Olbermann named Robertson "Worst Person" runner-up for for Islam "world domination" comments
Keith Olbermann awarded 700 Club host Pat Robertson runner-up in his daily "Worst Person in the World" segment for saying that "the goal of Islam ... is world domination."
On the March 14 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann awarded 700 Club host Pat Robertson runner-up in his daily "Worst Person in the World" segment for saying that "the goal of Islam ... is world domination." As Media Matters for America noted, Robertson's comments, made on the March 13 broadcast of Christian Broadcasting Network's (CBN) The 700 Club, were scrubbed from the CBN website "out of concerns they could be misinterpreted if taken out of context," according to a Robertson spokeswoman who was cited in a March 14 Associated Press report. Robertson also claimed that Muslims who protested controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were "satanic" and "crazed fanatics" who were "motivated by demonic power."
From the March 14 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: The runner-up, the televangelist Pat Robertson, again, telling his by-now-benumbed TV audience that, quote, "the goal of Islam, ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not, is world domination." He later clarified this by saying he only meant radical Islamist extremists. Details, schmetails, right, Pat?
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Olberman is a conservative misinformer?
No, but Robertson is.
Congratulations, you're the 50,000,000,000th person to say that exact same thing on this site.
MMFA used to have a right hand column where the more entertaining material was posted. It's all cobbled together now. Get over it.
Yes, you've quoted their stated purpose. Since it's their website, to run as they please in a free and open society, are they bound by law to use their site to do nothing but their stated purpose? They still fulfill that purpose, but they don't limit themselves. Again, get over it.
--"Am I missing something?"--
Yes. Robertson is being recognized -again- as an A-1 conservative misinformer.
Taken from the NY Daily news. Why no MM report on this?
The latest odd behavior by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was a rant on his 'Countdown' show prompted by a Lowdown item citing his recent C-SPAN interview.
Keith Olbermann should try the insanity defense. That might explain — though hardly excuse — the MSNBC anchor's nutty response to a small item in Monday's column regarding his comments during a C-SPAN interview.
Olbermann was quoted accurately on the subject of his corporate bosses at GE and NBC — that "they do not like to see the current presidential administration criticized at all." And that MSNBC President Rick Kaplan — who spanked him last August for his repulsive account of spitting blood into a garbage can — "is a very emotional, very high-strung, gigantic man, also a very squeamish man."
As a service to readers, I omitted Olbermann's syrupy, soporific attempts at sucking up to his superiors — which he insists on calling "context."
So what did Krazy Keith do?
He used his third-place "Countdown" show — which has one-sixth the audience of Fox News' Bill O'Reilly — to slime my assistant, Katherine Thomson, as the "Worst Person in the World." Viewers must have been scratching their heads as Krazy Keith made creepy insinuations about my twentysomething associate's long and rewarding service at MSNBC before I hired her away.
"The conflict of interest is as bad as anything I've seen in journalism," Olbermann claimed, weirdly, adding that "when she left, nobody cried." Not that any of his colleagues were sobbing when he left his last half a dozen jobs in broadcasting, including an earlier MSNBC stint when producers reportedly had to pry him from a fetal position under his desk to get him to go on the air.
I'm not a clinician, so I won't pretend to understand Krazy Keith's behavior, including sometimes locking himself in his Secaucus, N.J., office and speaking to staffers only if they've put a written request in his mailbox. "He's a sad and pathetic figure," one of his former bosses mused yesterday. But my sympathy is limited.
Hey, Krazy Keith, why don't you pick on somebody your own size?
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Keith Olberman sucks.
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Limbaugh is teh r0xx0r. blah blah blah
just isn't worth reading. Could you make your next one a little longer, please???
.... Keith is about an inch shorter than BO.
MMFA should probably add to their "About Us" the following:
"... and to honor those with a pair big enough to stand up to the conservative misinformers, their shows and the networks that broadcast them. "
It is MSNBC that sucks in the ratings, not Olberman. Every one of MSNBC's shows lose out to the other networks. Bag on Tucker Carlson before you bag on Olberman.
--"Why no MM report on this?"--
Because this site spotlights conservative misinformation. The issue here is the recognition and exposure in the media of Pat Robertson's inflammatory, hateful comments concerning Muslims, and not a discussion of whether columnist Lloyd Grove of the Daily News has a favorable opinion of Keith Olbermann.
Now can you give us your amateur pschycological assessment of bonkers Bill Orielly, What makes him tick?
Why does MM report everything this guy says? What about true progressives like Al Franken? Why not report everything he says?
if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
--"Al Franken? Why not report everything he says?"
Why not indeed. Why don't you do that? Start up a website. Let us know when it's done. As a Franken fan, I'd visit it daily.
The connection in MMFA reporting what Olbermann says may be that Olbermann is talking about the same subjects MMFA brings up. MMFA reports on pundits like O'Reilly and Robertson, and Olbermann talks about the same issues relating to those characters. MMFA often lists stories that aren't critiques and are from other sources than Olbermann if the stories are related to the conservative information that MMFA had already reported.
the actual goal of Islam? We search the world and see very little in the way of progressive ideas coming out of that religion, the moderates are being dominated (at least in public preception) by the radicals (just as moderate Christians and Jews are dominated in public preception by the radicals). I personally think Olderman's argument here is a little weak, based on public preception of Islam.
...by rhetoric like Robertson's. That's why Robertson's statements are so odious; they reinforce the public perception that we are engaged in an irreconcilable conflict with the muslim world that can only be won, not resolved -- a kind of cage-match of civilisations from which only one will emerge.
The real bankruptcy of rhetoric like Robertson's is that it offers no solution, even to the problem it helps to create. So what if he's right and Islam is a nutty religion of whackos bent on world domination and satanism? What are we going to do about it, wipe Muslims off the face of the Earth?
I laughed out loud reading these posts.
The conservatives trotted out their same old crud. Maybe this is how they have brainwashed themselves and the country through repeating the same slogans over and over.
Oberman is getting under their skin. BO and Pat the crazy are side show freaks.
Oberman was on the Al Frankin show today and noted that BO had been a media failure for 20 years until Fox held onto him long enough to attract his band of nuts.
If the trolls came up with any good arguments to support BO we would see them thousands of times, so we are assured that they have only warmed over BO
Media Matters does not think that Islam's goal is to make the whole world under Islamic law?
Maybe someone will donate MMFA a Koran so they can get educated.
Leatherman,
It may be just me but I detect in your repeated posts a 'FEAR' which really borders on an unfounded phobia that Islamists are scheming and ready to take over the world. So if that presupposition is either feasible or a likely result, How is that suppose to come about? The idea that some mystical fanatic 'wannabe 'Caliph is scheming in a cave against the West and Yes, happens to be the head of some nasties , I guess obligates you to believe that such a monolithic army CAN and WILL confront and eventually conquer cultures rooted in antiquity, with established and sovereign governments primarily Christian denominated...... AND WITH large standing Defense establishments replete with Weapons of Mass Destruction.
The very idea that such a ragtag assembly of miscreants have the power, the means and the ability to extend the Bushian idea of a 21ST Century Caliphate, reminscent of 14TH Century Islamic Pan -Imperialism strikes me as mildy absurd and ridiculous to say the least.
Many Holy Book conjures up visions of grandeur where the Infidel is cast as evil, to be subdued, born again OR any other spiritual testament to CONVERSION, incuding Christianity.
So, unles you can convince me that there is some nation I don't know about THAT exceeds our 14 Carrier-Battle Groups, HI-Tech stealth Air Force, Airbone Mobilized Army.......... THEN Please inform me of this newcomer to the world scene.
Navy_Guy (and btw I alwys enjoy reading your posts, among others, even if I don't speak up to say so).
I usually keep mum on the "let's hate and fear the Muslims" topics and I can't really add to your fine post. I think it is really easy to stoke irrational fears for these religious adherents, and I admit to many prejudices regarding that religious brand, so we must be on guard against incitations to use military force on ideological grounds. Lumping all violent extremists in with the broader Muslim faith is the "innoculation" for atrocious war policies in the Middle East which meet with no public resistance.
Pick of the litter,
Thank you for your kind words. BTW, YOU certinly did add to my post with a clarity of mind, purpose and acumen.
Navy
I read about your fear of neocons a million times.
Neoconphobia, get your innoculations here.
If that is the "ultimate" goal of Islamic Extremists, is it any different than Evangelical Extremists fervent desire to "convert all the heathens" to christianity?
OK, I'll bite.
Where in the Koran does it say that Islam should take over the world?
Yeah, right.
the funny thing is that it seems like Olbermann knows he is crazy. Cant say the same about O'reilly
"As a service to readers, I omitted Olbermann's syrupy, soporific attempts at sucking up to his superiors — which he insists on calling 'context'."
Well, the "attempts" were indeed part of his answer, not "sucking up" to his superiors.
Let's see - the article was in the NY Daily News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who owns ........
Connect the dots - if your TV network can't beat Olbermann, sic your newspaper on him!!!!
Actually, Satan...er...Rupert owns The New York Post. I believe Mort Zuckerman owns The Daily News.
I've never read the Daily news but Murdoch's Post is a piece of crap which pretty much sums up most of his products.