Olbermann handed Asman, Yost "Worst Person" bronze for claiming journalists won't report heroism while covering Iraq
On MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann awarded third place in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" awards to Fox News host David Asman and American Spectator writer Mark Yost for comments they made on Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto. Asman stated that journalists covering the Iraq war are "not going to report on a lot of heroism." In response, Yost suggested that reporters are "somewhat embarrassed by people or feel lesser of themselves by people who do incredibly heroic things." Olbermann remarked: "That's right, boys. That's why the media covered up all the heroism on Flight 93."
On the May 16 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann awarded third place in his nightly "Worst Person in the World" awards to Fox News host David Asman and American Spectator writer Mark Yost for comments they made during the May 15 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto. As Media Matters for America noted, Asman stated that journalists covering the Iraq war are "not going to report on a lot of heroism." In response, Yost suggested that reporters are "somewhat embarrassed by people or feel lesser of themselves by people who do incredibly heroic things" and that "they don't make a big deal of it, because they themselves know that maybe, perhaps, in the same situation they wouldn't have done the same thing." Olbermann remarked: "That's right, boys. That's why the media covered up all the heroism on Flight 93."
From the May 16 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: Time for Countdown's latest list of the nominees for "Worst Person in the World."
The bronze, shared by Mark Yost of American Spectator and David Asman of Fox News. Asman says the heart and mind of a lot of journalists covering Iraq, quote, "Isn't in the war, and if that's the case, then they are not going to report a lot of heroism." To which Yost says, "A lot of times people are reluctant. They're somewhat embarrassed by people or feel lesser of themselves by people who do incredibly heroic things. So the reporters then don't report heroism." That's right, boys. That's why the media covered up all the heroism on Flight 93.
The runner-up, this time, Consumers Energy of Flint, Michigan. Customer Jacqueline Williams owed the utility $1,662.08. She had to scrounge to pay it. She should have paid it sooner, obviously. When she got to the office, she found she was exactly a penny short. The bill 1,662.08, she's got 1,662.07. So they cut off her electricity for seven hours until she got the other penny to them.
But the winner, well, we have flip sides on the same issue, here. Mayor Troy Anderson of Waldron, Arkansas, accused of patronizing a prostitute, paying for the sex partly in cash and partly by giving the woman a discount on her city water bill. "Hey, baby, how'd you like to have me read your meter?" Mayor Troy Anderson of Waldron, Arkansas, today's "Worst Person in the World."
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According to Asman...
The journalists who cover Iraq, the ones who are holed up in their heavily fortified Baghdad compounds with sandbags on their windows, the journalists to whom security dictates everything they do, do not have their "hearts and minds in the war".
And according to Yost...
Those same journalists are embarrassed that they themselves are not war heroes?
Call me crazy, but I consider any journalist brave enough to be on assignment in Iraq to be not only dedicated, but heroic as well.
Ok here it is, i predict that on Wed. night Keith Olbermann will award Bill O'Reilly the worst person in the world and MM posts it on their bias website.
With Evil in possession of the administration of the U.S. Government, and that same Evil in the leadership positions of U.S. Congress...
And so much of the tv and radio whoring for the money and the power, and in league with the Evil...
The exceptions become noteworthy.
Think of what it is they oppose, and what it is they risk; they're noteworthy.
Keith does very well; Stephen has no equal as a satirist...
...or none that stands up (to you know what) and is willing to risk so much.
Tonight, Stephen's "The Word" segment (over just moments ago) was as clever (and as funny) as...
Well, as anything he does regularly, nightly.
Worthy, and noteworthy, of transcription.
(I wish I had that ability.)
Anyway, he's about to "Know a District"....
Enough said, and I hope to see his definition of "Democrats" widely transcribed; it's that noteworthy.
(In real time, the "Know a District" segment is satire unequaled, today.)
The Democrats are poised to retake Congress with a single message...
We're not Republicans!
(That much I can transcribe w/o the benefit of tape and other gadget; it's out of context, and nothing indicative of the entire definition, but oh so true.)
Noteworthy even.
(The Spanish-American War... Great war of imperialism? Or the greatest war of imperialism ever?)
--"i predict that on Wed. night Keith Olbermann will award Bill O'Reilly the worst person in the world"--
When O'Reilly stops lying, misinforming and smearing, you won't see him or hear him mentioned here or on Olbermann anymore.
Ball's in O'Reilly's court.
Making a prediction about the Wednesday night Countdown at 9:46 pm on Wednesday night.Here's my prediction at 9:58 Wednesday West Coast time: C.Naylor will predict something that already happened, proving to be an only slightly less amazing prognosticator than Oxycontin Fat fairy Rush Limbaugh.
I'm citing Rush's almost perfect record of predicting, after the Bushies have broken the law or lied, that " you just watch, the liberal media is going to say they broke the law or lied", and when it comes to pass (occasionally when the press is awake) it's incontrovertible proof that the media is liberal. Since he predicted it, it must be "predictable", meaning biased.
I am still waiting for my Pulitzer prize for predicting ,after the photos of Britney Spears and her baby in the car seat broke out the other day, that the Britney-hating media would show that picture all day.Why do they hate her?
Mark Yost is an ex Navy SEAL, who was awarded a Silver Star personally by Ronald Reagan for courageous action under fire. He still carries about a half pound of shrapnel in his body. For the past 15 years he's written on military affairs for the Wall Street Journal and other papers. Asman covered Latin America for the Wall Street Journal for 12 years. Was a combat reporter for about half that time. Both men know a bit more about combat and combat coverage than Mr. Keith Olbermann, a former sports reporter.
They say that journalists don't report heroism because they're scared to, or embarassed to, or whatever.
Having a strong background doesn't mean that you won't ever say something stupid, or that you shouldn't be criticized for it.
Our soldiers over there produce heroic actions everyday in Iraq. Take a look at any of the medics in the field, they save lives everyday. If the journalists reported on every single piece of heroic information, there wouldn't be enough time to report the changes or updates of what is going on. It's hard enough for a journalist to get anything in the paper these days concerning Iraq, let alone about what we expect from our own soldiers and medics on the ground.
What we don't expect, and what is reported, are our HEROES being blown up by IED's and helicopters being shot down. They are reporting HEROISM, they report and recognize the heroes who are being killed in action.
Check out my comments on the Tony Snow "tar Baby" remark over the weekend, and then check out Jon Stewart's bit tonight(Thursday) . I can Predict TDS, once in a while. They're usually right, and I don't get told what to think ahead of time by FOX.
But keep on "predicting" what Keith Olbermann will say yesterday. Good readin.