Keith Olbermann has got to be the best in the business

[Wetzelbill]

His show is so informative, and the guy is beyond funny. Not to mention he takes special glee in hammering Bill O'Reilly. :)

I don't even watch any other daily news show other than his. Well, not counting The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, as they are "fake" news. Oddly more accurate than must so-called "real" news, though. But Keith is great. He is always dead on. His interview with Michael Schiavo was one for the ages.

[SHRED]

1. He's good but...

...he could be revealing so much more.

But he is good; for mainstream.

[Wetzelbill]

4. well, yeah for the mainstream

it's tough to find somebody who is all that great. MSM is still the MSM, so in order to really know the score on everything you need to dig and do tons of reading on your own. No show on it's own will do the trick. :)

[yourout]

2. I am with you on KO.

Could not belive what Pat Buchanon was saying tonite.

[Wetzelbill]

15. yes neither could I

Pat's actually interesting to listen to I think. Not that I agree with him on many issues but he's an interesting guy. He's good on the McGlaughlin Group.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Michael Schiavo? Really?

I'd like to see that.

What was the gist of the interview?

[Wetzelbill]

5. Schiavo was PO'd

at all the Republicans that politicized his wife's ordeal. He wants to hold them accountable. He said that he invited DeLay, Frist, the Bushes all the politicos down to see Terri in person and listen to his side, but none took him up on it. He started a PAC that will help defeat the R's that took advantage of the situation. I'm sure there has to be some video somewhere. I'll let you know if I find any.

[Mabus]

8. terripac.org

Michael also said that he was a Republican until this stuff happened.

From the terripac.org website:

FLORIDA – Michael Schiavo, whose 15 year struggle to grant his wife’s end-of-life wishes triggered unprecedented government intrusion and political grandstanding by political leaders from the Florida Legislature to President George W. Bush, today announced he has formed TerriPAC - a national political committee.

“The easiest thing would be to move on and let the headlines fade,” Schiavo said. “But my experience with our political leaders has opened my eyes to just how easily the private wishes of normal Americans like me and Terri can be cast aside in the destructive game of political pandering. The best way to hold them accountable is to make sure voters know where the candidates stand when they come looking for votes next November.”

In spite of overwhelming public feelings against their actions, politicians from Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., manipulated Michael and Terri Schiavo’s deeply personal family tragedy into a national media spectacle and exploited that attention for their own political gain.

That exploitation peaked last March when President Bush left his Texas ranch to return to Washington, D.C. where he joined more than 200 members of Congress in unprecedented federal action designed solely to interfere in the Schiavo family’s personal affairs and the court orders that protected them.

rest at: http://www.terripac.com/who.html

[Wetzelbill]

14. thanks for posting this

[Canuckistanian]

19. Thanks. I'd be interested. n/t

[RevCheesehead]

6. You won't get any arguments from me!

Come and check out the "Countdown/Keith Olbermann Group" here on DU.
We blog the show every night.

And we post floaty hearts. :loveya:

[Wetzelbill]

7. and swoon whimsically?

:)

[RevCheesehead]

11. well, not everybody...

but yeah. And some of us have been known to drool, too. :9

[Wetzelbill]

13. tsk tsk

If I could read minds right now I bet I would be shocked. (actually no, but I can pretend like I would be) :)

[RevCheesehead]

16. You're going to fit in well, Bill.

:rofl: :hug:

[Wetzelbill]

17. Oh I figured as much

:)

[Bozita]

9. KO has a following here at DU -- They call themselves the KOEB

I had to ask to find out that KOEB stood for Keith Olbermann Estrogen Brigade.

Sometimes I'm kinda slow.

[fujiyama]

10. He's verry clever

I starated liking him when he started making fun of Dennis Miller. That's when I first noticed his show. I don't watch his show as often as TDS, but that's because I tendn to forget aabout it.

He's by faar the best on cable news, tha's for sure.

[Wetzelbill]

12. I basically got cable to watch KO, Jon Stewart and pro wrestling

I could live without everything else. :)

[Tigress DEM]

18. Ah, a wrestling fan. I've got a question for you.

We know there is staging that goes on in the wrestling world - which is a good thing - otherwise they could kill each other.

Anyway, in researching all the pre-planning and back stabbing and grandstanding and such with Iraq and soon Iran, isn't this feeling kind of like the whole wrestling format?

Osama sends his boys into the cage and people get thrown out left and right, but they all have these crazy wrestling costumes. Were they Saudis or Al Queda?

Bush vows to get Osama and they ruff it up a bit, but he lets him run out of the ring and then taunts Saadam to come take his place. Goes out of the ring and drags Saadam into the ring and starts the spiel about 9/11. Saadam runs away from George cause this isn't in the script, the man is crazy.

Saadam sadly remembers the good times with Bush Sr and Cheney. His career is over, but he continues to fight and even jump in with a chair occassionally just to spice things up. Distract US from the deficit.

Then at the same time Cheney sends Haliburton over to help Iran build up their World Wrestling career on the down low though, these guys have to appear to be enemys. Shhhh. It makes for better ratings.

http: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=LEO20050805&articleId=806

[Wetzelbill]

20. I'm just waiting for Kim Jong-Il to hit somebody with a chair

or to tag up with Ahmedinejad and Zarquawi in an "Axis Of Evil" tag team and whip some ass on some unsuspecting pretty boy good guy. I just lost myself. I have no idea what I'm talking about now. :)

[Tigress DEM]

21. But you can see what I'm saying, right?

I used to watch wrestling with my dad, then my son and I knew a guy who was in for a bit, but moved on to something else pretty soon. It's hard work.

[Wetzelbill]

22. yeah I see what you're saying

Wrestling is hard work. I watch a lot of it, have read some biographies and so on. I just finished Kurt Angle's biography. Wrestling is very interesting and has a rich history as well.

[Fox Mulder]

23. Kurt Angle = Greatest. Wrestler. Ever.

Nuff said. :)

[Wetzelbill]

24. oh yeah

Angle, Tom Brands, Dan Gable and me. Best ever. :)

[oldgrowth]

25. KO is still just a shadow of what a real New program is!

There needs to be overseas reporters when were at war, reporters in NOLA ect.Good in your face news. KO is funny and I like him.And from the movie network.Oh and see Good night and good luck!!

"So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell, 'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'"--Howard Beale (Peter Finch)


"Television is not the truth… Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business."

[Berry Cool]

27. Oldgrowth, did you see KO last year...

...when he ended his show with this:



There are all kinds of overseas reporters and NOLA reporters on his show...it uses NBC News reports.

[BlueEyedSon]

26. He should ditch Dana Milbank.

[ktlyon]

28. isn't there something good on opposite KO

like Seinfeld, Lavern and Shirley, or Good Times

really I gave up MSNBC, CNN and regular news on the major networks long ago and will not turn back

PS never watched Fox