It's 'Putdown With Keith Olbermann'
Now that Dan Abrams has given up his MSNBC show to run the third-place cable news outlet, he might want to focus on the rising tensions between two of his prime-time personalities: Keith Olbermann and Rita Cosby.
Olbermann, whose "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" airs weeknights at 8, apparently has precious little respect for Cosby, whose "Rita Cosby: Live & Direct" airs at 10 p.m.
"Rita's nice," Olbermann wrote to a fan from his MSNBC E-mail account, "but dumber than a suitcase of rocks." Yesterday Cosby retorted: "Keith got it wrong. I'm not that nice."
But a Cosby intimate gasped when informed of Olbermann's E-mail. "That's incredibly disappointing," he said.
An MSNBC spokesman didn't dispute the authenticity of the months-old E-mail, which came to light this week after the recipient shared it with this column on condition of anonymity.
In his E-mail, Olbermann was also dismissive of then-MSNBC President Rick Kaplan, who left the network last week with six months to go on his three-year contract.
"And Kaplan?" Olbermann wrote to his fan. "He was the producer of that special last night — now known as the Kanye West Show." It was a reference to an embarrassing incident during NBC's Hurricane Katrina telethon on which the popular rapper departed from his script to claim President Bush "doesn't care about black people."
Olbermann, who didn't comment yesterday, was said to be on vacation — though he managed to turn up Monday night at a book party for Al Gore at the American Museum of Natural History.
There, the media blog Jossip.com asked Olbermann — who was accompanied by "his self-described 'friend' Katie" — if he'll now be answering to Abrams.
"I don't answer to anybody," Olbermann insisted.
We'll see.
Everyone who is over the age of, oh let's say 8 years old, knows someone like Keith Olbermann. You know the type ... really, really dumb but so dumb he doesn't know how really really dumb he is. I have complained for years about how dumb Rita Cosby is. In fact, when she was at Fox, I even got so frustrated with her "dumbness," I took the time to write a letter to Roger Ailes to complain. But, in Rita's defense here, Keith Olbermann needs to look in the mirror. Keith Olbermann makes Rita look like a Phi Beta Kappa candidate and he is far more dangerous. He thinks he's smart, erudite, worthy of being listened to. And if you've read "The Squiggler" for any length of time then you know what my reaction is to someone like Olbermann ... all together now ... GAG! PS: And like Bill Clinton, every time I see his picture or his face on TV, I want to smack that smirk right off his face. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr! And speaking of MSNBC, the following is their problem. Chris Matthews is much smarter than either Olberman or Cosby, but he is so blinded by his own partisanship, he makes no effort to fact check if the content suits his political point of view. His entire reporting has had those at Just One Minute and American Thinker up in arms for three years over the continuing claims of Wilson being some kind of hapless victim of the big bad Dick Cheney. The truth is he is the leaker, he is the one who "outed" his own wife.
Matthews Corrects Error, But Doesn't Go Far Enough
06/14 06:28 PM - The MarkupTonight on Hardball, Chris Matthews corrected a whopping error that he made last night, but his correction didn't go far enough toward setting the record straight. Last night, Matthews said:MATTHEWS: Let me go over to Jim VandeHei. Former President Bush, the father the current president, was an old spook. He was the head of the CIA, he's a strong believer in the privacy or rather the need for the security of these agents who are undercover.
When Joe Wilson was first involved in this case, he got a letter from former President Bush praising him and apologizing for the fact that his wife had been outed as an undercover agent. What happens here in terms of the basic — I hate to use the word ethics, it sounds like an office issue — profound ethics of uncovering (ph) the identity of an agent.
Tonight Matthews noted that his statement was incorrect in several ways:
Matthews correction doesn't go far enough in correcting his error. He omitted to mention that Bush's statements in that address were directed toward a specific class of traitor — those, like ex-CIA officer Phillip Agee, who make it their lives' work to expose as many CIA officials and agents as possible in order to undermine the CIA's intelligence-gathering capabilities and harm the United States. I've written about this lack of context when it's occurred on Hardball before. Last time, Hardball declined to make any correction at all, so I suppose Matthews should be applauded for at least attempting it this time.MATTHEWS: Last night, I said, by the way, that former President Bush had written a letter to Joe Wilson praising him for his service and sympathizing with him for the outing of his wife's CIA identity. In fact, Wilson got his letter of praise from former President Bush eight months before his wife was outed. The former president's condemnation of those who leak the names of CIA agents, however, which I also referred to, came even earlier, in his 1999 address at the naming of the new agency headquarters.
Clips of both the error and correction here.
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Keith ("Who?") Olbermann: "I don't answer to anybody"
The dope even responded to my emails, until I grew bored with the exchange. Shouldn't he have something better to do? I should have something better to do, too, but I don't have any money, am stuck in a crappy Boston suburb, and I couldn't get my leg humped in a kennel with a pocket full of Snausages and dog-porn.
Anyway. The guy seems to be a kind of junior-league blogger type who's somehow wound up on TV. Well, not tv. Basic cable. Very basic cable.
UPDATE from MacRanger: "UPDATE: Not knowing what else to do, MSNBC runs a poll, but then again, there is a brewing scandal as more Keith Olbermann emails are about to become public.
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