Comments on: MS-NBC dropping Olbermann, Matthews? Update: NYT confirms they’re out as election-coverage anchors

By: Back at School | StefanClaypool.com

Back at School | StefanClaypool.com — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:31:46 +0000

[...] I would like to take this time to applaud Keith Olbermann for completely self-destructing at MSNBC. Keith, I always had confidence you could do it. A Tolerant Campus? Hardly. [...]

By: Newsweek Stunner - Debunks Palin Smears | Bitter Knitter

Newsweek Stunner - Debunks Palin Smears | Bitter Knitter — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:04:30 +0000

[...] the public’s backlash over the US Weekly covers, MSNBC removing Olbermann and Matthews from anchoring any debates or election night coverage, and McCain’s surge in the polls since [...]

By: Sarah Palin Already Leaving Dead Moonbats In Her Wake | American Conservative Daily

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:18:02 +0000

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By: supergeezer

supergeezer — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:29:55 +0000

oops… sorry for the typos, but I just got off work and I’m a little tired.

By: supergeezer

supergeezer — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:25:35 +0000

Olbermann is living in such an unrealistic world, I wonder if he understands the reality that he has been discarded, thrown out with the garbage, nationally humiliated? He is such a moron. I’ll bet he still doesn’t get it. Matthews in the other hand is just an obnoxious jerk who always new qiute well he was a liar and a pot stirrer. I’d like to say good bye two them, but that might imply I might miss them!

By: originalpechanga

originalpechanga — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:11:32 +0000

Gosh, I just LOVE coming here and reading this over and over…

Bye Keith, how sad to get laughed off the stage….

By: It’s High School, All Over Again « Obi’s Sister

It’s High School, All Over Again « Obi’s Sister — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:03:49 +0000

[...] least some have been sent to Detention. Now if they would only be EXPELLED as [...]

By: Sarah Palin Crime Scene Investigation: « Riggword Weblog

Sarah Palin Crime Scene Investigation: « Riggword Weblog — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:32:21 +0000

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By: Squiggy

Squiggy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:47:10 +0000

The change — which comes in the home stretch of the long election cycle — is a direct result of tensions associated with the channel’s perceived shift to the political left.

They’re just p*ssed that Olby and Matthews made it too obvious. If they can’t fool people into thinking they’re not dem shills, they can’t convince (regular) people to do their bidding.

By: gordo

gordo — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:55:00 +0000

MSNBC just doesn’t get it. Olbermann and Matthews have poisoned their well. I listened to Countdown and Hardball tonite, and neither one of these pompous windbags seems to realize that they are skating on very thin ice. Olbermann was his usual excrementally disgusting self and Matthews couldn’t resist painting the Republicans as racist for their use of the term, “community organiser”. They shouldn’t even be allowed to watch television, much less appear on it. And then, MSNBC has the effrontery to hire Rachel Maddow? She was a hack at Air America and will be a hack at MSNBC. Considering MSNBC is owned by General Electric, there are certainly no light bulbs coming on over the heads of their owners. They are truely circling the drain, shouting their lies, and no one is listening…..

By: gordo

gordo — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:23:48 +0000

To use a phrase from McCain’s lexicon, “Anchors Aweigh!”
h/t FNC

By: Doctor Zero

Doctor Zero — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:40:57 +0000

I was talking with a friend over the weekend about the awful hit the media has taken to their credibility over the last couple of weeks. I thought they’d probably hang a couple of scalps out to dry, since they aren’t about to start running retractions of their smears and apologizing to Palin for their journalistic malpractice. I said maybe a real basket-case network like MSNBC might throw someone like Olbermann or Matthews under the bus. Little did I know they’d both get thrown under… or at least thrown out onto the hood of the bus, where a wide-eyed Matthews is watching the radiator grill slowly come off in his hands, lowering him toward the speeding pavement…

The other thing I expect the media to do, in order to recover a modicum of credibility, is perform some cursory investigative reporting on Obama. Again, they can’t admit or apologize for their biased treatment of Palin, so their standard operating procedure is to run a few mildly critical stories on the Dems, then begin loudly announcing that it proves how “balanced” they are. Funny thing, though… I have a feeling that even cursory investigative reporting on Obama is going to be devastating. If the press gives Rezko, Ayers, or Barry’s years as a “community organizer” even the gentlest poke with a stick, some amazing things are going to come scurrying out.

I sense a kind of grim resignation coming over the professional elements of the Left since the end of the RNC. They see the buzzards circling overhead, and the smart ones are making plans to climb out of that Obama tank before they drown in it.

By: flicker

flicker — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:28:51 +0000

You know I can’t even gloat about this one. Who can gloat when the cockroaches are finally exterminated out of your apartment? You don’t even think about them, you just go on.

By: Dagnar

Dagnar — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:42:36 +0000

Make no mistake about this. It is a major slap down. This is a big deal and is a career ender. They are finished, just a matter of time now. The only reason they were not fired is another foolish decision by NBC trying to save face. Wade on September 8, 2008 at 6:22 PM

I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, MSNBC is showing just how hard they are trying to shy away from the "liberal media" tag

By: R. Waher

R. Waher — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:33:36 +0000

3) become a Bob Barr Backer for Barack-because the smartest thing a person can do this fall is waste their ballot on a spot that may as well be marked “winner”….

Might as well vote for Batman.

By: Wade

Wade — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:22:24 +0000

Again folks, I think we’re making too big a deal out of this

Make no mistake about this. It is a major slap down. This is a big deal and is a career ender. They are finished, just a matter of time now. The only reason they were not fired is another foolish decision by NBC trying to save face.

By: RobCon

RobCon — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:01:49 +0000

…and David Gregory is any better?

By: Ozprey

Ozprey — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:43:05 +0000

How in the world did this shmuck even get a job in television. He is clearly a dimwit jerk that has no clue abut anything.

What’s the deal?

He got into tv as a sportscaster for ESPN. As to how he got where he is today I haven’t a clue…

By: right4life

right4life — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:55:57 +0000

thedudesblog on September 8, 2008 at 11:21 AM

I have trouble watching football with that thin-lipped beady-eyed wacko on there too.

By: hot-heir

hot-heir — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:35:32 +0000

This thread should really be appropriately titled “MSNBC Droppings”

By: Media Bias Biting Them Back « Tai-Chi Policy

Media Bias Biting Them Back « Tai-Chi Policy — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:13:52 +0000

[...] least one major media outlet enough that they’re having to make changes to their structure. Keith Olberman and Christopher Matthews have been pulled from their positions as MSNBC anchors. I’m not sure that will be enough to regain the public confidence they’re [...]

By: Awesome: Olbermann and Matthews dropped from MSNBC election coverage as anchors. « Assaulting the Spire

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:47:35 +0000

[...] Awesome: Olbermann and Matthews dropped from MSNBC election coverage as anchors. MSNBC does something smart for once. [...]

By: Blue-eyed Infidel

Blue-eyed Infidel — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:39:42 +0000

In the immortal words of Bobbi Fleckman (fast forward to 6:13).

By: saiga

saiga — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:30:06 +0000

Keith Olbermann

How in the world did this shmuck even get a job in television. He is clearly a dimwit jerk that has no clue abut anything.

What’s the deal?

By: Sarah Palin and The Press–UPDATED « Blog Entry « Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:33:08 +0000

[...] Taylor Marsh is disappointed that Olbermann just didn’t admit that he was for Obama. Ed Morrissey at HotAir says the “chant of NBC! NBC!” at the RNC didn’t help. Rusty Shackleford [...]