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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Petition to Suspend Olbermann
Posted by: Amanda Carpenter at 9:50 AM
Melanie Morgan has created an online petition to suspend MSNBC's Keith Olbermann for calling Mark Levin and Laura Ingraham "troop haters."

Here's the transcript.
OLBERMANN: I cannot imagine that kind of evil knee-jerk reflex. I feel very sorry for those that have shown it. It seems to me these right-wingers have inadvertently shown their true colors, their instinctive hatred for, and contempt for those self-sacrificing Americans who have been needlessly placed in harm's way and the politicians they support.

They hear criticism of our nation's collective conduct in Iraq, and they immediately assume it's the fault of the soldiers. In the wake of an insult that exists only in their minds and never in my words or in my heart, there remains I think only one question to ask: Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin, why do you hate our troops?
As you may recall Mr. Olbermann has been particularly unkind to our other Townhall friends Mary Katharine and Hugh Hewitt. He's declared both them "Worst Person In the World" on separate occasions.

(Not that anyone here watches his rants.)

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maggie  writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 10:12 AM
Never liked the guy
and don't know anyone who does incliding my "good" democrat friends. They only keep him because of his ratings,people watch to see what stupid crap he'll say next.
RASHUM writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 10:15 AM
Olbermann is awful!
Olbermann is awful! He was terrible in ESPN, his comments on NBC Sunday Night Football are worthless and his show on MSNBC is usless.
jwinkles writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 10:50 AM
Kimberly is a loon as well
Kimberly are you a former lover of Olbermoron? If so, perhaps you can confirm whether or not the emails possessed by Mark Levin are true. Is Olby really hung like a tick?
Peggy writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 11:00 AM
Olberman & Kimberly
Live in alternate universe. I am not familiar with Mark Levin (I will be looking out for him in the future, but anyone who would call Laura Ingraham a hater of troops has got to be out of their mind. Kimberly, pray for some common bsense. As for KO, where's the petition. I'm ready to sign up.
Ralph Ellison writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 11:09 AM
Oh conservatives...
Did you all actually watch the original special comment in question? Did you see/hear the total hit jobs by Ingraham and Levin on Olbermann?
Atheist Provocateur writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 11:15 AM
Can't take it.
What, you can dish it out but you can't take it?

How many times have the right wing accused the liberals of hating the troops. Too many times to count I imagine.

You all need to get some thicker skin.

It's also boorish. "Oh, don't hurt me, please don't hurt me mister."
Dread writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 11:16 AM
How dare he?!?
Doesn't he know that only GOP partisan hacks are allowed to use the 'They hate the troops!' meme against their political opponents?

The nerve of some liberals.
religiouslib writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 11:17 AM
i am loving this
people who oppose the new GI bill(like maccain) or pooh-pooh the horrible conditions at walter reed and ft. bragg (like ingraham and levine) are troop haters and olbermann has it right.

some of you just don't get it.

olbermann's show is part comedy.
he has even named himself worse person in the world a couple times.
but than some conservatives have no sense of humor and can't laugh at themselves.

at least you don't see sexual stories on olbermann like you do on oreilly.

oreilly has some story at least once a week that has blurred out body parts and is salacious in nature.

at least children can watch olbermann.
My Pet Goat writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 11:35 AM
Looking....
...for a petition to double his salary.

Olbermann is articulate, brilliant, insightful and funny. He has one of the biggest sets of you-know-whats on the air. I admire him tremendously.

On the good side, all this right-wing hysteria will do wonders for his ratings.
Lori writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 11:39 AM
I have visceral repulsion to that guy.
Not the first stupid thing he has said either. I signed it----with gusto!
Namvet writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 12:38 PM
AMAZING.......
The drivel that is posted in here is STUNNING.

I know, or know of NO ONE - NO ONE - who "hates the troops"...... NOBODY.

Not Levin, not Olbermann, not Ingraham.

GROW UP
Jsmith writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 12:45 PM
How about Laura
lend some of her undergarments to Mark Levin..may be he should start wearing them..someone called them troop haters and they cant take it..waawwaaaa..they both can cry like whiny babies..may be they need some milk..or it could be diaper rash..

bunch of morons..some moron called them names and they get all worked up..ignore and move on
arngret writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 1:07 PM
Yiur Doing Something right
if you make Olbermanns worst person in the world's list. Kind of ironic that he is on PMSNBC when he suffers from the same thing.
paddy o'furniture writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 1:39 PM
Not sure who namvet is.....
....but I've gotta agree with him on this one.
Don't get me wrong....I despise Olbermann, and you're right, I never watch the guy, but this is America. The guy has a right to say what he wants.
MaineConservative writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 2:02 PM
This whole discussion is beyond stupid
A petition to suspend Olberman? Really? Who is Melanie Morgan anyway, and why would she have any control over what PMSNBC does?

KO actually said Laura and Mark Levin (whoever he is) hated the troops? Ouch. So what? We know what and who Olberman is. We all have clickers than can change the channel. If there is an audience stupid enough to watch that dolt, I say go for it, God Bless America.

My only observation has been that PMSNBC and NBC actually puts him on supposedly objective election analysis alongside supposedly objective news reporters. I know that NBC does not, and has not, had the most objective reporting but blatantly sticking a moron like Keith O in that chair asking questions of Tim Russert and Tom Brokaw? That just seems ridiculous to me and will so isolate NBC that the loss of viewership will so outweigh what small group of pinhead Olberman watchers that they'll soon be reduced to almost nothing.
Cubsfan writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 2:06 PM
NBC News is a joke!
The network of Huntley and Brinkley has turned itself into a total arm of the far left in America. They are Barack Hussein Obama's biggest cheerleaders. They have made an embassment out of themselves.
Brianbnc writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 4:10 PM
Classic
I love reading you libs on here who are touting Obermeister.

It really shows your true colors and how out of whack you folks really are.

What a shame (but not ironic) your party closed down all those institutions. You guys could be getting help right now.

Less than 10% of the US viewing public actually "like" Obermeister. The rest rubberneck his moves waiting for the next train-wreck to sprawl from his maw.

Classic reading though. Reminds me what I'm fighting for.

And BTW, you far lefties really do despise our troups and our country. That's the difference... Not that you don't already know that somewhere in the back of your clouded minds.
ScarletPimpernel writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 7:04 PM
why suspend him?
He's a disgrace and a huckster but he can say what he wants. MSNBC and whoever their parent company is can continue to throw good money after bad if they want. Isn't he barely ahead of Fatmouth Drunk Mathews?

I have a great idea - how about O'Reilly, Ingraham, Hugh and whoever else QUIT bringing this jackanape up on their shows? I NEVER know what KO is saying unless they TELL me. Maybe, like Air America he'll just dry up and blow away?
Ralph Ellison writes: Thursday, May, 22, 2008 8:01 PM
Wow!
Only 242 people have signed the petition as of this moment. How cute!

Once again, the cons prove how stupid they really are.
SergeantMajor writes: Saturday, May, 24, 2008 4:12 AM
Get a Grip
In the USA we don't can television commentators or radio personalities regardless of how silly they get.

Im willing to bet that the vast majority of viewers that tune into KO dont identify with what he says or share his views.

I think KO himself doesn't believe half the things he says. My guess is he says moronic things to get a rise out of the viewing public (read that increased ratings) and that he gets his material from the MSNMB Handlers.

No one out of grade school would identify with his rants
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