New Olberman blog entry....

[berner59]

Some more details...I love Keith...

"Tomorrow we expect to have a letter from them (Kerry/Edwards people) to Kenneth Blackwell” which would ask Ohio’s Secretary of State to proceed with a recount.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

[crispini]

1. Does the man sleep?

Isn't that his second update today? AND a newscast?

[berner59]

2. yes...

I think he's getting excited that this is finally going somewhere and he got Fineman to call Blackwell to confirm that there will be a recount...so that's something, yes???

So...who will play Keith in the revised All the Presidents Men???

[katamaran]

4. The part of Keith Olbermann will be played by.....

....probably the least logical person to play him. They'll get Colin Farrell (with a drunken nude scene and a love triangle subplot), Jude Law (and they'll make him British), Russell Crowe (he'll personally fight Ken Blackwell), or Adam Sandler (he'll be a bumbling oaf trying to prove his worth).

Or they'll change the part to a woman. In which Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry will be the front runners.

Hollywood calls, baby!

[aquart]

3. Kerry has recount money. Where is it?

[JerseygirlCT]

9. And why the maybe in, maybe out business?

I wish I believed this was b/c there's some great reason I cannot possibly have thought of... but Damn! It's frustrating.

Get in there, John Kerry, give them the money and MAKE it happen!

[SoCalDem]

5. Here's a fantastic OLD one.. Vintage Keith.. and great

I'm quoting this letter from Keith Olbermann to Jim Romenesko's media blog in its entirety because the letters page doesn't provide permalinks.

Anyway, Olbermann is really, really mad at News Corp:

Occasionally one accepts the fact that there is a company called News Corp, just as occasionally one accepts that there are terrorists, or that there are people who scam grandmothers out of their savings. And then Rupert Murdoch's News Corp does something so rapacious, so pathetic, that one must stand up and say no more, and call for all legal and moral measures to stop it.

The latest? News Corp's scandal sheet, the New York Post, reported that a baseball Hall of Famer was blackmailed into cooperating with a best-selling biography written about him -- blackmailed under threat that the woman writer would otherwise claim the Hall of Famer was gay.

Sandy Koufax, the Los Angeles Dodgers' Hall of Famer, was the subject of the only recent best-selling baseball biography written by a woman. He has now quit as a special instructor for the Dodgers because the team is also owned by News Corp. The New York Post previously published another homophobic gossip item last spring that led Mike Piazza of the New York Mets to feel he had to publicly announce he was not gay.

News Corp also owns Fox Television, Fox News Channel, and other companies which produce products structurally similar to "news." And News Corp also owns Harper Collins publishers -- the very company that printed the biography about Koufax in the first place. Their book. Their tabloid. Their team. Their scandal. It stinks. Just like News Corp does.

I worked for that company for three years. They were swine. Many companies are swine. This is something else. This is the triangulation of swine -- three bullies beating up one kid called decency.

I still have a contract with the publishers, Harper Collins, to write a sports book. I will not write it for them. I'm sending the money back. They certainly could use the dough. It might enable Rupert Murdoch and his employees to buy their souls back.


posted February 21, 2003 at 14:29

[Shopaholic]

6. Because I haven't said it yet this morning---

I love Keith.

[brook]

7. Hadn't seen that.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Olberman's integrity is a thing of beauty. His increasing popularity gives rise to hope that integrity will once again be hailed as a virtue to hail and to emulate.

[AllegroRondo]

8. "The triangulation of swine"

"This is the triangulation of swine -- three bullies beating up one kid called decency. "


I LOVE that line!

[crispini]

12. Here's Olbermann's 1998 Cornell Senior Convocation Speech

I really like it.

snip...
"Remember that everything you despise, every evil company, every corrupt politician (and I don't care if you think I mean Bill Gingrich or Newt Clinton) -- every single bad decision that affects life for the worse, has been made by a human being who, because he needed to eat -- or maybe because he was greedy -- or maybe because he hadn't used the spark of humanity that rests inside all of us for so long that it had burned out -- a human being who chose to do what he knew ... was not right.

Each time you see a decision like that made, do not point. Each time you see someone's personal venality or failure or slippage exposed, do not gasp. Make yourself a mental note that if faced with participation in such a decision, or such an exposure, you will try to face it with your Moral Force prominently displayed."

more....

http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/Olbermann_speech.html

[Guaranteed]

10. Awwww yeeeaahhh...

You're gonna get it now, Bush, you little biznatch!

[Catchawave]

11. I just posted this in the Other Articles section...

Great stuff from BuzzFlash:

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/11/far04040.html