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UPDATED: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 05:26
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:15 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


You knew he would be!
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Nearly five months after signing off from MSNBC, left-wing news personality Keith Olbermann returned to the airwaves Monday with the relaunch of his signature "Countdown" show on Current TV.

While known for generally opposing Republicans and supporting Democrats, Olbermann signaled that both parties would be targets in his "Special Comment," a segment that was also part of his previous show.

"The nation is losing its independence through the malfeasance of one party and the timidity of the other," he said, according to the show's blog.

Still, the early take from the inaugural show suggested it would lean left, as evidenced by one segment labeled "Inside the Republican Cult."

Guests included liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, Daily Kos blogger Markos Moulitsas and John Dean, a former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon and now a conservative critic. Olbermann said he will be a frequent contributor to the show.

He signed a deal weeks later with Current Media, a company founded in 2005 by former Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt. Besides hosting and producing his new prime time nightly news and commentary show, Olbermann is also Current Media's chief news officer and has an equity stake in the company.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/20/olbermann.show/index.html?hpt
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"While known for generally opposing Republicans and supporting Democrats, Olbermann signaled that both parties would be targets" -- Give me a BREAK! "Generally opposing Republicans and supporting Democrats"?! What a joke. And going to a company founded by Al Gore, with guests like Michael Moore, Markos Moulitasas and John Dean, SURE "both parties" will be lampooned.

Well, at least Current TV, as far as I can tell, isn't well known and probably doesn't draw much of an audience. That should keep him in obscurity for at least a while!

Poor Whozit...or poor US, if this brings him back!

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:00 AM

DREAMTROVE


Olbermann lost me when he used the same level of anger toward O'Reilly snarking him as he had used for his condemnation of torture. O'Reilly can be a dick, but Olbermann didn't just do it once, he did it straight for a month and a half. It weakened the power of his outrage at anything else.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011 5:26 AM

FREMDFIRMA



Some things, one SHOULD be angry about.
Remember what I say about how rhetoric can incite, harm or even kill.

This kinda reminds me of my idiot sister telling my niece she needs "anger management" when my niece is rightfully pissed over an actual injustice - it's bullshit, sometimes you have *cause* to be angry, and IMHO, ole Keith ain't even CLOSE to angry *enough*.

Maybe if we all got more pissed off about all this bullshit instead of cynical, jaded and depressed, there'd be an end to it.

-F

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