What’s worse than al Qaeda?
Another bin Laden video is on the way. Bryan wonders if the hand of Adam Gadahn is behind it and Allah notes the 9/11 hijacker testament will come from Waleed al-Shehri: “I wrote a long post last September about the supply of hijacker videos Al Qaeda is sitting on; read it all as they’ll be releasing these things for years to come.”
But never mind all that. Via ICN (hat tip Johnny$), here’s the second most unhinged man in cable TV telling Playboy who’s worse than al Qaeda:
“Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda — worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.”
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Oddly enough, I am only surprised that a comparison to Hitler or Nazis wasn’t included in Olby’s assessment of Fox and Murdoch. I mean, if AQ and the KKK in its prime made the cut for reasonable comparisons, why stop there?
Olberman is a pure Soros disciple … he wouldn’t know the truth if it hit him square between the eyes … like all the rest of his ilk the instant there is any traction in something coming from outside his little world he attacks and belittles it and everyone his little mind can name …
Doesn’t it tell volumes about the pettiness of these people when you hear them harp non-stop on talking and reasoning with our enemies yet they can’t even hold a conversation with someone in this country that has a different viewpoint than they do without going off on a character assassination tirade …
Climb back in your hole KO … before someone KO’s you with another truth right in the chops …
Olberwanker is an irrelevant mouthpiece.
The irony of Olberman saying this to Playboy shouldn’t be lost… We all know how much good that publication has done for society in general….
Considering that the KKK was born and bred in the south – the Democratic south – it should surprise no one that Liberal Dems should project images of that vile group onto everyone with whom they disagree.
I do worry about the masses being brainwashed by the MSM, but in cases of remarks this extreme, I think the regular TV-watching folks know an absurdity when they hear it. I’m guessing KO knows his general mainstream rep is shot, and is just making a loud, panicky appeal to his base while venting. This one is no biggie, IMO.
Does anyone remember some time back when Ken Starr was prosecuting Clinton, KO made the sly remark on CNN that Starr even looked like Heinrich Himmler with his glasses et al. Apparently CNN was so swamped with complaints KO had to offer an apology on air. I could see then it really pained him to have to apologize. How can the networks keep such a shallow, evil creature as this puke, now we have to have NBC NFL football vomiting his crap on the TV?
Excuse me I can only take so much I have to go throw-up again.
Michelle,
I comment on ICN and commented on the Playboy article. The other one where Geraldo is being heckled, I didn’t bother. Is this an attempt to rehabiltate Geraldo? He is to the left but not that far to the left?
I was thinking Adam Gadhan too and I mentioned if we can’t get Bin Laden? Why can’t we at least get Gadhan?
almeehan
I used to gripe about the local station interrupting the half-time show to give local news updates … not any more … saves wear and tear on my remote “mute” button turning off the ridiculous noises coming from Komrade Outhouse …
I believe this kind of thinking cannot be dismissed as limited to the Olbermann’s of this world. This past week I spent time with an old friend who has always been a liberal, but here is a sampling of some of the things she said to me. “The far Christian right is as bad as the terrorists.” I said, oh really when was the last time a Christian cut off someone’s head?. She retorted, “they blow up abortion clinics and kill doctors”. Another statement she made, “It’s our fault we have the situation in the middle east because 50 years ago we took the land from Palestine and gave it to the Jews. We should have made them stay in Germany.” She downplayed the 9-11 Trade Tower catastrophe as unintended..just meant to scare us.
It was all I could do to keep my cool and not end our life-long friendship forever. This woman has been a teacher all her life, born and raised a farm girl.
He’s just jealous ’cause he could not be hired at FOX.
How do you outfox THE FOX NEWS? He can play the fool anywhere but FOX.
He really thinks he’s a smart arse, doesn’t he? I have tried to listen to him, but he’s so smug that he’s a real turnoff.
To Playboy’s credit, their interviews are usually top-notch. Their journalists are quite adept at getting good quotations from their subjects and this is a great example. The ultimate example of course being getting a presidential candidate to admit having “lust in his heart.”
And there is no irony in Playboy interviewing Olbermann. In fact, Playboy interviewing a newsmaker is 100% expected making it the polar opposite of irony. Semantics, people!
cRusty-
Whatever.
Olbermann, MoveOn.org, the rest of you.
All fail to realize how you are involved in demonstrating the nature of paradox: the more you effort for a given end (defeat in Iraq), the more likely it becomes that you will bring about the opposite effect.
So Olbermann panders to the cigar and “high end hooker” crowd, and maybe touches a chord with some small town farm girl who is afraid she is going to turn out like her mom- there is a greater Nation out here that he doesn’t know anything about.
And we will hand his symbolic head to him when it comes time for an accounting of where he stands and where he has chosen to stand in this run up to total war.
Olbermann’s cranial-rectal inversion is a perfect fit. Just look at how he “sees” the world and with whom he chooses to share the view.
Maybe we take is comments out of context. Maybe he was talking about MSNBC. Fox is certainly kicking his/their arse.
A “study” released in the past day or two said research found differences between conservative and liberal brains.
While I felt this study would be used to accuse conservatives of being mentally unstable (and it probably would be)…I’m beginning to think it was right.
Liberals are NUTS. Especially when they say stupid, ignorant, and downright WRONG stuff like this:
I mean, seriously. The KKK was horrible and wrong, but did they kill 3,000 people by flying planes into buildings? Did the morning news team from Fox behead Katie Couric and post a video on the web?
Really, Keith. Get your head examined, because I think your brain is gone on vacation.
Heartland,
I believe all fanatics are capable of great evil, so I can see how she might believe that of the Christian Right (her view is simplistic and skewed, lumping everyone with a few idiots and making her view worthless). I doubt she’d be open minded enough to admit the excesses of the nutroots left, either. Also, I hope she doesn’t teach history, as she obviously knows nothing about how the neation of Isreal was created. All the US did was recognize them after they won the Civil War with the Palestinians, which occured after the British left.
Bear, you sound kind of frightening. Run up to total war? Huh? I think it’s pretty clear where Olbermann has chosen to stand in the “run up to total war.” I’m guessing he’s against it.
It’s exactly quotes like these that are why the real enemy of this country is a far-left media living in a fantasy world. They really are exceptionally dangerous, and somehow need to be (legally) dealt with, and fast, because there are no more reagans to defend us, and conservative commentators are outnumbered – literally – 10-to 1. Everyone here should begin some menatal excersizes: figure out practical, creative soltuions to combate this problem and then act on it. It’ll be hard work, but no less time and energy than (no offense intended to anyone) complaining, which is easier, but no less time-consuming.
You conventiently leave out the ‘irony” that Playboy chose to interview an extremist, far-left newsmaker – as they usually do – and ignore the right ones which often have, certainly in KO’s case, significantly larger ratings numbers. Basically, by so doing, Playboy is giving KO a seeming significance in the industry he doesn’t deserve with the reality of his paltry viewership numbers. Why doesn’t Playboy interview Michelle Malkin, for example: she’s hip, newsworthy to be sure, and most of all,her ratings numbers are twice those of Olbermann’s when she is simply filling in for O’Reilly. But they won’t and dare not. It’s called bias and prejudice on the part of the mainstream media. If you were even halfway intellectually fair on the issue you wouldn’t ignore that central fact necessary to put the situation into a truly honest context.
Bear said,
I think anyone who is really honest would have to agree that we’re closer than not to this scenario, and it’s the far left giving hope and inspiration to the hope by constantly projecting the weaker side of this country’s society which will in all liklihood be the eventual cause. You break the will of the enemy – you aren’t supposed to encourage them as the laft-wing media does.
He should stick to sports.
I think he’s just replaced Rosie as the biggest idiot on TV.
You conventiently leave out the ‘irony” that Playboy chose to interview an extremist, far-left newsmaker – as they usually do – and ignore the right ones which often have, certainly in KO’s case, significantly larger ratings numbers.
It’s exactly quotes like these that are why the real enemy of this country is a far-left media living in a fantasy world.
The last time I checked, Al Qaeda has killed thousands of innocent people. The only thing Fox News has killed is every other news organization in the ratings.
Olbermann’s latest bon mot is a wonderful example of why I long ago stopped paying attention to the “substance” of liberal/leftist argumentation and switched over to the inquiry about what kind of mind and character lies behind it.
There seems to be a deep-seated refusal to grow up going on here: “Wit” = “wisdom”; “Passion” = “persuasiveness”; logical fallacies = “logic.”
The more hysterical the language becomes, the more “compelling” the message becomes… at least in the mind of the person speaking; until finally the langauge becomes so over-the-top that that it dissolves into self-parody.
When was the last time anyone here saw such “debate tactics” widely accepted? Late elementary school? Maybe middle school?
Somebody needs to stick a pacifier in Olbermann’s mouth the next time he works himself into a froth. It may not make him feel better, but it’d be a lot easier on the ears of those around him.
The cause of KO’s problems is very simple … it breaks down as follows:
D enial
E vasion
M isinformation
O bfuscation
C onfusion
R ejection
A rrogance
T ruculence
S tupidity
Need I say more?
When it comes to interviewing newsmakers, you are clearly of the mind that journalists should pander to their audience, but that also assumes – unsurprising since you’re a liberal – that the audience only wants to hear those things with which they agree. That’s typical of liberals, and considering what the dictionary definition of the word liberal is, that really is ironic. And pathetic. If you’re on this site and watch Fox news then you should know that conservatives want to hear all sides honestly and make up their oiwn minds. Fox News beats the competition – your guys – by embarrassing numbers every single day living by the credos “Fair and Balanced” and “We report, you decide.” That’s why your guys hate Fox so much. You get beat, honestly. Boo hoo hoo, tell your guy Olberman to cry me a river. When he grows up and gets his ratings numbers out of the mid-six figures after all the years he’s been on the air, we can take him seriously.
You’re half right. He was stupid. He usually is. As for double standards, no, there is a difference between being able to manifestly point out the hypocrasy and destructive innaccurate propoganda of the left and simply calling the right as bad as the terrorists out-of-hand with not one shred of intellectually honest evidence to back it up. Many things look and sound similar, but a twig insect is not a twig, even though they may appear identical at first glance. Get your act together and get your facts straight. Your arguements here are a pathetic joke. If you want to make an impact and change some minds, try something solid and to the point.
Y’all need to keep your paragraphs very brief ’cause liberals don’t read for comprehension effects.
Gayle,
LOL. Every day I earnestly attempt to better the efficiency of my communication skills, and every following day I start again from scratch.
Again:
No. The real enemy is al-Queda. It’s not the right wing media. It’s not the left wing media. These quotations are incredibly idiotic.
No, I am not of that mind. Bias = bad. It’s just what publications do. Playboy skews left so it interviews Olbermann. Fox News skews right so it employs Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilly. Obviously comparing a lifestyle magazine with a news network has severe limitations, but there is no irony in Playboy interviewing someone like Olbermann. In fact, quite the opposite.
??? The only facts I’m using are quotations. Unless my “CTRL+V” has a liberal bias, I’m pretty sure I’m doing OK. Thank you for your concern.
(BTW, I greatly prefer CNN and Fox News to Olbermann…so it’s not like we’re worlds apart here.)
The comments made by the idiot dems on TV are usually so stupid I can’t help wondering if they really believe what they say. Could they be taking these positions just to pull down a paycheck?
The reward will be sweet when NBC, which has been promoting Olbermann so extensively, has to apologize for something outrageous and beyond the pale that he will surely say in the near future. He’s just not all there.
Being on the extreme left as you are, and cherry picking quotes that serve you while ignoring the larger points as you and your ilk do, it’s not surprising that you think the quotes are idiotic.
The terorists are one kind of enemy. There are many in the world. THE enemy of this country is the left wing media. Why? Because they broadcast one-sided, left-wing views endlessly and give hope to the enemy in so doing by showing the weaker side of our nation. The left wing media has no patriotism that they are manifestly showing. it’s all gloom and doom. They paint republicans as bigots (the KKK sprung up in the hugely democrat south – ask Democrat senator Robert Bird, a clansman OFFICER), hate mongerers and intolerant. We all know the length and depth of their dishonesty. If you think otherwise, well, I’m sure you’d enjoy your fantasy in the company of others less informed than you’ll find here.
The fact is that to win a war you need to break the will of the enemy. The left wing media encourages the enemy by giving them false hope of a US pullout/surrender, and a million other things that could never possibly all be listed here. You know it. I know it. Everyone reading knows it. This war might not even have begun had we not projected a liberal mindset of weakness to the world. Search your own conscience, if you indeed have one, and see that left-wing dove/surrender broadcasts endlessly over the world – with little right wing balance (Fox still stands alone) – and you’ll know that the left wing media is responsible for more spilled blood of both troops and innocents than any recent President, military or other groups because the media encourages terrorists, they encourage anger on the part of African Americans whose slave descendants and slave owners have long since died and been buried (go the the carribbean sometime and listen to the annoyance of the blacks there the US blacks “can’t get over it” – and they were once slaves, too). They encourage hate and anger and violence. their footsoldier protestors routinely physically attack those whom they disagree, while the media ignores their violent behavior.
I’m in the media professional for 25 years. isee the mindset in meetings. I see it carried out on-air. I hear the pro-left wing mantras and anti-right wing prejudice constantly. And now what do we have most recently? Osmam Bin laden with the deaths of thousands of US innocents and soldiers on his hands quoting liberal left-wing talking points. Coincience? Not a chance.
No, the damage that the left-wing media has done and continues to do has done more to cut the legs out from under this country than any one group in the last 40 years. You may not be able to see it, but myopic tunnelvision on the part of liberals is nothing new, either.
And your courageous Presidential candidates are running away in a blind panic from Fox, nothing more than another news outlet. Those are your people, Rusty, showing the depth of their courage and leadership.
Pathetic, Rusty. Get with the program. You’re either blind, misinformed or both. You can make more whining noises of dissent but I won’t be listening. I’ll let others pick this up or ignore you. I have things to do today. I’ve made my points, and you haven’t made yours, but that too, is how the world operates between conservatives and liberals.
Deedledee, I agree with you. The problem with using controversy to drum up fame is that you inevitably go too far (ie Ann Coulter using a slur to describe John Edwards). Olbermann really needs to watch it.
In a post mocking Olbermann for calling FoxNews more dangerous than al-Queda, you respond with:
You don’t see the problem with this? “It’s ok for you to say that but not ok for Olbermann to say the same thing from a different political viewpoint? That reeks of hypocrisy.
And if it reeks of “cherry picking,” be more careful not to say something so outlandish that a person like me can use it to make your arguments seem silly.
The American media has plenty of faults. I think calling it America’s worst enemy is a bit much. Would you really prefer an America without the 4th Estate?
Coulter has more nerves and balls than any male Democrat, including Hillary,on this planet.
She did not slur Edwards. Obviously you did not get (read) the full story or didn’t choose to do so.
For the record. Edwards is nothing but a spewer (sewer) of lunacy.
First, dittos to bear1909′s response (#14).
You referred to Olberidiot as a “newsmaker.” I’m wondering if that is your actual belief or just a semantic error of your own. I’m hoping the latter.
Well, he made some news with this quote, didn’t he!?
To be fair, that is indeed a semantic error. I am enjoying my time in my glass house.
cRusty:
Whatever.
The point is that these windbags like Olbermann, Joe Biden, Skelton, Code Pink, SheBiscuit, Pelosi, Reid, Chris Matthews, Geraldo, Christiane Imam*hore, Lara Logan, Katie Couric, Dick Turban Durbin, Karl Levin et al are all on the verge of the dustbin of history much like the adversaries of the 1930s who were begging to appease Tojo, Hitler and Mussolini.
Once this nation is on a total war footing- which ironically may come under a Democratic President (they never could resist the absolute blank check it guarantees)- Dolts like Olbermann will shuffle and dance and try to appear as though they were on the bus the whole time.
If that sounds frightening to you, then I wonder how you get up out of bed in the morning. Are you even an adult taxpayer?
Lincoln said: “Let the people know the truth and the Nation will be saved.”
Nothing could be truer today that it was 140 something years ago.
And here is an ad hominem for you cRusty- I hope I am frightening ( a favorite childish word the Left uses to self-identify based on something they believe they are not) to you. The more I scare your ilk, the closer I am to Life on Life’s terms.
It also lets me know I am part of something larger than myself that I can trust to never lie to me. You and your fellow Moon Loons cannot see past your own reflections in your little ponds.
To thine own self be true, cRusty.
The Left is misleading you with its unbridled lack of emotional sobriety.
Leepro- How the hell are ya today?
BwaaaaaHaaaaHaaaHa. That is the funniest thing I have seen all day. KO a news maker? He can barely report it let alone MAKE it. He is his own best friend. As for him being “anti-war”, so is AQ so Olby-dork is in good company.
Desertlover #25 make me spit out my drink. Funny as hell.
Olbermann is beyond deranged. For someone to equate journalism (which is protected by the Constitution) with terrorism is un-American, to say the least.
Oh, and Mr. Olbermann– in case you’re reading this– “un-American” is not a compliment.
Wait, I think this that “culture war” O’Reilly won’t shut up about. It can be summed up thusly: the enemy of the right is the left / the enemy of the left is the right. Both sides claim theirs is the “true” America, hence the confusion. They’re both right, inasmuch as they’re both wrong.
And while we’re distracted, bickering over who’s “righter”, that other enemy prepares to strike. Whose fault will this one be – the left, for foisting their sinful, pansy-loving ideals on the rest of the world; or the right, for perpetuating an unpopular, terrorist-breeding war? Or could it possibly be this runs much deeper than all of this, that none of us are truly at fault, and we’re damned whether we do or don’t?
Huggybear,
You’re moving precariously close to existentialism. To keep it real, one side will invariably be more correct factually than the other just by the very fact of a disagreement, the issue is usually one of degree. With all due respect you seem to be taking moral relativism to a new high, and that does no one any good when practical answers are needed to solve complex, manifest problems.