who was that prick just on Olbermann!!!!

[New Earth]

ALL I COULD SAY TO THE TV WAS STFU!!!

how the hell does he know the result isn't going to change WHEN WE DIDNT EVEN DO THE RECOUNT YET?

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. Yep, that would be a bonafide idiotic statement.

[knowbody0]

2. and don't you just wish this was a bad movie

and you could leave the theater?

[Karenca]

3. yes, that was badddddddddd nt

[rockedthevoteinMA]

6. Wall Street Journal Political (Joke) reporter

That rag is soooo right wing it's not even funny. My mother just said "Oh it would be wonderful to see him eat those words!"

[mb7588a]

4. he was a wall street journal political reporter.

[New Earth]

5. yeah he's also a load of shit

[Patsy Stone]

7. WSJ guy was least offensive from WSJ, I guess.

I've seen him before. If he's Repg, then it's the same old stuff. If he's Dem, it's the same old stuff. Actually spewed both party lines and was kind enough not to say Flip-Flop, used sailing metaphor which was nicer. Still, blah, blah, blah.

[4democracy]

8. I can't believe Keith O just said that about Bev Harris

that everyone who thinks we are just a bunch of people in tin foil hats just got ammunition with what Bev did yesterday in Fl.

[elizm]

13. KO did nothing for the Cause..

KO did nothing for the Cause on his show tonight. He pretty much dissed it from my perspective. Guess he is going to start back pedaling as well.

[noamnety]

14. I didn't understand that either.

Bev used a smart opportunity to get some media attention, since the media seems too focused on the hot breaking story!!111!! of Julia Roberts giving birth to worry their pretty little heads about stolen elections. I don't know what that has to do with tin foil.

[Cadence]

15. I couldn't believe he said that either.

It wasn't even necessarry for the report. How exactly is what Bev did giving power to the tin foil hat theory? He really pissed me off!

In a way it was like he threw it in to cover his ass or something I don't know. I couldn't see how the two were related.

[musette_sf]

20. Maybe he got the memo

from Ebersol's office...

[SueZhope]

21. I thought that was

Horrifying..he did tell the full story

[AmyCrat]

24. Hate to say it...

But someone posted about this kind of thing yesterday on the forums... the Bev's manuever might provoke that kind of reaction (in so many words). I can't say I disagreed.

I LOVE what Bev stands for, and the light she has shed on the topic, but I don't like some of her methods. I think SOMETIMES it's a bit off the mark and has the potential to lead to statements like this.

Blast me if you will :P

[mopinko]

33. do you have to bash her in EVERY thread

i would think that starting threads of your own just to bash her would be enough. but you have one of these stupid comments in every thread about bev. ferchrissake, get over it.

[rodeodance]

37. I agree, Bev did not help the cause by her actions and KO just said it

the way it is!!
Actions such as hers are a great way to alienate the locals!!
But, hey we all make mistakes

[loritooker]

9. I didn't like the way KO depicted Bev Harris

He introduced the part on Bev Harris' statements today by making reference to the tin foil hat groups.

[truehawk]

11. She has more courage in her little finger than ALL ChickenHawks

[marylanddem]

25. Yep

The gratuitous Olbermann reference didn't even make sense as a report - or am I missing something - it didn't show Bev Harris's supposedly unorthodox actions at all, just LePore. So what the hell was he talking about? Tin foil hats? Huh? Seems like Olbermann's trying to walk both sides of the street to me.

[Patsy Stone]

12. It wasn't her best moment.

That was bordering on the ridiculous. He didn't need to report it, but if he's fair and balanced, you're going to get the good with the bad. I still respect the coverage.

I think he could probably back off if he wanted to, but he lead with it because of Kerry. That's what was supposed to happen. Kerry = Headlines.

Bev, while I respect her work, is a bit too dramatic for prime-time TV.

[Ducks In A Row]

18. Bev showed they for the fools they are

they were using public money, it's a public meeting, for their "party"

olbermann should have been fair and had her on finally.

maybe Madsen's right in dismissing olbermann. this was crap reporting on keith's part.

[BrklynLiberal]

19. But she HAD to serve the papers, the supoenas!!!! n/t

[AmyCrat]

26. No, she could have let them be served in the way MOST are

By the attorney, or the court. Trying to embarrass someone or turn it into a media moment (which is didn't except against her) was not a smart move (IMO)

[loritooker]

27. but fair and balanced does not equate to tin foil

In my mind If KO was truly fair and balanced tonight he would have dissed her for being overly dramatic or her move inappropriate...but to dis her as a looney, i.e. tin foil-- and he did use those words to introduce the segment on Bev--is not fair in my mind.

Neither is it fair and balanced to have that WSJ spin doctor on saying that the only reason Kerry's in it is because he's trying to appease the "activists" and that he was pushed by JJ. As if. He's going to have to do something spectacular tomorrow night because tonight was just down the toilet.

[Patsy Stone]

28. I posted this in other thread.

Did K have to take that shot at Bev? No. Why did he bother to mention it if he was gonna dis her? Maybe to say, "Stop doing shit like that, it makes you look silly and people are watching now!

[loritooker]

31. OK, KO could have dissed her without dissing the fraud issue

There are a lot of things he could have said to disparage her actions. But tin foil? That's just going too far.

[Patsy Stone]

40. I didn't say it wasn't

I'm not sure about that shot, I'll need to watch it again at midnight and reply later.

[KoKo]

35. Bev is Too Dramatic for Prime Time TV!!!!!!! What????????

I'm just speechless at your comment except for WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT?

[Patsy Stone]

39. Stealthy and right

is much prefered then public scenes. Since she didn't know that was a party, I can't say she shouldn't have gone. If she was looking to embarrass Butterfly LaPore in public, she did it. I think she may have done it at the expense of her own efforts though.

I agree with someone who posted that Bev should go on KO and explain her progress and her actions in this situation. But this sort of scene, which I personally don't think was necessary, doesn't play well in middle-America and doesn't further the cause. We need an iron-clad case, not "Cops."

My .02.

[Turn CO Blue]

10. Dear NBC: OK, so the results may not change, but it's the PROCESS

we're trying to REFORM, it's voter confidence and honesty and integrity we're trying to RESTORE -- so, is that okay with you, you NBC dipsh*t of a political editor!?!

[loritooker]

32. Yeah!

[BrklynLiberal]

16. That is exactly what I thought!!!!

Is he some kind of psychic!!!????????

[marylanddem]

17. I think that prick was a

smug, arrogant, disgusting piece of crap trying to pass himself off as a journalist

[Ima]

22. The

whole show was a big letdown. No voice on Bev....that was odd, why show it without voice?

[scurvy_n_disastrous]

23. keith tossed them a bone tonight

He's probably gotten heat. Let's see manana. Not much real votergate news today, anyhow. But, still, it was his top story.

[E Golightly]

29. Kerry on fraud board, get ready for the ride,nt

[E Golightly]

30. Kerry on fraud board, get ready for the ride,nt

[The Flaming Red Head]

34. Fucking Wall Street Prick too used to insider trading

Of course HE KNOWS in ADVANCE.

[marylanddem]

36. Olbermann as a journalist should have challenged

those repeated bullshit pronouncements about there being no change in a recount. I kept waiting for some response from Olbermann but it didn't come. Very disappointing - but in keeping with his Bev Harris critique.

[kitp]

38. did you all miss it?

The WORST thing KO said was that a recount without a victory is useless "as Al Gore found out in 2000".

Whatever else you think about tonight's show, that statement has to be challanged. Gore didn't get a recount and KO should apologize for his error.

I knew the WSJ dude was useless as the very first words out of his mouth were the standard repub spin on this election "it won't change the outcome". I didn't expect anything from him after that and actually he only made me puke one or two times.

KO's stuff on Bev was...whatever...I don't quite get Bev's tactics. Personally, I thought it was theater and unwarranted, but that's just me. It's a personal attack and might come back to haunt us, probably not, but it doesn't really help us.

But the statement about Gore and the recount...man, we must ALL write KO and tell him that he's slipping.