That’s the title of an article by Stuart Schwartz at the American Thinker, which proceeds to then go absolutely nuclear on Keith, as this excerpt abundantly illustrates:
By the end of 2009, media observers were noting the “abysmal” state of Olbermann’s ratings. And now the thirty-day moving average of ratings shows him steadily sinking as Bill O’Reilly leads the charge of FOX News to the top. The FOX blowout of Keith and friends during the State of the Union this past week prompted National Review to ask, “[A]t what point does MSDNC pull the plug on its all-Left format?”
And so the fat lady is not just singing for Olbermann and MS-NBC: Rather, she is belting out an aria that rushes Katrina-like past the designer finery of Old Media grandees in the audience of Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera, rattles the Swarovski crystal chandeliers above their heads, hurtles across Central Park, and pierces the floor-to-ceiling windows of Olbermann’s $4.2-million 40th-floor Trump Palace roost.
It is from here that Olbermann leads the progressive media battle on behalf of America’s downtrodden, joined by neighboring New York Times staffers and mainstream media executives, fighting their self-described war on privilege from foxholes developed by Donald Trump. The various Trump Towers dotting upper Manhattan are, collectively, a progressive Pentagon, headquarters for the media war on Middle America…with Olbermann among the most polished of its brass.
…That is, until America began paying attention. The result: The audience of Countdown has sunk to roughly 20% of FOX News-viewers led by Bill O’Reilly. And now the fat lady is howling her delight as she joins a decades-long string of females in Keith’s life — beginning with his mother, who thought her son needed psychological help — whose fist-bumps will come when he has exited their lives.
Olbermann does not like women, especially attractive and/or accomplished women. Nor is he particularly fond of men. He is forever the awkward, angry teenager of his high school days who mystified psychologists, the überdork whose cruel taunts of the athletes he covered as a sports broadcaster were legendary, even as he yearned to be thought of as the stud that covers studs. Give it up, a Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist suggested after watching Olbermann ridicule the appearance of an overweight athlete. He noted that the hefty lefty is “so bloated he looks as if he swallowed Dan Patrick [his ESPN co-anchor] back in 1997.”
And so the venom drips, and the ratings sink. Olbermann is cruel to all who, as a class, have rejected him, such as joyful people and women…or people of faith and women…or people with traditional marriages and women…and those with well-adjusted relationships and women. Did I mention women?
Women are anathema to Olbermann. He delights in demeaning them, and the more attractive or accomplished they are, the more malicious he gets. Conservative Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, who relishes her role as policymaker and mother, is a frequent object of his anger; columnist Michelle Malkin is a “big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick” because of her intelligence and traditional values; Sarah Palin is a moronic “Bush in a skirt”; and there’s nothing wrong with Hillary Clinton — who had the nerve to oppose Barack Obama in the Democrat primaries — that a good beating won’t cure.
And if that doesn’t work, Keith is prepared to escalate the rhetoric accordingly.
Incidentally, to illustrate the disparity between Keith’s ratings and O’Reilly’s, it’s worth revisiting the chart we highlighted over the weekend:
According to that chart, he’s in second place! What more could you ask?
Steve,
Heh. Of course, in Chris’s mind, his show is number one, because he doesn’t believe that Fox is a real news channel. Maybe he doesn’t dig Geraldo.
If Olbermann et al were retired, where would the right blogosphere go for the “outrage of the day”?
The graph shows that both O’Reilly and Olberman got a bump in audience during the general election campaign. O’Reilly kept a fair portion of his new viewers, and seems to get many of the rest back on occasion, while Olberman did not.
His audience is the angry left. It’s a niche market, but it will always be there and it seems like MSNBC has been targeting it, so I doubt the hammer will come down from corporate. His ratings may be plunging again, but are probably still the pride of the network.
@#3: “If Olbermann et al were retired, where would the right blogosphere go for the ‘outrage of the day’”?
To an Obama presser, of course.
The question with Olbermann, after his Election Night meltdowns both back in November and during the Massachusetts election coverage on Jan. 19 is ‘How far is too far?’ His bosses at NBC seemed to be more irked, post-Scott Brown win, at Joe Scarborough’s tweets criticizing Olbermannn’s personal attacks on Brown than they were about how those attacks reflect on MSNBC in particular, and NBC, GE and it’s new partner Comcast in general. They seem to take the attitude that Keith’s no worse than Glenn Beck, so what’s the problem?
Of course, the problem is Olby’s attacks are of a much more guttural nature than the ones Beck unleashes on his opponents, with emotional charges substituting for any factual criticism. And with the political outlook for Democrats for the remainder of the year still not looking hunky-dorey, how much further can Olbermann ramp up the anger before his attacks become akin to threats and calls for action against his political enemies? It seems as if the suits at the network will only be moved to action if Keith becomes a possible tort liability that scares off sponsors, since they’ve decided that they don’t want to compete for viewers against Fox News and would rather have their little core of foaming-at-the-mouth leftists to sell to advertisers five nights a week.
#3,K: Outrage? Any number of fun-filled charts charts showing Barry’s fuzzy math should suffice. Unlike KO’s chart, they actually matter, in that these numbers – whether higher or lower ‘than expected’ (nurture the narrative, AP!) – have a real impact on productive Americans’ lives.
If that doesn’t do it, there’s always the endless bowing.
“GE and it’s new partner Comcast in general.”
Comcast is probably going to be more interested in earning a profit. Keith Olbermann has been getting away with his nonsense because GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt was thankful for his groveling before the Obama administration. The parent company has been focussing on helping the president pass his health care and cap and trade legislation. GE would have made an unbelievable sum of money. But that seemingly is over. And if this indeed the case—why keep Obermann around?
Comcast bought in mainly because of the cable networks the NBC Universal owned. What we’ll find out soon is how hands-on Comcast wants to be with those networks. USA, CNBC, SyFy, Telemundo, Bravo and even Oxygen probably make back their costs due to both ad rates and (relatively) low overhead. It’s hard to see how MSNBC fares well by comparison, unless there truly is a niche market of advertisers out there lusting after the moonbat 18-to-49 demographic.
(As for Keith’s hatred in general, aside from women, Bill O’Reilly, George W. Bush, Scott Brown, Glenn Beck, the Boston Red Sox and Rush Limbaugh, I suppose we should also include the R-36 World’s Fair subway car, which — unlike Keith’s other enemies — actually got its own shot in on Olby, cold-cocking him 30 years ago when he was trying to get on it coming out of a Mets game at Shea Stadium to the point that he now claims he can’t drive a car because the conk on the head from the door frame caused him to lose his depth perception.)
If Olbermann et al were retired, where would the right blogosphere go for the “outrage of the day”?
Egads! You’re right! It would be a tough search, but if they’re willing to retire, I’m willing to join in the search. So, call ‘em up and let’s get the process started, eh?