A New Yorker Article About Our Lust Object

[AnnieBW]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_boyer

One Angry Man
Is Keith Olbermann changing TV news?
by Peter J. Boyer

(Long but very informative)

Olbermann chose his office, a corner office on the fourth floor of NBC’s Rockefeller Plaza headquarters, for its view. From his desk, he can look out the window and see, directly across Sixth Avenue, the studios of Fox News, the broadcast home of his rival Bill O’Reilly. “Sometimes I imagine that I hear a howl coming from there,” Olbermann told me during a visit one afternoon. “I have been accused of having an obsession with him. I am a minor-leaguer compared to his obsession with me.”

When “Countdown” was still new, in 2004, Rick Kaplan, then the president of MSNBC, told Olbermann that he wanted the program to be the cable network’s “newscast of record.” Largely owing to the license that Olbermann took in his on-air duelling with O’Reilly, it has become more like a nightly political insult-comedy routine. Olbermann’s Fox-bashing struck a chord with a core audience deeply sympathetic to the view that the conservative-leaning Fox News (“Fox Noise,” Olbermann calls it) has degraded journalism “in the same sense that George Bush lowered and made even more disreputable the Presidency of the United States.”

Shortly after Olbermann’s “shut the hell up” commentary on President Bush last month, conservative radio pounced on the implication that he was calling American troops in Iraq “cold-blooded killers,” and Olbermann took particular note of criticism from Laura Ingraham, who said on the air, “I believe MSNBC really needs to bring in a medical team at this point. . . . I don’t know what happened to him. I really don’t. He didn’t use to be this way.” (Olbermann dated Ingraham briefly a decade ago. “There were a few problems,” he told me. “There were a few things that I could see were going to be impediments. Oddly, they were not political things.”)

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1. Thank you for thinking of the KOEB

but I have learned you have to be really fast to beat some of the EDVs to news of Keith.:rofl: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=315x122503

[AnnieBW]

2. You're welcome

Does the fact that I'm having sex dreams about Keith Olbermann qualify me for the KOEB?

[Gogi]

3. Oh, hell, yes!

That's the only requirement but be aware that KO thinks we might be so many Leona Helmsleys!

[Berry Cool]

5. Actually, it's not even a requirement. All you have to do is worship him for his hot mind.

But if you want to admire his body, you're certainly more than welcome...to fight with the Rev and me over it. :evilgrin:

Be forewarned, we often joke about our ambition to become the slices of bread in a KO sandwich.

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4. I always thought that was a

requirement to be an EDV.:evilgrin: