July 10, 2010
— DrewM My description of him as a "shameless, dishonest, hack" still fits (as if there was any doubt).
Thursday, Keith went after Sharon Angle for comparing herself to Abe Lincoln. She said Lincoln lost 'quite a few elections' but won the "one that mattered for the country". Olbermann then 'corrected' Angle by saying Lincoln only lost 1 election. He specifically used the word "election" twice.
Last night he changed it to "popular election" when it came to Lincoln's two bids for the US Senate.
As the American Spectator, who did the original legwork on this, notes, Lincoln himself knew he lost the 1854 Senate election. Lincoln wrote,
"I regret my defeat moderately, but I am not nervous about it."
Perhaps Keith would like to have a word with Mr. Lincoln about this inaccurate description of what happened.
Olby claims the 1858 Senate race doesn't count because "neither Stephen Douglas, nor Lincoln appeared" on the ballot.
Okey dokey Keith. Let's see how that theory holds up.
An article in the September 2008 issue of the Smithsonian on Lincoln by author Fergus Bordewich includes this line:
But while Lincoln may have won the debates, he lost the election.
"Lost the election"? Sir, have you no decency?
Or this from the Illinois state commission on the Lincoln Bicentenary Commission.
Douglas won the election, but the contest raised the profile of the tall prairie lawyer.
So, if Douglas "won the election" I think we can safely infer that Lincoln lost it.
As for Lincoln's failure to get nominations, of course they count. If they don't count, then Sharon Angle has apparently never lost an election. She was in the State Assembly for 6 years before leaving to run for the Republican nomination for a House seat but lost.
As Daniel Foster noted at NRO (and major congratulations for the Worst Person in the World win), if only direct elections count, then no one has ever been elected President of the United States, since people only vote for electors not individual candidates.
Funny but Olby gives Lincoln credit for winning the Presidency in 1860 and 1864 even though it wasn't a "popular election".
In short, it's nothing we didn't already know, Olby is a buffoon.
Of course all these pointless super tight fact-checking efforts by Olbermann miss the larger issue...Angle was making a simple point, sometimes we don't always get what we want, it's how we deal with setbacks that matters. Do you stay down or get back up and get on with life?
A small minded lout like Olbermann is forever missing the bigger point in the hopes that he can appear to be smarter than he is by latching on to some perceived misstatement. Usually they wind up doing exactly what Olby did here...confirming their status as a weak minded public joke.
Professor Bathtub Says......
Thanks to Slublog.
If you want to see what stupidity looks like, watch the video below and behold the wonder that is the dishonest, shameless, hack that is Keith Olbermann.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
As if any more demonstration of Olbermann's hackery is necessary, enjoy this from the Daily Caller.
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Whom is Keef? (I also went to Cornell!)
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 10, 2010 10:24 AM (1kwr2)
Posted by: John Adams at July 10, 2010 10:27 AM (6W8+8)
Posted by: eman at July 10, 2010 10:33 AM (132iP)
Posted by: rockhead at July 10, 2010 10:33 AM (RykTt)
Posted by: someguy who knows best at July 10, 2010 10:34 AM (RykTt)
Hit the tip jar!
Posted by: Charles Johnson at July 10, 2010 10:37 AM (GWB/P)
Sacred Honor compels me to say that I bent Qweef over big time!
Posted by: Will Folks - I'll make you moo like a cow at July 10, 2010 10:40 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Slublog at July 10, 2010 10:42 AM (XEvMg)
Posted by: Don at July 10, 2010 10:44 AM (tTj19)
What does it say about you when even the Kos Kids think you're a retard now and want nothing to do with you ?
Posted by: Blazer at July 10, 2010 10:46 AM (t72+4)
Drew
I wasn't aware that "beclown" could be used in reflexive tense. I thought you needed to say -- "Keith Olbermann beclowns MSNBC", or "once again Keith Olbermann beclowned his latest drivelization with bogus data." Can you also use "buffoonicate" in reflexive mode
You people at AoSHQ are just too funny!
Posted by: Call me Lennie at July 10, 2010 10:46 AM (r/5/5)
Posted by: jimmuy at July 10, 2010 10:46 AM (EvB76)
Posted by: Don at July 10, 2010 10:50 AM (tTj19)
Posted by: Andy Bernard at July 10, 2010 10:51 AM (BP6Z1)
Geraldo will be doing a one on one with King Malik Shabazz of the NBPP Sunday night. Think Gerry will rip him a new asshole like in the old days or go full libtard ?
Posted by: Blazer at July 10, 2010 10:51 AM (t72+4)
A: No. He would enjoy it too much.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 10, 2010 10:52 AM (yQWNf)
Drew
I wasn't aware that "beclown" could be used in reflexive tense. I thought you needed to say -- "Keith Olbermann beclowns MSNBC", or "once again Keith Olbermann beclowned his latest drivelization with bogus data." Can you also use "buffoonicate" in reflexive mode
You people at AoSHQ are just too funny!
Posted by: Call me Lennie at July 10, 2010 02:46 PM (r/5/5)
--Yes, you may use "to beclown oneself" or the more obscure "to auto-beclown."
Posted by: logprof at July 10, 2010 10:54 AM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: Cornell Grad Keith at July 10, 2010 10:54 AM (Wmjm0)
Posted by: someguy who knows best
You know, in a way somegoof was right about that. Olberfail has been irrelevant to the Left since Bush's term ended and got officially cut off with a public humiliation at the hands of Liebowitz.
That's how they operate, find a kook, let them do their damage to the opposition and then cut all ties the moment they become political liabilities. It's a microcosm of their dehumanizing world outlook (and notice how they demand that the Right disassociate with anyone who so much as makes a gaffe). I'm almost starting to feel sorry for Olby, Gore, Sheehan, etc.
Posted by: Blackford Oakes at July 10, 2010 10:55 AM (w9BEi)
right said: Pretty sure he's that dude who's obsessed by Palin's ladybits. (conflating that pair makes me laugh)
Conflating that pair gives me a mental image all the methadone in the world won't help.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at July 10, 2010 10:55 AM (1kwr2)
Keith Olbermann Beclowns Himself
Drew, that's a headline that writes itself.
Kind of like "Summer Heatwave".
Posted by: HH at July 10, 2010 10:56 AM (6oDXl)
You guys just do not appreciate my sheer brilliance ! Why I'm so brilliant that at 9 p.m. I put a dress on and call myself Rachel Maddow and no one suspects a thing.
Posted by: Keith Olbermann at July 10, 2010 10:57 AM (t72+4)
Posted by: logprof at July 10, 2010 10:57 AM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: Nard Dog at July 10, 2010 10:57 AM (OThQg)
Posted by: eman at July 10, 2010 11:00 AM (132iP)
He video tapes the shows and then watches them himself at home.
Posted by: Vic at July 10, 2010 11:03 AM (/jbAw)
LINK
Lindsey Graham ...
Posted by: mrp at July 10, 2010 11:03 AM (HjPtV)
Posted by: GarandFan at July 10, 2010 11:04 AM (6mwMs)
Only Keith Olbermann could pull off wearing a mullet and sporting a porno-stache and Groucho Marx eyebrows at the same time when he worked for ESPN during the mid-nineties so the guy isn't completely devoid of talent.
Posted by: Blazer at July 10, 2010 11:05 AM (t72+4)
Posted by: Don at July 10, 2010 11:08 AM (tTj19)
Posted by: Keef at July 10, 2010 11:08 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: nk at July 10, 2010 11:13 AM (0qQFS)
Posted by: Pocono Joe at July 10, 2010 11:15 AM (DstWq)
Posted by: newser at July 10, 2010 11:17 AM (V45rX)
Posted by: What Was Keith Olbermann's Career at July 10, 2010 11:17 AM (dz6wg)
In relation to Sir Olbermann the only word that I can ever come up with to describe him is ASSHOLE, in all its glory and most extreme definition.
Hmmmmm...........I'm thinking meatlick. Yeah...Keith Olbermann is a meatlick.
Posted by: Mallamutt at July 10, 2010 03:16 PM (OWjjx)
I'm sorry Mallamutt, that's how I feel. He's just, totally indescribable.
Posted by: Pocono Joe at July 10, 2010 11:23 AM (DstWq)
1) Taught himself to read by the light of the fire because they were too poor for an oil lamp
2) Taught himself writing by using a piece of charcoal (from the reading fire I'll bet) on the back of a shovel because they were too poor to afford paper.
3) Split rails for the money to by books with.
4) Failed at everything until he won his first election.
5) Lost every first try at office except for the POTUS
6) Lost a total of four election campaigns.
7) he never let failure stop him from trying again.
Posted by: Beto at July 10, 2010 11:26 AM (H+LJc)
Geraldo will be doing a one on one with King Malik Shabazz of the NBPP Sunday night. Think Gerry will rip him a new asshole like in the old days or go full libtard ?
Posted by: Blazer at July 10, 2010 02:51 PM (t72+4)
I'll put my money on going full libtard.
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent - pissing on liberals since way back in the 70's at July 10, 2010 11:27 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent - pissing on liberals since way back in the 70's at July 10, 2010 11:31 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: newser at July 10, 2010 03:17 PM (V45rX)
Which golf courses will he be visiting there?
Posted by: buzzion at July 10, 2010 03:22 PM (oVQFe)
After me, the flood.
Look it up yourselves, bitches: I won.
Posted by: King Barry XV at July 10, 2010 11:41 AM (BP6Z1)
Miss Precious Perfect says you're all a bunch of poopie pants ! Isn't that right Miss Precious Perfect ?
Posted by: Keith Olbermann at July 10, 2010 12:01 PM (t72+4)
Anytime you can work 'Lout' into a post....well, that's worth the price of admission right there...HEH!!!!!
Lout would be the kindest thing I would use to describe OlberNoid...
Posted by: Portnoy at July 10, 2010 12:01 PM (azgo2)
I doubt KO had any idea how many elections Lincoln lost.
He probably assigned an intern to look it up on Wikipedia.
Posted by: frankly at July 10, 2010 12:05 PM (m4eqv)
Posted by: Jean at July 10, 2010 12:08 PM (zQob/)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 10, 2010 12:58 PM (ktYjH)
Posted by: ktgreat at July 10, 2010 01:06 PM (HNJl6)
Posted by: W.H. Doubter at July 10, 2010 01:09 PM (OCO/h)
The only time I hear anything about that asshole, is when a blog of consequence decides to address the moron's latest buffoonery.
I say we ignore said douche-bag and maybe, just maybe, he'll disappear from the planet.
There's always hope for that.
Posted by: 1idvet at July 10, 2010 01:17 PM (iMyIW)
Some other linguistic notes; I would think that beclown would have ecellent potential in its passive participle form, to wit "the oft beclowned Olbermann" or "the thoroughly beclowned leftard commentator"
If Keith Olbermann were to suddenly see the light, would we say he "DE-clowned himself " or call him "newly declowned " On other sites I have suggested that a person who throws off liberal indoctrination is in the process of "detarding" himself. Does that work better than "declown?"
Posted by: Call me Lennie at July 10, 2010 01:34 PM (r/5/5)
Did he "write" a "book"? Was he nearby when something famous happened? Was he (accidentally) hit by a taxi in which MSNBC folks were riding, and they felt quite bad about it? Seriously, how did he get his job?
I know "leftist hack" requires no talent or certification or anything. But I would think some kind of "host of a show" job would have to be offered for a reason.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 10, 2010 02:05 PM (eNxMU)
Posted by: palin steele at July 10, 2010 02:17 PM (BP6Z1)
There's always hope for that.
Posted by: 1idvet at July
10, 2010 05:17 PM (iMyIW)
So I take it you're suggesting we . . . punch down?
Posted by: somedude at July 10, 2010 02:19 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: Nice Deb at July 10, 2010 02:34 PM (zcYjl)
As per usual I'm seeing the word "douche" being used liberally with Olbermann, so I'm wondering if the same linguistic magic can be gleaned from "bedouched"
Keith Olbermann bedouches himself (more than usual)
Keith Olbermann, the oft bedouched anchor of Countdown .... Later on the utterly bedouched Olbermann compounded his problem with yet another beclowning misstatement of fact.
Some fun, Drew
Posted by: Call me Lennie at July 10, 2010 04:52 PM (r/5/5)
These things can't be true. I was told by a former coworker that KO was one of the most objective journalists out there along with Bill Moyers.
Yeah, I almost laughed in his face.
Posted by: Mark at July 10, 2010 06:31 PM (haYX4)
Am I missing some joke here? Who the hell doesn't know, at the very least, that Lincoln lost to Douglas?
Let's say Olbermann claims that the 9/11 attacks did not occur, and that in fact the World Trade Center is still standing.
DrewM's response:
As the Melbourne Post-Gazette, which did the original legwork on this, notes, George W. Bush himself knew the WTC had been destroyed. Bush said,
"And the folks who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon!"
An article in the September 2008 issue of Architecture Quarterly by author Engelbert Humperdinck includes this line:
"But while the South tower was the second one hit, it was the first one to collapse."
So, if the South tower "was the first one to collapse," I think we can safely infer that the North tower collapsed as well.
Thanks for clearing that up, Drew.
Posted by: a tiger in Africa at July 10, 2010 06:37 PM (dPaNC)
The left are desperate to keep their mega corruptocrat (D) in the Senate:
Harry "this war is lost" Reid. The dishonest hacks love him.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at July 10, 2010 07:29 PM (0fzsA)
"Keith Olbermann Beclowns Himself (More Than Usual)"
I think somebody owes a bigtime apology to clowns.
Posted by: Henry Hawkins at July 11, 2010 05:56 AM (0SZlc)
Posted by: Bessie the Heifer at July 11, 2010 06:40 AM (8JKR1)
The Man is a prime example of what happens to you if ate leaded paint chips and glue as a Kid in school
Posted by: Dw Pepper at July 11, 2010 06:56 PM (yorvz)
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