"Olbermann": from Voldemort to aphrodisiac for the people at Fox
Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 12:26:22 PM PDT
Summary: Once upon a time, Keith Olbermann was "He Who Must Not Be Named" over at Fox. Now they're saying his name so frequently (14.5 times in a six minute & eight second clip [the rest of the clip is just the poster promoting its website] ) that you'd swear they were getting aroused by it.
Man, did I miscalculate. When Howard Kurtz put out the claim that Fox was going to war with NBC because of the Olbermann/O'Reilly feud, I figured, "Busted! Now Fox won't attack NBC because they'll be afraid to prove Mr. Kurtz' claim right. At least that's what a smart news organization would do."
"Smart news organization". Fox. See the fatal flaw in my theory?
From Fox (& Friends!):
HOSTESS (don't know her name): But I flipped over to MSNBC, not because I wanted to watch their election coverage, but because I like to watch the body language of whoever is sitting next to Keith Olbermann.
You like to watch Chris Matthews' body? He's not a piece of meat, lady!
DOOCY: If he's (Olbermann) blogging for this far-left blog (Dailykos), clearly he is an activist.
No offense to Mr. Olbermann, but the only cause he tends to come here to promote is, "Hey, I got this thing on my show tonight, and it's gonna be friggin' sweet!" Otherwise, he's mostly here to chit-chat.
DOOCY: And you gotta figure, Tim Russert? Can't feel good about that.
KILMEADE: (really, really sad voice) And we're born on the same day, Tim Russert and I.
Just watch the video and listen to his voice. It's at 2:25. There's this hilarious tragedy thing going on with Mr. Kilmeade over the birthday.
CARLSON: You know what I really love about Keith Olbermann, though? The other night he called me stupid.
You guys are repeating his name more than two times a minute for over six minutes. You're doing the same thing for him that Bill O'Reilly has done for Media Matters and Dailykos. Yup, "stupid" pretty much fits.
CARLSON: (continuing the stupid thing) I'd like to know where he went to school, where did you graduate from high school, where were you in your class...
It's called Wikipedia, Ms. Carlson. It's on the same Internets as that damned Dailykos.
CARLSON: (continuing from previous quote) And I'd also like to know why you're still single.
And I'd like to add, "Yo mama!"
DOOCY: He said on his show the other night that nobody here...at his show...Countdown has ever attacked anybody's children. And that, Keith Olbermann...if you're watching right now...that is an absolute lie. (skipping a few lines) He attacked my son and made him the World's Worst Person because he is my son. So he does attack people's children.
Okay, in all fairness, that one puzzled me as well...unless Mr. Olbermann was using the word "children" to mean toddlers and such (Mr. Doocy's son is an adult). So Doocy might have actually scored one there.
I'd like to close by saying that I'm very disappointed in Mr. Olbermann. How is it that Fox (& Friends!) can say your name that many times in that short a period and you haven't teleported out of a mirror to smite them? At least pull a Freddy Krueger or something.