It's That Time Again Folks! Give it up for Keith Olbermann!

[MadBadger]

The only person who is willing to ask tough but fair questions in all of the MSM. He has just took part in a fantastic interview with Hillary, asking her the tough questions that nobody else in the media has, about her hawkish answer in the ABC debate, to the Bin Laden Ad, to her propping up McCain, to her campaigns constant sexisms claims. Keith really took her to task with fair question.

Lets all give it up for Keith Olbermann!!


Bravo Keith!

[rndmprsn]

1. bravo...tough questions, she squirmed at times

good for him, ok for her

[ecstatic]

2. Someone needs to tell her that we do not appreciate her chuckling

when a tough question is asked. It is highly offensive, especially when accompanied with BS words.

[MadBadger]

4. Its okay, everybody knows now why she chuckles...its when she cant answer a question.

[krkaufman]

45. That's not a chuckle. My vocabulary falls short in accurately classifying it ...

... but it certainly is NOT a chuckle: "to laugh inwardly or quietly."

The sharpness of her laugh puts it beyond chuckle and, sorry, into the "cackle" classification -- which I'd also attribute to Chris Matthews. If someone has a better word to describe Hillary's trademark defensive "laugh", I'd welcome the education.

[ROakes1019]

3. hysterical Hillary

What was that with the hysterical laughter when Keith asked her about Scaife? He told her "seriously" but she kept on with her cackling. It was disgusting.

[TheDonkey]

15. there may have been a gas leak in the room with her. Hysterical Hill was spinning dangerously

[polichick]

24. She always laughs when there is no good answer.

[krkaufman]

46. It's a political maneuver. She started cackling as soon as Keith mentioned Scaiffe's name ...

... just as she has in the past when facing other questions with which she is uncomfortable. Her laughing at the question is an attempt to frame it as unworthy and irrelevant.

[Oceansaway]

5. Hillary looked great.....

and i'm in the Obama camp, (i think).....

[Tribetime]

10. He's one of the few left that doesn't interrupt and voice his

opinon in the middle of an answer...ABC, FOX, CNN

[speedoo]

6. I was disappointed in the lack of follow up questions.

Some of her comments in answering the questions were disingenuous or worse.

KO allowed her to go on too long with her answers as well.

[MadBadger]

7. Its called being a respectful journalist.

[speedoo]

8. Well, he's now asking Richard Wolfe a f/u question re. Iran.

I don't see why he could not have asked her. Nothing disrespectful about that.

Same thing now with a f/u question re. her hypocrisy re. McCain.

[MadBadger]

9. He didnt have time?

[speedoo]

12. He could have used the time he's now taking with Wolfe.

Could he not?

[MadBadger]

14. Talk to the producers, dont blame him.

[speedoo]

20. Sorry, but I disagree.

I like KO a lot, but he's responsible for the way he conducts his interviews, not his producers.

I can't give him a pass on this, especially after the ABC idiots abused Obama.

[MadBadger]

21. There is no reason to need to give him a pass. I think your argument is unwarranted.

[speedoo]

22. How is my argument unwarranted?

[MadBadger]

23. Cuz I think it was a good interview. It was nice to not hear an interview with constant interruption

But it is still TV, where there are time limits. They only have so much time to have these questions answered. He wanted to get to as many subjects as possible and asked her many tough questions. She made herself look foolish with her dumb answers and laughing.

[speedoo]

28. As I said before, he could have used his time with Wolfe to ask her f/u questions.

You seem to think that decision was made by KO's producers. That may or may not be true, but even if true it does not excuse KO for the way the interview was conducted. It's his show.

Normally, an interviewer (KO) asks the interviewee (Hillary, in this case) the f/u questions. Not a third party (Wolfe). It was strange, and less effective IMO. KO seemed to make an excuse for it, but I did not understand what he was saying.

[roguevalley]

40. she had to go on Larry King tonight so that might have been all the

minutes he had and he got as many of the unasked questions in as he could.

[SaveAmerica]

54. I believe the interview was recorded earlier and the Wolfe discussion was the wrap-up

of what was discussed, just as he does any other day.

[dmr]

64. Right, it was NOT a live interview

I thought the interview was respectful and fair, though long. The Clinton side have complained Keith has been unfair to her when he questions her tactics. No one can say he did not give her a fair shake during that interview.

As far as the poster above who thinks Keith could have done more - good grief, it was an interview, not an inquisition! The standards of journalistic responsibility is in shambles pretty near across the board; yet the one guy who takes this responsibility seriously can't catch a break with some people.

[LibGranny]

34. Time constraints - not KO's

but Shillary's - she was doing the Larry King show immediately following.

[speedoo]

37. That's not clear to me.

KO said there were time constraints, but he did not say they were from Hillary. He said nothing about who set the time constraint.

Do you have another source?

[krkaufman]

48. Your comments certainly imply clarity on the issue ...

... saying Keith could have used the Wolff time to extend the Clinton interview.

[krkaufman]

47. I doubt that the time restriction was Keith's

I expect Keith was given only so much time, from the Clinton campaign, for the interview, and had to cover as much ground as possible. He could spend all the time on one question trying to get an honest answer, but would likely never succeed.

[speedoo]

61. You could be right, of course.

But then it's curious why KO did not say who set the time constraint. He seemed deliberately vague about that, to me anyway.

[tridim]

13. He explained he was under a strict time schedule, taped before the show.

Follow up is going on now.

[speedoo]

17. I heard that, but I don't understand it. nt

[tridim]

32. Hillary gave him 15 minutes and that's it.

[speedoo]

38. How do you know that?

KO said there was a time constraint but he never said who set it.

[SaveAmerica]

56. I'm sorry I answered you without reading your other responses.

[speedoo]

60. No problem.

I think it's safe to say nobody really knows why KO conducted the interview without asking follow ups and then asked Wolfe the follow ups. At least he asked her tough questions, and allowed her to answer as she pleased, unlike Gibson and Stephanopolous with Obama.

[roguevalley]

41. teevee. nothing to understand.

[roguevalley]

39. I think he had a list of carefully vetted questions and didn't have time.

[speedoo]

63. Yes, but I still don't understand the time constraint.

As in, who set it. I guess I should email KO to get an answer.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. And he's also criticizng her responses with Richard Wolff right now!!!

[ErinBerin84]

16. "Why was she laughing?"

That bothered me too, especially after Keith was like "Seriously..I quit my previous job over this."

[gateley]

18. I'd like to insert a Give it up for Cafferty, too.

Thanks.

I'm going to have to wait until the Olbermann clip gets to YouTube. Thanks for alerting me (and other non-cable people) to it. :hi:

[Willo]

19. Good job, Keith. Respectfully done. Thank you n/t

[ErinBerin84]

25. one thing

I think he should have asked her about moveon.org, considering that her campaign is unable to give a straight answer about it (as well as unable to give a response on what her opinion of the weather underground pardons are).

[MadBadger]

26. So little time, so many questions.

[ErinBerin84]

29. She had a good answer to the historical candidacies question

The umbrella nation thing continues to scare me.

[MadBadger]

30. Yea, though I could have sworn in the debate the question didnt mention Iran using a nuclear attack.

[futureliveshere]

27. I really enjoyed the post interview analysis with the Newsweek guy Wolffe! "Why did she laugh" :D

[Saturday]

31. And Hillary was great too! Go Hillary!nt

[MadBadger]

33. HAHAHAHAHAHA

Sorry, i was just quoting Hillary.

[LibGranny]

35. Yes she was great - if

you're on drugs!

[Diane R]

36. I thought she looked furious. Those are the questions they pressured ABC to not ask.

[roguevalley]

42. I remember thinking how good it was that she will not be the one

because she had a get even expression on her face halfway through, a list making and revenge taking expression.

[Ronnie]

44. Actually, it would be

get-even and revenge-taking. They are adjectives.
And BTW, I'm quite certain that Senator Clinton will be too busy doing well at whatever she does after this to spend her time getting even and taking revenge. It doesn't seem to be in her or her husband's character. People who accuse them of pettiness are simply projecting their own natures onto people who are obviously too busy to spend their time that way.

[krkaufman]

50. Recent news would indicate otherwise

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/politics/20loyalty.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fremon/clinton-slams-democratic_b_97484.html

[speedoo]

62. Bingo. nt

[roguevalley]

59. really? Projecting much are you? I hear that the SDs are afraid

of coming to their decisions because of the revenge-taking/list-making attitudes and behaviors of the Clintons. You should read more. Kerry didn't come through with an endorsement and he's dead to them. He was the only one who would be seen with bill after his adultery. I could list dozens of incidents that are well known and well vetted. Of course, that won't matter to you it appears. Truth hurts. Go project some place else.

[Ronnie]

43. You must know some important people at ABC to know this.

I'm very impressed.

[CK dexter]

49. Olbermann's a good man

:toast:

[Vinca]

51. Maybe I'll have to find a video and watch it. I switched channels

the second I heard her nails-on-chalkboard voice.

[leftchick]

52. video here....

warning**** Lots of nervous cackling amidst the triangulations....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=manVCxOVaEk&feature=related

[madwivoter]

53. Keith did a great job

Asking her questions that no one else seems to have the balls ~er, guts~ to ask her.

I know that a lot of Hillary supporters are now on the "I hate Keith Olbermann" train, but she put herself out there and had to be very aware of the level of questions Keith would ask her.

Transcript on HuffPo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/21/hillary-clinton-on-countd_n_97877.html

[ShortnFiery]

55. Kudos Keith Olbermann!

:yourock:

[maximusveritas]

57. Keith is the best thing on TV

Great job

[truebrit71]

58. Agreed!!!

That cackling seemed to annoy him as much as his viewers...

[Bensthename]

65. To her credit she did a good job at not answering the questions..

[stillrockin]

66. He asked the right questions but allowed her to spin away w/ no follow-up.

[Usrename]

67. As a whole I though it was a fair interview.

I didn't like the "he said, she said" stuff about which candidate is blowing more smoke up McCain's butt, but the rest was good.

I am very glad that finally someone asked her about her relationship with Scaife. It was an interesting response.