Keith Olbermann: Manchurian Candidates and Fox

[babylonsister]

Manchurian Candidates and Fox
by Keith Olbermann
Fri May 02, 2008 at 09:31:36 AM PDT

I knew some day I'd actually write something that did not include a shout about what we're doing on the show. And, my very dear friends, as Mr McCain would begin, this day has arrived. I've been startled to watch two developments anger and shake our respective Coalitions of The Reasonable, without the obvious deflating corollaries apparently dawning on anybody.

Firstly, Senator Clinton's appearance with O'Reilly is more pathetic and revelatory than it is outrageous. Secondly, the "Manchurian Candidate" meme voiced by Coultergeist might be taken down and later used against her.

Starting with Senator Clinton and Fox. Nobody appreciates outrage about Fixed News more than do I. I am the East Coast Distributor of Fixed News Outrage. But hasn't the most telling explanation about the surprisingly-yawny Billo interview struck anybody? She did it because it was serious free television time and if it costs much more than free, she can't afford it.

She was doing a freakin' info-mercial.

This appearance with an 8 PM host on a network whose 9 PM host still likes to insist she's a murderer, is a kind of political version of the story of the legendary gossip columnist Walter Winchell, for 30 years dominating newspapers, radio, television, even film, and acting gigs like voiceovers for "The Untouchables." One day the tv show was cancelled. Then the radio. Then the newspapers started dropping the column. And seemingly overnight, Winchell is standing on a street corner with a handful of his columns, which he has typed out himself and copied on a mimeograph machine, and he is giving them away to passersby.

And the desperation in this was not one way. The Mighty Favog of Fox billed this as his "World Exclusive." To repeat two observations from last night's televisioning, if you live in your own world as he does, this might be technically correct. Billo's "World Exclusive" with her came ten days after my "World Exclusive" with her and ten days after Larry King's "World Exclusive" with her and the same day as Cynthia McFadden's "World Exclusive" with her. I am half expecting to see my buddy Joel McHale do a "World Exclusive" with her on E!'s The Soup.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/2/115219/2226/754/507740

[fasttense]

1. True, if anyone is a Manchurian Candidate it has to be McCain.

If a child is tortured there would be marks and the parents would have complained. So it is not likely that Obama has been brain washed.

But a POW, now there are reasons for his scars and McCain did do that newscast where he said Americans were War Criminals. So, McSame has already shown symptoms of a Manchurian Candidate. Hmm, I think we should watch him closely. He is mixing up Shiite and Sunni, and has those bouts of temper, are these just symptoms???:shrug:

[Bumblebee]

2. It's Keith who is kinda pathetic these days -- and DailyKos. Can we please

post these at the other forum since many of us are trying to avoid both? Mutual respect is a great thing, just try it... You are really not doing Obama much good in the minds of the Clinton supporters here. It should be in your interests, if Obama is nominated, not to do so.

[babylonsister]

3. No, we can't. KO has many supporters on DU, even if you're not one

of them. Pass on by if you find this or anything else offensive; I (usually) do.

[Doctor_J]

4. Do you think Hil is being respectful by pandering to all of the

terrorists who personally destroyed her and Bill for 10 years? Pathetic is right.

[babylonsister]

5. That poster is a one hit wonder; all he/she does is complain, but

never contributes anything of value AFAIK. There are a few of them out there.