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MSNBC Goes Off the Rails [Update]

UPDATE from SusanUnPC: Check out Memeorandum.com’s coverage of this story, including a Wall Street Journal story, “MSNBC Anchors’ Fight Goes Live.”
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I don’t watch MSNBC, but the folks over at Olbermann Watch are doing a heck of a job tracking that dysfunctional group. Check this out:

God forgive me for ever comparing Olbermann to Edward R. Murrow. Olbermann not only has jumped the shark, but apparently he is off of his meds. He exhibits a personality disorder that at least ensures NBC a train wreck on air. At this rate we may see Chris “Tingle Leg” Matthews throw down with Keith. That would be sweet. Two drama queens schwacking each other. Now that would be entertainment.

  • roseeriter

    Obama’s koolaid is affecting everyone’s sanity. Potent crap that stuff in Obamaland.

  • The Real Hope

    I used to listen to Blubberman when he would rant against BushCo. I thought he was fabulous, but then this chatterbox act of his became incredibly insipid and annoying – even maddening. He is a bipolar narcissist, plain and simple. He is now becoming petulant and people are beginning to call him on his bizarre behavior. I think his colleagues are coming to the end of their rope which usually happens when the bipolar person becomes completely intolerable to be around.

  • Ellen D.

    Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.

  • beebop

    I haven’t watched KO in so long that I couldn’t begin to tell you where MSNBC is on my cable lineup.

  • SHV

    I used to watch him..My GF told me he was a piece of crap when he defended Michael Vick. Shortley there after he really started going off the rails.

  • A SLAP IN THE FACE

    I for one never liked this silly cl*wn. Anyone who attacks a president in the middle of a WAR is clearly not playing with a full deck, as evidenced by the fact that later he went on to attakc Hillary!

    A famous philospher once said something about “I will know I am right by the CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES arrayed against me” and I beleive theis is apt for our situation!

    We MUST support John McCain this political season, if for no other reason than the CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES allied against him!

  • J.J.

    Isn’t Olbermann the guy on “Network” who they shot on the air for ratings?

  • rw

    I’d say these two drama queens, Olbermann and Matthews, have a dual going in private over who is going to get in Obama’s pants first. The hysterics is slipping into their on air personas. I have never seen such slanted verbal drip for a politician.

    And Shuster, well, he’s the self proclaimed pimp mouth.

    Maddox, or whatever her name is, an Olbermann wannabe.

    Joe, never cared for him but at least his persona is absent of hysterics.

    What a sorry ass example of journalism they all are.

  • Firefly

    I think MSNBO is coming unhinged because BO’s campaign is going off the rails. KO, Tweety, Maddow, Shuster are all sooooo ANGRY, so on edge – I love it!

    I think they deserve the same exact treatment that McCain has given bambi – I mean, the way these morons take themselves SO SERIOUSLY! What clowns. What fools. So, we keep mocking and ridiculing them, LAUGHING AT THEM! What else can we do? They’re SUPPOSED TO BE A NEWS TEAM – as in JOURNALISTS – as in PROFESSIONALS! The thing is, they’re making such fools of themselves we really don’t have to do anything except put them on YouTube.

  • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

    Pahahaha!

    Gibson huh? Pretty funny and spot on!

  • TeakWoodKite

    That is pure SNL. :)

    Suckers, Nitwits and Loosers.

    Keith is telling everyone to get of his cloud…

    Lets play Snob Ball..

    It is so difficult not to laugh at MostlySuckersNitwitsBarakCorporation

  • ee

    Yeah, typical of an islamiphobic site to link to Gibson trollery.

    Hey LJ, is gibson a patriot?

  • mimi

    Incredible isn’t it. Everyone has gone batshit!

  • http://! Clinton Fan

    They aren’t journalists, any of them–well, Shuster claims to be…but the rest are PUNDITS, commentators, or analysts.

    Those are all fancy terms for “Blowhards.”

    Ed Rendell had it right–he said MSNBC was the Obama Campaign network of record…

    I think Brian Williams is shitting bricks, actually. He, who used to be regarded as a bit of a lightweight, and Brokaw are the only adults in the room.

  • Mr.Murder

    When Caligula roamed the streets in disguise, he was aghast to find people parodied his life in street troupe drama…

  • kenoshaMarge

    Supposedly this all started when KO got his big raise and started believing he was actually worth that kind of money.

    Tweety who was all ready being paid waaaaay more than he was worth, what is the going rate for flipping burgers, got his undies all in a knot with jealousy. Then the Gotcha man died and both of them want to move into the Sunday Morning Big Time.

    Poor Joe Scarborough got into the middle of the two little boys love fest for Obama by simply saying that McCain and the GOP are more hopeful with Obama being the nominee and Keith saying something like “Get a shovel”. Fun to watch if you don’t have any 7 or 8 year old kids around to act the same way.

  • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

    A while back when I still went to HuffNsnuff Post

    She had a contributions program on her site where you could type in an occupation and see how they donated.

    I typed in Television Producer
    I typed in News Anchor
    I typed in Broadcast News

    under all three Obama had MORE people from MSNBC and CNN who had given him money than anyone

    Hillary I believe was second.

    So obviously with SOME of them it’s an investment with real teeth.

    I don’t go to her site anymore so I’m not sure if the program is still there. It was a handy little tool back when I was more interested.

  • cpl

    Olberman became obsessed with himself after KOS chose him as the numeral uno agent against the neocons. Even when Olberman went on vacation, KOS tracked him.

  • http://elect2009.wordpress.com/ Cindie

    Hmmmmmm….Olberman had DAN ABRAMS fired. Olberman thinks he’s “all that” – so sad.

  • Dawnelle Leona Del Puma

    Hey Mr. Murder!

    So do you think he’s reading here? He should.

  • http://elect2009.wordpress.com/ Cindie
  • Donkey Brazziere

    Paging Walter Cronkite, Paging Walter Cronkite,
    Please Save U.S.!

  • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

    Can anyone explain to me WHY they are giving Joe Scarborough such a hard time?

  • http://Reddragon62.blogspot.com RedDragon62

    TEAK….DAWN!!!!

    Sorry, I had to give a shout out to two long time Posters! :-)

    Anyway…

    I also posted some vids on the meltdown at MSNBO. Check em out if you get a sec.reddragon62.blogspot.com

    I’ve stopped watching that garbage a long time ago. I don’t know why I used to watch that crap, but I am sure glad the hypnosis wore off.

  • agent77
  • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

    Olbermann is a tool. Matthews is a clown.

    But Rachel Maddow is my future wife… so watch what you say about her!

    Oh, and “Morning Joe” kinda rocks.

  • cpl

    Because Joe is a republican and I would think because he is for McCain and he never so far as I know thought much of Obama.

  • http://Reddragon62.blogspot.com RedDragon62

    They don’t like the fact that he did not purchase a ticket on the “Love Train”!

  • Blue Intrigue

    “ED (terrorist fist-jab) Hill’s doing a good job”. That should tell you something about Gibson’s judgment. Why don’t you link to the actual video instead of an edited-by-RW-whackjobs radio clip? Or numerous websites that have completely debinked this? Well, I guess you don’t have any credibility left to worry about anyway, so what’s one more post promoting lies as long as it fits your fantasy story line?

  • beebop

    uh … I understand that Rachel is not really into men … undercover or not ;)

  • typical.white.person

    Check out all of the photos in this article.

    Especially the one of The Messiah in his toga.

  • Larse12

    I quit watching all of them over a year ago. They are so far up Obama that their noses are brown.
    (that is not a racial comment)

  • PewL

    It’s Pretty OBVIOUS WHO LOVES AMERICA more..CLINTONS

    When she put up her own money,to show how much she loves America.

    Where did Obama get his money from???

    Goes to show you,who the dedicated ones are..CLINTONS

  • rw

    pay no heed, that’s the name he gave his right hand.

  • http://Reddragon62.blogspot.com RedDragon62

    Larse12:

    Don’t you find it disgusting that you have clarify yourself in this day and age?
    Don’t worry, the only people that could have possibly taken that as racist, are the Trolls lurking and waiting to pounce on anything we say here.

  • Firefly

    Really? I haven’t watched MSNBO in so long I had no idea Dan Abrams was gone! Wow!

    I remember, right before I stopped watching that crap network, Abrams had been “trying” to be fair to Hillary – not really fair, just sorta the pretend variety – but pretty soon he got the memo, I guess, and started going off on Hillary almost as much as the rest of the prima donas.

    But I didn’t know he was gone. Fired? Really?

  • TeakWoodKite

    Love the plane replica. Is that a mile high club just for BO?

  • http://! Clinton Fan

    He sure is–you nailed it.

    But remember that girl/fan he screwed and dumped? She set up a blog called KarmaBites, and told everyone what a shitty lay he was? She seemed to have the very same opinion of him!

    Karma has bitten the guy, it would seem. He keeps getting fatter and fatter–before too long he’ll crush that barely-out-of-her-teens golddigger ingenue-who-wants-to-be-an-anchorwoman girlfriend of his if he doesn’t stop packing on the pounds.

    What’s also funny is that he bought this bigass condo at Trump Palace on the Upper East Side, and he bought BEFORE the real estate crash. Ooops! And, the building owner, The Donald, who was a HUGE Hillary supporter, is now donating to McCain because he views Obama as incompetent. That’s gotta grate the bloated martinet!

    You’d think, with all his money, he wouldn’t constantly get in tax delinquency problems.

    I think he’s about midway through his shark-jump. And because he’s so damned fat now, and deconditioned, he’ll probably hurt himself badly on the way down!!

  • Fredster

    I so love the fact that MSNBC is self-destructing. Too funny for words. Maybe they’ll just start running those To Catch A Predator shows 24/7.

  • Steve1

    MSNBC…NBC…Newsweek, all corporate controlled by General Electric. WBTW, does so much business with Iran…can we say, nuclear power plants. Hey isn’t that the reason Soetoro-Obama, whom I like to call “Little Boots,” AKA Caligula, prancing around on that Roman stage. voted for Cheney’s energy bill. Where are his minions-why are they stupid?

  • Firefly

    I’d say they’re giving Scar such a hard time because it’s what they are – people can only do what they are – and they are a savage mob that’ll do whatever they feel like doing to bully, intimidate and eliminate anyone they don’t like.

    It’s just like they’ve been all along – somebody said this morning that COERSION is the operative word at the CONvention – COERSION is their MO (actually I’d call it more like mob rape, but that’s me), just as it’s been COERSION about every damn thing since day 1 of this election cycle for the “new” obamacrat party. These people are savages – and that includes Nancy Pelosi and Donna Brazile, and Howard Dean and all of them.

    “We don’t like Scarborough – so, HE’S AN ENEMY OF THE OBAMA STATE – he MUST BE DESTROYED – and we will do it – it’s our favorite thing to do!”

  • Steve1

    Don’t forget to mention, MS. Sugar & Spice..Andrea Mitchell. She wants to play, too! At being Ms. Hip-hop, she wants to hang with posse! You know Ms. Thing.

  • http://www.delawareliberal.net BringItBitch

    The PUMAs are nothing but a fraud who speak for no one except a handful of people and Republicans who support them, promote them, and try to sell them to the press as they once sold Mr. Chalabi as the future of Iraqi democracy and once sold Jack Abramoff as the go-to power guy in Washington.

    It is fraud, it is a sham, it is a myth — and don’t believe anyone who tells you otherwise.

    click here

  • Perry Logan

    Keith Olbermann is not worthy to lick Edward R. Murrow’s boots.

    MSNBC emblemizes the whole once-progressive blogosphere, which–like Keith–turned to the dark side the minute Obama showed up. Once they’ve wallowed in misogyny and repeated hoary old right-wing lies about the Clintons, you’d be a fool to believe a single word they say. :-(

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4HrSQySus8

  • Patti

    Seriously he needs to end his vacation.

  • http://! Clinton Fan

    Olbermann pays Kos….er, “donates” to his website, too, now–gotta keep that loyalty level nice and high, after all.

    And of course, he honors them with posts every so often, to make them feel “special.”

    That is probably the most user-unfriendly site I’ve ever seen. No logic, no flow, small print, and amongst the nuggets of useful commentary, a whole lot of pure bullshit.

  • Peggy Sue

    I watched the video of Keith Olbermann going off on Joe Scarborough and he really looked unhinged. He said something off camera about Joe S. needed a shovel talking about McCain, and then ranted about the polls and “likely voters.” But it wasn’t the words. It was the way he looked once the camera panned on him.

    Off his meds, maybe? Very strange. But then, I understand there’s a lot of tension between the “personalities” over at MSNBC.

    Plus, I read Olbermann was considered “difficult” at ESPN. Apparently, his former co-workers are not suprised with these ever-increasing meltdowns.

  • QUARTERHORSE

    LOL…..The obutt camp accused the McCain camp of ” political malpractice ” because mac might announce his vp pick and rain on the toga party tonight…..pampers is whining, boo hoo……Is he wearing a toga and a turban tonight ????

  • http://www.delawareliberal.net BringItBitch

    John Goodman is the supposed “Health Care Architect” for John McCain’s campaign and he recently gave an interview to the Dallas News in which he claimed, with a straight face, that with ER rooms unable to lawfully turn away people in immediate need there are no uninsured Americans:

    Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)

    “So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime,” Mr. Goodman said. “The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care. “So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved.”

    Mr. Goodman seems to be blissfully unaware that having the government pick up the tab for emergencies is not the same thing as having health insurance or that resorting to such means is way more expensive for everyone involved than true health insurance would be. That’s the sort of advisors a John McCain presidency will include.

  • EightBelles

    Keith Olbermann is a raving lunatic. I keep waiting for someone to carry him off the air in a straight jacket. There’s a link called “Chris Matthews Leg” that claims his leg has been asleep since June. I disagree. That leg looked alive and all tingly this evening outside the Temple of Obama. Poor Tom and Joe. No doubt they would rather be affiliated with a network that still has a modicum of integrity.

  • norrismorris

    I agree that Olbermann became insipid even before becoming an Obama attack dog.

    His is a particular kind of narcissistic pomposity that’s impossible to watch without laughing. He prattles on and on without any degree of objectivity, and he really has become a Drama Queen.

    MSNBC is hopeless.

  • Duras

    Keith Olbermann is the biggest single asshole on the face of the Earth. It ain’t easy to make Chris Matthews look calm and rational by comparision, but Olbermann pulls it off with ease.

    He’s simply a spoiled brat who needs a good ass-whuppin’.

  • norrismorris

    Speaking of KOS. Went to the site today, and KOS has NO mention of Bill Clinton’s speech. It has become hysterically and bombastically Obamaton.

    No dissent is possible on KOS, and fair reporting of reality has become impossible.

    The slightest criticism is scrubbed and taken down, and the reporting of real time events has disappeared unless it is tinged ala Stalin/KGB propoganda.

  • http://Reddragon62.blogspot.com RedDragon62

    The Crown family has a big stake in GE and we all know we they are right?.
    MAJOR donators and personal friends of OBAMA!

  • norrismorris

    The leadership boys at MSNBC have encouraged the disgraceful,disfunctional,rabid,and biased coverage of the news.

    Olbermann and Matthews are only symptomatic of the network’s need for ratings and their unhinged way of getting viewers. I have stopped watching.

  • Evgenia

    Are these people for real? I wish I had a job where I can act crazy or like a petulant four year-old and get paid $$$$. Looks like Keith needs his Lithium dosage increased pronto, I’m serious. Good thing he doesn’t drive, due to his depth perception problems in his eyes. Come to think of it, he has perception issues in that area between his ears too.

  • AnnieO

    Keith Olbermann is the worst person in the woorrld!

  • Deep Truths

    Undercover Black Man is an Obama Fan, that’s why he DOESN’T get it or Rachel M.

    Radar Love.

  • TeakwoodKite

    The Dynamic Duo….according to CNN…

    “Holy bill of rights, Batman!” – Robin

    “An older head can’t be put on younger shoulders”. – Batman

    Make your very own spotlight!

    “http://gizmodo.com/5036647/make-your-own-usb-batman-spotlight-when-you-should-be-working”

  • TeakwoodKite

    I have been relecting on why I listened in the first plaace without any reservation as to what was being said.

    The emotional stove pipe?

    Today a person saw the stickers on my bumber and remarked,

    “You have the “End of an Error” A ‘w’ with the international no symbol, a “Stewart-Colbert 08 Truthiness, Justice and the American Way”, two vetererns stickers, VFA 192 Golden Dragons and VMA 311 Tom Cats, and of course, the one I took a pair of sissors to which says …”person who is not fallen Obama’s line of crap”

    “You are conflicted, we gotta talk”.

    I said, “No I am not, they are the same bird.”

    I wonder what we will talk about.

    http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/vfa-192.htm
    http://www.skyhawk.org/4e/vma311/vma311.htm

  • Tattie

    I bet Spitball Matthews will get a tingle up his third leg tonight at Temple of Obama

  • Karma

    I agree.

    However, Rachel hits whatever Olbermann pitches so it kinda sucks being a pinch hitter to a tool.

    She does her job well….but still the whole place completely lost their credibility this election.

    Except for Joe…he actually gives objective commentary for both sides.

    So he is more interesting to watch then the rest of them. If Mika wasn’t so irritating I could tune in more.

  • Eidnoreid

    and you think msnbc is credible? i guess yo’re just living in your own warped sense of reality.

  • Karma

    Last night, Brokaw made an excellent point and Olbermann switched to a new talking head without acknowledging the comment.

    It was rude and his voice seemed abrupt while he switched.

    All I was thinking was….please follow up with Brokaw or Williams.

    Please keep talking to them.

    Those other clowns are stuck in the shallow end of the pool. I want more depth to the coverage. Something other than it is Hill and Bill’s job to drag Obama across the finish line.

  • Karma

    He has also stood up for Hillary in spite of Mika.

    Even calls Hillary ‘his girlfriend’….which is cute.

    At the beginning of Hillary’s run he was kinda hard on her being stiff. When she found her flow even after the constant attacks, he would call it like he saw it. Which annoyed Mika even more that her Obama love was interrupted by an objective view point and even praise for Hillary.

    Only saw spotty coverage because it starts at 3am in CA, so if getting hubby off to work that is what I would have on.

  • StrawberrybitesBarky

    Undercover also thinks Michelle is hot. I had a good friend who was always attracted to men who turned out to be gay…and she didn’t know why.

  • stodghie

    he is actually management as msnbc. abrams stepped in after the switch was made and joe was moved to mornings. i don’t think abrams wanted the show. so don’t give ko credit for anything. i question how long his run will be after bambi exits stage door. so yesterday is ko!

  • stodghie

    shut the fxxxup, btch

  • http://www.daveinboca.blogspot.com daveinboca

    I caught KOdorboy on TV for a second describing the shivers going UP & DOWN BOTH HIS LEGS as the Obamessiah was being fireworked after his speech. KO described the speech as 48 minutes of sheer blissful magic compounded by brilliant shafts of intellectual light that no one can deny light up the path to a brighter future for all of us.

    I’d like a few tokes from the bong that dude sucks on, just for a moment of visionary beatitude.

    Or maybe he’s simply a psychotic delusional suffused with “magical thinking?”

    Anyway, I deny KO’s “analysis” and think he’s a complete political slut/whore.

    And someone should poll his former colleagues at ESPN to see if even ONE person there has ONE nice thing to say about this fart-in-the-bath.

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