"The owlish young fellow" - a flashback

WhirlyGirl

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Wed Apr-20-05 01:30 AM
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"The owlish young fellow" - a flashback

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Keith Olbermann, the owlish young fellow who hosts a cable show devoted entirely to the smutty subject of the "White House in Crisis," has publicly confided,

"There are days now when my line of work makes me ashamed, makes me depressed, makes me cry."

-Barbara Ehrenreich, The Progressive, October 1998
http://www.progressive.org/Ehrenreich9810.htm
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WhirlyGirl

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Wed Apr-20-05 01:53 AM
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1. Btw, could someone please Photoshop KO as an owl? - I want to see if ...

. . . there's any similarity between our angel and a nightbird who eats mice. x(

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Berry Cool

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Wed Apr-20-05 05:39 AM
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2. I would like to see KO as an owl

but I don't think Ehrenreich was quite fair to KO by lumping him in with the rest of the handwringing media as she did. After all, back when OJ and JonBenet happened, he wasn't covering them. He was still in sports.

Of course, ultimately he put his money where his mouth was when he said he was tired of reporting on All Monica, All the Time. Which is more than most of the media did. In hindsight, he really comes off looking good.

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WhirlyGirl

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Wed Apr-20-05 08:50 AM
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3. But don't you think that's what she was saying - that Keith himself agreed

. . . with her?

In other words, she wasn't lumping him in w/ the rest of the MSM -- just his SHOW. And she was noting that he was doing it under protest.

In another oft-quoted article he says he was "having the dry heaves" from being forced to do Clinton/Lewinsky night after night. I'm sure Ehrenreich was aware of that quote, too.

And I hope someone does have time to play around Photoshop today!

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Berry Cool

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Wed Apr-20-05 05:52 PM
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6. I guess you're right

and I like Ehrenreich anyway.

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WhirlyGirl

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Wed Apr-20-05 06:04 PM
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9. I like her, too.

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RevCheesehead

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Wed Apr-20-05 11:40 AM
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4. Owls are wise.

Everyone knows that.
:)

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WhirlyGirl

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Wed Apr-20-05 12:31 PM
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5. And can turn their heads around backwards.

. . . Uh-oh.

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Berry Cool

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Wed Apr-20-05 05:53 PM
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7. Yeah, so can Linda Blair

We're lucky KO wasn't so upset by his Lewinsky experience that he had wet heaves instead of dry ones. Now that would be a forecast for some pea-soup fog.

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WhirlyGirl

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Wed Apr-20-05 06:04 PM
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8. That's why I said Uh-oh! :-)

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