at was quick. After joining PR/lobbying firm Public Strategies in April, longtime Newsweek White House correspondent and MSNBC analyst Richard Wolffe is leaving the firm to write another book about President Barack Obama. MSNBC was criticized this past August for continuing to book Wolffe as an analyst and not disclosing that he worked for a PR firm. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann said Wolffe would no longer appear on his show, although he returned several months later.
into one of them while walking over to Bartle Hall. “Is this the Convention Center ” asked a woman on the street as she pointed to the back of Municipal Auditorium. Kathy M. an eight-year resident of the area was heading to the free clinic for a dental appointment. Dentistry is a new addition to these mass free clinics which began in September in a partnership with the “Dr. Oz” show and have continued in Houston Little Rock and New Orleans. The latter two clinics and Kansas City s were funded in large part by 25 000 individual donations from “Countdown” viewers after MSNBC producer Rich Stockwell was so moved by Mehmet Oz s appearance on the show that he urged Olbermann to throw his efforts behind more clinics.
ey don’t give me a vote. I was once gratified to read somebody argue that they should, but if I remember correctly this was written by somebody else who also didn’t get a vote, but probably should.
2. Whose behavior merited celebration? Hmmmm. I’m madly in love with Keith Olbermann. He rocks in a lot of what he says.
the perfect setting for a Sorkin series–he can do his backstage dealio that he did so well in Sports Night and Studio 60, but he can also easily and appropriately call attention to social issues, which was simple on The West Wing and not so simple on the others. In its later episodes, Studio 60 came across as unnecessarily political, completely unfunny, and downright annoying. And who for the cast? I wonder if Greg Kinnear couldn’t be convinced to do this series–he could have that news-anchory look, right? I can already imagine this show having a really rich group of characters. Though I assume it will focus on one program’s entire staff, from the on-air talent to the backstage worker bees, there’s huge potential here for art-imitating-life. Imagine takeoffs of Rachel Maddow, Nancy Grace, Anderson Cooper, or Glenn Beck. This could be a good fit for Sorkin’s writing, one we haven’t really seen since he left The West Wing in 2003. Color me excited.
a result of the “Olbermann bump,” the book now ranks among the top 50 titles on Amazon.com’s list of “autobiographies of the rich and famous.” (Though Nellie is quick to note he was never rich, since he played the game in the B.C. era of baseball—“Before Cash!”)
Perhaps the most enjoyable part about watching Mr. Roboto, or, um, Dungy, is how Patrick and Olbermann have to nod and smile as the coach babbles, or, um, speaks. While the two are notorious for mocking each other, a respect for Dungy apparently prevents them from laying into this wordsmith. Their inability to say what they want is another of the show’s guilty pleasures
ith Olbermann (MSNBC news show host) Organized free health clinics across the country to draw attention to the millions of people without health coverage. Note: at last count, Olbermann’s viewers sponsored those free clinics to the tune of $1.7 million. Olbermann himself donated $25,000 to kick off the fund raiser. Interestingly, the bulk of the people who used the services at the first of the free clinics (more are scheduled) were not poor deadbeats who wanted something - anything - for free. They tended to be people with jobs (some with multiple jobs), but could not afford medical insurance or otherwise get needed medical care. Note in the above section the term “organized.” FOX creates events and then report on them as if the events were truly grass-roots efforts. Has journalisti
Also? I am mildly obsessed with turning my husband into Keith Olbermann. Glasses came in the mail yesterday, and by early December his hair should be long enough to comb it to the side. Unfortunately, he still has blonde hair, but that’s okay, because I can just pretend that he is what I imagine to be a decent representation of what Keith looked like before he turned grey. Posted at 02:16 PM in Blather | Permalink
f us on the left have been a little too passive about this whole thing. We let the teabaggers and the conspiracy theorists and the whole other motley crew of August fools push us around and scream us into silence. We just sat around, saying that we supported reform, but were too lazy (too busy, we’d excuse ourselves) to get off our asses for five minutes and call our representatives to tell them to stop shrilling about fake death panels and to something about the real problem. We moaned and groaned that the Public Option kept getting watered down and that Joe Liebermann has once again reverted to his attention-whore self and isn’t it nice what Keith Olbermann is doing sponsoring free health clinics, and yet we did nothing.
