Keith Olbermann's tax debt is fuel for feud

A 'tax warrant' is a yawn to you?

Nunyer...Mathews has morphed into Dobbs and Olberman into O'Reily

Rockford,

Ummm... yes. In the big picture of what is newsworthy... a corporation with a $2,200 tax dispute with a state government is nothing I am concerned with. yawn. Oh noes! but now it's a WARRANT! That infers he's a nasty criminal. again, yawn.

Would you be interested about the State of New York versus the local sub shop for $1,200 in disputed taxes? Or your dentist thinking his practice was overtaxed by $3,000?

If Olberman was pulling some Wesley Snipes routine and dodging huge sums of income tax, then make it a story. This is just typical muckraking.

I live in Upstate NY. I pay $3500.00 in property taxes per year for 1.5
acres. Gas is $4.21 a gallon. Look up the amount of tax NYS adds to
every gallon of gasoline and fuel oil. I believe Upstate NY has 9 counties
in the top 50 most taxed counties in America. I could go on. The point
is I make up for these dead beats not you. Be it $2 or $2,0000,000.
The only muckraking going on with Olberman around here is in my wallet
and up my backside.

You speak as if the man has been convicted of a crime. That is not the case.

First, Olberman isn't even being accused of a crime... a company that he owns is.

Second, would you pay taxes that were unfairly assessed? I'm not saying that is the case here, but the matter is clearly under dispute. I'm willing to give the corporation in question the benefit of the doubt until they have their day in court. Obviously, you are not willing to do the same and have already reached your conclusion. More power to ya, I guess.

Third, this is typical muckracking of a political figure (well, in this case a political commentator, but similar flavor). Going back to the analogy I used previously, if this was a dispute or bookeeping mistake from the local democrat dentist, I highly doubt it would be replublican blog fodder.

I sense that you are talking the political angle on this subject (which I
avoided in my two posts). But, I'll be happy to go that route now.
Yes, Olbermann has not been convicted; but, some person or entity
under him has been judged.
A 'Tax Warrant' is a judgment. It's comparable to a conviction in NYS.
They had they're day in court and they 'Yawned'.
I'm sure you understood that before I just explained it to you.
So I read that you got a 'yawn' from a person who has a
NYS 'Tax Warrant' filed against him/her/it. Frankly speaking… yawning at a tax warrant is something George Bush would do.
As far as Olbermann goes…he was a below average sports
reporter. I can't remember any spots on ESPN SC that he was any
more than bland. Re-invention of his career as a political analyst… what a bunch of crap! He was about the 267th person interviewed
for that job. After all the usuals and unusuals…washed up sports
persons were all that were left.
Typical muckracking of a political figure....I say YES!
You are right...I shouldn't over react to the Olbermanns of the
NYS... whats $2200.00 to me.

Hmmm... Well, I have no problem standing corrected if the case has already been decided and Olberman's company still isn't paying. That said... the story didn't really present things that way.

On two occasions the story refers to the issue as an "open case", which I took to mean that the issue had not yet been resolved from the legal standpoint.

I'm hardly trying to defend people and/or corporations cheating their tax bills... but I dunno... I just think this whole story is being blown out of porportion because Olberman in a political figure. I'm not trying to defend this guy, as I don't really share most of his viewpoints. Still, I think this whole thing stinks and it has little to do with $2,200 in taxes... it's typical sensationalized politically driven baloney.