Lt. Governor Bill Halter held a press conference this morning to release more details on the free medical clinic that will be held at the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock on Saturday, Nov. 21. The clinic is sponsored by the National Association of Free Clinics (NAFC). Funds for the clinic were raised mostly due to the efforts of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, who solicited donations on his nightly news program “Countdown
’ll say one thing for him,” Matthau notes, late in the film. “He’s got the courage of his ignorance.” Indeed. Sometimes films that predict the future are way off (see: just about any film about future technology or civilization), but sometimes, an intelligent and clear-thinking screenwriter will hazard a guess as to where we could go in mass media, and absolutely nail it. As you watch A Face in the Crowd’s seemingly far-fetched television opinion show, “Lonesome Rhodes’s Cracker Barrel,” in which Rhodes and his buddy sit around, espousing jingoism as homespun wisdom and using that bully pulpit to push repurposed political candidates, I couldn’t help but think about how easily
Keith Olbermann is the fucking shit!!! Henry knows full well that he’s been a bit harsh on brother Olbermann recently. However, on last night’s Countdown, he unleashed some motherfucking shit on that moron, Carrie Prejean. Henry feels like he doesn’t even really need to add his own comment insofar as what the segment was about. Long story long, Carrie Prejean feels that her 1st amendment right is being violated by the “liberal media” and that her voice is being suppressed because she’s a fucking redneck bigoted homophobe. Well, fact is, brother Olbermann did a little bit of fact checking. Something this fucking twit obviously didn’t do. Here is the clip. Clearly it is an absolute non-story and really it matters not in the larger spectrum, but fuck… it’s goddamn entert
he has a rare blood cancer (like me), and he has come out publicly to help folks realize that it’s NOT a death sentence. It’s hard work but it is manageable. He also said that if you don’t have insurance or good insurance it is a lot harder and I am so glad he is saying that. Cancer should NOT cause socioeconomic stratification but there it is – it absolutely does. If I hadn’t moved to Texas and
sure Olbermann will indeed miss hamming it up with his baleful, slurping impression of (now former) CNN anchor Lou Dobbs. But hey, he’s still got a popular radio
, Keith Olbermann on MSNBC raised money for free health clinics for the uninsured, but that also includes uninsured Republicans as well. And Rachel Maddow raised money for baseball jerseys for an Iraqi baseball team (who had learned the game from American troops).
Capus and Griffin insist that Olbermann’s broadcast is like an opinion section in a newspaper, suitable to what they call MSNBC’s “cable sensibility.” Olbermann differs. He begins each “Countdown” with the Beethoven theme from NBC’s “Huntley-Brinkley Report,” and concludes with Murrow’s signature sign-off, “Good night, and good luck.” He maintains that “Countdown” is very much part of that continuum. “It is a newscast with commentary and analysis, the way most really good newscasts used to be,” he says. “Dosages of the various components vary in a greater degree than we’re used to, or maybe were even done in the heyday of this kind of thing. But if you listen to those daily Murrow newscasts in the forties on the radio, Murrow would do the news, two and a half, three minutes, take a break, and then do a two- or three-minute commentary.” It could be argued that Murrow’s work in wartime London—he would report on the Battle of Britain, and also advocate against continued American neutrality in the war—is hardly the same thing as telling the President to “shut the hell up,’’ or posing the question regarding Bush (as Olbermann did): “Pathological Presidential Liar or an Idiot-in-Chief?” But Olbermann contends that the labored pretense of neutrality in the news business is a fruitless exercise.
MSNBC, the feedback was slightly more cautious. Olbermann’s original script identified the “cold-blooded killers” as everyone at the Pentagon and in the Bush Cabinet; when a colleague noted that that would include such relative moderates as Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Olbermann modified the line. Phil Griffin, the senior vice-president in charge of MSNBC (“Phil thinks he’s my boss,” Olbermann says), raised the matter of tone. Why did Olbermann need to end his commentary by telling the President of the United States to “shut the hell up”? “Because I can’t say, ‘Shut the fuck up,’ that’s why, frankly,” Olbermann responded. The line stayed in. Phil Griffin is a compact, nearly bald man with th
Olbermann uses imagery, metaphors, hyperbole, alliteration, rhyming, rhetorical devices, rhythm and perfectly placed pauses for effect, He tears into his opponents by going for the most emotional response possible, and brings in concepts from other arguments and philosophers by referencing them to build up his case
fell in love with Keith Olbermann tonight. Well, I was in love with him before. Maybe it’s more accurate to say I fell in love with him all over again. Like Senator Ted Kennedy before him, Keith Olbermann has enough money to pay for the best health care money will buy. He doesn’t need to be concerned about what everyone else is doing for health insurance, but he is. In the most personal way, he’s very concerned and he’s
