Keith Olbermann

Hatemonger-in-Chief, Olbermann, Will Be Back

by Doug on January 29, 2011 · 0 comments

in Media,Progressives,Radicalism

One of my favorite political pundits, Larry Elder, recently published an article at http://www.JewishWorldReview.com Titled “Olbermann’s Last Supper at MSNBC—What Happened?”  In it he reviews some of Keith’s most outrageously hateful on-air statements and speculates intelligently on the reasons behind the obvious firing.

Any society that has tolerated bigotry, genocide, or political oppression and mass murder has had their Olberman equivalents. Unfortunately, there is a large segment of our society that cheers the Keithster on and is addicted to his vitriol and hate.  You can count on his return.  Mr. Elder’s article:

“This will be the last edition of your show,” MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, on the air, claimed he was told by management. What to make of Olbermann’s abrupt departure, an apparent firing?
Did post-Tucson concern over “vitriolic rhetoric” cause Comcast, MSNBC’s new owner, to recoil at Olbermann’s greatest hits? They include, but are by no means limited to:
Calling opposition to ObamaCare the equivalent of “terrorists … killing 45,000 people every year”; blaming Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City bombing; calling the tea party-backed Republicans racists who would bring back “Jim Crow … bread lines … robber barons” and “hanging union organizers”; calling now-Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., a “homophobic, racist, reactionary … teabagging supporter of violence against women”; accusing columnist and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin of engaging in “morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred without which (she) would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it”; accusing President George W. Bush of “urinating on the Constitution” and of committing “panoramic and murderous deceit”; exclaiming about Bush, “You’re a fascist!”; asserting that Bush “lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584″; calling Fox News’ Chris Wallace “a monkey posing as a newscaster”; and saying of the then-Whitewater prosecutor, “It finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler … a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor.”
Whew!
Whatever version Comcast puts out — “We don’t interfere with the businesses we just paid a boatload of money to take over” — is likely to be crap, mostly crap or partially crap. And whatever version Olbermann or his supporters/defenders put out — “He’s not in it for the money” or “He wouldn’t stand for any control over his show” — is likely to be crap, mostly crap or partially crap.
Maybe it’s as simple as this. Lawrence O’Donnell, who held down MSNBC’s 10 p.m. slot and who frequently and ably guest-hosted for Olbermann, now takes over. O’Donnell once repeatedly screamed “liar!” at Swift boat veteran John O’Neill and had a shouting match with a former Bush speechwriter over O’Donnell’s accusation that Bush condoned “torture.” O’Donnell is a self-described “socialist” who wants to “ban all guns in America” and “make Medicare available to all.”
Olbermann reportedly made $7 mil a year. It’s a safe bet that O’Donnell earns a fraction of $7 mil and that the new management foresees no appreciable drop in ratings. Addition by subtraction — with no change in content or volatility.
Olbermann’s show, for years, kind of bumped along at the bottom of the aquarium, with ratings below CNN’s fare and well below that of Fox News. Then came “Olbermann’s Moment,” a seven-minute verbal beat-down of then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Overnight the ratings shot up. Olbermann soon climbed over CNN and settled in at the rear of Fox News opinionators. Not bad — for MSNBC.
Olbermann’s rants encouraged an MSNBC cohort, “Hardball’s” Chris Matthews, to dial it up even more. Eureka! The network found its mojo: “We shall be the anti-Fox Fox!” This begat Rachel Maddow, a double-leftist from Air America radio. And MSNBC added Ed Schultz, a double-leftist radio host from North Dakota.
Olbermann thus pushed MSNBC’s management into a new business plan. Pre-Olbermann, it was a network in search of an identity — and ratings. More than anyone, he led the cabler out of the wilderness and into the bottom of the middle tier. After all, MSNBC once gave shows to the decidedly non-liberal Laura Ingraham, Alan Keyes and … Michael Savage!
When Olbermann signed off for the last time, he thanked “the late Tim Russert,” who, he claimed, had his back. This is dubious. It’s far more likely that Russert, who took pride in his role as a nonpartisan, tough-on-both-sides newsman, deeply resented the post-Rumsfeld Olbermann makeover.
Would Russert have cheered MSNBC’s bizarre election-night 2010 coverage, manned by Matthews, Maddow and Olbermann — all going full-throttle Howard Beale? Russert’s son, Luke, works at NBC News. Somebody should ask him.
At my dentist’s office a few weeks ago, a woman in the waiting room said: “I never agree with you. My husband told me to stop listening. But of the guys who think like you, you’re the only one I can stand.” She named the usual names, and ripped them. “They’re so hateful!”
“Don’t you feel there’s a lot of what you call ‘hate’ on the left?”
“Oh, yes, and I don’t like them, either.”
“How do you feel about Bill Maher?”
“Love him!”
“Chris Matthews?”
“Love him!!”
“Keith Olbermann?”
“LOVE, LOVE, LOVE HIM!!!”
Now, post-MSNBC, the double-left will adore Olbermann more than ever. He becomes the “man who spoke truth to power and suffered its wrath.” With this rabid, decent-sized following, and after his non-compete is up, Olbermann can quickly resurface.
Maybe he’ll get an HBO Maher-type show — where he even gets to cuss.

Please visit http://www.JewishWorldReview.com to read this and other great articles by Larry Elder and other conservative thought leaders.

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Time For Some Backbone

by Doug on June 4, 2009 · 7 comments

in Action,Boycott

Here’s a fact for you: Conservatives are the backbone of America. We say that because we conservatives constitute the majority of those who carry the weight in our country. We make good things happen. We are the majority (not the totality) of those who:

  • Still think for ourselves instead of relying on the irresponsible media to tell us what to think
  • Work for a living, build industry and commerce, pay our taxes
  • Truly love America and understand our heritage of liberty and its immense cost
  • Fill our places of worship, donate to charity and live by a moral code
  • Are devoted to our children and take care in their mental and spiritual development

If the above is true, which it is, why is our country in the mess it is in? Why are we standing helplessly on the sidelines watching as America falls from glory and our liberties are quickly devoured by those who trample our constitution in pursuit of their own power?

The answer is too complex to fully tackle here, but the reality is that this has been building up for decades. Conservatives enthusiastically believed the tide had turned with the advent of the Reagan administration, but in reality it was just a pause. When we lost President Reagan we quickly returned to our destructive course. We are like the proverbial frogs in the pot. It has happened around us so gradually that while we may have felt uneasy, we were not alarmed until Mr. Obama was elected president and the decline seemed to accelerate to warp speed.

The truth is, while conservatives are in the majority, we appear to be independent and self-directed with no clear leader. Like a laser with too diffuse a beam, we have not focused our passion or power. Nor have we acted together to maintain the America that was bequeathed us by our forefathers. Many conservatives have confined their civic duties to voting for those that most reflected their views. The political party that supposedly most represented conservative views, consciously “widened the tent” to accommodate a broad range of doctrines and values, thereby diluting its message, power and influence. The GOP simply homogenized itself out of relevancy. “RINOs” (Republican In Name Only) have dominated and given the party the appearance of the cowboy who jumped on his horse and galloped off in all directions.

While the GOP may, in time, redeem and re-brand itself, conservatives need a united voice now! We don’t have time to wait for 2010 and 2012 elections. We seriously doubt if the considerable work that must be done within the GOP can be completed by then, anyway. Where does this leave us, America’s conservatives?

While Republican office holders arrogantly gloated and behaved like tax and spend liberals, conspiring men and women stepped forth with a plan to seize and wield power effectively for their own purposes. These power hungry politicians recognized that an uninformed ballot cast by someone incapable of independent thought was equal in value to the vote cast after careful evaluation by a principled citizen. As an added bonus, since the Great Unthinking derive their deepest thoughts and opinions from television and celebrity gossip, they are easily manipulated. A brilliant plan was devised to exploit this weakness. The task was relatively simple: motivate these lightweight, star struck, uninformed, drooling zombies to go to the polls on just one day every couple of years! Accomplish this, and the conspirators could legally take over our country and have their way with her. Thus the rise of ACORN.

Unfortunately, though we are in the majority among responsible citizens, the Great Unthinking outnumber responsible citizens altogether. Look good in a bathing suit, master the art of the sound bite, have a functioning teleprompter and promise what the Great Unthinking want to hear, and the country falls into your hands like a ripe fruit.

How do we, the conservative majority, including Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and Independents, retake our country and preserve our liberties? Benjamin Franklin’s remarks as patriots gathered in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776 are just as applicable today as they were then: “We must hang together, or we will assuredly hang separately.”

We MUST unite, and focus our passions, our power and our efforts. We must start with an objective that is relatively simple around which to organize ourselves and make our connections. Then, building on initial successes, move on to greater issues. It is time for some backbone!

Are you surprised that we have a suggestion for an initial project? It is time to lawfully use our combined economic power and leverage to strike back at the large media players that seem determined to ruin our country. These treacherous titans have been the biggest single factor in the deterioration of our society to the terrible place we find ourselves occupying today. They have destroyed our culture and created the Great Unthinking masses that have become a tool for consolidation of power for those who ignore our constitution. And, they all have major weak spots where they are vulnerable to our united action!

There are so many potential targets for our righteous wrath, but none more deserving than the NBC media empire, NBC Universal. The latest example of their outrageous irresponsibility occurred recently when MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, with his most solemn sanctimonious face and using his most unctuous voice, announced he had “proof” that Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly had incited the murder of late-term abortion doctor Tiller. Dramatically, he stated that O’Reilly and Fox had Tiller’s blood on their hands. Olbermann used several out-of-context video clips from O’Reilly’s show. Although O’Reilly was clearly reporting the truth, when one is talking about “partial birth abortions”, the truth is very upsetting. Olbermann then went on to call for an “indirect Boycott” of Fox News, asking viewers to refuse to patronize establishments that displayed TV’s on premises tuned to Fox. The video of this atrocious broadcast is included for you to watch should you have the stomach for it.

We made ourselves watch it all and actually became physically ill. We advise you to take our word, but watch it if you must. Olbermann, by the way, characterized Tiller as a hero, never mentioning the 60,000 babies he murdered for $5,000 each – - – babies who could have lived outside the mother’s womb. You can see our feelings regarding Tiller’s murder posted as a comment under “The Trust of a Child” (short version: it was murder, set the pro-life cause back and saved not a single life. The clinic still exists and others will step forward and take Tiller’s place. Tiller will not be the last multi-millionaire to build his business on the bones of babies.)

The payback opportunity we see is this: The parent company of the NBC Universal media empire is GE. GE lives in a glass house when it comes to boycott vulnerability and should not allow its “children” to throw stones. We call upon all true conservatives to unite and boycott all things GE. Let’s use this as a warm-up round to build unity and discipline among conservatives. The patriots of the American Revolution gave up home and hearth and their very lives in order to wrest our liberty from the hands of tyrants.

Do we love America enough to give up “Heroes”, “30 Rock” or “Mad Money”? Enough to shop for alternatives to GE light bulbs and appliance brands?

If not, America is simply lost.

When we unite and wield our lawful power as one, the battle is all but over. We can legally and lawfully take our country back and banish all would be oppressors if we hang together.

Remember, that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. OK, let’s take that step but let’s do it quickly. Let’s start by stopping NBC from spawning zombies. Let’s tell “Mamma GE” she is responsible for the behavior of her children and she had better cause them to behave responsibly and cease destroying America!

Coincidentally, Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of NBC Universal parent GE, serves as a member of the Obama Regime’s new economic advisory board. This board played a big role in designing the “Obama Economic Recovery Plan”.

Remember Albert Einstein’s definition: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” We have voted over and over and depended on “our party” to be our voice. Let’s try something effective! Let’s employ the power of focused passion and unified action! Let our economic voices rise as one and throw the bastards out! Let’s Boycott all things NBC and GE!

Please join us in this first simple, lawful step and help us spread the word to Conservatives of all party labels. Whether you agree with us or not we would value knowing your opinion.

IT IS TIME FOR ACTION TO REPLACE TALK! Let’s pass our hard won liberty on to our descendants.

Its time for some backbone!

We need to act together. Please let us know if you have a better target. We WANT your feedback.

Below is information on the GE worldwide empire:

The General Electric Website outlines their diverse worldwide empire. Most GE products carry the GE brand but there are many others, especially in the entertainment industry.

NBC Universal Brands: