Keith Olbermann Blasts Fox News & Host: A ‘Political Whorehouse’

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    Keith Olbermann Blasts Fox News & Host: A ‘Political Whorehouse’

    By Becket Adams – The Blaze

    “Keith Olbermann, in his own inimitable fashion, has ramped up his attacks on Fox News.

    During one of his “Worst Person” segments, he took the opportunity to lambast Fox anchors Clayton Morris, Allyson Camerota, and Dave Briggs for a story they did on a mother who reportedly left her children in Florida to join Occupy Wall Street. According to Olbermann, the network is a “political whorehouse.”

    Among the other criticisms Olbermann had for the “Fox and Friends” hosts were that they were “the B-team to the weekday dingbats“and that they were ”astoundingly bad.” He was upset that the anchors referred to the mother’s action as“disgusting” and that Camerota characterized the mother’s behavior as being the result of “a midlife crisis of some sort.”

    “So she’s disgusting, she’s having a midlife crisis, she is denying her husband sex and is an unfit mother because she decided to get involved in something political that she believes in?” Olbermann huffed .

    He then directed his comments to host Camerota, saying that she has to leave her three children 4 AM to work at the “political whorehouse that is Fox News.”

    “I don’t see anyone suggesting they take her kids away,” Olbermann concluded.

    It seems that Olbermann has stepped up his attacks lately. Not only did he use the “whorehouse” comment, but last week he attacked Glenn Beck and The Blaze as “helots” because of our story on Texas high school students being assigned the Mexican pledge of allegiance and Mexican national anthem.”

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/keith-olbermann-blasts-fox-news-host-a-political-whorehouse/

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    IMO: Keith Olbermann is calling the Fox News a “political whorehouse” and their hosts as “astoundingly bad” and he is right on both counts. To watch Fox News even for a few minutes shows you how grossly slanted they are in giving the ‘bubba’ public the “alleged” news, with the uninformed public that is listening in with as much focus as they can muster to hear the news as they want it to be told.

    Olbermann is right on point as he discusses Fox News and Glenn Beck. The hosts try hard to look serious as they spout the republican propaganda, both men and women are extravagantly made-up with the men trying to ape Mitt Romney, and they really speak, act, and look like people from outer space as they sit there in majestic incomprehension of even the smallest facts.

    I can imagine all the high schools dropouts hanging incoherently on every word the hosts and guests say so they will have something to rebut about President Obama, the Occupy Wall Street movement, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party….although they cannot seem to muster up one clear decisive candidate to offer to the 2012 American political scene.

    Whether you agree with Olbermann or not, at least he has the honesty and courage to give his views as a serious TV host. Of course some people don’t like his truth telling, so make an effort to demonize him in the grand republican style of politics…but that is when intelligent people know for sure that Olbermann is right…when he brings the resulting insults, smears, and recriminations against himself for speaking the truth. Fox News is pathetic.
     
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    Olbermann is more than likely right about FOX but he is the Glenn Beck of the left. He is a cartoon version of a liberal. He should not be supported just like Beck shouldn't. They are embarrassments on society as a whole.
     
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    Yea well who else watches that show or any of them on those channels which are again??? See I can't even remember, they simply don't get many viewers at all, I do believe FOX has more viewers then most other news channels combined. Now that of coarse doesn't suggest that they are better but just get a lot more viewers which says something? Oh that most don't like MSNBC, CNN and what is the other again? Once again, FOX may not be better just most think they are, by most I mean quite a few more. Now is that because they are easier to watch, take Olbermann or the "My legs are tingling" guy Matthrews, their shows are hard on ones eyes and ears as they are so shrill in both visual and sound. Yet I'm only saying most feel that way in no way meaning the few that watch these pathetic shows on MSNBC or CNN and that other one again are wrong just not a big number of people it appears.
     
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    FOX is an even dumber version of the already retarded MSNBC. I can believe people actually take either one serious. Amazing.
     
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    I can only take Obermann's self righteous rhetoric in small doses. I say this as someone who generally agrees with his editorials. That Fox new is biased and a "whorehouse" of political dissemination ? This is news ?

    Bro
     
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    The same could be said of Current TV.
     
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    1) Of course he is right about Fox News but he is certainly not the "Glenn Beck of the Left" as you like to smear it. Olbermann is not afraid to tell the truth...Glenn Beck does not know the truth.

    2) There is no 'cartoon version' of Olbermann. He is a serious and gifted TV News Host; a very intelligent person who cannot be fooled by propaganda or money.

    3) To put him in the same category as Beck, a sick and demented man who is out of touch with reality, is smearing Olbermann and his in-your-face personality.

    4) Fox News is an embarrassment to society...every host is a loser on that forum...that is why they are there. They have struck out on regular networks. In a Democracy, no one that has the courage to speak out should be called an "embarrassment to society." Are you saying that dissent is not in the best interests of a democracy?
     
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    That's all nice partisan hyperbole but you can't see the forest through the trees. Once you free yourself from the delusion they are different you can start to see clearly and it will be refreshing.
     
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    I'm surprised this sort of language got Olbermann kicked off of MSNBC considering the rest of the staff is just as vile.
     
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    I don't watch FOX news(or tv at all really) but I'm with KingofWow on this one. FOX news is watched more than any other cable news station, so they must be doing something right.
     
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    ....but you didn't answer my question....

    It is an inferior dialogue attack the poster instead of going off topic. Oh well, you felt uneasy about answering my question on freedom of speech in a Democracy?
     
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    It all reverts to the brain matter possessed by the Fox News audience.
     
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    ^^^^^^^

    A prime example of the intellectual narcissism of the left.

    I hate to inform you but the liberal left is neither intellectually, or morally superior to the conservative right.
     
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    Here is another glass of Kool Aid for you agent:

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKq4388GbxM"]Afterburner: The Cost of Media Bias - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    There is no question to answer. You want to prop up Olbermann and bash FOX and want people to agree with you.

    I didn't attack you in anyway. I told you to look at them as the same because they are. I like freedom of speech but if you are a partisan then you will be called such, as in the case of Olbermann.

    Don't worry you will see me bashing FOX in a similar thread started by someone who want to act like FOX news is better than MSNBC.
     
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    Neither are conservatives. To suggest otherwise would make one an unintelligent narcissist.
     
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    1) To state an obvious assessment is not an example of anything narcissistic. It is merely telling the truth, which republicans/T-baggers like to stay away from....

    2) Wrong: all you have to do is watch, listen to Congress to show you who are moral, honest, hard working for the people of America, and the immoral, unpatriotic, far-right radical morons with an inflammatory agenda.
     
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    1) The question: "Are you saying that dissent is not in the best interests of a democracy?"

    2) There was a certain tone of 'condescension' while not bothering to answer my question that made me feel you were not ready for any serious debate.
    btw: it is always a better idea to 'suggest' rather than 'tell' someone anything these highly politcized days.

    3) That's nice...I knew your name had some special significance.
     
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    I dissent every day of my life. I live for it. I have the word "dissent" tattooed on one wrist and "subvert" tattooed on the other wrist. He has no more of a dissenting voice than FOX does. I wasn't trying to be condescending but how else am I suppose to say FOX and MSNBC are the same thing?

    True dissension comes from neither of the two. Not by championing one over the other.
     
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    Glenn Beck was right about Van Jones. He's right about Soros, Tides foundation, ect.
    What has knucklehead Olbermann been right about?

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    Glenn Beck couldn't buy a clue. If that is your marker then the bar has been set really low.
     
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    Bravo Olberman; he's only voicing what everyone else knows. (Except, of course, those dumb conservatives who get suckered-in by dumb blondes and Fisher-Price 'news' stories)
     
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    Really? I believe McDonalds sells more hamburgers than anyone else. Is that doing something 'right', or simply appealing to the masses who can't tell a fillet steak from roadkill?
     
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    Just cuz you're the best doesn't make you good.
     

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