Olbermann (MSNBC) talking about the Swift Boat ads

[Cush]

on now

[spanone]

1. sorry, posted same at same time. great minds......

[Cush]

2. just exposed a CBS poll

only 200 Vets were polled in their latest poll (that has Bush leading among Vets)

[xray s]

3. 200 is not a valid sample

MOE has to be huge

[lancdem]

4. 8 percent

[CatWoman]

5. I sure in fuck hope

that all the Kerry Monday Morning quarterbacks are watching this.

Lawrence O'Donnell is laying out the strategy -- in easy to follow steps.

[lancdem]

8. Can you elaborate?

what did he specifically say about Kerry's strategy?

[CatWoman]

11. Kerry had to wait until he had Bush by the balls

before he came out accusing.

Kerry is running against Bush; Kerry can't criticize/point blame at no one but Bush.

Kerry now always identifies the swifties as "Bush Supporters".

MoveOn ad provided Kerry cover -- that was the set up for Kerry to condemn the MoveOn ad, yet call on Bush to condemn the swifty ad.

Additionally, Kerry would have seemed less credible if he came out of gate naming Bush. Now Kerry has all sort of evidence via the NYTimes story, and the flyer Bush campaign was floating around in Florida.

[lancdem]

19. Thanks

I'm glad to hear it. I thought it wasn't coincidence that Kerry went on the offensive yesterday, the same day word of that Times story came out. Plus, they have that flyer.

[dennis4868]

26. Anyone who....

volunteers to go on a swift boat in vietnam is one seriously mean mother fu*ker and will not simply take this from Bush....he will fight back and put Bush's face right up his arse.....have to believe Kerry the war hero knows what he is doing!

[faithnotgreed]

10. thank you catwoman for sharing what odonnell said - i really like him

and he knows kerry quite well .....

that helps to know hes on the scene

and thanks to keith once again

[TheDonkey]

6. O'Donnell hit the nail on the head

about why Kerry waited and what the plan was, and what Bush is doing.

Politics.

[Bluebear]

7. Yup & that all roads lead to Bush with these ads

Forcing the travelling press corps to ask why Bush refused to condemn the ads. Bush's fingerprints are all over the ads.

[rumguy]

9. Malkin! Run!

Is that here on Hardball last night? God, she looks ghastly.

[dennis4868]

27. damn did you....

have to post that pic...was about to sit down and have dinner.....thanks alot! :-(

[canuckybee]

12. he just revealed Malkin lied about

him calling her an idiot !

[ellie]

13. He just called out Malkin!

Said she is a "journalist or something," and she misquoted the insult to herself! I have never watched him before. I have become a fan.

[Bluebear]

18. 'Journalist or something" bwahahahaha

[eleny]

21. After watching Andrea Mitchell's sense of dignity on Hardball

...it's hard to put Malkin in the same category.

[Got WMD]

23. That pic of Malkin is a classic!!!!

Could be my new screen saver!!!!

[TheDonkey]

14. OMG he just bitch slapped Malkin again!

that poor woman hahaha.

[Tarheelhombre]

15. I love Keith

[annxburns]

16. Damn, where can I get me a Keith Olbermann/Jon Stewart sandwich ...

... I love those guys.

[blondeatlast]

25. Ahem...

Now, ladies, we're in mixed company here...

(knowingly giggles)

[eleny]

17. And how about that cockroach race?

The one that predicts with 80% accuracy - the presidential winners. The John Kerry roach ran and won handily. The George Bush roach never even moved. Ya gotta love silly stuff like that! And love Keith because... because... Oh heck, you just have to love Keith because.

[blondeatlast]

20. He snacked Malkin yet again, too...

Proved SHE misquoted him and REFUSED to apologize!

[DeepModem Mom]

22. FAN MAIL FOR KEITH: [e-mail], and MSNBC...

[e-mail]

[restorefreedom]

24. Keith's awesome

And his hardblogger posts are right on:

www.hardblogger.msnbc.com

[Shopaholic]

28. Keith has slapped her down again in his blog post:

You can read it in full here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5660340/

But here's part of it:
And heere come the e-mails
For a moment there I thought I owed Michelle Malkin an apology.Very few people who find themselves criticized on television, or even critically characterized, go out and make the criticism sound worse than it was. Evidently, judging by the fact that the same e-mail appeared a few hundred times in our Countdown inbox today (not similar e-mails; the identical one, with different return addresses), Ms. Malkin is one of the very few.“How dare you call this woman an idiot?”That’s apparently what she said, while appearing on Rush Limbaugh’s Entertainment Radio Program today. She certainly wrote it on her blog. To be precise: “his (Chris Matthews’) scurrilous charges were repeated by his MSNBC colleague Keith Olbermann, who called me an ‘idiot.’”

Well, I felt terrible. . . . Funniest darn thing happened, though. Checked the tape of the show, re-read the blog. I never called Michelle Malkin an “idiot.” Never used the word. Second time I referenced her, I did say “this woman, Malkin, who made a fool of herself on this network, about an hour ago…”So that’s what you’re dealing with here. She’s an author or a journalist or something, and she misquoted the insult to herself...

One more thing. Crack Senior Producer Denis Horgan reminds me that Ms. Malkin appeared on 'Real Time With Bill Maher' last Friday, and was shut down by my Cornell contemporary (he’s older) when Maher referred to President Bush as “The Boy In The Bubble.” Last night on 'Hardball,' Ms. Malkin went for a similar thrust against John Kerry by calling him… “The Boy In The Bubble.” Now that’s a coincidence. . . .

But I believe the operative point is what I said about her, and what she says I said about her, and just how good her journalism really is when she can’t get a quote right when the show’s on tape, and the transcript’s on the Internet. For free!

At the bottom of the page is some more good news:

Keith Olbermann is soon going to have his own blog! 'Bloggermann' is coming soon. Check back at Countdown.msnbc.com.

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