The Facts About Keith Olbermann

Mr. Keith Olbermann has been in the news lately. Alot. And regardless of what you think about him, he is highly intelligent. Highly intelligent people dont usually get along/play well with people of 'lower' intelligence. Regardless, we love him.

Here is an example, of Mr. Olbermann:

Although it began as a traditional newscast, "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" has gradually adopted an opinion-oriented format.

Much of the program features sharp criticism of prominent Republicans and rightward leaning figures, including those working for or supporting the George W. Bush Administration, 2008 Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain, and rival news commentator Bill O'Reilly, whom Olbermann routinely dubs the "Worst Person In The World."

In January 2007 The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz wrote that Olbermann was "position[ing] his program as an increasingly liberal alternative to The O'Reilly Factor."

The conservative media watchdog group Media Research Center (MRC) compiled a list of the recipients of Olbermann's "World's Worst" for about a year from its beginning on June 30, 2005 and reported that, of the approximately 600 recipients, 174 (29 percent) of those fit their definition of “conservative” people or ideas while only 23 (6 percent) were what they considered “liberal.”

During the 2008 Democratic Party primaries Olbermann frequently chastised presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton for her campaign tactics against her principal opponent, Senator Barack Obama, asserting at one point that Senator Clinton was campaigning "as if (she) were the Republican" in the contest (see Criticism of the Hillary Clinton campaign below).

Olbermann has also posted on the liberal blog Daily Kos, a site where visitors tend to be pro-Obama.

In a Countdown interview with Al Franken on October 25, 2005, Olbermann noted that in 2003, after having Janeane Garofalo and Franken on his show, a vice president of MSNBC had questioned him on inviting "liberals" on consecutive nights, contrasting that occurrence to the apparent ideological latitude he enjoyed at the time of the second Franken interview.

In November 2007, conservative British newspaper The Daily Telegraph placed Keith Olbermann at #67 on their Top 100 list of most influential US liberals. It said that he uses his MSNBC show to promote "an increasingly strident liberal agenda." It added that he would be "a force on the Left for some time to come."

Investigative journalist Robert Parry has characterized Olbermann as being on the "left side of the scale."

Olbermann has refused to pigeonhole himself politically, once telling the progressive on-line magazine Salon.com, "I'm not a liberal, I'm an American."


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