Olbermann Warns Kos Kids: Don't Criticize Me -- It Helps the Right

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In today's "Does His Ego Know No Bounds?" segment, Keith Olbermann warned Daily Kos readers on Friday that they should not post diaries or comments critical of him for it strengthens the Right.

As NewsBusters Mitchell Blatt reported Friday, a diary was posted at Daily Kos on July 18 that bashed the "Countdown" host for just attacking Republicans and not doing any real news.

Olbermann clearly was displeased, and posted a response that was two parts Narcissus and one part Norman Bates (h/t Hot Air):

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I preface this by saying, got a complaint about me, go ahead. Diarize, comment, whatever (actually those first two are your only choices - there is no 'whatever'). There's a chance I'll ignore it, there's a chance I'll agree with it, but usually I'll respond to it and try to explain or at least address it. I'd say "Bring It On," but that doesn't necessarily have the same meaning it used to.

However, be forewarned: you may be part of a plan to make it look like I'm under siege by the Left.

Step 1: Trollish person writes over-the-top critical diary (in this case, on the Mark Sanford email reading).
Step 2: Lots of defense of your undersigned diarist (thank ye).
Step 3: RW website writes piece quoting this here site: "By Wednesday, even critics on the left said Olbermann had gone too far." [...]

Again, no request for amnesty, agreement, criticism-free zones, or universal love is implied here. Just watch out: there's nothing better for the lunatic fringe when a Mark Sanford hits an iceberg, than to throw up some phony Liberal-on-Liberal-Violence sabotage chaff in front of the torpedos headed towards a Republican-In-Crisis.

He really is a psychiatrist's dream, isn't he?

After all, when you get passed the limitless vanity feebly attempting to mask the paranoid schizophrenia, Olbermann actually confirmed the original Kossack's complaint: all he does is Republican-bashing...even when he's defending being accused of such.

Honestly, you can't make this stuff up.
 
*****Update: It's interesting to note that Olbermann referred to his critic as a troll. Yet, a close look at kwolfman's previous diaries shows him to be your basic Kossack who hates Glenn Beck, hates Dick Cheney, hates Sarah Palin, and hates George Bush.
 
Such a person would certainly be considered a troll at NewsBusters, but this makes up the overwhelming majority of Kossacks INCLUDING Keith Olbermann.
 
As is typically the case, Olbermann was making accusations without knowing the facts.
 
But that's not at all surprising.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.


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Actually, Olbermannn, we don't need the Kos Kids...

...to point out that you are a complete ass.

→ That's Diarrhrize

Keith, put that word in your personal spellchecker.  You're obviously conversant in diahhrizing.

Under my plan of a cap & trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket - BHO

Cry us a river

This is hilarious...Olbie is crying in his bubbles, along with his rubber-ducky because a big crazy leftist site even suggested he was over the line.

Priceless.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

"If anyone does any

"If anyone does any criticizing it is going to be me and it is going to be about a conservative. And if anyone at KOS is going to criticize it had better be about a conservative. I am one of you guys so I am off limits. So be forewarned!"

**** Keith Olbermann **** 

"DumbAssity of Dope"

Apparently the Kos Kids

Apparently the Kos Kids missed Olbermann when he said that what he does is "really journalism."

And I guess they are not quite as enamored of  Keith's oh-so "Special Comments" as he himself is.

I love his theory that his getting slammed by the Daily Kos is a  right-wing conspiracy.  

Whatever gets you through the night, Keith.

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

→ mb

In the spirit of contrition, dKos has taken up a collection, and will fund round the clock medical care with Dr. Conrad Murray.

Seems Dr. Murray cleared his calendar late this week.

Under my plan of a cap & trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket - BHO

This is just toooooooooo

This is just toooooooooo funny 

 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

 

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missed Olbermann when he said that what he does is "really journalism."

lol.  Hey, Motherbelt, can you imagine Ernie Pyle or Edward R. Murrow publicly scolding someone for criticizing them?

Come to think of it, can you imagine Pyle or Murrow doing anything Olbermann does?

Evening dahlia... I'm not

Evening dahlia...

I'm not mb obviously...but my answer is a resounding NO!

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Hey, dahlia, long time no

Hey, dahlia, long time no see, girl!

Olbermann imagines himself  the new Murrow....what a joke.

No class, all A$$

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

Wow

Keefy is trying to tell his base to cool it? Too funny. Wouldn't want to upset the Erkle followers...

just another example of the

just another example of the lib nutters dishing it out, but can't take it, but obbies right, it helped the right to comfirm that we were right, LOL

Olbermaniac

jessieH            I won't criticize you mr. Olbermann. I will ignore you 100%. You are an idiot, why should I care what you think?...................I have something to say. FOX news has spent 3 days talking about M. Jackson. At the same time, congress has passed a bill that will destroy this country. How does jackson's death affect me & mine? It doesn't! I can not seem to get online to Fox and I am sorry for taking up Newsbusters time, but I had to speak my mind.  If FOX news keeps this LIBERAL B.S. on the air tomorrow, I will not watch this channel again! ................P.S. I will watch Glen Beck, but thats all............maybe Huckabee.

Glen Beck yes, but

Glen Beck yes, but Huckabee???? You have heard of Hannity?

troll juice

troll juice

This is just too great for

This is just too great for words. MSNBC's "top talent" is a paranoid schizophrenic.

PG.... Doesn't get much

PG....

Doesn't get much better now does it?

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

poor keef

nobuddy lubs him. 

___________________________________________ 
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past - George Orwell - 1984

Wished he would just go eat

Wished he would just go eat some worms....

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Eww

Wouldn't that be cannibalism? :o

 

Gary

I want my country back!

One Big Happy Family

Don't you just love it when the left can't even get along with themselves. 

How thin are you when the loons on the left at Daily Kos don't look at you as a news man either.

 

But what do I know? I am bitter and cling to my religion and guns.

eating her young

What is this, a mother eating her young? There's also a bunch of phrases I don't understand in the context of Olbermann:

  • "gone too far" 
  • "lunatic fring"

Why would he describe himself?

This has gone too far

We can't criticize Obama. Now we can't criticize Olbermann?

Are there any O-Liberals out there we can discuss?

Rosie O'Donnel ?

Rosie O'Donnel ?

Bad choice

We're sick of her already. LOL!

Way past sick of

Way past sick of her.

Glad she's not on the View anymore and going to Sirius or whatever it is with her new venture...at least we don't have to have video clips of her.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Hey Keith

Look at your polling numbers. Nobody's attacking you, Nobody cares enough about your rants to bother.

 

Time for you to look for some more sports work Olbey. Your political career is headed south fast.  

Are you kidding?  Olbie's

Are you kidding?  Olbie's fighting with the only people who do watch him!

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

Good line

Now that's funny ...

Olbermann

Olbermann is just a complete, utter loser. Even Dan Patrick must know this. 

 

"I think you'd better call John, 'cause it don't look they're here to deliver...the mail". -NY 

Psycho-babble

I resent the comparison of Keith Olbermann to Norman Bates.

Not to the boyish and brilliant Anthony Perkins' characterization of him anyway, as created by Alfred Hitchcock, although the original paunchy creepy character of the Robert Bloch novel might be a closer fit.

The movie version Norman was quite likeable, shy and (aside from a couple of "quirks") quite sensitive and vulnerable.

And, unlike Bates, Olbermann is a character even a mother would have trouble loving.

metaphorsbwithu

meta

meta,

As "Psycho" is one of my favorite movies of all time, and Norman one of my favorite characters, I certainly wasn't trying to besmirch it or him with my reference. 

That said, irrespective of how likeable he was, Norman was INDEED a paranoid schizophrenic who killed numerous people including his mother and her lover.

As such, I'm not sure comparing Olbermann to him is at all defamatory to Norman. It was not my intention. :-)  ns

Psycho II

Oh, I agree totally Noel and, although I was being accurate in my description of Norman, my comments were also partly tongue-and-cheek.

However, Hitchcock's immersion in themes of guilt and remorse, lost on most of today's "anything goes" audiences, from their (original) shame at "peeping" at Leigh's undressing scenes to her own too-late remorse at extortion, underlines the loathsome character of people like Olbermann.

Much more so than poor Norman who was simply behaving as he was driven. Older audiences, I think, were more conflicted because they identified with Norman and, occasionally, acted just as he did.

In that regard, Keith, who knows what he's doing and why, who has no remorse the behavior he condemns but is indulging in, is much more loathsome than Norman could ever be - IMHO.

 metaphorsbwithu

meta

meta,

Well, Keith is far more dangerous than Norman was. After all, Norman only killed a few people, and then ended up spending the rest of his life in jail (absurd sequels notwithstanding!).

By contrast, Keith is part of a movement that is dreadfully brainwashing a growing number of people that will make bad life and voting decisions as a result. As such, his influence is far worse on society than Norman's. :-)  ns

Noel re: Meta

''By contrast, Keith is part of a movement that is dreadfully brainwashing a growing number of people that will make bad life and voting decisions as a result.''

Yeah. And he's been weirding me out for years. I want reparations.

Someone needs to email

Someone needs to email Olbermann's post on The Kos to Joan Walsh at Salon.com since just a few days ago she had this to say about the AP's story on KO:

 What bothered me most was the entire premise of the AP article, which depicted Olbermann as a polarizing partisan television hack equivalent to Fox's Bill O'Reilly.....

 

He is indeed a Bush critic, but I haven't found him to be a Democratic partisan. (I edited Olbermann briefly when he wrote for Salon, and knew him to be passionate and hardworking but not ideologically driven.)

No, no partisan hack at all.  He just posts at Daily Kos and tells them not to post bad things about him because it helps the Right Wing.

 

 

WAAAAAAA! WAAAAAAA! I'm

WAAAAAAA! WAAAAAAA! I'm going tell obama if you don't stop picking on me! Hey keith, pound sand, you sniveling whining little transgender freak. 

Joan Walsh

Joan?  Hi!  This is Reality, Joan.  Would you like to come in?  We have cookies!

Some experts say that rumor

Some experts say that rumor has it that Olbermann is mourning home alone in his New York apartment...

Dressed commando-style in his favorite original quasi-fascist Michael Jackson outfit circa 1993 (winning bid on eBay for $21,666)...

With the Thriller video endless looped on his DVD player...

Drinking endless bottles of Chartreuse...

Whilst his young female PA sucks his toes in between dances...

Okay -- it's a rumor I started, but I like to think it has validity!

“For God's sake, somebody tell Obama that a TRILLION is one MILLION MILLION!!!!

Not really a psychs dream

 Quote from the last link below: 

"Perhaps the most immediately evident trait of patients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is their vulnerability to criticism and disagreement. Subject to negative input, real or imagined, even to a mild rebuke, a constructive suggestion, or an offer to help, they feel injured, humiliated and empty and they react with disdain (devaluation), rage, and defiance."

He is not really a psychiatrist's dream because he has personality disorders.   And you can't really fix that.  Psychs like most Drs like to fix things and make them better.  Personality disorders do not have a magic pill to fix.  So if you were going to help KO, as if it were possible and he would ever ask for it, you would have to listen to his droning on and on and on.  There is not enough money........strike that, of course there is.  But there would be now way to guarantee results.  Here http://samvak.tripod.com/personalitydisorders44.html is an interesting link that explains the problem in potentially treating a guy like KO.  A couple other links that may explain the actual disorder.  I report, you decide.  Scroll down on each link to see the whole thing.

http://samvak.tripod.com/personalitydisorders12.html

http://samvak.tripod.com/personalitydisorders13.html

http://samvak.tripod.com/personalitydisorders14.html

 

Bathboy is a arrogant whiner

He reads comments about himself?  What a dope.

 

The truth hurts Keith, take it like a man you puss.

bathtub boy

 

should just man-up.

 

 

"When I look in the mirror, I say, 'He did not sell his soul for short-term politics.'"  President George W. Bush, June 18, 2009

''Just watch out: there's

''Just watch out: there's nothing better for the lunatic fringe when a Mark Sanford hits an iceberg, than to throw up some phony Liberal-on-Liberal-Violence sabotage chaff in front of the torpedos headed towards a Republican-In-Crisis.''

Ah, but the ''Liberal'' mind does not conceive that Conservatives will not use a non sequitur in discussing Mark Sanford's stupid act of infidelity. That would be a Leftist 'lying tactic' and therefore not based in reality, ergo - dumb.

 

''Confuse a Liberal - Use logic and facts.''

KOtheJO

Hey KOthe JO we don't need no stinking Kos Kid, troll or not to illustrate to us whata big asshole you are. Better not keep pissing them off, or your "ratings", such as they are, might drop another 26%, shitforbrains.