Countdown: Keith's WTF? - Keith to Rush Limbaugh: FU!

[Hissyspit]

Run time: 06:42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hzgj6JNVns   Posted on YouTube: May 21, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 21, 2009 By DU Member: Hissyspit Views on DU: 9825

 
MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - May 20, 2009: Rush Limbaugh Wants MSNBC To Leave Him Alone :-(

Rush challenges MSNBC to not mention him in a story for thirty days.

KEITH: "You're in charge of this? You're not in charge of this. You put your bile out on into the public airwaves for three hours a day and you get to decide how people react to it? The hell you do. There are rules about how we can or cannot react to the peril to this nation that you've become? There are no rules. You've built this little world. Either man up and live through the bad press or get out."

[babylonsister]

1. Olbermann continues to impress. Limbaugh never did. Rec'd. nt

[slay]

5. I think it has something to do with facts - which Keith uses to back up his statements while Rush

just stirs the cauldron of hate - effectively just being a commentator who doesn't have to use facts - he relys on stirring up emotion, and hateful emotion at that. (Who does Rush hate this week - black people, latinos, gay people, muslims, people who work at msnbc?)

Or in other words - Rush is a poopie-head! :P



*on edit - woops left off a question mark and it read weird

[earcandle]

11. The hate stuff ironically got validation by the courts.

[lebkuchen]

30. like the university law professors Keith/Rachel have on their shows

that you never see on Faux.

[slay]

40. Exactly

:hi:

[deacon]

61. rush and fox news are so over the top they're fast becoming a laughingstock.

I think it's great. Limbaugh and Fox are imploding daily.

[L. Coyote]

51. It must have been too much fun to write that choice lamblast.

[Berry Cool]

2. Off to the Greatest Page with thee. K&R

[Faygo Kid]

3. Go get him, Keith. Rush is one of the worst and most harmful Americans who ever lived.

Rush Limbaugh is a coward and a bully.

[zbdent]

17. "Rush Limbaugh is a coward and a bully." - damn right!

"I can't go to Vietnam! I got a hemorrhoid!"

after there's no draft ...

"You're a coward if you opposed being in Vietnam! Why do you hate America???"

[Wednesdays]

4. K&R

:kick:

[Kind of Blue]

6. I seriously doubted all the segment teases

would live up to the hype. It was brilliant. Just superb! The segment with that Beck guy getting trashed by the View women was also outstanding. What on earth did he expect?

[burning rain]

8. LOL, your shit is weak when the "Viewers" can steamroll you....

and Beck sure is that.

[roguevalley]

47. I love the WTF!?! segments. GO, KEITH!

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

7. OMG this thing gets better and better as it goes!

Keith has outdone himself this time.

[Patchuli]

9. K&R!!!!

:applause:

[LatteLibertine]

10. Squeal Boss Limbaugh! Squeal!

Go go KO! :)

I hope he keeps putting the screws to Rush.

[BobTheSubgenius]

12. KO's delivery is getting better, I think.

He still says all the right things, but I find him funnier now. The final 3 syllables were like a David Gilmour solo...perfect, with no unnecessary notes.

[FVZA_Colonel]

13. The "Battle Hymn of the Republic" just shot it into the stratosphere.

That was one of my favorite pieces in a long time.

[lbrtbell]

15. You can say that again!

I knew it'd be funny...I knew he'd castrate Limpballs...but Keith left that fat f*ck sniveling and whining in a pool of his own Oxycontin-laced blood! :rofl:

[Mythsaje]

14. Now that was a serious verbal pummeling...

Great job, Keith!

[mwb970]

16. Watching fat multi-millionaires whine and whine makes me sick.

Limbaugh is spectacularly tiresome. What a jerk.

[indimuse]

18. knr!

I wonder what Rush's ratings would be, if he didn't give/air half his radio shows away for FREE...!

[Hubert Flottz]

19. Rush Lameballs is not natural...Only one thing in nature is...

even close...Explosive Diarrhea.

[geckosfeet]

20. Bwaah haawww hawww!. One of the best spots I have seen Keith do.

I only see his utube clips since I refuse to pay the cable companies, but this was a great one. Does Hulu carry his show?

Thanks for posting.

[localroger]

57. countdown.msnbc.com /nt

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

66. yes, this one is a classic to be enjoyed

in the future as well

[yy4me]

21. I've tried to watch this on DU, on You-Tube and directly on KO's

site and all I get is garble. Cannot understand a word. Is this odd for all three sources to be non-watchable? Strange. Nothing else is like this. Someone elsewhere playing with the knobs?

[Name removed]

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[Lancer]

23. Rush is Br'er Rabbit.

"Oh lawsy, oh lawsy, don't throw me in the briar patch," he says, when that's exactly what he wants. Rush wants MSNBC to mention his name and roll those clips from his spooky little studio camera every hour of the broadcast day. If he could find a way to insert ads for his radio show during the mind-numbing series of "Lockup" and "Predator" reruns that fills 90% of MSNBC's weekend schedule, he'd do it.

[happygoluckytoyou]

24. SHUT UP RUSH...... THERE IS NO CRYING IN HARDBALL you nutless twit!!!

[peacetalksforall]

25. I don't get to watch him much, but I'm glad I caught this one. It was brilliant.

Especially the last line, the music, the video of Rush bouncing (two balls in sight with a stand up collar).

I hope people will post the outcome.

[PinkyisBlue]

26. Brilliant, bravissimo!

I love it when Rush says, "It's clear that MSNBC intends to improve its ratings on my back."

Keith responds, "This is when, if I were you, I would respond 'But there's so much room back there.' But I won't go there."

Excellent piece by Keith. He's getting better every day.

[LatteLibertine]

27. One can only hope KO

does a mock up Subway commercial with deferring Dick.

Five... five...

[Gamey]

28. "You suck!" That was great!

[jhrobbins]

29. Given the nature of conservatives versus the nature of liberals, I'm betting that if

we had such an outrageous liberal pundit that attacked conservatives as mercilessly and without cause as Rush has dome for over two decades, I wonder if that pundit would have survived? They killed Alan Berg simply because he said things they didn't like. I worry for liberal hosts for just this reason. We liberals are just as Keith suggested - willing to give an extra inch - the conservative guys never do that.

Here's the difference - I know a lot of liberals wish Rush was 'gone' (see, I can't even say the word). THat's as far as it goes wishing - the conservatives however, take their wishes and make them come true.

[depakid]

31. You may recall that one sorry freeper already tried that- LOL

http://www.olbermannwatch.com/archives/2008/02/no_jail_time_fo.php

[Chichiri]

32. Transcript of the video

KO:
Finally tonight, in the span of 24 hours, two of the titans of knee-jerk, right wing, brains-free, racist, xenophobic, delusional, greedy, unfeeling, inept, indifferent, self-inflating, and unconscienably profitable voices of the lunatic right wing have self-destructed.

Our number 1 story tonight: Boss Limbaugh . . . WTF?

Glenn Beck: pecked to death, carcass consumed, nothing left but the veneers of his teeth, and swallowed whole in six minutes by the hosts of "The View" -- we showed that to you earlier. But even more Titanic than that, Rush Limbaugh's startling admission that he cannot take it anymore. That this network's coverage of him has not only gotten to him, but gotten to him to a point perhaps never reached before by any other megalomaniac.

He's suddenly gone all Greta Garbo on us. He vants to be left alone!

He has . . . surrendered!

He cannot say it that way, of course -- were he to, the entire edifice that is Rush Limbaugh would come crashing down, and then we'd have to get one of those rescue squads from the ski resorts that go in and look for survivors.

No no, suddenly the impact of being called out day after day, hour after hour, as a faux populist, press release regurgitating lackey of repressive and regressive political flunkies has finally hit bone (finally -- it took a while) in some Rush Limbaugh who told me in person, years ago, that his dream of dreams was to be on television, to be on ESPN, perhaps to sit next to me on Sports Center. An utter television failure who somehow yearns to undo that permanent label, Rush Limbaugh does not want to be on TV anymore!


(Note: I don't have the stomach to type Rush verbatim, but this is a decent paraphrase, I think.)

rush:
blah blah blah msnbc liberalism isn't selling because they cannot go any time without showing or talking about me blah blah blah challenge you to run your little network for 30 days without doing a single story on me blah blah blah ratings blah blah blah


KO:
*long pause*

. . . F you!

You're in charge of this? You're not in charge of this! You put your bile out on the airwaves for three hours a day, and you get to decide how people react to it? The hell you do!

There are rules to how we can and cannot react to the peril to this nation you've successfully strived to become? There are no rules! You built this little world! Either man up and get through the bad press, or get out!


rush:
blah blah blah msnbc can't get numbers without me blah blah blah


KO:
To the degree that the numbers we are getting have anything to do with Rush Limbaugh, it's like the numbers we got after Hurricane Katrina. There was a blight upon the land, it was a huge campaign to BS the American public that the problems were actually the solutions. We told the truth about it, and people watched.

Rush, you are the radio equivalent of "Heckuva job, Brownie" and the Bush flyover, and the refugees in the Superdome. You are a Human Federal Disaster Area.


rush:
blah blah blah building ratings on my back blah blah blah


KO:
This is where he would say, if somebody else, "But there's so much room back there!"

Instead, I will go here: This man, this publicity addict, this fame junkie, this victim of the unquenchable thirst for attention, all of a sudden he's afraid of being criticized by a television network which he believes has no viewers, and no reach, and no impact.


rush:
blah blah blah stand on your own two feet stand on what you believe blah blah blah


KO:
Rush, this is, in part, what we believe. This isn't a bid for ratings -- we believe you suck!

We believe you have contributed to the coarsening and deadening of the political dialogue of this nation -- and I'm saying that as a guy who just said "F you."

We believe your fixation on Bill Clinton's sex life lessened the chances that everybody in this country could have begun a serious discussion on terrorism before terrorism hit.

We believe that you use chiquanery, trickery, and outright lies to influence gullible people. whose entire understanding of complex issues vital to their own happiness and survival, is then reduced to your catchphrases -- and they don't even understand the catchphrases!

We believe that the day you stop doing your show, even if you're replaced by one of those buffoons who fill in for you, the collective intelligence of this nation will jump by at least one IQ point, simply because you shut up.

We believe that as you boast that you are listened to by 14 million Americans a week, you cannot see the forest for the ratings trees. All the rest of us, a crushing majority of the other 292 million Americans, we divide into three groups: those who are hating you, those who are laughing at you, and those who will go blissfully through their lives not having any clue who the hell you are! (Or were.)


rush:
blah blah blah 30 days with nothing no video on me blah blah blah


KO:
No video, you say? You mention the CPAC video where you forgot the first rule that guys like you and me, the hefty of this world are supposed to remember? Never undulate?

(video of rush jumping up and down, undulating)

You don't like us showing that. I can understand that. Well, you got it. How's this?

(same video, spread over many, many split screens)

You know, if you look at this long enough, it's got a strange soothing effect. It's kind of a lava lamp of hate speech and condescension, and it's a subconscious reminder to everybody to check the support columns under your front porch. (Don't do it today.)

The video -- let's just make that permanent, all right? Dear viewer, this is our new logo.

(video plays in little box on bottom left of screen, and stays there for rest of broadcast)

So, Mr. Limbaugh, your challenge. With all this, yet am I still up for negotiations -- one of the problems with having a liberal heart, when the wounded animal, no matter how venomous, no matter how much at fault, begs to be left alone, I still listen.

I will go 30 days on this program without referencing what has been done, or said, or boasted about by Rush Limbaugh, provided YOU go 30 days on YOUR program without mentioning what has been done, or said, or boasted about by . . . Rush Limbaugh.

Hannity would last longer on the waterboard.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

33. LEAVE RUSH LIMBAUGH ALONE!!! SOB!!!

[drmeow]

44. LOL!!!!!!

[sybylla]

34. Best WTF? ever

Granted, he's only been doing that segment a week or two, but I can't imagine how he can top this one.

[Catherine Vincent]

35. LOL!

I just love the bouncing Limbaugh in the corner! :)

[cascadiance]

36. What would Limpbaugh's ratings had been had he not talked about Clinton (or now Obama) for 30 days?!

He realizes that his total schtick (and ratings) profited from his hate directed at Clinton then, and now Obama.

He's just projecting his own weaknesses on MSNBC when they turn the tables on him! He doesn't understand that people watching MSNBC (and other shows like Democracy Now), might not have as big a ratings (because we do more than just tune into hate media all day), and that we in fact watch them not just because they direct hate speech at Rush or other Republicans, but because they talk about the real critical issues that the rest of the media seem to be ignoring these days and aren't being dealt with that affect us all in such critical ways now!

GO AWAY Limbaugh! Then we can really tune in and get more of a focus on these issues not cluttered by the "countering" of your BS on these other shows! And if enough wingnut hate talkers went off the air, perhaps, as KO notes, the right might gain some intelligence and start looking at issues more than just getting their ire up against scapegoats for the pain they're feeling, but which they've played a part in making happen through their blind support of the GOP and the other haters...

[valerief]

37. ROFL! KO was a hoot!

:rofl:

[Myrina]

38. Very rarely do I 'Whoot Whoot' the tv and applaud ...

... but Keith's WTF moment was one of those times. :applause:

Although, I do get nauseous every time they show the "Undulating Limbaugh" footage.
Gawd that man's disgusting. :puke:

[The Wizard]

39. Rash looked a little

unnerved and may be breaking down. Perhaps he didn't have his fix yet. It could be the mulatto in the White House. We may yet witness Rash Limbaugh eating the barrel of a 9mm on the air. Now there's a ratings grabber.

[Joey Liberal]

41. Keith is GREAT! nt

[RoccoR5955]

42. K & R... This is simply priceless! n/t

[yogitad]

43. This is classic Limbaugh.....

He's pulled this old one out of his *** so many times I'm
amazed it got more than a yawn......When he wants to get a
rise out of his troops he'll threaten to quit. Then the dittos
go into action.........oh god Rush you can't do this to
us......oh please don't quit Rush, we're nothing without
you...blah, blah,blah. It's his way of getting attention. So
yeah, love Keith, love what he said, but if you really want to
irritate Rush - ignore him, same as any bully.

[drmeow]

45. "There was a blight on the land"

What a fabulous way to describe Rush. That and, "You are a human Federal Disaster Area."

[Faygo Kid]

46. Looks like pipsqueak O'Reilly is off the radar; Keith is going after the worst of the worst.

I remember having coffee with friends in freaking 1994 and talking about the harm Rush Limbaugh has done to this nation.

That was 15 years ago! I listened to about five minutes of him today, and it was enough to hear him call Obama's parents "communists" who abandoned him.

Rush is all about resentment against the popular guys, and that's all. First Bill Clinton, now Barack Obama. Rush and his lousy three weeks of college can't hold a candle to either, and he knows it.

[jeff30997]

48. Mr Olbermann...

You almost gave me an orgasm.:yourock:

I'm beginning to think that my sig line is getting

more relevant each day.

[Seldona]

49. K&R nt

[Deep13]

50. I've been offering a frosty mug of go-fuck-yourself to Limbaugh for years.

He hasn't accepted my offer.

[L. Coyote]

52. Run time: 06:42. Dang, I can only replay this 200 times a day!

:rofl: Rush, You Suck! :rofl:

[Syntheto]

53. What a crock of shit...

...I despise Limbaugh and Olbermann. They've both made a lot of money playing the angry Conservative/Liberal hero. Bullshit. Limbaugh says MSNBC keeps mentioning him because they don't have anything else to talk about, and he dared them to go x amount of time without mentioning him. Well, we see how that went. Here's a fucking clue: if you don't like what somebody is saying, turn the freaking channel! You're bound to find some loudmouth telling you what you want to hear. Olbermann just raised Limbaugh's ratings with that shit, supposedly calling him out and to man up. What, this fuckhead is now the self-appointed liberal champion? He should have stuck to sportscasting, just like Limbaugh. This silly shit is supposed to be 'journalism', which has lost all meaning, if it ever had any. Does anybody think that by tuning into Rush Limbaugh they're suddenly going to be persuaded to do a 180 and 'see the light'? What, just by listening to Keith Olbermann play some sort of adolescent locker room chest thumping, everyone is going to suddenly be 'kinder and gentler'? After watching that smart-ass punk smirk his way through his spiel? This is what we call 'democracy': choosing which asshole to listen to. Jesus Christ in a hand-cart. We need about three more well-funded political parties in this country, instead of the two that take turns now.

[gbate]

67. Nope, don't agree.

Olbermann is in NO WAY as "influential" as Limbaugh.

Frankly, I don't care who calls out that idiot Limbaugh. It's about time.

[obxhead]

ahhhh someone gets it!

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well said.

[1955doubledie]

54. Thanks for the post!

Always loved Keith!

BTW, hello to all here! Glad to be part of positive change! :hi:

[orbitalman]

55. Couldn't have said it BETTER myself !! n/t

[milord]

56. Limbaugh, Beck, and Shit

i have watched or listened to Rush Limbaugh for a total of perhaps ten minuteas, divided betseen several broadcasts. The reason for this is my very limited tolerance for assholes. I believe the man has never said anything of value. This being so, why watch him? The same goes for Glenn Beck.Two sacks of shit.

[ClearPresentDanger]

58. you get em Keith

hee

[ObamaKerryDem]

59. Best WTF? Segment So Far! Limbaugh got PWNED! :D k&r!

:rofl:

[deacon]

60. Absolutely hilarious! WTG KO! LOL! n/t

[cooolandrew]

62. That was awesome, I believe 1

[Up2Late]

63. LOL! Classic

MSNBC should take that challenge, on the condition that he take a month off, OFF THE AIR!:rofl:

[Autonomy]

64. LMAO Keith

Both men crack me up, but in totally different ways for totally different reasons.

[sce56]

65. Kick & 70th Rec

Go Go Go Olbermann Rah! Rah!

Here is a peek at the guy that runs the Republican party!

In mid-2004 Rush and his third wife, Marta Limbaugh, filed for divorce. A British source has recently learned that Marta agreed to avoid disclosing Rush's closeted homosexuality, or penchant for child pornography, in exchange for a hefty divorce settlement.

I found this on the net about Rush "Oxycontin" Lamebrain, this is not to denigrate Gay people just Hypocrites and possible Pedophiles Like Rush!

Here, in his "Jeff Christie" phase, Rush Limbaugh worked under an assumed identity, as do
many self-loathing, closeted Pedophiles. After being arrested for soliciting a gay man in
Pittsburgh, Limbaugh was fired from KQV radio, according to numerous sources.

[checks-n-balances]

70. He should've been locked up for his wardrobe alone

Take a close look at what the big guy is wearing! :puke::puke::puke:

[spindrifter]

68. Onward to 100!!

[EnoughOfThis]

69. Nice......if it was true.

Of course.....Limbaugh was joking, if you heard the audio. Keith should ignore knuckleheads like Limbaugh and focus on real issues. Limbaugh doesn't have the support to concern anyone. No need to fudge this. Ignore him and focus on people that might actually influence people.