"Why Is Keith Olberman So Angry?" Topic

Inquiring minds want to know? He's going to pop a vessel one of these days. Maybe he is still upset that Miss Precious Perfect wasn't accepted into the NYC coop.

He's Angry? They make medicine to fix that.

It used to be clearly satirical anger. A professional skill, if you will. I suspect he's lost the satirical detachment that made him so successful in the first place.

Too true, too true!

I think it's called being angry all the way to the bank. He's a showman, same as most of the pundits.

He is an anal orifice?

He's from the sportscaster world. It's how they roll.

Further discussion of Keith Olberman should probably adjourn to The Blue Fez…

Further discussion of Keith Olberman should probably adjourn to The Blue Fez…

He doesn't count as Broadcast Entertainment?

As long as we aren't talking politics etc I would think he'd be safe. Yes? No?

Donald~
curious-

I agree with a lot of his sentiments and still find him to be an enormous gasbag… so yeah… it's a celebrity/entertainment issue… not politics.
Aren't most all those opinion guys just big blowhards in love with their own voices?

It's getting harder and harder to find news… basic journalism… just the facts… this punditry/opinion must bring higher ratings than actual information.

Since he discusses politics, he is a political figure, of sorts. It seems that the discussion could remain focused on his level of animosity but it seems likely that it could easily divert elsewhere and result in DHings. Since the purpose of the ban on politics is to prevent people from getting angry at each other about non-gaming issues, this request from the editor seems to be in the spirit of the rules.

Yeah, it's hard to discuss angry pundits without mentioning what they're angry about… and whether the anger is justified/real/performance.

Back to fighting over the color of Napoleon's socks!

But I don't see anything in the earlier posts to suggest that it was specifically going down the road of political current events. I see a few brushes with his opinions but nothing specific. There are also many nods to him being an overly opinionated sports announcer.

Perhaps a; "I'll allow this but counsel please recognize that I'm watching you!" would have been more appropriate?

D~
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Back to fighting over the color of Napoleon's socks!

I have it on good authority that he didn't wear any, I could post my source but then it'd have to kill all of us!

DRD~

I always heard that Napoleon wore Argyle Socks…

White silk, knee stockings. I seen the pitcher.

It's all about ratings and the money they can charge advertisers. If their corporate overlords told them to do a 180, they would whistle that tune.

Good thing those old-timey newsmen like Edward R. Murrow never took a stand on anything.

Allen

So what color socks did Napoleon wear Allen ????

Did Edward R. Murrow have an emotional rant for every night of the week? Did he refer to every person he opposed with childish nick-names and half-truths… and make it all seem black and white/good vs. evil in a simpleminded dualistic kind of way?

Nothing wrong with seeing things in black and white. It's not simple-minded, just clarified. It helps so that the real purveyors of half-truths don't get to confuse things to the point that the good do not act: that is their goal, after all.

Mocking evil is a good way to combat it. As we see nowadays, people lock up with fear when evil presents its distortions and lies. If the real pompous gasbags are shown as such, it makes them less frightening, so that people can deal with them appropriately, often by simply ignoring them.

Half-truths? Well, an easy way for evil to combat truth is to deny it. Those who seek to spread light will always be attacked as liars; it's the way the wicked work.

Me, I'd like to see a newsperson take a more direct approach to revealing and confronting evil in the world:

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides with the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon those with great vengeance and with furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know that my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

Give Jules a nightly show, dammit. Get some stuff fixed around here, by gum.

"So what color socks did Napoleon wear Allen ????"

It's in an Osprey.

Allen

It's in an Osprey.

They published it right after the three part volume on Toilet Seat Doilies of the Third Reich.

D~

He should have stuck to being a sidekick at ESPN. On his own he is a ing idiot.

I don't think he's an idiot… he knows what he's up to and he's very good at it… it's just not particularly useful except for getting folks riled up.
This goes for the other blowhard guys too.

Me, I'd like to see a newsperson take a more direct approach to revealing and confronting evil in the world…

I think maybe you'd like this Clark Kent guy I've been hearing about…

I just want my newspeople to give me some basic facts… with as little spin as possible… no witty banter with the other talking heads… no emotional swellings in their voices… no vulturous circling of the dead and dying… no opinion until maybe the end of the show (so I can turn it off and not miss any news).
I also want nothing regarding sports or celebrities because there are plenty of other shows devoted to that.

Not that journalism has anything to do with what Olbermann or the others are up to.

He's the anti Rush, O'reilly, Coulter, Bachman, and Beck. That in itself should reserve him a spot nearer to God.

Angry…it's SATIRE…OY!

And Amen to that Mandt2!

I've given up on cable news and you should too. Your time would be better spent playing Yugi O with 12 year olds.

He has no reason to be angry. At least 10 people still watch MSNBC.

He's one of those TV screaming heads, right?

In that case, angry is his job.

There's a good chance he's also an imbecile, the vast majority of those people are.
-Kle.

Never heard of the man. From the discussion, seems
I really don't wish to…

Maybe he needs more fiber in his diet?

He's the anti Rush, O'reilly, Coulter, Bachman, and Beck.

I'm sure glad you didn't lump my sweetheart Michelle Malkin in there….

She SHOULD have been!

I would think that he would be a happy fella these days, but he's not.

There is still much evil to be uprooted, and its vile effects overturned.

There is even more evil commencing, and its vile effects need to be stopped cold.

There is still much evil to be uprooted, and its vile effects overturned.

The problem is deciding what's evil, since it's pretty subjective.

Evil can be entirely constitutional, after all.
-Kle.

I'd love it if one of these guys began ranting and raving one evening about the coming of Cthulhu.

:)

Nah, the "evil commencing" is just the same old evil rearing its ugly head. It suffered a setback, so it has to try again.

So, does anyone watch much Sportscenter since him and Dan Patrick left?

I like listening to Dan Patrick on the radio at night while I'm painting. They replay his Danation show on The Score at night.

I wonder if a topic asking why any of the Fox folk were Angry/Crying/Lying/ or went so over the top in manufacturing outrage would have survived here

I wonder if a topic asking why any of the Fox folk were Angry/Crying/Lying/ or went so over the top in manufacturing outrage would have survived here

They're idiots when they do it, too.
-Kle.

I wondered the same thing Hurcheon… and agree with Klebert's reply.
Olbermann seems relatively calm compared to a lot of the radio guys I hear… Michael Savage sounds like he could stroke out any second.

Shrug. I like Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert …..

Amen to that, Kyote.