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Keith Olbermann Declares: Off With Dana Milbank’s Head

The arrogance. The perfidy. The cock of the walk puffed up rooster-ness of it all!

On The Big Orange, Commissar Keith Olbermann decided to whet the appetites of his rabid, but dwindling, fan base by offering “a little preview of an item on tonight’s Countdown” by ordering an EXECUTION:

The headline: Dana Milbank won’t be on the news hour any more.

Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, who notified us today that after four years appearing with us, he had accepted another television offer. This saved your crack Countdown staff an increasingly difficult decision.

Your “crack Countdown staff?”

And what decision was that, Keith? Dana must be brought to heel?

It seems the brouhaha stemmed from Dana Milbank’s article, President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour where Dana had the audacity to refer to Barack Obama as “the presumptuous nominee.” In other words, Dana finally woke up from his koolaid-induced stupor and called it like he saw it. And for this, the punishment was to be swift and sure from Herr Olbermann.

Since I covered Dana’s article last week, I thought it only fitting that I share the “reasons” for Keithie’s faux outrage. According to the pompous Olbermann:

For nearly a week we’d been waiting for [Dana] to offer a correction or an explanation for his column from last week in which he apparently reported an Obama quote without a full context turned the meaning of the quote inside-out.

Then he called criticisms of his column “whines” even though the dispute was over whether Obama said the self-deprecating: “It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign — that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions” — or only the part about “I have just become a symbol…”

All current evidence indicates that Senator Obama is about as capable of being self-deprecating as Olbermann is of having humility. Secondly, the article covers more of the quote than just the ‘symbol‘ part. Lastly, Keith is whining. That is something he has in common with most Obama surrogates on the receiving end of any criticism for their messiah: to whine.

We had decided not to have Dana on this news-hour again until this was cleared up, and, sadly after some very happy years, he’s apparently chosen to make that cloud permanent. Good luck, Dana.

…he took any further decision-making out of our hands. It was quite a surprise conclusion, obviously, and I’ll take it (before anybody tries to take it back).

So, Keith, what you are really telling us is that Dana Milbank basically told you to go stuff it before you had to make the “difficult decision” of telling him to go stuff it.

As you can see from reading Dana’s article linked above, he had the absolute audacity to criticize ‘the One’ and report honestly that some of the press corps started referring to Obama as a “prom queen.”

Considering Obama’s new supersized logo on his plane, his chair stitched with the word President on it, the usurping of the Presidential Seal, telling the press corps how to dress, not answering any real questions, negotiating with and giving his two cents to foreign leaders, overstepping the bounds of his overseas trip, the list goes on and on…why wouldn’t the press call Senator Obama a prom queen? Or perhaps we can use my favorite new name for him: Il Duce.

To summarize, Olbermann, who has been sipping his own koolaid for some time now and puffing out his chest higher and higher with every stinking broadcast, forbade Dana to come back on the show until Milbank basically bowed down and scraped his knees on the carpet begging Olbermann’s forgiveness.

You can manipulate Obama’s quote any way you want – there are several versions of it from different news sources. But in every single one, he refers to himself as ‘a symbol of returning to America best traditions.’ Obama and Puffy the Clown belong together. They have the same exaggerated sense of their own importance.

Why don’t they just go do a sweat lodge and sing songs around the campfire and smoke a doobie and get it over with.

Olbermann accusing Milbank of taking something out of context is a tad disingenuous considering he is the one who would go on nightly unjustified, self-righteous and outrageous diatribes against Hillary Clinton, mentioning the Clintons in the same sentence with the racist David Duke, and other disgusting rants. This is the man who said:

“A Super Delegate needs to take Hillary Clinton into a room and only he comes out. That kind of scenario.”

When viewers exploded with outrage, his big apology was that he “used the wrong pronoun.” That’s it.

MSNBC took the cake in terms of the worst misogynist slurs against Senator Clinton – the unforgivable remarks were compounded daily.

In addition to every other outrage from MSNBC, it appears they are practicing censorship. Because Dana Milbank finally decided to tell the truth about Senator Obama’s arrogant and unseemly behavior, Milbank was to be denied the opportunity to appear on the show and possibly express such dissent.

Olbermann was not worried about Dana offering an “explanation.” The threat was clear – either fall in line or you’re out of a job over here. Dana refused and took another offer instead.

I hope Keith Olbermann can enjoy his ever-lower ratings; currently around the rank of “the Butterfly Channel,” as I believe Bill O’Reilly so eloquently put it.

I see that freedom of speech and freedom of expression are not welcome on Countdown. I have long since written off this program, but more worrisome is the dread I have that dissent and honest expression are also being crushed in other parts of the news media. While Olbermann is arguably the worst offender, he is not alone.

I remember reading that Greta Van Susteren noted a reporter colleague of hers on another network could not file a report critical of Obama without it being watered down, whereas stories critical of Senators McCain and Clinton were left untouched. Highly disturbing to say the least.

There is no love lost for Dana Milbank, given most of his reporting this season. Like many in the media who complain about Obama now, they did so only after they spent many months unfairly kicking the far more qualified Senator Clinton in the teeth.

That stated, I am glad Dana had the good sense not to bow and scrape before Olbermann – a man whose character would be best served in a profession having nothing to do with disseminating ‘news’ to a public desperate for the truth.

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Comment by roseeriter | 2008-08-05 09:41:34

Oh Ani, you said the doobie word..LOL!

Keith has a lot of issues he’s in his late 40s never married..??

Comment by HARP | 2008-08-05 09:46:34

He could be like both-ways Barack ?

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-08-05 09:51:58

oops, I was thinking the doobie as a phallux symbol;-)

Comment by yaz | 2008-08-05 11:43:02

wow, you guys are really dumb. what does olbermann’s personal life or sexual preferences have to do with anything?

and it’s spelled phalluS.

Comment by HARP | 2008-08-05 12:03:49

Phallux
love it hate it

The Ancient and Primordial God of Rape. Worshipped in many places including Haiti and 4Chan.

Comment by obamarama | 2008-08-05 15:55:27

is this God of Rape born in Kenya. that’s where Obambi’s bilionaire slumlord cousin Odinga’s gangs raped hundreds and left homeless half a milliion-with Obambi’s donations when he was there in ‘06. He encouraged his crazy islamo-fascist Couz Odinga (now Pres!) to bring in Sharia Law and to prevent jailing terrorists…
Obama is clueless about crimes against women.

Why would he let his 2 young girls watch the obscene sex simulation on the Pulpit by crazed racist Rev. Wright? Why did he not want to remove his 2 girls from watching the obscene body gymnastics ? Shouldn’t another more sane father remove his kids from this crrazy lewd, racis toxic environemnt?

No judgment for Barack. No character. The man’s an empty shell, removed from the real world. But he sure loves Himelf!

The obambi should be VP for his cousin Odinga in Kenya, now the Pres!. Dream ticket

 
 

Comment by JozefAL | 2008-08-05 13:48:06

Actually, the proper from should be phallic when used as an adjective.
Phallus is the noun; phallic is the adjective.
So, who’s the dumb one now?

 

Comment by CJ | 2008-08-05 14:53:38

Why don’t you ask Keith who loves to explore the sex lives of others. He may have an answer for you. Or ask his new bestfriend, Rachel Madcow!

 

Comment by prom queen | 2008-08-05 15:50:10

yazzee yazzee yazze my sweet obamabot….honey chile sex has everythin to do with Olbie…have you ever watched him go redfaced on camera yelling hysterically about his BoyToy Obambi?!!!ah, sweets, Oblbie has the hots for your prom queen.

 
 
 
 
 

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-05 09:43:28

This is getting HYSTERICAL….Truly….LOL

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-05 12:36:19

Or perhaps we can use my favorite new name for him: Il Duce.

How about Il Douche?

Comment by Undercover Black Man | 2008-08-05 13:09:05

How about Il Douche?

I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that… but was a little embarrassed to bring it up…

 
 

Comment by Fredster | 2008-08-05 14:39:27

Ya know, flip it around and maybe Dana Milbank decided it wasn’t worth it to go onto a tanking show/network.

I’ve stopped watching that network except for Mornin’ Joe on occasions, those occasions being when Joe is on. If it’s Mika and little Willie Geiss the pretend journalist forget it.

Olbermann has become a clown and I don’t see where anyone could take him seriously anymore.

Comment by ritamary | 2008-08-06 01:23:48

Can’t Keith go back to reporting sports?

 
 
 

Comment by HARP | 2008-08-05 09:44:34

Does this mean that Dana has to turn in his really swell “SECRET DECODER RING” ?

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-05 09:55:14

LOL…You are funny Harp….Truly

Comment by Ellen D | 2008-08-05 10:49:32

Did he say his staff was on crack?

 
 
 

Comment by gotalife | 2008-08-05 09:45:19

I watched the segment and Keith said nothing until kos and his kooks tossed Dana under the bus.

Then Keith wrote a post at kos to throw him under the bus again.

Keith and a few others at MSNBC are the only Obama hacks left.

Comment by MaryPat | 2008-08-05 12:57:17

Back when I could still bear to watch Countdown, it occurred to me that Millbank was the only contributor who would occasionally go “off message”–that is, dare to say something that wasn’t over-the-top pro-Obama. Nothing huge, mind you, but his meager attempts to be objective stood in stark contrast to the blatherings of Keith’s kool-aid drinkers Alter, Wolffe, and Fineman.

The first thing I thought when I saw Dana’s article about Barry’s presumptuousness in the WaPo was that Edward R. Moron was not going to be happy. Look out, Dana, I see a “Special Comment” in your future.

Comment by Annagain | 2008-08-05 13:34:05

Dana stuck a toe in the non-worshipping water back in March when he reported on the “I already answered, like, eight questions” thing — and Obama had to be ushered off the stage after that disastrous news conference.

That was the last we heard about that for four months.

 
 
 

Comment by Jake | 2008-08-05 09:46:32

Olbermann is such a giant asswipe. I’m so tired of his bullshit.

Comment by MEchelle Hates America! | 2008-08-05 09:51:52

Perfectly said Jake.

You’ve taken the words from my fingertips.

Bless you and your brevity.

Something else the bloviating O’Reilly wannabe lacks.

 

Comment by yaz | 2008-08-05 11:44:55

“perfectly said”? asswipe? it’s a meaningless personal attack — it literally doesn’t mean anything substantive. but MEchelle just has to respond IN BOLD that this is perfectly said. god you guys are really dumb. at least make substantive arguments.

Comment by beebop | 2008-08-05 13:07:59

And your comments are soooo much more saliant … ;)

Comment by WildChild | 2008-08-05 13:22:21

LOL I think it’s funny how it makes a few pronouncements from on top of it’s pedestal and then complains WE don’t make substantive arguments :)

 
 

Comment by Donkey Brazziere | 2008-08-05 13:14:28

ANCHOVY who can’t capitalize a sentence. :)

 

Comment by 935 Lies | 2008-08-05 13:18:45

This ain’t Union League or Moot Court at Stanford Law (Notice I didn’t say, “Harvard Law”), it’s a freakin’ blog.

And what does taking the name of a conception control pharmaceutical for your nom de blog say about you?

Do the little animals pass out when you walk by them in the park, or do you have vulvic/mother issues?

Now, Get Along, Little Anchovy. There’s time to watch, “Wild In The Streets” one more time before you pedal over and put on the headset at the drive-up window.

“Uuuuhhh…do ya want arugula with that?”

 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-05 13:19:22

yaz — do they make better arguments in Palestine?

 

Comment by miniyaz | 2008-08-05 13:37:21

“you guys”? dumb? it’s a meaningless personal attack — it literally doesn’t mean anything substantive. but yaz just has to respond that this is an attack. god he thinks he’s so smart. at least make substantive arguments.

Comment by barry | 2008-08-05 16:15:14

Mini Yaz - go lose yourself in the traffic and quit putting your used gum on the obama signs. they will be recycled soon
You are truly an intrusive nuisance. How old are you? 10? then stay and learn

 

Comment by barry | 2008-08-05 16:18:15

Mini Yaz - sorry my comment was meant for that sewer Obama rat YAZ Obamabutt. He sounds like he’s a 10-year old with very lax parenting…obamabot, of course….

Obambi for VP in Kenya with Cousin Odinga!

P.S. Odinga by he way is the Kenyan Rezko. He’s a billionaire who made his money developing slums in Kenya!

why does Barack go after these Slumlords…

 
 

Comment by barry | 2008-08-05 16:12:53

Dear Dear Yaz

Kindly abstain from calling us here on this Obamabot-free site “dumb”. You want to read something dumb. Go back to 2004 and see Obamarama calling Himself more popular than Paris Hilton and bragging that He makes her look like a recluse

Please, do something constructive with your dallowance. Buy an “X-rated for Kids under 18″ sign and post it outside Trinity Church so kids like obama’s own 2 girls will not go in and watch the pastor perform sexual act simulations on the pulpit in front of children, yelling..”Bill clinton loves us like he loved Monica!”

Now go shoooooo….just leave us alone and find a more welcoming home for the vacuousness of your empty suit candidate!

Xooo

 
 

Comment by stodghie | 2008-08-05 13:43:34

yup and after the ge who will watch no count? the answer is not many.

 
 

Comment by athy | 2008-08-05 09:46:54

Good post. Thanks.

 

Comment by steveeboy | 2008-08-05 09:47:44

yep,

we need “real” reporters that hate obama like mark levin, sean hannity, the world nut daily crew, and the FUX news team.

You know, the “real” reporters that all you dead-ender nutjobs now cite with approval and frequency cuz they share your paranoid and delusional fantasies about Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-08-05 09:50:30

Wah Wah Wah poor bot. Feeling left out?? Cause we’re having fun and you have to work for the Messiah??

Comment by Mawm | 2008-08-05 10:47:05

steveeboy, is a regular troll at the Confluence.

Comment by audacity | 2008-08-05 11:19:17

looks like your PUMA video (great moment, and the sound is right on) scared him away.

 
 
 

Comment by secularhumanizinevoluter | 2008-08-05 09:57:28

Aaaah, wassamatta steveeboy,folks waking up to the precious standing there in his skinny ass nakedness and being repulsed by what they see? Poll numbers going in the tank? Obamalamadingdong starting to be a bit of a laughing stock? DAMN it must suck to look in the mirroe in the morning and realize either you’re a stupid FUX that got taken by a conman OR that you’re a stupid FUX that is to koolaide addled to realize Obama stickin it up your kiester and can’t figure out why his con just ain’t workin any more? No matter which, you’re still a stupid FUX!

 

Comment by onlylewis | 2008-08-05 10:09:05

steveeboy,

I am not a clinton supporter and not a regular on this site but your ideas of reporting are a joke. I very seldom watch any tv news reporters any more but this olberman? is an idiot. But of course we all have our own point of view. But you know what they say about points of views. ” A point of view is like an a_ _hole, we all have one. And like most a_ _holes and POV’s s_ _t comes out of them all the time.

Comment by 935 Lies | 2008-08-05 13:10:53

Opinions are like assholes: everyone has one, and almost NO ONE wants to hear anyone else’s.

 

Comment by beebop | 2008-08-05 13:12:07

Thank God none of us rely upon Olbamamann as a reporter any more than we do, say, Robert Novak. Too bad KO isn’t taking some time off.

Comment by hank48188 | 2008-08-05 13:40:15

Don’t watch that moron, make his ratings go down

 
 
 

Comment by HARP | 2008-08-05 10:13:20

Oh steveeboy are you following Backtrack next week to look for his BC?

 

Comment by AX10 | 2008-08-05 12:58:51

So now the Obambots don’t like bi-partisanship.
I see. It’s only good when Obama(unfit for command) can use it to gain political support.
Typical bot.
MSNBC, CNN, and The NY Times can join with the
other “dead enders” Kos, Huffington, and Air “America”.

 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-05 13:21:26

steveeboy — its become more and more obvious that Obama is an arrogant air head and an insufferable bore. Perhaps when the media as a whole finally gets it — they can be considered the news media again.

Comment by This Is My Real Name | 2008-08-06 11:06:28

Read Audacity of Hope and then STFU.

I see the true dead-enders have wet themselves again because all they have McCain and only themselves to blame. Sucks to be you.

Democracy is coming to the USA, despite all efforts of flag-humpers to keep us in this ditch.

Go Keih and go Obama. Let’s get back to the rule of law and let the morals-preaching perps eat the soiled kitty litter they have coming.

Rand Corporation July 30th, 2008 press release, War On Terror phraseology doesn’t work and we should stop using it. This is YOUR think tank! Peace out

 
 
 

Comment by bmc | 2008-08-05 09:48:05

This “news hour?”

Dana Milbank won’t be on “this news hour?”

Oh, Dana! Your credibility as a journalist has just hit the LOTTO. Say your prayers thanking the heavenly hosts for your salvation. Because you embarrassed yourself every time you were associated with that slimeball Olbermann. Trust me.

Olbermann hasn’t presented a “news hour” since the first days of Countdown. It’s cartoon-hour; it’s stroke-my-ego hour; it’s misogyny hour; it’s Oreilly-obsession hour; it’s not “news” hour.

Comment by LookingForwardTo2012 | 2008-08-05 12:23:51

So true. My favorites, on Countdown were always Craig Crawford and Dana Milbank. Unfortunately , I stopped watching MSNBC, because of Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in February and never got to see them. I can catch Craig on his Blog, Trailmix…now I will be on the look out for Dana.

 
 

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-08-05 09:49:00

Fortunately for me COMCAST dropped MSNBC from my cable. Haven’t missed it for a second. I sometimes wonder if it was a corporate calculated drop against Obama..

 

Comment by veritas | 2008-08-05 09:52:21

Dana Milbank, although also an offender, was one of the first to admit publicly that there was a discrepancy in the reportage.
Media Matters: http://mediamatters.org/items/200712310001
“On the December 30 edition of CNN’s Reliable Sources, Washington Post national political reporter Dana Milbank said of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) that “[t]he press will savage her no matter what.” He made the comment in response to a question from Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, the Reliable Sources host, about whether the media would “savage her as a loser” if she “gets edged out by 1,000 votes” in the Iowa caucus. Milbank went on to characterize Clinton’s relationship with the press as “poisonous” and “venomous,” and said that journalists “dislike” her.”

 

Comment by vbonnaire | 2008-08-05 09:52:22

Thank you for this hysterically funny read in the midst of what looks so insane to all of us….

it was this part!

Considering Obama’s new supersized logo on his plane, his chair stitched with the word President on it, the usurping of the Presidential Seal, telling the press corps how to dress, not answering any real questions, negotiating with and giving his two cents to foreign leaders, overstepping the bounds of his overseas trip, the list goes on and on…why wouldn’t the press call Senator Obama a prom queen? Or perhaps we can use my favorite new name for him: Il Duce.

You can manipulate Obama’s quote any way you want – there are several versions of it from different news sources. But in every single one, he refers to himself as ‘a symbol of returning to America best traditions.’ Obama and Puffy the Clown belong together. They have the same exaggerated sense of their own importance.

Why don’t they just go do a sweat lodge and sing songs around the campfire and smoke a doobie and get it over with.

I can’t stop laughing! — thank god for you and Uppity! well –all of you writers here!

how did this happen and ditto Il Duce–he wishes….

Comment by georgiapeach | 2008-08-05 12:06:58

I must have had too much coffee. I read that as Il Dunce, not once, but twice.

 
 

Comment by OxyCon | 2008-08-05 09:53:22

Well, Keith Obamamann still has Eugene Robinson and Jonathan Alter!
As I predicted moths ago, Obamamann is imploding in the exact same way he always implodes at every single job he has ever had. I doubt he’s still employed come this time next tear. He’s going to wig out so badly at some point that they are going to haul him off screen with one of those giant hooks.

Comment by Sharon | 2008-08-05 10:21:11

I predict the hook for Keithy boy on November 5. Can you imagine how apoplectic he’s gonna be in when his messiah LOSES?

Haven’t gone anywhere near MSNBC - especially Olbermann’s kook hour - in months and months. But, I’ll sure be glad to tune in after barky’s landslide loss to watch the nutjob get hauled off to the rubber room!

In fact, it’s gonna be such a joy tuning into CNN, MSNBC and the rest when bambi loses - just to watch each and every one of them have a complete and very public meltdown.

Comment by dee4hill | 2008-08-05 10:57:32

This is funny Sharon! I can’t wait till Oblowme loses by a landslide in Nov. That’s the main thing, plus getting to watch the Obamanation implode. But the icing on the cake be the pleasure of watching Olbermann self-destruct. I bet he has to go on sabbatical due to his complete meltdown. Or maybe MSNBC will come to their senses and purge themselves of the rancid b*stard for good. Poor Chris Matthews may lose all sensations in his tingly leg. Tsk, tsk.

And dream of all dreams - Hillary becomes the nominee at the convention and Olberman’s inflated head pops right off his stiff neck!

Hillary or McCain ‘08!!!

Comment by CDN Ctzn | 2008-08-05 14:41:30

Instead of “Hillary or McCain ‘08″ I would sooner see “Progressives” vote for Ralph Nader if he’s on the ballot in your State, and Obama is the nominee. At least he’s anti-corporate and far more in line with our ideals than either McCain or Obama.

If we never get serious about a viable third party we will be stuck with this mess forever! Maybe a protest vote for Nader will seriously get things finally moving in that direction!

Personally I’m sick and tired of Corporate Candidates like we’ve been stuck with recently. It’s either vote for Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum.

Author Gore Vidal has often commented that he would love to see a multi-party system in US politics. As it is, we’re stuck with two wings of the same party. I’m inclined to agree with him all the more as I watch this election season proceed!

 
 

Comment by beebop | 2008-08-05 13:15:51

This is when I will return as well. I am going to get the largest bowl of popcorn I can find. Put my favorite chair right in front of the screen, channel hope from one 0bamatank to another an watch them wail. It will be the highlight of the election …. well, after he gets bounced on his axx of course! :)

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-05 13:27:20

beebop — When Obama loses I will be on Bitterpolitics and No Quarter celebrating. To hell with those who call themselves the media — I am going to celebrate with the people. Thank you Camille and Larry — God Bless You.

 
 
 

Comment by Dawnelle Leona del Puma | 2008-08-05 10:22:30

I feel like I’m repeating myself.

FK KEITH OLBERDOUCHE

FK HIS FK BUDDIES ALTER AND ROBINSON

FK MSNBO AND THE DONKEY THEY BACKED IN ON!!

MOFO HYPOCRITES ALL OF THEM

now I must go wash my OWN mouth out with soap! (and it will be worth it)

 
 

Comment by madamab | 2008-08-05 09:55:31

Poor Keith. You are now the Worst Person In the World almost every day. Thank goodness Milbank jumped off the Obama train. Maybe he saw the same thing Edgeoforever saw at Zogby.

And it used to be so much fun to watch you. I’ve learned my lesson. Hysterics are hysterics, whether they be on the left or the right.

 

Comment by Gary | 2008-08-05 09:57:27

I used to have a little bit of respect for Olbermann, but he’s just become another foot soldier in the Barack Obama kiss my ass sweepstakes. Ever notice how ALL of Olbermann’s guests agree with him?? At least O’Reilly, who I have a hatred for as well, has guests that disagree with him. Keith-e rambles on and on about how unfair and unbalanced Fox news is, yet he can have all the left leaning, slanted, liberal guests he does, and you don’t dare question it. But that’s Olbermann, a hypocrite to the end.

Comment by HARP | 2008-08-05 10:05:05

Ever notice KO ask a question with the answer already in the question.

Comment by bert | 2008-08-05 10:57:47

And his questions are longer than my Master’s thesis.

Comment by 935 Lies | 2008-08-05 13:21:22

His questions are longer than Obama’s ying-yang…

 
 
 

Comment by hank48188 | 2008-08-05 13:46:31

O’Reilly seems very fair and balanced, since I qiut watching MSNBC I’ve been tuning in at FOX and they seem to play it pretty straight. Hannity just rips on Obama, too bad he doesn’t read this blog, he doesn’t ever mention Obama and Ayers connected to the Annenberg Challenge grant, that was their biggest deal, spent $110 million together.

 
 

Comment by katmandu | 2008-08-05 10:03:29

More humor in this first line of a San Francisco Chronicle editorial on Obama’s energy policy:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/04/EDEI124S1O.DTL

Sen. Barack Obama’s energy policy is offering more flip flops than a Lake Tahoe souvenir stand.

Comment by sowsear | 2008-08-05 11:48:27

Yahoo news this morning says, Obama blames energy crisis on Cheney. Oh yes, BO voted for the Cheney Energy Bill. Wash his mouth out with soap.

Comment by beebop | 2008-08-05 13:17:26

Can 0bama remember voting for his cousin Dick’s energy plan? I mean, that was when? Last year?

 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-05 13:31:01

I just can’t keep up with the Pretender In Chief. He is sooooooo desperate to be President he will say anything. tsk tsk–You ain’t got what it takes and you probably never will have.

 

Comment by Cahil | 2008-08-05 13:36:32

Does anyone ever call Obama on his lies in the MSM???

 
 
 

Comment by OxyCon | 2008-08-05 10:18:29

I’m sorry everyone, but I just can’t hold it in any longer. I just have say a Special Comment® about all of this. Here goes:

For the past week, we have learned that “Countdown Until Keith Obamamann Goes Insane” has been censuring and holding Dana Milbank verbally hostage. HOW DARE YOU censor Dana Milbank, SIR!!! What is this…the freaking Soviet Union? (wipes spittle from corner of mouth) WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? (veins in temple area close to bursting) You are bad, SIR!!! (why is everything getting blurry?) Oh, the pain. I can’t take it anymore. WHY? WHY? WHY CAN’T YOU LEAVE BARRY ALONE?

Comment by bmc | 2008-08-05 10:22:00

HA!

Thanks for that Special Comment. It’s brilliant.

I even got a tingle up my leg!

;o}

 

Comment by MEchelle Hates America! | 2008-08-05 10:31:04

OxyCon -

Spot on!

 

Comment by Leisa | 2008-08-05 10:57:30

Great one!

KO is a drooling fool… the spittle reference was perfect!

;)

Comment by HARP | 2008-08-05 11:40:54

spittle ?….he must be copying tingle leg.

 
 

Comment by Kevin | 2008-08-05 16:18:33

HFS!!!
too funny

 
 

Comment by Clinton Fan | 2008-08-05 10:19:06

Milbank has no need to bow and scrape–he’s negotiated a much more lucrative deal…WITH CNN. I love the way that the Herbert Humbert (for the unliterary amongst you, google Vladimir Nabokov) of the NBC family is so, dare I say, PRESUMPTUOUS, to pronounce judgment on ANYONE.

They’re just not that into you, KO!

Wonkette sure had it right!
http://wonkette.com/401680/dana-milbank-leaves-msnbc-for-cnn

So apparently Dana Milbank used to visit Keith Olbermann’s show every now and again, until he didn’t any more, because he called Barack Obama presumptuous. Now Milbank will be mean to Barack on CNN instead, and maybe grow a creepy Wolf Blitzer beard. We never watched this fellow on Countdown, assuming that if something were important enough, it would be brought to our attention.

The only one who CARES, Olbermann, is YOU.

Olbermann is becoming the Morton Downey Junior of this decade. No idea who he was?

Once upon a time he was all the rage.

Comment by Boxer Mum 06 | 2008-08-05 10:55:40

No Bias, No Bull!

 

Comment by AnnieO | 2008-08-05 11:33:37

Morton Downey Jr…yeah, now that you mention it, I see that! I completely forgot about that guy.

 

Comment by georgiapeach | 2008-08-05 12:12:11

Can we start the Countdown now to see how long it takes for Dana Milbank to be on the Worst Person in the World list? My favorite countdown would be NObama on my television, or no KO either.

 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-08-05 13:34:04

I remember Morton Downey Jr. He tried so hard to be endlessly fascinating that he wore us all out. Obama reminds me of him.

 

Comment by typical.white.person | 2008-08-05 16:11:45

Here is another view of what transpired.

Click on the “also responded” link for additional info.

 
 

Comment by agent77 | 2008-08-05 10:19:47

BOYCOTT THE ‘I OWN MY VOTE SURVEY’

Why is ‘I OWN MY VOTE’ offering the DRAFT as an option for its platform?

I Own My Vote is supposed to be a Hillary support group (i thought), but now if you are a member of I own my vote, you are supporting the draft.

And to all the idiots who think the draft will end the war, you are wrong.

The military needs 2 things, money and bodies. The Dems make sure they have the money and now all the fake anti-war people want to give them the bodies.

Its like trying to lower gas prices by raising the gas tax higher.

Comment by OBSP | 2008-08-05 10:25:34

Thanks for reminding me to sign the petition.

Comment by Andy | 2008-08-05 10:28:44

 
 

Comment by Andy | 2008-08-05 10:28:08

Enough with your repetitive comments already!

People here are smart and can choose the “I do not agree” option there.

Any item that doesn’t receive a majority of votes is not presented to the comittee.

so.. STOP TROLLING about this. Okay?

 

Comment by karen for Clinton | 2008-08-05 10:48:50

once again agent 86, did you notice there was a choice on that question? Agree or Disagree optional.

We are not a movement, we are not a cult, we are not the borg, we aren’t gullible. Although we do agree entirely on some things, such as how freaking funny it is to joke about the pathetic freak-show that is ob.

From Donna’s skunk hair to keith’s public breakdown, we are having a bit of a laugh at ob’s expense.

Now run along and boycott something useful such as the liar and fraud cult leader KOS, and make sure you ask him why he has perpetrated the colb as fact for all these months despite evidence for many months that it was clearly a fraud.

And you might want to use your shoe phone agent 86 and call HQ and ask about ob’s backpedal on the draft.

Carefully check out his plans and his statements for increases in troops and how he plans to screw it all up even more than it is already. He isn’t going to withdraw he is going to reassign and increase the number of troops to other arenas. Wall Street and the money machine are among the oh so many pulling his strings. cha ching, they want payback suckers.

Nobody owns Clinton and nobody tells her what to do, not even Bill. So stuff your boycott.

I am boycotting NBC, you should too, we all should.

Comment by audacity | 2008-08-05 11:44:10

“From Donna’s skunk hair to keith’s public breakdown, we are having a bit of a laugh at ob’s expense.”

because of the phrasing, regarding donna’s hair i read

keith’s PUBIC breakdown. LOL

 
 
 

Comment by Bill | 2008-08-05 10:26:29