NewsBusters Whining About Keith Olbermann's "Liberal Bias."

[wyldwolf]

... His segment, titled "Worst Person in the World," is a strong measure of the MSNBC host's overwhelming bias against conservatives as the segment has served as a launchpad for attacks against conservative figures and positions at a dramatically greater rate than against the left. As reported by the latest Media Reality Check, by a staggeringly lopsided 8 to 1 margin, Olbermann has targeted conservatives, sometimes with substantial venom, while hitting a comparatively miniscule number of liberals.

Gee! Ya think? Do you feel MSNBC should be "fair and balanced" like FOX News?

Wonder what the ratio of liberal vs. conservative targeting is on Hannity and O'Reilly? Have you checked THAT?

From a comment on this story:

Isn't it funny how people like DNC "Master of Puppets" Dean proclaim that the Government of George Bush keeps everything in secret and from the public; yet amidst news that is reported as is happens across the globe, and with leaks pouring out of Washington like Lake Ponchetrain Levee, that the DNC truly has identified it's target market: Ill-informed and pathetically ignorant and stupid Americans, most of them poor, uneducated and wanting a father figure.

Stop! Your're killing me! This bit of hysterics comes from a Reagan supporter, no doubt!

Olbermann is clearly a Paid Hack, the type of person the DNC really needs, to keep feeding the mass of people who clearly avoid digesting the truth over some saucy appetizer called "headlines".

There seems to be a growing belief that anyone who believes anything different than you is "paid" to say so by your enemies. Sad.

[marmar]

1. Cry us a river...

[acmejack]

2. Eighteen years of school & I am described thusly?

"Ill-informed and pathetically ignorant and stupid Americans, most of them poor, uneducated and wanting a father figure."

I won't argue with poor...

[rock]

3. Reality is liberally biased

So if you truly report the news, you're liberal.

[Arger68]

11. You know, that would make a really good

bumper sticker!

[spooky3]

15. give credit to Stephen Colbert for that one! (said during his

Press Club speech)

[Bjorn Against]

29. Rob Cordry made s similar joke on The Daily Show a couple years back

When they ran the story on Sinclair refusing to broadcast the names of the first several hundred soldiers killed in Iraq Cordry said something on the lines of "the facts in Iraq have a very strong anti-Bush bias."

I love Colbert as well, I just had to give credit where credit was due.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I think the clinical term for this is "projection."

There seems to be a growing belief that anyone who believes anything different than you is "paid" to say so by your enemies.

[Union Thug]

5. These guys are brilliant. But I have my own little secret

that I'd like to reveal to the world... Rush Limbaugh CLEARLY has a conservative bias. Ha! Take that! And they thought they had one up on us. Suckers.


Now, seriously, the line about "wanting a father figure" is exactly the kind of projection you would expect from the party of authoritarians and big-daddy-in-the-sky fundies.

[spooky3]

6. At least, us unedjamacated people know when to use "it's" vs. "its"

"that the DNC truly has identified it's target market: Ill-informed and pathetically ignorant and stupid Americans, most of them poor, uneducated and wanting a father figure."

[BOSSHOG]

7. Gosh I wish I were a well read knowledgeable and open minded conservative

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. If you were you'd be the very first. So far, none exist.

[Totally Committed]

9. Proof Positive that Olbermann has gotten to them, bigtime!

Olbermann is clearly a Paid Hack, the type of person the DNC really needs, to keep feeding the mass of people who clearly avoid digesting the truth over some saucy appetizer called "headlines".

If he wasn't taking a HUGE chunk out of FOX's a**, they'd never be howing at the moon like this.

Go, Keith! Remember, it's not BIAS, it's ADVOCACY JOURNALISM...

TC

[spooky3]

16. The Rethugs just hate it when someone quotes their own words

and then criticizes those words in a funny way.

Don't you find it interesting that they aren't telling you where Keith was wrong in his facts?

Hey Rethugs, haven't you seen "You Pack Your Own 'Chute", a Republican favorite? If you would stop behaving badly, you would stop winning Worst Person in the World.

Waaaa. It's so-o-o-o-o unfair!

[Totally Committed]

18. heh, heh, heh....

Right on the money!

TC

[Clark2008]

26. Must be why I like Keith.

My favorite form of journalism when I was reporting was advocacy journalism. Met Al Gore that way when I was writing articles regarding universities summarily sealing college police records that would be open records at the city police department.

TC

[Mist]

10. We need to remind the RWers that THEY were the ones who decided

the Fairness Doctrine was unnecessary.

[gratuitous]

13. We might also remind them

That so far, it's only been conservative folks who have turned up on the government payroll: Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher, etc.

[Evergreen Emerald]

12. I am certain they are shouting just as loudly about Fox bias.

Hypocrites. As Colbert says: truth has a liberal bias.

[ComerPerro]

14. pot calling the kettle black, damn. "wanting a father figure"

hello???

THAT IS HOW REAGAN RAN!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dr Fate]

17. THey dont even want us to have ONE guy. Cant we have just ONE guy???

Screw those dudes.

He leans Democratic- so wha?t- he is only ONE guy out of hundreds.

[grasswire]

21. I don't believe he leans Democratic

He just leans AGAINST hypocrisy, lies, and corruption.

[Dr Fate]

22. Yes- "Liberal bias" = Facts that do not favor the GOP

While when we discuss bias, we are talking about OMISSION of facts or outright lies.

[Vyan]

19. You mean paid

like Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher or just a hack like Jeff Gannon/Guckert?

Someone needs to teach these people something about stones and glass houses.

Vyan

[Greyhound]

20. "Whatever they accuse others of doing,

is exactly what they are doing themselves." - R Rhodes

[bvar22]

23. KO doesn't target "conservatives".

KO targets ignorant bigots, and the politicians who pander to them.

[Hard_Work]

24. From last night's Countdown

transcript
"...But first, here are COUNTDOWN‘s top three newsmakers of this day.

Number three, the rabid right-wing spin group the Media Research Center, which studied our Worst Persons in the World segment for the last year and discovered that of approximately 600 nominees, only 174 of them were conservative. That means roughly 71 percent of the worst are not conservative.

I‘d like to thank the MRC for confirming my point that the segment is apolitical."...

I thought he mentioned something about this last night.

[LincolnMcGrath]

25. Will they ever stop playing the victim card?

I have been saying that to my conservative friends for a few years now and it shuts them up on the spot.

[KansDem]

27. Liberals *really do* dominate the media, just ask...

Rush Limbaugh. And Thomas Sowell. And Ann Coulter. And Rich Lowry. And Bill O'Reilly. And Robert Novak. And George Will.

And John Gibson. And Michelle Malkin. And David Brooks. And Tony Snow. And Tony Blankely. And Fred Barnes. And Britt Hume. And Larry Kudlow. And Sean Hannity. And David Horowitz. And William Kristol. And Hugh Hewitt. And William Buckley.

And Oliver North. And Joe Scarborough. And Pat Buchanan. And John McLaughlin. And Cal Thomas. And Joe Klein. And James Kilpatrick. And Tucker Carlson. And Deroy Murdock. And Michael Savage. And Charles Krauthammer. And Stephen Moore. And Alan Keyes.

And Gary Bauer. And Mort Kondracke. And Andrew Sullivan. And Nicholas von Hoffman. And Neil Cavuto. And Matt Drudge. And Mike Rosen. And Dave Kopel. And John Caldara. And Deborah Howell. And Richard Morin. And John Harris. And Gordon Liddy. And laura Ingraham.

And Larry Elder. And Tammy Bruce. And Neal Boortz. And FOX DJ ManPal. And Rusty Humphrey. And Laura Schlessinger.

They'll tell you, "Liberals dominate the media!"

http://shows.airamericaradio.com/alfrankenshow/node/435...

[MethuenProgressive]

28. I know the reason for the KO bias!!

As reported by the latest Media Reality Check, by a staggeringly lopsided 8 to 1 margin, Olbermann has targeted conservatives, sometimes with substantial venom, while hitting a comparatively miniscule number of liberals.

It's because conservatives are just terrible human beings, by an 8 to 1 margin over liberals!