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Breaking: Keith Olbermann Out at MSNBC

By Bronwyn on January 21, 2011 at 10:05 PM in Current Affairs

I just turned on CNN and they’ve got the story. Was he fired or did he leave? They’re speculating. It sounds like contract negotiations (he had two years left) stipulated that he go off the air, and he can’t do TV elsewhere for some time. Please share anything you are hearing and reading.

The big question: WHY? Keith was one of the leaders of the big swing of MSNBC’s news focus to the hard left, and he mentored Rachel Maddow. So, did he just prove too damn difficult to work with? He has a history of that.

Now one guest (name unknown) is telling Anderson Cooper that it was Keith’s choice to leave and that he said goodbye to viewers.

Anderson Cooper just intimated that he has heard “plenty” about Olbermann’s behavior at MSNBC. Perhaps Cooper will say more.

Again, please share what you’re hearing.

  • PortiaElizabeth

    I’m guessing his head exploded when they told him the call for civility included him.

  • Guest

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  • Bronwyn

    Nearly literally!  They’re now saying that it was common knowledge that Olbermann was unhappy and had been shopping around for another job.

    They’re also saying that he’s an incredible talent and that he won’t go away.  ”Don’t write off his career.”  

    Well.  The Keith Olbermann I watched back in 2001-2002 was truly excellent.  That was when he delivered the news, instead of opinions punctuated by tidbits of news.  He is a highly literate man, and he knows how to write compelling news copy.  If he’d stuck to that, I would still be watching him.  But his sharp move to opinion-first “journalism” was his undoing for me.  He became unbearable.

  • Madame deFarge

    I haven’t heard anything other than what Drudge had posted.  However, I’m embarrassed to say that I used to watch him when he screamed at W.  Now, I couldn’t really care less where he goes or what he does or why he left.  Maybe his walnut size heart shriveled to peanut and he had to retire.  I’ll never watch MSNBC OR NBC, now owned by the Obamacrats…even if they fire the ugly Schultz.

  • ces

    Hu will take his place?

  • Bronwyn

    Do you all remember when Larry used to appear on Keith’s show?  That was before the 2007-2008 election season when Keith eviscerated anyone who wasn’t for Obama and when supporting Hillary was tantamount to supporting a hard-right Republican (in Keith’s addled mind).

    it was a true shame.  Keith was capable of doing a good interview, and he did several good interviews of Larry.  Then, I assume, MSNBC didn’t like Larry’s daring to question The One, and well … 

    The mere thought that an entire network would ban an excellent guest merely because he holds oppositional views is DISGUSTING.  That is the OPPOSITE of journalism.  Shame on MSNBC and Olbermann.

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    Bronwyn, You ask what are you hearing, All I am hearing is the LAUGH HEARD AROUND THE WORLD, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and a few times I heard the KARMA, LOL!!!

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    MSNBC announced Friday night that its marquee “Countdown” anchor and talk show host Keith Olbermann was out.  The network did not provide a reason for his abrupt departure.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/01/keith-olbermann-abruptly-departs-msnbc-.html

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    OH NO, BRONWYN, What if he left to take over for Gibbs?  The HORROR!!!

  • Hank

    “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win!”

     GANDHI

  • jj

    My spin:

    Did obama have a hand in this?

    Obama is gearing up for reelection and he clearly is going to run as a conservative Democrat. With the economy gradually improving he is modeling his reelection on Clinton’s 1996 campaign. The last thing he needed was Keith Olbermann blasting him as a sell out from the left. If you have been watching MSNBC lately Chris Matthews still idealizes obama but Olbermann has been starting to cool towards obama, especially after obama’s tax cut capitulation to the republicans.

    Olbermann had to go. You don’t want anyone from the left critiicizing obama. Only right wing nuts will be allowed to criticize obama in the main stream press.

  • PssttCmere

    I am not sure it was his choice…

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7392290.html

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

    http://www.saywhatyouwill.proboards.com

  • kinthenorthwest

    This is one CNN newscaster I dont think will be going to Fox.

  • catherine

    Clinton Karma. Another one bites the dust! :D

  • Docelder

    The “useful idiots” usually do become unusable once they finally learn the truth. Nothing new there. I also think the press will be painting Obama as the adult in the room in 2012. He will run against his own party in 2012 even as the republicans run against his own party in 2012. he will try to be the outsider. I know it’s ridiculous, but he will have a billion dollars to brand with and free advertisement from Hollywood and the press… some idiots that are still useful across the board. Not a good time to be a democrat. Nobody including Obama will want to do that.

  • kinthenorthwest

    Only thing I can find out is someone on Greta’s Wire saying he had a two years left to his contract…
    That makes it sound weird.

  • Docelder

    The “useful idiots” usually do become unusable once they finally learn the truth. Nothing new there. I also think the press will be painting Obama as the adult in the room in 2012. He will run against his own party in 2012 even as the republicans run against his own party in 2012. he will try to be the outsider. I know it’s ridiculous, but he will have a billion dollars to rebrand himself with and free advertisement from Hollywood and the press… some idiots that are still useful. Not a good time to be a new democrat. Nobody including Obama will want to do that. Don’t narcissists always hurt the ones that love them the most?

  • West Virginia

    Women in politics are safer now that he is gone.

  • kinthenorthwest

    Horrors upon horrors maybe he is Obama’s new press secretary..

  • kinthenorthwest

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

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-21/keith-olbermann-quits-msnbcs-countdown/

  • PainkillJayne

    Somedays I feel like a Munchkin in Munchkin land :-D

  • HARP

    Looks like someone took him behind the shed……and Keith didn`t come back.

  • HARP

    Worst person in the world.

  • guest

    Comcast took over 2-3 days ago and they are already cleaning house. Roger Ailes better sit up and take notice because these guys seem to be committed to making a profit rather than promoting left wing loonery.

  • Onofre’s arm

    I think I’m going over to HuffPoo to witness the paroxysms. It should be fun!  :-D

    I’ll report back after the usual shower I’m compelled to take every time I wallow in the HuffPoo.

  • TeakWoodKite

    First, the FCC approved the sale of GE’s NBC to Comcast came with conditions.
    Kieth has to go.
    ===
    A few weeks after the merger goes through Obama creates a “economic” job counsel with the CEO of GE as the titular head of a jobs commission.
    ====
    (Irony alert! The multi-nationals were the only people at the table this week. Labor? Zip. Nada!)

  • FrenchNail

    You mean he is now unemployed… Well, now we know his job was not one of those created or saved. Ain’t Karma a bitch…

  • SoCalDem

    Good move, won’t save MSNBC from their low ratings.

  • PainkillJayne

    Take one for the team!

  • FrenchNail

    The big purge has started. And the ones who haven’t got the memo will be out one by one. Obama is a Conservative Democrat from now to the elections.

    Note to self: Invest in shares of Buses Manufacturers. Heavy production anticipated to house all the radicals under them….

  • kinthenorthwest

    I hope you stocked up on lots of good lye soap Onofre—
    I now have to go take a shower just thinking about them..Yeeeeeewwwwww I cant even write their name…

  • Hank

    OT:
    HONOLULU—Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie will end his quest to prove President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii because it’s against state law to release private documents, his office said Friday.

    State Attorney General David Louie told the governor he can’t disclose an individual’s birth documentation without a person’s consent, Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said.

    http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/01/21/apnewsbreak_hawaii_wont_release_obama_birth_info/?rss_id=Boston.com+–+Latest+news

  • HARP

    Be careful…..heads are exploding all over the place.

  • PainkillJayne

    Somewhere in America, six people are sitting, scratching their heads, and wondering what they’re going to do at 8PM on Monday.

  • kinthenorthwest

    I tuly wonder if that is the whole truth..or did the governor find that what the Birthers are saying was true.

  • kinthenorthwest

    Ouch Harp…I hope Ono has lots of protection on to protect himself from flying heads

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    Onofre’s Arm, WEAR PROTECTION and Stay Safe going over there, LOL, but please report every last detail, LOL!!!

  • HARP

    6 ????…….When did he double his numbers?

  • PainkillJayne

    lmao harp

  • HARP

    Jon Stewart had no comment.

  • Madame deFarge

    The New and Improved Obama, Blue Dog all the way.  I certainly hope he believes the people are dumb enough to accept him as a complete re-creation of the ad industry.  New Coke anyone? 

  • HARP

    Special Ed proves he is qualified for that spot.

  • Donna Brazilla Nut

    Damn who is f+, apill, and jacked up jackee going to get their talking points from?

  • TeakWoodKite

    A spokesman said Phil Griffin, MSNBC’s president, would not comment on Olbermann’s exit. Spokesman Jeremy Gaines would say only that the acquistion of NBC Universal by Comcast, which received regulatory approval this week, had nothing to do with the decision.

    Sure it didn’t.

  • Madame deFarge

    And that he can’t be on the air…BTW, whatever happened to Aaron Brown?  Don’t remember him?  He was the CNN guy until Andeson waded in the waters of New Orleans and became the flavor or the decade.

  • Onofre’s arm

    The comments need music to accompany them:

    Photon55 writes:

    “I just got home from my grandson’s hockey game and saw the headline on HP about Keith. There were many hard hits in the hockey game but none as hard to deal with as Keith’s departure. It will be difficult if not impossible to get thru the 8-9 time slot in the evening without Keith’s confident and brilliant coverage that made him so welcome in our home. It is like losing your best friend.”
    “we’re all sick”

    “The Republican media empire is taking the country down the tubes, leaving the middle class to fight over the scraps.”
    “I was checking my twitter when I got the breaking news that this was Keith’s last night…it was like a shot to the gut. I couldn’t believe it. Like my son said, there were only two reasons to watch MSNBC in the evening and now there’s only one.”"I wonder if Concast had anything to do with this.”(A typical HuffPoo genius)
    “Whoever didn’t think the Comcast buyout of NBC wouldn’t change the face of our News, here is the first start.  The Right Wing is taking over and Democracy as we know it is doomed. We hold the FCC responsible for silencing the Left.  This is not good, Congress needs to stop this now.”

  • Madame deFarge

    By all means, take protection.  They are Puff Hos after all.

  • GORDO

    Since Hank mentioned Neil Abercrombie:
    **************
    Remove Constitutional eligibility (natural born citizenship) from consideration.
    Think of these investigations as ‘opposition research’. There are a number of Obama life scenarios which match the known time-line better than the official version.
    ==============
    “Hawaii governor hasn’t found Obama’s birth certificate yet”
    by Thomas Lifson
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/hawaii_governor_hasnt_found_ob.html
    ==============
    Chuck Bonniwell (KHOW – Denver) interviews Jerome Corsi:
    Listen: http://tinyurl.com/47lqz4w
    Download: http://tinyurl.com/4m4nbks

  • TeakWoodKite

    Yes catherine! Spot on. Now we know who came out of  that proverbial torture room Keth so fondly mentioned. It wasn’t him.

    Door meet ass on the way out.

  • HARP

    There at least 3 still left over there.

  • Madame deFarge

    Now when will Fox get rid of sleazy Geraldo?

  • TeakWoodKite

    A rookery too.

  • Onofre’s arm

    The comments need music to accompany them:  

      
     
    “I just got home from my grandson’s hockey game and saw the headline on HP about Keith. There were many hard hits in the hockey game but none as hard to deal with as Keith’s departure. It will be difficult if not impossible to get thru the 8-9 time slot in the evening without Keith’s confident and brilliant coverage that made him so welcome in our home. It is like losing your best friend.”
      

    “we’re all sick”  
     
    “The Republican media empire is taking the country down the tubes, leaving the middle class to fight over the scraps.”
     
    “I was checking my twitter when I got the breaking news that this was Keith’s last night…it was like a shot to the gut. I couldn’t believe it. 
    Like my son said, there were only two reasons to watch MSNBC in the evening and now there’s only one.”"I wonder if Concast had anything to do with this.”(A typical HuffPoo genius)  

    “Whoever didn’t think the Comcast buyout of NBC wouldn’t change the face of our News, here is the first start.  The Right Wing is taking over and Democracy as we know it is doomed. 
    We hold the FCC responsible for silencing the Left.  This is not good, Congress needs to stop this now.”  

    Poor, poor Progressive babies, they’ve lost their loudest and most irritating whiner, who can they find to replace Olby? Hugo Chavez maybe?

  • TeakWoodKite

    the other six are scratching there ass, wondering the same thing.
    (Chuckle)

    Oh my, the Holy Grail of mysogynist TV gets sold out? Gooooooood Riiiidanceee!

  • TeakWoodKite

    the other six are scratching their ass, wondering the same thing.  
    (Chuckle)  
     
    Oh my, the Holy Grail of mysogynist TV gets sold out? Gooooooood Riiiidanceee! I can’t wait for the Prarie Dogs of Cubicle County to come clean out his office supplies while sticking the knife in him with a smile.
    Hey Ed! You’re next sucker.

  • socalannie

    I read this:

    “Olbermann, before leaving the show with a final signature toss of his script toward the camera, thanked his audience for sticking with him and read a James Thurber poem.
    “This may be the only television program where the host was much more in awe of the audience than vice versa,” he said.”
     
    Can you believe that hokey line about him being more in awe of his audience?  And what was the mongoose poem supposed to mean?

  • TeakWoodKite

    ooops. I forgot to be “civil”.

    Disclaimer. I do not wish any human being to harmed in any way.

  • West Virginia

    Commentary

    Dear Sir. Mr. Oberman

    Under what disguise do you come to us to announce your departure from your vile, sludge filled outlandish echo chamber of the loony left, Mr. Olberman?  How, with sober mind, do you live with your act of quitting your job just half way into your term, Mr. Olberman?  And how, Mr. Olberman, can you explain why the veins on the side of your head have not exploded from the pressure your puss-filling brain expelled to the outer walls of your skull when O’Rielly, American Idol and reruns of WKRP beat your ratings every night.  Tell me, Mr. Olberman, can you live with yourself after you caused the death.. I mean bloody, absolute death of your time slot.

    Mr. Olberman.  YOU are the worst person in your world.

  • West Virginia

    Teak.  You obviously were not “Civil Ready” at the moment you wrote that.  We forgive you.

  • Docelder

    Yep… Dog is blue now instead of yellow. Right. It won’t be long before he will be out at Bush’s place clearing brush in a flannel shirt… and holding hands with Bush’s sheik. He was not Bush in 2008 and he will be Bush in 2012… unbelievable.

  • TeakWoodKite

    “The Right Wing is taking over and Democracy as we know it is doomed.”

    Huey, Duey and Luey!

    Congress? The FCC?   

    (Must have been a disturbance in the force, like coming out of hyper drive in the vicinity of Alderon)

    I really must that Kieth for providing the best comic relief a Friday ever knew. No big annoucements, just out with Friday’s trash. Cold.

  • socalannie

    Here’s Keith reading the poem:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfPgqE8PxrA

  • TeakWoodKite

    “The Right Wing is taking over and Democracy as we know it is doomed.”  
     
    Huey, Duey and Luey!  
     
    Congress? The FCC?     
     
    (There must have been a disturbance in the force, like coming out of hyper drive in the vicinity of Alderon)  
     
    I really must thank Kieth for providing the best comic relief a Friday ever knew. No big annoucements, just out with Friday’s trash. Cold.

  • TeakWoodKite

    :-[

  • ~~JustMe~~
  • TeakWoodKite

    Good One, Harp. RoLF

  • TeakWoodKite

    Ha!

  • Onofre’s arm

    Gee gordo, unless you own a controlling interest in “Orville Redenbacher’s”, you’re going to run out of popcorn long before the movie “The Great Obama COLB Red Herring Distraction”, created to entertain brainless boobs like you, comes to an end. As long as there’s an audience dumb enough to watch, the Producers will keep cranking out teasers and sequels to keep their idiot fans captivated.

    Next month: Was Stanley Ann Dunham a hermaphrodite who was able to fertilized herself, thus making Barack the first human to have a single parent, a situation the Founders would have likely considered ‘unnatural’, therefore Obama’s not a ‘natural’ born human, let alone a natural born citizen? 

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    It was like taking a SHOT TO THE GUT, OMG, INSANE!! They really think like that, I would say that if my dog died, but not losing an anchor on a cable channel, MY GOD, THE WORLD HAS LOST ITS MIND, LOL!!

    Onofre’s Arm, ROFL at the music, LOL, such a sad day for those poor people, where will they get their hate from now, LOL!!  They will wonder around like zombies during that time slot looking for another leader, haha

  • Buzz Latte

    Now if HBO would only give Bill Maher’s show the ax….

    Civility could have a chance to come back!

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    GORDO, This has BILL CLINTON REVENGE written all over it.  Start the conversation, tell it over and over until the majority has the doubts and then watch the gossip take over the country!  I kept saying that if babyO paid all those millions to seal his records, then how in the hell was this Gov. going to get it, answer, HE COULDN’T, so why bring it up??

  • socalannie

    Thanks Justme!  I wonder why mine didn’t come out like that?

  • ~~JustMe~~

    When you have the link for the YouTube. Click on the red icon at the top of the comment box (YouTube) box opens. Add link to YouTube URL. Hit insert bottom left.
    It automatically adds video to comment box!

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Hope he finds his unemployment a looooongggggg tough road!!

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Hope he finds his unemployment to be a looooongggggg tough road!!

  • PUMA GSD

    Can we say Moderate. MSNBC+GE+White House.
    Olberman was over the top and now the one
    is going to touted as a Moderate.  ?? I have
    seen the word touted in news stories about
    BO over and over again.

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Drinks all round… Ladies first!!

  • socalannie

    Thanks!   :)

  • Tex-Mex Soup

    no joke…… bill maher and keith olberman are total douchebags.

  • GORDO

    SSoO, Abercrombie has raised the ‘birther’ story to a new level (Why ???).  Rush Limbaugh talked about it today for an extended period.  In the past, he’s just made very brief references.
    =========
    “Add Rush Limbaugh to big list of ‘birthers’”
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=254013 

  • Mr. Natural

    This comment slights and possibly slanders total douchebags everywhere.

    There are some douchebags that I like…

  • HARP

    Place your bets folks. Who will be next?

    NEWS RACE
    THURS. JAN. 20, 2011

    FOXNEWS O’REILLY 2,918,000
    FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,079,000
    FOXNEWS BAIER 1,940,000
    FOXNEWS SHEP 1,786,000
    FOXNEWS BECK 1,780,000
    FOXNEWS GRETA 1,460,000
    MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,106,000
    CNN PIERS 1,025,000
    MSNBC MADDOW 976,000
    MSNBC O’DONNELL 855,000
    MSNBC SCHULTZ 760,000
    CNN COOPER 740,000
    MSNBC HARDBALL 700,000

  • West Virginia

    I love those numbers.  But the real numbers are

    American Idol (Fox) 18,000,000

    Nine times more than the top news program.

    THAT is what America watches.

  • HARP

    I guess Keith “leaned forward” to much.

  • GORDO

    SSoO, we will never know (always cover your tracks).
    Abercrombie has raised the ‘birther’ story to a new level.  Rush Limbaugh talked about it today for an extended period.  In the past, he’s just made very brief references.
    =========
    “Add Rush Limbaugh to big list of ‘birthers’”
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=254013

  • GORDO

    SSoO, we will never know (always cover your tracks).
    Abercrombie has raised the ‘birther’ story to a new level.  Rush Limbaugh talked about it yesterday for an extended period.  In the past, he’s just made very brief references.
    =========
    “Add Rush Limbaugh to big list of ‘birthers’”
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=254013

  • EllenD

    Olbermann lost me when he did a special commentary accusing Hillary or racism for running against a black guy. Then he did the “take her into a room” comment and that was it. He’s dead to me now.
    Note: no that is not a threat.

  • stodghie

    i have been expected an exodus of the far left from msnbc with comcast as the new owner.

  • Onofre’s arm

    Jeeze, Olbermann thinks he’s a mongoose?

    Well, he’s not a Thurber mongoose, he’s more like a Kipling mongoose:

    Rikki-Tikki-Turkey! 

  • stodghie

    please go by daily cuss and let us know what those little deers are saying too. :*

  • EllenD

    economy gradually improving
    Not on my planet. Unemployment went up in California last month.

  • Onofre’s arm

    I’d rather drain a septic tank………….with a straw.

  • Madame deFarge

    I may have to expand my service in that case.

  • Madame deFarge

    Pander, pander, pander.  They have been spending the last 4 hours kissing his ass now he returns the favor.

  • Madame deFarge

    Very true!  Wonder if The Great Misogynist had any comments on his rival for the most vile man on air?

  • Madame deFarge

    PS:  I don’t care enough to watch his slime.

  • Mr. Natural

    Thus, the 2008 election results.

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    ~~JUSTME~~, As many times I have posted, I don’t know how to put an youtube on here, you could not have once say that to me, oh, see that red dot, ROFL!!  I am always amazed when I see a youtube and I think, HOW IN THE HELL DO THAT DO THAT, I didn’t even know that box said youtube until I did the CTL+ thing, I just learned that, too, haha!!  Too Funny, it was right in front of my EYE the whole time, LOL!!

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    I made this my main picture, LOL!! Good Night Everyone!!  This was a great NEWS DAY, ROFL!!

  • wbboei

    I think it was a travesty of justice for that corruptl enterprise aka MSNBC to fire KO.  He is Howard Beal in Network come to life.  He does not deserve to be fired.  He deserves a strait jacket and a padded cell.  The dickhead who runs MSNBC is the one who should be fired.  .

  • getfitnow

    He lost me before that. The Michael Jackson “puppet theater” was ridiculous. I had my fill of Kukla, Fran and Ollie as a child and it was much better theater to boot.

  • getfitnow

    I liken network/cable news to the dems. There’s a whole lot of housecleaning that needs to be done before I can seriously consider supporting/watching them.

  • getfitnow

    Don’t forget Phil Donohue–despite his high ratings.

  • getfitnow

    Karma, baby!

  • getfitnow

    I’m not sure That One can pull it off this time. There are those that will support him, regardless, but he’s no longer the “blank slate.” Imo, he, Pelosi and Reid have set in stone what the current Democratic party stand for and most Americans don’t like it.

    I find it amazing that there’s already talk about the, dare I say, “war chest.” I think this will be a further turn off to most Americans

    He really is not a very good politician. He doesn’t have the agility nor the instincts of Bill Clinton.

    I also wonder if he has the stamina to run against a candidate with vision and values and not afraid to espouse them. I just hope the GOP will have learned to take off the gloves. He’s no longer “historic”.

  • getfitnow

    I agree EllenD. People know what their reality is and it ain’t pretty. And unlike when Bill Clinton said “I feel your pain”, That One’s “party hearty” track record erases any notion that he does.

  • getfitnow

    I liked Aaron Brown.

  • Noogan

    He was fired–abruptly, with a telephone call during the show telling him his time was done!–not due to Comcast, apparently, but due to the fact that he’s an asshole to everyone, a bully who berates those who work for him on Countdown, and to those who work with him at the network. 

    “The Diva” has LEFT THE BUILDING!


    Goodbye and Good Riddance. 

  • getfitnow

    Didn’t he know the law before he started his “quest”?

  • Noogan

    Olbermann wasn’t fired for criticizing Obama. He was fired because he’s just an asshole, and EVERYONE at the network HATED his guts. 

  • getfitnow

    Or did he find a horse’s head in his bed. =-X

  • Noogan

    I liked Aaron Brown, too, and when CNN fired him, and replaced him with Anderson Cooper, I said, BIG MISTAKE; I was right. 

    Don’t get me wrong, I think Anderson Cooper is a good journalist; I admire his guts, he actually goes after a story wherever it might be. But Anderson Cooper PISSED ME OFF forever the night he sat and giggled with Maddow, making “tea-bagger” jokes for nearly 3-4 minutes. It was the end of my respect for Cooper. 

    I respected Aaron Brown’s tone and gravitas. I still miss him. Wish CNN would get a freaking clue and hire him back for their “parker spitzer” hour. Those two suck. 

  • getfitnow

    And what about MTV’s new program, Skin or Skins?

    Who are these parernts that allow their under-age kids to participate in such garbage.

    I did hear yesterday, major sponsor, Taco Bell pulled out.

  • Noogan

    Sadly, I completely agree with you, West Virginia. 

    It’s pathetic. 

  • Bronwyn

    Aaron Brown was a TRUE journalist.  Now he’s teaching journalism at a university, I forget where.  I looked him up one day last year to see what became of him.  His news show on CNN was appointment television.  He covered the major stories and wrote great news copy.

  • Dorinda

    Are they trying to say the Governor, a former Congressman, did not know when he started this little charade several weeks ago, that it was against state law?  If he didn’t know that, or at least, strongly suspect that, he is totally incompetent to be a governor.

    The officials are all saying, “It’s there.  I’ve seen it.  All is legal”.  But they aren’t saying what they saw.  They could well have seen his legal birth certificate in the name of Barry Soetoro, father Lolo.  Or something else very different from Barack Obama.  They may be telling the truth but not the whole truth.

  • Dorinda

    Please explain how Bill Clinton figured in any of this. 

  • creeper

    jj:  “With the economy gradually improving…”

    Oh, really?  Where?

  • creeper

    FrenchNail, we’ll need even more busses.  Gotta have some way to transport all those out-of-district voters to the caucuses.

  • FlDemFem

    Here, OA, wear this when you go over..for protection..you will need it!!

  • NAN

    I agree, he lost me over Hillary and I’ve NEVER been able to go back completely.  And I really don’t care to much for Chris Mathews and how he treated Hillary and I hear he’ll be doing a special about Bill Clinton on President’s day. 
    In my book if ANYONE tried to put the screws to Bill and Hill, UNJUSTLY, I’m done with you.  After Obama and his gang called Bill a RACIST I’VE never been able to be on board completely. 

  • FlDemFem

    Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “Friday news dump” doesn’t it?? Hehehe

  • JustSaying

    Goodbye Mr. Olbermann…don’t let the door hit you in the arse on the way out…I always wondered how long it would take before you “snapped”….
    The best par :-P t of all this….”Hillary is still standing”….Karma is wonderful!

  • FlDemFem

    “he can’t disclose an individual’s birth documentation without a person’s consent”
    Which begs the question, Why won’t Obama consent to the release of his birth certificate? What is on it that he doesn’t want the world to know??

  • FlDemFem

    A mongoose can take down a cobra, one of the most dangerous and fast snakes in the world. Perhaps KO sees himself as someone who takes down dangerous people…or something. I have seen mongoose and cobra fights, and let me tell you, no effing way is KO a mongoose. He’s just not quick enough, he would be dead of snake venom in minutes.

  • jj

    Interesting that the talentless Chris Matthews is still standing making his $10 million a year. And his show has no ratings.

    And he still sings the praises of obama.

  • IADK3SLT guest

    Yeah, I heard he was a whiny Prima Donna.  Quite surprising behavior from a man.  - Oh, right.  That’s why he doesn’t like women.

    I’m just thrilled that what ever MSLSD was asking of Keithie, he couldn’t comply and agreed to still get paid, but say Hasta . La Vista-BABY   Both win, FINE!  One can hardly claim his replacement , Larry ODonnell is much better.  HE was one of the early promoters of Barry when he started appearing on  MSLSD.

    Larry ODonnell is king of hyperbole.  I remember him starting the race card during the early days of the primary when he claimed John Edwards being in the race was ruining the chances of a black man becoming president.  He was a spoiler.

    And in case any one wonders, Larry O’Donneel really is the cranky bitter lefty he displays.   I remember thinking that to myself when I was still a Democrat, when I went to a taping of “Swing Vote” and he and Arianna came walking up the bleachers.

    I hear Keithie is moving to Chicago to work on campaign Obama 2012 “Together, no jive.” 

  • jj
  • IADK3SLTguest

    Ellen D, yes, Olbermann lost us more sane folks all aroud the same time.

    I also sadly believe I was a guilty part of helping drive up his numbers.  Just then,as he turned on us and became this koolaid drinking liar, opposite of what he first attracted us to and claimed to be.

    I remember when he started using his position in the fall of 07 to start attacking/smearing candidates   All around the time his email address went down.  I was never a fan of Kucinich for pres, but when he started bringing up his past marriages, new marriage, smearing him personally, I knew he was going down a dark road.  As we all know, he went further, until he fell in the black hole.

  • Breeze

    Conservatives React Quietly  
    to Keith Olbermann Departure      
       
    The Hollywood Reporter,  
    by Paul Bond     
     
    Original Article  
     
    1/22/2011   
     
    Forgive the political right while it gloats over Keith Olbermann’s reign coming to a close at MSNBC. After all, with a few exceptions, they’re being rather civil about Friday’s surprising news. Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.com, for example, there’s a straight story and video about Olbermann’s departure, with opinion left to those who take the time to post comments, and they were into the hundreds within a few hours. “See…. There is a God,” one responder wrote. “Now that’s the kind of Hope and Change I like”

  • Breeze

    -

    NEXT?

    Chris Matthews’ Back-Patting:  
    Claims to Know When He’s  
    ‘Making an Ass’ of Himself      
     
    The Daily Caller,  
    by Jeff Poor     
     
    Original Article  
     
    1/21/2011  
     
    You could almost make a “Chris Matthews gaffes” highlight reel of his years as an MSNBC host. He once called West Point, site of the U.S. Military Academy, “enemy territory.” He has said President Barack Obama gave him a “thrill up his leg.” He even made an awkward pass at CNBC anchor Erin Burnett on live air. And on his Thursday show, he told Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall he was falling in love with him. But don’t let him know those gestures probably aren’t appropriate, especially for live television.

  • Docelder

    This is Kabuki theater. Of course he has a birth certificate… else the HI governor would not have brought it up. I am looking for some fringe element to generate some news headlines and then Obama will pop his newfound HI birth certificate out saying “can’t we all just get along”. I have no doubt he would have a HI certificate by now if he was born on Pluto. This is all for show people. It is elections time again. The economy and the constitution is what we need to be looking at right now. Not Obama’s kabuki machine.

  • ~~JustMe~~

    I’ve never seen you ask, SSOO.
    Guess you asked on someone else’s shift!! ;)

  • Mary

    Yes.   Apparently  his own  staff  hated  him.   Other  pundits  did ,  too,  since  he  treated  them   arrogantly.    He  was   trouble  with  a  capital  T   to    the  management,  stirring  up  trouble  all over  the  network.    Major  league    asshole. 

  • creeper

    You’re a better man than he is, Onofre’s arm.

  • creeper

    Nailed it, WVA.

  • Agent X

    This was nothing more than the “rights” buyout of the “left”…  MSNBC will become another mini-Fox with token lefties for flavor. 

    We are losing the Republic….

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Saturday smile!! One just never knows who will be there to reach out to help!

  • PssttCmere

    Aaron Brown (born November 10, 1948) is an American broadcast journalist most recognized for his coverage of the September 11, 2001 attacks,[2] his first day on air at CNN. He was a longtime reporter for ABC, the founding host of ABC’s World News Now, weekend anchor of World News Tonight and the host of CNN‘s flagship evening program NewsNight with Aaron Brown. He is currently the anchor of the PBS documentary series Wide Angle and an instructor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

  • wodiej patriotdawg

    I never watched him. Listening to hate speech doesn’t fit in with my attitude about life in general.  Good riddance.  Don’t know who would pick him up-not Fox for sure.

  • wodiej patriotdawg

    Well there are 300 million people in this country so that still leaves 94% of the population who has a more important agenda than watching AI.

  • Noogan

    About all those “mysterious” bird deaths….It’s the USDA poisoning them. 

    http://www.naturalnews.com/index.html

  • AbigailAdams

    Keith who?

  • greenlantern
  • arabella trefoil

    Michelle Obama had a hand in this.

  • FormerLiberal

    Great quote! THX

  • oowawa

    We won’t have Herr Olbermann’s humungous butt to kick around any more?  Sniff.  Okay, line up and bend over, Chris, Ed, and Rachel: you’re going to have to do double booty duty . . .

  • greenlantern

    Keith Partridge:

  • Kim

    He was definitely fired, but he’ll still be getting the $7 mil he was promised in his contract.  Some punishment…he can sit on his pompous, Sarah Palin hating ass and still get rich.

  • kinthenorthwest

    Remember Beck used to work for CNN.

  • Breeze

    -

    FROM HILLBUZZ:

    Lisette Says:

    January 22, 2011

    Here’s the difference between Glen Beck and Keith Olberman (aside from the fact that Beck’s brand of crazy scares me a lot less than Olberdork’s):

    “Nobody ever got rich working for somebody else
    “And for all his “smarts,” that’s what Olbermann did. That $30 million was still somebody else’s $30 million.

    “While Olbermann was mouthing off, cashing his checks and going home to sleep/drink, Beck was building a stable family, a network of powerful friends, and an empire.

    “If he gets fired from Fox and radio tomorrow, he owns the massive foundation in place to relaunch himself literally the next day and take 10 million loyal fans with him in a podcast he could have up and running in hours…

    “…Even Olbermann’s Twitter feed is probably “owned” by MSNBC. All those precious contact — gone.”

    http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/2011/01/olbermanns-contract-not-renewed-but-glenn-beck-is-the-crazy-one/

  • Diana L. C.

    I couldn’t stand to look at KO on t.v. after his behavior during the primary in regard to Hillary.  For one thing, it made me terribly ashamed of myself for ever liking how he treated W and others.  (Again, I did NOT approve of the way W ran the WH, but childish name calling is wrong.)

    I am really nostalgic for the times when one could turn on t.v. news and expect to see an attempt at objectivity delivered by someone acting like a mature adult. 

    KO’s pompous, caustic personality always overshadowed anything he might be saying.  It got to the point that if I listened to him for even a minute, I felt I might need the services of an exorcist.   They say your heart has to be open for the Devil before he can come in. 

    Perhaps there are some sane minds at Comcast who could see the hypocrisy of the call for civility coming from the left.

    I am very happy he is now off national T.V., and I do hope the reports that he can’t appear for two years are true.

  • kinthenorthwest

    West Virginia there is a Very Large % of American Adults that watch no News. They just switch the station, when news comes on…..and I am not talking about those without TVs(which is a very small % of Americans).

  • oowawa

    Yep, Herr Olbermann had a humungous butt, and big Ed is just cheeky enough to fill that seat . . .

  • FormerLiberal

    No it would just be Obama showing his true colors.

  • Babs

    Well, as much as I applaud this decision, I wait with a healthy bit of skepticism to see if Comcast’s ownership of NBC changes their national news to embrace more objective journalism, or whether they remain the same transparent outlet for the Democratic party’s narrative of the day. Time will tell.

  • Diana L. C.

    But since he was right about CNN getting rid of KO, I am now nervous about his prediction that the left will try to use this move as a springboard for trying to get rid of Fox.

  • Diana L. C.

    That’s o.k.–he’s just another rich lefty who pretends to care about the poor while living in luxury.  He has lost what he likes most, the fawning adoration of the obot army.  They will not have a way to come together each night to get their “bliss.”

  • Breeze

    Omen: Keith Olbermann’s
    Exit Comes Exactly One Year
    After Air America’s Demise
     
    Mediaite,
    by Tommy Christopher   

    Original Article

    1/22/2011

    The sudden, shocking exit of Countdown host Keith Olbermann is still sinking in for many, but the true potential measure of the loss is illustrated by a weird coincidence: exactly one year ago today, Air America finished circling the drain, and announced it would cease live programming immediately.

  • FormerLiberal

    I guess Keith thinks of himself as a poor victim, like the Mongoose in the story. I think of him as more of a weasel not a mongoose. I wonder who the Cobras represent in his vastly superior mind.

  • Anita Finlay

    judging by the high number of people who watch American Idol, far more Than any news program, that should explain a lot about our elections in his country.

  • Hokma

    It does not appear that Comcast is changing anything in the MSNBC approach. I read that Lawrence O’Donnell is replacing Olbermann. So it will be one far left loon replacing another.

    Apparently Comcast is not paying attention to the fact that every FoxNews show beats their competitors at least 2:1.

    I think there is a lot more to Olbermann’s immediate release than we are being told and the fact that they waited till right after the approval of the sale speaks volumes about that fact. When it comes to bad behavior nothing would surprise me about Olbermann.

    As far as basic standard of journalism it is an anathema at NBC and could not expect it to change anytime soon.

  • Onofre’s arm

    Errrr……..umm……. thanks………I guess, creeper. Although, that doesn’t seem to be much of a compliment.

  • jj

    Interesting that obama hires Olbermann’s boss Jeff Immelt (who still gets to kep his job as head of GE). And then Olbermann is fired.

    Coincidence?

  • Justine

    So, with only Stanley Ann as the parent, how is he African American? =-O

  • Buzz Latte

    I do believe, for the most part, that Obama is a multi-headed Hydra. The game is about to get bigger, nastier, and more devious.  Obama’s every move needs to be scrutinized.

    The corruption will escalate.

  • felizarte

    SSOO: “OH NO, BRONWYN, What if he left to take over for Gibbs?  The HORROR!!!”

    That would be great, don’t you think?  It would take less than 10 seconds for Olberman to lecture Obama; then Michelle would come in and fire Olberman. OR, Olberman stays at the podium and Obama goes to Indonesia and never come back.  Meanwhile Abercombie of Hawaii is haunted by his promise to the the birthers.

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Black Magic =-O

  • felizarte

    I think that the greater punishment for Olberman is that he can’t talk about it, or go on the air to prop Obama or destroy would be opponents.  This is just one of those things that just seem to drop from the sky.  Someone’s looking out for Sarah and Hillary.

  • sybilll

    TheRightScoop linked a live feed of Olbermann’s twitter account last night.  I tell ya, it was better than dinner and a movie, and a whole lot cheaper.  I L’dMAO. 

  • greenlantern

    I’m cross-posting from Hillbuzz re the Beck vid. What do you think?

    The part about Olbermann having “outlived his usefullness” makes me think he was ousted to make way for the new illusion of a “centrist Obama”. It’s all theater. Time to throw the monster in the basement while you appear to be mild mannered and agreeable in the upstairs parlor.

  • felizarte

     I think that the greater punishment for Olberman is that he can’t talk about it, or go on the air to prop Obama or destroy would be opponents.  This is just one of those things that just seem to drop from the sky.  The rest of the cadre–Maddow, O’Donnel, Schultz, are on notice now and won’t be able to take up the slack as Obama’s cheering section.  With 2012 less than two years away, this could be a real problem for Obama.

     Someone’s looking out for Sarah and Hillary. Go Palin 2012!

  • felizarte

    Forgot to mention Matthews.

  • felizarte

    The birth certificate might say, under race, “WHITE”, which in those days would be the thing to do.

  • FlDemFem

    Someone should send this to Keith. O:-)

  • creeper

    I guess it doesn’t pay to get too cute with the Kipling quotes.

  • TeakWoodKite

    BO is a Voodo Child?

  • bamalv

     hopefully  chris mathews and rachel madcow will be next.

  • Jim Ticehurst

    New YOUTUBE Video shows HITLER in a RAGE Because Olbermann is out..

  • jwrjr

    Bill Clinton said “I feel your pain”, and Obama says “I cause your pain.”

  • bamalv

    obama is now trying to make himself over to be clinton 03. (which he could never be).   we should have just elected hillary if we wanted another clinton instead of a  clinton clone. if he thinks americans  are stupid enough to fall for his sudden about face, he is sadly mistaken. .he has already shown us his true self and no amount of posturing or rebranding  is going to fool anyone with any brains.

  • bamalv

    thats funny coming from those 2 (anderson and madcow) who actually ARE teabaggers.

  • jwrjr

    The only way K.O. could take down a Cobra is if the Cobra laughs itself to death.

  • jwrjr

    Has Matthews ever not made an ass of himself?

  • TeakWoodKite

    Like I said.

    what did you expect?

  • armymom

    How will Obama brand himself as a Blue Dog when he’s going to be pushing another big stimulus in his state of the union? Like the first one didn’t do what it was suppose to do. Remember, if it was passed, unemployment wouldn’t go over 8%. Remember all the abuse that happened with the first one and all the pork. Guess he still didn’t get the message in November that the spending has to stop. Idiot.

  • armymom

    Seriously? Are you the one who posted at the Daily kos that the “republic” as we know it is gone, gone I tell ya. I can’t help but laugh hysterically at the vision of all the bots grieving over the gutless pig known as Olberman. He was classless and ignorant. Good riddance to bad rubbish I say.

  • William L. Donlon

    Saturday, January 22, 2011, Day One Since “Mission Accomplished”.

  • Noogan
  • Noogan

    Over at TMZ, they’re saying it was DEFINITELY COMCAST. 

    Heh. 

    I believe TMZ over Griffin.

  • Gianni

    Olbermann, Matthews, and all the other jerks at MSNBC drove me away from their station because of how badly they treated the Cintons and their supporters during the Democrat nomination battle.  It surprised me that the first time I watched FoxNews during the nomination battle, they were actually treating Hillary BETTER than MSNBC!  I started drifting away from MSNBC and started watching Foxnews almost exclusively now.  Olbermann’s rant about Hillary’s assassination comment was disgusting, and I vowed at that point that I would never take this man seriously again.

    Why was MSNBC so desperate to push the agenda for Obama?  Why? Why weren’t they more even-handed?  Why did they treat Hillary Clinton like enemy number 1?  It is just not right for Democrats or libs to act thay way toward their own.  And pulling out the race card against Hillary, Bill, and supporters of Hillary was the last straw. Screw them.  They can all go to hell.

  • Noogan

    I think that’s why they were laughing, but it was shockingly UNPROFESSIONAL in my opinion. I was horrified that on-air anchors would spend 4 minutes of air time making jokes about sexual acts. God, it was like peeping through a keyhole into a high school locker room. Ugh.

  • kinthenorthwest

    He was obsessed with Obama which I think was hurting not only his creditability but the creditability of the network.
    Left wing bias is one thing but Olbermann went beyond.
    Even many, Obama supporters begin to question whether or not Olbermann had all his screws intact when it came to reporting on Obama.
    “A tingle goes up my leg”…

  • Noogan

    You betcha! :)

  • Noogan

    It’s not an actual “birth certificate” that he found; its just a scrap of paper someone scribbled on saying, “On This Date The Messiah Was Born.”

    :)

  • William L. Donlon

    Check out the “herd deaths” that have taken place in the West and South East Asia since Jan 1, 2011.

    Bird Deaths??
    Fish Kills??
    Bee Hive Collapse??

    NOW:
    Take the last two didgits in the year you were born,
    add them to the age you will be at your birthday this year —

    If they add up to 111 —— YOUR NEXT!!!!

    January Fool!    Hey — on April 1st you’ll see it coming.

  • Noogan

    HAH! Good one, FlDemFem!  :-D

  • Onofre’s arm

    Well Jim,I couldn’t find the dub, and I would have DVR’d his last show if I had known that it was going to be his last, but I did find his last show posted at YouTube:

    He’ll be missed.

  • Noogan

    The USDA admits it.

    The original source URL of this file was:
    http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_…

    This document shows that, just in 2009, the following bird populations were poisoned and killed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, using taxpayer dollars:

    (Listed as “Intentional” and “Killed / Euthanized”)

    Brown-headed cowbirds: 1,046,109
    European Starlings: 1,259,714
    Red-winged blackbirds: 965,889
    Canadian geese: 24,519
    Grackles: 93,210
    Pigeons: 96,297

    …plus tens of thousands of crows, doves, ducks, falcons, finches, gulls, hawks, herons, owls, ravens, sparrows, swallows, swans, turkeys, vultures and woodpeckers, among otheranimals.

    The chart even shows that the USDA ”unintentionally” euthanized one Bald Eagle.

    Learn more:http://www.NaturalNews.com/031084_bird_deaths_holocaust.html#ixzz1BnjHdaVZ

  • Noogan

     
    After hundreds of starlings were found dead in the Yankton Riverside Park, concerned citizens began to investigate. Before long, a USDA official called the local police and admitted they had poisoned thebirds. “They say that they had poisoned the birds about ten miles south of Yankton and they were surprised they came to Yankton like they did and died in our park,” says Yankton Animal Control Officer Lisa Brasel, as reported by KTIV (http://www.ktiv.com/Global/story.as…).

    TheUSDAthen confirmed the story and explained it was all “part of a large killing” in Nebraska. Some of the birds that ate thepoisonapparently flew all the way to Yankton before succumbing to the poison.

    Watch the video yourself, as reported from KTIV:
    http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=19157…

    Learn more:http://www.NaturalNews.com/031076_USDA_bird_deaths.html#ixzz1BnjWKf7v

     

  • FlDemFem

    The contract still has two years to run, and until then, he can’t work for anyone else in broadcasting. So Keith is off the air through the next election.

  • Breeze

    -

    Bravo, Gianni!!!

  • Breeze

    NEW DETAILS: “MSNBC And Keith Olberman
    Have Ended Their Contract”; Lefty
    MSNBC About To Make Right Turn?
     
    Deadline,
    by Nikki Finke and
    Nellie Andreeva   

    Original Article

    1/22/2011

    An MSNBC insider told this to Deadline today about Keith Olbermann’s departure Friday: “This was all Keith’s choice. He has several times over the years said that he wants out of his contract. He never meant it until this year. He started lawyers negotiating twice this year. He stopped them in the spring. Then, about a month ago with the guidance of his new ICM team and a new LA manager….

  • West Virginia
  • HARP

    Here we go again….

  • carol haka, not your average Matzo Cracker

    Another one that f*cked the Clintons – GONE!

    :-D

  • Breeze

    Keith Olbermann leaving MSNBC’s  
    ‘Countdown’: Bill Maher  
    tells Rachel Maddow  
    that it’s ‘bulls–*”      
     
    New York Daily News,  
    by Aliyah Shahid     
     
    Original Article  
     
    1/22/2011  
     
    Keith Olbermann’s abrupt exit on Friday night has at least one of his fellow liberal allies fuming. HBO host Bill Maher immediately asked guest and Olbermann’s fomer MSNBC colleague Rachel Maddow why Olbermann was leaving. Maddow, one of Olbermann’s closet allies, said she knew “very little about” the decision on “Real Time With Bill Maher” but said it was mutual. “Well that’s always bulls–t,” Maher responded.

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    ~~JUSTME~~, HAHA, I guess I did, but THANK YOU for teaching me how to do it, now I might be banned for SPAMMING, LOL!!  I love youtube!!

  • beyond(required) words

    ooh that makes for some good news! One less slug for at least for 6 months. (Hope for min. 2 years)

  • greenlantern

    BW-I like your picture a lot more than Keef’s!

  • TeakWoodKite

    So the guy that wrote West Wing is the guy who Obama and Axelrod went to for the Obama charecter in 2007 and now he is the guy reporting on his own charecter in IRL ?

    Surreal.

  • TeakWoodKite

    So the guy that wrote West Wing is the guy who Obama and Axelrod went to for the Obama character in 2007 and now he is the guy reporting on his own character in IRL ?  
     
    Surreal.

  • TeakWoodKite

    “But what it did ‘do’…..That video is a riot!

    Man o man…what were they thinking!>?

    Hey! Isn’t that an autographed copy of “Prairie Fire” on his bookshelf?

  • TeakWoodKite

    “…The last thing we need is a perment tax cut for Americans who don’t need them and weren’t even asking for them”

    Oh yeah ? Fast forward to the lame duck of 2010….we be askin and we need ‘em.

  • Makeji

    Just heard on the news that China is buying a lot of RV’s from us – does that count as a bus?

  • Makeji

    Me, too. They dumped him for Cooper. I stopped watching CNN entirely when they were kissing Obambi’s butt, but Brown leaving was the beginning of the end for me. I also used to like Olbermann and MSNBC for the same reason. Lifelong Democrat gone rogue after 40 years!

  • beyond(required) words

    Thanks Gl. Sniper-kitty is one of my fave avatars and her coloring is similar to my own little rascal on my lap ;)

  • stodghie

    noogan, i guess the three wise men took the fifth on obummer or they didn’t show up for his birth because they knew better. lol :-P

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    jj, So you are saying that Obama threw Keith O. under the bus, LOL!

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    Now that ~~JUSTME~~ has taught me what these button means, LOL, I can add visuals to my written thoughts, LOL!! THANK YOU, ~~JUSTME~~, haha

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    Dorinda, Bill Clinton is what we call the GURU of all things politics and he has a hit list of everyone that turned on him and Hillary during her run for POTUS and Keith was on that list, too.  Bill Clinton was/is FRIENDS with this Gov. from Hawaii, Bill Clinton made a statement during the election that was out of no where when asked if Obama was qualified and his answer was, if he meets the requirement, age, citizenship, etc. Nothing about the man himself as a Leader or qualified as to be President, just the US requirements was all he said. Bill Clinton does not say things without an agenda. So, that raises the question, Why would Bill Clinton say that, Why would this Gov. come out to disprove the birthers, only to say, he can’t and it can have an effect on the 2012 election if he can’t prove it or produce the BC, No one will ever be able to prove Bill Clinton is behind this, but we know he is pushing Hillary to run against Obama in 2012, if you put the doubt out there and it can’t be proven, the states are making it mandatory to have a birth certificate on file in their states for every candidate to be on the ballot, then he can’t run if he can’t produce a birth certificate regardless of where he was born.  Bill Clinton will take them down one by one until he gets his revenge for what was done to them during 2008 by their own party, IMHO, that is why I believe Bill Clinton is behind the scenes of all of this, I bet you, MORE TO COME, start watching who is exposed for past dirty deeds, who starts resigning without a reason except due to personal reasons, retiring, more time with family, etc. he has had two years to start his plan and get his wife elected to be President.  This is my theory and many agree.  Its a wait and see kinda thing to know if I am right or wrong, but interesting that a commerical came out today for Hillary to be the President that said we should have this POTUS in 2008 right after the Gov. of Hawaii said he can’t find the BC or prove it exist, things that make you go Hmm, LOL!  If you follow politics, then you know how the game is played, this is just my perception of what I see and what I am hearing from Clinton friends and delegates I know. The other issue is that if NancyP signed off an offical BC for Obama to be the nom for POTUS on the Dem ticket, but if the Gov. of Hawaii can’t get the same BC, then what did she sign, is there some fraud going on here, Obama half sister could not even produce a BC for Obama to prove his father was BHO, Sr. at the reading of the his Father’s will for Obama to get his share and that is in his own words in his book, Dreams of My Father, so it is no wonder the whole word is asking, Where’s the BC?  Obama started the birther issue in his own words in his own book about the BC!

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    Dorinda, Since he was adopted, the BC should be under the name of Barry Soetoro and there is not record to prove he EVER changed it back to BHO, so to be on the ballot with BHO was fraud anyway and the reason he had to give up his law license for lying on the application when asked if he ever went by any other name.  So, when someone ask for a BC for BHO, it is sealed under adoption law, so the question they need to ask is where is the birth certificate for Barry Soetoro.  Then only thing different on the adoption BC will be the name change of the Father, the name change of BHO to Barry, everything else remains the same.  And, if Obama paid millions to seal his records, why did this Gov. ever think he could just walk in and get any information that is LEGALLY SEALED BY BARRY??

  • Agent X

    Armymom,

    This is not about one person. This is about Corporate America taking over the Fourth Estate and propelling it own agenda. Brian Roberts and Steve Burke are very heavy conservative RNC Contributors, while they both contribute to some Democrats, the bulk of the contributions go to republicans . That Armymon are facts. Lets add that Joe Barton (R-Tex.) Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and some twenty other Republican House Members pushed the FCC not to delay the Comcast takeover of MSNBC. I will also add that most of Comcast’s political contributions, both Democratic and Republican, came paying back with the FCC on the takeover.

    To be direct, the entire takeover is riddled in politics… By the way, Armymom I do not post to Daily kos. I am also no one bot, and its short sighted attack posts such as yours, for my reasoning not to post on political subjects most of the times.

    And Yes taking in all the attacks on the US Constitution by both liberals and conservatives ( such as you), we are losing the Republic … slowly but surely.

  • BARBBF

    My favortive comments about Keith Olbermann:

    http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/01/olbermann-in-trouble-ratings-down-44.html

    Keith Olbermann is on television to prove even people who are both stupid and nasty can find work on TV. This is the man who is so mean spirited that he is mocked on air by the people of his own network.

  • Agent X

    You may also add these to your, “Good riddance to bad rubbish I say“,  column. All three loses are wins for the American Public.

  • Mr. Natural

    AAAAnnnnnd Sorkin is ALSO Maureen Dowd’s former Squeeze.

  • Mr. Natural

    >>>  …making “tea-bagger” jokes…

    There can be no doubt that Cooper knows exactly what “tea bagging” is, and uses the term like some giggling adolescent with an unexpurgated Tropic of Cancer.

    I like to head this behavior off at the pass among my (very limited) circle of friends; when they say, “tea bagger(s),” I reply with the crudest synonym for, “practitioner of fellatio,” that I can muster.

    If this fails, I start addressing the miscreants as, “Cleveland Steamer, ”  ”Rusty Trombone,” and “Dirty Sanchez.”

    After a short trip to Urban Dictionary, they seem to see the error of their ways…

  • Mr. Natural

    >>> if he thinks americans  are stupid enough to fall for his sudden about face, he is sadly mistaken.

    But, are you prepared to bet the deed to the ranch on that?

    Short of a 3-D, multiple-camera shot of him actually eating a live puppy in a public place his re-election is virtually assured.

    The banks love him; big corporations will soon, “come out of the closet,” with their mania for him.

    And, of course, Muddle ‘Murrica will HAVE to vote for him, unless they want to be called Un-Hip, “Fly-Over,” RAYCISS ‘N SHIT CRACKERS.

    Soon, EVERYONE’s favorite Marx Brother will be Karl…

  • Murray

    “Who will take his place?”

    My money’s on someone “of color,” to counter the growing complaints that MSNBC’s newsgroup is so white.