Video: “Pimped out” — the Olbermann remix
posted at 9:14 am on February 11, 2008 by Allahpundit
Too sweet to leave it buried in headlines. Note to Shuster: The next time you reach for a prostitution metaphor, make sure you’re applying it to a target that deserves it. Like, say, the guy who turned things around in Iraq. Click the image to watch.
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seriously – let’s start an email campaign to msnbc asking for parity – that Olbermann should apologize on air to the President – and then be suspended
darkegop on February 11, 2008 at 9:20 AM
Ugh, his face makes my eyes hurt.
Nothing new for this guy. He has been and alway will be a hypocrite.
boomer on February 11, 2008 at 9:23 AM
letters@msnbc.com
darkegop on February 11, 2008 at 9:24 AM
A picture of Keith Olbermann in the dictionary under the word “hypocrisy”. I just looked it up….;-)
Planet Boulder on February 11, 2008 at 9:24 AM
Is it just me, or has Olby been “apologizing” a lot lately…either for himself, or for other PMS
NBC anchors…
JetBoy on February 11, 2008 at 9:24 AM
Oh how I hate you Olbermann! This is the one guy that, if I saw running down the street on fire and crying, I wouldn’t piss on to save his life.
Levinite on February 11, 2008 at 9:30 AM
I saw this earlier when it was in the headlines. For some reason Olby doesn’t surprise me anymore.
OneGyT on February 11, 2008 at 9:30 AM
Done.
petefrt on February 11, 2008 at 9:30 AM
Layoff Shuster! If anybody is qualified to identify when somebody is being “pimped out” it’s him. He’s been pimped out more by Chrissy Matthews than Trixie was by Al Swearengen!
TheBigOldDog on February 11, 2008 at 9:40 AM
Sir:
Please explain why it is permissible for Keith Olbermann to state, on air, that Bush is guilty of “pimping General David Petraeus” without facing repercussions, and yet David Shuster was only able to avoid being fired on the spot due to the intervention of a colleague. I also recall the apology that Olbermann had to make after the producers placed a caption of Senator David Vitter’s wife which included a “ho” reference. Why, after seeing – as Hillary Clinton stated – “the pattern of behavior” exhibited by Olbermann, would you continue to keep him on air? MSNBC has clearly shown their bias in this case. Shuster has been suspended for claiming the Clinton’s had “pimped out” Chelsea, while Olbermann claimed Bush has “pimped” General Petraeus. Apparently, the lesson to be taken from this is that you can apply prostitution references to the man who has turned things around in Iraq. Your blatant bias is showing, and your standing as a reputable news media outlet continues to crumble.
Stephen Johnson
AT2(AW/NAC) USN
Troika37 on February 11, 2008 at 9:40 AM
Wasn’t there a lady who had an affair with Olby a couple of years ago? IIRC, she was from somewhere in the Carribean, and moved up here to be with him. Later she did a public tattle on the whole thing and judged his efforts as barely adequate. I believe she had a website for a while.
a capella on February 11, 2008 at 9:40 AM
Keith is absolutely right. He is dreadfully sorry.
kflynn on February 11, 2008 at 9:42 AM
Olberman, as a news reader/commenter/’journalist’/human being, is lower than Marianas Trench scum.
Whenever I run into somebody who watches and likes Olby, I never take them seriously on anything ever again. Worse than a Truther IMO.
rockbend on February 11, 2008 at 9:49 AM
rockbend, I was unaware that such people exist. Where did your encounter take place, in the hallways at MSNBC’s studio or did you have lunch with Sean Penn?
fogw on February 11, 2008 at 9:55 AM
What is the matter with Olberman saying pimped, it was not used against democrat?
Wade on February 11, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Sorry is as sorry does.
scalleywag on February 11, 2008 at 10:02 AM
The hypocrisy isn’t surprising… what surprises me is that anyone got upset about that. I guess Hill and Bill possibly saw their use of their daughter in a new light, and decided they couldn’t allow that.
I will say about Olberman, he is one of the few persons that makes me feel the need for a shower after watching.
4shoes on February 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Also done…
I must say, I know I am not alone in the sentiment that your bias in stating the news is showing 100%. This, my friends, is why your network is fighting for every viewer it has and is being pounded into submission by your competitors.
Keith Olbermann has been caught red-handed a number of times misquoting people to get his point across, taking comments out of context, and the like. The night after his show airs, it is inevitable that someone is able to pull a transcript to show that, whatever it was he quoted, was so deliberately twisted and skewed, that it makes one wonder how he gets away with it time after time again. Take five minutes and google a few of his little quotable quotes that somehow, always make a conservative look like an ass. You’ll find the real quotes by said conservatives astonishingly different, I’m sure.
Not only that, but saying that, somehow, an honerable and honest man like General David Petraeous is being “pimped” by anyone – is absolutely dispicable. There is no excuse for it. Olbermann’s colleague was at least reprimanded for saying that Chelsea Clinton was somehow being pimped by her mother’s presidential campaign. But the man who in in charge of one of the biggest and most important military operations in the history of this country? The one that, if fails, would certainly spell disaster for our nation and our sovereignty?! That type of comment is still appropriate and can go without reprimand?
Unbelievable. Your network needs to take a hard look at itself. There is a reason why the competition is burying you.
flyawaybird on February 11, 2008 at 10:22 AM
I think everyone is losing sight of the basic fact that Chelsea WAS pimped out by her mother.
Once again the Clintons have shifted the focus from their pathology to someone else. You always have to watch out for this move when dealing with sociopaths.
snaggletoothie on February 11, 2008 at 10:44 AM
Lucky for Olby, MSNBC has no principles. This will get a little play on the internet, a few mentions on Fox, and then it will disappear.
RightWinged on February 11, 2008 at 11:47 AM
I’ve got no love for either Shuster or Olby, but come on… seriously. This whole “pimped out” story has been hideously overblown. When I first heard about the comments, I was like “So what? My friends and I say “pimp” all the time. Whoop dee flippin doo…”.
Can we find some real news, please? Kthxbye.
MrJustice on February 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Herr Keith Olbermann = George Soros’s Cabana Boy
Always Right on February 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Meh. He’s on MSNBC – it’s not like anyone’s watching.
mojo on February 11, 2008 at 12:23 PM
You obviously missed the point… The issue isn’t that saying “pimped” is that big of a deal… It’s that it is somehow a big deal now, but no one made a peep when Olby said it.. and he was talking about General Petraeus!!!
RightWinged on February 11, 2008 at 12:30 PM
That is an excellent question and one I’d like to see presented to Olbermann and his employers at MSNBC.
sinsing on February 11, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Two factors:
1.)Misperception that Petraeus was a political actor and Chelsea was merely family.
2.)Squeamishness about sexual connotation of “pimp” with a 27 year old girl that isn’t there with a 55 year old man.
Chelsea works for a hedge fund and is campaigning for a presidential candidate. The Shuster punishment is an overreaction.
dedalus on February 11, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Could you imagine if everybody did their jobs with the same intellectual laziness of Olbertool?
We wouldn’t even have invented the goddam wheel yet.
wildweasel on February 11, 2008 at 1:09 PM
He was a lousy sports reporter then.
He is a lousy sports reporter now.
corona on February 11, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Actually, he was pretty good at the sports reporting(or reading the prompter in an entertaining fashion anyway).
It’s the political stuff is where he’s severely lacking.
Ballistic on February 11, 2008 at 2:02 PM
O&A gave Olbermann a good face-smashing this morning. Opie used to like him before the Imus debacle.
Jim Treacher on February 11, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Anyone ever notice when Olby blathers, he sits almost perfectly still while the only thing moving on him are his lips? That being the case, he’d be a shoe-in if they ever decided to make CLUTCH CARGO: THE MOVIE!
pilamaye on February 11, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Gee, willikers (if that’s, indeed, how one spells ‘willikers’). I hate him, too. But all I was going to contribute was that I’m not prone to violence but that I would so like to punch him in the face. I think you win the creative visualization award with that one. Nice touch.
Captain Scarlet on February 11, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Also done!
gator70 on February 11, 2008 at 3:15 PM
keith who? I never watch him!
tazmebro on February 11, 2008 at 3:51 PM
He’s irrelevant. I don’t care what he says and I know if I see his face here, he’s opened his pie hole and said something offensive or shocking. Whatever he said can only add to the beating he so sorely deserves.
Aside from that, his stupid, one-look face makes me want to smash my monitor.
Geronimo on February 11, 2008 at 4:03 PM
“DREADFULLY SORRY” says it all….
bubby62 on February 11, 2008 at 4:19 PM
I just look at the scoreboard – third place in the ratings of three cable news shows in his timeslot. NBC won’t ever get it.
RMCS_USN on February 11, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Remember the Air Forces MOAB (Mother of All Bombs)?
This rant should be considered a MOAA (Mother of All Apologies). Although his show “Countdown”(Meltdown?) would qualify as a MOAB given it’s ratings.
kwbrownie2003 on February 11, 2008 at 6:25 PM
MOAB: Moronic Olbermann Apologizes Blenchingly
Jim Treacher on February 11, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Not dreadfully sorry, just dreadfull.
elifino on February 11, 2008 at 6:40 PM