Olbermann Debunks So-Called Liberal Media Bias Claims

[afracturedskull]

It's not left or right. It's just highly controlled, propagandized, and full of evil evil lies. Btw. Ha. ha. ha. Funny shyte Keith, the only reporter I respect.

[Moxlkles]

The theatrics in major media in the Unites States is incredible

[boonie1994]

What about when obama refused to be interviewed by fox?

[LinkMEP]

This guy, a liar as always.

[Shammydavisjr]

@LinkMEP So he must be lying here then.You are retarded.

[LinkMEP]

@Shammydavisjr What kind of idoit goes around calling random people retarded? Why don't you get a life and grow a brain. The vast majority of the poeople he mentioned are a part of obscure news sources. Most of the rest are on fox news.

[Shammydavisjr]

@LinkMEP Not random...just yuo.

[LinkMEP]

@Shammydavisjr Look, I explained why what I said is valid. You can apparently come up with no reasons of calling me retarted, therefore seems pretty random to me. You are such an O'Reily, I mean Glenn Beck, I mean Olbermann (they are all so simular I get them mixed up) fan-boy.

[darkwarriorkane]

@LinkMEP name one? Facts are real and they are this there is no liberal bias unless your reading "the nation" magazine it's it

[LinkMEP]

@darkwarriorkane No liberal bias? Olbermann.

[darkwarriorkane]

@LinkMEP All I see are facts on this show he is a liberal I can tell that but I have yet to see a slant not backed up by the facts it's not a bias if you right

[LinkMEP]

@darkwarriorkane It does not suprise me that you do not see a slant, viewers of Bill O'Reily feel that same way. It is not suprising that their viewers would see them in simular ways, afterall, Olbermann and O'Reily are two sides of the same coin.

[EnergizerBunny804]

Joe Scarborough as well

[jawbone83]

thanks for the references! i ahvent even heard of half of those people!

[therush1892]

@MrAmericanFirst

Saying NPR or PBS are liberally biased shows that you have NEVER listened to these programs.

Also Keith Olbermann is not the emperor of liberals. I'm as liberal as they come and I hate Olbermann. Respect Hannity a lot more.

[TheMattyFos]

This proves how much of an idiot Olbermann is... radio, radio/Fox, Fox, Fox, radio, radio, radio, radio, radio, radio, Fox, Fox, Fox/ Weekly Standard, Radio, National Review

I saw no ABC, NBC, CBS, MessNBC, CNN,.... So the Repubs dominate radio and cable news.... Way to hide the facts there you pear shaped freak

[linuxxe]

This twat is THE personification of arrogance and ignorance that earns Americans disdain across the globe. What a posh wanker.

[linuxxe]

This is far off base. 1) In general, the argument is not that 'conservatives have no voice in the media', but that the media apparatus in general is overwhelmingly liberal-oriented. 2) Most of these people are on Fox news either as anchors or frequent contributors. Most of the print and radio journalists have a rather minute audience in comparison, so he's claiming primarily that Fox is the only conservative 'voice in the media', and that would be accurate. ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC,& CNN sure aren't

[o5iiawah]

@linuxxe

What "mass apparatus" are you talking about? Fox news is the most watched cable news network. Conservative blogs are incredibly popular. Aside from Al Franken, conservatives dominate talk radio. Unless you can really believe that the 30-minute NBC/CBS/ABC nightly news is so overwhelmingly liberal that it drowns all other conservative voices than you are ignorant. Now, more than ever, liberals and conservatives have a voice

[hatfisc]

The King of left wing media bias is the one doing the debunking of a left wing media bias? Is this like that show that tested moon conspiracy theories with the help of NASA? LMAO!!!!

[EaglesMan36]

Best rant ever. It's true, and sums it up.

[WVliberty]

olberfuhrer is a nut, this guy really needs valium or needs to go burn 1

[milkmankennedy]

@WVliberty or maybe Bill Hitler O'Reilly or Glen Himmler Beck should take a valium or burn one? Don't be so one-sided, sweetie-pie.

[WVliberty]

@milkmankennedy maybe you are, oberfuhrer is the bigger nut here, red eye is thee better show of these networks truthfully

[drsnapple]

yeah okay thats like every conservative in the media when there are about 20 times as many liberals who are far more prevalent.

[chrisgalizia]

@drsnapple name them.I bet I can name 50 more conservative talk show hosts and colomists.

[hsew]

I like how he calls himself "imaginative" while wasting 2 and a half minutes saying "VWXYZ conservatives have no voice in the media". Do they pay him to blow it up like this?

[SwampDog1957]

What really bugs Keith so much is that his ratings are soooooo much lower than any of these guys he chooses to criticize.

No liberal media bias? Let's see now.... NBC (including CNBC and MSNBC) are owned by GE. GE chief exec Jeff Immelt was appointed to Obama's economic advisory board. No connection? No bias?

Got a nice bridge I'll sell ya!

[Eaglesfaninca]

Okay so kieth olberman busted the "liberal media" conspiracy.

But what about the liberal University conspiracy? The Liberal public school conspiracy? The golbal warming enviro marxist conspiracy? The atheistic evolution conspriacy?

Do you know Roger Ailes? Please provide a story that was obviously spun for a liberal gain.

[chrisgalizia]

@SwampDog1957 are u fucking kidding me some guy that no one has ever heard of worked for ge and now is in the obama admin.Woopiedi doo iff you turn on fox right now you bet yor ass ur gonna see karl rove,Dana perino or one of the chenny girls telling about how great the bush admin is and how all democrats including obama are terrorist lovin commie socialist satin worshipers that hate the country and want 2 kill babies and old people.Thats fair a balanced

[SwampDog1957]

I think you missed my point BUT since we're naming former political operatives you may have forgotten Paul Begala, George Stephanopoulis, and Chris Matthews....

[Paolo7219]

Great job by Olberman to prove beyond a DOUBT that the media, if anything, tilts sharply to the right, NOT the left.

[bkvs]

keith nails it!!

[timparcival]

Amazing. The "right" claims that there's a lefty bias of the media. Intriguing, though, that they provide no evidence to that effect.

What? Evidence? Are you educated elite sumthin'?

[bkvs]

exactly, evidence is too scientific for these anti science morons!

[adamholzer1992]

@timparcival aren't like 4 out of the 5 major news corporations more "left leaning" and FOX is the only conservative one?

[patsrule213]

@adamholzer1992

The mainstream media is not liberal, but there is bias in the mainstream media. The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, lazyness and conflict. They are not liberal. If they were liberal. why would they leave a Nancy Pelosi press conference, to go attack Anthony Weiner, who is a liberal. It could even be said that liberals have no voice in the media.

[pittistheshit86]

how bout the entire New York Times staff, MSNBC staff, NBC, the entire washington post staff, New York Post staff, 99% of hollywood, and tons of other newspapers, but no, there is no liberal biases in the media just a ton of conservatives in the media... Olbermann is really an idiot, isn't he?

[chrisgalizia]

@pittistheshit86 ok lets get a few things staright the new york times does have libral colomnists they also have many conservative colmnists like bill crystal,NBC has Joe scourboro a republican congressman where is the equvilant at fox also mthews maddow olberman and shultz are not nearly as big of fucking liars and propganists as oriley hannity and beck there is some libral bias in some shows in the media but to not admit that there is a shit load of right wing bias makes u sir the idiot

[pittistheshit86]

@chrisgalizia: yup and Fox has plenty of liberals on their TV shows. and to say that Fox has more liars and propagandists is just a lie. Considering the fact that Fox is the most trusted name in the news according recent polls. Now w/ that said, I don't watch Fox News, I watch CNBC & Fox Business. My point was that Olbermann does that shit all the time and if you rely on him for your news than you are a tard

[benr2902]

What an argument! It's fox news and talk radio versus EVERYONE ELSE. Sounds like a pretty unbalanced environment to me. Crack research there, Keith!

[kingbrandor]

talk radio  isnt really main stream media though

[garic2k]

Total pwnage! Bartcop rules!

[scopeman82]

Are all Olbermann's rants about Fox News? How can someone make a career based on bashing another network? Will Comcast fire him now that they own NBC?

I can't watch him too long. I get a headache.

He's a schmuck. (Schmuck is the discarded foreskin after a circumcision. The useless part of the penis)

[kiminokami]

Your definition of schmuck is not true. A schmuck is a penis, not the foreskin. When you are calling someone a schmuck, you are calling them a prick.

[Blueroverz]

Thanks Keith for pointing out how out numbered and ill represented the right is in the media.

This piece is gold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!

[NCLUSA]

Keith old man! if one person says you're a horse that might not mean that you are a horse, but if everyone says you're a horse then you might want to buy a saddle (: but in your case a horse's butt might fit you better (:

[OlySezHey]

Notice K.O. couldn't mention anybody on NBC, CBS, or ABC (as far as I could tell). I wish FOX would make their own version of the nightly news and run it on their local FOX channels - that would really help balance it out.

[vfreeck]

I don't think normal people can stomach Chris Wallace on weeknights.

[OlySezHey]

Nothing personal, really, it's just funny to me that you think there is such a thing as a "normal" person.

[vfreeck]

It's also funny to me that you think the highest rated cable news network in the country is not a part of the scary "mainstream media."

[OlySezHey]

Maybe my definition is wrong. I wonder how many ppl have to rely on air channels for their news. Personally, I think it sucks having to try to listen to consevative talk radio to get the other side of the story.

[Eaglesfaninca]

Where are the commentator's on those networks? How about George Will?

[OlySezHey]

I guess I don't understand your question.

[poliokolio]

The point of it was not to prove who has the bigger bias, but show that neither side is this monolithic creature that soaks up all aspects of the media.

And, FYI, how many times do we hear O'Reilly brag about how his show is the most highly viewed show in that time slot, but the minute polls show a dip to the liberal side, we hear non-stop about how the liberals control the whole media, and the 'Factor' doesnt stand a chance against the monopoly.

It would be awesome if both sides would stfu

[tga2848]

I finally gave up on the McLaughlin Group when old John started discussing whether Jeb Bush should run for president in 2012. Pat Buchanon is a conservative on that show but he works for MSNBC also. Olberman is spot on though he forgot Monica Crowley and a few dozen others. But judging from the comments however, some still think that the conservative media is yet under-powered. Just how many Rush Limbaugh clones do you require?

[huis14]

That was a pretty long that listed all of the conservatives in the media. The only problem, it only took 2 minutes to list all of them. It would take a dvd series of videos to list all of the liberals in the media. "The imaginary liberal media!" There is no point in arguing with stupidity.

[TheStranglehold]

To which leftists counter-whine "we need a fairness doctrine! Government should save us from those meanie doodie heads like Rush!"

Another useless Olberman rant to all seven of his viewers.

[Rodney92]

This is really good. Thank God someone once again calls out the Republican lies.

[cupster07]

Olbermann is a nit wit notice how Olbermann points to "opinon writers/ talk shows" and not actual news people ( that are on the air) and the statement corporations are conservative owned is simply a childish and a moronic statement but what the heck would one expect from msnbc ( it's has a liberal bias) and you would have to be dead to not see it Olbermann needs to stick to simple stuff like sports i have no idea how he even got that job ( must have been desperate).

[GuitarPuppet59]

I couldn't agree more.

[SineSwiper]

Re: Dave

Then what is the MSM? Fox isn't the MSM? Newspapers aren't the MSM? George Will of ABC, and NBC's Meet the Press, isn't part of the MSM?

If Keith missed any reporters, it's because many reporters are UNbiased. Or there is a counterbalance. For every Washingon Post (D), there is a Washington Times (R). For every New York Times (D), there is a NY Post (R-ag). For every BBC News, there is the Sun.

EVERY medium has a Repub voice, and they are EVERYWHERE.

[gflamer37]

The point is that there's plenty of voices on both sides so there's no reason to whine about bias. The conservatives who cry about a MSM liberal bias are probably the sames ones who think Fox News is actually fair and balanced.

[cupster07]

fox is far closer to the middle than msnbc ( you gotta admit that) ;)

[jlemaire22]

Cupster you are joking right? Fox is more towards the middle. wow.

[OlySezHey]

Come on man... really.

[DrpenutbutterandJ]

@gflamer37 The "Media" consists of much more than just the news. Conservatives no doubt own the radio waves and prime time news, but who owns hollywood and the rest of TV. For every conservative reporter and columnist that Olberwomann just named there are 100 liberal counterparts each. All that can be seen on TV or at the theatre is the advancement of the liberal agenda. Young people dont watch the news they watch everything else which is owned by liberals. That is the conservative point.

[irishsean2]

@gflamer37 This Moron just made the rights point! he never mentions any main stream media except Fox!! think about it ! he is saying all media besides fox is in the tank for us , what a moron!! He also lumps in Biill Oriely with Hannity , he is so out of touch with main strem America!!

[InvestigatorDave]

The broadcast media people KO showed were not in the main stream media (MSM), which is really the point of the conservatives' complaint. The MSM does not have conservative voices. All of these broadcast people were on cable TV or talk radio. None of them were on the MSM.

As to the print arena, there are very few conservative columnists in the MSM of newspapers or magazines. Some are syndicated, and some write only for conservative mags or web sites.

KO was being intentionally obtuse.

[athews1976]

@InvestigatorDave

If you have internet and cable TV then those are MSM. Almost everyone I no has internet and cable TV.

[InvestigatorDave]

The definition of MSM does not include the internet and cable TV. You changing the definition to fit your world view does not re-define that for everyone else.

By the way, does anyone you "no" own a dictionary?

[Eaglesfaninca]

Okay, George Will.

Who are the liberal voices in the MSM?

[highway234]

ha! love it! although KO forgot kathleen parker.