New Olbermann blog is up 12/22/04 6:48pm

[Shopaholic]

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

[dzika]

1. Thanks for posting. nt.

[Patsy Stone]

2. Still reading -- but KO, couldja fix these typos?

"Representative Maxine Walters of Los Angeles"
"David Sams might have been mentioned that..."

Who's typing too quickly??? :loveya:

[GetTheRightVote]

5. Thank you for posting it, i like to check in on KO

[Shopaholic]

6. But you know--I love it that we know he's typing this and sending it out

and no one at the network is reading it first-or if they are--not very well! I like that there is no filtering here, typos and all!

[Patsy Stone]

15. Yes

I know, but shockingly unlike him. He is, in fact, human! That's reassuring. :)

[crispini]

19. Oh, he got one of those little things wrong a few weeks ago too.

Spelled Miss Havisham (from Great Expectations) as "Haversham." I think it's kinda cool myself (although I did write him cause I thought he might wanna fix it). And anyway, how cool is it of him to make a Great Expectations allusion? rrrrRRRR :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[crispini]

3. Wow, he posts again!

Even when he said he wasn't going to!

:loveya:

[Shopaholic]

4. Loved the history lesson on Germany he provided for us--

all the while slapping the right-wingnuts! :bounce:

and because we must add these too: :loveya:

[Thurston Howell IV]

26. Yes, the history lesson is needed

I don't hang out in right-wing, fascist circles, so I'm a little behind the times when it comes to their propaganda. Recently a very conservative friend of mine tried to get me to read a book on fascism by a Lutheran "thinker" which was trying to push the idea that fascism is a form of liberalism.

Whoa!!! Amazing how these guys can turn truth on its head and still keep a straight face. There does seem to be a bit of the old Kool-Aide drinking going on here. It seems their hatred of liberalism gives them permission to say whatever they want, as long as it combats its terrible influence.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. glad the previous blog wasnt our Christmas present...

....and this bit was nice

"Responses from the other networks have thus far spoken of the need to wait for final reports to be compiled from the data — which would seem to be exactly the opposite of the point Conyers is making."

[seito]

8. Keith O

This is more like it....:loveya:

[Pepper32]

9. Is this a response to Brad Blog?

"However, a lot of facts from the previous post have been clarified — or muddied — and the news, to paraphrase one of my snarkiest friends in the business, “doesn’t stop when you’re off; it goes on another three to four hours a day.”


If so, I am very disappointed in the lack of details Keith O failed to give once again. I'm happy he reports on Election fraud however, something about KO's latest blog entries feel wrong. I hope he isn't drinking the kool-aid.

[New Earth]

10. i hope it's really him posting

:tinfoilhat:

[Shopaholic]

Oh it's him alright--

check the slams at Rush Limbaugh and later about the right wingnuts and their revisionist history on Nazi Germany.

[crispini]

16. I'm sure he hasn't had a chance to read that yet.

His blog entry has nothing about Curtis in it, and Brad Blog was mostly about that.

[Pepper32]

22. Perhaps. However, what was that statement in reference to? n/t

[libertypirate]

11. If you are a journalist....

When you are wrong you say you were... Thank you Keith
That is American and that is the America I want to help build.

We didn't get where we are today always being right!

[Pepper32]

20. However, don't you think it's a little irresponsible if he doesn't give

...details about how he was wrong and what exactly is right? We may know, however what about his other readers that do not visit Brad Blog?

[libertypirate]

24. Foundations before flooring before framing before roof

It won't be built in a day, it can be built but not at once.

[Pepper32]

25. I really hope that is the case here.

Building a house is complex, correcting information that has already been corrected for you is NOT. Unless he believes that the Brad Blog is incorrect? The statement Keith O made suggest otherwise. Anyway, time will tell. :)

[BradBlog]

44. Feel free to remind him, Pepper (and others)...

The link is right here...

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001071.htm

Since he's essentially slurred a man (a rather courageous man, if you ask my opinion...which you didn't) with wholly unevidenced, one-sided, un-factchecked allegations from behind the cover of an "unnamed attorney".

Frankly, I find it reprehensible (as you may have noted, if you read the above link). To that end, someone owes someone an apology and a record needs to be straightened.

Just my .02. His public email address is [e-mail]


Brad
The BRAD BLOG
http://www.BradBlog.com

[Carolab]

45. Agreed, Brad

he does need to rectify this.

[Miami Liberal]

12. Even while on vacation

he keeps us informed.

Loved this about O'Reilly:

MORALLY CHALLENGED:
On the lighter side, there is this from The New York Daily News, which reports that the wonderful website thesmokinggun.com sent around 250 Christmas gifts to media outlets around New York: “O’Reilly Approved Loofahs.”

Bill Bastone, who runs the site that got more than 3.5 million hits for its posting of Andrea Mackris’s lawsuit against Bill O’Reilly, told the paper’s Lloyd Grove: “We think we’re probably the single largest client of the Massage Warehouse in Norcross, Georgia.”

You sure about that, Mr. Bastone? What about Mr. O’Reilly himself?

:loveya: :loveya:

[crispini]

13. Good stuff

"Unfortunately, it also means that if you were trying to fix a vote in Ohio, or cover it up in a recount, you had merely to identify which precincts were least likely to be chosen (rather than randomly selected), and do your dirty work in them."

Yep, just pointing out the facts. :loveya: KO.

Well, now that he's gone ahead and posted while on vaco, what's the betting we get a response to the Brad Blog? Especially because of this bit from there: "For the record -- before filing this story! -- we spoke this afternoon to an MSNBC Countdown producer who preferred we keep his name off the record on this matter. That producer told The BRAD BLOG that "this was Keith Olbermann's writing. He didn't work with me or anyone else on this."

LOL, that's BOUND to piss him off. (I do loveya, KO, really I do, I guess at this point I am finding the dark comedy in all of this more enjoyable than anything else.)

[merh]

14. You've got to love this guy - he does admit when he has the facts

incomplete:

"Mr. Kalo also points out details that make the recount situation in Hocking County, Ohio, seem far less closed than the County’s Assistant Prosecutor led me to believe. I guess I’m still a little naïve on such things, but it would seem to me that in telling his story of a “comedy of errors” involving the inspection of the main vote tabulator there by a representative of the voting machine manufacturer, Triad Systems, David Sams might have been mentioned that in addition to being Assistant Prosecutor, he is also (per Mr. Kalo) the legal representative of the Hocking County Board of Elections during the recount .

I thought we had a bad jobs situation in Ohio. How come so many civil servants there have to double up?"

[Karenca]

17. Keith

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[shraby]

28. Keith needs to be clued in on what

dollar amounts that Triad people have given to the Republican party.

[Patsy Stone]

18. Let's buy the man some cigars!

Do you smoke cigars? What kind? They're on me.
Thanks for the post -- now go out and enjoy yourself, please!

[Shopaholic]

21. Yes--he smokes cigars--

I read that in a long ago interview he did with Playboy.

[McCamy Taylor]

23. hmmmm, cigars

[femme.democratique]

30. ROFLMAO....

...poor Bubba...

[sabra]

27. Good Post!

I am glad he had a follow up from his last one...

[Patsy Stone]

29. Just saw KOs picture on the Countdown upcoming stories...

Is he in the news now? Is that a good thing?

[Miami Liberal]

31. I noticed that too

getting nervous here. :scared:

[femme.democratique]

32. I think Mr. Olbermann reads DU.....

:tinfoilhat: Hi Keith :tinfoilhat:

I particularly liked your presentation of fascism yesterday. Perhaps you could do some "educational reporting" (relating to fascism) on air? There are about 50 million ("Official" Bush votes minus fraud margin) Americans who need that lesson dearly!

Dream on...

[ailsagirl]

40. Have a question: where does the "tin foil hat" thing come from?

[femme.democratique]

41. tin foil hat = conspiracy theorist

or something of the sort

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinfoil_hat

[ailsagirl]

42. Thank you

[me b zola]

33. "...comedy of errors..."

Perhaps could also explain b*sh's DNA.:freak:

[TexasLawyer]

34. Great Bloggerman!

Keith is the MANN !

[Pithy Cherub]

35. KO: Bringing the Enlightenment to journalism...

as best he can all alone. Will heres to Keith :loveya:

[Mister Ed]

36. KO makes an important point regarding lower-level election officials

When thay are uncooperative, or sidestep the Ohio laws that govern the recount, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are "in" on the fraud conspiracy. A more likely explanation is that they just want to avoid the onerous task of a full hand recount.

The conspirators, methinks, are far fewer in number, and much higher up.

[txindy]

37. Not bad.

Okay, a whole lot better than 'not bad'!

I particularly liked the points Keith made concerning the raw exit poll data and the nonsensical description of Nazis as "leftists," but the best moment came when he talked about the Chinese "Republicans."

I hope the poor guy gets some vacation time in before he comes back to work!

[ailsagirl]

38. It certainly sounds less iffy than his previous blog

when he seemed to dismiss a lot of "anomalies."

In tonight's blog, there's this:

Mr. Kalo also points out details that make the recount situation in Hocking County, Ohio, seem far less closed than the County’s Assistant Prosecutor led me to believe...

But then, there's also this:

The process is repeated across the state. Benign intentions; potentially pernicious outcomes...

How does he know the intentions were "benign?"

But he does sound as if he's taking it more seriously-- he would have to, since new developments (significant ones, such as Conyers' letter) keep happening.

Stay tuned...

[megalith]

39. It's in the Details

Keith is the first journalist who has appreciated the subtle side of this. Everyone wants a simple solution/smoking gun situation, "Evil green man found in closet hacking the US election." But it is subtle, not simple.

If Ohio was hacked, and I am not sure it was or was not, then the key is in knowing how everyday BoE's operate and taking advantage of it. A good place to start is in the 3% random selection or lack of.

Vist the votecobb site as we are just starting to publish prelimanary reports and it is far from over.

The devil is in the details.

Orren Whiddon

[Straight Shooter]

47. Welcome to DU, megalith

Good observation.

:hi:

[bunny planet]

43. Oh Keith I'm swooning. Does he get back tomorrow or Friday?

This was a much better post than yesterday's.:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:
I've forgiven Keef.

[Miami Liberal]

46. There's a Countdown special on Friday

which was most probably pre-recorded and he comes back on the 27th.

[The Judged]

48. It's happening again! People are becoming unafraid to discuss reality!

[noamnety]

49. The Angel of Death posted on Keith's blog today

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/