Should a journalist publicly attack another journalist?

[Redstone]

In the case that one of them is a real journalist, like Keith Olbermann, and the other is a knuckleheaded, lying son of a sack of shit, bloated buffoon like O'Lielly, the answer is yeah, sure. Absolutely.

I just watch the clip at crooksandliars. I'm impressed. Where is the Righteous Anger from the rest of the press? Billyboy was goddamn lucky he didn't wander into the studio while Olbermann was delivering his jeremiad; it's clear that if he had, Keith would have throttled him on the spot.

I thought Olbermann was pretty good before I saw that clip. Now I know that he's really good. Thsi guy was wasting talent like that doing soprts reporting before? What a shame.

I usually watch about an hour of television a month. I'm going to start watching Olbermann every night, and dammit, nobody had better disturb me while I'm watching, OK? And don't call on the phone, because you'll get the answering machine.

Redstone

[NanceGreggs]

1. Redstone:

I tried to call you earlier, but I got the machine. I guess you were watching KO.

What does "FU*& O&F YOU G&D(AMN$D &$CK-$%CKIN' BI%TCH" mean, anyway?

Just wonderin' ...

[Redstone]

3. Was that alittle muffled? Sorry, I'll enunciate more clearly next time

I record the greeting.

Redstone

(Yes, your post gave me a much-needed chuckle. Thank you.)

[NanceGreggs]

5. I'm glad I gave you a chuckle ...

... because your posts always give me food for thought -- in fact, they are often a buffet of inspiration.

I hereby SWEAR never to call during KO.

[Redstone]

8. You have a great sense of humor, besides your other sterling qualities.

I like you.

And remember, I'm on East Coast time, so make allowances if you have to.

Redstone

[msongs]

2. neither one is a journalist ... they are entertainers selling their

advertisers' products.

kinda like "tweety".

Msongs
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PS - speaking of advertisers' products, I just got the firefox adblock feature to use webwide, thanks to that smarmy jose can you see ad. also got the google ads blocked, although they did not annoy me, might as well block them all.

[Redstone]

10. Bullshit. Olbermann was genuinely angry.

Redstone

[Suich]

4. I never miss his show.

There's a KO group here at DU:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=315

[sweetheart]

6. Just a load of nationalism

Pride, hubris, identity politics, "american soldiers" as if we're
talking aboout jesus christ, oh the new sacred untouchable soldier is
stolen as a corporate object, so we worship the corporate nobility
for which they fought.

World war 2 soldiers, noble indeed, great war and all that conformist
historical dead crap... whatever.

20 million russians died to put down the nazis and newsmedia lies
pretend that the american forces were most important. Iraqi civilians
are dying today, and they're more concerned with the reputations of
dead people.

Neither of them are jounralists, both are corporate shills harking
for the blood money of egotists and indignant warmongers.

[Redstone]

9. And 20 million MORE Russians died at Stalin's hand.

Yes, they fought for their Rodina, but their government slaughtered them by the millions more, both during and after the war.

And the American soldiers who fought in WWII were not corporate puppets or or any other kind of puppets. They were regular, everyday kids who bled and died for America. And don't you ever forget that. The poor bastards whose lives were thrown away in Korea and Viet Nam, same thing.

I don't think Olbermann is a corporate shill. I'll watch his show.

Redstone

[sweetheart]

11. yes, those regular kids

I haven't forgotten that, lives thrown away for the empire,
good lives, good people. It doesnt' make it less of an empire,
nor any of it today totally divisive and corporate to shill
about 50 years ago dead people's honour and to not report
crime that is killing people today.

It is gross dereliection of journalism to spend the time on
50 years old revisionism, or rather, selling group identification
and the nobility of our grandfathers as if it is our own by
defending their graves... hogwash. They were noble and died then.
We are lied to and decieved, sending kids to committ war crimes
while basking in 50 years old memories of a different time.

The nobility on which both journalists stand, the great american
moral pinnacle of self-congratulatory backslapping, might pander
to the TV masses, but its hardly not corporate.

Your freedom to watch them is never in question.

peace,

[bridgit]

7. when they support via sins of omission the crimes of nazi's ala bill...

o'reilly, or indeed the flat-out lies thereof; my sense is that it is required, heard the olberman segment and he was stunningly poignant = YES! :patriot: