No, we didn’t.
You don’t *really * wonder, do you? O’Reilly had to invent a personal threat by Al Qaeda, the Post would have something real to trumpet on Page 1. Instead, with the heat on their side politically, they’re doing what they can - trying to discredit one of Bush’s most articulate, and increasingly influential, critics, in the only way they can. The equally-partisan **Bricker ** surely understands that as well, to Marley’s point, his customary feigned innocence and neutrality notwithstanding.
This isn’t anything new for the Post, of course. During the decades Dorothy Schiff owned it, it was a choleric lowbrow lefty rag. Murdoch turned it into a choleric lowbrow *righty * rag instead. But it has never been all that different from this. How many extra copies, and choleric-lowbrow-oriented advertising, do you suppose this extra attention will get them? It doesn’t matter what they say as long as they spell your name right, as they say in Hollywood.
Wow, Bricker, you and I are agreeing…in a thread about someone like Keith Olbermann, nonetheless!
This is scary. :eek:
A couple days ago, the Post reported about Terell Owens’s attempted suicide with a Letterman style top-ten list of the reasons why he might have wanted to do so. (Number one: “Anything to help out the team.”) I like offensive humor as must as the next person, but I thought that was rather cruel. I kind of find the lollypop line here funny, but I agree that someone’s privacy- especially that of a public figure- shouldn’t be invaded regarding something as serious as this. I loved hearing Olbermann correct all the errors in the article- it reminded me of this guy who shot bullets through a story written about him in an Oregon newspaper.
I was actually expecting Olbermann to say they would divulge information if any Fox personality got in trouble in the future- I liked the idea of having a war between Fox News and CNN in more ways than one. But Olbermann is right in saying that that would be wrong.
Nitpick: don’t you mean MSNBC?
If the Post is going to do satire, it should be labeled as such. Otherwise they should at least attempt to create a reasonable facsimile of objective reporting. Anyone who goes to the Post for actual news might as well go to the Onion or the local barbershop.
You’re right. I forgot.
Wow. I had not seen this. I think I love him, too. Can we share?
And excellent drubbing down of some of the slimiest balls in media today. I was thinking that it was all fairly routine (the hazmat procedure he described) until they melted his keys and destroyed his wallet…jeebus.
At least the Onion would be funny, and I’d get a haircut at the barbership.
Keith Olberman and actual people besides. Wow. 
He’s supposed to have another special commentary tomorrow. Yay!
I suppose we’ll have to, eleanorigby, but since I called him first, I get first dibs!
What kind of navy uses a barbership?
The Barbary Pirates, of course.
They’re at it again.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm
Now Keith is bad in bed. And I went to Victoria’s Secret and everything!
That’s just class, right there. And I’m sure we can all trust what some anonymous person wrote on the internet.
I mean, this is the same level of journalistic integrity that brought us " I fucked Ann Coulter in the Ass, Hard" and we all believed that, right?
Honey, if he was such a dud in bed, why were you still trying to get in touch with him six days later and begging for an explanation of why he “dismissed” you?
That story makes the anonymous kiss-and-teller look a lot more pathetic than it makes Olbermann look.
So she automatically assumes that she was awesome in bed and that Keith’s desperate attempts to leave couldn’t possibly be that he was trying to politely get the heck away from her without hurting her feelings.
:rolleyes:
You mean we’re supposed to believe Internet blogs? :eek:
If that’s the case, someone should get in touch with Daniel Radcliffe and the 4,326 oversexed teenage girls (and 348 kinky boys) who claim to have had ecstatic sex with him, and warn them all about STDs!
Having seen the blog in question before it was locked out, it was a riot. Girl’s a total stalker nutjob.
As for Keith’s bedroom skills, I personally volunteer to conduct first-hand research into this issue.
Ah you’ve got to give the Coulter thing props for at least being funny.
Comedy gold.