KOEB 3-13-09 - Is there no meeting tonight?

[SharonRB]

Where is everyone? I miss a few nights and everyone leaves town.

[RevCheesehead]

1. Hi Sharon!

I'm here tonight! :bounce::bounce:
:hi: :hug:

[SharonRB]

3. Hi, Rev!

I've been pretty busy this week. :hi:

[RevCheesehead]

8. I can't even remember if I've been here this week!

I don't think so, but I could be wrong. :silly:

[SeattleGirl]

6. REV!!!

How are ya, gf? :hi: :loveya:

[RevCheesehead]

10. sniffly with allergies, but otherwise, good!

I sent my letter to the Bishop yesterday, officially asking for a voluntary leave of absence. I get to be a person again!!! :bounce::bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

12. Oh, my allergies have been kicking my ass all week.

So, you think the Bishop will grant your request? I think you need some person time!

[RevCheesehead]

16. Absolutely.

But it also has to be approved by the Board of Ordained Ministry. who knows what they'll do? (the board usually loves to flaunt its power around - they're such asswipes. :puke: )

[SeattleGirl]

17. Well, I'll cross my fingers and light a candle for you.

:hug:

[RevCheesehead]

20. Hey, girl....

I :loveya: you!

[SeattleGirl]

24. Aw......

Love you two, dear Rev. :loveya:

[WolverineDG]

19. Cheesy, get a job in Detroit

I can buy a house for you to rent. :P And I'm a good landlord---I like pets! :)

dg

[RevCheesehead]

21. Oh, now that's tempting!

I saw your garden pics, and loved seeing the doggies watching over you!

:hi: :hug:

[SharonRB]

22. And then you can visit me!

[SeattleGirl]

26. And I could visit the Rev too, when I come out!

:woohoo:

[RevCheesehead]

31. You...

are definitely on my "must meet" list!

[SeattleGirl]

34. w00t!

:bounce: :bounce:

[RevCheesehead]

28. Awesome!

And Gigi and Cassie too? :bounce::bounce:

Even if I just move by Dad's, I simply MUST take some vacation time. Meetup at Berry's while I'm on my way to my brother's (in PA)?

[CC]

50. Couldn't we just have the

meet up in Harrisburg? It is only a couple hours away from me. :hi:

[WolverineDG]

40. maybe you could help me find a $500 house?

:)

dg

[ralps]

2. Hi SharonRB, Hi Everyone! I'm here!! & I hope the legislatures in Sanford's & Perry's

states approve the Stimulas money going to their states! :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SharonRB]

4. Hi, ralps

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

7. Hi ralps!

Happy Friday to ya!

[ralps]

9. Hi SeattleGirl!!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[RevCheesehead]

13. Hi ralps and Crook!

Do you think we'll get a touch of spring this week?
The kitties are getting cabin fever, and I'm about the same as them. :)

:hi: and :meow:

[ralps]

29. Hi RevCheesehead, Crook & I are doing good & Hi to Oreo, CC & lil' Keith! How are you all doing?

I hope so! Hug :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :grouphug:

[RevCheesehead]

33. CC got a new mousie from Petsmart today.

It has an electronic chip in it, and it makes REAL mouse noises whenever you whack it. He's thrilled. :D

[ralps]

47. That sounds neat

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

5. Hi Sharon! I had to stop at the liquor store and replenish the supplies!

[RevCheesehead]

18. Gimme something with pineapple in it.

I have a pineapple in the fridge, and I'm thinking it needs to be consumed soon. :9

[SeattleGirl]

30. Here you go!

[RevCheesehead]

36. Perfect!

Ah, I can already feel the tropical breeze! :beer:

[SharonRB]

25. Yum!

Looks great.

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

37. Liquor cabinet is fully stocked again, so have whatever you want, and

as many as you want!

[bleever]

11. Wherever two or more of us are gathered in Keef's name,

there is a KOEB meeting.

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

14. Hi bleev!

:hi:

[bleever]

32. Every couch should come with a free cat.

:hi: SG.

[RevCheesehead]

23. I can personally vouch for that.

:hi:

[bleever]

35. Also,

there should be snacks.

:hi:

[RevCheesehead]

38. and something more substantial than bread and grape juice.

JC would approve. O8)

[WolverineDG]

15. You didn't get the memo?

;)

Say, Sharon, I was looking at houses in Detroit today (online). OMG, you really can get a house there for $500! :wow:

dg

[SharonRB]

27. Oh, I think there are some for $1

You wouldn't want to live there, though.

[SharonRB]

39. Nancy updates!

Her website is up now (well, the temporary one). You can go sign up to be on her mailing list. http://www.nancyskinnerlive.com

Podcasting won't be up until the full site is developed.

Also, if you're on Facebook and haven't signed up as a fan yet, go to her fan page at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Nancy-Skinner-RadioMedia-Personality-Official-Page/136873715053?ref=nf and click on "Become a fan" under her picture. (Wolvie and Gigi are already fans.)

[WolverineDG]

42. and if anyone needs game connections...

:hi:

dg

[Berry Cool]

52. And that's ANOTHER thing I hate.

As of yesterday, Nancy was already off and begone from Sirius XM, replaced by Thom Hartmann.

They were supposed to replace her Monday. Yesterday she was already banished. I didn't even get a chance to call them and ask them to keep her.

[SharonRB]

54. Don't let that stop you.

We still want people to let them know they want her to stay on. Maybe they can find another station for her. And, yes, we were pissed. I don't know why they took her off two days early to put on reruns of Thom's show. It really sucks.

From what I understand, Dial Global is moving Thom to the 3-6 slot, so he'll be live. I wonder what our local station will do. My guess is we might get Ed live now at noon and Thom live at 3. This means I'll never listen to Thom because I listen to Nancy then and I'll have to figure out what to do from 12-3 because I don't think I can take three hours of Ed everyday.

[RevCheesehead]

41. Keith looks delicious tonight.

He reminds me of a hot fudge sundae with mint. :9

Where's Berry? I want to tell her about my latest Keith dream! :evilgrin:

[Berry Cool]

51. Call me tomorrow.

I didn't leave town--I just had to go see my niece in a school play (she was darling).

WTF happened to Keith's show???? :shrug: I'm going to have to download it from iTunes because I set to record the live show (by setting the timer on my VCR and then setting my cable programmer to record the show) and for some reason I have only about the last four minutes of it! It makes no sense at all! And at the end he says "Our apologies for the technical difficulties at the beginning of the show." Yeah...like HAVING NO SHOW UNTIL THE LAST FOUR MINUTES?? Is that what the "technical difficulties" were?

I don't get it. :cry:

Oh CRAP...I think I know what the problem is...my shitty VCR. Well, I can't really blame this on my VCR being shitty, but I can blame it on Bush...because he had to change the damn time Daylight Saving Time starts, and I haven't had to set my timer since then, and my machine DOES automatically adjust but it only adjusts to when DST used to start...NOT WHEN IT STARTS NOW!!!!!!!!! My cable box of course automatically adjusts, but my recorder doesn't!

I am sick at heart. But most of all, I HATE MYSELF FOR FORGETTING THIS.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry::cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Thank God for podcasts.

[RevCheesehead]

43. Did I see that right?

Did they write "free-dumb institute"?? :rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

44. SMU should rethink letting Bush set up his little empire there.

What a crock of BS!

[ralps]

48. Well the Methodists tried to reject it but they got overuled bt the Southern Methodist

part of the Methodists! Grr :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :grr:

[SeattleGirl]

45. "This president almost totaled America."

Spot on, sir!

[ralps]

46. Today's worst person in the world is Glenn Beck!!! for defending a Mass Murderer

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[rusty charly]

49. Very disappointed he's agreeing to the black out the Cramer story

Not good.

[Berry Cool]

53. I think Keith is stuck between a rock and a hard place here.

He's actually gone further so far criticizing Cramer on his show than he ever has criticizing any of his NBC family stablemates before--he's done it twice--and he may be getting heat from the network. I'd still think, though, that if anyone at MSNBC could get away with talking about the Jon Stewart dressdown, he could.

Updated to add: Ah, so the story is, the MSNBC PRODUCERS were asked not to cover this. Interesting.

So this is the first time Keith has had to deal with a "story my producers are forcing me NOT to cover."

Chances are, if he wanted to cover it and they went along with him, they'd be fired. HE wouldn't be, but THEY would be.

Crappy situation.

[CC]

55. Keith says some about it

on Kos.

http://www.dailykos.com/user/Keith%20Olbermann/comments

By The Way (105+ / 0-)


The assumption that we would automatically do a story on a story Jon Stewart did is not a good one.

There is no interaction between his show and mine, and while it's possible that we did some significant segments on any of his previous smackdowns or vivisections (as good as they might have been), I don't remember when that would've been. So it's either not happened, or it hasn't happened in a long time.

Also the premise of corporate no-touch orders to keep what happened "quiet" is silly. That horse (in fact, an entire stable-full) left that barn as soon as the video hit the internet. My understanding is Rachel's doing a little something on this.

There is also - and of course I know this from being on the other end - the element of competitive gamesmanship about this. If there had been anybody of Cramer's heft on Fox Business, subjected to Stewart's hammering, I don't know that ABC, CBS and Fox would've been quite so interested in covering it. Conversely, I recall Stewart doing a lot of hammering of Foxies and it's not like I've turned all of those into 10-minute segments on this show.

"If you're going through hell - keep going!" -- Winston Churchill

by Keith Olbermann on Fri Mar 13, 2009 at 05:38:04 PM PDT

Also he was at a Mets game all day.

[Berry Cool]

56. Two comments:

1. I don't believe him.

2. His being at a baseball game, while entirely believable, is a lame excuse for ignoring the story. If there was a major earthquake on the West Coast, or someone (God forbid) took a shot at Obama, or a plane crashed in Texas and 300 people died, would he have ignored that? "I'm sorry, I was at a baseball game."

No, this doesn't fly. Especially when you consider the times he's taken Billo and others to task for not calling out their own networks. And it's not as if he didn't have time last night to talk about it. He could have skipped that whole "Worst Person of the Week" crap for this. I can't believe he's going back to that well. It didn't work with Oddball and it won't work with this.

I will be watching his Monday show with bated breath. Because by then, I expect there to be a lot more talk about this, and for Keith to look even more bizarre by remaining silent, if he chooses to do so.