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Man v Cow Cage Match

Posted on 28 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: ABC fight and Monday Night Football announcer, CEO Vince McMahon, Down Goes Frazier!, Hannity, Howard Cosell, Hulk Hogan, Keith Olbermann, Limbaugh, Maddow, Man v Cow Cage Match, Matthew Erich "Mancow" Muller, Matthews, MSNBC, NBC, NCIS rerun, Nielsen, Olbermann, O’Reilly, prime-time television, puppy dog sleeping with kitty cat moment, Rumble in The Jungle, smashing Andre the Giant or Shawn Michaels Burying The Undertaker, Thrilla in Manila, World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE

by Denis Campbell
It was a dream match-up prime-time television listing for this past Tuesday night. Whilst it competed with an NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) rerun and gripping baseball, NBA and NHL playoff games, even the WWE’s (World Wrestling Entertainment) CEO Vince McMahon was filled with respect. “I tried for weeks to make this bout [...]

Crying with the Saints

Posted on 21 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 2008 election, Big Russ, CNN, Deepak Chopra, FOX News, Keith Olbermann, Luke, Meet the Press, Morning Joe, MSNBC< The Today Show, NBC News, quo vadimus, Tim Russert, TJR

Reprise from 14 June 2008: When Tim russert passed away during the height of the campaign, this was our tribute.
“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – you know that only the good die young.” – Billy Joel.
As I sat for hours searching for yet more words to express the magnitude [...]

Keith Olbermann The Left’s Rottweiler

Posted on 21 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (12) | Tags: $400 million dollar bonus baby, 1994, 22 minutes of news, Air America radio, average age of 61, Bill Moyers, Bill O’Reilly FOX News, brilliant people, bring a big one, Clear Channel, completely unmanageable, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, creative, Dan Patrick, election night coverage, ESPN sports roots, Gingrich Revolution, Hancock, Hardball, if in a gunfight, Keith Olbermann, kind hearted, Left’s Rottweiler, Meet the Press, Michelle Obama, Morning Joe, MSNBC.com, mugged, NBC News, never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the bar, Nightly News, physically imposing, Race to the White House, reporters and pundits, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, says what he feels in the moment, sharing anchors, Tim Russert, to beat a bully you stand and go toe-to-toe, Today, too nice, Verdict with Dan Abrams, wears his outrage on his sleeve

Reprise: On 8 July we published an homage to the Left’s Rottweiller Keith Olbermann, the right went apoplectic as the article had 300,000 hits in 4 hours.
Keith is my kind of guy. Creative, completely unmanageable, he says what he feels in the moment and wears his outrage like his very large heart on his 6’ [...]

One Last Teabagging Joke

Posted on 22 April 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith Olbermann, Still Bushed, Tax shelters

Farewell to a dumb idea kept alive by FIX Noise.

Farewell Marie Olbermann

Posted on 07 April 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: baseball, cancer death, Keith Olbermann, Marie Olbermann, mother of Keith, New York Yankees

You did well. Keith eulogizes his late mother, who passed away on Saturday. Marie Olbermann, a diehard baseball fan, became a media sensation when Yankee Chuck Knoblauch threw a ball at her head…

Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain Fired

Posted on 23 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $1.2 million dollar office renovation, 20 billion dollars in bailout money, Citigroup, John Thain, Keith Olbermann, Merrill, Merrill Lynch, Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain, performance bonuses, worst persons in the world

The taxpayers would have preferred drawn and quartered then placed in one of those old fashioned stocks, standing with his head and hands exposed outside the HQ building so we could throw rotten fruit at him. At least we’d feel better. Why such seeming post-partisan enmity in the new change era? 
Let’s begin on page 43 of [...]

Chris Matthews Is Becoming The Left’s Bill O’Reilly

Posted on 21 November 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bill Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Bosnia, Chris Matthews, Christopher Hitchens, Dan Burton, David Gregory, Eric Boehlert, FOX News, Hardball, Indiana Representative, Jamison Foster, Keith Olbermann, Linda Tripp, Media Matters, Michelle Bernard, Mr. Orally, MSNBC, New York Times, New York Times Op-Ed piece, obama, Op-Ed, Peter Beinart, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Time magazine, Vanity Fair, Vince Foster

by Charley James
As a progressive, one of the things that I appreciate about MSNBC’s evening line-up is that although its people have a liberal point-of-view, they stick to actual facts rather than slide down into the slimy half-truths and outright lies that Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the other on Fox’s right wing mouthpiece network [...]

Toxic Spill on Aisle 3, Bring Chlorine

Posted on 13 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 vote lead disappear, 000 votes to count, 3, 90, Alaska, banana republic with nukes, Bring Chlorine, Caribou Barbie, Chambliss ran adverts equating Cleland with Osama bin L, Cleland a war hero left three limbs on the battlefield, convicted felon for a Senator, D-Max Cleland, Denis Campbell, election, fear fear fear…, federal convict Ted Stevens, fivethirtyeight.com, Garrison Keillor’s state, Georgia, get final vote count correct in 49 other state with 4/1, getting out of hand, GOP mantra, great election, he now trails by 3 VOTES!, incumbent Republican Senator, irregularities, Keith Olbermann, Lake Woebegone, mandatory recount under Minnesota law, Minnesota, miss the Alaskan count by 20 percentage points?, Nate Silver, peace-keeping forces, R-Norm Coleman, Rachel Maddow, replay the NBC Decision ’08 theme song and graphics, Republicans despatching 120 lawyers to recount sites, Sarah Palin, Saxby Chambliss, sitting governor is on the ballot as a Vice Presidentia, still parts of the gene pool in need of chlorination, Toxic Spill, über statistician, UN inspectors to Alaska Minnesota and Georgia, voter turnout actually go DOWN, why an 84-year old felon even won this election?

By Denis Campbell
It was a great election (duh-dum) wasn’t it? A new Democratic President (duh-dum), bigger majorities in the House and Senate (duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh… duhdadeeee) and nothing can go wrong… AEEIIIIIII!!!!! Apologies to John Williams, Peter Benchley and the cast of Jaws, what the heck is going on in the Senate?!?
OK, it was cute that both [...]

Rachel and Keith Continue to Bring in New Viewers

Posted on 28 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill O'Reilly, CNN, FOX News, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow

 
TV Newser has the results. Here are the full totals instead of just the 25-54 demographic. What’s impressive here is that Fox’s audience really hasn’t shrunk - they’re pretty much fans and they’re not going to switch channels.
MSNBC’s Olbermann and Maddow combo has attracted hundreds of thousands of NEW viewers to the fold. Numbers are [...]

Monday, 20:59:52

Posted on 19 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 Dutch nationals, 120, 15 February 2003, 20:59:52, 21-million marched peacefully, 400-Americans, 665 countries around the world, Amsterdam’s DAM Square, bogged down in lip-sticked pigs, Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, civil war and internal destruction, CNN, co-opted by his national party’s leadership, conducted by a decorated war hero, Countdown, crying terrorist at every corner, Denis Campbell, desperately trying to seize a shred of military glory r, Dutch media village in Hilversum, election ‘officials’ poised to steal another election, fear smear and lies can win, flight suit carrier deck photo op, FOX, great national debate, Hans Blix UN report, hijacking of our global goodwill, Keith Olbermann, let the UN inspectors finish hunting for WMD’s, lies and misdirection like a cheap magic trick, Mission Accomplished, Monday, moral standing, MSNBC, not all Americans were like George W. Bush, rained bombs on Baghdad, shameful election campaign, silent candlelight vigil by the US Consulate, sits smothered by election silliness, That’s Countdown for this the 2000th Day since the decl, The Iraq Platform’s Faisel Nasser, the war barely merits an above the fold headline, two weeks before Election Day 2008, We deserve much better, we don’t listen to focus groups, ‘Shock and Awe’

 
by Denis Campbell
Keith Olbermann will utter the words: “That’s Countdown for this the 2,000th Day since the declaration of Mission Accomplished in Iraq. I’m Keith Olbermann. Goodnight and good luck” thus closing Monday night’s MSNBC broadcast, two weeks before Election Day 2008. 
If children have been born during this two year long Presidential campaign, imagine what [...]

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