Olbermann: ‘Good Riddance’ to ‘Delusional Liar’ Lieberman Who is ‘Lying Even on the Way Out’
On Wednesday’s Countdown show, as he plugged a segment on former Democratic-turned independent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman’s retirement, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann referred to Lieberman as a "delusional liar," and suggested that he had experienced a "departure from reality" for describing himself as a "moderate Democrat" after endorsing John McCain over Barack Obama for President. At the top of the show, the MSNBC host teased: "The end of the line for Joe Lieberman, self-described ‘moderate Democrat.’ Don’t let the delusional liar door hit you in the delusional liar butt on the delusional liar way out."
In another plug, Olbermann accused the Connecticut Senator of "lying even on the way out the door." And, after a segment with Minnesota Democratic Representative Keith Ellison in which the two discussed the Congressman’s experiences with death threats and hostile messages to his office, Olbermann almost seemed to lament that Lieberman had not gotten more grief even as he contended that public figures should be "untouched," and ended up declaring "good riddance" to Lieberman. Olbermann:
And then there are those politicians who sail through their public lives untouched, which is fortunate, which is the way it should be, unless what they are untouched by is reality. Tonight, goodbye, Joe Lieberman, and good riddance.
Below is a transcript of the plugs that preceded the segment on Senator Lieberman from the Wednesday, January 19, Countdown show on MSNBC:
KEITH OLBERMANN, IN OPENING TEASER: The end of the line for Joe Lieberman, self-described "moderate Democrat." Don’t let the delusional liar door hit you in the delusional liar butt on the delusional liar way out.
SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN (I-CT): So maybe that means that JFK wouldn’t fit neatly into any of today’s partisan political boxes either.
OLBERMANN: Senator, I know of Jack Kennedy, and you’re no Jack Kennedy.
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OLBERMANN, DURING COMMERCIAL BREAK AT 8:17 P.M.: Lying even on the way out the door. He was a moderate Democrat, and today he says JFK might be a Republican.
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OLBERMANN: And then there are those politicians who sail through their public lives untouched, which is fortunate, which is the way it should be, unless what they are untouched by is reality. Tonight, goodbye, Joe Lieberman, and good riddance.
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OLBERMANN, AFTER COMMERCIAL BREAK AT 8:30 P.M.: Joe Lieberman announces he will not run again, reveals he’s been living in a dream world of his own in which a Senator who endorsed the Republican presidential nominee is, quote, "a moderate Democrat."
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OLBERMANN, BEFORE COMMERCIAL BREAK AT 8:33 P.M.: The departure of Senator Joe Lieberman following by a couple of years his departure from reality. Dave Weigel next.
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Can you feel the love?
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:35am.
How could the LSM possibly mention that the "TONE" is not conducive to peaceful discourse?
This guy calling somebody delusional?
Submitted by Duff on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:45am.
It would be funny, except that there really are nutjobs out there who take this bobblehead seriously.
It's laughable that a
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:34am.
It's laughable that a self-important prick like Keef Olberdweeb could call ANYBODY a 'delusional liar'.......................and, hey, how's that 'new civility' working out with the left???
Gee....no hate there.
Submitted by NeoKong on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:40am.
What a piece of work he is. Didn't he just get all high and mighty last week as he lectured all of us on civility....?
Didn't you see the "Speshul Komment"?
Submitted by Texndoc on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:44am.
His "Special Komment" on his "Special Komment"? His first was on "civility" and his second was on how no one paid attention to the first one. So to hell with it.
I think his ratings are sinking. Which is nice.
In this part of the country...
Submitted by KyWriter on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:45am.
...we would say that boy is "tetched." He can't recognize "delusional" when he sees it in the mirror. And such rhetoric! I'm sure glad he racheted it down.
disobeying
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:47am.
Olbergoof is disobeying his master in the white house. Were we not told to be civil in our talk? Maybe he will get punished and have to sit in the corner with a dunce cap on.
gosh, I'm glad to see
Submitted by michiganruth on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 1:31am.
gosh, I'm glad to see Olbermann has really taken Pres. Obama's words to heart.
the problem, of course, is that the lefties didn't realize Obama was talking to them TOO, if not them MOSTLY. no. you can bet your last yuan that they assumed he meant Rush and Beck and Laura and so on.
they really have no clue. and Olbermann is the king of the clueless.
btw texndoc: Olby's ratings aren't sinking. there's nowhere left for them to sink to.
Crazy People Don't Know They're Crazy Either
Submitted by Boil It Down on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 1:36am.
I can't say that I'm particularly dismayed to see a consummate Washington insider retire but there is no way Liebermann deserves that sort of wrath from anyone, least of all Olbermann. Keith doesn't know he's a delusional liar the same way crazy people don't know they're crazy. Olbermann's "you're a do-do head", school yard rant doesn't really raise the level of dicourse. Or, am I being too kind?
Keith would know
Submitted by ckc1227 on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 1:44am.
If anyone would know something about delusional lying, it would be Keith and his band of delusional liars over at PMSNBC.
It's disheartening that
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 2:05am.
It's disheartening that someone as intentionally nasty and depraved as k*eith o*lbermann has enjoyed any success at all.
* I still refuse to use big letters in the name of such a small person
And then there are
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 2:56am.
And then there are those MSNBC hosts who sail through their public lives untouched, which is fortunate, which is the way it should be, unless what they are untouched by is reality. Tonight, goodbye, Keith Olbermann, and good riddance.
Ah, a girl can dream.
Typical leftist...
Submitted by DaveInNM on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 3:22am.
How DARE Leibermann actually get elected by his constituents! How DARE he express his support, (as an Independent,) for anyone but the far left's leg-tingling messiah!
I'm no big fan of Liebermann, but for a party named the "Democrats", they sure don't seem to have much respect for the democratic process by which we elected our representatives in government. In fact, their entire rhetoric about respect falls apart as they continuously refer to those of us in a grass roots movement attempting to reduce government spending and the tax burdern on our citizens by using a derogatory homosexual epithet as they lie outright about the motives and methods of that group. Or when they try to label anyone opposing the policies of the "first post-racial" President as racist, ALL based on the race of the President rather than his policies.
Liebermann is retiring at the end of this term, and wee K.O. can't show any of the civility the left claims for their own, but has to go on the attack against his character. I'd love to see his seat taken by a Republican in the next election just to watch K.O.'s watch brain melt and drip out of his ears all over his shirt. You'd have to watch real close because there's so little there to melt, but I'm sure with a freeze frame you'd be able to catch it if you were real good. :-)
Keith Ellison?
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 5:25am.
So, nowadays Keith Ellison does not go by his Muslim name (Keith Muhammad) which he trumpted earlier in his political career...an in-your-face deal while he shilled for Hamas. Yes, he would be who the other Keith (Olbermann) would have as a guest..
Special Keith
Submitted by txradioguy on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 7:18am.
You stay classy Keith.
He is an angry little piss
Submitted by USA4freedom on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 7:36am.
He is an angry little piss ant..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, the Republican party.
civil tone
Submitted by murf12 on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 8:22am.
Didn't Keef call for a better tone just a week ago? He is a LIAR
Is Olbie
Submitted by Iron Tigers Vet on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 8:38am.
actually talking about Lieberman or is he really talking about himself...
"delusional liar" - sounds a little bit of an understatement for Keefie-poo.
It's called "projection",
Submitted by johnsonl on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 8:43am.
It's called "projection", keith. Look it up. You DO know how to use a dictionary, don't you?
HYPOCRITE
Submitted by Truestar on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 9:03am.
Hmmm....Lieberman a "delusion liar". Even if Lieberman could actually be proven a delusion liar, (evidence for which Olberidiot offers nothing other than his own delusional screed), it seems the call for "civility" is a rather arbitrary term, given that inflammatory rhetoric can apparently mean just about anything as long as it applies only to certain people. But that makes perfect sense if you happen to be a professional hypocrite and propagandist for one particular point of view---Mr. Olberidiot.
Please Comcast...SHUT this jackass hypocrite propagandist THE HELL UP!
In Frank Costanzas voice
Submitted by kangaroo on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 9:11am.
In Frank Costanzas voice "Civility NOW"
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on"--Thomas Jefferson
Lieberman
Submitted by Ruckweiler on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 10:14am.
Wonder what Old Keith said about him when he won re-election as an Independent and decided to caucus with the Democrats? Would make an interesting comparison, wot?
Yeah, because LOLbermann has
Submitted by wiwf on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 11:16am.
Yeah, because LOLbermann has never lied before.
Olbermann's "Special Comments"
Submitted by lgeubank on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:42pm.
Whatever channel it is that keeps allowing Olbermann to make his "Special Comments," they're an absolute disgrace.
Olbermann is an alumnus of Special Education. He could enter the Special Olympics of reporting. He's a case of diminished capacity.
But for supposedly sane grown-ups to continue to allow his demented, malicious Special Comments on the air is a travesty.
I still for the life of me
Submitted by goon on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 4:44pm.
I still for the life of me can't figure out Keith Overbite can still have a job, the man is a vile disgusting pile of camel dung and offers nothing but hate speech.