Monday, June 16, 2008

I'm not the only one.

I used to love, LOVE Keith Olbermann. Then he started slamming Hillary. And as a Hillary supporter, I was hurt. He's suppose to attack the OTHER side.. the McCains and Bushs.. not OUR girl. It got so bad, I stopped watching.. I started going to CNN instead. I used to love his Special Comments.. but now it seems he is turning into a version of Bill O'Reilly of the left. Since ratings will probably follow I doubt he'll come back to us. Sad.

Tim Russert on Olbermann:
As Russert put it to me shortly before his death, "Keith and I have each carved out our roles in this vast information spectrum." He continued, "What cable emphasizes, more and more, is opinion, or even advocacy. Whether it's Bill O'Reilly or Keith Olbermann or Lou Dobbs, that's what that particular platform or venue does. It's not what I do. What I do is different. I try very, very hard not to come up and say to people, 'This is what I believe,' or 'This is good,' or 'This is bad.' But, rather, 'This is what I'm learning in my reporting,' or 'This is what my analysis shows based on my reporting.' And as long as I can do that I'm very, very comfortable. And nobody has asked me to do anything but that."

Tom Brokaw On Olbermann (and Chris Matthews):
Brokaw says he sometimes feels that he has been cast in the role of hall monitor at NBC News; if so, his charges have kept him busy. The day after the New Hampshire primary, Matthews asserted that Hillary Clinton owed her election as senator to public sympathy for her in light of her husband's sexual peccadilloes. "It was completely out of line," Brokaw says. "And Keith took it to another level" with his "shut the hell up" commentary.

MSNBC executive on Olbermann's relationship with Clinton supporters:
"It was, like, you meet a guy and you fall in love with him, and he's funny and he's clever and he's witty, and he's all these great things," Griffin said of the relationship between Olbermann and the Clinton supporters among his viewers. "And then you commit yourself to him, and he turns out to be a jerk and difficult and brutal. And that is how the Hillary viewers see him. It's true. But I do think they're going to come back. There's nowhere else to go."

2 comments:

nightowl528 said...
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nightowl528 said...

I will NOT go back to watching Keith! I now see him as just the flip side Chris Matthews. I prefer to get my news without the commentary (except maybe for Jon Stewart) and will happily watch CNN or PBS instead. Shame on Keith, but shame on us liberals too for being just as one-sided as the conservatives.