Keith Olbermann Videos

MSNBCs Countdown with Keith Olbermann opens five nights per week with the usual slick graphics and fast-paced audio of contemporary political infotainment. To tease its eager audience, they ask what people will be talking about tomorrow. Well thanks to Mr. Olbermann and company, we not only have the challenge of telling you what people wont be talking about tomorrow, but also why.

MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann opens five nights per week with the usual slick graphics and fast-paced audio of contemporary political infotainment. To tease its eager audience, they ask what people will be talking about tomorrow. Well thanks to Mr. Olbermann and company, we not only have the challenge of telling you what people wont be talking about tomorrow, but also why. Because the mainstream media has a new toy to play with for the next week of news cycles, thinking people will have to expand their net for serious news beyond the boundaries of American media to keep atop of issues affecting their lives. This latest media circus started even prior to the moron’s rollout on Oprah’s daily pity party for pussies and was in high gear when Fox News predictable defended this walking talking mental defect with the same cadre of conservative talking heads we’ve all grown to know so well and despise so thoroughly.

American politics is always been a contact sport. Heck, even the founding fathers didn t agree on many things and that s what caused the original founding party to break up but what we re seeing today is a little bit different. It started with Richard Nixon. He learned the art of divide and conquer. He used in California politics in the late 40s and again in the 60s. He used it to get elected to Congress in the early 50s. He was able to use the Vietnam war and patriotism to get elected president in 1968. So, I can think of no better expert to talk to than Rick Perlstein, author of the book, Nixonland. It was Nixon who taught Ronald Reagan. More correctly, Ronald Reagan learned from Richard Nixon. I decided to post my interview with Rick Perlstein, again. It seems we needed the perspective after the elder former President Bush decided to personally attack Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. This wouldn t be any big deal if the President wasn t calling for civility not five minutes before attacking them. What I find most reprehensible is not that he questioned the reporting or their delivery of their commentaries or even their shows but instead it was a personal attack. There are a couple of sick puppies. I think you ll find this interview informative and enlightening. Enjoy!

Jimmy attempts to solve the beef between MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Fox News' Glenn Beck.

The entire team is back together again, talking Healthcare what else, the true facts and figures of lifespans around the world. American Patriots is back again, Someone is ripping down Paul s PC repair business signs what a jerk! Hollywood Blitz is Keeping up with the Kardashians, Paul has another Good Time plus updates on #benandmikemeetingeelong! All that and us caricatured, on this weeks show. For details on our live shows go to www.PLOYLIVE.com Download MP3 (31.5MB) | Watch Video Version

Keith Olbermann wrote to me apropos my F Word on Monday. Following news of a corporation-brokered truce between MSNBC and FOX, I?d written that while the two networks pose as divided ? and play up social divides for ratings - they actually stand united when it comes to corporate profits. According to a New York Times report, General Electric, which owns MSNBC, reined in their host ? Keith Olbermann ? as part of a deal to call off Bill O?Reilly's questioning of GE's business. A notable example of corporate interests trumping ratings - several commentators thought ? myself included. But Olbermann, while he doesn't deny there was a peacemaking summit of CEOs -- wrote to me Tuesday that there never was/is/nor shall be any deal. And on his first appearance after the Times story ran, he went after the Times and Bill O And Rupert Murdoch ? CEO of Fox?s corporate parent, News Corp.

There are days when one's reminded why one works in independent media. August 1st was one of those days, when the New York Times ran a front page media story that might as well have been headlined: GE and Fox Hush Hosts For Profits. In a nutshell, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Bill O'Reilly of Fox have been going at it. For months, Olbermann's called the Fox host out for his lies and smears, regularly dubbing him "Worst Person in the World," while O'Reilly's raised questions about MSNBC's corporate owners, General Electric. The on-air feud was good for ratings. It wasn't even bad journalism, for these kind of programs. Olbermann held Fox's O'Reilly to account for dubbing Dr. George Tiller "baby killer" in the run up to Tiller's assassination. O'Reilly sent a producer to a GE shareholder's meeting to raise questions about company business in Iran. The feud wasn't bad for ratings, but it was perceived as a potential threat to other corporate interests. And so it was that some time this May, the chairman of General Electric (which owns MSNBC), and Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News Corporation (which owns Fox News), were brought into a "summit meeting" for CEOs where Charlie Rose played peacemaker. Said one General Electric employee quoted by the Times, calling the two into line meant, "Fewer headaches on the corporate side.? The sniping's stopped. There's been virtually none of it since the deal took effect on June 1. When Glenn Beck called the President a racist, for example, commentators criticized Beck, but they obediently avoided going after the network that pays him. It's just another reminder why we don't see stinging reporting, say, of General Electric's investment in the weapons trade, or the healthcare business, or News Corp's dealings with the Chinese government. In the all-about profits media business, ideological rifts are fine for the purposes of gaining notoriety and building audience. Stir things up and play up divides -- among parties, politicians, little people. But go after business interests -- and that's another story. Then, the same media moguls who profit off our social divides starting singing Kumbaya and act in unison. Making independent media's tough. It's hard to fund and it's tempting to think there must be a better way. Wouldn't it be easier if some corporation paid the bills? Not exactly. The F Word is a regular commentary by Laura Flanders, the host of GRITtv which broadcasts weekdays on satellite TV (Dish Network Ch. 9415 Free Speech TV) on cable, and online at GRITtv.org and TheNation.com. Follow GRITtv or GritLaura on Twitter.com.

What's on Keith Olbermann's mind about the media? This week, as Rupert Murdoch takes over the Wall Street Journal and as the FCC is about to allow more newspapers to expand into the broadcast business, Bill Moyers Journal continues its reporting on media consolidation and gets insight from MSNBC's popular and provocative Keith Olbermann. The broadcast includes a report on the debate around relaxing ownership rules and looks at the real-world implications of increasing cross-ownership of newspapers and broadcast outlets in the same markets. Also on the program, Dr. Ron Walters, director of the African American Leadership Center at the University of Maryland, on how race is playing out in the campaign.

THE GRAEME FROST ACCIDENT PICTURESOct. 15: When 12-year-old Graeme Frost asked President Bush to expand SCHIP to other low-income and middle-class kids, the right wing responded by calling for Graeme to die. His parents speak about being in the center of this political firestorm.