MSNBC: Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann 08/01/08

[KeithOlbermannTruth]

I remember this episode exactly, makes me miss Summer and pre-election, great video.

[dcarrollnyg]

no body watches this idiot.case closed

[fisnationstate]

Well not the majority of viewers. Oreilly still holds 2x as many viewers as Olbermann for that hour.

I suggest you look at tvbythenumbers(dot)com

[dukenthaylor]

Ratings speak louder than words.

[hanzo2001]

Nice portrayal/montage, I've never seen one of those. you kept in the funny parts but now I'm interested in the anthrax section.

Good "collage"(sp?). 4stars

[fisnationstate]

Thank you. If you'd like I can upload the anthrax segment. It'll take a while though; interent's currently slow.

[hanzo2001]

That'd be great, I'll follow you through the comments section

Thanks :D

[fisnationstate]

I've uploaded the segment you requested. It's the video response. :)

[whoiam989]

WOW. Thanks.

Oh, if possible to, I want to see how MSNBC presents a news bulletin, including a TOTH.

[derrybowden]

Olbamamann has a man crush on obama. Why don't he just suck his dick on the air?

[RedPandaBoy]

actually Keith is a news anchor.. He doesn't explain the news towards one side or another, but really report the news.

[ekjohndeer]

Explains the news from both sides. Are you that stupied .

[RedPandaBoy]

facts don't have sides.. opinions have 'sides'. It's either true or not true.

[landfritter]

He's not an anchor anymore. He's a pundit, and pundits are allowed to have opinions. David Gregory is MSNBC's (lead) anchor.

[RedPandaBoy]

An pundit is an opinion leader. Olbermann doesn't try to dig too deep into the stories, he tries to make the simplest common sense point about the news he reports.

I'm a Olbermann fan, but I don't consider him someone who is an expert in politics, he just reports the absurdness of our current government.

[landfritter]

I'm somewhat of a fan, personally I like Rachel Maddow better, then Chris Matthews, then Keith. I was more just responding to some of the other comments that were saying he's too biased to be an anchor.

[landfritter]

I honestly think that his bias was actually necessary for an anchor; it was MSNBC's way to balance out all that time Tucker Carlson was their anchor. I also think his bias was justified by his accepting of it. I've heard comparisons of Olbermann to O'Reilly, in that their both biased towards opposite ends, but I think the difference is that O'Reilly claims an objective viewpoint. He publicly denies a bias.

[RedPandaBoy]

But bias is based on a form of prejudice -- or in other words pre judgement. Everything he reports is based on facts, while O'reilly tries to opinionated the news and misrepresents it (the daily kos, etc etc etc).

He calls particular republicans bad not because it's an opinion, but because they have been doing bad things.

If he has a bias, then please explain 'what is that bias'

[landfritter]

Wikipedia: Bias is a term used to describe a tendency or preference towards a particular perspective, ideology or result, especially when the tendency interferes with the ability to be impartial, unprejudiced, or objective.

I guess it's not really that he's prejudiced (as you and the definition suggest a bias means) as much the tone of the reporting. The worst person's segment almost always goes to conservatives. In general he just goes easier on liberals. But your right, he still reports facts.

[RedPandaBoy]

I used the word pre judgment. Not being impartial or objective is a result of having a judgment without the facts. Let's be realistic, if bias prevent someone from being unprejudiced then it's a form of prejudice.

The reason why republicans are on the worst the most.. isn't because Keith is for or against Conservatives ideas, but because in reality, republicans are doing the worst.

When a Democrat does something bad, he calls it out, but republicans been doing bad things for the past 8 years

[RedPandaBoy]

I will admit that Keith has a Political Agenda.. and that Agenda is to get the idiotic corruption out of our political system. He already implied in his special comments he doesn't care 'who' does it, as long as it stops.

Me being towers a liberal, just finds it unfair people are trying to put Keith in that same label. I'm pretty sure if the Democratic party became corrupted, he'll be made into a conservative.

[landfritter]

Your right, about how he would respond to democrats becoming corrupted. Definitely right. But I do think there are a couple liberals who slip by un-persecuted, and maybe a couple conservatives who get some of the bad rap of the rest of their party, when they themselves might not deserve it.

[sharona666]

Er, I don't know if this is appropriate, but, I'm starting to lust after Keith Olbermann. Is he getting cuter or what?