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Keith Olbermann stories: 36 news summaries

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Obama, Dems Catch Flak From MSNBC

Left-leaning networks not afraid to hammer prez for moving right

Nov 16, 09 8:48 AM CST
(Newser) - Forget Fox News, Barack Obama is catching just as much grief from MSNBC, as the network’s liberal hosts hammer Democrats for drifting right. Rachel Maddow, for example, spent most of last week lambasting House Democrats over the anti-abortion Stupak amendment, calling it an “electoral defeat,” and contemplating... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • MSNBC • Keith Olbermann • health care reform • Rachel Maddow • left wing • Stupak-Pitts

WHO, ME?

 New York's 
 Biggest Divas 


Mariah Carey is pretty bad, but don't write off Alex Rodriguez, Lady Gaga

Nov 2, 09 10:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Thanks to the Oscar buzz surrounding Mariah Carey’s role in Precious, she is poised to become an even bigger primadonna. But the New York Daily News takes a look at other divas—and divos—in the Big Apple who could give her a run for her money:... More »

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entertainment • Alex Rodriguez • Tracy Morgan • celebrity • Keith Olbermann • Diddy • Mariah Carey • diva • Lady Gaga • Victoria Gotti

CNN Last in Prime-Time Ratings Race

Cable viewers prefer opinion-based news programming

Oct 26, 09 3:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - CNN’s ratings have fallen behind those of the other major cable news networks as prime-time viewers pass over the network in favor of opinion-based news coverage. Every prime-time CNN show lost to its Fox News opponent, and in some instances the losses were even more humiliating—at 10pm, for... More »

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television • MSNBC • Keith Olbermann • CNN • TV ratings • Anderson Cooper • Anderson Cooper 360 • cable news • Greta Van Susteren • Headline News • HLN • Nancy Grace

OPINION

 Olbermann:  
 Send Me All the  
 Dirt on Glenn Beck 

MSNBC host fires back after Fox host calls for White House lowdown

Sep 7, 09 10:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck has tweeted a call for followers to dig up dirt on Obama administration figures, and Keith Olbermann aims to turn the tables, making a bid for inside info on the Fox News host himself. “Find everything you can about Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes,”... More »

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politics • MSNBC • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • Glenn Beck • Obama administration

Lefty Talking Heads Fan 'Birther' Flames

Debunked rumor gets far more play on MSNBC than on Fox

Aug 10, 09 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - When CNN correspondent Candy Crowley mentioned birthers on Lou Dobbs’ show last week, the host panicked. “Don’t say ‘birthers,’ whatever you do,” he said. “Not on this broadcast.” Dobbs has become a much-ridiculed face of the birther movement, but he's discussed the issue... More »

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media • MSNBC • lefties • Keith Olbermann • CNN • Lou Dobbs • Obama administration • liberal media • Candy Crowley • President Obama • conservative media • birther

 What Truce? O'Reilly, 
 Olbermann Back in the Ring 

Olbermann calls O'Reilly 'worst'; O'Reilly attacks GE

Aug 6, 09 11:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The feud between Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann continues, despite word of a peace deal: On Monday Olbermann said there was no truce and awarded O’Reilly the silver medal for “World’s Worst Person.” Then he gave the gold to Fox News honcho Rupert Murdoch. O’... More »

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media • Rupert Murdoch • Bill O'Reilly • MSNBC • General Electric • SEC • feud • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • television news • President Obama

(Newser) - It took the intervention of a PBS peacemaker to halt the bitterest media fight of the decade, insiders tell the New York Times. Bosses at Fox and at MSNBC owner GE were fed up with Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly's long-running feud—especially after they started savaging each other's networks—... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • MSNBC • General Electric • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • talk show • Charlie Rose • Jeffrey Immelt • Countdown

 Forget Best: Colbert 
  Wants to Be Worst  

Demands title from Olbermann over sweet-talking email to Mark Sanford

Jul 16, 09 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stephen Colbert is a glutton for punishment. Keith Olbermann dished some out to conservative media outlets Tuesday, spanking them for plying Gov. Mark Sanford with email offers of friendly treatment, and awarding them “Worst People in the World” honors. But he omitted Colbert, despite Colbert’s email offering Sanford... More »

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entertainment • press • journalism • Keith Olbermann • American media • Stephen Colbert • The Colbert Report • Mark Sanford • conservative media

House Aide's E-Mail Tantrum Goes Viral

Flipping out over nickname is one way to wind up on MSNBC

Jun 19, 09 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rep. Jim McDermott has a staffer named Elizabeth Becton. That's "Elizabeth," not "Liz"—ever. A contact attempting to set up a meeting with the Washington Democrat found that out the hard way after making the tragic mistake of calling Becton “Liz.” Her enraged response,... More »

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email • MSNBC • Keith Olbermann • Jim McDermott • House Democrats • temper tantrums • Elizabeth Becton

OPINION

 Actually, Beck Calms 
 the Lunatic Fringe 

With O'Reilly and Olbermann, lets wingnuts 'let off steam'

Jun 19, 09 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck infuriates many liberals, but they should really be thanking him: His rhetoric tempers fringe sentiments and prevents violence, writes Reihan Salam for the Daily Beast. Talking heads like Beck and Bill O’Reilly “take unspoken anxieties very seriously,” giving voice to a “small and alienated... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • MSNBC • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • talk show • Glenn Beck • host

'Mancow': Waterboarding
'Absolutely Real'

Says term 'hoax' used to throw off police, station management

May 30, 09 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Erich “Mancow” Muller is outraged by the Gawker report that he faked his own waterboarding, the Chicago Tribune reports. The right-wing shock jock defended himself last night on MSNBC's Countdown: “It’s like saying that Mike Tyson’s daughter didn’t really hang herself,” he said. He... More »

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torture • MSNBC • Keith Olbermann • waterboarding • hoax • Erich "Mancow" Muller

(Newser) - Erich “Mancow” Muller’s on-air waterboarding was a hoax, an anonymous tipster tells Gawker, forwarding a seemingly damning e-mail exchange between the shock jock’s publicist and a veterans group she was hoping could find a torturer. “It is going to have to look ‘real,’”... More »

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torture • MSNBC • Keith Olbermann • waterboarding • hoax • Erich "Mancow" Muller • Countdown • Linda Shafran

Disgusted Mancow: Hannity Still Says It's Not Torture

"Sean, it is torture," wateboarded Mancow tells his buddy

May 27, 09 5:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Right-wing mouth Sean Hannity, who chickened out on a dare to be waterboarded for charity, still claims the procedure is not torture, says conservative shock jock Erich "Mancow" Muller, who discovered firsthand it "absolutely" is. Mancow again described his experience being waterboarded to Keith Olbermann last night... More »

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torture • charity • Keith Olbermann • Sean Hannity • waterboarding • Erich "Mancow" Muller


 Olbermann 
 to Prejean: 
 WTF!?! 

Host slams pageant queen for self-righteous attitude

May 13, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Keith Olbermann ripped “holier-than-thou know-it-all” Carrie Prejean in the new “WTF!?!” segment of his show last night, Gawker reports. “This is no longer about her opinion, it’s about her,” Olbermann insisted, tweaking the beauty queen on the First Amendment: “Your grandfather did... More »

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James Dobson • First Amendment • Keith Olbermann • rants • Carrie Prejean • Miss California

Olbermann Dogs Hannity Over Waterboarding

Fox host silent on MSNBC rival's
$1K-per-second offer

Apr 29, 09 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Keith Olbermann isn’t letting up as he pushes Sean Hannity to follow through on an offer to be waterboarded for charity, the AP reports. On his show Monday, the MSNBC host again urged his Fox rival to make good on the pledge, though how serious Hannity was isn't clear.... More »

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torture • MSNBC • charity • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • Sean Hannity • waterboarding

A Grand for Every Second He's Tortured

Olbermann ready to shell out to see Hannity waterboarded

Apr 24, 09 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - It may have been an attention-seeking stunt when Sean Hannity volunteered to be waterboarded. If so, it worked, at least to get the attention of Keith Olbermann, who kept the long-running MSNBC/Fox pundit-smackdown going last night by putting money on the table. Olbermann offered to give $1,000 to military... More »

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torture • Keith Olbermann • Sean Hannity • waterboarding

CNN Loses Ground in Primetime

Fox, MSNBC are
pushing longtime
rival into 3rd place

Apr 10, 09 11:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - The oldest cable news network is starting to lag behind both of its main rivals in primetime, Variety reports. In the first quarter of this year, CNN saw a 23% drop in the key 25-54 demographic and a 10% drop overall from 8 to 11pm. In particular, Campbell Brown's show... More »

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television • Bill O'Reilly • MSNBC • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • CNN • TV ratings • television news • Campbell Brown • cable news • Headline News • HLN

(Newser) - After Keith Olbermann introduced Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s rebuttal to President Obama’s congressional speech last night, MSNBC broadcast snickers and a hushed voice intoning “Oh, God,” Fox News reports. The voice is thought to have been Olbermann’s or that of co-host Chris Matthews. Both have... More »

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television • politics • MSNBC • Chris Matthews • Keith Olbermann • Bobby Jindal • President Obama • rebuttal • disapproval

OPINION

Matthews Takes Record for Hot Air at Chilly Inauguration

MSNBC host's 'sizzling free-associations' provided some hot air in chilly DC

Jan 22, 09 3:25 PM CST
(Newser) - It's a good thing Chris Matthews didn't run for the Senate after all, Jack Shafer writes for Slate, after listening to the MSNBC star let his mouth run wild Inauguration Day. "Drawing from a larder filled with old anecdotes, unreliable metaphors, wacky intuition, and superficial observations, the always-animated Matthews... More »

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television • John Roberts • MSNBC • Chris Matthews • Keith Olbermann • John Cusack • Muhammad Ali • Rachel Maddow • President Obama • Val Kilmer • Inauguration Day

OPINION

 Hannity, Olbermann:
 On Different Planets 


Oct 27, 08 12:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has suggested voters are “seeing two different realities, a Sean Hannity reality and a Keith Olbermann reality”—and he’s right, Howard Kurtz writes in the Washington Post. "Adored by fans and derided by critics," Fox's Hannity is an unapologetic John McCain booster, while... More »

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television • MSNBC • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • Sean Hannity • Alan Colmes • television personality

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