about KO’s job history. KO Paul quit MSNBC both times, he quit ESPN both times. He was never fired from katy Tur, you Paul have zero clue how they broke up, and the fact that KO Paul was intervewing her showed that they either the break up was mutal, meaning that they both knew that it was not working, or they just decieded to be friends.
Also he was fired from Fox Paul because KO told the truth about Murdouch selling the Dogers, also Paul Murdouch blackmailed KO when it came to his health, On Countdown tonight Keith Olbermann used a Special Comment to detail how Rupert Murdoch blackmailed him when he worked for Fox Sports.
Here is the video:
After retelling the story of how he got fired from Fox Sports for reporting that Rupert was looking to sell the LA Dodgers, Olbermann got to the new details,
The second half of my story I have never told publicly before. It’s time. In June of 2000 after a year and a half of doing two one hour cable shows a night for Murdoch and baseball from 7 AM to 5 PM on Saturdays, I got sick. My doctor told me that if I didn’t among other things slow down at work; he would be treating me for heart disease within the decade. I took him very seriously. I told my employers about cutting back maybe from the six days to 5, and offered to give back to Fox some of my salary in the process because my health was at risk maybe even my heart.
They immediately took me off the air. They refused to put me back on until I had gotten a letter from my doctor guaranteeing them that I was well enough to work. By itself that was hardly an evil thing to do. In fact, I recognized it as a prudent business decision, and I complied because I didn’t know what they intended to do with it. They blackmailed me with it.
The head of Fox Sports Net, the operation told my agent that since they had a document that indicated that I was well enough to return to work they were now going to change my schedule. Instead of anchoring six days a week in the Los Angeles studio, they were going to have me anchor four days then fly to and from different interviews, events, and promotions, etc. in other cities two different times per week. In short, they were threatening to work me into illness or into the hospital or both.
They offered an alternative. They would cut my work schedule not to five days, but to three, and they would cut my salary by 60%. And they expected an answer overnight. They got it. I took the deal. I had no choice. They were blackmailing me about my health, and Fox blackmail works. And that’s the way it works. Lord only knows, if it works so well against someone with resources and a high profile like mine, how often was it used against lesser figures in the company?
Olbermann pointed out that Rupert’s crew will do anything to you to get you to do what they want. He speculated that this is why nobody whistle blows on Fox News and News Corp. Until Keith Olbermann brought it up, I had never really thought about why so very few former Fox employees talk about their time at News Corp after they leave.
I have always thought that part of the reason for the silence was that there are very few television jobs available. Most people aren’t as lucky as Keith Olbermann. They don’t have the ability to do both news and sports. Jobs are scarce, so don’t go burning your bridges. It does seem to be the case that many in the media are rightfully afraid to cross News Corp. The culture there seems intent on destroying all enemies, real or imagined.
Keith Olbermann was right. The facade of fear and power that surrounded News Corp is cracking. The News Of The World scandal has damaged the aura that surrounded both Murdoch and News Corp. My best guess is that News Corp will survive this scandal but the Murdoch control of the company won’t. The scandal is a game changer. The greater the financial damage from this scandal, the more likely it becomes that more people step forward to tell their story of life inside Rupert’s empire.
The revelations are coming fast and furious. Each new detail from the across the pond creates another crack in the News Corp armor. The News of The World Scandal has it all, corporate corruption, media corruption, and law enforcement corruption. This story is not going away, and if the company wants to stop the financial bleeding they may have to dump Rupert Murdoch.
Keith Olbermann spoke up about it, but how many other News Corp employees have been subjected to the same treatment?
I have a hunch that we’ll never know.
Also the fact that Murdouch was invovled in a scandal, Paul that shows that Murdouch has no idea what ethics are and that he should not be believed in saying who KO is and what happened at Fox.
Current he was unjustily fired there and do not say different because that will be a lie. It well known that KO was abused there, here is what KO job history is again Again you show that you do not listen to truth or facts, that is a made up talking point. again here is the evidence that you love to igonre that shows that KO was unjustily fired. I do not listen to people like you who keep putting made up crap. Current being a ragtime operations is a BS excuse. ragtime operations do not make people who are have a thorat infection that is serious in KO’s industry have work, that shows that they do not care about who they are hiring, they do not get rid of thier co-Ceo that knows what he doing, that is how made up that statement is here is again is the facts and what happenedWow you also seem to want to lie about KO’s career. KO was not fired from ESPN or MSNBC. I want you to explain to me why was KO able to a last show at ESPN, I did not realize Nick that people that were fired could do that. Nick what happened at ESPN is that they could not find a agreement when it came to reneogationating his contract. He wanted to be in New York, because he was single and cannot drive and had family there. ESPN wanted him to stay in Bristol, so they left on mutal agreement. At MSNBC the first time he quit because he did not want to talk other things beside Lewensky scandal. He was then traded to Fox, he got fired from Fox for reporting the truth about Murdouch selling the LA Dodgers. Which at Fox is not allowed. He was than hired back from MSNBC, and when he left in January of 2011 he was again allowed to do a last show and mangement even said that KO left on his own aka mutal agreement and he got paid the rest of his contract, that shows pacfically that KO was not fired from MSNBC just like ESPN. Also KO was rehired by ESPN to work with Dan Patrick before he left ESPN. Nick keep lying about KO’s career history.
Nick also I want you to explain when has a professional responsible business ever put out a letter that is a personal attack on the person that they letting go, so again explain Nick how this ego and KO’s fault. Also KO keeps his fans up to date on twitter about his abences and what is going on and when the subs are going to on and letting the subs like Press tweet when he going to be on. He also saying who on the show and his staff doing twitter saying who on when Shuster is on, while Current will not take responsible for thier mistakes like the tenichal problems which is business which in the couter-suit they claim is thier job. Nick why did Current want KO to do a commerical for a corporation and have a corporate sponser, when they advertised that they were corporate free, also giving corporation his website, wow trying to make KO a hypocrite to his audience and people like me who are fans, and love that he stands on principle. Why did Current leak the primary story to the press, and KO and his lawyer only confirm that lawyers that were involved that Current said were saying, Nick how is that sabtoging them, when they were putting out email and letters and putting out qutos about KO, and all KO does is defend them and confirm that lawyers involved, along with making KO go against his principles and make them go again what they stood for by being corporate free. Wow Nick that shows that Current is sabtoging themselves and unjustily fired KO.
Nick KO was unjustily fired and that is the truth and thier is nothing that going to change that. Also nick explain why when articles about KO come out he or his team aka lawyer and manger always quoted, but with Current it sources, and that Hollywood story says sources and they say that KO was the one responsible why not deny when KO said they had told him it was his manger. Who is it the manger or KO. and they cannot deny that they blackmaiel and threaten to fire staff, all showing that they not KO realeased the salary. They also never reprimended KO for saying that he was on a preplanned vacation to fans on twitter, showing that they had approved it. So again I would be pissed if KO does not get the justice he deserved for being unjustily fired.
Nick keep making me love KO and respecting him more and more and showing why KO will be aroud for year to come. KO keep being yourself and showing why you are this generations Murrow and you will always have a fan in me. Lov eyou faults and all. Again Hyatt is someone that fired some with AIDS and you take what he says seriously. Dude I researched this over and over again and nothing shows that KO personality is why he not at Current. Keep showing how igorant you are on KO. Paul KO did a least show both times that he worked at ESPN and MSNBC, Paul you do not do last shows if you have been fired, KO still drew a paycheck when he left MSNBC and ESPN, again Paul that does not happen if you been fired. Paul again you show that just like you are igorant on mental illness you like OO are igorant on what fired means aka Fox and Current and what quiting means. You show that KO is prefectly stable and that you have zero clue what mental stableness looks like and if you say different than you will just be lying and embarrassing yourself with your igorance on the subject. You show that you have no idea who KO is, and why he this generations Murrow. Keep lying about KO that is all you know how to do. You just make me love and respect KO more and more. I sorry that you were abused at Current and that you got unjustily fired there. Love your King interview, you really made me love and resepct you more and more, again keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, love your personality and everything else about you including ego. Love you faults and all. Again OO you show that you have no idea who KO is. You really show why he this generations Murrow and why he will be around for years to come. Keep showing that you love to embarrass yourself with your igorance when it comes to KO. Again you if you say different about KO quiting MSNBC and ESPN than you will show that all you like to do is embarrass yourself and show how igorant you are on KO’s career. There is no evidence and OO do not say different because that will be a lie that KO was fired from both networks. The evidence shows like those qutos do that KO quit MSNBC both times and quit ESPN both times and that OO is what the facts are. KO OO sorry quit both MSNBC and ESPN and again do not say different because I will know that is another made up lie by OO who loves to come here and lie about KO and show how igorant they are when it comes to KO’s career not just him. Keep showing why KO is this generations Murrow, and why he will be around for years to come. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me love you faults and all.

Also here is something else for your made up KO was fired lie, Numerous staffers at MSBNC believed it was only a matter of time before the prime-time host, who once quit ESPN, would either bolt or be pushed out. If Olbermann concluded that he would no longer have the independence he craved in the more buttoned-down Comcast era, it is unlikely that anyone in the NBC executive suites tried to talk him out of it.Keith Olbermann, the liberal crusader whose combative style put him increasingly at odds with his network bosses, resigned abruptly from MSNBC Friday.

The cable channel confirmed his unexpected departure as Olbermann was rather calmly announcing the demise of Countdown after an eight-year run that included a bitter feud with Bill O’Reilly, fiery denunciations of Republicans and occasional acknowledgements that he had gone too far.

Olbermann said he had been “told that this is the last edition of your show” and thanked his audience, saying: “My gratitude to you is boundless.” He also thanked a list of people who have worked with him, notably excluding MSNBC President Phil Griffin, whom he has known for three decades.

A knowledgeable official said the move had nothing to do with Comcast taking control of NBC next week, although the cable giant was informed when it received final federal approval for the purchase that Olbermann would be leaving the cable channel. This official described the dramatic divorce—Olbermann was about halfway through a four-year, $30 million contract—as mutual.

Olbermann, who quit MSNBC once before—in 1998, ripping his bosses in the process—almost single-handedly revived the network by leading it on a leftward march and aggressively attacking the rival operation he called Fox Noise. But his relations with top NBC and MSNBC executives sharply deteriorated when he was suspended for making donations to Democratic candidates, and they began to talk about how the channel was now on solid enough footing to survive without him.

At one point, Griffin told Olbermann’s chief negotiator, “We are at war.”

Officially, the network offered little guidance, saying in a bland statement: “MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC’s success and we wish him well in his future endeavors.” A new host, former Democratic Senate staffer Lawrence O’Donnell, will move his program from 10 p.m. eastern to Olbermann’s 8 p.m. slot, with Ed Schultz moving from 6 p.m. to O’Donnell’s time period.

From Jon Stewart’s rally for sanity to the recent calls for civility after the shootings in Tucson, Olbermann has been on the defensive about his intense and sometimes incendiary style. He temporarily ended his “Worst Person in the World” segment and said that commentators, including him, should refrain from inflammatory language—even as he denounced his chief antagonists:

“If Sarah Palin, whose website put and today scrubbed bullseye targets on 20 representatives including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate her own part in amplifying violence and violent imagery in politics, she must be dismissed from politics—she must be repudiated by the members of her own party, and if they fail to do so, each one of them must be judged to have silently defended this tactic that today proved so awfully foretelling, and they must in turn be dismissed by the responsible members of their own party…

“If Glenn Beck, who obsesses nearly as strangely as Mr. Loughner did about gold and debt and who wistfully joked about killing Michael Moore, and Bill O’Reilly, who blithely repeated ‘Tiller the Killer’ until the phrase was burned into the minds of his viewers, do not begin their next broadcasts with solemn apologies for ever turning to the death-fantasies and the dreams of bloodlust, for ever having provided just the oxygen to those deep in madness to whom violence is an acceptable solution, then those commentators and the others must be repudiated by their viewers, and by all politicians, and by sponsors, and by the networks that employ them.”

Olbermann has also gotten involved in several flame wars with little-known critics on Twitter, blocking them from his account.

Olbermann almost single-handedly revived the network by leading it on a leftward march.

But Olbermann’s departure is certain to disappoint legions of fans who viewed him as standing up to the conservative establishment. He long resisted the liberal label, saying he was radicalized by the abuses of the Bush administration and the Iraq War. “I find myself currently aligned, not in the sense of having membership, but being in the same part of the ballpark as a lot of liberals,” he told me in 2006.

Whatever his excesses, he led third-place MSNBC out of the cable wilderness to the point where it overtook CNN in prime time, boosted not only by his numbers but by those of his protégé, Rachel Maddow.

Without question, he was a polarizing presence, and several NBC veterans, including Tom Brokaw, complained to network management that he was damaging MSNBC’s reputation for independence.

At a meeting with Olbermann’s representatives last September, NBC Chief Executive Jeff Zucker and NBC News President Steve Capus said that some of their client’s behavior was unacceptable and had to stop. Griffin said that Olbermann’s personal problems were affecting his work and he looked angrier on the air, eclipsing the smart and ironic anchor they had once loved.

In November, when Griffin suspended Olbermann indefinitely over the political donations, the two sides engaged in blistering negotiations over how long it would last. Olbermann’s manager, Price, warned Griffin that if the matter wasn’t resolved quickly, Olbermann would take his complaints public by accepting invitations from Good Morning America, David Letterman, and Larry King.

“If you go on GMA, I will fire Keith,” Griffin shot back.

The suspension wound up lasting just two days, and Olbermann said he was sorry for the “unnecessary drama” and “for having mistakenly violated an inconsistently applied rule” in making the $7,200 in contributions. But after years of internal warfare, Olbermann had no major allies left at 30 Rock.

There were similar backstage struggles in 2008 and 2009 when top executives tried to get Olbermann and O’Reilly to tone down their personal attacks. O’Reilly, who never mentions Olbermann by name, was assailing NBC’s parent company, General Electric, while Olbermann once imagined the fate of “a poor kid” born to a transgendered man who became pregnant, adding: “Kind of like life at home for Bill’s kids.”

The high-level talks came to include Jeffrey Immelt, chief executive of GE; Zucker; Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox’s parent company, and Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes. But every attempt at hammering out a truce broke down.

Olbermann could be his own worst enemy. After Scott Brown won the Senate race in Massachusetts last January, Olbermann called him “an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea-bagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees.” After Stewart criticized that rant, Olbermann said: “I have been a little over the top lately. Point taken. Sorry.”

Even during our 2006 conversation, the former sportscaster was envisioning an exit strategy: “If it gets too hot and I have to get out of the kitchen, I’ll go do sports.”

Numerous staffers at MSBNC believed it was only a matter of time before the prime-time host, who once quit ESPN, would either bolt or be pushed out. If Olbermann concluded that he would no longer have the independence he craved in the more buttoned-down Comcast era, it is unlikely that anyone in the NBC executive suites tried to talk him out of it.
This was the rest of that article, here is more On Thursday, NBC’s news division staged an elaborate presentation for advertisers, seeking to sell commercial time in NBC’s news programs over the next year. All the members of MSNBC’s prime-time lineup spoke at the lunch with one exception: Keith Olbermann, the network’s biggest star.

For the last several weeks, Mr. Olbermann and the network have been in negotiations to end his successful run on MSNBC, according to executives involved in the talks who requested anonymity because the talks were confidential. The deal was completed on Friday, and Mr. Olbermann made the announcement on his final “Countdown” hours later.

Friday’s separation agreement between MSNBC and Mr. Olbermann includes restrictions on when he can next lead a television show and when he can give interviews about the decision to end his association with the news channel.

The executives involved in the discussions confirmed that the deal carries limitations for Mr. Olbermann in terms of when he can next work on television, though he will be able to take a job in radio or on any forum on the Internet. The deal also prohibits the host from commenting publicly on the deal, the executives confirmed.

Mr. Olbermann did not respond to requests for comment Friday or Saturday. None of the executives who discussed the deal would reveal the exact length of the restrictions.

The decision was completed one year to the day from the last time NBC decided to end a relationship with an on-air star: Conan O’Brien. Mr. O’Brien agreed in the deal not to start up a new television show for nine months, and not to grant interviews for five months. The executives involved in the discussions with Mr. Olbermann said his agreement was not dissimilar to Mr. O’Brien’s.

Many of Mr. Olbermann’s fans responded to the decision by accusing Comcast, the incoming owner of NBC Universal, of forcing him out for political reasons. Several of Comcast’s top executives have been financial supporters of Republicans; Mr. Olbermann is largely credited with establishing MSNBC’s liberal voice.

Comcast issued an official statement Friday denying any involvement in the decision, saying it had no operational control of the company yet, and adding: “We pledged from the day the deal was announced that we would not interfere with NBC Universal’s news operations. We have not and we will not.”

But the company is still drawing criticism for the move. Marvin Ammori, a law professor at the University of Nebraska, said in an e-mail Friday, “Keith Olbermann’s announcement tonight, the very same week that the government blessed the Comcast-NBC merger, raises serious concern for anyone who cares about free speech. Comcast proved expert in shaking down the government to approve its merger. Comcast’s shakedown of NBC has just begun.” Professor Ammori is a former adviser to the nonprofit group Free Press, which opposed the Comcast-NBC deal.

Months before Comcast was expected to gain control of NBC Universal, Comcast officials were worried about the perception that they might interfere with MSNBC for political reasons.

One executive, who asked not to be identified because Comcast had instructed employees not to speak about the situation, said the company dreaded the prospect of being blamed if Mr. Olbermann were to quit soon after the takeover.

Mr. Olbermann had butted heads with his superiors long before the Comcast deal, including Phil Griffin, the top MSNBC executive. According to several senior network executives, NBC’s management had been close to firing Mr. Olbermann before, most recently in November after he revealed that he had made donations to several Democratic candidates in 2010 — one of them, coincidentally, was Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who has been the subject of many of his recent shows after being shot in an assassination attempt.

Mr. Griffin said the donations had violated NBC News standards. Mr. Olbermann was suspended. Also OO since you love to bash and not listen, both Current and KO said that were talking about KO going to Current, he made that annoucement in Febuary the month after he left MSNBC that he was going to Current. This how made up that accusation is. Keep showing why KO is this generations Murrow and why he will be around for years and years to come. KO again keep being yourself and you will always have a perment place on my ipod,ipad and life. Love you faults and all.

Sorry here is what Brain Stellar said On Thursday, NBC’s news division staged an elaborate presentation for advertisers, seeking to sell commercial time in NBC’s news programs over the next year. All the members of MSNBC’s prime-time lineup spoke at the lunch with one exception: Keith Olbermann, the network’s biggest star.

For the last several weeks, Mr. Olbermann and the network have been in negotiations to end his successful run on MSNBC, according to executives involved in the talks who requested anonymity because the talks were confidential. The deal was completed on Friday, and Mr. Olbermann made the announcement on his final “Countdown” hours later.

Friday’s separation agreement between MSNBC and Mr. Olbermann includes restrictions on when he can next lead a television show and when he can give interviews about the decision to end his association with the news channel.

The executives involved in the discussions confirmed that the deal carries limitations for Mr. Olbermann in terms of when he can next work on television, though he will be able to take a job in radio or on any forum on the Internet. The deal also prohibits the host from commenting publicly on the deal, the executives confirmed.

Mr. Olbermann did not respond to requests for comment Friday or Saturday. None of the executives who discussed the deal would reveal the exact length of the restrictions.

The decision was completed one year to the day from the last time NBC decided to end a relationship with an on-air star: Conan O’Brien. Mr. O’Brien agreed in the deal not to start up a new television show for nine months, and not to grant interviews for five months. The executives involved in the discussions with Mr. Olbermann said his agreement was not dissimilar to Mr. O’Brien’s.

Many of Mr. Olbermann’s fans responded to the decision by accusing Comcast, the incoming owner of NBC Universal, of forcing him out for political reasons. Several of Comcast’s top executives have been financial supporters of Republicans; Mr. Olbermann is largely credited with establishing MSNBC’s liberal voice.

Comcast issued an official statement Friday denying any involvement in the decision, saying it had no operational control of the company yet, and adding: “We pledged from the day the deal was announced that we would not interfere with NBC Universal’s news operations. We have not and we will not.”

But the company is still drawing criticism for the move. Marvin Ammori, a law professor at the University of Nebraska, said in an e-mail Friday, “Keith Olbermann’s announcement tonight, the very same week that the government blessed the Comcast-NBC merger, raises serious concern for anyone who cares about free speech. Comcast proved expert in shaking down the government to approve its merger. Comcast’s shakedown of NBC has just begun.” Professor Ammori is a former adviser to the nonprofit group Free Press, which opposed the Comcast-NBC deal.

Months before Comcast was expected to gain control of NBC Universal, Comcast officials were worried about the perception that they might interfere with MSNBC for political reasons.

One executive, who asked not to be identified because Comcast had instructed employees not to speak about the situation, said the company dreaded the prospect of being blamed if Mr. Olbermann were to quit soon after the takeover.

Mr. Olbermann had butted heads with his superiors long before the Comcast deal, including Phil Griffin, the top MSNBC executive. According to several senior network executives, NBC’s management had been close to firing Mr. Olbermann before, most recently in November after he revealed that he had made donations to several Democratic candidates in 2010 — one of them, coincidentally, was Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who has been the subject of many of his recent shows after being shot in an assassination attempt.

Mr. Griffin said the donations had violated NBC News standards. Mr. Olbermann was suspended. This all talks about Oo is the deal in the making about KO leaving MSNBC, again this would not have been happening if KO had been fired. So again you are igorant on what fired is and what quiting means. Again KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, love you faults and all.

Dear god. If this is the level of interest in the Giants-Tigers WS, no wonder the ratings sucked! Thank you for the pre-emptive crowning of the Giants as comeback champs – now they’re WS champs. As for your prediction, Bumgarner had a terrific start and what about Lincecum out of the pen? Back to the Timmy of old. Cain’s no decision in the Series was a typical Cain game – well-pitched, the best hitter got him once, the Giants gave him terrific defense but not quite enough run support for the win. He’d have long since been a 20 game winner and a Cy Young nominee with decent run support over the years.

To the three (I think it was that many!) commenters who responded to the post, thank you, and I hope the Giants victory was interesting to you. The rest of you? If you don’t give a good goddamn about baseball, get the hell out of my pixels!

Thank you, there is way too little baseball and way to much BS in the comments section of this Baseball Blog. Go GIANTS!!!

Trust me Emerson
I more than happy to see you and others talking baseball, along with KO. I just cannot stand the trolls that come here and think that it okay to bash KO and lie about him. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me. Love your ego and personlity as much as I love you. Keep showing why you are this generations Murrow. Again keep being yourself and you will always be perment on my wall, ipod and ipad. Love you faults and all.

216 days since the Goracle fired Bathtub Boy.

OO
Hay I did not know that John Gibson was bathtub boy, thanks for letting me know, once again you show how igorant you are on KO, Gibson made that story up. He did it after hitting his head, and forgetting that KO hated constently covering Monica Lewensky scandal which I do not blame him and why he quit MSNBC the first time around. Thanks again for showing why KO is this generations Murrow and will be around for years to come. You show that you are so igorant on KO that you believe a made up story, the truth is the person who is that name is John Gibson for lying about who KO is and why he was fed up he got angry enough to quit MSNBC the first time around. KO keep being yourself and showing me why you are this generations Murrow like here. OO thanks again for showing how KO got unjustily fired at Current and how he got abused there, you really make me love and respect him more and more. Keep being yourself and you will always be perment on my wall,ipod, ipad and life. You have a lifetime loyal fan who will be pissed if you do not get the justice you desrve for getting unjustily fired at Current, as long as you are yourself I will always trust you and be a fan. Love you faults and all.

Giants sweep. Nice call KO. SF best organization in MLB. Seriously, but East Coast will never recognize such. Wish you still on MSNBC.
Tim, San Francisco

Tim, you should be lording it over all of us! But this World Series was also a reminder that pitching and defense are really what matters.

And remember we lived through the same just two years ago, so we knew what was possible. Though to be down 0-2 and then 1-3 sure was tough on the heart…

SF GIANTS never say die. Teamwork Rules; thank god we got over the Bonds era in SF and got back to team baseball. That is what beat the Pirates, teamwork. Did you get a load of Prince Fielders reactions? Priceless! That is the difference between having some “super stars”, out for themselves and some “Quiet Super Stars” who play for their Teammates and their Team (like Buster Posey, Matt Cain, etc.) and go about their business and play good baseball.

These pretzels are making me thirsty

Wow
Again you show that you think that John Gibson loves to have baths. You do not get OO that Gibson made that story up. Again the reason why KO quit MSNBC the first time was because he unlike Gibson and others knew that it was stupid and un journalistic to keep covering a story when thier is no info and for that matter no new info. In the late 1990′s, Olbermann had a program on MSNBC called “The Big Show.” In 1998, he left the network after protesting the incessant coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Also here When the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke in 1998, The Big Show with Keith Olbermann morphed into White House in Crisis. Olbermann became frustrated as his show was consumed by the Lewinsky story. In 1998, he stated that his work at MSNBC would “make me ashamed, make me depressed, make me cry.”[26] Olbermann left MSNBC for Fox Sports Net shortly thereafter. No where in those things does it say that KO spent time in a bathtub. It is on said radio program where Gibson laughed at The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart when he began to great emotional pain on his first show after the 9/11 attacks, with his producer calling Stewart a “phony.” Gibson later proclaimed that America “need[s] another 9/11.” Yep, he really said that. Wow, so I am to believe that when KO was frustrated with covering Lewinsky a scandal that was going no where and where a president was unjustily impeached, that KO being frustrated like evey OO normal journalist would be frustarted in covering it. Wow also KO has said in the past that does not take baths but showers, that is how made up and do not say different because all the evidence shows that it is made up. Gibson thinks that it okay to make fun people that are pain because of what happened to terriost attack when it comes to truth. Wow keep embarrassing yourself and showing that you are about as igorant on KO as clients were to Madoff. You show everyday why KO is this generations Murrow.
Here again is who Gibson is On the December 2 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News host John Gibson that day’s “Worst Person in the World” for comments he made on November 17 about the so-called “war on Christmas.” Gibson suggested that people “following the wrong religion” were not reciprocating the tolerance afforded them by “the majority religion — Christianity.” In crowning Gibson, Olbermann commented that “John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nutbag terrorists think. … I’d tell you which religion John thinks is the only one that’s right, but what’s the difference? It’s not the faith that’s the issue; it’s the intolerance.”

In addition, Olbermann named right-wing pundit Ann Coulter the runner-up for that day’s “Worst Person” award, citing her December 1 O’Reilly Factor attack on websites such as Media Matters for America as “little Nazi block watchers.” As Olbermann noted, her explanation was: “[t]hey tattle on their parents, turn them in to the Nazis.”

From the December 2 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: But first, time for Countdown’s list of today’s three nominees of the coveted title of “Worst Person in the World.”

The bronze winner is Ferrell White. F-e-r-r-e-l-l. Not Feral, F-e-r-a-l. He’s the building official for Spring Hill, Tennessee. He has ordered a hair salon to remove lewd language from an advertisement in town. The ad is for products called “sexy hair concepts.” The lewd language, Mr. White says, is the word “sexy.”

There’s an issue that never arises for our runner-up tonight: Ann Coulter. A two-fer. She posted the personal phone number and email of a blogger who was critical of her. And she called other groups which disagree with her “Nazi block watchers.” “You know,” she explained, “They tattle on their parents, turn them in to the Nazis.”

But the winner, and this one comes with great personal pain because we were friends when he worked here and thereafter: John Gibson. Selling his new book about this phony-baloney war on Christmas, John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nutbag terrorists think. “I would think,” Gibbie said on a syndicated radio show, “if somebody is going to be — have to answer for following the wrong religion, they are not going to have to answer to me. We know who they’re going to have to answer to.”

I’d tell you which religion John thinks is the only one that’s right, but what’s the difference? It’s not the faith that’s the issue; it’s the intolerance. John Gibson, today’s “Worst Person in the World.” Wow a guy that thinks it okay to lie about religon, FOX Opinion Channel’s Resident Hack, John Gibson, gets Tuesday’s top honor for hosting right-wing nutjob columnist Stu Bykofsky — who called for another 9/11 to “unite” the county — and mocking Jon Stewart’s heartfelt opening monologue after the 9/11 attacks. Again you show that you love to defend people that use hate speech and name calling, here is another During the August 14 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News’ John Gibson the “winner” of his nightly “Worst Person in the World” segment for, as Media Matters for America documented, mocking comedian and Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s expression of grief in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Olbermann stated that Gibson “played a tape of comedian Jon Stewart’s heartfelt anguish from September 20th, 2001, as a New Yorker who lived near the Trade Center, and Gibson and his producer mocked it. He called it Jon Stewart sobbing. That idiot sidekick called Stewart a, quote, ‘phony.’ ” Olbermann added: “Secondly, Gibby: Jon Stewart’s expression of pain after 9-11 and yours, Gibby, and mine — that was the unity. And no matter what kind of administration propagandist I think you are and how I’ll mock you for it, I would never doubt the sincerity of your pain. You’ve got a lot of damn nerve doubting the sincerity of anybody else’s.”

Gibson mocked Stewart during a discussion of Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky’s August 9 column, headlined “To save America, we need another 9/11.”

From the August 14 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: And our winner, John Gibson of Foxed News. In part of this insane discussion that America, quote, “needs,” unquote, another 9-11 to create national unity, Gibby played a tape of comedian Jon Stewart’s heartfelt anguish from September 20th, 2001, as a New Yorker who lived near the Trade Center, and Gibson and his producer mocked it. He called it Jon Stewart sobbing. That idiot sidekick called Stewart a, quote, “phony.”

Firstly, to anybody who subscribes to the theory that this country needs another 9-11 with hundreds or thousands killed — here’s a funny thing. I don’t see any of you suggesting you or your family should be its victims.

Secondly, Gibby: Jon Stewart’s expression of pain after 9-11 and yours, Gibby, and mine — that was the unity. And no matter what kind of administration propagandist I think you are and how I’ll mock you for it, I would never doubt the sincerity of your pain. You’ve got a lot of damn nerve doubting the sincerity of anybody else’s. John Gibson of Fox Noise, today’s “Worst Person in the World.” Again OO you show that Gibson not KO is bathtub boy in that he like you likes to make crap up, he thinks like you and other KO bashers like to think, that KO being rightly angry about having to cover stories that make no sense and have no up dates just for ratings is bad. That is how stupid and BS this post is. You again show that you have no idea a who KO is. Here are the facts and do not say different OO because that would be another one of your made up lies about KO and showing again you are igorant on who he is. Gibson was called out by Olbermann for being hateful of other reilgons, which was caught on tape and instead of telling the truth or apologizing he makes up this stupid story about KO in rightlful being angry about covering a scandal that got way over covered. KO was being a journalist at the time and Gibson bashed him like you are doing now. KO again keep being yourself and showing that you know what tolerance is. SOrry again that you got unjustily fired at Current. Will not be happy if you do not get the justice that you deserve for that happening. You really never disappoint because you always just remain your loveable self. Again OO keep embarrassing yourself with your igorance on what tolerance is and who KO is. Sorry but the facts are and if you say different that will be another showing of your igorance about who KO is, that story was and always will be made up, because Gibson does not want like you do people that lie and say hateful crap to be called out. You really love to show how tolerant kO is and why he will always be this generations Murrow. Love you KO faults and all. OO keep making me love and respect KO more and more with your embarrassing BS posts that show how igorant you are who KO is.

Again you show that you think that John Gibson loves to have baths. You do not get OO that Gibson made that story up. Again the reason why KO quit MSNBC the first time was because he unlike Gibson and others knew that it was stupid and un journalistic to keep covering a story when thier is no info and for that matter no new info. In the late 1990′s, Olbermann had a program on MSNBC called “The Big Show.” In 1998, he left the network after protesting the incessant coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Also here When the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke in 1998, The Big Show with Keith Olbermann morphed into White House in Crisis. Olbermann became frustrated as his show was consumed by the Lewinsky story. In 1998, he stated that his work at MSNBC would “make me ashamed, make me depressed, make me cry.”[26] Olbermann left MSNBC for Fox Sports Net shortly thereafter. No where in those things does it say that KO spent time in a bathtub. It is on said radio program where Gibson laughed at The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart when he began to great emotional pain on his first show after the 9/11 attacks, with his producer calling Stewart a “phony.” Gibson later proclaimed that America “need[s] another 9/11.” Yep, he really said that. Wow, so I am to believe that when KO was frustrated with covering Lewinsky a scandal that was going no where and where a president was unjustily impeached, that KO being frustrated like evey OO normal journalist would be frustarted in covering it. Wow also KO has said in the past that does not take baths but showers, that is how made up and do not say different because all the evidence shows that it is made up. Gibson thinks that it okay to make fun people that are pain because of what happened to terriost attack when it comes to truth. Wow keep embarrassing yourself and showing that you are about as igorant on KO as clients were to Madoff. You show everyday why KO is this generations Murrow.
Here again is who Gibson is On the December 2 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News host John Gibson that day’s “Worst Person in the World” for comments he made on November 17 about the so-called “war on Christmas.” Gibson suggested that people “following the wrong religion” were not reciprocating the tolerance afforded them by “the majority religion — Christianity.” In crowning Gibson, Olbermann commented that “John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nutbag terrorists think. … I’d tell you which religion John thinks is the only one that’s right, but what’s the difference? It’s not the faith that’s the issue; it’s the intolerance.”
In addition, Olbermann named right-wing pundit Ann Coulter the runner-up for that day’s “Worst Person” award, citing her December 1 O’Reilly Factor attack on websites such as Media Matters for America as “little Nazi block watchers.” As Olbermann noted, her explanation was: “[t]hey tattle on their parents, turn them in to the Nazis.”
From the December 2 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: But first, time for Countdown’s list of today’s three nominees of the coveted title of “Worst Person in the World.”
The bronze winner is Ferrell White. F-e-r-r-e-l-l. Not Feral, F-e-r-a-l. He’s the building official for Spring Hill, Tennessee. He has ordered a hair salon to remove lewd language from an advertisement in town. The ad is for products called “sexy hair concepts.” The lewd language, Mr. White says, is the word “sexy.”
There’s an issue that never arises for our runner-up tonight: Ann Coulter. A two-fer. She posted the personal phone number and email of a blogger who was critical of her. And she called other groups which disagree with her “Nazi block watchers.” “You know,” she explained, “They tattle on their parents, turn them in to the Nazis.”
But the winner, and this one comes with great personal pain because we were friends when he worked here and thereafter: John Gibson. Selling his new book about this phony-baloney war on Christmas, John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nutbag terrorists think. “I would think,” Gibbie said on a syndicated radio show, “if somebody is going to be — have to answer for following the wrong religion, they are not going to have to answer to me. We know who they’re going to have to answer to.”
I’d tell you which religion John thinks is the only one that’s right, but what’s the difference? It’s not the faith that’s the issue; it’s the intolerance. John Gibson, today’s “Worst Person in the World.” Wow a guy that thinks it okay to lie about religon, FOX Opinion Channel’s Resident Hack, John Gibson, gets Tuesday’s top honor for hosting right-wing nutjob columnist Stu Bykofsky — who called for another 9/11 to “unite” the county — and mocking Jon Stewart’s heartfelt opening monologue after the 9/11 attacks. Again you show that you love to defend people that use hate speech and name calling, here is another During the August 14 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News’ John Gibson the “winner” of his nightly “Worst Person in the World” segment for, as Media Matters for America documented, mocking comedian and Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s expression of grief in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Olbermann stated that Gibson “played a tape of comedian Jon Stewart’s heartfelt anguish from September 20th, 2001, as a New Yorker who lived near the Trade Center, and Gibson and his producer mocked it. He called it Jon Stewart sobbing. That idiot sidekick called Stewart a, quote, ‘phony.’ ” Olbermann added: “Secondly, Gibby: Jon Stewart’s expression of pain after 9-11 and yours, Gibby, and mine — that was the unity. And no matter what kind of administration propagandist I think you are and how I’ll mock you for it, I would never doubt the sincerity of your pain. You’ve got a lot of damn nerve doubting the sincerity of anybody else’s.”
Gibson mocked Stewart during a discussion of Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky’s August 9 column, headlined “To save America, we need another 9/11.”
From the August 14 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: And our winner, John Gibson of Foxed News. In part of this insane discussion that America, quote, “needs,” unquote, another 9-11 to create national unity, Gibby played a tape of comedian Jon Stewart’s heartfelt anguish from September 20th, 2001, as a New Yorker who lived near the Trade Center, and Gibson and his producer mocked it. He called it Jon Stewart sobbing. That idiot sidekick called Stewart a, quote, “phony.”
Firstly, to anybody who subscribes to the theory that this country needs another 9-11 with hundreds or thousands killed — here’s a funny thing. I don’t see any of you suggesting you or your family should be its victims.
Secondly, Gibby: Jon Stewart’s expression of pain after 9-11 and yours, Gibby, and mine — that was the unity. And no matter what kind of administration propagandist I think you are and how I’ll mock you for it, I would never doubt the sincerity of your pain. You’ve got a lot of damn nerve doubting the sincerity of anybody else’s. John Gibson of Fox Noise, today’s “Worst Person in the World.” Again OO you show that Gibson not KO is bathtub boy in that he like you likes to make crap up, he thinks like you and other KO bashers like to think, that KO being rightly angry about having to cover stories that make no sense and have no up dates just for ratings is bad. That is how stupid and BS this post is. You again show that you have no idea a who KO is. Here are the facts and do not say different OO because that would be another one of your made up lies about KO and showing again you are igorant on who he is. Gibson was called out by Olbermann for being hateful of other reilgons, which was caught on tape and instead of telling the truth or apologizing he makes up this stupid story about KO in rightlful being angry about covering a scandal that got way over covered. KO was being a journalist at the time and Gibson bashed him like you are doing now. KO again keep being yourself and showing that you know what tolerance is. SOrry again that you got unjustily fired at Current. Will not be happy if you do not get the justice that you deserve for that happening. You really never disappoint because you always just remain your loveable self. Again OO keep embarrassing yourself with your igorance on what tolerance is and who KO is. Sorry but the facts are and if you say different that will be another showing of your igorance about who KO is, that story was and always will be made up, because Gibson does not want like you do people that lie and say hateful crap to be called out. You really love to show how tolerant kO is and why he will always be this generations Murrow. Love you KO faults and all. OO keep making me love and respect KO more and more with your embarrassing BS posts that show how igorant you are who KO is.

Again you show that you think that John Gibson loves to have baths. You do not get OO that Gibson made that story up. Again the reason why KO quit MSNBC the first time was because he unlike Gibson and others knew that it was stupid and un journalistic to keep covering a story when thier is no info and for that matter no new info. In the late 1990′s, Olbermann had a program on MSNBC called “The Big Show.” In 1998, he left the network after protesting the incessant coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Also here When the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke in 1998, The Big Show with Keith Olbermann morphed into White House in Crisis. Olbermann became frustrated as his show was consumed by the Lewinsky story. In 1998, he stated that his work at MSNBC would “make me ashamed, make me depressed, make me cry.”[26] Olbermann left MSNBC for Fox Sports Net shortly thereafter. No where in those things does it say that KO spent time in a bathtub. It is on said radio program where Gibson laughed at The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart when he began to great emotional pain on his first show after the 9/11 attacks, with his producer calling Stewart a “phony.” Gibson later proclaimed that America “need[s] another 9/11.” Yep, he really said that. Wow, so I am to believe that when KO was frustrated with covering Lewinsky a scandal that was going no where and where a president was unjustily impeached, that KO being frustrated like evey OO normal journalist would be frustarted in covering it. Wow also KO has said in the past that does not take baths but showers, that is how made up and do not say different because all the evidence shows that it is made up. Gibson thinks that it okay to make fun people that are pain because of what happened to terriost attack when it comes to truth. Wow keep embarrassing yourself and showing that you are about as igorant on KO as clients were to Madoff. You show everyday why KO is this generations Murrow.
Here again is who Gibson is On the December 2 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News host John Gibson that day’s “Worst Person in the World” for comments he made on November 17 about the so-called “war on Christmas.” Gibson suggested that people “following the wrong religion” were not reciprocating the tolerance afforded them by “the majority religion — Christianity.” In crowning Gibson, Olbermann commented that “John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nutbag terrorists think. … I’d tell you which religion John thinks is the only one that’s right, but what’s the difference? It’s not the faith that’s the issue; it’s the intolerance.”
In addition, Olbermann named right-wing pundit Ann Coulter the runner-up for that day’s “Worst Person” award, citing her December 1 O’Reilly Factor attack on websites such as Media Matters for America as “little Nazi block watchers.” As Olbermann noted, her explanation was: “[t]hey tattle on their parents, turn them in to the Nazis.”
From the December 2 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: But first, time for Countdown’s list of today’s three nominees of the coveted title of “Worst Person in the World.”
The bronze winner is Ferrell White. F-e-r-r-e-l-l. Not Feral, F-e-r-a-l. He’s the building official for Spring Hill, Tennessee. He has ordered a hair salon to remove lewd language from an advertisement in town. The ad is for products called “sexy hair concepts.” The lewd language, Mr. White says, is the word “sexy.”
There’s an issue that never arises for our runner-up tonight: Ann Coulter. A two-fer. She posted the personal phone number and email of a blogger who was critical of her. And she called other groups which disagree with her “Nazi block watchers.” “You know,” she explained, “They tattle on their parents, turn them in to the Nazis.”
But the winner, and this one comes with great personal pain because we were friends when he worked here and thereafter: John Gibson. Selling his new book about this phony-baloney war on Christmas, John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nutbag terrorists think. “I would think,” Gibbie said on a syndicated radio show, “if somebody is going to be — have to answer for following the wrong religion, they are not going to have to answer to me. We know who they’re going to have to answer to.”
I’d tell you which religion John thinks is the only one that’s right, but what’s the difference? It’s not the faith that’s the issue; it’s the intolerance. John Gibson, today’s “Worst Person in the World.” Wow a guy that thinks it okay to lie about religon, FOX Opinion Channel’s Resident Hack, John Gibson, gets Tuesday’s top honor for hosting right-wing nutjob columnist Stu Bykofsky — who called for another 9/11 to “unite” the county — and mocking Jon Stewart’s heartfelt opening monologue after the 9/11 attacks. Again you show that you love to defend people that use hate speech and name calling, here is another During the August 14 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News’ John Gibson the “winner” of his nightly “Worst Person in the World” segment for, as Media Matters for America documented, mocking comedian and Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s expression of grief in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Olbermann stated that Gibson “played a tape of comedian Jon Stewart’s heartfelt anguish from September 20th, 2001, as a New Yorker who lived near the Trade Center, and Gibson and his producer mocked it. He called it Jon Stewart sobbing. That idiot sidekick called Stewart a, quote, ‘phony.’ ” Olbermann added: “Secondly, Gibby: Jon Stewart’s expression of pain after 9-11 and yours, Gibby, and mine — that was the unity. And no matter what kind of administration propagandist I think you are and how I’ll mock you for it, I would never doubt the sincerity of your pain. You’ve got a lot of damn nerve doubting the sincerity of anybody else’s.”
Gibson mocked Stewart during a discussion of Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky’s August 9 column, headlined “To save America, we need another 9/11.”
From the August 14 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: And our winner, John Gibson of Foxed News. In part of this insane discussion that America, quote, “needs,” unquote, another 9-11 to create national unity, Gibby played a tape of comedian Jon Stewart’s heartfelt anguish from September 20th, 2001, as a New Yorker who lived near the Trade Center, and Gibson and his producer mocked it. He called it Jon Stewart sobbing. That idiot sidekick called Stewart a, quote, “phony.”
Firstly, to anybody who subscribes to the theory that this country needs another 9-11 with hundreds or thousands killed — here’s a funny thing. I don’t see any of you suggesting you or your family should be its victims.
Secondly, Gibby: Jon Stewart’s expression of pain after 9-11 and yours, Gibby, and mine — that was the unity. And no matter what kind of administration propagandist I think you are and how I’ll mock you for it, I would never doubt the sincerity of your pain. You’ve got a lot of damn nerve doubting the sincerity of anybody else’s. John Gibson of Fox Noise, today’s “Worst Person in the World.” Again OO you show that Gibson not KO is bathtub boy in that he like you likes to make crap up, he thinks like you and other KO bashers like to think, that KO being rightly angry about having to cover stories that make no sense and have no up dates just for ratings is bad. That is how stupid and BS this post is. You again show that you have no idea a who KO is. Here are the facts and do not say different OO because that would be another one of your made up lies about KO and showing again you are igorant on who he is. Gibson was called out by Olbermann for being hateful of other reilgons, which was caught on tape and instead of telling the truth or apologizing he makes up this stupid story about KO in rightlful being angry about covering a scandal that got way over covered. KO was being a journalist at the time and Gibson bashed him like you are doing now. KO again keep being yourself and showing that you know what tolerance is. SOrry again that you got unjustily fired at Current. Will not be happy if you do not get the justice that you deserve for that happening. You really never disappoint because you always just remain your loveable self. Again OO keep embarrassing yourself with your igorance on what tolerance is and who KO is. Sorry but the facts are and if you say different that will be another showing of your igorance about who KO is, that story was and always will be made up, because Gibson does not want like you do people that lie and say hateful crap to be called out. You really love to show how tolerant kO is and why he will always be this generations Murrow. Love you KO faults and all. OO keep making me love and respect KO more and more with your embarrassing BS posts that show how igorant you are who KO is.

Again
Since you seem to not understand what reading comprehension is, neverless what facts are and what honesty is.
Again you show that you think that John Gibson loves to have baths. You do not get OO that Gibson made that story up. Again the reason why KO quit MSNBC the first time was because he unlike Gibson and others knew that it was stupid and un journalistic to keep covering a story when thier is no info and for that matter no new info. In the late 1990′s, Olbermann had a program on MSNBC called “The Big Show.” In 1998, he left the network after protesting the incessant coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Also here When the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke in 1998, The Big Show with Keith Olbermann morphed into White House in Crisis. Olbermann became frustrated as his show was consumed by the Lewinsky story. In 1998, he stated that his work at MSNBC would “make me ashamed, make me depressed, make me cry.”[26] Olbermann left MSNBC for Fox Sports Net shortly thereafter. No where in those things does it say that KO spent time in a bathtub. It is on said radio program where Gibson laughed at The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart when he began to great emotional pain on his first show after the 9/11 attacks, with his producer calling Stewart a “phony.” Gibson later proclaimed that America “need[s] another 9/11.” Yep, he really said that. Wow, so I am to believe that when KO was frustrated with covering Lewinsky a scandal that was going no where and where a president was unjustily impeached, that KO being frustrated like evey OO normal journalist would be frustarted in covering it. Wow also KO has said in the past that does not take baths but showers, that is how made up and do not say different because all the evidence shows that it is made up. Gibson thinks that it okay to make fun people that are pain because of what happened to terriost attack when it comes to truth. Wow keep embarrassing yourself and showing that you are about as igorant on KO as clients were to Madoff. You show everyday why KO is this generations Murrow.
Here again is who Gibson is On the December 2 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News host John Gibson that day’s “Worst Person in the World” for comments he made on November 17 about the so-called “war on Christmas.” Gibson suggested that people “following the wrong religion” were not reciprocating the tolerance afforded them by “the majority religion — Christianity.” In crowning Gibson, Olbermann commented that “John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nutbag terrorists think. … I’d tell you which religion John thinks is the only one that’s right, but what’s the difference? It’s not the faith that’s the issue; it’s the intolerance.”
In addition, Olbermann named right-wing pundit Ann Coulter the runner-up for that day’s “Worst Person” award, citing her December 1 O’Reilly Factor attack on websites such as Media Matters for America as “little Nazi block watchers.” As Olbermann noted, her explanation was: “[t]hey tattle on their parents, turn them in to the Nazis.”
From the December 2 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: But first, time for Countdown’s list of today’s three nominees of the coveted title of “Worst Person in the World.”
The bronze winner is Ferrell White. F-e-r-r-e-l-l. Not Feral, F-e-r-a-l. He’s the building official for Spring Hill, Tennessee. He has ordered a hair salon to remove lewd language from an advertisement in town. The ad is for products called “sexy hair concepts.” The lewd language, Mr. White says, is the word “sexy.”
There’s an issue that never arises for our runner-up tonight: Ann Coulter. A two-fer. She posted the personal phone number and email of a blogger who was critical of her. And she called other groups which disagree with her “Nazi block watchers.” “You know,” she explained, “They tattle on their parents, turn them in to the Nazis.”
But the winner, and this one comes with great personal pain because we were friends when he worked here and thereafter: John Gibson. Selling his new book about this phony-baloney war on Christmas, John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nutbag terrorists think. “I would think,” Gibbie said on a syndicated radio show, “if somebody is going to be — have to answer for following the wrong religion, they are not going to have to answer to me. We know who they’re going to have to answer to.”
I’d tell you which religion John thinks is the only one that’s right, but what’s the difference? It’s not the faith that’s the issue; it’s the intolerance. John Gibson, today’s “Worst Person in the World.” Wow a guy that thinks it okay to lie about religon, FOX Opinion Channel’s Resident Hack, John Gibson, gets Tuesday’s top honor for hosting right-wing nutjob columnist Stu Bykofsky — who called for another 9/11 to “unite” the county — and mocking Jon Stewart’s heartfelt opening monologue after the 9/11 attacks. Again you show that you love to defend people that use hate speech and name calling, here is another During the August 14 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News’ John Gibson the “winner” of his nightly “Worst Person in the World” segment for, as Media Matters for America documented, mocking comedian and Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s expression of grief in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Olbermann stated that Gibson “played a tape of comedian Jon Stewart’s heartfelt anguish from September 20th, 2001, as a New Yorker who lived near the Trade Center, and Gibson and his producer mocked it. He called it Jon Stewart sobbing. That idiot sidekick called Stewart a, quote, ‘phony.’ ” Olbermann added: “Secondly, Gibby: Jon Stewart’s expression of pain after 9-11 and yours, Gibby, and mine — that was the unity. And no matter what kind of administration propagandist I think you are and how I’ll mock you for it, I would never doubt the sincerity of your pain. You’ve got a lot of damn nerve doubting the sincerity of anybody else’s.”
Gibson mocked Stewart during a discussion of Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky’s August 9 column, headlined “To save America, we need another 9/11.”
From the August 14 edition of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: And our winner, John Gibson of Foxed News. In part of this insane discussion that America, quote, “needs,” unquote, another 9-11 to create national unity, Gibby played a tape of comedian Jon Stewart’s heartfelt anguish from September 20th, 2001, as a New Yorker who lived near the Trade Center, and Gibson and his producer mocked it. He called it Jon Stewart sobbing. That idiot sidekick called Stewart a, quote, “phony.”
Firstly, to anybody who subscribes to the theory that this country needs another 9-11 with hundreds or thousands killed — here’s a funny thing. I don’t see any of you suggesting you or your family should be its victims.
Secondly, Gibby: Jon Stewart’s expression of pain after 9-11 and yours, Gibby, and mine — that was the unity. And no matter what kind of administration propagandist I think you are and how I’ll mock you for it, I would never doubt the sincerity of your pain. You’ve got a lot of damn nerve doubting the sincerity of anybody else’s. John Gibson of Fox Noise, today’s “Worst Person in the World.” Again OO you show that Gibson not KO is bathtub boy in that he like you likes to make crap up, he thinks like you and other KO bashers like to think, that KO being rightly angry about having to cover stories that make no sense and have no up dates just for ratings is bad. That is how stupid and BS this post is. You again show that you have no idea a who KO is. Here are the facts and do not say different OO because that would be another one of your made up lies about KO and showing again you are igorant on who he is. Gibson was called out by Olbermann for being hateful of other reilgons, which was caught on tape and instead of telling the truth or apologizing he makes up this stupid story about KO in rightlful being angry about covering a scandal that got way over covered. KO was being a journalist at the time and Gibson bashed him like you are doing now. KO again keep being yourself and showing that you know what tolerance is. SOrry again that you got unjustily fired at Current. Will not be happy if you do not get the justice that you deserve for that happening. You really never disappoint because you always just remain your loveable self. Again OO keep embarrassing yourself with your igorance on what tolerance is and who KO is. Sorry but the facts are and if you say different that will be another showing of your igorance about who KO is, that story was and always will be made up, because Gibson does not want like you do people that lie and say hateful crap to be called out. You really love to show how tolerant kO is and why he will always be this generations Murrow. Love you KO faults and all. OO keep making me love and respect KO more and more with your embarrassing BS posts that show how igorant you are who KO is. Bathtub boy is a name and a story that Gibson made up because KO was not suppose to call out his lies. Sorry but that story is not true and nothing that you say OO will make it true. Love how you show that OO does not know what made up names and and stories aka John Gibson does compared to real journalism. No wonder you show with ever post that KO is this generations Murrow and that you have no idea what real jouranlism is. Thanks for embarrassing yourself by showing how igorant you are on facts, honesty and reading comprehension along with KO. You show why I will always be a KO fan. Sorry but that was made up by Gibson. You really are pathic with your igorance when it comes to KO. KO again keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me. Love you faults and all.

PHOENIX, May 3, 2012- In a series of memos released this week by the Pentagon, it is revealed that an American-born advisor to Al-Qaeda used to believe that the far-left network, MSNBC, was good and neutral until the firing of fringe host, Keith Olbermann.

“I used to think that MSNBC channel may be good and neutral a bit, but is has lately fired two of the most famous journalists – Keith Olbermann and Octavia Nasr the Lebanese,” wrote Al-Qaida spokesman and advisor Adam Gadahn.

Nasr was fired from CNN, not MSNBC, after posting to twitter a mourning tweet of the death of a cleric linked to the terrorist group, Hezbollah.

Olbermann was fired from MSNBC, for donating three times to Democrat candidates in 2010.

Be that as it may, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the terrorist group liked Keith Olbermann ‘s tenure at the most liberal leaning “news” channel broadcasted today.

Back in September 2009, the former MSNBC host said, “Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda – worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.”

Keith Olbermann’s claims that “Fox News is worse than Al-Qaeda,” were completely disgusting, illusive, and outright immoral. Fox News never killed anyone, Osama Bin Laden and the terrorists associated with Al-Qaeda have and continue to.

Nonetheless, Olbermanns’ claims evidently scored big points among Osama Bin Laden.

In that same memo released by the Pentagon, Al Qaeda also praises the liberal-leaning CBS for, “close to being unbiased”.

They also give accolades to ABC News saying, “ABC channel is all right; actually it could be one of the best channels, as far as we are concerned.”

When it came to the dominating Fox News, the memo read, “let her die in her anger.

Wow Oo
You show that you have no idea what the real world is and what a fantasy world is. First these are not Bin Laden’s thoughts so you show that once again OO does not know what a fact is from a lie. Here is a thing about this post that you shows once again why KO is this generations Murrow and unlike you never lies, Sprinkled between rants about mobilizing jihadi fighters and destroying the United States, there’s an a lot of commentary about the American media in the recently released Osama bin Laden letters. Media types have been quick to blog and tweet about the names of media outlets, pundits, and shows that make bin Laden the Terrorist sound like bin Laden the Media Critic. The only problem is that Bin Laden probably didn’t write these things.

Brett LoGiurato collected a few of lines at Business Insider like, “I used to think that MSNBC channel may be good and neutral a bit but has lately fired two of the most famous journalists – Keith Olberman and Octavia Nasser the Lebanese,” reads one. “It should be sent for example to ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN and maybe PBS and VOA,” reads another one discussing where al Qaeda should send their message marking the tenth anniversary of September 11. “As for Fox News, let her die in her anger.”

Unfortunately for the media geeks, these letters aren’t quoting bin Laden’s actual thoughts about Fox News and Keith Olbermann. Rather, they’re channeling the disdain of American-born jihadist Adam Gadahn who advised Bin Laden on media matters. Back in March, The Washington Post’s David Ignatius attributed the letter that includes the quotes about MSNBC, Fox News and the other networks not to Bin Laden but to Gadahn. The document itself doesn’t provide any attribution. And while it might be amusing to imagine bin Laden leaning back and yelling at Bill O’Reilly and cheering on Olbermann’s famous rants, it probably didn’t happen that way. Also I guess in your world ABC and CBS are just as bad as KO because oh my god Gadin meationed them also, including Brian Ross, that is how pathic your post is, and once again shows that you igorant when it comes to KO and do not say different because that would be a lie. Here because you love to show your igorance on subjects is another part of this BS letter you love to bash KO with In conclusion,” he laments, “we can say that there is no single channel that we could rely on for our messages.” Wow KO must be so bad How much of a alternative reality do you live in. I letter written by Adam Goshlin saying that BIn ladin likes KO, shows excatly how KO disortes reality, that is proably the most stupidiest thing I have ever heard and any person that likes to think and use thier brain which you do not, know that has nothing to do with weither KO this generations Murrow which he is, and weither he disorts truth which is been proven to be BS John over and over again. I do not care what Bin Laden likes and dislikes, I am not going to believe that FOx tells truth because of a letter. That is how BS this post is and just how made up your argument is. Also I have a hard time believeing a letter that lies about why KO is not at MSNBC, it been debunked over and over again that he was fired. JOhn you do not so a last show if you are fired, he only been fired from two times and both were not even his fault and I think that KO has a ego and that is not prefect and care nothing about his personality. Firing for telling the truth on Fox Sports. Oh by the way, Fox is the station that altertatives reality and shown to do it over and over again, but that one that Bin Laden was suppose to not like, that is how BS and made up your agrument is, I think that ABC tells the truth and that CNN is okay, and Bin Laden in that letter was suppose to like that too, keep making crap up, also he brain was not damged, wow love how you name call people, how is KO telling truth to power is showing that he alternates reality and that he has brain damge, that is does not make sense. John keep lying about KO and making crap up, Fox with thier made up facts are the ones that show to alternate reality over and over again, KO who calls them out along with other hate mongers is the one that unlike you lives in the real world and has never had brain damage, and keep believing crap like a letter that was suppose to have been written by a terriost shows that KO is bad, wow I guess if Bin laden was saying that Limbuagh or Malkin were bad you would hate them too because he said so, that is how BS your agrument is. People like you really show why KO is and always will be this generations Murrow and why he pratices something that you have no idea what is and that is called joruanlism and he unlike you is honesty and tolerant. You show that you cannot comprehend that a letter that written by not even Bin laden is suppose to make everyone believe that ABC, CNN and even KO are bad and Fox is good, again anyone that has something that JOHn has never heard of and that is called reason knows that is BS and makes no sense. JOhn people like you really show why I love and respect KO and make me love and respect him more. Keep putting up BS posts that make no sense and shows that KO is exact opposite of what you want him to be. John learn that KO is a journalist that tells the truth to power, he has called out hate and lies, that is not John what a alternate reality looks like, that is what the a real jouranlist looks like. Keep showing that you would not alternate reality is. YOu love to live in one all the time with your made up BS about KO and thinking that a letter that was not even written by Bin laden shows that KO is bad, sorry that is not and will never be true, just like Fox will always live in alternate realities and be the laughing stock of jouranlism and that is what the letter says Bin laden hates, that is how BS and stupid your post is John, KO keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, sorry you got unjustily fired from Current and will be pissed if you do not get the justice that you deserve for being unjustily fired from there, also keep being yourself and you will always be perment on my wall, ipod and ipad and life,and you I will always follow and be loyal like you are to your fans and showed your fans with what happened at Current, know anyone that says different is lying and believeing Current’s debunked talking points. Love you faults and all. Once again you think that a letter that came from a guy that was not Bin laden shows that KO is bad. You really do live in a alternate reality have no idea who KO is. This post like ever other post you put up shows why KO is this generations Murrow and why you are igorant on who he is. Again all you do is make me love and respect him more and embarrass yourself by showing your ingorance on who KO is. You really do not know what facts are. I love that once again you put up a pathic post that once again shows that KO can never lie and that you igorant when it comes to who KO is and what journalism is. Keep making me love and respect KO more and more. KO again sorry that you got unjustily fired at Current and will not be happy if you do not get the justice that you deserve. Keep being yourself, in that never change your ego, and personality or anything else, what makes me a fan is that you are human. Keep being that and you will always be perment on my wall, ipod and ipad and life. Love you faults and all.
OO keep showing that you have zero clue who KO is and that you love to show how igorant you are when it comes to him, this is one of the most pathic and stupidiest things that I have read tonight.

Just like we all knew the democrats were going to win, despite all the fixing of the elections done by the other side, the republicans remained delusional. Similarly the giants fans knew they were going to win this one. You made a good case for Detroit, but in hindsight you can re-evaluate, hopefully better than the right wing is re-evaluating. They are still delusional. I know that you are not. You made a logical case for Detroit. At least it was not a case made from a literal interpretation of the new testament.

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The republicans are always going to be that way. Thier the party of everything has to be the other guy’s fault and we take no responsiblity for our actions. I know KO has apologized and re-vaulated what he wrote. KO again keep showing why you are this generations Murrow and why you will be around for years to come. Sorry you got unjustily fired at Current and I know that you are on to bigger and better things. Keep being yourself and you will have a fan in me. Love you faults and all.

Wow
This video has already been debunked and shows once again that you have no idea what truth means. Here is what really happened on that one First Apple Daily is a satire site, two I have been resaerching this, which you show that you do not know how to do, and this women is showing herself not to be believable here is what I found nvestigation into the Sex Scandal involving ex-Vice President Al Gore has many readers wanting to know more information on how this happened, when this happened, and why there has been a lag in reporting the possibility of a crime as heinous as attempted rape. Here is the time line of what is alleged to have occurred when Ex-VP Al Gore took a trip to the city of Portland, Oregon in October 2006.
October 24, 2006, Masseuse Molly Hagerty received a call from the hotel bell man who asked her to come to the Lucia Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon to give a massage to a VIP. Time to report was 10:30 pm.
Molly Hagerty first reported to Portland Police December 15, 2006 almost 2 months after the alleged assault. Molly Hagerty reported the incident to police and in January, 2007 her attorney contacted Portland Police to explain that Molly Hagerty did not want to participate in the investigation any longer, as she would pursue the case in civil court.
January 6, 2009, Molly Hagerty contacted Portland Police and informed them that she wished to make a second statement regarding her alleged sexual assault in October 2006. Read this new statement to police here.
In this police report Molly Hagerty explained, in her own words, exactly what took place while she was in the Lucia Hotel room with Vice President Al Gore. It is very graphic in nature, and individuals under the age of 13 are not advised to read this material.
In her second report to the Portland Police, Molly Hagerty never revealed in her statement a witness, video (secret) tape, or DNA on her cloths.
Portland Police investigated as much as possible, as they would say, and ultimately closed the case stating there is not enough evidence to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this alleged sexual assault actually took place on October 24, 2006. Also this what a repsonse said that makes this case even more not believe able, You left out the parts about her making and canceling three appointments with Portland Police to give a statement and the fact that she had asked the National Enquirer for $1 million for her story but apparently settled for a smaller sum. If she didn’t want money but wanted Gore to “pay” for his crime, why had she intended to pursue a civil suit rather than a criminal complaint? And her statement in Jan 2009 wasn’t her second statement because she never made a first statement–the initial contact was only through her attorney. I am so tired of reading columnists who are supposedly trying to clarify all this and then they leave out half the salient facts. Here is another one A close friend of a Portland massage therapist who accused former Vice President Al Gore of groping her says the therapist told her soon after the 2006 encounter that she’d been violated and assaulted by “someone in the higher ups.”
Donna Burleigh of Keizer said her best friend didn’t identify the person, but when Gore returned to Portland years later, her friend “freaked out.”
“She freaked and split. She said her predator was back and coming to town. She up and left,” Burleigh said.
Burleigh said she knew her friend had obtained a lawyer and thought she was trying to pursue a civil case, so she was surprised to see the National Enquirer splash the allegations on its website this week.
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“She’s not out for freakin’ money. This lady, all she wants is this man accountable for his actions,” Burleigh said.
Within a few days of the Oct. 24, 2006 encounter at the Hotel Lucia in downtown Portland, Burleigh said she spoke by phone with her friend.
“She told me ‘Donna, I was assaulted by someone in the higher ups.’ It broke my heart, and I said, ‘God, I’m sorry.’ ”
Her friend didn’t go into details, Burleigh said, but said it was during the course of her work. She kept saying “things are going to come to a head” and worried that there’d be “all kinds of media coverage,” Burleigh said.
“She said she was meeting with a rape crisis unit, stuff like that,” Burleigh said. “She said it was a high authority person who has a lot of power. She was scared of him.”
Burleigh said her friend was insulted by what occurred, stressing that she takes her licensed massage therapist job seriously. The therapist also has health problems and the incident made them worse, Burleigh said.
“When she got violated, she has not been the same since,” Burleigh said. “She was talking about how she wanted to go to the hospital because she was having panic attacks, then it started getting worse.”
The editor of the National Enquirer said Thursday the tabloid didn’t pay the Portland massage therapist for its story. The statement rebuts reports that the paper paid $1 million for the story that it broke a day earlier online.
“We did not pay the therapist or any representative of hers,” Editor-in-Chief Tony Frost said. “In fact, she was unaware the story was being published.”
The statement said the tabloid initially heard about the story through a tip. “We had to do a great deal of work to establish that the information was correct and to determine the validity of certain documents that our reporters later discovered.”
According to Portland police, no one from The Enquirer contacted the bureau to discuss the allegations, or requested the police reports or sought interviews with investigators.
Randall Vogt, the woman’s attorney, had reported to Portland police in December 2006, two months after the encounter, that Gore made “unwanted sexual advances” during a massage session. But the woman didn’t show up for three interviews with police because Vogt said she didn’t want the publicity. Then, on Jan. 8, 2009, the therapist came to Portland police with a lengthy written statement, detailing her allegations of Gore’s sexual advances and answered detectives’ questions.
Portland police didn’t investigate or contact the district attorney’s office and closed the case, citing insufficient evidence. This month, on June 3, the therapist returned to Portland police, asking for a copy of her statement, presented some clarifications and said she was going to take the case to the media, police said. Police are expected to release the clarifications today.
In her 2009 statement, the therapist told police she was called to Hotel Lucia about 10:30 p.m. after Gore gave an environmental talk at the Rose Garden. She told police he pushed her hand to his groin, fondled her buttocks and breasts, thrust his tongue in her mouth and threw her down on the bed and climbed on top of her as tried to push him away.
According to police reports, the woman said in 2009 that she’d been a licensed massage therapist for about 12 years. She said she had a professional diploma from The Oregon School of Massage, completed training at Northwest Acupressure Institute and preliminary Chinese medicine studies at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. She received her bachelor of science in liberal studies at Portland State University in 2002.
Burleigh, who runs S&D Exotic Bird Rescue out of her Keizer home, said she and the therapist share a love of birds and other animals. They met about seven years ago, when she brought a Macaw named Toto to Burleigh and she found it a good home. The macaw was too loud for the apartment where the therapist was living. The therapist was also on the rescue’s board of directors, and helps people find new homes for their animals via Craigslist.
“She’s a big-hearted person, with birds of her own — Quakers, African Gray, Senegal,” Burleigh said. Neighbors of the therapist said the woman is outgoing and known for striking up conversations. “She’s a very spiritual person,” said Pepe Moscoso, an artist and photographer who lives in the same Southeast Portland apartment complex. “We’d talk about the Zodiac and other astrological things.”
She always talks to him and his wife when they’re walking outside with their daughters.
“She’s friendly enough to stop and say hi to you on the sidewalk,” neighbor Rusty Pranger said. She tries to speak Russian phrases to some of their immigrant neighbors, he said.
Law enforcement experts said the time delay in reporting the details of the crime poses a “tremendous” challenge for investigators and prosecutors. The veracity of the complaint could be compromised, said Broward County Sheriff’s Sgt. Adam Hofstein, supervisor of the special victims unit that handles sex crimes in Fort Lauderdale. “Your forensic evidence is waning, the time weighs on people’s recollections and their credibility.”
Yet, Hofstein said, in a case like this, “We are still going to take all the steps. You are still within the statute of limitations, you still have a felony.”
Harry O’Reilly, a retired New York City detective sergeant who headed its special victims unit and now teaches sex crime investigative tactics to law enforcement, said police might consider massage therapy somewhat of a “dubious profession,” and may not follow up since the victim didn’t provide details until more than two years later and it does not rise to a rape allegation.
But since the case involved such a high-profile person, “one would follow it up — not necessarily because of the gravity of the case, but because of the people who were involved and the potential consequences.” and here is something that also happened that did not make sense The cover of The Enquirer has a picture of her holding a plastic bag with a pair of pants that allegedly are stained. The headlines indicate they contain Al Gore’s D.N.A. from semen. Interestingly, in a 2009 interview with the Portland P.D., she told them that the pants did not contain any of Gore’s D.N.A.. Here is what Saloon saidWho knows what, exactly, to make of the news that Al Gore has been accused by an Oregon masseuse of making repeated, unwanted sexual contact with her back in 2006?
Early on Wednesday, the National Enquirer reported that the the masseuse had provided an account to Portland police of a hotel room encounter with Gore in October ’06. Apparently, Portland police were first made aware of her accusations back in late ’06 by the woman’s attorney. However, she declined to come forward herself or to press charges. But then, last year, she did go to police, providing them with a graphic account of the alleged incident. Copies of a police report from early ’07 and of the woman’s 2009 statement have now been made public.
For all we know right now, there might be validity to her claims. Still, three reasons to be skeptical jump out:
1) The Portland police declined to investigate the woman’s claims any further after she made her statement, citing a lack of evidence.
2) The allegations were apparently known two years ago to at least one Portland media outlet — the Portland Tribune, a weekly paper that declined to report on them. The paper’s editor tells Ben Smith that the allegations didn’t meet the “test points” that the paper uses to determine whether a story is likely to be true.
3) We have seen plenty of cases of baseless (if vivid) sexual allegations against celebrities before. Tucker Carlson was once accused of rape by a woman he’d never met, for instance. Something similar happened with magician David Copperfield last year, too. (Plenty of celebrities have been guilty of sex crimes, too, of course.)
Gore has yet to make any public statement on the matter.
So again you are exploiting rape and wanting to assume that you know what happened in this case, I think that rape is serious but to me the facts do not add up, so to me this does not look like he did it, so again keep bashing and showing that you do not put facts up. You really are pathic. Keep showing why KO is this generations Murrow and why you have zero clue what tolerance is.
Wow keep showing that you are igorant about what facts are. Go to we love to believe debunk talking points and show how igorant we are about people, get off the blog and let people talk baseball. Also has nothing to do with KO or baseball. Sorry but once again you show that you are igorant on facts and honesty and do not say different because that would be a lie.

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