If you were watching KO:

[PCIntern]

That was not funny.

and if you weren't, you're lucky.

Guy breakdancing accidentally whomps a little girl...looked like a toddler. NOT FUNNY!
KO showed it about 50 times and added video-game SPFX to be cute. And tasteless.
I'm mad.

[thepurpose]

1. What are you talking about?

[PCIntern]

2. see edited post...

I just wanted to get it on, 'cause I was so frigging mad at him for debasing himself.

[Lex]

3. KO didn't do anything himself. He showed a video that's been making

rounds on the internet.

HE or his staff didn't add the special effects that you're referring to.

[PCIntern]

7. Still not funny...

Listen...he's the only LW guy on the air these days. WTF is he showing this crap so the idiots can say...he's just like us.

Lotsa stuff's going around...want some links to that? Some of it takes place in college dorm rooms or what are supposed to be dorm rooms.

Not funny.

[Lex]

11. Don't laugh then. I didn't. KO didn't.

Turn the channel.

KO often shows these 'viral videos' on his show. Not all are funny.


No need blowing a gasket over it.

[PCIntern]

13. I believe that I have a right to hold KO to a higher standard

than I do Tucker. Tucker is a moronic shithead who has to do this crap to stay alive. KO does not.

And he DID imply that he laughed...he said "Yeah, I'm going there (meaning Hell), but so are you because you laughed."

And one more thing - I'm not blowing a gasket. I'm just tired of shit coming from a guy of his quality, intellect, and real humor. His 'producers' have to a fair extent, corrupted the show and if he wants to be funny, there's a lot of legit humor involving consenting adults, not potentially mutilated children. Sorry.

[Lex]

14. Mutilated children?

And what has Tucker got to do with it?


Your points are quite persuasive.

[PCIntern]

18. Look Lex...

if you like that shit, fine. I don't think it belongs on KO, OK? (Palindrome) I simply said that if Tucker broadcast that, I wouldn't be surprised, that's what he has Willie Geist on for. To bring crap to a failing show.

and why don't you kick a kid in the head and see what his or her parent says to you. I simply said that it's NOT FUNNY.

[Lex]

22. I don't like it. Never said I did. I disagreed with your exaggerations

about it. Simple enough, eh?

And just how completely non-sensical is this for you to say? "and why don't you kick a kid in the head and see what his or her parent says to you"


Please try to follow a train of thought without kicking up strawmen like "why don't I kick a kid in the head". Ridiculous.

[PCIntern]

24. Oh I see...

I'm just not too bright, I guess.

You win.

[DeepModem Mom]

23. As I saw it, he, unfortunately, indicated he enjoyed it. I'm one of his biggest fans...

but someone led him astray on that video, and he should have used better judgment.

[PCIntern]

25. Thank you for your astute observation.

I sincerely appreciate your sensibility. It is a welcome relief.

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

27. I agree.

I am a huge fan of Keith, but he doesn't need to put something on his show that's in that poor taste, even if it's very popular on the Internets.

[patricia92243]

4. Not funny, bad taste :(

[KennedyGuy]

9. Bad taste??

I agree....
Lets at least get back to tastefully urinating on corpses.

[PCIntern]

10. Interesting...

wuzzat mean?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. Was The Toddler Significantly Hurt In Any Way?

[Lex]

6. KO said no, apparently not.

nt

[PCIntern]

8. That's not true...

he said that the toddler raised her head, so he thought she may not be seriously hurt. A Frist-like diagnosis.

[Lex]

12. "the little girl can be seen clearly lifting her head up

so we're hoping she's alright"


Frist? :wtf: Freak-out much?

[PCIntern]

17. No, I don't.

But I have a right not to be belittled for expressing outrage over his repetition over and over of a revolting, potentially harmful (although untintentional) circumstance.

I can watch that kind of thing on fucd.com

[rainy]

15. I didn't think it was funny either. If he shows it he should follow up

and send someone out to see how the little girl is doing.

[malaise]

16. I agree that it was distasteful

although he did not show it 50 times. He showed the original and a remix.

[Lex]

19. Exactly. It was distasteful and decidedly unfunny.

But you're right, he didn't show it 50 times, nor were there mutilated children.

[PCIntern]

20. How many times did you just see that little girl

get kicked in the head.

I happen to be a dentist and know well the effects of head trauma of the sort visualized on that video. It ain't good news for that kid, believe me.

[bobbolink]

26. Thank you for speaking up for head trauma. It only seems to matter here

when it affects vets.

Sad.

:(

edited to add: many times I don't see much difference between liberals defending their own to the death, and the RW doing the same with theirs.

Sometimes there are principles that matter more than our heroes!

[trumad]

21. So he showed it 48 less times.

[Berry Cool]

28. I would rather not have seen him show it once.

Anyone can be guilty of poor judgment, and in my mind that was poor judgment.

Normally I don't get my panties in a wad about the YouTube or animal-accident videos he shows, because he assures his audience that no one was seriously hurt. But this time he didn't really seem to have much evidence to back him up.

[trumad]

29. Point is---the OP is a bit hysterical

when it exaggerates 48 more times.

[DeepModem Mom]

30. That's beside the point. We need KO. IMO, the segment should be removed...

before the West Coast repeat. If folks here are upset, believe me there will be others. Most of America is not adolescent. And whoever referred KO to the video, IMO, should be fired.

[Berry Cool]

32. And I think he owes his audience an apology, too.

I know I don't have to agree with him on everything, but I was disappointed when he said "OK, I know where I'm going--but so are you, because you laughed." Well, no, I didn't laugh--more like "stunned" is my reaction. Like "Yeah, I know some people think this is funny, but it's only funny if no one was hurt. And we don't know that."

And my gosh, it was a little KID, for crying out loud. I don't think being stunned by it makes me one of those "Won't someone please think of the children?" pearl-clutchers.

Normally I don't mind Keith having a juvenile sense of humor--sometimes I do too and it's one of the things I appreciate about him. But this went over the line of "juvenile" into just...yuck.

[Rosemary2205]

31. Boycott Keith Olbermann RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!!111

Sorry, I know that was uncalled for....... :)

[Garbo 2004]

33. Email the show and let them know your objections if you haven't already.

And despite KO's on air joking about it, he's really not a captive of his producers.

[in_cog_ni_to]

34. I saw that. I didn't think it was funny either.

:(

Poor baby.

[MadBadger]

35. Havent seen it, but I am watching the repeat now

Im going to guess that I wont think its that bad and this is just an overreaction by all complaining. But we'll see.

[PCIntern]

36. We're awaiting your judgement, hnmnf.....n/t

[Mutineer]

37. I'm sorry I do not find a child being hit

to be amusing in the least. It was in poor taste and the worst part is that Keith seemed to be really amused by it. I was really disappointed in him last night for this.

[PCIntern]

38. He's developing and adolescent streak

possibly b/c of his relationship with a post-adolescent.

He's also using the Bahn Frei Theme which his hero (and mine as well) Jean Shepherd used to use at the beginning and ending of his radio show on WOR all those years ago.

Having a throwback.

[mwb970]

39. It was a rare lapse of taste.

I actually changed the channel when he put it on a loop: kick, kick, kick, kick. I felt dirty watching it.

[EstimatedProphet]

40. He didn't put it on a loop

Just keeping it real here. He didn't loop the video to show the kid being kicked multiple times. That was an edited video from Youtube that someone else did. He was reporting on the original video, and then the edited one that someone else did.

Personally I don't think it should have been aired.

[a kennedy]

41. I agree it was horrible.....and NOT funny.

:mad:

[Marie26]

42. Oddball is just dumb

What's it doing on a news program? I like Olbermann, but he has a sort of mean sense of humor sometimes.