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Olbermann responds to Limbaugh's 30-day challenge

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann says he'll stop talking about Rush Limbaugh for 30 days — provided Limbaugh doesn't talk about Limbaugh for the same period.

4 more years for MSNBC's Olbermann

Barack Obama, the presidential candidate Keith Olbermann championed this fall, just won a four-year term. So, too, has Olbermann.

MSNBC says Olbermann, Matthews won't anchor

MSNBC is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators.

Keith Olbermann's tax debt is fuel for feud

MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann, who spotlights misbehavior nightly with his "Worst Person in the World" recognition, owes New York state for unpaid business taxes, according to a tax warrant notice.

Four More Years for Keith Olbermann

Much to Bill O'Reilly's annoyance, Keith Olbermann will be a two-term news host on MSNBC. At least. NBC News announced Thursday that Olbermann had agreed to four more years at the MSNBC prime-time show "Countdown." He began the show in 2003, and his contract was due to expire in March.

Olbermann News Commentaries Target Bush

Keith Olbermann's tipping point came on a tarmac in Los Angeles six weeks ago. While waiting for his plane to take off he read an account of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's speech before the American Legion equating Iraq War opponents to pre-World War II appeasers.

Olbermann Dons O'Reilly Mask at TV Meeting

Keith Olbermann was eagerly anticipating his first meeting with Bill O'Reilly. It didn't happen. The feuding cable TV personalities both attended a charity fundraiser thrown by New York Yankees manager Joe Torre last November. Olbermann picked up his name tag and spotted O'Reilly's tag on the table.

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Clinton says he couldn't attend health clinic because of Olbermann
Source: Raw Story

Keith Olbermann is ruining America. Or so suggested ex-president Bill Clinton, who told a blogger this week that he couldn't attend a free medical clinic being paid for in part by supporters of the MSNBC television host because he had "politicized" the event.

What Exactly Do The Insurance Companies Get From Health Care Reform? ~ Olbermann and Potter
Source: broadcatching.wordpress.com

What Exactly Do The Insurance Companies Get From Health Care Reform? ~ Olbermann and Potter

Teabagger (n) a runner-up for Oxford's 2009 Word Of The Year
Source: Daily Kos

Keith Olbermann delivers the news that among the finalists for The New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word Of The Year was "teabagger."

Olbermann to 'House Call' Organizers: Pay 'Black Faces,' 'Brown Faces' to Attend; Says It Looked Like a 'Pro-Apartheid Rally'
Source: ow.ly

Leave to a brilliant mind like Keith Olbermann, who finally decided to show his face on live TV after Nov. 3's Democratic defeat, to throw a temper tantrum about the public display of opposition to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's that occurred on the west lawn of the U.S.

The Echo Chamber - The Left's Attempt At A Dissent Free Media

During the Watergate hearings, John Dean made the press aware of an Enemies List, the top 20 enemies to the Nixon Administration was to be targeted with retribution once Nixon was re-elected.

Face the Nation: FOX vs. MSNBC

Here's my dream episode of Face the Nation An hour-long face-off between MSNBC and FOX. On the Left: Keth Olbermann Rachel Maddow Ed Schultz On the Right: Bill O'Reilly Sean Hannity Glenn Beck

Maddow/Olbermann Invited to White House Chat with Obama, But Fox Isn't a News Organization?
Source: mediabistro.com

Fox is dismissed by the White House as opinion based journalism while Obama has closed door meeting with uber liberal opinion journalists....

Auto-Tuntuntuntuntune the News
Source: jazz-from-hell.blogspot.com

Who knew that Alan Grayson could sing like an angel or that Hugo Chavez could play such a soulful air guitar?

Alan Grayson With Keith Olbermann on The Health Insurance Companies� Anti-Trust Exemption
Source: Tullycast

Alan Grayson With Keith Olbermann on The Health Insurance Companies

Fox News...highest rated NEWS channel on TV

Fox News is the highest rated NEWS channel on TV. I don't think anyone will argue that. But does that mean they report news accurately and factually? I often see articles here on the Vine regarding this subject. I wonder something.

Chris Matthews muses on killing Rush Limbaugh
Source: Hot Air

Call this the opposite of a tingle up one's leg. No surprise here from the classiest cable network to drag anchor in the ratings, but consider if someone on Fox had offered this kind of fantasy musing on air about a liberal show host — say, Keith Olbermann or Matthews himself.

Olbermann: Without "Fascistic Hatred," Malkin Is Just a "Mashed-Up Bag of Meat with Lipstick"
Source: newsbusters.org

On Tuesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann spewed bile at conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, accusing her of possessing "fascistic hatred," and comparing her to a "mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it." During his show's regular "Worst Person" segment, …

Turn Off Fox?
Source: Examiner

Fox is a cancer on the body politic of America. So what to do about it? Try to get it heaved off the airwaves and the First Amendment be damned? Mock it into irrelevance? Treat it like a real news provider and hope it somehow changes into one?

A Passionate Plea...
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If you didn't see it live, you should take a look at the 7 October podcast. Real-life. The link stopped working. KGMO supplied a different one:

Anti-special-interest ad calling out "Blue Dog" Rep. Mike Ross (D-Arkansas) featured on Rachel Maddow
Source: Boing Boing

On Friday, Lawrence Lessig's reform group Change Congress released a new ad calling out "Blue Dog" Rep. Mike Ross (D-Arkansas) for siding with his special-interest contributors over his constituents on the issue of health care.

Playing Cards - The abhorrent use of the Race Card in modern politics

There is a tool in arsenal of the small minded politician that has a sharp edge and can be wielded with abandon when backed up against the wall.

Keith Olbermann Documents Racist Attacks on Obama [Video]
Source: Firedoglake

I agree with President Carter that racism is playing a role in recent outbursts against President Obama. During President Obama's speech on the status of health care reform, some members of congress engaged in a public display of disrespect.

Send Me Everything You Can Find About Glenn Beck by Keith Olbermann
Source: Daily Kos

Keith Olbermann is pissed off about Glenn Beck. I wonder why he didn't post this here, on the MSNBC owned site.

"I am a Proud Right Wing Terrorist"

Well, not really. Of course according to the DHS, I am to be considered at risk of that on several grounds. From being pro life to being a member of the NRA and pro gun rights, to being for the state sovereignety movement, i.e. the 9th and 10th ammenments to the constitution.

BREITBART: I am Kenneth Gladney
Source: The Washington Times

Andrew Breitbart's analysis of the weeks events in the health care debate

Well That Didn't Last Long: Fox and MSNBC Are Back At Each Other's Throats After Short-Lived Cease Fire
Source: The New York Times

Fox News executives felt that MSNBC had broken the deal when Keith Olbermann, in an apparent show of independence, insulted his 8 p.m. rival, Bill O'Reilly, and the News Corporation's chairman, Rupert Murdoch, on Monday. On his show, "Countdown," Mr. Olbermann called Mr.

Fox and G.E. Reach Deal to End O'Reilly-Olbermann Feud - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times

Olbermann & O'Reilly have run to the end of their leashes and now their corporate masters are pulling them back.

The Problem with the Mainstream Media-- and It Isn't That It's "Too Liberal"
Source: Salon.com

now we have an example of GE's forcibly silencing the top-rated commentator on MSNBC -- ordering him not to hold Fox News accountable any longer -- because, in return, News Corp. has agreed to silence its own commentators from criticizing GE.

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