Keith Olbermann

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Keith Olbermann, liberal commentator

Keith Olbermann is a liberal commentator and activist, [1] formerly a sportscaster on ESPN. He currently hosts Countdown, a nightly news and commentary program on MSNBC. Olbermann's show is known for liberal analysis of the issues, with conservatives rarely being invited to discuss news events. Olbermann is also a co-host of NBC's Football Night in America.


Olbermann sees conspiracies

In a broadcast after the FBI made an arrest of four terror suspects for plot to attack JFK International Airport and plant explosives to blow up major jet-fuel supply tanks and pipelines,[2] Olbermanmn charged the Bush adminstration with conspiracy. JFK handles on average over 1,000 flights daily. The plotters were assisted by an international network of Muslim extremists from the United States, Guyana, and Caribbean, including senior leadership of Jamaat Al Muslimeen (“JAM”), which was responsible for a deadly coup attempt in Trinidad in 1990. In Olbermann 's mind


the so-called plot happens to be revealed the day before the second Democratic presidential debate and, as the scandal continues to unfold over the firings of U.S. attorneys and their replacements by political hacks. The so-called plot is announced by the Bush-appointed U.S. attorney for Brooklyn, New York, and by the police chief of New York City, the father of a correspondent for Fox News Channel." Olbermann further theorized that President Bush was "fomenting yet another war...a new Cold War with Russia, possibly to obscure the unending nightmare in Iraq. [3]

Matthew Felling of CBS News noted in the same piece, "Hammering away at things that aren’t there – or barely there – is a surefire way to dilute your message."

He has also made outrageous claims of the Republican hijacking 9/11 for personal gain, probably made simply for shock value.[4]

Nazi salute controversey

In July of 2006, the Anti-Defamation League filed a complaint to MSNBC because of Olbermann's repeated use of the Nazi salute while attacking popular commentator Bill O'Reilly on his television show and in public.[5]

24 controversy

In January of 2007, Olbermann attacked the popular FOX television series 24 with rather bizarre claims.

On the January 16, 2007 edition of Olbermann's show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, he accused the widely acclaimed 24 of "fearmongering" and being "propaganda designed to keep people thinking about domestic terrorism to keep us scared," asking, "is it a program-length commercial for one political party?" Olbermann also asked the rhetorical question, "if the irrational right can claim that the news is fixed to try to alter people's minds or that networks should be boycotted for nudity or for immorality, shouldn't those same groups be saying 24 should be taken off of TV because it's naked brainwashing?"

This was in response to the January 15 broadcast of 24 in which a low-grade nuclear weapon is detonated in the Valencia community of Los Angeles by a terrorist group. Fox Commentator Cal Thomas had written an editorial in which he advised, "Watch the TV drama 24 for what could be our prophetic and imminent future, with a nuclear device exploding in major cities."

On the February 2, 2007 edition of Countdown, Olbermann gave the show the "bronze" in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment.

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References

  1. Keith Olbermann ... is notorious for anti-Bush, anti-conservative rants. [1]
  2. Four Individuals Charged in Plot to Bomb John F. Kennedy International Airport, FBI Press Release New York Field Office, June 2 2007.
  3. Olbermann Overstates?, Matthew Felling, CBS News, June 5, 2007.
  4. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26645619/ Oblermann alleges Republican "hijacking" of 9/11. Weren't the Terrorists the hijackers?
  5. Anti-Defamation League Letter to MSNBC, July 28, 2006.

See Also

Olbermann Watch