Keith Olbermann Declares: Off With Dana Milbank’s Head
By Ani on August 5, 2008 at 9:35 AM in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Current Affairs, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Obamaisms, Washington Post
The arrogance. The perfidy. The cock of the walk puffed up rooster-ness of it all!
On The Big Orange, Commissar Keith Olbermann decided to whet the appetites of his rabid, but dwindling, fan base by offering “a little preview of an item on tonight’s Countdown” by ordering an EXECUTION:
The headline: Dana Milbank won’t be on the news hour any more.
Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, who notified us today that after four years appearing with us, he had accepted another television offer. This saved your crack Countdown staff an increasingly difficult decision.
Your “crack Countdown staff?”
And what decision was that, Keith? Dana must be brought to heel?
It seems the brouhaha stemmed from Dana Milbank’s article, President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour where Dana had the audacity to refer to Barack Obama as “the presumptuous nominee.” In other words, Dana finally woke up from his koolaid-induced stupor and called it like he saw it. And for this, the punishment was to be swift and sure from Herr Olbermann.
Since I covered Dana’s article last week, I thought it only fitting that I share the “reasons” for Keithie’s faux outrage. According to the pompous Olbermann:
For nearly a week we’d been waiting for [Dana] to offer a correction or an explanation for his column from last week in which he apparently reported an Obama quote without a full context turned the meaning of the quote inside-out.
Then he called criticisms of his column “whines” even though the dispute was over whether Obama said the self-deprecating: “It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign — that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions” — or only the part about “I have just become a symbol…”
All current evidence indicates that Senator Obama is about as capable of being self-deprecating as Olbermann is of having humility. Secondly, the article covers more of the quote than just the ‘symbol‘ part. Lastly, Keith is whining. That is something he has in common with most Obama surrogates on the receiving end of any criticism for their messiah: to whine.
We had decided not to have Dana on this news-hour again until this was cleared up, and, sadly after some very happy years, he’s apparently chosen to make that cloud permanent. Good luck, Dana.
…he took any further decision-making out of our hands. It was quite a surprise conclusion, obviously, and I’ll take it (before anybody tries to take it back).
So, Keith, what you are really telling us is that Dana Milbank basically told you to go stuff it before you had to make the “difficult decision” of telling him to go stuff it.
As you can see from reading Dana’s article linked above, he had the absolute audacity to criticize ‘the One’ and report honestly that some of the press corps started referring to Obama as a “prom queen.”
Considering Obama’s new supersized logo on his plane, his chair stitched with the word President on it, the usurping of the Presidential Seal, telling the press corps how to dress, not answering any real questions, negotiating with and giving his two cents to foreign leaders, overstepping the bounds of his overseas trip, the list goes on and on…why wouldn’t the press call Senator Obama a prom queen? Or perhaps we can use my favorite new name for him: Il Duce.
To summarize, Olbermann, who has been sipping his own koolaid for some time now and puffing out his chest higher and higher with every stinking broadcast, forbade Dana to come back on the show until Milbank basically bowed down and scraped his knees on the carpet begging Olbermann’s forgiveness.
You can manipulate Obama’s quote any way you want – there are several versions of it from different news sources. But in every single one, he refers to himself as ‘a symbol of returning to America best traditions.’ Obama and Puffy the Clown belong together. They have the same exaggerated sense of their own importance.
Why don’t they just go do a sweat lodge and sing songs around the campfire and smoke a doobie and get it over with.
Olbermann accusing Milbank of taking something out of context is a tad disingenuous considering he is the one who would go on nightly unjustified, self-righteous and outrageous diatribes against Hillary Clinton, mentioning the Clintons in the same sentence with the racist David Duke, and other disgusting rants. This is the man who said:
“A Super Delegate needs to take Hillary Clinton into a room and only he comes out. That kind of scenario.”
When viewers exploded with outrage, his big apology was that he “used the wrong pronoun.” That’s it.
MSNBC took the cake in terms of the worst misogynist slurs against Senator Clinton – the unforgivable remarks were compounded daily.
In addition to every other outrage from MSNBC, it appears they are practicing censorship. Because Dana Milbank finally decided to tell the truth about Senator Obama’s arrogant and unseemly behavior, Milbank was to be denied the opportunity to appear on the show and possibly express such dissent.
Olbermann was not worried about Dana offering an “explanation.” The threat was clear – either fall in line or you’re out of a job over here. Dana refused and took another offer instead.
I hope Keith Olbermann can enjoy his ever-lower ratings; currently around the rank of “the Butterfly Channel,” as I believe Bill O’Reilly so eloquently put it.
I see that freedom of speech and freedom of expression are not welcome on Countdown. I have long since written off this program, but more worrisome is the dread I have that dissent and honest expression are also being crushed in other parts of the news media. While Olbermann is arguably the worst offender, he is not alone.
I remember reading that Greta Van Susteren noted a reporter colleague of hers on another network could not file a report critical of Obama without it being watered down, whereas stories critical of Senators McCain and Clinton were left untouched. Highly disturbing to say the least.
There is no love lost for Dana Milbank, given most of his reporting this season. Like many in the media who complain about Obama now, they did so only after they spent many months unfairly kicking the far more qualified Senator Clinton in the teeth.
That stated, I am glad Dana had the good sense not to bow and scrape before Olbermann – a man whose character would be best served in a profession having nothing to do with disseminating ‘news’ to a public desperate for the truth.
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Oh Ani, you said the doobie word..LOL!
Keith has a lot of issues he’s in his late 40s never married..??
He could be like both-ways Barack ?
oops, I was thinking the doobie as a phallux symbol;-)
wow, you guys are really dumb. what does olbermann’s personal life or sexual preferences have to do with anything?
and it’s spelled phalluS.
Phallux
love it hate it
The Ancient and Primordial God of Rape. Worshipped in many places including Haiti and 4Chan.
is this God of Rape born in Kenya. that’s where Obambi’s bilionaire slumlord cousin Odinga’s gangs raped hundreds and left homeless half a milliion-with Obambi’s donations when he was there in ‘06. He encouraged his crazy islamo-fascist Couz Odinga (now Pres!) to bring in Sharia Law and to prevent jailing terrorists…
Obama is clueless about crimes against women.
Why would he let his 2 young girls watch the obscene sex simulation on the Pulpit by crazed racist Rev. Wright? Why did he not want to remove his 2 girls from watching the obscene body gymnastics ? Shouldn’t another more sane father remove his kids from this crrazy lewd, racis toxic environemnt?
No judgment for Barack. No character. The man’s an empty shell, removed from the real world. But he sure loves Himelf!
The obambi should be VP for his cousin Odinga in Kenya, now the Pres!. Dream ticket
Actually, the proper from should be phallic when used as an adjective.
Phallus is the noun; phallic is the adjective.
So, who’s the dumb one now?
Why don’t you ask Keith who loves to explore the sex lives of others. He may have an answer for you. Or ask his new bestfriend, Rachel Madcow!
yazzee yazzee yazze my sweet obamabot….honey chile sex has everythin to do with Olbie…have you ever watched him go redfaced on camera yelling hysterically about his BoyToy Obambi?!!!ah, sweets, Oblbie has the hots for your prom queen.
Yaz .. it goes to character. If Keith Olbermann has a tiny wee wee – and girlfriends were to diss him – if he has an eggplant body no woman would want (except for a job or lotsa money) they had close their eyes, grit their teeth when he (Keith) wanted sex …. well, it might explain why he hated Hillary (or any other woman). A deformed man with a teeny wee wee might be a bit unbalanced. We will pray for Keith.
Keith Olbermann has lived with Katy Tur of WPIX-TV for the past 3 years.
This is getting HYSTERICAL….Truly….LOL
Or perhaps we can use my favorite new name for him: Il Duce.
How about Il Douche?
How about Il Douche?
I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that… but was a little embarrassed to bring it up…
Ya know, flip it around and maybe Dana Milbank decided it wasn’t worth it to go onto a tanking show/network.
I’ve stopped watching that network except for Mornin’ Joe on occasions, those occasions being when Joe is on. If it’s Mika and little Willie Geiss the pretend journalist forget it.
Olbermann has become a clown and I don’t see where anyone could take him seriously anymore.
Can’t Keith go back to reporting sports?
Does this mean that Dana has to turn in his really swell “SECRET DECODER RING” ?
LOL…You are funny Harp….Truly
Did he say his staff was on crack?
I watched the segment and Keith said nothing until kos and his kooks tossed Dana under the bus.
Then Keith wrote a post at kos to throw him under the bus again.
Keith and a few others at MSNBC are the only Obama hacks left.
Back when I could still bear to watch Countdown, it occurred to me that Millbank was the only contributor who would occasionally go “off message”–that is, dare to say something that wasn’t over-the-top pro-Obama. Nothing huge, mind you, but his meager attempts to be objective stood in stark contrast to the blatherings of Keith’s kool-aid drinkers Alter, Wolffe, and Fineman.
The first thing I thought when I saw Dana’s article about Barry’s presumptuousness in the WaPo was that Edward R. Moron was not going to be happy. Look out, Dana, I see a “Special Comment” in your future.
Dana stuck a toe in the non-worshipping water back in March when he reported on the “I already answered, like, eight questions” thing — and Obama had to be ushered off the stage after that disastrous news conference.
That was the last we heard about that for four months.
Olbermann is such a giant asswipe. I’m so tired of his bullshit.
Perfectly said Jake.
You’ve taken the words from my fingertips.
Bless you and your brevity.
Something else the bloviating O’Reilly wannabe lacks.
“perfectly said”? asswipe? it’s a meaningless personal attack — it literally doesn’t mean anything substantive. but MEchelle just has to respond IN BOLD that this is perfectly said. god you guys are really dumb. at least make substantive arguments.
And your comments are soooo much more saliant …
LOL I think it’s funny how it makes a few pronouncements from on top of it’s pedestal and then complains WE don’t make substantive arguments
ANCHOVY who can’t capitalize a sentence.
This ain’t Union League or Moot Court at Stanford Law (Notice I didn’t say, “Harvard Law”), it’s a freakin’ blog.
And what does taking the name of a conception control pharmaceutical for your nom de blog say about you?
Do the little animals pass out when you walk by them in the park, or do you have vulvic/mother issues?
Now, Get Along, Little Anchovy. There’s time to watch, “Wild In The Streets” one more time before you pedal over and put on the headset at the drive-up window.
“Uuuuhhh…do ya want arugula with that?”
yaz — do they make better arguments in Palestine?
“you guys”? dumb? it’s a meaningless personal attack — it literally doesn’t mean anything substantive. but yaz just has to respond that this is an attack. god he thinks he’s so smart. at least make substantive arguments.
Mini Yaz – go lose yourself in the traffic and quit putting your used gum on the obama signs. they will be recycled soon
You are truly an intrusive nuisance. How old are you? 10? then stay and learn
Mini Yaz – sorry my comment was meant for that sewer Obama rat YAZ Obamabutt. He sounds like he’s a 10-year old with very lax parenting…obamabot, of course….
Obambi for VP in Kenya with Cousin Odinga!
P.S. Odinga by he way is the Kenyan Rezko. He’s a billionaire who made his money developing slums in Kenya!
why does Barack go after these Slumlords…
Dear Dear Yaz
Kindly abstain from calling us here on this Obamabot-free site “dumb”. You want to read something dumb. Go back to 2004 and see Obamarama calling Himself more popular than Paris Hilton and bragging that He makes her look like a recluse
Please, do something constructive with your dallowance. Buy an “X-rated for Kids under 18″ sign and post it outside Trinity Church so kids like obama’s own 2 girls will not go in and watch the pastor perform sexual act simulations on the pulpit in front of children, yelling..”Bill clinton loves us like he loved Monica!”
Now go shoooooo….just leave us alone and find a more welcoming home for the vacuousness of your empty suit candidate!
Xooo
yup and after the ge who will watch no count? the answer is not many.
Good post. Thanks.
yep,
we need “real” reporters that hate obama like mark levin, sean hannity, the world nut daily crew, and the FUX news team.
You know, the “real” reporters that all you dead-ender nutjobs now cite with approval and frequency cuz they share your paranoid and delusional fantasies about Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
Wah Wah Wah poor bot. Feeling left out?? Cause we’re having fun and you have to work for the Messiah??
steveeboy, is a regular troll at the Confluence.
looks like your PUMA video (great moment, and the sound is right on) scared him away.
Aaaah, wassamatta steveeboy,folks waking up to the precious standing there in his skinny ass nakedness and being repulsed by what they see? Poll numbers going in the tank? Obamalamadingdong starting to be a bit of a laughing stock? DAMN it must suck to look in the mirroe in the morning and realize either you’re a stupid FUX that got taken by a conman OR that you’re a stupid FUX that is to koolaide addled to realize Obama stickin it up your kiester and can’t figure out why his con just ain’t workin any more? No matter which, you’re still a stupid FUX!
steveeboy,
I am not a clinton supporter and not a regular on this site but your ideas of reporting are a joke. I very seldom watch any tv news reporters any more but this olberman? is an idiot. But of course we all have our own point of view. But you know what they say about points of views. ” A point of view is like an a_ _hole, we all have one. And like most a_ _holes and POV’s s_ _t comes out of them all the time.
Opinions are like assholes: everyone has one, and almost NO ONE wants to hear anyone else’s.
Thank God none of us rely upon Olbamamann as a reporter any more than we do, say, Robert Novak. Too bad KO isn’t taking some time off.
Don’t watch that moron, make his ratings go down
Oh steveeboy are you following Backtrack next week to look for his BC?
So now the Obambots don’t like bi-partisanship.
I see. It’s only good when Obama(unfit for command) can use it to gain political support.
Typical bot.
MSNBC, CNN, and The NY Times can join with the
other “dead enders” Kos, Huffington, and Air “America”.
steveeboy — its become more and more obvious that Obama is an arrogant air head and an insufferable bore. Perhaps when the media as a whole finally gets it — they can be considered the news media again.
Read Audacity of Hope and then STFU.
I see the true dead-enders have wet themselves again because all they have McCain and only themselves to blame. Sucks to be you.
Democracy is coming to the USA, despite all efforts of flag-humpers to keep us in this ditch.
Go Keih and go Obama. Let’s get back to the rule of law and let the morals-preaching perps eat the soiled kitty litter they have coming.
Rand Corporation July 30th, 2008 press release, War On Terror phraseology doesn’t work and we should stop using it. This is YOUR think tank! Peace out
This “news hour?”
Dana Milbank won’t be on “this news hour?”
Oh, Dana! Your credibility as a journalist has just hit the LOTTO. Say your prayers thanking the heavenly hosts for your salvation. Because you embarrassed yourself every time you were associated with that slimeball Olbermann. Trust me.
Olbermann hasn’t presented a “news hour” since the first days of Countdown. It’s cartoon-hour; it’s stroke-my-ego hour; it’s misogyny hour; it’s Oreilly-obsession hour; it’s not “news” hour.
So true. My favorites, on Countdown were always Craig Crawford and Dana Milbank. Unfortunately , I stopped watching MSNBC, because of Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in February and never got to see them. I can catch Craig on his Blog, Trailmix…now I will be on the look out for Dana.
Fortunately for me COMCAST dropped MSNBC from my cable. Haven’t missed it for a second. I sometimes wonder if it was a corporate calculated drop against Obama..
Dana Milbank, although also an offender, was one of the first to admit publicly that there was a discrepancy in the reportage.
Media Matters: http://mediamatters.org/items/200712310001
“On the December 30 edition of CNN’s Reliable Sources, Washington Post national political reporter Dana Milbank said of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) that “[t]he press will savage her no matter what.” He made the comment in response to a question from Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, the Reliable Sources host, about whether the media would “savage her as a loser” if she “gets edged out by 1,000 votes” in the Iowa caucus. Milbank went on to characterize Clinton’s relationship with the press as “poisonous” and “venomous,” and said that journalists “dislike” her.”
Thank you for this hysterically funny read in the midst of what looks so insane to all of us….
it was this part!
Considering Obama’s new supersized logo on his plane, his chair stitched with the word President on it, the usurping of the Presidential Seal, telling the press corps how to dress, not answering any real questions, negotiating with and giving his two cents to foreign leaders, overstepping the bounds of his overseas trip, the list goes on and on…why wouldn’t the press call Senator Obama a prom queen? Or perhaps we can use my favorite new name for him: Il Duce.
You can manipulate Obama’s quote any way you want – there are several versions of it from different news sources. But in every single one, he refers to himself as ‘a symbol of returning to America best traditions.’ Obama and Puffy the Clown belong together. They have the same exaggerated sense of their own importance.
Why don’t they just go do a sweat lodge and sing songs around the campfire and smoke a doobie and get it over with.
I can’t stop laughing! — thank god for you and Uppity! well –all of you writers here!
how did this happen and ditto Il Duce–he wishes….
I must have had too much coffee. I read that as Il Dunce, not once, but twice.
Well, Keith Obamamann still has Eugene Robinson and Jonathan Alter!
As I predicted moths ago, Obamamann is imploding in the exact same way he always implodes at every single job he has ever had. I doubt he’s still employed come this time next tear. He’s going to wig out so badly at some point that they are going to haul him off screen with one of those giant hooks.
I predict the hook for Keithy boy on November 5. Can you imagine how apoplectic he’s gonna be in when his messiah LOSES?
Haven’t gone anywhere near MSNBC – especially Olbermann’s kook hour – in months and months. But, I’ll sure be glad to tune in after barky’s landslide loss to watch the nutjob get hauled off to the rubber room!
In fact, it’s gonna be such a joy tuning into CNN, MSNBC and the rest when bambi loses – just to watch each and every one of them have a complete and very public meltdown.
This is funny Sharon! I can’t wait till Oblowme loses by a landslide in Nov. That’s the main thing, plus getting to watch the Obamanation implode. But the icing on the cake be the pleasure of watching Olbermann self-destruct. I bet he has to go on sabbatical due to his complete meltdown. Or maybe MSNBC will come to their senses and purge themselves of the rancid b*stard for good. Poor Chris Matthews may lose all sensations in his tingly leg. Tsk, tsk.
And dream of all dreams – Hillary becomes the nominee at the convention and Olberman’s inflated head pops right off his stiff neck!
Hillary or McCain ‘08!!!
Instead of “Hillary or McCain ‘08″ I would sooner see “Progressives” vote for Ralph Nader if he’s on the ballot in your State, and Obama is the nominee. At least he’s anti-corporate and far more in line with our ideals than either McCain or Obama.
If we never get serious about a viable third party we will be stuck with this mess forever! Maybe a protest vote for Nader will seriously get things finally moving in that direction!
Personally I’m sick and tired of Corporate Candidates like we’ve been stuck with recently. It’s either vote for Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum.
Author Gore Vidal has often commented that he would love to see a multi-party system in US politics. As it is, we’re stuck with two wings of the same party. I’m inclined to agree with him all the more as I watch this election season proceed!
This is when I will return as well. I am going to get the largest bowl of popcorn I can find. Put my favorite chair right in front of the screen, channel hope from one 0bamatank to another an watch them wail. It will be the highlight of the election …. well, after he gets bounced on his axx of course!
beebop — When Obama loses I will be on Bitterpolitics and No Quarter celebrating. To hell with those who call themselves the media — I am going to celebrate with the people. Thank you Camille and Larry — God Bless You.
I feel like I’m repeating myself.
FK KEITH OLBERDOUCHE
FK HIS FK BUDDIES ALTER AND ROBINSON
FK MSNBO AND THE DONKEY THEY BACKED IN ON!!
MOFO HYPOCRITES ALL OF THEM
now I must go wash my OWN mouth out with soap! (and it will be worth it)
Poor Keith. You are now the Worst Person In the World almost every day. Thank goodness Milbank jumped off the Obama train. Maybe he saw the same thing Edgeoforever saw at Zogby.
And it used to be so much fun to watch you. I’ve learned my lesson. Hysterics are hysterics, whether they be on the left or the right.
I used to have a little bit of respect for Olbermann, but he’s just become another foot soldier in the Barack Obama kiss my ass sweepstakes. Ever notice how ALL of Olbermann’s guests agree with him?? At least O’Reilly, who I have a hatred for as well, has guests that disagree with him. Keith-e rambles on and on about how unfair and unbalanced Fox news is, yet he can have all the left leaning, slanted, liberal guests he does, and you don’t dare question it. But that’s Olbermann, a hypocrite to the end.
Ever notice KO ask a question with the answer already in the question.
And his questions are longer than my Master’s thesis.
His questions are longer than Obama’s ying-yang…
O’Reilly seems very fair and balanced, since I qiut watching MSNBC I’ve been tuning in at FOX and they seem to play it pretty straight. Hannity just rips on Obama, too bad he doesn’t read this blog, he doesn’t ever mention Obama and Ayers connected to the Annenberg Challenge grant, that was their biggest deal, spent $110 million together.
More humor in this first line of a San Francisco Chronicle editorial on Obama’s energy policy:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/04/EDEI124S1O.DTL
Sen. Barack Obama’s energy policy is offering more flip flops than a Lake Tahoe souvenir stand.
Yahoo news this morning says, Obama blames energy crisis on Cheney. Oh yes, BO voted for the Cheney Energy Bill. Wash his mouth out with soap.
Can 0bama remember voting for his cousin Dick’s energy plan? I mean, that was when? Last year?
I just can’t keep up with the Pretender In Chief. He is sooooooo desperate to be President he will say anything. tsk tsk–You ain’t got what it takes and you probably never will have.
Does anyone ever call Obama on his lies in the MSM???
I’m sorry everyone, but I just can’t hold it in any longer. I just have say a Special Comment® about all of this. Here goes:
For the past week, we have learned that “Countdown Until Keith Obamamann Goes Insane” has been censuring and holding Dana Milbank verbally hostage. HOW DARE YOU censor Dana Milbank, SIR!!! What is this…the freaking Soviet Union? (wipes spittle from corner of mouth) WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? (veins in temple area close to bursting) You are bad, SIR!!! (why is everything getting blurry?) Oh, the pain. I can’t take it anymore. WHY? WHY? WHY CAN’T YOU LEAVE BARRY ALONE?
HA!
Thanks for that Special Comment. It’s brilliant.
I even got a tingle up my leg!
;o}
OxyCon –
Spot on!
Great one!
KO is a drooling fool… the spittle reference was perfect!
spittle ?….he must be copying tingle leg.
HFS!!!
too funny
Milbank has no need to bow and scrape–he’s negotiated a much more lucrative deal…WITH CNN. I love the way that the Herbert Humbert (for the unliterary amongst you, google Vladimir Nabokov) of the NBC family is so, dare I say, PRESUMPTUOUS, to pronounce judgment on ANYONE.
They’re just not that into you, KO!
Wonkette sure had it right!
http://wonkette.com/401680/dana-milbank-leaves-msnbc-for-cnn
The only one who CARES, Olbermann, is YOU.
Olbermann is becoming the Morton Downey Junior of this decade. No idea who he was?
Once upon a time he was all the rage.
No Bias, No Bull!
Morton Downey Jr…yeah, now that you mention it, I see that! I completely forgot about that guy.
Can we start the Countdown now to see how long it takes for Dana Milbank to be on the Worst Person in the World list? My favorite countdown would be NObama on my television, or no KO either.
I remember Morton Downey Jr. He tried so hard to be endlessly fascinating that he wore us all out. Obama reminds me of him.
Here is another view of what transpired.
Click on the “also responded” link for additional info.
BOYCOTT THE ‘I OWN MY VOTE SURVEY’
Why is ‘I OWN MY VOTE’ offering the DRAFT as an option for its platform?
I Own My Vote is supposed to be a Hillary support group (i thought), but now if you are a member of I own my vote, you are supporting the draft.
And to all the idiots who think the draft will end the war, you are wrong.
The military needs 2 things, money and bodies. The Dems make sure they have the money and now all the fake anti-war people want to give them the bodies.
Its like trying to lower gas prices by raising the gas tax higher.
Thanks for reminding me to sign the petition.
LOL !!
Enough with your repetitive comments already!
People here are smart and can choose the “I do not agree” option there.
Any item that doesn’t receive a majority of votes is not presented to the comittee.
so.. STOP TROLLING about this. Okay?
once again agent 86, did you notice there was a choice on that question? Agree or Disagree optional.
We are not a movement, we are not a cult, we are not the borg, we aren’t gullible. Although we do agree entirely on some things, such as how freaking funny it is to joke about the pathetic freak-show that is ob.
From Donna’s skunk hair to keith’s public breakdown, we are having a bit of a laugh at ob’s expense.
Now run along and boycott something useful such as the liar and fraud cult leader KOS, and make sure you ask him why he has perpetrated the colb as fact for all these months despite evidence for many months that it was clearly a fraud.
And you might want to use your shoe phone agent 86 and call HQ and ask about ob’s backpedal on the draft.
Carefully check out his plans and his statements for increases in troops and how he plans to screw it all up even more than it is already. He isn’t going to withdraw he is going to reassign and increase the number of troops to other arenas. Wall Street and the money machine are among the oh so many pulling his strings. cha ching, they want payback suckers.
Nobody owns Clinton and nobody tells her what to do, not even Bill. So stuff your boycott.
I am boycotting NBC, you should too, we all should.
“From Donna’s skunk hair to keith’s public breakdown, we are having a bit of a laugh at ob’s expense.”
because of the phrasing, regarding donna’s hair i read
keith’s PUBIC breakdown. LOL
http://www.obama-wire.com
Yep, the two embarrassing apologists for Barry [O] Soetoro, who took used their positions in the media to be Axe’s accomplices to do any and all possible to push Barry are now freaking out as they see their following, their [lack of] work and integrity, suffering immeasurable.
Will Herbert and Obamaman have their moment of conscience for their embarrassing conduct and have their Mea Culpa? Considering how they are freaking out these days, I say they better, or they aint gonna’ be able to live with themselves. lol
Dana Milbank, it’s good to see a journalist can admit and see the error of their ways, change and move on. Hat tip to you sir.
I don’t think it is the lack of integrity he cares about. It is the lack of ratings. They keep plumetting.
I am not a big fan of Tavis Smily, but another journalist thrown under the bus for not supporting barry. It was sad how he left Tom Joyner morning show because he did not show his love for barry. What are we going to be left with after the conventions? Hopefully not the talking heads, Air America, MSNBC and CNN.
Oh I forget Fat Ass Roland Martin (I can call him a fat ass because I have one)
I call him Roland Dashiki. Remember what he wore on CNN when they were covering Wright’s rant at the press club?
Didn’t the BO Gang threaten Tavis’s grandmother or something equally innovative in the Chicago Way of Information Suppression Tactics.
His parents live in Indiana and got threats.
Leaving the “toxic” atmosphere of Countdown is the
best thing that could happen to Milbank.
During the primary, he was a grand participant in
the “let’s get Hillary out” attitude, that so many
MSM displayed.
Perhaps, if he’s been sufficiently “de-programmed”
he might be one in the MSM to “follow up” on questions pertaining to Obama’s eligebility. The COLB
and does he hold dual citizenship in any other country? If he did, does no longer, when did that status change?
These are reasonable questions to ask of a “citizen of the world”? Am I on the wrong track here?
If Milbank is not the one…somebody!
Milbank probably won’t improve his rhetoric much in going to CNN, at least until/if they decide to back Mac. I can’t believe his moment on MSNBC meant that he is reformed.
Dana Milbank is not reformed. But at least he did bend down before Keith. That is something anyway.
Keith disgusts me. I used to like him – only cause he was one of the few that took up for Bill Clinton. Isn’t that how he gained his popularity?
I hate him more than I hate O’Reilly…and that’s HUGE! The thought of Keith makes me want to puke more than the thought of O’Reilly with a loofa.
He’s got red lips all the time. Is it the lipstick, or koolaid?
Wow! KO officially confirms that you don’t get on MSNBC unless they know in advance that you will say what they want you to say. Yeah, that’s a news channel.
Oh stop with all the fake outrage. You all used to love KO, and you will all go back to loving him once Barack Obama finishes vetting and selects Hillary to be his VP choice.
not a snowball’s chance in hell
Keith is DOA
as well as the garbage dump he works at called MSNBO
I will never vote for Hillary as VP
it won’t get that far
trust me – you have not been paying attention have you boi?
I believe the majority of “PUMAs” want to see Hillary on the ticket. You may be one of the true “dead-enders”.
do you believe or do you know?
What is he going to scream in his sleep when Evan of Indiana is announced? Hillary for Secretary of State? Please. Just take a hike for goodness’ sake. 0bama is a big 0.
She will not be his V.P. choice — nor do we want her to be. Why can’t you get that. He is the Titanic — let him go down on his own. She does not need to rescue him.
His ego is too big for him to choose her anyway — then he is admitting that he needs her and doesn’t know what he is doing without her.
For the thousandth time, WE DO NOT WANT HER ANYWHERE NEAR HIS TICKET.
We want her as President — she is qualified and he is not. She also doesn’t go around insulting everyone who didn’t vote for her.
Olbermann is a pig and I will never forget or forgive that.
Then why do I keep hearing news reports saying Hillary wants on the ticket? Even David Gergen said Obama should seriously consider putting Hillary on the ticket. I believe Obama will ask Clinton to be on the ticket. It would unify the party and also give Hillary a chance to learn and prepare for a better presidential run in 2016.
BOBO should ask her. That kind of pure act of desperation on BOBO’s part will give us all something to laugh at as we vote McCain.
Who comes up with these “news reports”?
Like the AP report Tuesday morning June 3rd that she was conceding BEFORE people even went to the polls — that was B.S. too.
I am relatively sure he has already offered her VP and she told him to stick it. Unless she is cornered by the DNC and they are desperate and try to force her on in a last ditch effort to rescus his sorry ass — I guarantee you, she wants no part of him.
She knows she would have to do all the damned work while he “puts his feet up on the desk.”
He’s a delegater — as opposed to being a decider.
Ha! Oh, so now you want Hillary for his VP since you all are finally waking up to the fact that he doesn’t have a snowcone’s chance in hell without her? The party doesn’t have a snowcone’s chance in hell without her as POTUS. Hillary as BHO VP still=President McCain. As of this Friday, we’ll have less than three calendar months to the election. Not even close to enough time to clean up the mess that Dean, Brazille, Pelosi and BOBO have made.
the only way to clean up that mess {{Sugar}} is to sweep their sorry butts OUT the DOOR! (first)
hehe! I’ve got my broom ready. Say the WORD PUMA!
Another stupid idiot….
Maureen Dowd!
To think I used to like reading her columns.
Today she had a pathetic column where she once again labeled Hillary supporters as dead enders and essentially racists for not backing Obama.
KO and Dowd both fail to realize that it is anything but race as to why Hillary supporters are not backing Obama
What aggravates me the most is that these two idiots always fail to mention the men who have been longtime democrats who will never vote for the inexperienced fraud.
Dowd et al cannot mention this because that would blow a hole in their entire flawed ‘thesis.’
Dowd just wants to be cools — she got a tinlge up her leg from Barry complimenting her boots on the plane and calling her McDowd. Now she imagines herself to be some kind of cool babe. Her columns have gotten worse and worse. She has betrayed herself.
She may well be soliciting romantic tips for dealing with His Most Emminently De Luxe Self from Larry Sinclair.
Or even Tony Sinclair.
Never!
Even if Hillary accepts the VP spot – I will never watch that vomitus maniac again. My solemn oath on the heads of my children.
Hillary or McCain ‘08!!!
Sure you will. What drew you to him in the first place will draw you to him again once Hillary is on board.
I was never ‘drawn’ to him — I am not a teenager. I just want the news, I could give a crap about personality.
That is the problem with all this 24/7 news b.s. — it is mostly poor punditry and speculation masquerading as fact.
Just because KeithO had a few good moments of Bush-bashing, that doesn’t make him Edward R. Murrow.
He can get over himself.
GAG … GAG GAG GAG GAG ……
Ain’t happening. Keith Olbermann is completely off my radar.
Oblowme can “choose” Hillary all he wants, bot. She ain’t gonna take a backseat to the unqualified, dishonest male fraud. The fact that you obotidiots keep posting THE LIE everywhere that WE WANT Hillary to be bambi’s VP, just shows how desperate you are.
Now that it’s become COMPLETELY OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE that the idiot needs Hillary to SAVE HIM.
So, you’re pretending that you’ll (bambi and his bots) “acquiesce” to it because it’s what “we Hillary supporters want.”
Too funny! And such stinky Bullsh*t. And so pathetically sad.
Hillary ain’t gonna save your idiot. We ain’t gonna save your idiot. Your idiot is beyond saving – circling the drain faster every minute.
We are going to CELEBRATE his ignominious and landslide DEFEAT! Bambi will go down humiliated and disgraced. As will the DNC and the corporate media.
So well deserved!
freedom Fighter — I will never go back to Obermann. When this election cycle is over and McCain wins I will petition him to put some people in at the FCC who will force these stations who call themselves news stations to do the news or lose their licenses.
no we won’t go back to ko and no hillary won’t be chosen as the sacrifical goat for obambi.
And then you woke up.
I miss Bernard Shaw.
idiocracy 08 — I miss Bernard Shaw too. I miss the real News when you had no idea who the Anchor was voting for. We have lost so much when they decided that news could be done on the cheap. I want that back.
Olbermann ought to be ashamed of himself. I’m sure his mother is ashamed of him. I’ve never cared for the pompous prick anyway, but he has totally been added to my wall of shame.
Olberboyy calls his show “the news hour”???
What a presumptuous ass.
Or perhaps we can use my favorite new name for him: Il Duce.
How quickly BOBO moved through Il Duce to Il Dunce
“But I am not a racist,” he continued. “I’ve never made a racist comment and I never attacked him [Obama] personally.”
When the President of the dem party has to state this, it is a new low in dem politics.
The President of the dem party has to say he is not a racist thanks to Obama and his hacks like KO.
Disgusting and unforgivable.
gotalife — you got that right. We have known Clinton for 17 years and have no clue who Obama is and yet the entire news media is at his beck and call and nothing he says can be challenged. This is ridiculous and sad. I hope McCain doesn’t allow this to happen to him.
I know mark levin is a right wing columnist but this video is so funny.
“barack obama gives the thrill up my leg award”
it is on eyeblast.tv.
It will make you laugh
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS AND BUBBAS RULE
How old are you people? Better yet does anyone here have any political principles? Hillary did not get the nomination, it wasn’t stolen from her nor was she cheated. Hillary ran a great race but she made mistakes, a lot of mistakes. Does anyone remember the pre-Iowa coverage and debates that all treated Hillary as the winner? Read the plans compare the plans, decide on the issues not on emotion. Will McCain help you? Seriously, what direction do you want this country to head? This isnt high school.
Thomas… ‘Political principles’ are something YOU obviously DON’T have… Otherwise you would be able to see clearly how ‘manipulated’ this primary was/is. I pity your ignorance. (btw – I have been voting democratic since 1971. So stop being so naive and condescending and grow up)!
Oh and do you have that magical map that shows just WHICH plan we are supposed to believe from your obama???! At least McCain has the dignity and HUMILITY of the office and just very possibly, the EXPERIENCE.
“not high school”… EXACTLY! Barky o’arrogance me me me EGO isn’t running for student council president…
Wes Clark made that comment about Obarky, too, sometimes back — ‘we aren’t electing student council president here.’
plans? plans? BO doesn’t have plans! In case you haven’t noticed, he’s just winging it.
It’s tough facing reality, isn’t it?
The facts are:
*Hillary didnt’ lose, and Obama didn’t win.
*Neither candidate acquired the number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination.
*Hillary was pushed out, whereas Obama was selected, not elected.
Deal with it. We are.
PUMA
political and priciples sounds like oxy-Thomas
You are obviously new here and already are not worthy of a comment….Shoooo
How old are WE???
That’s rich. We were just wondering the same thing about Senator Obama’s supporters — drinking the koolaid of a man who is long on empty platitudes and short on qualifications, moral courage or any coherent policy he can stick with for more than five minutes.
The Presidency is not only about conservative or liberal– it is also about character. Obama’s idea of policy is to stick his finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. He cares about his elitist friends, big business and Excelon. He could give a damn about working people in this country, or anyone else except himself.
You are all drinking the Fixed Noise (Fox) Coolaid.
Hannity, O’Reilly, give me a break. When have they ever told the truth or let anyone with a difference in opinion even be heard without them yelling over the guest If they can even be a guest or like Ed Schultz, receiving a last minute cancellation on Larry King when the crackpot Glen Beck feared he would have to meet face to face with someone who could factually refute everything Beck believes in his mind to be true.
Check Keith’s facts some time. Like him or not, at least he provides the other side, the correct side with hope to lead us out of this criminal party the GOP has become.
Are you all better off than you were almost 8 years ago???? I doubt it unless you are old money or currently employed by big oil.
Oh shut it. Fox will tell the truth when it suits them, and the rest of the MSM will lie through their fucking teeth when it suits them. WMDs? Bush’s past? The Hunting of Bill Clinton? Suck it LL. We will not be voting for The Great Empty Cranium ie Buckethead Barky come November. Perhaps you and he should have treated us ladies better. Dickwad.
No, you’re gonna vote for this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-LEyyf7d4
The November 2008 presidential election will be our third attempt to pass the National Intelligence Test that America first failed in November 2000.
If you’re considering voting for John McCain, you might want to think seriously about copying somebody else’s answers.
Suck my clit Ziggy. Barky is much worse than McCain. I’ve watched John for years and I love when he bucks his own party. Barky is an semi educated idiot in love with himself and he has no spine. Gawd I loathe wimpy men.
That kinda sounds like something you might might overhear wandering through the crowd during the Miss Buffalo Chips event McCain volunteered Cindy for.
Seriously, did you watch the newsclip?
You could comfortably vote for this guy for President of the United States after doing so?
All I can say is bring on those one-on-one televised debates. It’s high time for a side-by-side comparison. It’s high time for a showdown.
ziggy,
And, you can comfortable vote for Obama even with the following support:
Oh Gawd. This is the newest talking point sent out by the collective? Look you badly drawn, unfunny, mediocrity, Cindy is ten times the woman Michelle is. That’s why Barky’s campaign asked that Barky keep that thing on a short leash and told her to go home and mind the offspring. You want a showdown, bring it, oh thee of the small penis.
you might want to think seriously about copying somebody else’s answers.
Ha! Your funny! You need to cut your toenails with some something other than a blunt instrament.
Don’t you comprehend what you just said? WTF do you think BO has been doing?
The day Barack Obama makes a public appearance as pathetic and embarassing–and as frightening–as John McCain’s at Strugis is the day I’ll begin to entertain some serious doubts about Barack Obama.
This isn’t the John McCain I remember.
You realize the oval office isn’t public, right?
You endorse a misogynist, sexist and racist candidate.
Obama never denounced the following statement made by his National Campaign Co-Chair, Jesse Jackson, Jr. to the Washington Post regarding Hillary:
No, I don’t, because Barack Obama is none of those things.
And the Jesse Jackson quote… He was making an observation about why a male black candidate has to be very careful about how he politically attacks a white female opponent. It was a observation about the dangers of perceptions and resonances. It wasn’t a stand-alone comment meant to be quoted out of its context, but that’s the only way you’ll ever find it. Obama had nothing there to apologize for, and nothing to denounce.
Maybe you’ll venture an opinion about how a classy lady like Cindy McCain might feel about John’s joking suggestion that she be entered in the Miss Buffalo Chip competition? Or about how the women who admire her felt about the comment? John was talking about his own wife, of course, so maybe that makes it OK…
ziggy,
It’s obvious you have been brainwashed and you will believe anything Obama and his minions feed you.
There is no way to dialogue with irrational people such as yourself because you cannot be objective.
Cindy McCain is not running for President; Obama and John McCain are running for President.
Your continued attacks on Cindy McCain only strengthens the argument that you have bought into the misogynism and sexism of Obama, his campaign and supporters.
You have only reinforced what is already known about Obama supporters: they are either naive, ignorant or corrupt.
Yep. I agree. Cindy isn’t running. Obama and McCain are running. (Although I haven’t totally counted Hillary out yet. There’s still a convention with a possible floor nomination and all delegates seated and voting.)
Watch the full CNN clip of John McCain at Strurgis. That’s not edited. That’s not somebody speaking for John, or about John. That’s just John.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-LEyyf7d4
And John is the guy who people keep telling me I should vote for.
BTW, I didn’t attack Cindy McCain. I was deeply embarassed for Cindy McCain. She had to just stand there and smile. The woman is a real trooper.
ziggy,William Gaddis said,
"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance."
The Obama campaign has done a great job at cultivation.
Kieth has a special comment for you.
LOLOLOL, and it would be ever so much more in my interest to vote some racist, corrupt, terrorist lover who thinks American citizens, especially women who were the majority of those who voted against him, don’t have a right to vote.
Not only will I not vote for your loathesome Obamessiah, I won’t vote downticket dems either. You clowns will learn the hard way we don’t take kindly towards stealing our representation.
Because you’re a self-absorbed dumbsh#t who can’t be bothered to get off your porky a$$ and research your own freakin candidate doesn’t mean we haven’t.
Take your broken Rulz and stick em up your hindquarters pointy edges first.
Thomas — How old are you? Have you no memory of Open Conventions where the delegates vote for the Candidate of their Choice? I guess thats what Obama depends on — young dummies like yourself so he can preach change and never worry about you asking what kind of change. Your mom just made your lunch time to go back to school. Try to learn something.
I think Keithie-poo has ‘mommy issues’ ~
He needs to pet a PUMA! ~
“Goodnight and GET LOST!”
P U M A
HopeForHillary ‘08
Maybe he will go jogging early in the morning in a ravine and can find a nice pet there. Here kitty, kitty…..Nice kitty…..
PUMAs are too good for Olbermann.
This just drives the nail in the coffin that KO and MSNBC are so far in the tank for Obama they need diving equipment. So Milbank is a goner? A little too late Dana. You were one of the ones who beat Hillary over the head with you shoe all those months ago and now you have come to realize that Obama is not all he is cracked up to be you lower the boom.
Too little, too late. But since I no longer watch cable, your demise won’t be much noticed. Just waiting for the day KO finally loses it altogether and they haul him off for yet another intervention. Then most assuredly a breath of fresh air may begin to emanate from that outhouse called MSNBC.
“most assuredly a breath of fresh air may begin to emanate from that outhouse called MSNBC.” …. Not a chance!!!!!
Wow, this website is some sorry bunch of sad losers…
And you choose to grace us with your ‘winning’ presence because…???
I got here because I was googling for the whole Milbank hoopla. Don’t worry, I won’t return. It’s sad what has become of you all. For the record (and I know you won’t believe that, but never mind): I supported Hillary and would welcome her as VP.
But – forget me. I’m off. Bye.
I do not think it is sad to report the truth.
Olbermann IS a sad case, however.
Milbank did finally tell the truth.
I am not sure what is sad about that, except that the media has taken so long to wake up.
There is nothing sad about the people here, however. We actually care about having proper leadership in this country.
LOL You can’t forget something you never remembered in the first place.
If I never know, there is no need to act. If I never act, then I am not responsible. If I am not responsible, there is no need to know.
symbol — don’t let the door hit you where the good lord split you.
Symbol
The real sad thing is you and others who claimed to be supporters or supported Senator Clinton can easily turned an blind eye and support a guy who used the Bush/Rove 2000 playbook against another Democrat. Barack Obama and his team of “progressive” flunkies had done something that the right wing media and the Republicans couldn’t do in 12 years tarnish the Clintons.. You know the Obama team hurl enough slime when Bill Clinton has to say “I’m not a racist” on national tv..
To the subject at hand I tuned out Keith Olbermann in the time span where Keith went ape crap crazy over Gerladine Ferraro(sp) comments but kept quite when Obama supporter Randi Rhodes called Hillary Clinton a “F*cking whore” at a backed Obama campaign rally. To me it’s about fairness and in this primary it seems Hillary had to fight not Obama but she had to fight Ed Schultz, she had to fight Steph Miller, every so called progressive bloger and Air America. Other then Lynn Samuels where was the pro Clinton person on the air waves during the primary?
All these people and outlets I mention were repeating Obama campaign talking points and allowing Obama followers to add in the slime when they called in.
Why would Milbank want to stay on a failed show, KO’s and his entourage of all male Washington Post Company geriatric has been, is boring uniformed and stupid, Milbank is a differing demo and besides KO talk show is tanking in the ratings??? Why GE employees him is the question I for one buy nothing GE as I find the mockery so offensively dumb. Hmmmm
I quit MSNBC about three months ago. I was a regular and KO was a must watch. At some point, prior to a Hillary Cluinton interview with Russert, it became an Obama station. NBC, MSNBC and Newsweek are all owned by General Electic, a very large defense contractor. In that interview Russert tried to hammer away at Hillary, but she handled him in a business like manner and made him look very bad. Following the interview, things went from bad to worst in all these news outlets. I do not watch NBC or MSNBC and I cancelled Newsweek. I do not know for sure, but I believe that the Washington Post is owned by G.E. I could be wrong, but all of the reporters, including Eugene Robinson, are in the bag for Obama. Beside some of his other mental problems, KO has one that involves women. He hammered on Spears and Hilton to such an extent that it was just too much and out of line. Saw something the other day and it stated that “Countdown” was down to 30 in their ratings.
Keith who?? Haven’t switched to MSNBC for almost 6 months now.
WHY ARE MOST OF YOU PEOPLE (ESPECIALLY THE ORIGINAL POSTERS AND LARRY) SO FREAKIN’ DUMB?
That is typical bullshit coming from an Obama supporter. God forbid someone disagrees with the Holy One. God forbid some of us can’t stomach him for reasons other than his race and name. God forbid we just loathe the fact he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about this country.
You people need to get off the damn kool-aid, get jobs, or move elsewhere. As for the rest of us, we’re fed up with all this media pandering. We’re not Zombies and we can speak for ourselves. Most of us have the ability to hear exactly what Obama is trying to sell us.
Thanks to Larry and Susan–we have a place to come together as Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. Our goal is the same: STOP BARACK OBAMA FROM BECOMING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Our country–our vote! Deal with it.
God made us this way so that drooling idiots, like you, would have role models showing what you could be with a lot of extremely hard work and a full lifetime of support from a loving, passionately dedicated, community.
Why so hateful and bitter?
WHy would you give a shit?
~”WHY ARE MOST OF YOU PEOPLE (ESPECIALLY THE ORIGINAL POSTERS AND LARRY) SO FREAKIN’ DUMB?”~
Because we’ve seen the light and you O people are still stumbling around in the dark. We’ll light a candle for you.
666 — We welcome devils. This is an equal opportunity blog.
666?
Donna B., is that you?
my advise, show You support to Hillary and Bill and to all those who are not affraid to stend up and defend those great people. Just writing and yapping on any blog is not enough, get You behind up from chairs and get busy, end show up in Denver, or werever Obama is speaking. Just yapping wont get us anywere. It is time for action, words have no meaning anymore” show me the money”. Obama is talking and talking, and He still is leading in pools.
My advise to you is to learn to spell better.
To say that one is only a symbol of aspirations to return to the higher values once exemplified by America and her traditions is not a clear enough statement?
It’s so clear that anti-Obama people apparently felt it had to be misquoted and turned on its head.
There’s absolutely nothing honest about a news report or news commentary–or a commentator–that deliberately uses such distorted quotations to attempt to score points.
No doubt Dana Milbank will find other career opportunties. I would think FOX News would be a likely place to send a resumé.
BOBO, in thast statement, is equating himself to America since the world is channeling it’s desires through him. LMAO you BOBOweenies really picked a freak as your candidate.
You are viewing a reflection of the world in a distorting mirror. The words are prefectly clear. They say exactly what they say. No more, no less.
Why else do you suppose some people felt it was necessary to alter them?
And what they say — exactly — is still wrong.
Well, that’s where opinions are seriously divided. Supporters of Obama tend to view him as an opportunity for change. He’s not viewed as the solution itself. More as a doorway to a wider range of possibilities. All of the real work of getting America back on the right track begins once you go through a doorway that makes it possible.
I looked at Hillary Clinton the same way, and still do.
I don’t see John McCain as a doorway. I see him as a barrier, keeping us in the place where we’ve gotten stuck.
That’s all just symbolic talk, of course. But it symbolizes something real.
LOL now I’ve heard everything. BOBO’s slogan was Change we can believe in, not your post primary revision An opportunity for change we can believe in. It was the original slogan that was used to bludgeon Hillary supporters during the primaries. According to you BOBOweenies back then she and John McCain were part and parcel of the same thing that had to be done away with. You can flail about all you want trying to find common ground with us now. LOL of course your biggest impediment now is your attitude then.
When Obama and Clinton were battling it out during the primaries they focused on opposing each other. Supporters on either side took some questionable shots. The candidates took a few questionable shots. Both campaigns did all they could to optimise their advantages. Each side had some high-profile, loose-cannon jackasses, that took it all personally and tried to make it all personal. That’s politics.
That was then. This is now. I’m still a democrat, and what I oppose is republican policy. The same thing I opposed all along.
That’s how I look at things.
This is now and you are still taking questionable shots and expecting us to take you seriously. It was you who said Supporters of Obama tend to view him as an opportunity for change. He’s not viewed as the solution itself. More as a doorway to a wider range of possibilities. Yet during the primaries the supporters of BOBO weren’t making that argument. They were making the argument I paraphrased earlier. As a matter of fact,they were making the primary argument until just recently when BOBO managed to somehow squeak himself down neck and neck with McCain.
Your deception is taken for what it is: A really lame assed attempt, now that BOBO is in trouble, to make friends with those you’ve been writing off for the past seven months. Sorry, but it’s too little, too late. And best of all, we’ve actually been enjoying our lives without you.
So keep your resentments, hang onto your grudges, and keep fighting the same old battle–when others, apparently including Senator Clinton, have moved on to where the real current battle is. I can’t talk you out of that. I won’t condemn you for it. But don’t expect me to see the point of it. Like I said, I’m focused on the perils and possibilities of now.
I’ve never said a word against folks still trying to promote Hillary Clinton’s cause. I won’t, either. I just argue against attacks on the candidate the democratic party currently seems to have. Because I’m a democrat.
James, we’ve already have moved on, to John McCain. That’s how badly you and BOBO fucked up. Democrats will be voting for a republican this year. Thats how badly you and BOBO fucked up. After eight years of Chimpy Mcflightsuit and all the horse shit he brought with him, democrats are going to vote for the republican presidential candidate. That’s how badly you and BOBO fucked up. What you and BOBO fail to even consider is that because you fucked this thing up so badly, you are the fight we have to fight. You are the current battle. Democrats have to fight democrats in 2008 to avoid another four years of a light weight chief executive that is in love with himself and unchecked by a rubber stamp congress of the same party. That’s how badly you and BOBO fucked up.
Own it.
I guess we’ll find out in November how many democrats actually believe leaving the republicans in charge is the only intelligent response to the godawful mess 12 straight years of republican domination have gotten us into.
Assuming, of course, that we get a true vote count, which apparently didn’t happen in either 2000 or 2004.
Then we’ll see over the next 4 years how smart our choice was.
You’re evidently counting on a democratic majority in congress to hold another republican president in check for 4 years. What we’ve seen since the 2006 elections is a republican president holding his ground against congress. The republicans are just biding their time.
That democratic majority is a fragile thing, with the congressional approval rating being at an all-time low. The democrats won a majority just in time to be on the scene when the negative consequences of republican policy began to surface. They’ll take the blame for the mess that the republicans created. Don’t count on that majority lasting, if republican obstruction and a republican president block any meaningful change for the next couple of years.
LMAO you people are fucking retarded. I’m not sure whether to oppose you for your blind loyalty to a guy who feels that his word is a mere transitory thing or this last statement I guess we’ll find out in November how many democrats actually believe leaving the republicans in charge is the only intelligent response to the godawful mess 12 straight years of republican domination have gotten us into.
I’d give you a brief primer on the concept for checks and balances but what would be the point. It would be lost on you that with McCain as president and the democrats controlling the congress that the power of both is checked. That they same was true when Bill Clinton was president. The republicans only dominated anything when they held the congress and the oval office for a six year period. LOL I can;t imagine where you pulled this twelve year number other then out of your ass. But given your blind loyalty to The One and the fact that you don’t seem to be able to grasp the reality of checks and balances or the actual time period they were practical reality then why the hell should we voluntarily stand with you to create the very lack of check or balance that you quiver about when thinking about republican dominance, but then give you dominance under a democratic label. We would be guilty of doing the very same thing that terrified you when it was called republican. But you would welcome it when it is renamed democrat. That alone makes you unworthy of our trust. With BOBO in charge, all we would be doing is trading one extreme for the other extreme. If there is anything that the chimp taught us, it’s we’ve had enough of the extremes.
I’m familiar with the concept of checks and balances.
Why don’t you explain to me how well checks and balances have worked during George W. Bush’s term of office?
From January 1995 until January 2007 the republicans had a controlling majority in the House of Representatives. The same was true in the Senate until January 2001, when the democrats attained a brief period of plurality. Senate control returned to the republicans in January 2003 and they retained it until January 2007.
Clinton was hardly able to call the shots during his second term, owing to escallating far-right attacks culminating in impeachment procedings. Then we got Bush-wacked.
That’s pretty much 12 years, the way I figure it.
OMG are you just dicking with me now or are you really this stupid? Checks and balances didn’t work so well during Bush’s first six years James. They didn’t work so well because Bush had a rubber stamp congress of the same party James. LOL and this is the only six year period the republicans dominated our government James. All the rest of the time in question, two separate parties controlled two separate and coequal branches of government James. Please tell me that you are aware of this James and that we don’t need to send the guys with the butterfly nets over to your house to protect you from yourself.
Apparently I really am that stupid, because I’m suffering from a persistent delusion that the republican party has had control of America for quite a long time now. I’m also under the delusion that this has produced a number of highly undesirable results, ranging from a financially ruinous, totally unnecessary war based upon deliberate lies, to a mountain of debt so high that our great-grandchildren will still be struggling to pay it off.
I would be only too happy to discover that none of this is true.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha it’s Funny how 12 years shrank to quite some time… LOL in just a matter of hours.
James,
It is too late to be reasonable. Obama is not a good candidate and never was — furthermore he has deeply insulted and tossed aside anyone who did not vote for him. I don’t trust his agenda for this country because his positions change daily.
Now that it is very obvious to those of his supporters and surrogates who have been spewing filth at Hillary and her supporters on the net, on the streets and in the media for months, you and they want to wax philosphical and hold hands.
Sorry. Don’t trust that. Nothing to do with you personally. Barry has shown he has no moral compass and does nothing but pander and flip flop.
He accused Hillary of a dirty campaign when he was far far worse. The media gave him a free pass and roasted her over a spit for every little thing. That still has not changed.
Can’t vote for him. Can’t support him. Can’t let him off the hook. He in the opposite of progress in this country. He has not moved the debate forward.
Change can be good or bad; it is the change the speaker is talking about that matters.
Webster’s defines change as “to make different in some particular, to replace with another” so we can see that change doesn’t necessarily have to be good. Hitler made radical changes to Germany, Japan changed to a military power dedicated to conquest and George W. Bush changed us from a country who believed in Teddy Roosevelt’s “talk softly and carry a big stick’ to a preemptive strike policy that has gained us enemies and lost us friends.
So without Obama explaining exactly what changes he plans to implement, I’ll just stick with the changes I know will be coming because you can not have a secret agenda of change in a Democracy.
Well we agree on one thing. BOBO’s words are perfectly clear. BOBO, in that statement, is equating himself to America since the world is channeling it’s desires through him. LMAO again, you BOBOweenies really picked a freak as your candidate.
No matter HOW you read Obama’s statement, it is presumptuous and wrong.
By saying he is a “symbol” of American returning to its best traditions (even “merely” a symbol) — what he is implying is that with him at the helm, we will return to our best traditions — that is completely arrogant and untrue. If you examine his behavior, campaign and flip flops and the people and policies he has thrown under the bus, he does not exemplify any of those traditions — therefore he CANNOT be a symbol of them.
Nor can he return to them if he doesn’t believe in them; and he’s giving every indication that he does not plan to emulate any of those great presidents who appear on our currency. And unlike Roman emperors and conquers throughout time, who chose to put their faces on their currency; none of these presidents did so.
And yet, Obama has created a seal, a throne, and a myth that he was The One we’ve been waiting for and a symbol of the United States, has replaced the American flag with a symbol derived of his initial. We’ve had some doozies as presidents since George Washington set the job criteria but none, not even Reagan, not even GWB got close to the imperial presidency as Obama has created before he has even had his name placed in nomination! What arrogance! What insolence! How insulting! What hubris!
Il DUCE!! LMAO.
“Fascio” does mean bundle.
Is there even one talking head on MSNBC with a modicum of integrity? I want to believe David Gregory (”Race for the White House”) might be a journalist of decency and substance, although his panel (with rare exception) are mostly in the tank for BO. To his credit Tom Brokaw (toward the end of the primaries) rose to Hillary Clinton’s defense in the face of that blow hard Keith Olbermann.
During the primaries, I lost track of the number of times Hillary Clinton supporters were denigrated by various MSNBC talking heads who called us “downscale” and “uneducated.” Chris Matthews nearly wet his pants when the state of NC went for Obama. He kept going on and how about how progressive NC was and farseeing. Much of my family reside in NC where it’s my understanding there’s starting to be an epidemic called buyer’s remorse afflicting many one-time BO supporters. Beyond that NC is largely a red state suggesting there is somewhere else for both disgruntled and disenfranchised Dems to go in my home state.
Had the MSM done its job from the get go which is to present accurate and unbiased coverage of each candidate, the candidate with the most experience and fewest shady associations, HRC, would now be the Democratic presumptive nominee.
Wonder how long it’s going to take for the obnoxious obot KO along with his tingle-legged MSNBC sidekick Chris Matthews to be successfully weaned off the teat of Barack Obama?
EightBelles — Yes, you are right and I agree with your comments 100%. I’d just like to add that these same “journalists” who get their on the job training chasing after blonde bimbos released from rehabs were the ones who uncritically allowed the idiot son Bush Dubbya Junior to attack Iraq for no good reason based on lies for which Pelosi and the exDems are refusing to denounce! These journalists never reported the real holocaust and damage inflicted on Iraq by American forces –who were doing their job as instructed by a moron president.
Where were the real journalists for the last 7 years? No one showed us the catastrophe in Iraq. No one showed us the raped girls and women of Iraq and the internal chaotic conditions.
Did we ever see any REAL FILM FOOTAGE from Iraq. No. The Idiot was acting like the Obamarama is now preventing them from doing their jobs. Who owns NBC? General Electric (Ronnie Reagan sold bulbs on the Ed sullivan show decades ago and showcased his career). GE powers that be tag along with Bushies and Obambis.
Only Hillary offered real Hope. And where were the media? they never reported the truth cause they got orders (and commissions) from their corporate heads.
It’s ugly really. So jounralists like Dana Milbank get fired for doing their *job*!!
Back in October 2007 Hillary made a fantastic speech dealing with FAMILY ISSUES and policies, like pregant leave and subsdidies for poor middle class workers. She had said:
“You are not invisible to me. I hear you, I see you”..Guess what? The Boston Globe put it under “female issue”!!! This was quite a serious policy proposal…
We must rely more and more on bloggers for the News. So, let’s keep reading NO QUARTER. Thanks to Larry, we have an objective media here!
And Riverdaughter and the Reclusive Leftis (Violet Sock) and Allegre….
Good luck with the pumas in N.C. I hear they’re breeding there too and growing fur and fangs….
Pumas ‘08
HRC–Madam President ‘12
When Obama makes statements like this:
You gotta love it when Olbermann unconditionally supports such a laughable nut-job.
If Obamarama is called by some of the press “PROM QUEEN”, then they better start calling Olbermann “DRAGON QUEEN” because I’ve often entertained grave doubts about his histrionics on-air…his overly passionate, red-face-turning tirades….
Periodically, Olberman feels down and starts launching attacks to boost his appeal….
Olbie needs a real man it seems…So, Sweetie, get your butt out of your vocal chords and show the man who loves you, some real love….Larry won’t mind, sweetie…honest!
OH, PLEASE! THIS SUITS THE EMPTY SUIT OBAMARAMA TO A T:
‘PROM QUEEN BARACK’ Now, for are you ready for the Closeup Mr. Olberman? (Olbie the DragQueen)
OUR PRESS IS POOP!!!!!
Great post Ani! Thanks so much. Great irony & humor in your writing! We also stopped watching Obamamann after his horrid supredelegate-takes-Hillary-in-a-room comment. Keep up the good work!
I am,,, I am… I’m flabbergasted!
I was a very regular viewer of obamsnbc and I haven’t tuned in at all in months.. as i started reading this article i keep picturing milbanks sitting there as a guest on any of these afternoon shows doing his thing, behavior as reprehensible as all of them with his manicured bias.
i am curious what this other position is that he took.
as for wishing him well, fk him.. sorry but this ole lady has to call it as i see it and anger lives in my throat 24/7 over this election season..
i remember the article by dana.. about 5 months too late and this is all just amusing as hell that he has parted ways with obie,,, or has he parted ways with obamsnbc altogether ?
either way this is amusing as hell.. great to make fodder with-
bunch of misogynist assholes-
98% of you are crack heads that apparently wouldn’t know ethics if it hit you straight in the face. Out of context is “out of context”, no other way to call it. This country is in more trouble than we know it with people like you running around.
Ddble has it right. Dana screwed up, and should own to it. And you guys really do need to get over it, Hillary screwed up her campaign (should have been dead when she mis-remembered “sniper fire) and blew it. Better luck with the next lame candidate you pick.
Hillary Clinton may not be perfect, but this woman dances rings around Obama every day and after all Obama’s gaffes, lies, inexperienced boo-boos, nefarious associations and lack of action of important issues — you want to tell me she blew it?? The best you can come up with is ’sniper fire’ — from this whole campaign??
Why do you think in this no lose years for Dems, Obama’s poll numbers are dropping like a lead balloon. He should be leading by double digits.
Go back to school and learn something, will ya.
Olbermann is one of the world’s biggest asses!
If you want a good chuckle at his expense please see:
http://hillarynme.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/warning-for-hillary-puma-mccain-supporters-only/
This is one of my all time favorite videos!
Hey Ani!
What about a “Sweat Lodge” do you find objectionable?
I could give a rats ass about Olbermann and his Man Crush On Ill Dunce, but leave my sacred lodge out of it…LMAO
Certainly didn’t mean to insult a sacred ritual!!
There’s nothing objectionable to it, nor did I write that there was — Obie and Punchy should just go start one already….
I too, believe Millbanks should have owned up to it. If people are saying he “finally is telling the truth”, are you also accepting the word of a liar? If so, he should fit right in at FOX
Those concerned w/Olbermann sexual orientation are really immature. Concerning Rachel Maddow; she’s gay and has a partner.
Olbermann should be fired.
Seriously folks, you need to get a grip. Keith speaks truth to power. Dana is a typical spineless MSM analyst. Wildchild and the rest of you kooks are ignorant fools, too bad you have no clue of that fact. This blog feeds your neurosis so “Good luck and goodbye”
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Why are you such a fascist kiss-ass? Why? Did your mama not give you enough titty back in the day? Whassupp, brownshirt?
I love Kandy B., the great embezzler. Yup, I does. She is the paradime of lousiness, lies, deceit and denial. Fugghur very much. And you.
You guys are such racists. You are haters and race baters. You are traitors to America. Why not just shoot some oxyconten with Rush Limberger? Whack your doodles to pictures of Cheney torturing someone. Why not waterboard each other while wearing burkas? Do something constructive like going on a terminal hunger strike.
People seem to be confusing the news with political commentary.
The news provides information.
Political commentary is largely for entertainment purposes.
Olbermann, Maddow, Beck, O’Reily, Hannity, Limbaugh–they’re entertainers, not journalists.
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