Kurtz: "The Anti-Bush Anchor" (KO says "in same...ballpark as...liberals")

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: The Anti-Bush Anchor
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 3, 2006

Night after night, President Bush is being kicked, punched, slapped, poked, stomped and otherwise disrespected in one small corner of the cable television world.

And Keith Olbermann doesn't deny it has been good for ratings.

"I find myself currently aligned, not in the sense of having membership, but being in the same part of the ballpark as a lot of liberals," says the host of MSNBC's "Countdown."

Is Olbermann catering to the anti-Bush crowd? Since Hurricane Katrina, he says, a growing number of people have "had their eyes opened" to the administration's failings and do not see their points of view reflected in television news. "We have to be responsive to an audience's perception of the world or they will ignore us."

The former sportscaster denies that he's pushing an ideological agenda, noting that he relentlessly covered the uproar over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in his first incarnation as an MSNBC anchor in 1998. Of course, he was so sickened by the spectacle that he quit, complaining about the media's role in the tawdry process, though while he now gives every indication of enjoying his anti-Bush program....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html

[BlueEyedSon]

1. KO isn't biased, "the facts are biased" (thx Rob Corddry!)

[NoPasaran]

3. Why do the facts hate America?

[crispini]

12. ROFL!

[yellowcanine]

8. "I tell the truth and the Republicans think it is Hell." - Harry S. Truman

"If you would know how long it took me to get him to say 'manure' you wouldn't complain about it." - Bess Truman.

[Strawman]

2. what's the virtue of equal time stenography?

The promise of the "objective" professional media is to provide citizens with an agreed upon set of facts. But when the political project of one (or sometimes both) sides involves defining the situation in a way that misrepresents facts, you have to take them on, and not simply parrot spin form both sides. That's what too many of these journalists do today and that's why they're increasingly worthless.

[Flubadubya]

4. To the extent that KO may be a "Bush Basher"....

Kurtz is an unmitigated, unreformed Bush Apologist. Guess which one has the truth on his side though. Screw you, Howie!!! :grr: :puke:

[Mira]

5. Let's keep supporting KO at [e-mail] n/t

[maine_raptor]

6. Love this in that article....

Liberal bloggers have been praising Olbermann, but one online critic, Robert Cox, recently launched a new site, Olbermann Watch, where a contributor said: "Hello! Earth to Krazy Keith! When was the last time anybody who disagreed with your spin was permitted to sit for an interview with your almightyness?"


What's the matter Mr/Ms "Contributor", don't like that fact there is someone out there in the media that refuses to listen to RW BS?

Jeesh.............:eyes:

As for Howie; Say just how much did your wife make while working for the Bush Transition Team anyways? Did ya tell the IRS about that? :popcorn:

[gkhouston]

7. "while he now gives every indication of enjoying his anti-Bush program"

Who cares whether he's enjoying it or not? Is the reporting accurate? I didn't have cable back when KO was covering the Lewinsky scandal, but if I'd been watching him then, I wonder if I would have thought KO was enjoying the snark back then, too. There's not much point in writing a snarky newscript if you're going to deliver it like someone just ran over your dog. :eyes:

[kentuck]

9. Better than being in the same ballpark with Bush and the criminals...

But that is where you prefer to be Howie?

[gratuitous]

10. Gee, Mistah Kurtz

A whole half hour five days a week against Bush. It hardly seems fair when you consider three hours a day of Rush, three hours a day of Lars, an hour or two a day of Hannity, an hour a day of O'Reilly, and on and on. Too bad Olbermann can kick the living shit out of all that propaganda in just a half hour a day and still have time left over. Maybe you need better apologists for the corrupt Bush administration. Or better facts.

Jackass.

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Apparently, O'Reilly's not making an impact

so Rove had to give another shout out to Howie.