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Catchawave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 09:51 AM
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"Jackson Re-enaction" - nice mention of KO's sophistication!
No mention of Puppet Theater though! But I sensed a little dig at Nancy Grace's "forensic fashion analysis" :)

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http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/living/11183007.htm

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"He's got his umbrella, his umbrella holder, his family, his family crest on his jacket," Nancy Grace's tone dripped with scorn on her Headline News show Monday night as tape rolled of Jackson arriving at court. "We've got the armband, the entourage, the bodyguard. OK, we're ready for court! Let's go to court!"

Told Jackson was wearing cowboy boots, Grace kept up the forensic fashion analysis.

"Sounds to me like we're looking at an insanity defense here," she chortled.

Keith Olbermann had already gone there on MSNBC.

"The day after the pajama game, is Michael Jackson nuts or a master media manipulator," wondered the "Countdown" host, invoking the memory of an imprisoned crime boss. "Anybody remember the last guy in his jammies playing loony tunes, Vinnie the Chin?"

At least Olbermann offered a more sophisticated take on an incident that the jurors inside the courthouse probably never even saw.

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WhirlyGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 02:08 PM
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1. And KO even beat NG in the ratings once last week!
Maybe sophistication is catching on, Catch!

This is another great example of KO looking for an interesting aspect of what otherwise would be a deadly experience for his listeners.

Thus, "stories my producers make me do" become occasions for Keith to find the meta-story, to turn lemons into lemonade and lead into journalistic gold, as he so often does.

Kahuna Keith: Guide to the Transcendent Story and Vanquisher of Boilerplate News!!!

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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 04:29 PM
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2. yeah, there's that...
and the fact that NG is an opinionated idiot... :puke:

:loveya: Keith
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