What Olbermann did WAS amazing

[HEyHEY]

But do we have to call him the best ANCHOR on television? Call him a commentor, or your favourite anchor. But an actual anchor's strengths are not judged on his political commentary, no matter how good.
I see DUers complain about the media getting political all the time. And now that one has come out and said something they agree with, though it is the truth, they're all proclaiming him as the next messiah.
Please, let's try to hold EVERYONE to the same standards.

[Horse with no Name]

1. You are correct

Katie Couric is an "anchor".
Let's not smear that stink on Keith.

[Caoimhe]

2. LOL

[SammyWinstonJack]

44. !

:spray:

[eccles12]

3. Agreed! But he's the best of whatever right now. nt

[thereismore]

4. I'm tired of being "fair" to all. This is political warfare. Go Keith! nt

[HEyHEY]

9. See and your view is one I more agree with

In North America our belief that the press should be nuetral allows for a mass duping of the public. Whereas in other parts of the world there's no false idealogy about the press. One paper is left one is right, read the one you like best.
How it should be.

[depakid]

11. It's worse than that

In America every newspaper feels the need to find "another opinion" and print it with the same validity- even if it's patently FALSE or absurd.

If Bush said the earth is flat, the American media would trot out some quacks to "prove" it's true.

[jsamuel]

5. cause a really good anchor shows both sides, the truth and the repub side

but spends 3/4 the time on the latter

:sarcasm:


In truth, all sides are not equal. Sometimes there is a definite right and a definite wrong.

[thereismore]

8. Haha, you nailed it. Who cares what an anchor is, GO KEITH! nt

[waiting for hope]

6. Hum, I think it's a bit different

when someone in the media has the courage to speak the truth....if they all were fair and balanced (just visit mediamatters.org) - there wouldn't be the need to be such cheerleaders as we are. The left has been "marginalized" and finally, someone is speaking out.

[Lex]

7. In your opinion who *is* the best anchor?

Because, after all, we are just expressing our opinions on who we think is the best anchor, right?

He's well-informed, funny, articulate and interesting. And that's not even getting to the political commentary.

[HEyHEY]

10. I Like Kieth

But that's based on more of the things you said, than his political comments.
But, I'd say my fav is Alistair Yates...

[Fridays Child]

12. I see what you're saying but in a media environment where...

...liberal voices are routinely silenced, you have to agree that Keith Olbermann demonstrates uncommon courage.

:hi:

[napi21]

13. I believe the response to Keith is so strong in his favor becauce

EVERY other TV anchor either saysNOYHING or supports Shrub!

Remember where you are posting this! DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND!!!!!

There was a similar response the very few times Tweety actually gave a hard time to so Pub shill!

Shrub has generated some extremely strong negative feelings in Dems, and when someone with a national TV following demostrates the courage to stray from the standard,notonce but 2 days in a row, with the feelings many of us on DU have been saying for a long time, what other response would you expect?

[HEyHEY]

20. Please, point out when another anchor, a sane one, "Supported" Bush

[Susang]

22. If you're not for us, you're against us.

;-)

[napi21]

27. Tweety does it ALL THE TIME! Have you never heard him say

extremely good things about Shrub. And I didn't mean only Shrubsupport either! Listen to Tweety or Wolfe almost any day. When there's a Pub on, Tweet yends the interview with "well, good luck to you, I really like you." Wolfe is a bit more subtle, but with him, you can tell by the way he questions his guests, and if he lets then talk and answer the questions, or stops them in mid sentence with an objection.

Dobbs is a pretty straight shooter and calls out anybody he has a problem with, no matter what party.

The only other talking head I can think of who has smacked around the Prez, the Congress, or almost ANY candidate, is Jack Cafferty, although Jack is only a show host on the weekends.

[Evergreen Emerald]

42. everytime there is an interview

in which the "journalist" spews the right-wing talking points and allows the republicans (cause they never have on the other side) to get away with flat-out-lies with no follow-up. And that is: everytime there is an interview.

[Blue_Tires]

14. very amazing

[Susang]

21. How so?

[Subdivisions]

15. Yet another KO thread...fuck.

My earlier threads will bear out my stance on KO's commentary last night, but do we really need yet another thread when there's other just-as-important topics on this board?

How about giving this one some love, huh?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2117383&mesg_id=2117383

[HEyHEY]

18. If your threads aren't holding their own, you need to ask yourself; why?

[Subdivisions]

19. It's not MY thread...I admire KO immensely, but we need to move on

What are you implying anyway?

[bettyellen]

23. we need to move on because YOU say so.....

LOL. is this a plea for unity?
:rofl:

[Subdivisions]

29. No. It's a suggestion. We've established KO's brilliance and we

have an election to win in just 8 weeks.

I noticed that you took time to chastise me but I don't see your response to the link I provided for a thread that I feel is, at this moment, more worthy of DUers attention. After all, when people want a poll DUed, people don't say:


"We should DU this poll because YOU say so?"

Which is more important? Showing your hatred of me or supporting a new 9/11 investigation?

Here is the link again:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2117383&mesg_id=2117383

[bettyellen]

34. i didn't see anything newsy or way worthy in that thread

there is 0 chance of this investigation getting off the ground or helping at all in time for november.
so i'm going to take a pass. sorry if you equate not being supported with being hated. gosh, that sounds like our president! LOL. a bit confused and um, melodramatic. but good luck anyway.
:hi:

[Bridget Burke]

26. Thanks for bumping the thread!

Rather than posting to a thread you dislike, you could start a thread complaining about all those threads you dislike?

Or--you could start a thread about one of those "more important" topics.

[mmonk]

16. Right now, yes we do because no one else is being that

straight forward and challenging.

[johnnie]

17. Party pooper

x(

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. Is a minor terminology inaccuracy worthy of a flamewar?

:boring:

[HEyHEY]

30. Is it not?

[Susang]

32. I love it when two foreigners fight

So sexy! :*

[HEyHEY]

35. Fuck that suntan lotion hoggin', soccer playing, cocaine exportin' bastard

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. Hey!

Our head of government is a leftist and yours is a conservative! Nyah nyah nyah!

[HEyHEY]

38. Well, your "Leftist" government still has less social programs

than our conservative one!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

39. Yeah?

Well, your women have flat butts.

[bettyellen]

41. and they go to jamaica to get laid

it gets old explaining to the rent a rastas that you're from the usa.
where people do know how to get down. :P

[Lone_Star_Dem]

25. It's not that we have to

It's just that it feels so damn good to do it.

Besides, maybe it will feed his ego a bit and encourage him to express himself like that more often.

[LunaC]

28. Okay, I give up.

Who's better than Olberman these days?

[Susang]

33. He didn't say Olberman was bad

HEyHEY just stated that he didn't think he qualified as a news anchor, but felt he was more of a commentator and should be thought of that way. I tend to agree with him.

[bettyellen]

40. he writes the show. and also does commentary. that makes him both.

he is more than an anchor, not less.

[OzarkDem]

31. We have to restore free and fair news and commentary in this country

If Olberman is the only one willing to step forward and be the first to do it, so be it. We need to back him and encourage others to do so.

Pardon me, but I don't consider any talking head who reads copy about sensational murders, gossip and the latest WH spin to be a journalist, regardless of how well they're paid or who they work for.

Today, Olmberman is more of a journalist than anyone else in the business. Like it or not.

Time is running very, very short. If we lose this election there may never be another chance to save our democratic form of government, our economy, our freedom and our future.

[bettyellen]

36. so my fave is not who i think is best?

say wha?

[Catherine Vincent]

43. Your jealousy is showing. n/t

[high density]

45. I think if a Democratic Prez were fucking up as bad as Bush,

Keith would be doing "special comments" about him/her as well... The administration has been and currently is screwing the country over big time, and it's nice to finally hear somebody on TV "news" that still seems to have some sort of link to reality.

[Bake]

46. It's a news show. He's the anchor. Simple as that.

Thw way in which he covers the top five stories of the day, plus Oddball, is a little different than the standard "network" format. But it's still a news show, and he reports the news as well as commenting on it. Countdown is not a pundit/talk show like Hardball, Scarborough, O'Reilly, etc. It is a news show, and it has an anchor named Keith Olbermann.

Walter Cronkite did the same thing. So did Edward R. Murrow.

Keith carries on the BEST tradition of what an anchor ought to be. Sometimes the truth compels him to make a "special comment." Good for him. He's un-covering, and TELLING, the truth.

Bake