This story is more bizarre than anything and while he claims that he does not combine Countdown with FNIA, he indirectly did that here and then some.
Listen to this clip from the October 13 episode of Countdown where Olbermann blurts out one of the most random, bizarre, and inane insults in the history of cable news.
"[Sharice Carnie Nunez] received death threats and hate filled voicemails, all thanks to the total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee jerk fascistic hatred, without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it."
As crude, bizarre, odd, disturbing, and laughably inane as that insult is, generally Olbermann has to go way over the edge in order for me to comment on him on this blog. Well, even though that was a month ago, last Sunday, during Football Night in America, Olbermann did just that and the above clip as everything to do with it. I am disheartened that I have been unable to find this video, but this transcript provided by Newsbusters will have to work.
KEITH OLBERMANN: And then the Texans with a final drive, looking to set it on the shoulder and the feet of that guy, Kris Brown, [Matt] Schaub, Andre Johnson, seven yards, 14 seconds left, Schaub, Jacoby Jones eight yards down to the 24, and since Brown made it from 56, this should be a piece of cake. Kris Brown from 42 for the tie after the spike. They set it up for Brown to tie this game up in the waning second and he messes. Looks like a big bag full of mashed-up Kris Brown, and Indianapolis prevails by 20-17.Can somebody please make sense of what a big bag full of mashed-up Kris Brown is? As disturbing as the Malkin was, the snide Brown remark, while probably intended to either poke fun at himself or plug his show by throwing out an allusion to an odd insult that made headlines over a month ago, is all the more disturbing. A big bag full of mashed up Kris Brown....is that suggesting that someone physically tore him apart and mashed him up and put the remains in a bag? Is he alluding that Kris Brown laying on the on the turf upset that he just lost the game for his team is any equivalent to him being dead, in other words?
At first I thought he should just stop doing politics and stick to football and other sports, now it's become quite clear that he should not even be doing that.
Keith Olbermann is complete trash and the day that MSNBC/NBC/NBC-Universal finally has the balls to fire him will be one heck of a glorious day. Not only is he a mean, angry, spiteful, cowardly TV personality, his ratings are completely in the tank. In the summer of last year, he was competitive and even beat Bill O'Reilly in the key 25-54 demo once or twice. Now, Bill O'Reilly's key 25-54 demo has more viewers than Olbermann's total viewers!
Let me tell you what, if it was not for Officer Robert Powell, Keith Olbermann would win the FARNie for douchebag of the year easily. Yes, I would even vote for him over Jerry Jones and Colin Cowherd, and I've made no bones about how I feel about those two individuals.
Keith Olbermann, ladies and gentlemen, always the classy one!
There really are only so many ways to illustrate how despicable this man is. Please get him off the air now.
Great moments in broadcast journalism #426 (Olbermann Watch)
Ratings don't matter to me.
ReplyDeleteJust because you have better ratings doesn't make the show better.
That said I don't watch either show and I think he meant Mashed-up Chris Brown, as in the singer..
You see Brown...mashed-up....Rihanna...I'll get my coat.
I was not really comparing shows, just stating how his ratings have taken quite the tumble the past year and a half.
ReplyDeleteLadies and gentlemen, Mookie has left the building!