O'Reilly won't say Olbermann's name

I watched the segment on The O'Reilly Factor and did find it weird not that Bill O'Reilly wouldn't say Keith Olbermann's name (I'm pretty sure he hasn't said it on his program for several years), but that Bernie Goldberg complied and wouldn't say his name either.

MSNBC suspends Keith Olbermann

Not too long after Keith Olbermann railed against NewsCorp for donating to the Republican Governor's Association, he himself donates to three Democratic candidates, and MSNBC prez has suspended him for it.

Howard Kurtz on why it was the right call.

Looking at Twitter, conservatives ranging from Andrew Breitbart and Bill Kristol believe MSNBC was wrong to suspend him. Keith's not a journalist, and GE can donate to campaigns but their employees can't?

Meanwhile his replacement did really well tonight. If MSNBC wants to reinstate some journalistic cred, utterly trashed on Election Night, they should let him ride the chair a few days. Besides, MSNBC saves about, what, $34,000 each night KeithO's not there?

Janeane Garofalo hate-mongering again

First, part of her interview from the Austin Chronicle publicizing Ratatouille:

What I took most from the film … was respect for those that are different. Do not react with fear and anger at “the other.” Do not try to eradicate the other, and don’t rob them of their dignity. You can work much better together than you can apart. The rats were afraid of the humans and had many myths built up about their evil, and the humans were afraid of the rats and had many myths built up about their evil – most of which were untrue on both sides. As they overcame their fear of one another, they focused quite peacefully in order to [create] something better than they would have on their own.


And now some of her quotes from Countdown with Keith Olbermann regarding the April 15 tea parties:

“This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.”

” … the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it’s pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring.”

“I didn’t know there were so many racists left. I didn’t know that. I — you know, because as I’ve said, the Republican hype and the conservative movement has now crystallized into the white power movement.”


So... rats deserve more understanding than non-Air America listeners, and if you think the government spends too much, you're a subhuman skinhead.

MSNBC comes to senses

The New York Times is reporting that for upcoming debates and the November presidential election, David Gregory will assume MSNBC anchoring duties, taking over for Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews. This comes after the network received much criticism for the biased reporting and on-air bickering during the convention weeks, and while it saw improvement in ratings, it was still in last place of the seven channels doing coverage.

MSNBC - Soul Officially Sold

“Look, when Keith anchors, he plays it straight down the line,” Griffin said.

I read that on Politico, where MSNBC president Phil Griffin addressed tensions between MSNBC anchors. Either Griffin is consciously lying, or he's blindly liberal. I've been flipping between all the networks for the Democratic convention this week, and Keith Olbermann has been up to his usual antics. If Griffin thinks what Keith's doing is straight down the line, then Sean Hannity's fair and balanced.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough - alive!

Morning Joe is the best morning show of the three cable news networks, and now that MSNBC has decided to be a left-wing outlet to counter Fox News's right-wing tilt, Joe is finding himself a one-man island. Keith Olbermann got Dan Abrams fired, and now he's fighting back. When Olbermann interrupted Joe to tell him to get a shovel when joe was reporting positive McCain news, Joe took umbridge and fought back. Then this morning when David Shuster referred to "your party" Joe had none of it. He said he was more down the middle than any host on any show and mocked MSNBC for all their reporters claiming they're independent.

There's hype around behind-the-scenes fireworks between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, but the more edge-of-your-seat viewing is now coming from Joe Scarborough. Can't wait to see if anything happens when he and keith are on at the same time again. And if Joe gets fired, my guess is CNN and Fox News will get into a bidding war.