Olbermann names Hannity, O'Reilly, and Beck "Worst Persons"
May 08, 2009 9:23 am ET
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I listened to people like Hanniterd and PigMan Limbaugh insult and harangue Liberals for years unchallenged. Now that they've driven their party into the ground, it's fun to watch them squirm and whine.
And, since their well-deserved minority status may be temporary, I have to get my jollies while I can.
"These guys" all have their own national talk shows... I think that's all the opportunity they need.
Maybe you should check the ratings again, at least for O'Reilly. I don't think it's as lopsided as you imply.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/top-news/cable-news
FOXN THE OREILLY FACTOR 08:00P -09:00P _T_____ 2880 657 1140
CNN CAMPBELL BROWN 08:00P -09:00P _T_____ 716 175 305
MSNB COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN 08:00P -09:00P _T_____ 1089 298 572
CNBC CNBC REPORTS 08:00P -09:00P _T_____ 176 77 103
HLN NANCY GRACE 08:00P -09:00P _T_____ 598 204 311
FOXN HANNITY 09:00P -10:00P _T_____ 2125 541 893
CNN LARRY KING LIVE 09:00P -10:00P _T_____ 1047 209 421
MSNB RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 09:00P -10:00P _T_____ 803 208 389
CNBC AS SEEN ON TV 09:00P -10:00P _T_____ 197 74 92
HLN LOU DOBBS TONIGHT 09:00P -10:00P _T_____ 353 86 161
FOXN ON THE RECORD W/GRETA 10:00P -11:00P _T_____ 2002 480 831
CNN ANDERSON COOPER 360 10:00P -11:00P _T_____ 996 222 333
MSNB COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN 10:00P -11:00P _T_____ 595 171 296
CNBC ON THE MONEY 10:00P -11:00P _T_____ 147 45 57
HLN NANCY GRACE 10:00P -11:00P _T_____ 513 215 305
FOXN THE OREILLY FACTOR 11:00P -12:00A _T_____ 1629 538 803
CNN ANDERSON COOPER 360 11:00P -12:00A _T_____ 602 183 228
MSNB RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11:00P -12:00A _T_____ 302 82 159
CNBC MAD MONEY 11:00P -12:00A _T_____ 83 34 43
HLN SHOWBIZ TONIGHT 11:00P -12:00A _T_____ 307 125 142
Reality shows are among the highest rated... does that make them "quality" television?
If it works for one genre, shouldn't it work for another?
Apparently Greta Van Susteren has pretty high ratings. Doesn't she deal primarily with tabloid crap?
The ratings those shows receive are not a indication of the truthfulness of their content. It's an indication of the die-hard fans that need and want to hear that stuff.
You've just summarized a lot of what's wrong with conservative groupthink mentality, FL.
First of all, TV rating are based on quite a bit of hocus pocus and extrapolation, but more important to keep in mind, the comparative ratings of tv shows is only a rough count of those Americans who are sitting around watching tv. A relatively small group,not very important, except to advertisers.
and if youre going to be consistent in your logic, you'd have to agree that McDonald's has great food and Hannah Montana makes incredibly important music.
When I want to watch Keith olbermann Ed Schultz or Rachel Maddow, I can't use my television, I have to go online.
And Right Wing talk radio shows do?
Now, that's funny.
To top it off, as Olbermann points out, the ACRON rep out debated him with facts and points leaving Beck the proverbial 'loser'. But that's not what made Beck WPITW...its the rant he chose to go on once his guest just left. Thats what got him the first place finish and its a cowardly thing to do.
The new young voters do not watch any of the news channels they watch Colbert and Steward (sp). I watch Olbermann as do most of my friends. We are all over 60 but just hate the hate mongering that borders on being so funny that it is driving more folks from FOX than too them. They hang on to the 20 per cent who get off on half truths and hate speech but they did not bring enough haters to the last two elections. Hate speech turns most voters off. So going on watching those right wing kings of tv. As for me and mine, we will listen to folks who at least look at both sides of an issue from time to time. God Bless America.
By the way, O'Reilly goes after Olbermann almost everyday. He just won't mention him by name. If you cannot see that then you are just drinking the Fox News Kool-Aid.
He's just one more Religious Fanatic Douchebag with a microphone.
As well they should, he has a brain. He speaks without yelling (most of the time)He interviews folks who differ from him and does not yell them down or be rude to them. He is so much smarter and has more controll of the truth than anyone on Fox. They are in the tank for GOP at Fox and if they were so good, then they should have had the GOP win the last two elections by great numbers. But folks for the most part hate the hate speech they heard the last election which is pretty much all they hear on FOX morn to night.
Then you should have no problem documenting any such "smears" to be untrue. The fact that you have made this claim several times on this site and have never yet provided a scintilla of evidence to back it up says that you are just another ignorant wingnut.
Here's what Palin said.
"Ever since I took the chief executive’s job up north, I’ve pushed for more funding for students with special needs." Today the quote was, "I sought more funds for students with special needs."
When presented with a budget that had more funds, she crossed off the figure on that budget and halved it. She didn't seek more funds, nor did she push for more funding than what was proposed - she actually cut proposed funds by a significant amount.
Olbermann was correct. She tried to claim that, as a mother of a special needs child, she had pushed for larger funding than other people had proposed, but when presented with their proposals, she balked!
I'd be willing to bet, however, that Olbermann lies less often than any of those clowns, and Rachel Maddow is smarter than all of them put together.
I don't think msnbc can afford to pay him for very much longer. No one watches,.
Olberman is a loser.. i can't even stand to watch him during football season.. he needs to be shown the door.
Also, 'not good enough to work for Murdoch'? You mean he's not as good as the guys on Red Eye? Or the people on StarTV?
Let's see if each of them watch each others show they each get a viewer. Great ratings i am sure they love talking to each other
Multiple people and groups can come to the same conclusion based on their own independent observations! Just like we all come to the same conclusion about you, HurryDuck. I don't need someone else to interpret your behavior for me and tell me what I should think about your behavior.
Isn't that funny he names the 3 people that kick his ass in the ratings everyday every night and even their reruns beat him. Hey Keith nobody is watching you there all to busy watching
Hannity, O'Reilly, and Beck.
MSNBC is that even a real network? ROFL
PS McDonalds makes a profit just Like Fox News can't say that about MSNBC now can we?
The message provided by O'Reilly, Hannity and Beck is divisive, over-simplified and dripping with peer-pressure. Their information is poorly if ever founded in fact and if facts ARE ever present, they are very often cherry picked or heavily spun in order to form half-truths or falsehoods in the minds of Fox's viewers.
Looks like MSNBC is doing better financially than Fox News
Rush Limbaugh is proof of that.
Hilarious that it was too complicated for the wingnuts. Look at the focus on "popularity" of tv shows by the cons on this thread. It's like they can't even grasp the concept that something lousy can be (and often is) more popular than something of quality.
and the fact that they can't understand this seems to have them all ROTF and LOLing.
Olbermann just keeps it down to 3 a night. MMA keeps going 24/7.
This particular clip is good, though, because it means that finding three 'worst people' other than these obvious choices wasn't very easy. To our conservative friends: If Olbermann is picking on these three, that's good. Keep up the good work.
1. O'bama
2. Reid
3. Pelosi
Damn to bad he doesn't name more than 3 ROFL
Top 3 administrations with the most convictions
-Reagan
-Nixon
-Bush
I do find it funny however that the anti Laissez-faire left, are calling the fiscal consevatives, radical or extreme right wingers. Doesnt make much sense to me.
Someone please clue me in on that.
Many on the right do not like that. They like to be told what to believe. Makes them less anxious than to have to learn new things and educate themselves. So I watch her because I do think she is the smartest journalist going. Noted I said journalist, not entertainer as I believe most all on the Fox channel are right now. They dictate thoughts to you while Rachel will have on many who disagree with her and actually have thoughtful discussion so refreshing. So if the ratings are not high well it is because most folks want not to think about their politics. They want it spoon fed.
Yep, it's just your opinion, and it's an opinion based on a bunch of garbage.
They do not distort, cherry-pick, leave out facts, or manipulate or even flat-out lie the way that clowns like O'Reilly do, or the way that buffoons like Hannity do, or the way that court jesters like Beck do. All three of those losers have neanderthal audiences that hate to actually think or go in depth, so they do their simplistic nonsense.
There actually have been some nights where Olbermann has beaten O'Reilly in the ratings. There have been other nights where he has come pretty close to it, and/or has beaten him in certain ratings demographics. You can have your higher ratings, I'll stick with Olbermann and Maddow. They may not be perfect, but they don't lie the way those three jokes do.
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If I were you, I would ask you to look at the "proggresive or intellectual" movement of the 1890's, and how many of the theories of social advancment, in regards to government interference actually caused more economic problems in the name of "advancement" than it did good. Basically, the leftist theories, pushed by talking heads such as Olbermann, have long been disproven even so far as over 100 years ago. The only reason they have been brough back to the forefront is, the struggle for power that the Democratic party has and its ability to make an old disproven theory look new again among more easily influenced, younger intellectual constituency. Also, being hateful on blogs while spouting generalizations of the population, only identifies your bigotry.
Fox lies well, there are so many. Most are really half truths and then there are just funny stupid things they dwell on like mustard on a hamberger. Sometimes they just go over the top for the GOP without ever getting the view of the otherside. They tend to yell at guests not really talk to them or discuss things with them. I am sure you feel srongly that Reganomics is the ticket but the last two years shows the fallacy in that therory too. We have to adapt and changeour fiscal outlook as time marches on...the GOP really does not do that well. They started a listening campaign one day last week and a few days later after Rush corrected them say not it was not a listenign tour. That is why they look so bad to voters right now. They don't know who they are and Fox I don't think does either. Hope over hate any day.
Switch around 1890's to 1980's and you have a great example of an era of policies that helped to sow the seeds of what is going on today. The idea of massive deregulation was tried. Wall Street was left alone for many years and this is the result. The Reagan Era is over in a way. Reaganomics is largely responsible for the mess we are in today. George H.W. Bush was right when he called it "voodoo economics." Sadly, Bill Clinton didn't help either. He signed into law the bill that repealed Glass-Steagall, a bill which was pushed through by Phil Gramm and the Republican Congress a decade ago. There were quite a few Democrats who spoke out against the repeal of Glass-Steagall.
As far as the sub-prime mortgages going to lower-income individuals and families, it was the Clinton Administration and the Bush Administration that endorsed that. Republicans and conservatives (including Sean Hannity who loves to bring this up) seem to conveniently forget that it was President George W. Bush who also endorsed that plan, with things like the Home Ownership Society.
As far as spouting generalizations, anyone who at this point still needs examples of FOX NEWS CHANNEL being deceitful or anything other than a propoganda arm of the Republican National Committee and conservatives is pretty much in that category that falls withing generalizing.
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FAUX and Murdoch are nothing more than a propagadanda machine for the right wing element and the term for GOP has now taken on a new meaning "Goin Outta Power"