The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Wow. I Think I Agree With Olbermann.

Of course, he buys into — and foments on his own — some fairly predictable liberal propaganda (e.g., Republicans were pro-Nazi circa 1940), but insofar as he seeks to point out the differences between factual reporting, opinionated analysis and the “the false god of objectivity,” he’s onto something here: If only Keith Olbermann could be […]

Keith Olbermann and Sam Francis

When it was revealed that Keith Olbermann had donated to Democratic candidates he had interviewed, I was not outraged: Being strictly a neutral, objective journalist myself — “Ethics, shmethics!” — I don’t think Olbermann should be fired from NBC, which is as about as neutral and objective as Pravda or the Daily Worker. No one […]

Civil War or Uncivil Peace

My colleague deploys to defend our freedom recalling the stoic song of Scottish courage: War or peace, it’s all the same to me. I’ll be killed in the war or hung during peace. Or, as that same dauntless spirit was once expressed on a famous battlefield: “Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer!” It […]

‘Keith [Olbermann] Tended to Wear Out His Welcome at Stations and Networks’

So says Pat Sajak, who played midwife in the Rosemary’s Baby tale of Olbermann’s career by giving him his first network TV appearance in 1989:

What the Left Thinks of You

Verum Serum gives some tasty excerpts of these deep thoughts from a leading “progressive” thinker: Christian fundamentalists, the millennial end-of-theworlders obsessed with the Left Behind series about the End Times, neo-Nazi racists, rural black-helicopter Michigan Militia types cut from the same inbred cloth as Timothy McVeigh, allied with “mainstream” gun nuts and right-wing Republicans, have been […]

Maddow: ‘Those Nickels and Dimes’

OK, everybody and his third cousin — Hot Air, Red State, Weasel Zippers, Verum Serum, Newsbusters — has already posted this Johnny Dollar video, but even though I’m late to the party, I’ll gladly join the dogpile: Johnny Dollar put a lot of work into this thorough fisking of Rachel Maddow, so it’s extra-good. And you know what […]

MSNBC-OMFG: Keith Olbermann Humiliates Network Executives

According to this report, not only did Olbermann refuse to apologize for violating NBC’s rules forbidding political contributions by news personnel, but he demanded that the network apologize to him. Bernie Sanders (CPUSA-Vt.) is threatening to block the Comcast-NBC merger over the issue. Professor William Jacobson suggests Olbermann should name MSNBC president Phil Griffin “Worst Person […]

MSNBC Self-Immolation Watch UPDATE: Olbermann’s ‘Indefinite’ Suspension? Yeah, One Entire Show

The Keith Olbermann suspension evidently provoked former Obama administration official Susan Crawford’s paranoid streak: Crawford, whose Twitter handle is @scrawford, tweeted on Saturday: “someone should find out whether any comcast connection to olbermann fracas – and remember Quiz Show plot line.” . . . She has previously raised concern that the merger might give Comcast the […]

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