Hey, Olber-man! It's Over-man!

MSNBC has finally figured out that, as a straight news political reporter, Keith Olberman makes a great play-by-play announcer of high school football games.

What took so long?

Better yet, who convinced the executive suits at NBC that Olberman could smoothly transition from a career talking about hamstring pulls and groin strains on Jockstrap Central (aka ESPN) to saying anything passably intelligent or insightful about foreign policy or the complexities of the Federal Reserve System?

According to published reports, the hammer fell on Olberman and his obnoxious, screaming sidekick Chris Matthews over the weekend when it was decided that, while both would continue their commentary and opinion shows, neither would be involved in covering campaign news. That chore will be left to whatever grown-ups remain at MSNBC.

Olberman's fate was sealed when NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and his immediate predecessor, Tom Brokaw --- as close to an elder statesman in TV news as it's possible to get --- told management they were fed up and embarrassed by Olberman's on air antics while anchoring coverage of the party conventions.

Olberman careened from one loony rant to another, insulting guests as well as the network's own reporters and commentators.
Hey, Olber-man! It's Over-man! - NJVoices: Carl Golden

So much for Chris Matthews saying that Barack Obama makes him feel funny in his pants. These two have turned MSNBC into a joke due to thier election coverage. Well, the viewers won a battle here and left wing organizations like MoveOn took a hit.:thumbsup:

Have a good one!:s4:

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Hahahaha. I guess they just couldn't contain their love and adoration for Obama.

You know your a flaming Liberal when Brokaw calls you out haha.

The execs likely had someone remind them of Dan Rathergate, and they actually for once realized, "shit! We are going to sabatoge Obama, we need to do something!"
That being said, too little too late, and their decisions won't impact the rest of the Olbermans, and Matthews strung through out the liberal media. The American people will make the right choice when push comes to shove.
As for Olberman, who the hell thinks that a degree in communications makes you qualified to comment on sports, or real news for that matter! This guy is like a real life cartoon!:D

Yeah, apparently he said something at the RNC to the effect of that the 9/11 tributes were actually exploitative. Also, when palin spoke, he said she was good, if you like that sort of thing. Also, when she was announced as VP candidate he asked how many houses she brought to the ticket. Personally, i find this sad, i liked him, found him very amusing, i loved how he critisized Billo's hypocrisy. Let's see the ratings drop like a fat sack of..

Ha Reefer!

The ratings for MSNBC sucked wayyyy before these loons left.

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Yeah, apparently he said something at the RNC to the effect of that the 9/11 tributes were actually exploitative. Also, when palin spoke, he said she was good, if you like that sort of thing. Also, when she was announced as VP candidate he asked how many houses she brought to the ticket. Personally, i find this sad, i liked him, found him very amusing, i loved how he critisized Billo's hypocrisy. Let's see the ratings drop like a fat sack of..

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I'm sure if Maury Povich or Jerry Springer took all the trash talk and crap out of their shows that their ratings would plummet too. :hippy:

ps: Fox does it too. I'm not exactly sure how in the other thread that Fox news took most of the top 20 spots.

I watch Fox and other news media such as CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN and the like to try to piece together the truth from the crap... all of them spout trash, some more than others.

I think he got what he had coming to him.

I watch FOX and most of the time i see decent and fair coverage but the worst is Fox and Friends in the morning haha.

All 3 of the hosts are squeaky clean-leave it to beaver-ish. It's horrible haha. But I still prefer it to the other news outlets.

I've heard a good comparison to the high ratings of Fox news; it's synonymous with the amount of people served at Mcdonald's, meaning, more isn't always better. I won't defend Olbermann, he was probably too biased for a news anchor, who's supposed to be objective. Though i don't think Billo is very objective..

Mr.O'Reilly is anything but objective haha. But at least when people watch him they know his show isn't supposed to be deep and objective.

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I think Olberman is hilarious. He is the mocking voice of reason to the irrational politics and politicians he covers.

Now I won't have any commentators to watch. Keith was my favorite because of his sense of humour. The rest are all just talking heads with no experience at doing anything other than running there mouth.Oreilly,Beck,Grace. I don't know how anybody can even stand to watch these hipocrits.

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These two have turned MSNBC into a joke due to thier election coverage.

Have a good one!:s4:

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The election is a joke in the first place, at least they have the balls to treat it like that on the air. Thats good reporting in my book.

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The election is a joke in the first place, at least they have the balls to treat it like that on the air. Thats good reporting in my book.

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Mathews was joking about that funny feeling in his pants? You know that they both LOVE Obama. So where was the joke?

Olberman and Mathews were signed to increase ratings but instead made them drop....."hey, hey....goodbye".

Have a good one!:s4:

The sheer fact that we dedicate so much money to having several "24 hour news stations" is god awful. Do we NEED that much news? Fuck no! All they do is take whatever they can find, shove it up their ass, spin around as many times as they can in an hour, then shit it back out for us to lap up. Fox, CNN, and MSNBC can all suck my nuts for all I care, seems like Brian Williams is the only person who can REPORT the news, not vomit his opinion all over it.

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Originally Posted by DaBudhaStank

The sheer fact that we dedicate so much money to having several "24 hour news stations" is god awful. Do we NEED that much news? Fuck no! All they do is take whatever they can find, shove it up their ass, spin around as many times as they can in an hour, then shit it back out for us to lap up. Fox, CNN, and MSNBC can all suck my nuts for all I care, seems like Brian Williams is the only person who can REPORT the news, not vomit his opinion all over it.

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Wow... you and I agree on something? lol :thumbsup:

News reporting is a joke today.

Keith Olbermann no longer covering politics? I may have to re-evaluate my atheistic ways. I don't care if you agree with the guy or not; he throws tantrums like an angry (liberal) child, uses childish name-calling every time he covers the right wing, and overall acts like an angry lunatic. Gives a bad name to liberals everywhere.


I consider him the Bill O'Rilley of the left, or "Bizarro-World O'Rilley", if you please.

I sure love watching videos of Olbermann hit home runs about president bush though..Don't see a lot of people on the media calling out our president for being a complete fucking idiot..

He came from a minor station in Los Angeles, where he did cover the Friday nite High School football games. I didn't like him then. I bumped into him recently during the convention and thought, well, he seems to be doing a better job. Better than the other station I was flipping with. But, I could never tolerate him more than a few minutes at a time--but that is most of them anyway!

So comparing him to where he came from is pretty cute!!! lol Pr :thumbsup: