Worst Bailout: Keith Olbermann
By K. Daniel Glover | May 12, 2009
Aggravated taxpayers rallied across America on April 15 to protest the federal government's runaway spending and inevitable tax increases. MSNBC gasbag Keith Olbermann was not among them. Instead, he bashed one of good guys opposed to the bailout bonanza.
Olbermann dubbed Erik Telford of Americans for Prosperity, one of the brains behind the Web site Stop Spending Our Future, as the "second-worst person in the world" for that day.
Telford returned the favor this week. He wrote a column about Olbermann for Human Events, launched the Web site Worst Bailout In The World and invited people to sign a petition demanding that Olbermann return his hefty, bailout-backed pay raise. Here's how it reads:
While General Electric, the parent-company of your MSNBC network, was negotiating a $126 billion taxpayer-funded bailout, you signed a new contract raising your salary from $4 million to $7.5 million annually. You have used your show as a platform to call for the resignation of corporate executives accepting excessive bonuses on the backs of taxpayers who are picking up the tab for these atrocious bailouts, yet you yourself have no problem engaging in the same “class economic rape” that you accuse them of.
Please heed your own advice and stop accepting taxpayer money to subsidize your nightly diatribes. Resign or return the balance of your excessive raise to the U.S. Treasury.
Nearly 2,000 people have signed the petition so far.
The best part of the Web site is the "Saturday Night Live" satire of Olbermann from last year, starring actor Ben Affleck. Don't be surprised if Olbermann promotes Telford to "Worst Person In The World" soon -- and if Telford embraces that notoriety as another badge of honor.
K. Daniel Glover is a project manager for Accuracy In Media. He has worked as an editor, writer and new media specialist in the Washington area since 1991, spending most of that time at National Journal and Congressional Quarterly.
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I can now see why John Madden retired from NBC Sports. He did not want to put up with the chihuahua’s BS on NFL pre-game.
Let’s hope NBC is smart in keeping Odormann out of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver like they did for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
You know, Limbaugh is just another one of the “gasbags” getting $200 million over five years; Hannity is just another one of the “gasbags” getting $100 million over five years; “gasbag” Olbermann is only getting $37.5 million over the next five years. So - he’s pretty far down on the gasbag totem pole.
The more these guys are criticized - the higher their contracts go - and the more they laugh on their way to the bank.
You know, you can listen to Olberman for an hour - then listen to Hannity for an hour - then split the difference - and, then, you’re probably getting close to the real story.
These guys are “infotainers” - creating controversy to garner publicity and marketshare - and are paid accordingly. Obviously, Limbaugh is the King of the Gasbags.
TK - “Obviously, Limbaugh is the King of the Gasbags.”
Your partisan puke smells nastier than usual.
Limbaugh never lies about those on the Left in his criticisms of them, unlike loony, left-wing character assassins such as Olbermann who’s style of ‘reporting’ resembles an escaped mental patient.
Re: Post 4;
Geez! Exactly what kind of fetish is that, i.e., following somebody around to smell their puke? Was that something congenital - or something you caught?
(And - you don’t have to get all twisted up in your skivvies because Limbaugh - and not YOU - won that title!)
The OBVIOUS reference, Mr. Puke-Smeller, was to the fact that Limbaugh is, by F-A-R, the HIGHEST PAID of the so-called “gasbags” ($40 million per year to Hannity’s $20 million per year to Olbermann’s $7.5 million per year) - and - THEREFORE - is the “King Of The Gasbags”. Do you get it, now ???
And in case you missed this fact, too, the term “gasbag” came directly from the second sentence of the article above.
And, your comment ...
“...Limbaugh never lies about those on the Left in his criticisms of them, unlike loony, left-wing character assassins such as Olbermann who’s style of ‘reporting’ resembles an escaped mental patient…”
You just said this as a joke right? Because, you got to know, Mr. Puke-Smeller, that Mr. Limbaugh won his “King Of The Gasbags” title by having originally INVENTED the radiohead version of the politics of personal destruction (i.e., character assassination, to you), right?
Limbaugh is probably the most politically-divisive person in America (because he has the biggest radiohead audience in America, if for no other reason) - and, while I don’t specifically and personally know about his possible status as a “mental patient” - he is a convicted drug abuser - AND - was a two-month patient in SOME kind of a “facility” for treatment of drug dependency (but, I don’t know, that wouldn’t necessarily make him a “mental patient”, would it? But, what the heck makes someone a drug abuser in the first place? Do you think it might be at least partly due to some kind of mental deficiency? I don’t think Olbermann ever had any of THESE kinds of problems, though, do you?)
As I said - Limbaugh is The King Of The Gasbags. He makes exactly 5.333 times more than Olbermann does for gassing. Of course, Limbaugh has a L-O-N-G way to go to catch up to Howard Stern - The GOD Of ALL Gasbags. (Limbaugh started his “professional” life as a “schlock jock” - like Stern. But, you already knew that, right?)
But - let me tell you - “...Your partisan puke smells nastier than usual…” DEFINITELY gets you into that gasbag realm, too!
Good sniffin’!
(RE:Post #5) - There there Tk. Calm down, calm down…you’re hyperventilating again. Now please, calm down!
(several minutes later)
Okay, I see your eyeballs are only protruding halfway out of their sockets…you’re looking better. Now, gently wipe the froth from the corners of your mouth, even though your perpetual anger at those ‘nasty right-wingers’ will cause it to build up again.
Deep breaths….deep deep breaths.
Close your eyes now…calm down….breath gently.
shhhh… everyone, I think TK’s fallen asleep.
Look at that faint smile on his face;how precious.
Guess he’s dreaming about of all those exterminations under Mao and Stalin’s communist regimes.
Let’s leave him to sleep…sweet dreams, TK.
May 13 at 3:12 pm | #1 | Link
Just another lying liberal hypocrite that has no morals, ethics, character or integrity. O’mann is just a piece of worthless flesh.