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Killarney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:08 PM
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They're After Olbermann! New site: Olbermann Watch
The purpose of the site is to point out Olbermann's "liberal bias". I truly hope that all this attention the conservatives are giving Olbermann lately triples his ratings. Free advertising for Keith!

http://www.olbermannwatch.com/

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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:09 PM
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1. Whoop-tee-do
Dan Rather is going so they need somebody to blame.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:10 PM
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2. As if they matter.
A delightful moment in Freeper Self-Fellatio.
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KenCarson Donating Member (170 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:12 PM
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4. you mean
autofellatio, right?

or is that a car expects if it pays for dinner?
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signmike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:23 PM
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9. I think you might mean
an Autosuck. Plugs into the cigar lighter, Willy plugs into IT.
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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:12 PM
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HAHAHAHAHA Tandalayo. You are sick! LOL!
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K-W Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 03:14 PM
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33. Except that they have done this successfully before.
Did you forget that liberals have been purged from the media for decades?
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Pachamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:11 PM
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3. I just started watching Olbermann daily...& I'll be watching the Freepers
and countering any attempts they try to make in attacking him...

I hear that many of the people I know are starting to watch Olbermann, especially now that Rather will be going....
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:12 PM
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5. So you're telling me...
We're getting to them...
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:15 PM
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6. Are they concerned about Joe Scarborough's impartiality?
Bill O'Reilly?

What about most of the anchors on just about every program on the 24/7 news networks?
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:25 PM
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That's not the way they operate. Go after your opposition, one at a
time. It took them 25 years or more to finally get Dan, and he's actually not completely gone. You folks keep looking for honesty and fairness, and that isn't what the Pubs want! They want it ALL! Radio, Broadcast TV, Cable...everything!!! They won't stop until they are stopped! The viewership of the Olbermans, and ???? needs to increase and become enticing enough to pull viewers away from FOX etc.

That's been my argument with the Pubs about their criticism of breadcast TV shows they hate, like the new "Desperate Housewives". This show has GREAT ratings! Shows FAIL and disappear when people don't watch!

We cannot make Keith's show succeed just by writing nice emails to him, or to MSNBC. We have to increase viewership and his ratings!!!!
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:32 PM
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14. you are right how they operate. I suspect Keith won't be around
too much longer.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:52 PM
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20. Perhaps a different time slot?
I think at least some of the problem with Keith's show is the time slot. It's in direct competition with the Prime Time shows on broadcast TV. Many conservatives object to a lot of the prime time shows, so they resort to FOX. Those who would like to watch Keith are watching Survivor, Fear Factor, etc.

I'm sure no conservative, but I hate those damn reality shows, and watch Keith instead. If there is something on at 8 o'clock that I want to watch (once in a while!), I watch Keith on the re-run, but I don't know if that counts toward his ratings???

I always watch Lou Dobbs at 6. I would be thrilled to watch Keith at 7 instead of Chris on HB. Do you think a time change might help?
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 01:47 PM
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22. I don't know, I usually watch him on the re-run too and I don't know
how that counts on the ratings. I watched Jesse Jackson last night who I thought was pretty good (WHere are the Democrats???? on this vote fraud) but his scratchy throat or whatever it was with his voice was driving me nuts. I found it very hard to actually understand him but even in spite of that, he was pretty darn good. WHo else is going to have Jesse Jackson on and keep the vote story going. I wonder if MSNBC (from GE orders on high) will put the clamps on Keith. You can be sure the fundies are writing letters to Keith's bosses about his running the vote fraud story. You know when Jesse Jackson talked how Kerry quit too early, I couldn't agree more; he didn't even wait till all the votes were counted.


Lou Dobbs is great and so is Keith
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:15 PM
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7. Yep, I do believe a nerve has been hit! n/t
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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:15 PM
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8. but this interview with Olbermann linked from the site is worth
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:34 PM
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16. thanks for posting that link
It was a good read. The comments were great, too. Especially Carolyn
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:23 PM
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10. "He's as biased as there is?"
Whoever produced this picture is as illiterate "as there is!"

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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:43 PM
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19. I've always seen "feckless marxist tool" as a badge of honor!
Go Keith!
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:25 PM
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11. Nice to hear that he's gotten under their skin!
Edited on Tue Nov-30-04 05:25 PM by eleny
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:26 PM
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12. He should be honored.
You know you're hitting the big time when they start to come after you. Go KO!
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:28 PM
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13. this scares me; they are trying to remove from media all but
conservative bias. If they write enough letters to GE, I suspect he will be gone.
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IAMREALITY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:34 PM
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15. LOL
I posted this in the 2004 thread first:

I wouldn't Sweat it, No One's Even READING IT!!!!! LOL Notice you don't see even 1 comment on any of the articles? It's pathetic! LOL
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tandot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:35 PM
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17. For freepers, "liberal bias" is anything we would call critical thinking
or fact checking, or investigating the truth. Critical thinking is something only evil commies do... "patriotic" Bush-lovers never question anything their God-elected President does.

People who don't bow down to Bush or his Gestapo are "traitors" or "hate America" ... anyone who dares to question anything Bush and his Administration is doing is a liberal or commie ... anyone who dared to vote for Kerry is accused of having no "moral values" ... Peace is war ... black is white ... ignorance is strength ... Bush is freedom ...

Come next election, when Americans decide that they had enough of 8 years of Republican rule and destruction, they'll be the first ones to call for recounts or paper trails. They only want to make everyone else shut up because this time, all those "minor" problems in a "few" polling places are giving Bush the advantage.

Vote Republican ... It's easier than thinking!

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Shopaholic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 05:40 PM
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18. Please go to www.tvnewser.com
and ask the college boy who runs that site why is it that he hasn't seen fit to link to all the anti-Faux and anti-CNN sites out there. I've already fired off an e-mail to him and I will be also sending an e-mail to the Repug who owns this "Olbermann Watch" website and asking him why isn't he concerned about the Faux News & Joe Scarborough "bias". These people are complete and total and utter assholes.
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Killarney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 06:05 PM
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21. that's where I got the link from
and you're right. He's giving attention to this blog, but none of the other blogs that are against the conversatively biased anchors.
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Shopaholic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 01:58 PM
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23. Good work gang---
99% of the comments at this idiot's website are all Pro-Keith! By the way, his own posts use both bad grammar and horrible spelling. And he brags (yes, brags), he's had 2 years of college.
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Miami Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 02:02 PM
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24. My comment on Olbermannwatch
Edited on Wed Dec-01-04 02:07 PM by Miami Liberal
is the one about Keith being a sex God. Hee hee hee :evilgrin:
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The Night Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 02:12 PM
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25. Olbermann Watch copyright infringement?
Edited on Wed Dec-01-04 02:14 PM by The Night Owl
The Olbermann Watch blog has a picture of Waldo from Where's Waldo featured prominently. Isn't that a copyright infringement? Maybe we should let whoever owns Where's Waldo know about this?

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Winamericaback Donating Member (398 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 02:22 PM
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27. What a great idea
That is an awesome idea.. I'll be searching for contact info.
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The Night Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 02:56 PM
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29. Good show!
Edited on Wed Dec-01-04 02:59 PM by The Night Owl
I too will look for contact information on who owns Where's Waldo. My guess is that it is owned by some megacorporation. Of course, since the Olbermann Watch scumbags are watching us too, they will probably remove the image before they get a legal letter from the owners of Where's Waldo.

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Winamericaback Donating Member (398 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 02:19 PM
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26. Don't go there
Just don't go there.. don't give the jackasses the hit count.
Trust me a majority of Rwiners don't even know who the hell Olbermann is as he is on at the same time as their O'liely saint.

And hey if he does garner attention thats less people that are watching O'Liely, it can only be good for Olbermanns ratings :)
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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 02:23 PM
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28. has anyone sent this to him. I think he'd be amused, might even mention
it on his show, perhaps on the Oddball segment.
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 03:07 PM
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31. I did - today
with the "ACE" photo.

:)

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bunny planet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 03:12 PM
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32. superb!!!
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Threedifferentones Donating Member (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 03:02 PM
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30. This is actually a great idea...
We should respond with similar sites about every major conservative talk show host and blogger. I can't help but wonder if this site is serious though. The phrases about DUers being "liberal loons" and DU a "hate site", along with the references to "crackpot" theories and "left-wing whackos" makes it almost seem like satire lol. Even though it probably is serious it's still funny as hell to me.

3DO
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 03:23 PM
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34. The Myth of Liberal Media Bias
"Bias" isn't supported-- because it's not true
http://www.buzzflash.com/perspectives/2002/Media_Bias.html

"Here's a reality check for Bernard Goldberg: The mainstream media are no more liberal than the conglomerates that own them or the advertisers that pay their bills."
http://www.fair.org/articles/bias-op-ed.html
<many more>

FAIR
Examining the "Liberal Media" Claim
Journalists' Views on Politics, Economic Policy and Media Coverage
http://www.fair.org/reports/journalist-survey.html

Western Herald
Liberal media bias little more than myth
Media dominated by profit-driven corporations
http://www.westernherald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/02/21/3c75883ed6cf7?in_archive=1

Manufacturing Consent
A Propaganda Model
Noam Chomsky
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Herman%20/Manufac_Consent_Prop_Model.html

google "propaganda model"
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vinnievin777 Donating Member (735 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 03:25 PM
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35. When they say liberal bias its like
a guy who cheats on his wife and then comes home and accuses her.

Vinnie Vin
http://www.vinnievin.com
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