Countdown's Worst Persons: Olbermann Murdoch & McSame
By Logan Murphy Monday Mar 17, 2008 9:02pm
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Today's Worst Person in the World segment on Countdown saw the host himself taking the bronze. Yesterday, during the WPITW segment, Keith Olbermann called on the New York Times' Bill Keller to fire right wing hack, Bill Kristol, after he used faulty information to smear Barack Obama in his Times column, but as it turns out, Keller did not hire Kristol and cannot fire him.
The silver went to FOXNews owner, Rupert Murdoch, for short-changing his 99 year old mother to the tune of $273 million dollars, then sticking her with a tax bill that has ballooned to nearly $70 million -- a move to get her to keep her money in his evil media empire, News Corp.
Last, and by no means least, Senator John McCain takes the gold for making a fool of himself by claiming that Iran was training al Qaeda members in Iran, and sending them into Iraq. (not once, but thrice) Unfortunately for Grandpa McCain, he was mistaken and had to be reminded by Joe Lieberman that Iran was NOT training members of al Qaeda.
Olbermann: "No wonder McCain's talking about 100 years in Iraq. It'll take him that long just to figure out what's going on there!"
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No room for J. P. Morgan risen from the grave?
Robber Barrons never die.
Please, please, please someone check to see if Teddy Roosevelt has had enough and is digging his way up from 6 feet under.
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McCrazy is just under a lot of pressure: http://video.aol.com/partner/hulu/saturday-night-live-tv-funhouse-fun-wi...
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!11
Rupert coulda bought Bear Stearns for that amount.
What a wiener.
This is NOT a joke. We need to be prudent: We were warned about Bush's inability to string three words together before he was elected, and we* even re-elected him.
*We have the neo-cons to thank. Israel got rid of Hussein and gays could not marry. Those are the criteria to vote for someone?
McCain is in denial.
What I would like to know is :Why didn't KO give the same tongue lashing to Obama over the Rev Wright,as he did to Clinton over Geraldine Ferraro's comments.
the rest of this comment I'll save for an appropriate thread.
Dots baby....it's all in the dots:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/18/power-broker-cheney-gets-iraqi-pledg...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7950882146201650250
Hmmm... think I woulda given McCain the silver and ol' Rupert the gold myself....
Don't fire Bill Kristol. Send him to Iraq to interview all those people throwing flowers.
This fucking site keeps crashing my browser!!!
What Grandpa meant was that the VC are being trained and protected in China. Which is why we must bomb China.
Joe Lieberman Has to Remind McCain He’s Not in Vietnam
hope we have an rip thread for arthur c clarke....a great voice for science over stupidity
#11 rtghehe Says:
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Holy mother of sod, how far gone are you when Holy joe has to step in to stop you from making an ass of yourself? Close inspection of the video it appears that Mc Puppet has been dead for sometime, while Liar-man and Ga-ham work the controls for public appearances. Why are these criminal mucks not behind bars? I am sure it would not take very long to dig up solid evidence of crimes they have commited, about ten min for don john.
McCain is old enough to be in the early stages of alzheimers. I believe Reagan had the same problem. The Republicans all try to be just like Reagan.
McCain knew he was lying about an Iran/al Qeada link. He was very specific in his claim that he knew of intelligence supporting that view. What McCain also knows, is that to most Americans, Muslims are all the same. They do not know, or comprehend, the vast political, demographic and religious differences between Sunni and Shiite. The effect of McCain's lie has served its purpose: Once a lie is let out of the box, the truth rarely ever catches up.
After the flap about Patriotism being linked to wearing the lapel pin, it was interesting to note that none of the three were wearing one when McCain was giving his speech about Al Queda in Iran. He looked like a doddering old man when Lieberman corrected him.
http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/mad_piratesposter2.jpg
For anyone who hasn't seen this prized youtube vid, I lick you take a lookie
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs
Joe! @ 24:
Priceless, keep them coming.
So Keith Olberman is concerned with the validity of opinion columns in the NY times.
Is this the same Keith Olbermann who cited the bogus February 21, 2008 New York Times article that falsely accused McCain of an affair with a lobbyist. Mr. Olbermann found this story so noteworthy that he interrupted the 7:00 rebroadcast of Hardball to report the story. When the story was quickly found to baseless, where were the calls by Mr. Olbermann to Bill Keller to fire or for that matter suspend the authors of the article? Where was the subsequent correction by the host on his initial reporting?
Even the Times ombudsman chastised the paper two days later.
The continued display of hypocrisy from Mr. Olbermann is palpable.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?_r=3&hp=&ore...
Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship. But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of redemption and rectitude that defined his political identity.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23293813/
Segment 5 with Howard Fineman
OLBERMANN: About the substance of the story as written, is there any doubt of the veracity to it? I mean, “The Washington Post” followed up this morning, reporting that there was indeed a message delivered by McCain aides or McCain aide to Ms. Iseman at Union Station and the message in their version of it was get lost. And that she used to boast to her colleagues of her connections to McCain. And one other thing, we will read exactly: “Concerns about Iseman‘s presence around McCain at one point led to her being banned from his Senate office,” according to sources close to McCain. The “Post” story about, the one about Vicki Iseman was in some sense, is stronger than “The New York Times” one. That for whatever reason, she acted like she influenced John McCain in a way lobbyists usually do not and cannot.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hiZBfIDZs3P-I5ERtItxUcQ8JwGw
New York Times ombudsman slams article on McCain
Feb 23, 2008
WASHINGTON, Feb 23, 2008 (AFP) — The New York Times' ombudsman strongly criticized the newspaper's insinuation this week that White House hopeful John McCain had a tryst with a female lobbyist 31 years his junior, nearly 10 years ago.
"A newspaper cannot begin a story about the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee with the suggestion of an extramarital affair with an attractive lobbyist 31 years his junior and expect readers to focus on anything other than what most of them did. ... The stakes are just too big."
The only reason Holy Joe corrected McCain was because national cameras were on him. Otherwise, if McCain were speaking to a Republican-only audience, then he'd be happy to lie about Iran (a Shiia nation) training their deadly (Sunni) enemies of al Qaida.
It should be interesting to see how often McCain needs to be "corrected" on this one.
BREAKING - FOX NEWS SELECTED AS VIDEO POOL - FEED FOR THE DNC CONVENTION.
THAT MEANS THAT FOX GET TO DECIDE THE SHOTS AND THE FRAME OF THE DEMOCRATS AT THE
CONVENTION.
Lieberman: "Psssst. John. You're using the wrong talking point. The Iran is training Al-Queda talking point is the one we are saving for closer to the election"
GhostofATLien @ 25:
Well , that leaves out the GOP , this horseshit administration , all the wrong-wingnut/Cancervative crap sites , along with the GOP propoganda machine over at FAUX GNUS then.........
totallynext @ 29:
That's like asking the Chimpy administration who should be spied on and who should be trusted ..........Oh , they (stupidly) do that now , too...............
McCain probably thinks that the British were training the IRA who later turned around and blew up buildings in London.
Masala @ 27:
I'm sorry, I missed the part where this story was shown to be baseless. Do you have a link?
By the way, I couldn't care less who John McCain is sleeping with, as long as he's not fucking me and the tax-payer. McCain wrote letters trying to influence FCC rules for Iseman's client Paxson Communications. If he was getting something from Paxson or from Iseman, he's dirty. Its not the first time, and it looks like it wasn't the last. He also is apparently involved in the awarding of the Air-tanker contract to EADS that screwed Boeing.
Did I mention that McCain's campaign is run by lobbyists? You should google Rick Davis and Charles Black.
Did I mention that McCain was reprimanded by the Senate for his role in the Lincoln Savings and Loan failure - a scandal that cost taxpayers some 300 billion dollars.
Get a clue, Masala.
Masala @ 27:
From your own link:
totallynext @ 29:
That has to be coming from the DLC, hillary's wing.
At least Keith is honest and human enough to apologize in ranking himself as "Worse". No other news anchor, especially on the FNC, as well as Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, etc. apologizes for misleading remarks.
As for Murdoch, how could he be so cheap to his own mother that labored birth to him, et al.??
McCain is just the same old, same old - nothing new.
mudshark @ 7:
Rev Wright doesn't work for Obama's campaign and his opinions are irrelevant. Furthermore, Obama rejected Wright's remarks and went into great detail about why he disagreed, whereas Clinton danced around condemning the historically ignorant, racebaiting garbarge coming from her own staff. Big, big difference.
I doubt McCain is "involved" with anyone. Including his wife.
He's the best they can do. It's pathetic, but so is the whole repug party. I'd be associated with ANY political party before I'd even consider being "one of them". Nuts...all of them.
Olbermann: Classiest person in the world. Or damned close to it.
my father is turning 80, and he knows more about the economy and world events than mcfeeble
if obama doesnt win the nomination, im voting for my dad
The fact that Mccain has any support for his presidential run is scary. He can't even lie well.
bush didn't know there were such things as Shiites and Sunnis until after his idiotic invasion. Bill Kristol said before the war that there was no historical reason to think that the Shiites and Sunnis would battle each other. And now McCain thinks that Shiite Iran is in league with Sunni al Qaeda.
Not to belabor the obvious, but Republicans didn't have a clue about Iraq when they dragged us into this war, and clearly they still don't. McCain is increasingly revealing himself as a senile fool. Maybe he's trying to be Reagan.
And you may wonder why.....with only a little gorge seperating the USA & Canada, we above the 49th parallel are worried about errant missles flying into us one day. Is there reason to be concerned? A guy like McCain will destroy the USA and anything close to it. Then you'll see Condi's mushroom cloud.
That clip of McLame has to be the most pathetic display of war-mongering B.S. I have ever seen.
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 38:
Hell! If Obama doesn't get the nomination, your dad's got my vote too!
RE: McCain -Maybe the Al Qaeda troops are being trained by that well-known president of Germany, Vladimir Putin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL7ZxF2ysmY
In fairness to McCain, it was George W. Bush who briefed him on the dynamics of the Middle East before he left for Iraq.
What worries me the most in the Mc Cain thing is that it appears that the fix is already in. Why else would he and Dr Evil be doing the Middle East Magical History Tour?
Lindsey Graham, Joe Liebermann, McCain and Cheney...the not so Fab Four. I'm guessing the Graham things he's Paul....Wonder if that makes Cheney the Walrus?
bajasteve @ 44:
BajaSteve: I gotta know......what part of Baja? North? Central? or Sur ?
Alice Hussein @ 22:
"10,000 years in Iraq ?!?!?!?!?!?! .....Good Luck with that in November"
umm, BINGO !
Bush's third term. McCain really is acting more like Bush every time he speaks....with a touch of Reagan's dementia.
gwen @ 34:
I beg to differ with you gwen.
The Rev Wright was on the Obama campaign as a "Spiritual Advisor". And as it turns out,Obama knew about these incindiary comments all along. Yes......even after he said he wasn't aware of said comments. And Yet, the Rev Wright found a job on the Obama Campaign.No, There's no difference.............except in the double standard.
President McCain?
methinks the comedy writers are rootin' for him
After watching McSame make a fool out of himself about AlQieda being trained in Iran(Joe "the snake" Leiberman corrected McSame on camera )I watched the same story on CNN being reported by John King who neglected to say that McSame had made this same HUGE blunder not once,but, THREE TIMES within the previous 24 hrs.THREE FUCKING TIMES in 24 hrs. folks. For the life of me, I can't imagine this old fart answering any kind of phone call at 3:00 A.M. much less,clearing the cob webs out of his skull to grasp the info coming through the ear piece.I can see that old fuck,stumbling around in the dark,looking for "fuck us all"button!!!!
mudshark @ 48:
Mudshark - I lived in Baja sur for about 2 years, bac k in the early part of the century (I've always wanted to use that phrase) :o) I lived on a ranch about 40 miles north of Cabo, on the Pacific coast. It was just south of Todos Santos. Are you familiar with the area?
Rupert Murdoch is one evil POS.
McShitstain is a senilic POS, joined at the hip to his twin, McLieberquisling, another POS.
Good for Keith for standing up and taking his licks. I won't hold my breath waiting for others in the MSM, including at GE/NBC, do something like that.
totallynext @ 25:
Seriously?
bajasteve @ 54:
yeah,I spent 10 winters in Pescadero. Now I spend time on the east cape at Zacatitos
A politician...a black politician...gives one of the most eloquent speeches in recent history on race and ONE program on ONE cable channel gives it the appropriate coverage that it deserved. Everywhere else nothing but diatribes against a non-issue and against that politician.
The establishment is so afraid of Barack Obama...they will do and say anything to destroy him.
One of these days the American people have to win this award for so consistently and sheepishly putting up with all this
shitpropaganda. 5 years in and it seems no-one in that formerly beautiful country seems to much care, let alone revolt against their bloodthirsty and forever lying leaders. And of course where America goes, so goes the world.Notice as well that as Tibetans are being slaughtered, no longer do we hear cries of human rights abuses from American spokespeople as much as we did in the past. Likely because Americans, thanks to their government, has no moral high ground to stand on. Also, Communist China, with it's well heeled corporate backers, is the new state model.
When Communist Russia collapsed, as Naomi Klein outlines in her book, Disaster Capitalism, there was no longer any need to treat the average lumpen with any respect, and the financial classes moves against the general population with a viciousness that still marvels, gutting the entire country to empower themselves. OK, that's what these guys do, it's to be expected. But the fact that so many Americans on both sides of the aisle are still apologists for this system which allows the powers that be to continually manipulate and exploit the "government" for their own ends speaks to a collective denial or worse, an "I don't care until it affects me directly" attitude. This speaks to a very sick collective psyche of this country, and the winners of Keith's award only a small manifestation of a larger phenomenon.
David @ 59:
This is nothing new and it bothers me to no end that people have these magic epiphanies about society. People have been selfish for a long time. WWII anyone? The "greatest generation" would have sat out that conflict if not for Pearl harbor. WWI?
anyways...the world has always been like that...
Can we make LIEberman the second worst?
RD @ 60:
So how's that working for you, anyway?
David @ 59:
Good post. That is all.
Olbermann is a windbag.
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