KOEB 01/02/06: Happy New Year

[Patsy Stone]

:loveya:

[SharonRB]

1. Aw, ya beat me to it, Pats

I was even going to use the same title.

Happy New Year to you!

[Patsy Stone]

2. And to you, Sharon

Another year of snark and news.

[SharonRB]

4. And only 6+ weeks until our NY trip

Guess it's time to go on that crash diet.

[SharonRB]

3. It'll be great if the whistleblower is protected

under whistleblower laws.

[bettyellen]

16. your mouth to god's ear...

arlen is going to call ashcroft as a witness, that'll be interesting!

[SharonRB]

18. Woo Hoo Hoo

It's going to be a fun start to the year.

[bettyellen]

26. here you go, if the leaker disclosed classified info... hmmm?

why would you have to find the leaker to know if the leak itself was wrong? the leak is what it is...
it was to the press, fer fuck sake. they got confirmationd from the pretzldent. sheesh.

[Olney Blue]

33. Do I smell Ashcroft puppet theater?

:rofl:

[bettyellen]

44. i hope so! good call!

[ralps]

5. Hi Patsy, Hi Everyone, Yay He's covering the Newsweek story!!!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SharonRB]

6. Happy New Year, ralps

I love how * had trouble saying "a few numbers..."

[ralps]

8. Happy New Year SharonRB, & Yay the Badgers won today!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SharonRB]

11. Congratulations -- at least one KOEB team won.

And Bot's team is well on their way against Notre Dame. If I had my druthers, they'd both lose.

[Patsy Stone]

55. Oooh, tie snark!

He :loveya:s us. The half-Windor is fine, sweetie. Actually, one night sans tie wouldn't be bad either.

[Olney Blue]

64. I like that idea!

I'd like to see him in a T-shirt with his hair messed up.

[ralps]

69. I would like to see him with messy hair too!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Patsy Stone]

73. Hey, ralps!

Happy New Year! You're not alone in that desire, I assure you.

[ralps]

76. Happy New Year Patsy!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Patsy Stone]

7. Stripey Keith tonight.

Here's a great Larry Johnson article on the fallacy of national security: http://www.tpmcafe.com/section/politics

The National Security Red Herring
By Larry Johnson | bio
From: Politics

"Definition: A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue.

Caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar, President Bush is working feverishly to divert attention from the fact that he has subverted the FISA law by claiming that the revelation in the New York Times of the NSA spying program has jeopardized national security and given the terrorists a hand. Sorry Mr. President that dog don't hunt."

--

It's not legal, Georgie. It doesn't even matter if it's only one.

[Berry Cool]

12. Yea! It's NEW Keith!

:loveya: All is forgiven, dear one!!!!
:hi: and Berry will be back After the Show!

[bettyellen]

9. what a f'ing idiot. of course it makes sense to him

i am so pissed off. i'm glad they found out they did the end run around ashcroft, even if that article was sooo slanted - the poll next to it had 86% against the wiretaps.


HAPPY NEW YEARS LADIES!
:WOOOHOO:

[SharonRB]

14. Happy New Year, bettyellen

:hi:

[bettyellen]

21. L'Chaim, Shar!! did i spell that right? LOL!

[SharonRB]

25. You sure did

My head is exploding from this whole explanation. So many ifs and maybes.

[Patsy Stone]

17. The fact that they went to the bedside for the approval

and he wouldn't give it is stunning. Also the part in the story that says that a shift supervisor is the one responsible at any given moment over what's under surveillance. Oy.

:hi: betty!

[SharonRB]

20. A shift supervisor?

You've GOT to be kidding.

[Patsy Stone]

27. As true as it is frightening.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2014954&mesg_id=2015557

But use this link instead if you want to follow the thread in my OP, that one stopped working for some reason. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1191

[bettyellen]

29. they are blaming EVERYONE ELSE, the shift supervisor, congress,

here comes the clenis, that's all i'm saying!

:hi: Pats!

[SharonRB]

32. LOL

He can't be too far behind, I'm sure.

[Berry Cool]

66. * does not live in the real world. I think we have extablished that.

He'll just keep going on thinking he's right and those who expose him are wrong, until the men in white coats take him away...

[Patsy Stone]

10. GD Keith thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x36176

[Kolesar]

13. Good evening fans of Keith &Countdown...eom

[SharonRB]

15. Happy New Year, TBA

:hi:

[bettyellen]

31. Happy New Year!

[Patsy Stone]

51. Hola, TBA.

Nice to see you and Happy 2006. :toast:

[Olney Blue]

19. Happy New Year, everyone!!!!!!!

:party::party::party::party:

:toast:

Hope its a great year for all of us!!
and Keith too........

[SharonRB]

22. Happy New Year, Olney

[bettyellen]

34. Here's hoping Olney! Happy New Year to you too!

[Patsy Stone]

23. Oh, Mitch McConnell, STFU!

Everyone who was being spied on, knew they were being spied on. Only WE didn't know we were being spied on. Jerk. Shill. Yutz.

[bleever]

39. Mitch finds ever-new ways to be a sanctimonious corporate toady.

It's impressive.


:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

42. Isn't he really Steve Forbes anyway?

I could swear it. Such an oozing pile.

[bleever]

79. I thought that too.

Maybe they're products of some Nazi child farming project, inserted into our society to attain positions of power and then FUCK THINGS UP.

Ahem.

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

83. Vehhhry eeenteresting theory

But, is that really the best mold they could come up with? I mean, a bit on the dumpy, doughy-side, no? Was Brad Pitt unavailable?

[bleever]

111. Well see, the problem is they made the model the

"perfect Aryan youth", neglecting to consider what they youth look like when they're older and stuffed with expensive food.

There's a great metaphor here about how they're geese, fatted up to make pate, like the critters who've surrendered their livers to be kept by the Corpocracy, but I can't quite make it out.

:shrug:

[ralps]

24. Of course the Whistle-blower story comments are along party lines

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Olney Blue]

28. And as usual, the repugs are WRONG...

(and the Dems are right :) )

[bleever]

30. Happy New Year, KOEBers!

Nice meaty news to sink our teeth in. Mmmm...constitutional crisis.

:)

[Patsy Stone]

36. I do so enjoy impeachments in the fall.

:hi:

And, may I make this joke now about the kid from Ft. Lauderdale who went to Iraq? "Farris Hassan's Day Off?"

ed: sp.

[SharonRB]

38. Good one, Pats

:rofl:

[SharonRB]

41. I would enjoy this impeachment no matter what season

it occurs in. I'd prefer the spring, though, as it comes sooner than the fall. Of course, we'll never see it until next winter after the new congress is sworn in.

[Patsy Stone]

47. We could all wear simple

black if it was winter. That sounds nice. Any season would do, but I figure it's true it's not going to happen until the midterms.

Ah, and KO picked up on the Ferris Bueller reference. Are you reading this right now, KO? :loveya:

[bleever]

75. He knows sensational material when he sees it.

:applause:

[SharonRB]

45. Well, we know you said it first

[bettyellen]

37. and we're going to pin in on congress, or that shift manager....

damend crises causers, can't they see the shrubs head already hurts!

[SharonRB]

35. And of course this kid who went to Iraq is from Florida

No offense, Pats, it's no reflection on you.

[Olney Blue]

40. I don't know what to make of this new Connie and Mauri show...

it looks AWFUL.

[Patsy Stone]

49. A nightmare walking

that's what! Run in the other direction. :hi:, Olney.

[Kolesar]

52. Connie Chung is a new car

I remember when the network rolled her out in a previous decade. They hyped the heck out of her like she was the most brilliant, dazzling newswoman. Cynical me was not impressed. The more hype, the worse the product, I always said.

Did Keith just say "Half naked Moe-rons"?

[SharonRB]

56. He did -- I cracked up

[Patsy Stone]

61. Yep, he did!

Is there really no other possible air time filler? I'll just keep on with the two days of MSNBC Investigates, thanks. Oy! :eyes:

I used to live in DC. When he returned to the station he'd left as anchor (not a major network) the campaign heralded him like the messiah. Not having seen him before, all I can say is I wasn't bowled over by his return.

[WolverineDG]

43. and the new year gets started off

on a stripey note. :crazy:

wow, just how bad was that spying program if administration hacks refused to sign off on it? and of course, the requisite footage of shrubbie lying his ass off at bamc & acting like a very bad door-to-door salesman...too bad for him that we all know now they weren't spying on incoming international calls, but domestic calls as well. :grr:

oh yeah, happy new year, everyone!! :party:

dg

[SharonRB]

46. Happy New Year, DG

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

48. Happy New Year!

Lovin' striped Keith.

Also loving his story about cutting class to go to an opening season Yankees game...in SHEA STADIUM? Okay...whatever!

[WolverineDG]

98. individually

those stripes aren't bad (the suit is, after all, the boss hijack suit), but put them all together & all those stripes make me dizzy. :crazy:

dg

[Patsy Stone]

50. Happy 2006, Wolvie!

It's a great news night fo' sho!

[Olney Blue]

53. Hi Wolverine,

Yes, that footage of the shrub was highly disturbing. There was alot of discussion on DU today about
the scratch on his forehead and his joking at the military hospital about his scratch.

And he keeps smirking away......

[WolverineDG]

93. yeah, his "battle" with a cedar tree

is right up there with the troops who risk getting their heads blown off every day in the war he lied us into.... :grr:

dg

[bettyellen]

58. happy new year, dg!

[bettyellen]

54. SHOUT OUT about NECKTIES ! bwaaaahhh, he wants another one.

i can tell. :rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

57. I know!

I just posted a "tie snark" shout out! :rofl:

[bettyellen]

60. let's not get started comparing the knots we know..... LOL.

because i've been ummmm. sailing a few times myself...
yeah, that's the ticket!

[WolverineDG]

94. i know the difference between the square knot &

the granny hitch, but that's about the extent of my knot repetoire. :(

dg

[Berry Cool]

67. When he mentioned tie knots

I thought "Oh boy, he's just BEGGIN' for it..."

(I hope that doesn't count as thinking he's sending coded messages)

[Patsy Stone]

70. So not coded

Except to us. :)

[bettyellen]

108. can you blame him? we make him feel like the beatles, i'm sure.

now he's going to mention the beatles, LOL. and florida.
hi keef!
:hi:

[SharonRB]

59. What a maroon

:rofl:

[Kolesar]

62. With that Bugs Bunny Bronx accent and attitude

Well, Keith did say he was from Tarrytown.

[Berry Cool]

65. But didn't ya just love Keith's "Bahstahn" accent?

"It was wicked cold up theah at the hahbah!"

[Berry Cool]

63. Oh boy, Keith makes fun of a guy by implying he's not dating anyone

again...which means only one thing: either the pot is yet again calling the kettle black, or KO spent New Year's Eve with Dana Jacobson and a bottle of this:



(Those who listened to the Friday DP show will know what I mean)

[Olney Blue]

68. Please do tell! Why SF vanilla syrup?!!!!!!!!

[Berry Cool]

77. OK, here's the story

Dana spent the whole show (beginning before KO was even on) complaining because she'd gone to Starbucks to get a low-fat vanilla coffee just before the show and they forgot to put the VANILLA in it. This put her in a foul mood for the show and she didn't even want to drink the coffee. Later on when KO came in, she explained this to him. He told her that maybe from now on she should just carry her own vanilla syrup with her.

Dana also made sure to mention at some point during the show that she was also cranky because she didn't have any New Year's plans. Er. Cough cough. Hint hint.

[Olney Blue]

82. Are they dating, or is she flirting with him?

Curious minds need to know......

:shrug:

[Berry Cool]

104. I truly know nothing about Keith's dating life.

I'm just making jokes because it seems as if they get along really, really well on the air.

Anyway, I couldn't help but tease because this is yet another incident in which Keith implied that some guy or other is such a nerd that he has no dates. He does the same with the Star Wars fans. Yet KO insists his own life consists of surfing the Internets and going on the air. So...should people in glass houses throw stones (or paper wads)?

[WolverineDG]

102. oh what a tragedy!

i think she & my cousin need to have a pity party...cuz still isn't over the fact that starbucks in europe don't have sugar-free vanilla syrup.... :eyes:

dg

[Patsy Stone]

71. Oh, Sir Tom Jones

I love you so. I feel another Keith rendition of What's New Pussycat coming on.

[Berry Cool]

80. I sure hope so.

Darn, he didn't sing it!

Keith, are you envious of Tom Jones's panty take?

I missed Dick Clark on New Year's Eve. He wasn't on for long. Now I can see why.

[Patsy Stone]

81. Alright. Now I'm sure you're reading this, Keith.

I know EXACTLY where and to whom I fling my panties. You'll have to get in line. :)

[Berry Cool]

106. And YOU'LL have to get in line to fling the panties!

Me, Keith! Me me me! I don't even NEED vanilla in my coffee...:evilgrin:

[ralps]

72. LOL * was injured in combat with a cedar

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :rofl: :rofl:

[Olney Blue]

74. Top sound bite- Shrub complaining about his head "wound"

He has the sensitivity of ...well, a shrub.

[Kolesar]

87. Did he visit any triple amputees?

Do y'all know the origin of the term "basket case"? During the "Great War", physicians were skilled enough to do four amputations and keep the wounded soldier alive. Sorry for the ghastly imagery folks.

[Olney Blue]

91. If I were a parent with my kid in a military hospital and

shrub walked in, I don't think I could stop screaming.

[WolverineDG]

105. i'm wondering why

that comment, made in a military hospital after that draft-dodger visited wounded service men & women didn't make him the worst person in the world tonight.

dg

[Olney Blue]

110. The corporatists at MSNBC would probably not allow it.

In addition, the category is "worst in the world" and shrub qualifies for "worst in the universe"

[Olney Blue]

78. Dick Clark is a brave guy. I would not have the courage.

[Berry Cool]

85. One thing's for sure. Dick's got way more courage than the shrub

who wants us all to bow down and worship him because he got a boo-boo!

[Kolesar]

84. Donald Trump for NY Gov

Do it Donald, I would especially enjoy seeing Elliot Spitzer clean your clock.

[Berry Cool]

90. Hasn't New York got anyone any better?

And poor Keith. MSNBC wiped his computer profile?

And what happened to the paper pitch tonight? The lens didn't smash!

Someone up there doesn't like Keith! It must be amateur day at MSNBC.

[ralps]

86. Gross- Coffee Luac!! $175 for sh** covered Coffee!! no way would I get

that coffee. :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :puke:

[Berry Cool]

99. I am surprised Keith never heard of that coffee before.

I remember hearing about it ages ago. And thinking "Who would be dumb enough to pay good money for that?"

Then again, you probably don't want to think too hard about how bees make honey. (No, they don't crap it out, but it's yet another case of something you eat having been, ah, processed through another creature's body first.)

[Patsy Stone]

88. LOL! KO's wallpaper was the Gold Rust-o-leum guy!

I love the Smoking Gun. Nice touch, the mugshot list of 2005.

:loveya: KO.

[Berry Cool]

95. I think the comment on "wallpaper" was a shout-out to me...

Keith knows my dirty secret...he knows whose picture is on MY wallpaper...Oh, the pain, the shame! :blush:

[Patsy Stone]

89. "KO: Or he's Jeff Gannon!"

Like a Bruce Weber, it jumps right off the page. :rofl:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1229051mugs13.html

ed: link/sp.

[Berry Cool]

96. That pic is a classic.

Hey, buddy, this is a mug shot, not a gay porn mag photo spread!

[Patsy Stone]

101. All it's missing is a phone number!

OMG! Dude!?!

[Patsy Stone]

92. VIDEO (liveoaktx) -- Whistleblowers and the law

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x36497

[Greylyn58]

97. Oh WOW!!!

I was watching my favorite Monday night show--Surface. Tonight was the first new show since it went into reruns) and Keith was on it playing himself. I just about choked.

If you've never seen it, it's about some people who discover a new species in the ocean and their attempts to let the rest of the world know about it. They finally got some tape footage and it was played as the #1 story on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. I was just laughing my butt off.

I wish I had taped it now. Guess I'll have to watch for the rerun and tape it.

[SharonRB]

100. LOL

That's a hoot, Grey. I keep waiting for some movie or TV show to show KO instead of Tweety or some CNN talking head in the background.

[Patsy Stone]

103. That's very funny, Greylyn.

And unexpected Keith is always a treat. :hi:

[Berry Cool]

107. Where is this show on?

Please let us know when the rerun comes on!!

I'm surprised the usually good at self-promoting Keith didn't give us a "Be there, aloha" about this one. Is it because it competes in the time slot? Sheesh, Tweety gives himself a huge plug whenever he's on "The West Wing" or he even gets parodized on SNL!

[Greylyn58]

109. It comes on Monday nights at 8:00pm

on NBC. I've been watching it since the beginning and I love the show. It's been on hiatus since around Thanksgiving I think and tonight was the first new show in weeks.

Keith's appearance in the last 15 minutes of the show was definitely a good thing. It was truly funny.