During a special edition of MSNBC’s Countdown show after Friday’s presidential debate, Keith Olbermann seemed to insert a joke about the weight of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger into a conversation about the performance of John McCain and Barack Obama. As previously documented by the MRC’s Matthew Balan, the Countdown host brought up McCain’s difficulty in pronouncing the name of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and liberal Air America and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow contended that Obama’s most memorable line was when he accused McCain of being "wrong" about Iraq. Referring to Obama’s line in which the Illinois Democrat incorrectly suggested that Kissinger agreed with him about meeting with dictators like Ahmadinejad, Olbermann, who has a history of making fat jokes about conservatives on his Countdown show, made a quip at Kissinger’s expense in which the MSNBC host seemed to pick on his weight: "Or, perhaps, throwing Henry Kissinger back in Senator McCain’s face, which is physically a tough act to do certainly."
Regarding Obama’s claim that Kissinger’s views on Iran are in line with his own, as referenced by Newsbusters contributor Warner Todd Huston, the former Secretary of State has voiced his disapproval of Obama’s description of his views. Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard quoted Kissinger on his blog: "Senator McCain is right. I would not recommend the next President of the United States engage in talks with Iran at the Presidential level. My views on this issue are entirely compatible with the views of my friend Senator John McCain. We do not agree on everything, but we do agree that any negotiations with Iran must be geared to reality."
Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the 11:00 edition of the of the Friday, September 26, Countdown show on MSNBC:
RACHEL MADDOW: But honestly, I think because this is the first of three debates; because it was very long and very dense, and had no breaks -- probably the way most people are going to interpret this is with the juiciest sound bites that get played over and over again, and honestly I think the juiciest soundbites in this debate were attacks by Barack Obama against John McCain. When he said over and over again -- on Iraq, you were wrong. You said we would be greeted as liberators -- you were wrong. You said it would be easy -- you were wrong. That was probably the best soundbite of the entire night. That may be the thing that lives on past this debate.
KEITH OLBERMANN: Or, perhaps, throwing Henry Kissinger back in Senator McCain’s face, which is physically a tough act to do certainly.
—Brad Wilmouth is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.
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Keith Olbermann makes me
September 27, 2008 - 12:34 ET by MikeknaJKeith Olbermann makes me sad. Sure, he may help MSNBC's ratings. But you know what also might help their ratings? Airing Running Man-style death races. Doesn't mean it deserves to be or should be on TV, though.
I can't even watch him do sports anymore, on NBC's Sunday Night Football. Even if he broke out "from way down town... bang!" it just wouldn't be the same.
I will say this. MSNBC's coverage of the debate last night, after it ended, was much more tolerable and fair. David Gregory (who I'm generally not a big fan of) was light night and day compared to Olbermann anchoring. It didn't last long, because they threw to Countdown about 20 minutes later, but it was a marked improvement over what was going on during the Conventions.
"Look, when Keith anchors, he plays it straight down the line.”
-MSNBC President Phil Griffin
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Olbermann makes me ill. Him
September 27, 2008 - 13:08 ET by kgOlbermann makes me ill. Him and Maddow deserve each other, not that she would have him mind you. Neither of these two have any class whatsoever.
You would think as they spew their lies their conscience would get the better of them.
I stopped watching Sunday night football after they put him back on the program.
"Forget change, I want improvement!"
Keith & Rachel - both unattractive to women
September 28, 2008 - 00:19 ET by bpjamI saw Blothermann on Letterman and he looked pretty fat to me. He looked like he was pushing maybe 250lbs. Rachel Maddow is a better looking guy than Keith is. And speaking of fat, is anybody going to talk about Chrissy 'tingle up my leg' Matthews or how chunky their former boss Tim 'Carter Era' Russert was?
Maybe MSNBC is going to be doing one of those Nutrisystem commercials with their on-air 'talent'?
breaking news !!!
September 27, 2008 - 16:49 ET by wdhorningHenry Kissinger was just interviewed live on Fox News minutes ago and
he said "no president should sit down with the Iranian president
without preconditions, preset by working level diplomats." (paraphrase)
However, Obama lied and said Kissinger told McCain he should just sit down with the president of Iran without preconditions.
Obama, the liar, had a fire, now its been quenched.
He sucks at prose, see his big nose, now he's been benched.
Did anyone expect
September 27, 2008 - 12:37 ET by Jack Hermanany less of Keith "fathead" Olberman? Or should I steal an Archie Bunkerism. Keith is a "meathead". Dead from the neck up.
Hmm... I don't know that
September 27, 2008 - 12:50 ET by MikeknaJHmm... I don't know that sinking to Olbermann's level really helps the cause so much.
"Look, when Keith anchors, he plays it straight down the line.”
-MSNBC President Phil Griffin
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McCain won..
September 27, 2008 - 12:39 ET by jawebster1because he was right about Iraq and Obama was wrong. Had we gone into Afghanistan without going into Iraq at the same time we would have been surrounded on all sides by our enemies and we would have lost and Saddam Hussein would still be alive and wrecking havoc. Jim Webster
First reports
September 27, 2008 - 12:51 ET by KC MulvilleThe military says that first reports are always wrong. My God, the truth of that phrase is being proved constantly in this political season.
That's why the news business has a dilemma - being first or being right? It's especially tough when being right usually means waiting for the truth to emerge from the spin. The fools are the ones who keep going for first, even though they're almost always wrong. (Cf. MSNBC)
MAN TO MAN
September 27, 2008 - 13:11 ET by FC DOBBSWHAT MAKES THESE TWO GUYS THINK THEY COULD
GIVE AN HONEST ANALOGY OF A PRESIDENTIAL
DEBATE. THEY ARE SO FAR LEFT THAT BOTH ARE
HANGING OVER THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF. NOW, IF
MCCAIN HAD VERBALLY BROUGHT OBAMA TO
HIS KNEES BEGGING FOR MERCY. BOTH OF THESE
MANNEQUINS WOULD SAY OBAMA WON THE DEBATE
BECAUSE HE SO ELOQUENT IN HIS PLEAS.
OH, MADDOW IS A FEMALE? SORRY,MY MISTAKE.
"NOBODY PUTS ONE OVER ON FRED C DOBBS".
B.TRAVEN
BAILOUT MONEY GOING TO OBAMA FRAUD GROUP
September 27, 2008 - 13:26 ET by john5750URGENT !!! BAILOUT $$$$$$$$$$ GOING TO OBAMA FRAUD GROUP
THEY WANT TO GIVE 20% OF BAILOUT BILLIONS TO ACORN - OBAMA'S FRONT FOR ELECTION FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING
............just google obama money laundering and election fraud.
Last night, Greta Van Susteran interviewed Senator Lindsey Graham. If the bailout proposal goes through with the counter-proposals from Sen. Chris Dodd, ACORN would receive 20% of 700 billion dollars of the bailout money.
Curious to learn more about Graham’s references, I also read “Kill the bailout: More ACORN funding?!,” which offers this explanation of the Dodd counter-proposal:
“Senator Graham is referring to Section 5 of the Dodd counter-proposal to the Paulson Plan. To summarize, it promises a minimum 20% of the ‘profits’ from the Treasury’s sale of assets to The Housing Trust Fund and the Capital Magnet Fund.”
And this morning I found another mention of ACORN at HotAir in this article, The Democratic ACORN bailout. Ed Morrisey had this to say:
House Republicans refused to support the Henry Paulson/Chris Dodd compromise bailout plan yesterday afternoon. One of the sticking points, as Senator Graham explained, was a poison pill that would push 20% of all profits from the bailout into the Housing Trust Fund — a boondoggle that Democrats in Congress have used to fund political-action groups like ACORN.
I went to PublicMarkup.org to read the counterproposal, which includes comments from citizens.
a href=”http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/25/kill-the-bailout-more-acorn-funding”>
Just heard that Graham told Fox that the Mother of All Bailouts includes a reported $100 million more in funding for the left-wing housing entitlement thugs and heavily tax-subsidized fraudsters at ACORN.
Under the original bailout proposal, apparently, a large portion of any repayment of the $700 billion would go to Barack Obama’s good friends at ACORN with a smaller allocation to debt repayment.
It is time to wake up people. ACORN has already received money from the housing bill Bush signed into law. Now they are set to receive 20% of the money from the bailout bill.
Along with all of that money, they are trying to affect the federal elections.
There will be more on ACORN and ACORN Housing Corporation as the day rolls on!
www.NoQuarterUSA.net
Dodd is the only senator who has occasionally taken more Fannie/Freddie money than Obama. The two of them are the greedy corrupt pigs who created this crisis..........AND THEY WANT MORE !!!!
OUR BAILOUT BILLIONS GOING TO OBAMA FRAUD GROUP
OBAMA USES ACORN FOR ELECTION FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING
Laundering payments to ACORN through a front company, in a conspiracy to defraud the FEC is a crime.
Another glaring oddity is Stage, Lighting and Sound (SLS) %u2013 also a service never previously reported as a CSI offering.
Obama made two payments for SLS to CSI within two days of each other. These payments were the largest checks made for "concerts" throughout the entire campaign calendar. CSI received $310,000 followed by $160,000 two days later. Two days after that, CSI got a $98,000 check for Travel/Lodging. Two weeks after that another $74,000 was paid to CSI for SLS. Two weeks later, $18,000 for Polling was reported, followed by another $18,000 for SLS the following day.
All of the above payments went to a company that admits they provide none of the above services.
There are numerous federal offenses that may have been committed by the Obama campaign.
A complaint to the FEC is being prepared and could be filed soon.
OBAMA-ACORN IS STEALING ANOTHER ELECTION
MORE OBAMA ELECTON FRAUD
Municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group.
The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program.
ACORN''s Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.
"There appears to be a sizeable number of fraudulent applications," said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State''s Office. "And it appears to be widespread."
Recently, ACORN''s voter registration programs have come under investigation with some employees convicted of voter fraud.
In Pontiac, where several thousand applications have been submitted by ACORN in the last few weeks for the November election, the clerk''s office is finding that numerous applications are sometimes filed under one name.
"They''re steadily coming in, and we are finding a huge number of duplications.
In Oak Park, clerk Sandra Gadd said they have been seeing "lots of duplication" from ACORN in recent months. ACORN is the nation''s largest community organization for low-income families.
Lagstein said ACORN''s Detroit office has hired dozens of employees for the voter registration program.
MORE OF OBAMA''S GOOD OLD "COMMUNITY ORGANIZING".
last night's snapshot poll
September 27, 2008 - 13:30 ET by wdhorningBoth CNN and Fox had "punch in" polling. Here were the numbers about midnight:
: CNN FoxNews TOTALS
McCain 30317 73800 104117
Obama 73250 15300 88530
These results show a few things:
1) for the total of all Democrats and Republicans and Independents,
more voted for McCain where the vote ratio was 44% for Obama, but 56%
percent for McCain.
2) CNN has a viewership that is mostly Democrats, that is a ratio of
3:1 over Republicans, yet Obama only got 7:3 ratio which, when a common
denominator is used, yields 7:3 ratio out of 9:3 proving that many
Democrats switched sides, at least when looking at debate performance.
(A tie ratio would have been 9:3, but Obama only got 7:3).
3) FoxNews viewship is mostly Republicans, and that ratio is about 7:5
over Democrats according to recent viewer's survey. In this case McCain
got a ratio of 3:1 and when the common denominator is changed for
comparison we see that with a viewership of 7:5 McCain got a vote of
confidence of 15:5 which exceeds a tie of 7:5 by 2 to 1
4) There was of course some independent voters in the mix, so the ratios are not perfect, but still close
5) Finally, the FoxNews poll also shows a much larger percentage of
Democrats watch FoxNews than the percentage of Republicans that watch
CNN. Could it be that FoxNews presents both sides more fairly that
CNN?
Ans: I watched the interviews after the debate and very strong
arguments were allowed to be made by spokespersons from both McCain and
Obama camps on FoxNews. I have watched CNN on occasion in the past,
just to compare, and sure enough, CNN lets a Republicn who is a "numb
nuts" speak on behalf of McCain/Palin, but picks the brightest Democrat
to speak for Obama/Biden.
7) I believe it was 6 times Obama had to say something like, "Sen
McCain is absolutely right", while McCain only agreed with Obama ever
so slightly on a few key points (like doing something about the
financial crisis). It seems McCain articulated much better, which was
not just debating skills alone, but he has more knowledge in the
background of all issues.
8) This simple survey shows that all the MSM commentators are clearly
in the Obama camp, because they all said Obama won the debates, but the
combined Democrat-Republican survey I just did proves them to be biased
at bias can get.
9) I watched a discussion afterwards, where Juan Williams could NOT
look anyone in the face when he said Obama won the debate and also
while explaining why, showing Mr Williams, in truth, did not believe
what he was saying. He finally did look the moderator in the face for
those things that were simple statements of fact, however, proving he
was embarassed when he lacked confidence in his support of Obama, but
OK when what he said was just a statement of fact. All the other
commentators looked the moderator in the face, because they all
provided more balanced comments that were fairly truthful, including
those comments favoring Obama. No one looked down or away when
providing favorable comments for McCain.
Can someone please explain
September 27, 2008 - 13:42 ET by nicksmith112Can someone please explain to me how Obama was right about Iraq????
What intel did Barack have about Iraq from his perch in the state legislature that ruled out military force???
Obama being against the Iraq war tells me military force will never be an option for his administration....I see a lot of apologizing to the world about how bad America has been....you know similar to what we hear from his spiritual adviser Wright....Barack continues to claim he knew nothing about the hate Wright speech.
I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.
if we had taken out Iran's government instead of Iraqs
September 27, 2008 - 14:21 ET by Jnoble..then Obama would today be talking about how "we went after the wrong target and should have dealt with Saddam Hussian and his WMD programs instead" which still would have been playing games with the UN and the weapons inspectors. You know it and I know it. And he'd also be promising to negotiate more with Saddam to find a solution to his stockpiles of mustard nerve gas and whatever else he had destroyed shortly before we rolled into town.
Here you go, here is more
September 28, 2008 - 08:25 ET by tomnkikiHere you go, here is more info about BO and JW's and Ayers's relationships in BO's own words.
http://www.youtube.c...
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Hung Like A Thumbtack
September 27, 2008 - 14:28 ET by BigSpoon65BigSpoon65
Mark Levin says one of Keith Olbermans girlfriends has revealed that poor Keith is hung like a thumbtack. That would explain why he is mad at the world. Also explains why it angers Keith when someone tells him to "get a grip". Apparently there might not be enough to get a handle on it. Then there is Keiths buddy Chris Matthews who must watch these debates in a dark room with a box of kleenex to take care of that thrill that rubs down his leg.
Conservative.....Because we can't all be on welfare!
BS65... LOL...we both had
September 27, 2008 - 14:39 ET by bigtimerBS65...
LOL...we both had same thoughts about the reference to Olbie...
GMTA....so they say...I love it!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Maddow/Olbie...upset are
September 27, 2008 - 14:36 ET by bigtimerMaddow/Olbie...upset are they?
Wonder which one of these two critters are really hung like a thumb-tack...bet Madcow beats him hands down if they had a contest...
LMAO!
Pathetic what they try to do with the public with their filthy propaganda.
I'll tell ya msnbc is getting down-right desperate at the moment and it is going to do nothing but intensify in the next 4/5 weeks...I listened to some of Scarborough last night, adn this morning...he really is a troubled man bowing to msnbc...once again...every once in awhile he snaps out of it for a bit...but heck, he is kissing butt again...I have been so glad he is not in Congress anymore for a long time now...sold his integrity out long ago.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Get Olbermann out
September 27, 2008 - 16:37 ET by The DistributistLet's get him off the show by sending complaints here:
nbcsportshelp@nbcuni.com
"Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers." -GKC
So Obie thinks Kissinger is
September 27, 2008 - 19:01 ET by CooltomSo Obie thinks Kissinger is a fatty? Yo, Odiousman, have you checked out Al Gore lately?
Olby isn't qualified to
September 27, 2008 - 20:35 ET by GregEOlby isn't qualified to carry Kissinger's jock strap.
Keith Has His Own
September 28, 2008 - 00:51 ET by BigSpoon65BigSpoon65
I believe it consists of a rubberband and a peanut shell. LOL
McCain/Palin - America First!
Excuse me for a bit, I've
September 28, 2008 - 08:20 ET by tomnkikiExcuse me for a bit, I've got a psycho commie libs. face to go sit on. Be back in a few. I hope he has a plastic surgeon on-call. I'm a tad pleasingly plump.
Puh-lease! WonderMop
September 28, 2008 - 22:06 ET by ReaganRuledPuh-lease!
WonderMop infomercials with that loudmouth Billy Mays still get higher ratings than Bathtub Boy!
Why is everyone so concerned with what Mr Plastic hair has to say? Heck, I'm only angry about the fact that NBS put him on Sunday Night Football! Now, on Sunday nights after watching the two afternoon games, I turn the TV off and do needlepoint or clip my toenails instead.
Besides .. Booberman should
September 28, 2008 - 22:09 ET by ReaganRuledBesides .. Booberman should hardly jest about another person's "weight issues!" POT .. KETTLE .. BLACK.
When Boob' is 88 years old, I'm sure he'll be oh-so fit!