To all those who think Keith Olbermann didn't express enough Repug disgust last night

[Berry Cool]

just because he merely observed the "regal" and "coronation"-like atmosphere the candidates attempted to project as they entered the debate, rather than delivering a Special Comment on how terrible it was that they should do this-- :sarcasm:

Take heart. Apparently, some Repugs are not happy that Keith is being featured on MSNBC's debate coverage because they think he is incapable of being impartial and fair to them, and they're expressing those doubts to NBC:

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/tvNews/view.bg?articleid=198594&format=&page=1

Olbermann’s popularity and evolving image as an idealogue has led NBC News to stretch traditional notions of journalistic objectivity. The danger for MSNBC is provoking the same anger among Republicans that Democrats feel toward Fox News Channel.

The Giuliani campaign privately expressed its concern to NBC News about Olbermann’s role in the days leading up to last Thursday’s debate...

...Olbermann knows to leave his opinions at home when he anchors events, said Phil Griffin, NBC News senior vice president.

"Keith’s an adult," Griffin said. "He can tell when it’s appropriate to express himself in a commentary and when to be a journalist. That’s one of his strengths. He knows exactly the tone and his role when he’s doing anything."...

...To one critic, Olbermann’s actual performance at the debate and in similar situations was less important than the message sent by his presence.

"It’s sort of like putting a professional wrestler in an anchor chair and saying ’he can do this,’" said Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog. "Well, he can do this. But he’s known as a professional wrestler."...

on edit: I should point out that the article says KO was not informed of these misgivings until AFTER the debate was over. (I say this to head off at the pass all tinfoil-hat theories that he deliberately self-censored or was "muzzled" by the network last night. He wasn't.)

[AlCzervik]

1. i thought he did just fine, his own show expresses his opinion.

what do people expect him to do?

[Donnachaidh]

2. WHO are they kidding?

Bill O'Lielly is known as a professional asshole. Are they going to complain when he shows up at the Fox debates? :grr:

[Berry Cool]

8. I disagree with the article when it implies

that having KO on a Repug debate is like having O'Reilly on a Dem debate.

Sheesh. There's a world of difference.

Brains, for one.

[acmavm]

3. Republics and conservatives in general are such friggin' cry babies.

[Captain Angry]

4. Wow, so the liberal media consists of one person now?

What happened to the conspiracy?

If their message is so weak that one guy on one cable channel might call them on it, then that might say something about their message.

[waiting for hope]

5. Keith is a professional......

Sheesh....that would be like knowingly going on FOX and complaining that Hannity was there. All the candidates knew they were appearing on MSNBC...and I didn't hear any of them complaining about having Tweety there (oops, yeah, about Tweety's man crushes, need to rethink that one). :sarcasm:

[jimshoes]

6. No one besides a kool aid drinking

sycophant is able to properly report on a repub smoke blowing, bloviating, reagan re-deification and all around lie fest? As if this takes some sort of skill. :eyes:

[annabanana]

7. The Repugs are projecting again... Just because "their" commentators

can't keep their opinions to themselves when it's appropriate, they assume that Keith will likewise be unable to control himself...

(To me, that "patriarch parade" looked more like rats in a maze, trying to find their way to the main hall. . .)

[LSparkle]

12. Like in "Spinal Tap"! LOL!

[Old and In the Way]

9. What a bunch of whiners.

We had Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, Pat Buchanon, and Tucker Carlson doing the Democratic Contest....did they complain about this? What this tells me is the the Right is so insecure about their image and positions, they are petrified of anyone who could puncture their cozy cocoon of delusion. Poor things.

[Horse with no Name]

10. And Brian "BUSHLICKER" Williams moderating

How wonderful it would have been if we had Keith moderating for US instead of a brownshirt--then perhaps we wouldn't have had to sit through stupid questions about $400 haircuts and the like.

[RevCheesehead]

11. What the repukes don't know:

Ronnie Ray-gun was credited with bringing back pagaentry to the presidency. They worship him as if he was some kind of benevolent monarch.

What they don't know is that some of us hear the words "regal" and "pagaentry" as negative. These are people who prop themselves up, and are thoroughly convinced that their poop doesn't stink. They are pretenders.

[Berry Cool]

13. Yeah, and we know that.

But it sure does play well with "the base."

[lonestarnot]

14. Keith is a wizard, and the

provoking the same anger among Republicans that Democrats feel toward Fox News is not an appropriate caveat in that Dems can't stand Fox New because they are liars and do more suppression of news than broadcasting it and they will merely legitimately be angry because Keith is loved among the left so :*

[MethuenProgressive]

15. There's a diff tween announcing and being the color commentator

Covering a debate requires one, doing countdown t'other

[grasswire]

16. huh??????

"Olbermann’s popularity and evolving image as an idealogue has led NBC News to stretch traditional notions of journalistic objectivity. "

This is the network of Michael Savage and Joe Scarborough and all those right-wing freaks.

MSNBC has "truth" confused with "ideology." Damn them yet again.

[Nimrod2005]

17. Keith did an excellent - EXCELLENT job last night!!!