Olbermann blogs from Daily Kos…

[DeepModem Mom]

Inside Cable News: Olbermann blogs from Daily Kos…

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann is now blogging from Daily Kos....

Ok, before the Right and OlbermannWatch go ballistic…oh wait…let’s calmly examine what this really means.

I think it means nothing really. Nothing has changed.

Look, the facts are Countdown is now acknowledged externally by Olbermann himself and other MSNBC execs as having gone left. Whether you like that or not, and there are plenty of people on both sides of that battle, it’s now an established given. So what does blogging from Daily Kos do to change that? Nothing. It’s a smart move from a programming standpoint. That’s where Countdown’s audience spike over the past year and a half is coming from; from the left. So why not have Olbermann blog from one of the big hot spots of liberalism on the internet?

http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2008/01/14/olbermann-blogs-from-daily-kos/

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Daily Kos: I Hate To Interrupt, But...
by Keith Olbermann
Mon Jan 14, 2008 at
(This is legit -- kos)



Yeah, it’s me.
Hi.
Sure has taken me long enough. But, as you may know, I am the shy, retiring type: Hesitant to state an opinion in public and horrified to pass judgment or seem a scold.

Keith Olbermann's diary :: ::

And, yes, if I’m going to step out from the cool, comforting environs of the shadows, I’d rather spring forward to pimp the book or the newscast. But, having now read a (mercifully few) claims here that I’m a) attacking Clinton, b) burying Edwards, and c) clobbering Obama, I feel the need to mention that I truly don’t have a preference. I am tilting in no direction, sending out no subliminal message, and thwarting no truth.

To report the NBC New Hampshire projection after the polls close there, is not to try to marginalize John Edwards. To run the entire Bill Clinton "fairy tale" sound bite complete with its Iraq vote context, is not to try to thwart Barack Obama. And to report that Dennis Kucinich has put a down payment on a New Hampshire recount is not to claim Hillary Clinton stole a primary.

I appreciate the fervor of each candidate’s supporters and I think I have some empathy based on my standing in the Frustrated-By-The-Obviousness-Of-Politics League. But can anybody reading messages into tea leaves in my newscast, when there isn’t even a teacup, please resume regular breathing patterns? To see in each of my reports an enemy or a spokesman sounds microscopically like – and I swallow hard and prepare for the prospect of some Kossacks to approach what passes for my castle with torches and pitchforks as I write this – Bill O’Reilly.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/14/12636/5764/715/436605

[Berry Cool]

1. Hurray. It was about time.

I only wish he'd come to DU and say the same thing.

Of course, there are still some jackass Kossacks who are whining to him about his "obvious" bias. "But...but...but...you said (fill in the blank)...you are an obvious shill for (candidate) and you hate (candidate) and I'm never going to watch your show again..."

[Tor_Hershman]

2. Blog - ƒrom coups to nuts

A blog by someone that is NOT.....paid by the word.

http://torhershman.blogspot.com/