As predicted: Olby’s show falsely claims McHenry smeared the troops
posted at 3:15 pm on April 5, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Maguire beats me to the punch, but only one man called it in the air last night. Money:
Update: Fearless prediction at 7:47, thirteen minutes before “Countdown” airs on MSNBC: McHenry will be the “worst person in the world” tonight and the lie that he was referring to a soldier will be gleefully repeated.
Turns out he wasn’t worst person, just worst Bush-related person. “What’s next, AP? Predicting that Hillary will tell a lie on the campaign trail this week?” Fair enough. The point to take away is that the “Countdown” team almost surely had heard McHenry’s side of the story by airtime and simply decided not to mention it: Goldfarb was pushing it at the Standard by 2:30 p.m., more than five hours before the show went live, and Think Progress, from whom the Olbyites likely lifted this item, included an update linking to the Standard post sometime during the afternoon. To believe that this is a mistake instead of a patented shameless “Countdown” lie, you have to believe that the show’s researchers are incompetent beyond the point of negligence and well into recklessness territory. Is that plausible on a major network like MSNBC? Yeah, actually. Extremely plausible.
Exit question quotation: “Congressman, you feel a little apology coming on?” Do you, Maddow? Or is Olby going to have to eat crow this time like he did last time, by apologizing perfunctorily and then attacking his victim from 20 different angles just to make sure the wingnuts don’t think they won one?
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Countdown to irrelevance.
VolMagic on April 5, 2008 at 3:25 PM
These lefty media scum love the troops, they really love them. F you lady.
RobCon on April 5, 2008 at 3:27 PM
I dunno about you all, but the Olby-Matthews-Rosie club keeps on keeping on because of why? We all know they bend it all up like a pretzel. We moan and groan and point fingers and laugh, but what good is it doing? Really….what frakking good does it do to point out these blowtards to us cons? How do we get Joe Public to pay attention? Surely not here, on con-blogs, cause they sure as hell don’t read them. Ratings? Gimme a break. MSNBC is in the tank. The only cred them have is Leno. He might be on the left side of the aisle but at least he acts like a regular Joe, asking questions and pointing fingers at both sides. How the hell do we get the rest of the media to have as much common sense?
Dunno…..venting I guess. I’m looking for a bit of critical thinking from the plebs. Is that even possible, or am I being a raaaacist/homophobe/isolationist/elitist?
Limerick on April 5, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Who is this Olby lackey anyway?
RobCon on April 5, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Media Matters could not be reached for comment.
Good Lt on April 5, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Heh. I was actually thinking something very similar to that when I came to that line in this post.
Good questions. I would say to simple corner one part of the political market, but ratings and the A.America financial “success” would prove that wrong.
Spirit of 1776 on April 5, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Olbermann will apologize if Brock tells him to.
Or Podesta.
SteveMG on April 5, 2008 at 3:38 PM
God she sounds just like Olby.
crabtree on April 5, 2008 at 3:38 PM
So Olby does a bad Edward R. Morrow impression and his lackey does an impression of him.
RobCon on April 5, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Oh yeah…she would OWN olby in a fight.
malan89 on April 5, 2008 at 3:41 PM
If they are going to have a “worst person in the world” segment, they should probably check facts. Claims like that requires some serious evidence.
forest on April 5, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Prediction: Anchoress was wearing Birkenstocks.
SouthernGent on April 5, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Is that lady one of those Japanese robots?
Travis1 on April 5, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Did this lady do any commentary about the Berkeley recruiter station and CodePinko? Would love to know how she handled that. Anyone?
Limerick on April 5, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Nice to see this shill for Olby so worried about a
soldiercontracted employee who her friends in the MSM regularly call mercenaries.
Do you feel an apology coming on before the Olby-meister throws you under a bus?
RobCon on April 5, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Now we know who is helping out the Clinton campaign.
Seven Percent Solution on April 5, 2008 at 3:51 PM
Lay off the cracks about Maddow’s looks. I don’t like it.
Allahpundit on April 5, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Someone high up at GE needs to start leaning on Zucker. The NBC brand is becoming a fricken joke. Lap Dog network instead of the Peacock network
Hummer53 on April 5, 2008 at 3:56 PM
It’s Phil Griffin who’s the Olbermann supporter. He used to be KO’s producer when Olbermann was on MSNBC in the 1990s and then quit (Olbermann that is) because he was tired of covering the Lewinsky matter.
Griffin thinks that KO (stylistically) is the future of news reporting.
God help us.
SteveMG on April 5, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Looked up GE and NBC….NBC owns Telemundo? Which means GE owns Telemundo?
About ready to rip that stove top out of the kitchen and go buy something Chinese.
Limerick on April 5, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Testing
CrimsonFisted on April 5, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Hey, doesn’t Olbermann himself post at the dailykos? Remember when after the four American contractors were brutally killed in Iraq in 2004 and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga shared his feelings about them with his “Screw them” comment. Remember that?
gumble on April 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM
I caught your comment and apology…I think Allah is feeling onry today.
Limerick on April 5, 2008 at 4:25 PM
I didn’t look at ther, nor care how she looks.
She sounds, however, just as puerile as Olberkind.
Entelechy on April 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Seems a shame a new McCarthy doesn’t step in and do something substantive with the communists at MSNBC who are trying to rip apart our government and destroy our military.
Seriously, it really does borderline on treason. If O’Reilly weren’t so wrapped up in porn, and if Hannity weren’t so busy listening to his own voice while navel-gazing, then maybe some grown-up over at FOX could do an actual news story on this kind of thing. It certainly would be refreshing… for a change.
Gartrip on April 5, 2008 at 5:04 PM
She’s a handsome woman… and apparently a bit of a retard.
D2Boston on April 5, 2008 at 5:08 PM
The troops have become such pawns.
MB4 on April 5, 2008 at 5:15 PM
I find it absolutely stunning that our own admin troops have to be protected by mercenaries. It amazes me that they have someone watching their backsides making five to ten times their base pay; in the Green Zone no less?
The final decline and decay of the Great Roman Empire occurred when they turned to mercs to fight their despicable wars and protect their diplomats!
Tell me again why President Bush and Senator McCain aren’t backing Senator Webb’s new and improved GI Bill…because it will adversely affect retention of the troops? I might have expected that from President Bush; but not from Senator McCain?
If anything is going to determine highly trained and hardened combat trooper retention; it would appear to this humble pilgrim that raising my pay check to six figures as a merc might have a rather deleterious affect?
But that’s just me.
J_Gocht on April 5, 2008 at 5:25 PM
I agree…except the despicable part. This comes from bending over to big business just for the sake of the bending over part.
Limerick on April 5, 2008 at 5:31 PM
Limerick, so war to you is a “good thing” and not despicable?
J_Gocht on April 5, 2008 at 5:36 PM
We just have different takes on the history. Most of Rome’s wars were not wars of expansion. They just had a philosophy that if the troops have to come then what you lose is ours.
Like I said. Different takes on the subject. Yes they were cruel….but so was the rest of the world at the time.
Back on topic….
Anything to bash the right with the right. Men’s rooms, rent-a-cops, prostitution, religion. It is just the neener-neener press at work.
Limerick on April 5, 2008 at 5:44 PM
J_Gocht on April 5, 2008 at 5:25 PM
I missed your point, but you do realize that “rent-a-cops” have provided security at military bases for decades, right?
It’s based on the premise that perimeter security in relatively secure areas (areas which may be attacked but not likely taken by hostile forces) is not considered a core function which requires the focus of our military.
blink on April 5, 2008 at 5:48 PM
Wait, who was that guy in the video? Normally doesn’t David Shuster wear a tie?
ScottMcC on April 5, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Ugh, I saw this woman one other time(my husband has been turning on Olberdouche lately, to annoy me I think…) she’s downright obnoxious and a total Olbertool.
4shoes on April 5, 2008 at 5:57 PM
“Not wars of expansion” What the hell were they then? It took centurions four months to march to northern Europe; many died or were wounded in route, never actually seeing battle.
What the heck would you call our present occupation of Iraq; a great humanitarian quest to free the ethnic, tribal and religious peoples of Iraq?
If that’s our purpose…I say get the hell out and let the devil sort’em out!
J_Gocht on April 5, 2008 at 6:03 PM
This isn’t my sandbox - Allah is free to clean where he feels necessary. I really didn’t mean to offend the powers that be. and thanks to you, now I feel a little better.
CrimsonFisted on April 5, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Not in my war soldier. Vietnam, 1962-1966!
J_Gocht on April 5, 2008 at 6:10 PM
J….calm down. With the exception to the misjudgement that started the First Punic War there isn’t a single Roman conflict that was for territory. They were always…ALWAYS…in response to attack. Like I said, once Rome had to send in the legions then what they took they kept. Macedonia, Syria, Gaul, Spain, N Africa, Germania, Egypt…none of em were started as wars of aggression, they were wars of protection.
You have this vision of Hitleresque Roman legions tromping the world. It was the world which tried to tromp Rome, and ended up on the short end of the sponge tipped stick.
Limerick on April 5, 2008 at 6:14 PM
I see they are teaching “smug” in journalism school now.
Hog Wild on April 5, 2008 at 6:15 PM
“…then what they took they kept.” They took…they kept…damn that was gosh damn brown of them. How did they secure them in the first place… those gosh damn Germanic tribal, hund, bastards were just willing to die for the opportunity to kiss the emperor’s foot?
Excuse me while I pick myself up…I just fell of the turnip truck!
J_Gocht on April 5, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Whatever J….we look at the actual history differently.
Limerick on April 5, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Limerick, you have that completely bassackwards… It was Rome that got her sorry mercenary dependant, military expended, arse kicked!
You sir, don’t grasp the historical significance of our present conundrum?
J_Gocht on April 5, 2008 at 6:42 PM
I wondered the same thing. Went to the offenders web and he only takes e-mail from his district, guess this loser does not realize his votes effect everyone in the USA, but then, I guess he would rather pander to his district. LOSER!
Wade on April 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM
It’s been awhile since I read Gibbon, but surely you are not attempting to equate our voluntary-service military and it’s work in Iraq and Afghanistan with the fall of Rome because we outsource some of the security work? Or where you somehow trying to say instead that we are salting the ground in echoes of Carthage?
Spirit of 1776 on April 5, 2008 at 6:47 PM
where = were, pardon my typo.
Spirit of 1776 on April 5, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Spirit, I’ll leave the historical significance of all this…to you and Newt Gingrich.
I was only a soldier in a war and all wars, I now detest!
J_Gocht on April 5, 2008 at 6:54 PM
Okay. I wasn’t trying to jump on you, I just didn’t follow your point.
Spirit of 1776 on April 5, 2008 at 6:58 PM
AP,
Sorry…I just couldn’t resist.
I mean, after all, it isn’t her face, that makes me want to throw my TV out the window.
franksalterego on April 5, 2008 at 6:59 PM
You, dear sir or madam have a mental problem far more serious than mine.
J_Gocht on April 5, 2008 at 7:34 PM
J_Gocht on April 5, 2008 at 7:34 PM
No mines is in YOUR head just like yours there sport.
TroubledMonkey on April 5, 2008 at 8:06 PM
I’m stunned,thats Olby’s sister,no! hahaha.
canopfor on April 5, 2008 at 8:15 PM
TM…
You gotta recognize the problem and confide in your little itty bitty inner self that you’re the real problem…before anyone can give your sorry arse a hand up!
J_Gocht on April 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM
This woman is so blinded by extreme liberalism that she never makes sense because her emotions and feelings cause constant contradictions. She is so unwatchable due to the high cringe level.
Tobias2012 on April 5, 2008 at 8:28 PM
“Hey, doesn’t Olbermann himself post at the dailykos? Remember when after the four American contractors were brutally killed in Iraq in 2004 and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga shared his feelings about them with his “Screw them” comment. Remember that?
gumble on April 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM”
Good point. Keith Olbermann’s double standard is pretty remarkable.
SoulGlo on April 5, 2008 at 8:36 PM
Olberman lovers are freaks that will defend ANYTHING he says EVER. i know cuz some of them unfortunately co-edit Drunkreport.com =/
my fight for balance is a daily struggle
Drunk Report on April 5, 2008 at 9:01 PM
This is the woman I guess who’s the Obama network’s expert on McCain and feebleness because of age. I sure hope she makes the Assisted Living and Nursing Home tour prior to the election. Bet her Granddad and Grandma couldn’t be more proud.
Marcus on April 5, 2008 at 9:51 PM
Does anyone out there actually, honestly, sincerely, truly give a flaming flying rat’s patootie what Olbermann thinks?
pilamaye on April 5, 2008 at 9:59 PM
I hate to tell you, but there are those who swear by him. Me, I sort of am enjoying it while the Dem Civil War rages and will tune out until day after election day (God willing). His facial look should be one of maximum constipation and his accusations of voter fraud at their most hysterical.
Marcus on April 5, 2008 at 10:07 PM
I remember something much worse that NBC did. I remember a “2-bit” security guard that NBC News trashed, practically ruined the life of, for no good reason–Richard Jewel at the Atlanta Olympics. It turned out that all Jewel did was find an unaccompanied backpack, and tried moving people away from it, till it could be inspected by law enforcement. If not for Jewel, more people would’ve been hurt when it exploded. For Jewel’s trouble, NBC, among other media, proclaimed him guilty of planting the bomb so he could be a hero, based only on some law enforcement rumors. Then they went about exposing every embarrassing aspect of Jewel’s sorry life, till they finally figured out Jewel wasn’t the guy, and they lost interest.
RBMN on April 6, 2008 at 2:01 AM
To suggest as much is to do a grave injustice to Japanese robots.
And Jewel, ultimately, lost his life, dying far too young for someone whose health might have been a wee bit affected by the media meat grinder he was put through.
Captain Scarlet on April 6, 2008 at 5:55 AM
Olberdouche finally did the operation, huh?
Jaibones on April 6, 2008 at 7:33 AM
Did Olby dye his hair and let it grow out or something? Not bad, really. He looks a bit more masculine…
morganfrost on April 6, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Well, J_Gocht, believe it or not, there have been many positive changes in the military since ‘your war’ in 1966.
blink on April 6, 2008 at 3:33 PM
If you are trying to compare the US military’s use of contractors as security guards for some bases with Rome’s use of mercenary war fighters, then you are clearly showing your ignorance of military strategy.
Despite your “vast” 4 years of experience in Vietnam, you are wrong to think that the US military has started to use contractors (mercenaries) in a core warfighting capacity.
Furthermore it is laughable to suggest that contractor guards are evidence that the US military is on the brink of a downfall.
blink on April 6, 2008 at 3:46 PM
I was trying to figure out who this guy looks like, and I kept thinking it was David Cassidy, but that’s not it. He’s more masculine than Cassidy.
I think I’ve got it.
Jaibones on April 6, 2008 at 4:43 PM
All right, let’s get serious. Who did this guy used to be, before the surgery?
Jaibones on April 6, 2008 at 4:49 PM
It doesn’t look like he’s had the surgery yet.
foxforce91 on April 6, 2008 at 6:31 PM
Heh.
Jaibones on April 6, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Well blink…
I presume; you approve?
J_Gocht on April 7, 2008 at 7:45 AM
Who’s that dude filling in for Uberdork?
srhoades on April 7, 2008 at 9:53 AM
J_Gocht, do I approve of what? What the heck are you asking?
The first link you sent merely points to troop strain? What does this have to do with the use of contractors?
And I don’t know what the second link has to do with your argument at all.
blink on April 7, 2008 at 12:26 PM