Keith Olbermann

Keith has expanded his new "McCain in the Membrane" segment since there is just so much to cover now. He gets two stories I posted about yesterday:

Olbermann dinged the GOP and McCain on their sickening use of 9/11 in a special comment tonight:

Does Keith read this blog? I ask because he went into detail on a point I touched on back in July. John McCain is saying we need to elect him President because he has the plan to catch Osama. He has this plan and hasn't shared it with our military or current President. Obama should put out an ad showing McCain saying this and then saying "Sorry Mr. McCain - we don't negotiate with terrorists".

There has been a lot of chatter today regarding MSNBC's decision to scrap Olbermann and Matthews on special election coverage. Honestly, I don't think it's a bad idea. MSNBC's ratings were in the toilet during the conventions and I can honestly see why. They didn't cover the convention - they covered each others opinions. I actually found myself tuning into CNN more during those two weeks (despite how much I despise CNN).

MSNBC needs to take this and do more than change the faces on these big nights. They could actually keep Olbermann and Matthews hosting the shows, but change the production. For too long we have been plagued with the same people on MSNBC. You can turn it on at 6:00am and see Pat Buchanan rambling his nonsense and then at 9:30pm he is still there. MSNBC only has a small handful of contributors/analysts and that is what's really biting them in the ass.

If MSNBC wants to continue to compete and grow, it's time for some fresh blood. Rachael Maddow's new show is going to be a good start, but the hosts really aren't the problem - it's everyone else. Let's get some more views on the shows. They don't all have to be left or right views - just different views. MSNBC - you are becoming extremely stale.

Keith Olbermann gave us another special comment tonight, this time telling John McCain to "grow up". The comment was based on McCain's latest attacks against Obama, plus an added bonus of McCain's campaign going on the defensive over the "cone of silence".

Olbermann went through last night and highlighted all the McCain flip flops that have taken place over the past several years. Damn there's a lot of them:

Another great special comment in which he tears McCain apart:

McClellan sat down with Keith Olbermann last night and told him what all of us conspiracy theorist, freedom hating, unpatriotic bloggers knew - Bush planned on going to war with Iraq after 9/11 and nothing was stopping that, even if they had to "repackage" intelligence to sell the war.

Rachael Ray seen here in a Dunkin Donuts ad, wearing her spring line of terrorist fashion (yeah right!). Dunkin Donuts has decided to pull the ad because little hate mongers like Michelle Malkin didn't like it. Olbermann decided to give Dunkin Donuts the honor of Worst Person in the World last night:

Being Diabetic, I don't eat at Dunkin Donuts, but if you do I would suggest finding another place for your morning sweet fix. Dunkin Donuts falling for the propaganda of the fringe elements of our society means they don't deserve the business of true Americans.

Here is Bushed from last night's Countdown. There is plenty of outrage to be had in this episode, but I think the most should come from the government's "no-fly list", which is supposed to be used to track potential terrorists, but it also contains the names of air marshals. You know - those people who are supposed to help protect the skies. Just another example of how government does not work under Republican leadership.

After hundreds of horrible comments by Bill O'Reilly, we finally get Jesse Jackson calling him out on them. The "lynching" comment about Michelle Obama appears to be the final straw.

Another spectacular special comment from Keith blasting the administration and their fear mongeing.

MSNBC now has an embed player for clips (a great move in my book). Here is Keith Olberman's special comment tonight on FISA.

Tonight was excellence in broadcast journalism. Instead of playing the waiting game until the heat got to high, like Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann took the bull by the horns and made an on air apology tonight. The apology wasn't for something Keith did, but rather for something Lawrence O'Donnell did. Last night on Countdown O'Donnell said that John Edwards was not a factor in the Democratic race. While many might agree with him, O'Donnell didn't disclose the fact that he wrote a piece last week calling for Edwards to quit and saying how he was the southern white man standing in the way of the black man. I blogged about that piece here.

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Speaking of Tweety, it appears he is "infuriated" by the success of Keith Olbermann. Hey Chris - maybe FOX will hire you.

Their has been a lot of buzz the last few days over Ann Coulter calling John Edwards a "faggot". I chose not to cover it because I feel that the more publicity Coulter gets, the more fuel she has for her outlandish comments. Today I had to cave because of Keith Olbermann, who took time from his vacation last night to call in the World's Worst on Countdown.

We got Limbaugh saying that Obama owns Al Sharpton because Obama has a history of slave owners in his family and Sharpton's family was once owned by Strom. Coulter and her "faggot" comment earns her the top honor, while Gingrich showed his true hatred with this comment:

How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane.