In mocking the anti-tax “tea party” movement, MSNBC “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann smeared the parking lot at Lawrence Dumont Stadium, where the “Tea Party Express” bus tour is scheduled to make a stop Nov. 4.
This from Olbermann’s Wednesday night broadcast:
“Tea Party Express II launches this weekend, coming to 38 cities according to its press release; 37 on their Web site — Oh well.
“Previous tea parties so successful they now have to hold them in such venues as Wichita’s Lawrence Dumont Stadium (pause) parking lot.”
Note to Mr. Olbermann:
Keith,
As a national sports broadcaster, you should be aware that the parking lot at Lawrence Dumont Stadium — home of the mighty Wichita Wingnuts — is one of the premier parking venues in unaffiliated minor league baseball.
It’s paved and striped and even has lights to help you find your car at night.
With the stadium’s narrow concourses and incessant wind, the LD parking lot is one of the finest places in America to shag foul balls.
In fact, we like it so well that we’re going to park there and shuttle to our new $205 million arena nearly a mile away.
Admittedly, we may be a bit backward out here in flyover country. When the need arises to park a bus, we usually do that in a parking lot.
Where do you put buses in Rockefeller Center?
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Note to Dion, Olbermann didn’t just single out the parking lot, he mocked a lot of the absurd locations the teabaggers were meeting. Olbermann was mocking the teabaggers absurd locations for venues, not the stadium.
Claiming to be a huge movement you’d think the teabaggers would be holding the event in the stadium. Afterall, they were just claiming a million protesters in D.C. (although it was about 10,000). So Olbermann mocked their quick downfall as this overhyped movement.
Why not reference the whole point of Olbermann’s message rather than quote mining and taking the entire rant out of context. That sort of thing might fly on Fox News but not a real news organization.
DEFEND THE HONOR OF OUR PARKING LOTS!
can’t the teabaggers afford something inside?
That picture is great!
Are they really stopping in the parking lot? Ha, I thought that at least in a conservative place like Wichita they could do a little better…like a mall or something.
I was once at a forum about careers in public service, held on the East Coast.
Person from EPA was there. She talked about lots of cool places you could work for EPA but said, “avoid District Five.”
Expecting the answer, but too curious to refrain I asked in the Q&A “why avoid District Five?”
She looked at me disdainfully, “It’s in Kansas.”
My only point: the folks on the coasts don’t seem to think much of us here in the rectangular states. Can’t say that really bothers me.
But the folks from here who vote to send more of our cash and decision-making to the coasts should reconsider that.
Sorry, “District Seven” is in KCK.
Sounds like normal noise for MSNBC. All wind and no substance. Why do the TEA parties bother the libs so much?
Just ignore them – don’t go – Leave that to the people who think we are Taxed Enough Already.
I’ve never cared for Olbermann….
@Maggotpunk – Did you lose your sense of humor or were you born without one?
It’s important to remember that this is being funded in part by the 9th richest man in the USA, who runs a little oil and gas company…
They should hold it at Koch corporate.
They could hold it in the tunnel between the Koch parking lot and the main headquarters. Keep the teabags dry.
Dennis
Props to the Eagle for the photo. That’s gold
Props to Olbermann for pointing out that the baggers are overflowing with lame.
It was either the parking lot at “Lawrence Dumont” Stadium or the parking lot at the “Circle Cinema”.The “Circle Cinema” turned them down.
“The Bus” is just a Dodge Caravan….
From the looks of the photo, the tea-baggers have come and gone
We park buses in a parking lot!!!
BBBBBBUUUUUUAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHALOLOLOL!!!!!
That is just too funny. Olberfroth is an idiot
Keith is right, Kansans are backwards. No one complained when Bush bankrupted the country or lied about WMD. NOw we are left with tow wars and failing banks. Of course kansans will pass the blame to President Obama because after 8 years of Bush, we expect a fix in 10 months. I say God bless the President and our troops who are left to finish Bush’s blunders. MSNBC has literate watchers too.
You know LD is a tax supoorted venue.
Olberman is a LIBERAL NUTCASE. Take anything he says with a grain of salt.
Their website says: “Let’s stand up and stop … government-run healthcare”
I guess they want to shut down the Veterans Administration hospitals!
For shame!
Take that “liberal nutcase” smear with a grain of salt.
Why is this newsworthy?
This is just one more “grasping at straws” in desperation by the left who is scared to death that the tea party movement is 1)speaking the truth and exposing the lies and abuses of the left and 2) is growing in popularity. So whatever they can possibly use as an argument against the tea party movement or can smear its image, the leftist media will do.
If you’ve ever received care at a government-run VA hospital, then you’ll understand why we don’t want government running ANY healthcare.
Who cares what Overboringman says. Teh weather channel has more viewers. I can’t even watch pregame with him on (night football) Have to turn channel at half-time.
Maybe they would have went to the arena if there was enough parking.
I don’t really consider my self left or right, but I have to say that as a political pundit, Olberman made a better sports-reader. He has ZERO legitimacy to commentate on politics, same as Beck and Limbaugh. Run for office, hold a position in government, and THEN tell us how to fix things.
Oh brother.
THIS is now the featured story on the Eagle Website? Can we look more backward?
As Maggotpunk said, the point was that the Teabaggers were meeting in a PARKING LOT fo a stadium, rather than the stadium. No insult to the PARKING LOT of Lawrence Dumont Stadium was implied, the joke would have worked for any venue involving a stadium…and a parking lot.
If Dion Lefler was INTENTIONALLY playing dense, it backfired.
Tea Party? How disappointing. Watching news coverage from prior events over the summer I thought the circus was coming to town.
It’s hard to be really funny about a parking lot, but good effort Dion.
But the parking lot will be a lot funnier when the local anti-government extremists turn out in our lovely November weather…
I love all the Medicare recipients ranting that they want government out of their government healthcare plan.
wutang, I just got to have what you are smoking! It must be fantastic.
Oh Davie, are you forgetting something? If you are Medicare, then you have paid into that system. You still have deductables and you still have a bill due when your office visit is complete. Now, if you are on Medicaid (welfare) then you havnt paid into that system. THAT system is government ran HC. Please note the differences.
You are dismissed.
I understand the some gay rights people are going to start a protest with the use of the word “teabaggers” bby the liberals. I wonder what they will say then.
Deon-
Olbermann wasn’t “smearing” the parking lot, he was “smearing” the “Tea Party Express” bus tour.
Thank you for your fresh comment about Arena parking and for your positive attitude about our city. I’m so happy to know that you’re being paid to write the same lazy and unproductive statements that others relentlessly leave as comments FOR FREE.
Contrary to your apparent beliefs, not having VIP parking for everyone isn’t an issue that only the “backward” people in “flyover country” deal with. Thank you for your derogatory, ignorant, and closed minded comments…we have far too few of those here.
This story was not newsworthy, even though you tried to make it be by giving it a title that doesn’t match the actual content of the article.
Olbermann is a second rate douche, just look at his ratings.
What’s the largest leftist grassroots event in recent memory in Wichita and where did it take place?
The 9/12 event had hundreds of thousands of folks in DC.
Olbermann didn’t diss Lawrence Dumont, Wichita or the damn parking lot. He was simply pointing out that this self-professed, mighty cause can’t manage to fill a proper venue. It’s your own inferiority complex about Wichita that has led you to inference and entirely different meaning from his statement.
This headline should have read:
MSNBC ‘Countdown’ host Olbermann disses The Tea Baggers movement for having to meet in places like Lawrence Dumont Stadium’s parking lot
olbermann is a piece of trash scumbag.
As parking lots go.. it’s pretty nice and safe. “Roll film from the summer hail storm.”
Some tines I have to wonder if those writing the headlines purposely write the head lines to weed out the com mentors who comment on the headline from those who read the article, THEN comment. As another mentioned theObermann comment was on the venue chosen for the rally, not the Lot itself. I guess with any kind of luck they could blame any low turn out on lousy weather.
In mocking the anti-tax “tea party” movement, MSNBC “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann smeared the parking lot at Lawrence Dumont Stadium, where the “Tea Party Express” bus tour is scheduled to make a stop Nov. 4.
…you nits, where else is this bus suppose to park
It’s nice ya’ll have legitimate criticisms of Mr. Olberman, instead of just hateful name-calling.
Park it in Mr Koch’s yard, where it belongs.
DavidB is a first rate douche.
All 12 people that watch him think he’s great…
Thank you, Anti. It’s always a pleasure to have you on a blog to offer such charities.
DavidB Posted October 22, 2009 at 3:18 pm | Permalink
Thank you, Anti. It’s always a pleasure to have you on a blog to offer such charities.
You are welcome DavidB, good to see you again.
I’ll know leave you all to discuss the similarities between Oboe and a diaper in a parking lot.
Enjoy.
know=now
What would you bet the photographer placed the dirty diaper on the lot before taking the picture?
I’m surprised on a daily basis at how willing elitist liberals cry at made up conservative conspiracies but turn the cheek when their favorite phoney maliciously lies to advance a personal agenda..
“maliciously lies to advance a personal agenda”
Olberman runs competing parking lots????
To Studemax: I took the picture myself this morning. I assure you I did not plant the diaper. A: I’m more ethical than that. B: I’m not that creative. and C: My boys are in high school, well past the age where I’d have access to such items.
Olbermann is terrific and I watch him every night. He was NOT dissing the parking lot at LD. The headline on this story is complete off target and very misleading. Others have explained the real meaning of what Olbermann said, so I won’t repeat it. Just know that the headline is totally false and very misleading.
You people that call them “teabaggers” are showing your complete lack of intelligence. I’m just sayin’. How about giving us some change we can believe in? I’m still waiting…
Olbermann is a hack. He couldn’t cut it on ESPN, he had to join one of the junior networks to get a job. Word is his place on the Sunday Night Football lineup will be filled by someone else next year.
The so called “tea party” grass movements is anything other than that. Funded by FreedomWorks which is headed by former Republican Senator Dick Armey who led the 1994 attack on health car reform and who happens to head a lobby firm for the health care industry and who hypocritically has been on “government run health care” since he was a young college professor. The other funding group for the tea parties is Americans For Prosperity head by Tim Phillips a highly paid Republican operative and lobbyist. The slick bus with the red hand on it..ie “keep you hands off my health care” was funded by David Koch along with the hot air balloon…”global warming is hot air”….convenient for Mr. Koch who has gotten rich from the oil and chemical industry.
To dion- ethics and this paper have nothing to do with each other…
The diaper is still in the parking lot, by the way.
jeep…..hehehehehehe
The wingnuts are coming to the wingnuts stadium – and Michelle Maulkin is coming to town.. it will be a complete open air nutfarm!
Big money making idea. First one to do it will be absolutely surprised at the response. A Keith Olbermann Doll, with a hatpin. Don’t laugh, it’s your big chance. $$$
Oh please Dion, you got to admit, putting that diaper there was pretty clever
Please! Please! Let’s keep on topic and defend our parking lots’ honor!
I know those elitist New Yorkers park their cars in fancy gold-plated underground garages, but good old asphalt is good enough for real Americans!
And don’t blame Olberman, he’s just a puppet. I hear ACORN is planning a massive take over Wichita’s parking lots, and this is part of a vast left wing conspiracy.
Where’s Lou Dobbs when you need him!???
Mr. Mayor! Right this wrong! Whahhahahahahahaha!
One key to a good photograph is foreground…
bla bla bla
anything to deflect from the absurdity of the teaparties
maybe I will go and hold counter protest signs
dad, run down there and dust that diaper for fingerprints. South end of the west side of the parking lot near the sidewalk… Hold it for evidence! We’ll get that unethical diaper planter!!!
Leave the diaper, take the canole.
Keith is just doing what the White House is telling him to do. Don’t be surprised to see the same thing on Rachel Maddow’s show.
“On Monday (Oct 19, 2009), MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow were among several people who attended an off-the-record briefing with Pres. Obama at the White House. Sources tell us other attendees at the two-and-a-half hour chat included Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Gwen Ifill of PBS and Gloria Borger of CNN. Perhaps not surprisingly, no one from Fox News was in the room.” http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/maddowolbermanninvitedtowhitehousechatwithobamabutfoxisntanewsorganization140839.asp
May we now refer to Olbermann and other Obama bobby-soxers and Kool-Aid drinkers (those who believe in the infallibility of the current Administration and the government annexation of the private sector) as ‘douche-baggers’? Probably shouldn’t, since we know how the lefties bemoan the lack of civility in debate.
skippy1010 – So what? The left wing protests against Bush were funded by Soros. By the way, molney doesn’t get people out of their homes and to the protest. They come because they are concerned. Just because you don’t care about something, doesn’t mean someone can’t. You should get out more. YOu are start to sound alot like Keith O.
Who from Fox news should have been a guest at the White House. The one calling Obama a Marxist? The one suggesting Obama is not an American? The one saying Obama wants to kill grandma? Choices choice choices.
Olbermann is an @$$hole and so is anyone who watches MSLSD and anyone who refers to the people excersizing their constitutional right of freedom of assembly as teabaggers. You sheeple – liberals are going to be pretty disappointed when you’ve lost your constitutional rights, your freedom and your liberty. Obama and his Chicago thugs, communists and bullies are destroying this country one brick at a time, and you idiots are standing by and letting it happen. Obama has lied to you since the day he went back on his pledge to not use private funds to prop up his campaign. The man is a liar, and you followers are blind.
The Faux sponsored teabaggers are becoming a real hoot.
Will Beck show up as host with his bottle of Vicks Vaporub that he uses for his cry baby segments? Always good for a laugh or two.
Teabaggers have become the clown fools of the right.
Great idea David, dont you thing Chief Willams will loan me any detectives?
Must be terrible living in the right wing world of make believe huh-WichitalkinaboutWillis???
I guess no one can expect anything more from a Faux junkie who needs to be told what to think and believe.
rwconsp ‘douche-baggers’……..LOVE IT….
do you think Chief Williams
geesh
WichitalkinaboutWillis Well said.
I guess WichitalkinaboutWillis must watch Olberman and MSNBC to know of what he speaks.. but that means… OMG!
Okay, O-pin-head-ioned… personal attacks. its all the left knows and its all you have left. List for me B.O.s accomplishments then, will you? And other than being polar opposites, is there really a difference between MSLSD and FOX? Oh, I mean, other than ratings and revenue?
to DavidB – Maybe one of the news caster. You only mentioned the opinion people. Besides, it is clear from Gibbs comments that they don’t like Beck and Hannity. But the other 21 hours in the day (because Hannity repeats each night), they seem to be OK with.
PS – you are a hypocrite.
Call Koch, don’t go running to the government for your handouts, dad!
“It’s nice ya’ll have legitimate criticisms of Mr. Olberman, instead of just hateful name-calling.”
Yeah, DavidB, who do they think they are–you, Oblermann, Lefler, The Eagle and the other Tea Party haters?
I’ve seen Olbermann on ESPN , and twice on MSLSD. I’ve seen Rachel Madcow a couple of times too. Not a regular viewer. The t.v. opinion news channels make me throw up in my mouth a little bit – sort of like talking to liberals.
WichitalkinaboutWillis
…you just have to forgive them, they are all still waiting for their cars and homes to be paid off. B0 said he would remember? Just like he said he wouldnt take any private donations for his campaign as long as McCain agreed not to as well. Well, McCain didnt and B0 lied. That should have sent up a red flag to these sheep but apparently it did not.
Limbaugh, Hannity and Faux News have no real convictions and would eat each other if it moved them into the spotlight. They have become irrelevant and will do anything to get back into the spotlight.
Their teabagging sheeple will say and do anything these clowns tell too.
Example=taking any form of bus trip to a never heard of parking lot to the most backward state in the nation.
By the way, when did a sexual term become proper political discourse? I guess when you don’t have any real ability to come up with a decent argument.
PMSNBC / Olbermann’s ratings are in the toilet. He flunked out at ESPN and his show supposedly has “deck chairs on the Titanic” as the advertisers apparently are bailing on his a@#.
Mid-Term elections are a year away…could be an unprecedented big time housecleaning!!!
TEA PARTIES ROCK & ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMO tea party attendees and the corporations orchestrating the movement, and the KS politicians brown nosing the party goers have no problem with their lower taxes being subsidized by other tax payers. They are just 1 more group of hypocrites in a nation om a planet that already had too many groups of hypocrites. SIGH
to opinioned1 – and there you have it, the elitist attitude emerges, as it always does. Liberals know everything, conservatives know nothing. Thanks for illuminating the real difference. If you only knew as much as you thought you did.
Any of you ‘douche-baggers’ get one of those obama checks in the mail yet??
dad – that was only the beginning. everyone should have noticed that specific lie- even if they never noticed everything Obama never did before he made a career out of running for office. What scares me is that people are still falling all over him, and more than that – the only war he seems to have the courage to fight is the one with Fox, and they are kicking his ass left and right , so to speak, every single day from what the ratings say.
difference between MSLSD and FOX?
A few irrelevant republicans who can`t handle being a part of the 20% who no longer hold the ability to elect anyone. VS. a group of progressives who voted Faux and your right wing religious agenda into oblivion.
We have Olbermann and Matthews and right wads have Limpballs,Shemp Hannity, and O`Liely.
I’m still waiting on Hannity to get waterboarded for charity. Hey, it was his idea, not Olbermann’s.
Send the diaper to Glenn Beck. He is used to handling this type of material.
Hey DavidB, you and the rest of the Tea Party haters come on down to L-D on November 4 and hold a counter-protest…well, if your mommy doesn’t need the car or the 4th isn’t when Obama hands out the free cheese.
samacdon Posted October 22, 2009 at 4:26 pm | Permalink to opinioned1 – and there you have it, the elitist attitude emerges, as it always does. Liberals know everything, conservatives know nothing. Thanks for illuminating the real difference. If you only knew as much as you thought you did.
======== Thank you for recognizing the facts!!
Republicans have my sympathies if they think a few Faux sponsored nut jobs are going to accomplish anything.
to opinioned1 – we want you to believe exactly what you are writing. It will help us vote out the overspenders in the next election. Just sit at home with your attitude of victory and your delusion that the news organizations you watch are really telling you the truth. Keep it up. lol
TOUCHY … Touchy … touchy! Seems my hometown remains a little defensive … Can we say self-esteem issues? Good Grief! It is regrettable that Keith Olbermann totally missed a huge humor opportunity … Tea Baggers to Gather at Home of the WING NUTS!
Where can I get one of those ball caps?
Joy in Colorado
we want you to believe exactly what you are writing. It will help us vote out the overspenders in the next election
You missed the opertunity to do that in 2004 when you allowed Bush a second term. NOT ONE veto of a spending bill in four years time.Where was your outrage then??
to opinioned1 – a little man Ceasar complex going there I think. Makes you feel special sitting behind your big strong keyboard and telling the stupid conservatives how dumb they are. Time to swich over to the porn sits now don’t you think. LMAO
I LOVE the Tea Party people. The more you get your message out in front of the people, the more you drive reasonable Americans to the Democrats!
Tea Baggers to Gather at Home of the WING NUTS! Where can I get one of those ball caps?
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Non teabaggers will get the humor in this.
Real Americans would be defending out parking lots, rather than beating up on some TV guy.
Opie, did you just say progressive?
hehehehe
Time to swich over to the porn sits now don’t you think. LMAO
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Watching Faux don`t appeal to me.
to opinioned1 – you wrongly assume that I agreed with Bush. Again, your prejudices have taken over in your warped little brain. One wonders what other discriminatory beliefs you have. You need to get out more and think a little for yourself, rather than repeat everything coming out of the White House. It is OK to disagree. Your little world won’t explode. LOL
Opie, did you just say progressive?
Much better than being labeled a teabagger!!! Care to look up just what that is??
DavidB and Opinioned1 – Why don’t you go to the tea parties and see who is there? Maybe your opinion will change. But maybe you are too closed minded to try. Nevermind. Afterall, Obama and Keith O don’t want you to go. So be good little liberals and follow their orders. haha
DavidB Posted October 22, 2009 at 4:35 pm | Permalink I LOVE the Tea Party people. The more you get your message out in front of the people, the more you drive reasonable Americans to the Democrats!
….I have six brothers and sisters and all of them are demos….my parents and I are the only repubs…I asked mom one day how on earth that is and she said, “oh honey, I stopped drinking when I was pregnant with you”……hmmmm, sounds about right
opinioned1 – Care to explain how you know so much about teabagging? And how you know that the people going to these meetings are doing that? Care to come out of the closet? :0
samacdon
….it is NOT ok to disagree, if we do then we are racists
Again, your prejudices have taken over in your warped little brain.
Only faux junkies and ditto-heads meet your requirements of being full of prejudices. If you are a teabagger supporter it tells me everything I need to know. Racist, ready to force others to die soon,while yelling “NO” and “I hope he fails” Sums up teabaggers.
wow. the liberal trash has crawled out from under their rocks. just read these posts. keith olbermann is as big a POS as purple lips himself. olbermann is a trojan condom poster child
I would like to know how defending a parking lot because it has nice lines in it, and emphasizing the fact it is for a team called the “Wingnuts” is going to help our case any when a bunch of Right Wing Nuts are planning on using it for “teabagging” each other.
Care to explain how you know so much about teabagging? And how you know that the people going to these meetings are doing that? Care to come out of the closet? :0
Must have hit a nerve. As usual those like you want to pass off your hate and contempt as being the fault of anyone other than the one looking you in the mirror.
Olbe-dude needs to lower the dose they’ve got him on. He keeps missing the finer details, like what about the Obama voter who left that dirty diaper on the asphalt? Guess that what they meant by “change.”
haha. I recall the last tea party event I went to. One man was entertaining a small group talking about his guns. He said that it would be “the best possible outcome”, if Obama “got whacked.”
It was a fruit stand of anti-health care reformer, anti-socialist hysterics, Fair Taxers, Kansas Sovereignty types and hopers for political assassination.
Been there, done that.
Limpballs, Hannity and Faux News have no real convictions and would eat each other if it moved them into the spotlight. They have become irrelevant and will do anything to get back into the spotlight.
Teabaggers are being used and they are to damnn dumb to know it.
Opinhead – do you not see the irony? Obama and his communist thug regime is out there trashing Fox, yet MSNBC gets a free pass. Doesn’t that tell you anything about double-standards in play? How about Jeremiah Wright? How about Bill Ayers? Do you still believe Obama didn’t know what Wright was preaching about after 20 years of hearing his tirades? And do you really think some casual acquaintance would open his home and host Obama’s political campaign party? If you believe those lies B.O. has told you, through the left wing bias press (another double standard) then you might believe also that Obama is looking out for you. Keep believing that, just stop spreading so much hate and anger. Why are you so angry? Are you one of the 3 million Americans who have lost their jobs since Obama became da prez in January?
What a non-story! Who cares?
opinioned1…nobody is wishing obama to fail. we know he is going to do that on his own. only thing that scares me is he is going to take us all down with him. and i am not a repub. i am independent. i was a registered dem until last year.
opinioned1 – and your repeated lame arguments and assumptions on my beliefs tell me you are an elitist snob. You think you know better than anyone else and have perfect knowledge of everything in the world. Now I may be going out on a limb here, but I would also assume you are someone who likes to control other people by intimidation. The the real beauty of it is, you think everyone looks up to you, when in fact they see you as the pompous donkey you are. Just sayin’.
opinioned1: I’m a little green at this stuff … what is ROTFLMAO!!!! Please translate. Joy in Colorado
but, but, but, the recession is over
trying to have an intelligent conversation with you ignorant libs is like clapping with one hand. later losers.
joy, Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
I can feel the love…
Obama and his communist thug regime is out there trashing Fox, yet MSNBC gets a free pass. Doesn’t that tell you anything about double-standards in play? How about Jeremiah Wright? How about Bill Ayers? Do you still believe Obama didn’t know what Wright was preaching about after 20 years of hearing his tirades? And do you really think some casual acquaintance would open his home and host Obama’s political campaign party? If you believe those lies B.O. has told you, through the left wing bias press (another double standard) then you might believe also that Obama is looking out for you. Keep believing that, just stop spreading so much hate and anger. Why are you so angry? Are you one of the 3 million Americans who have lost their jobs since Obama became da prez in January?
Part of the problem and not the solution from an uninformed Faux sheeple.You have my sympathies for such ignorance.
trying to have an intelligent conversation with you ignorant libs is like clapping with one hand. later losers.
Cluck Cluck the skies falling!!!
Aww the sky is falling!
Willis – you do realize a recession is typically a result of years of bad decesion making and can often times take equally as long to fix? Economics 101.
See you at the freakshow on the 4th!!
to jlake – could you please site the economics text book you got that one from? Much appreciated.YOu see as a CPA, I don’t remember that in any of my college work.
“Olbermann is a hack. He couldn’t cut it on ESPN, he had to join one of the junior networks to get a job.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Talk about a truly jaw droppingly dumb example of the “say anything I want to believe without regard to reality” Frankfurtian bullsh*t variety. Olbermann was one of the most recognizable and marketed faces on ESPN during his time there. This is true regardless of what one thinks of his commentary or his politics.
And point of reality: Those who are snarking about Olbermann’s ratings fail to understand the nature of the market. The vast majority of the politically obsessed in this country (those who spend their evenings watching political commentary shows rather than entertainment programming) are self identified conservatives. Therefore, it is hardly surprising that faux news has cornered the lion’s share of the market, given the nature of that market. The point is, however, is that faux has cornered the right wing nut market, and that is where the numbers are. So, realizing this, MSNBC has counterprogrammed with Olbermann and Maddow, and it has paid off for them. MSNBC’s ratings have improved and they outdraw CNN in those time slots, which is a good outcome for MSNBC.
additional to jLake – I am just not finding anyplace or seeing any history of what you said about recovery taking as long as when the “decisions” were made. What “decisions” are we talkiing about here. Could you be a little more specific? And while you are at it, you appear to be under the impression that only the government can bring an economy out of a recession. Could you compare and contrast that idea with past history? Thanks. Just a little home work for you before you go and make silly statements like you just did. Peace.
Yes yes, the fundamentals of the economy were strong before the election, I remember some old guy saying that!
Okay. Olbermann was mocking the location of the Tea Party. It is frightening that anyone, especially a person given the position to write for the Eagle (ha), would not understand the intentions of Olbermann’s comments. He was mocking the Tea Party for needing ‘just’ a parking lot to gather. Those of you who cannot comprehend this must be Beck watchers.
Part of the problem and not the solution from an uninformed Faux sheeple.You have my sympathies for such ignorance.
….Opie, I noticed you didnt answer his question. Deny and deflect. Perfect stradagy. Keep up the good work.
Olbermann is just a left-wing nut job spouting the the propaganda of the Obama white house so all the little liberal sheep know what to say and how to act, must be in unison. You don’t want to get on the enemies list by dissing the pres.
to agnatha – why do you care so much about MSNBC or CNN or NBC, or Fox news for that matter? Saying Fox news is conservative is just admitting that the others are liberal.
PS – When you call it Faux news, half of the people reading your comment immediately tune out because they know you are an elitist snob. And it is soooo 2007. Just tryin’ to help.
jlake Posted October 22, 2009 at 4:56 pm | Permalink Willis – you do realize a recession is typically a result of years of bad decesion making and can often times take equally as long to fix? Economics 101.
….wow and here all along I though the recession was about supply and demand. And I actually took Econonomics 101
Ralphie, I was just getting into your comment, and then the personal slam of “Beck watchers”. Do you not understand how silly that makes you look?
Olbermann is left. True. BUT – he is accurate. Beck? Accurate? Ever?
He’s a moron.
There must have been something on dailykos or moveon instructing the clueless to all use the term Faux news. I notice they’re complying like the lemmings they are.
Samacdon, not nearly as silly as you look defending Beck.
Cable News Ratings for Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Prime Time FNC – 2,860,000 viewers MSNBC – 977,000 viewers haha
The Scoreboard: Wednesday, October 21 8p: O’Reilly: 984 Olbermann: 315 haha
DavidB – the fundamentals are always strong before a recession. Otherwise, you would already be in a recession. So your point is????
obama and his crew are nothing more than a gang of tax cheats, criminals, thugs and communist. That is a FACT nobody can deny…
Ralphie – who was defending Beck? Please show me in my comment where I was doing that?
Welcome to the Libeal Hack Show HO
I hardly think ratings are a sign of righteousness.
Ralphie, apparently he was “correct” on Van Jones. Just sayin’.
Samacdon – it was implied. You sissy.
Ever since Murdock brought his English tabloid style of lowest common denominator yellow journalism here to the states, political discourse has been devolving to absurd levels.
When did the current recession begin? Anyone?
maggapunk, you are very wrong on your point about the numbers that showedup in DC. I regularly go to Shocker basketball games and know what 10,000 people look like when gathered in one place. I was at the DC tea party and you are Very wrong. IF there were not close to a million people there at least, it was very close. You dumbs or dems I mean are so afraid & you should be because this movement is NOT going away and going to keep getting larger.
Olbermann is the left’s version of Beck. He’s not accurate, he presents just enough of the story to back up his liberal slant and just enough to try and make the other side look like a joke. He and MSNBC are a joke. If you want to diss “faux” news then you damn well better admit the others are at the least slightly left leaning!
Samacdon- see, you proved my point.
Ralphie, I think I see the problem here, you seem to read alot into what people say/post and jump to il-informed conclusions. Explains a lot, by the way.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/
This will tell you all you need to know..
And Fox viewers by far thought Iraq had something to do with the 9/11 attacks more than viewers of any other network…
Surly, “damn well”…ha. You and the rest of the Beckers are whiney racists searching for a way back to mama’s bossom for protection from the Super Intelligent Obama….and from me.
IRAQ was an unjust war. Bush belongs in prison. TRUTH
Super Intelligent Obama
Now thats funny!!!!
DavidB – and your point is that all conservatives are stupid, right? Right out of the DNC play book. Every conservative in public office for the past 25 years has been “stupid” according to the DNC and the media. We get it already. Can’t you come up with something else.
Faux News! Faux News! Beck is a fat loser.
Ralphie, I think the meds are wearing off. Time for another dose. That’s a good boy. Take your nice medicine, it will make the voices go away.
(you are one scary dude.)
Ralphie Posted October 22, 2009 at 5:18 pm | Permalink Surly, “damn well”…ha. You and the rest of the Beckers are whiney racists searching for a way back to mama’s bossom for protection from the Super Intelligent Obama….and from me.
….Racists…because we disagree with this president? Interesting. Did you really just say, “Super Intelligent Obama”?
My point was that Fox viewers by far thought Iraq had something to do with the 9/11 attacks more than viewers of any other network…
You may draw your own conclusions.
I’ve never read a DNC playbook yet I am damn sure that nearly all conservatives are stupid.
Evolution anyone?
Oh come on Davey, nobody believes that…well, except you. And Olbermann
Do people on this blog think Obama is not intelligent?
Ralphie is right on.
Ralphie Posted October 22, 2009 at 5:22 pm | Permalink I’ve never read a DNC playbook yet I am damn sure that nearly all conservatives are stupid.
…why, because we believe working for what you have and believing others should do the same? You sure have a warped sense of reality
I suppose the survey never made it onto Fox, of course…
What do you guys have against Beck? I liked his early stuff. His later music did kind of suck though.
Ralphie, do you get your instructions in an e-mail or do you have to check the websites for the insult of the day? Oh wait! I’ll bet you have a device implanted in your brain that issues instructions directly. It’s obvious you don’t do a lot of processing.
The democrats will rule the next 30 years! And I will vote for every left wing initiative. And, I will rub my gayness on you rednecks whenever we bump into each other at Walmart (God forbid). A Gay Soldier
Ralphie, I cant tell if he is or not. Certainly not through his college transcripts which are sealed. He hasnt gotten off of the campaign trail long enough for anyone to know. He reminds me more of a puppet
Olbermann wasn’t dissing parking lots or ballpark stadiums, he was dissing conservatives. I have yet to see a conservative who did his homework as carefully as Olbermann has – on any subject.
Jayd041
Kansasmike….you are sharp like a conservative.
MicroSnotNothingButCommunism is a liberal as they get; of course the buzzard paints them in a favorable light; OWEbama ; one and done
“Do people on this blog think Obama is not intelligent?”
ummm, judging by his plans for the country, yes.
Do you have some proof otherwise?
Ralphie is a pole smoker? Makes sense now. Let me remind you Ralph that come 2010 if you have one democrat in the WH it will be a miracle. I dont think you guys will be in power for a very long time. You have managed to piss this whole country off.
Ralphie, let me guess, you think he is intelligent because is reads a TelePrompTer well? You dang sure haven’t seen any of his grades from school as they have all been “sealed”. So the basis to say he is “super intelligent” is based on what exactly?
Is it true Beck has a mock Chairman Mao on a pedestal in his studio? Is it true Beck pretended to pour gasoline on a staffer? Is it true Beck uses little toys to illustrate his theories?
Is it true Beck is prone to tears?
And Ralphie you are as sharp as..well…nothing really.
Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness…..strong GOP/conservatives love this…until the gays want a piece. Where is your truth, GOP? Where is your power, GOP? Are you waiting for Ms. Sarah to deliver more stunning interviews?
jayd041 Posted October 22, 2009 at 5:27 pm | Permalink Olbermann wasn’t dissing parking lots or ballpark stadiums, he was dissing conservatives. I have yet to see a conservative who did his homework as carefully as Olbermann has – on any subject.
Jayd041
….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ralphie
Its amazing the assumptions you have about obama haters.
So, who is more intelligent: Obama or Palin?
Obama haters cannot whip my ass.
Ralphie, what does your “gayness” have to do with anything? It is all starting to fall into place. Chip. Shoulder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrEbJBFWIPk&feature=player_embedded
Enjoy..
I don’t hate Obama. I don’t even know him. His ideas are rooted Marxist philosophy. Why else would he allow his communications director to tell high school students of her admiration for chairman Mao with no repurcussions? I think he is a danger to the free world.
Wingers – I would like to marry another gay man. Should there be a law allowing gay people to marry?
dad- you really need to watch that PBS link I posted.
Defend our precious parking lots! We need to dump the diapers somewhere!!!!!
Ralphie, how is your 6th grade year going so far?
Ralphie I couldnt care less if you wanted to hump your dog, just keep your GD hands out of my pocket
“Obama haters cannot whip my ass”
Raphie has apparently run out of gas.
Actually Fox News is losing viewers and MSNBC is picking up in the ratings. I think the NeoCons went too far and there is a backlash when you go too extreme.
My hope is that the NeoCons will just form their own political party instead of just griping about the GOP and the Dems.
samacdon Posted October 22, 2009 at 5:31 pm | Permalink Ralphie, what does your “gayness” have to do with anything? It is all starting to fall into place. Chip. Shoulder.
…you forgot one sam, entitlement
Kansasmike – have you studied Mao? Although he used his power to hurt. He was a brillient strategist. So much so that YOUR president Nixon went and met him. I hardly think employing strategy makes anyone all of the things that you and Fat Beck would like to think. Grow up you whiner.
is being gay an entitlement issue?
Ralphie – What is this obsession with Palin? You would think she ran for the office of the President or something. Then there is that super intelligent Joe Biden. LOL
The MAJORITY of voters elected Obama. Isn’t that what we take pride in? Democracy? You sissies!
Joe Biden is very intelligent.
Ralphie Posted October 22, 2009 at 5:34 pm | Permalink Wingers – I would like to marry another gay man.
….and your other option would be?
Ralphie, I guess that gay baiting jedi mind trick might work somewhere else, but apparently not tonight. Fish just ain’t bitin’.
Ralphie Posted October 22, 2009 at 5:34 pm | Permalink Wingers – I would like to marry another gay man. Should there be a law allowing gay people to marry?
The government shouldnt have anything to do with any marrage..
Dad! Does this mean you support gay marriage?
samacdon….i should have known, you blog while you play computer games.
Raphie, So Joe Biden is very intelligent and Palin isn’t. And you get your information from…… the DNC, dialykos, MSNBC,…..
or you just know. You don’t know how you know, you just know. Up is down, righ it left, joe biden is…..
Man, this has been really entertaining. But got to go back to the real world where the law of supply and demand can’t be repealed.
Happy trails.
Does anyone else see the irony of having a Tea Baggers’ gathering in the parking lot of the WING NUTS?! (Home field advantage?)
Joy in Colorado
Top 5 reasons why the GOP is trashed for the next 30 years: 1) creationism and the denial of evolution 2) Katrina (still) 3) minorities becoming majority 4) They think God is on their side 5) no ideas (clinging to old ideas)
there is no irony with Tea Bagger and Wing Nuts
samacdon – i get my information from listening to each person speak. Palin is embarrassingly stupid.
“Let it be noted that I also quoted Mother Teresa, but no one is accusing me of being a saint!” Anita Dunn
“A 1992 Seattle Times article reported that Republican strategist and former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed said in an “interview with The Phoenix Gazette” that “Mao Tse-Tung said politics is war without bloodshed. Clearly, there are some metaphors that sit nicely with politics.”
Rove: President Bush “encouraged me to read a Mao biography.” From Rove’s December 26, 2008, Wall Street Journal column:
DavidB- does that make it OK to have those kind of people in the WH?
“samacdon – i get my information from listening to each person speak”
“Joe Biden is very intelligent”
How do you reconcile those two statement?
I see nothing wrong with quoting Mother Theresa.. ;->
I think we should hold it at the Sonic Drive-In. We could have movement and ice tea. Don’t forget half price on those ice teas from 2-4pm!
“to agnatha – why do you care so much about MSNBC or CNN or NBC, or Fox news for that matter? “
A dumb rhetorical question. I was responding to snark from such posters as drive by troll number 2 (a.k.a. Anti) as to Olbermann’s poor ratings. If one understands the market, one understands that Olbermann’s ratings are not poor, which is why MSNBC’s ratings are better than CNN’s, because the primetime cable news network market is for those whose political obssessiveness outweighs the attraction of the entertainment programming most people watch. “How I Met Your Mother” kicks the @ss of both O’Reilly and Olbermann.
“Saying Fox news is conservative is just admitting that the others are liberal.”
Uhm, no. The exclusionary principle does not apply to news networks. Not conservative does not equal liberal (and not liberal does not equal conservative). The Big Three Networks, CNN, established wire services, PBS, the BBC, etc. strive to be objective, which means avoiding either conservative or liberal slants.
Yes, MSNBC nights has a very definite “liberal” slant because they are marketing to self identified liberals (and also anti-conservatives, which are not necessarily the same thing), and their ratings have improved because of it. MSNBC’s ratings improved at the expense of CNN’s, however, but not faux’s, because MSNBC’s and CNN’s viewership are those who, by definition, are not interested in a conservative slant in the news (otherwise, they would already be watching faux, and their ratings would be even higher). But, since those who watch cable news networks duing entertainment hours are mostly the politically obsessed, a high proportion of those viewers who will not be intereted in watching faux will be interested in a network that counterprograms against them, and MSNBC got the jump on that market. It is in fact because of their liberal slant that they now get better ratings than CNN.
Good god, if someone in the media commenting on a piece of asphalt in this city can stir up this much insanity just think of the fun that could be had with a comment about something of real importance – like . . . like . . . oh well, I guess this pretty much sums up everything one needs to know about what’s important to the average Wichitan.
Oh yeah… lunch with anchors:
TUESDAY, FEB 24
President Barack Obama met with 10 members of the press today over lunch at the White House — two from each network. The guest list consisted of ABC’s Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, CBS’ Katie Couric and Bob Schieffer, NBC’s Brian Williams and David Gregory, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and John King and Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier and Chris Wallace.
Speaking of faux (cough, excuse me, Fox) Spews (…er…News):
“That Rupert Murdoch may skew the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is somewhat beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox’s successful model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to experiment with a variety of populist and ideological takes on the news. It’s Fox that led CNN’s Lou Dobbs to remodel himself into a nativist cartoon. It’s Fox that led MSNBC to amp up Keith Olbermann. Fox hasn’t just corrupted its own coverage. Through its influence, it has made all of cable news unpleasant and unreliable.
(Note: I wouldn’t go that far, but the man has a definite point)
“What’s most distinctive about the American press is not its freedom but its tradition of independence—that it serves the public interest rather than those of parties, persuasions, or pressure groups. Media independence is a 20th-century innovation that has never fully taken root in Europe or many other countries that do have free press. The Australian-British-continental model of politicized media that Murdoch has implemented at Fox is un-American, so much so that he has little choice but go on denying what he’s doing as he does it. For Murdoch, Ailes, and company, ‘fair and balanced’ is a necessary lie. To admit that their coverage is slanted by design would violate the American understanding of the media’s role in democracy and our idea of what constitutes journalistic fair play. But it’s a demonstrable deceit that no longer deserves equal time.”
Except that I do think the reporting on CNN (so does the public, I suspect, which is why their ratings went up during the 2008 election when politics actually competed with entertainment media) has been solid, this guy has nailed the dismount.
Source:
http://www.slate.com/id/2232563/?GT1=38001
And Dobbs is a nativist cartoon.
Your indoctrination is showing.
ralphie, I almost never watch Beck or Olberman and I am no racist. I could care less whom or what you want to marry. I am sick and tired of the of the media double standard. If your going to call out the right then call out the left just as well for their blatant lies, both sides do lie it’s not just a GOP thing, the left does just as good as the right in that area. JUST BE HONEST FOR ONCE!
Talk about cutting opponents out from access.
Take a guess of how many interviews George W. Bush granted to The New York Times during his eight years in office..
Zero.
DavidB What newspapers did he grant interviews to? And did he ever attack the Times as not being a legitimate news source?
One other thing….you people who seem to think its clever to say faux instead of Fox….you do realize its pronounced completely different, right? Or did they leave that out of the e-mail? It’s making you look pretty stupid.
I’ll be scared of the teabaggers when they finally decide which spelling of “amnesty” they prefer.
I guess I’m 231. This is typical of those who don’t want the government running anything. They seem to forget without the government there wouldn’t be a parking lot there, or streets to drive on to get there or schools, buses, water and sewer systems, highways, police and firefighters, Medicare for seniors, military, etc. They also seem to forget that the previous administration ran up a bill of over a trillion dollars for a war that didn’t solve anything and that has lasted longer than WWII. So just what the heck are they meeting about??
President Bush left a deficit of 455 billion. In the first ten months under obama, it has ballooned to 1.4 trillion.
“Last fiscal year, as the Bush administration prepared massive bailout plans to stem the growing financial crisis, the deficit was $455 billion… The deficit for Fiscal Year 2009, which ended Sept. 30, is a record $1.42 trillion. And the Office of Management and Budget predicts future deficits to total $9.1 trillion in the coming decade.” Yes, President obama is BRILLIANT.
And he was wrong how! I wish he would have mentioned the million dollar popsickle stand at Lawrence-Doemont stadium.
Olbermann is a blowhard, left-wing nut job.
wutang_bk wrote: “MSNBC has literate watchers”.
MSNBC watchers can read and write??!! Wow… very impressive!
Why isn’t David Koch offering Koch Industries parking lot for his grassroots (coughing) Tea Party?
One of the other venues lists on the Tea Party Express website, Picnic area #4. Is this how they play up the “grassroots” angle?
Tea Baggers are, well tea baggers, what more needs to be said? Although, now that I think about it, it is better to be the tea bagger than the tea baggee!
People are such dupes, the people doing the protesting actually had THEIR taxes cut under this administration. Talk about being manipulated.
Isn’t that incredible, the people whose taxes are being reduced are the ones protesting. They are nothing but puppets of the super wealthy. Wakey wakey oh mighty fox puppets, you are only hurting yourselves.
Who cares what Olberman says?
So this is the big story in Wichita today? I’m inclined to believe not and that there are more important stories which should be highlighted with the pages prime real estate. Come on Eagle, get out of the gutter.
Teabagging in public is not protected speech. I believe it violates several decency laws.
Mr. Ogreman is perhaps the biggest puppet I know… as for all the people on here claiming to be liberals and mighty democrats, why haven’t any of you gone down to the parking lot and picked up the diaper, in an effort to keep are environment clean and all. I think that’s what I hate most, you talk a good game but when its time to act, you sit and make fun of a picture.
I’m with you, TPO. Liberal diaper-leavers want to clean up the planet and they can’t even handle a poopy Pamper. Oh, I suppose if it were a dirty diaper in some communist South American RAIN FOREST hellhole they’d be all OVER it!
OldStauncher, that is CLEARLY a Conservative diaper!
Clearly, DB. Otherwise the bleeding hearts would have been clamoring to spend taxpayer money to recycle it into a government-provided contraceptive.