Keith Olbermann's Bloggerman - Daily Made-Up News :)

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He blogs about the lies made up about his Cspan interview :D

• March 13, 2006 | 4:18 p.m. ET

Daily Made-up News (Keith Olbermann)



SECAUCUS - Everybody who writes for a living ought to be subjected to one day in which they are written about. The results would be mortifying - and educational.

Today’s lesson in this subject should go to gossip columnist Lloyd Grove, his assistant Katherine Thomson, and their employers at The New York Daily News, who are guilty of taking quotes out of context in such an egregious manner -- and ignoring an extraordinary conflict of interest for Ms. Thomson -- that what they published wouldn’t have gotten past the editor of my 4th Grade Class Newspaper.

In an interview with CSPAN that aired last night, I managed to compliment both my boss at MSNBC, network president Rick Kaplan, and our bosses at NBC and the parent company GE - Kaplan for his support of Countdown and the corporate types for never letting what might be their own personal ideologies get in the way of the news, or their corporate mission to make money.

Compliments. On tape. On television. And Grove and Thomson twisted them into negatives, into insults.

Grove wrote today: “BLOOD FEUD? MSNBC's Keith Olbermann deeply distrusts the top brass at NBC and its parent company, General Electric, judging by his interview with C-SPAN's grand inquisitor, Brian Lamb. ‘There are people I know in the hierarchy of NBC, the company, and GE, the company, who do not like to see the current presidential administration criticized at all,’ he claimed, without naming names. ‘Moral force and money often do not mix in the slightest.’”

Well, that’s a fantastic job of selecting quotes, draining them of their context, and trying to start trouble where none exists.

Here’s what I said, in full, according to the CSPAN transcript.

Cont'd: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11478921/#060313a

[babylonsister]

1. I'm glad he's rebutting this; I saw/read this article

a couple of times today and wondered if I had been watching the same program last night. Talk about spin!

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2. I was thrilled to learn that the Daily News people

will be the worst people in the world tonight :bounce:

[Nite Owl]

3. They should know enough not to

mess with KO. His bullhorn is alot bigger than theirs.

[renate]

4. I thought it was brave of Keith to criticize his crab overlords, but...

since a story he apparently objects to is on our home page, this seems worth K&R-ing.

P.S. The NY Daily News, not the OP of the story that's on the home page, is to blame for this misunderstanding. No wonder Keith is mad about this, yet one more example of the corporate media spinning to create lies and criticism out of praise. Good for him for how emphatically he's setting the record straight.

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5. I was happy to see someone posted his blog

response to that thread and I thanked him for that :hi:

[renate]

6. I'm going to kick this one more time

I wouldn't be surprised if Keith or someone on his staff reads DU, and goodness knows many many many of us at DU love him to pieces.

If there's a story on our home page in which his remarks are taken out of context (and again, I blame the Daily News and NOT the OP of that thread), I think we owe it to him to try to help clear things up.

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7. another kick....and thank you renate!

Too late for home page, but still want to get Keith's message out to his DU supporters !