Olbermann's Latest Lie

In his zeal to smear Fox News, the clown prince of the Fox-haters has walked into another propellor. With J$P Video!

The fact that Keith Olbermann hates Fox is nothing new. His many attacks, often misleading or downright false, have been documented here and elsewhere. But we live for those nights when Olby makes a flat-out fool of himself. It takes a considerable quantity of arrogant hubris to think you can slander one of your competitors with a lie, and expect that no one will notice. But we did.

On the April 11 edition of Countdown, Keith Olbermann defamed Brit Hume, and we have the video [QuickTime video clip]:

Olbermann claims Hume referred to yesterday's protests as a "repellent spectacle". Unfortunately, the quote Mr Olbermann is referencing was not about yesterday's protests. It couldn't have been: it was spoken on April 2nd! When Olby adds, "Hey pal, I've seen your newscasts", he compounds an already embarrassing lie. (Not to mention the fact that this wasn't said on one of Mr Hume's newscasts at all, but part of a panel discussion on another program.) Perhaps if Keith Olbermann had seen Mr Hume's newscasts, he would have known that Hume said nothing of the sort about yesterday's protests. In fact, we just happen to have video of what Brit Hume said about those protests [QuickTime video clip]:

Did he say they were "repellent"? No. Did he call them a "repellent spectacle"? No. Did he say anything even remotely similar to Keith Olbermann's smear? Err...no.

The facts: the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann took a Brit Hume comment from over a week earlier, regarding the flying of Mexican flags, and cut-and-pasted it to claim falsely that Hume was talking about Monday's protests. As the video shows, Hume pointedly noted the absence of Mexican flags and the presence of American flags in Monday's demonstrations--just the opposite of the original context of Olby's fake quote. But none of that matters to Keith Olbermann, who can lift a quote from ten days earlier and apply it to anything he likes, as long as it makes Fox look bad.

So what's the over/under on when Olbermann will retract this latest smear and apologize? Rhetorical question only, since there are no numbers lower than absolute zero.

posted: Tue - April 11, 2006 at 10:02 PM j$p send

prying1
Do you honestly think anyone will put money down on a wager like that? Who would live so long to collect on it?
April 15, 2006, 7:48:48 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Andrew Pandahp
Maybe he wasn't referring to the snippet you chose?
May 2, 2006, 3:35:29 PM EDT – Like – Reply

johnny dollar
He was.
May 2, 2006, 3:50:46 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Jeff Cummings
Please include Keith snippets as well for context.

KO Fan,

Jeff Cummings
May 7, 2007, 2:01:50 PM EDT – Like – Reply

ALan
From the Apr 11 Countdown transcript:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18075483/

'First time for COUNTDOWNs latest list of nominees for Worst Person in the World.

Our bronze tonight, John Kossner (ph), senior vice president of ESPN.com, who has now advised the thousands of fans participating in his websites fantasy baseball statistical league that a technical glitch that made trading players or adding new players to their fantasy teams cannot be fixed without erasing all the trades and all the additions made in all the leagues since opening day April 1st.

So if you, say, got smart that day, and traded the rights to Albert Pujols, the national league MVP, for, say, the rights to Alex Rodriguez, you not only get dont get credit for the six home runs and 15 runs batted in Rodriguez has accumulated, but the guy who traded Rodriguez to you does get those statistics and you get the one homer and two runs batted in Pujols has produced.

And the other guy in your league does not have to trade Rodriguez to you for Pujols now. What are you guys using there, an abacus?

Tonights runner up, Dick Morris of Fox noise, after reading a Fox Noise poll indicating that 26 percent of respondents would be scared if Senator Clinton were elected president, Morris offered this insightful gem, quoting, you have to ask yourself, the first black man is running for president and nobody is afraid of him, because everybody is afraid of Hillary? Does the name Don Imus mean anything to you?

Back in our saddle again as our winner, back in his own world about immigrants, Bill-O, back to the two teenage girls killed by an illegal alien drunk driver in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He not only called the mayor of that city, quote, limited in her intellectual capacity, but added, quote, she should be home baking pies. And he returned to the tragedy in New York, in which he said the kids in the Bronx all burned to death because the city, the sanctuary city of New York doesnt regulate how many people you can cram into a slum, even though there is still no indication that the victims there were undocumented aliens and no explanation, except in Bills mind, as to how that possibly could be relevant.

Sir, would you please, as Shakespeare wrote, assume a virtue, if you have it not. Let these families mourn for a while without exploiting them for your own twisted political agenda. Bill OReilly, todays Worst Person in the World.'

No mention of Brit Hume
May 10, 2007, 10:06:42 PM EDT – Like – Reply

johnny dollar
WHAT are these comments threads coming to? I take a few weeks off to deal with a move, and we get nonsense like the above?

It wasn't enough that I posted the actual video clip of what Olbermann says? Now some Olbypologist comes up with a transcript and claims that proves my video clip is, what, forged? I hired an Olbermann impersonator to record what he said?

The glorious beauty of all this is that ALAN spent all that time cutting and pasting the transcript of April 11, complete with the final triumphant "no mention of Brit Hume". And through it all, he doesn't seem to notice that he's giving us a transcript of April 11, 2007. The article I wrote was posted on April 11, 2006.

Moving isn't exactly fun, but thanks Alan for giving me a good laugh.
May 11, 2007, 12:13:41 AM EDT – Like – Reply

Jake
Olbermann got it wrong this time. He may have screwed up a couple of times on his reports on Fox "News". But when people always nit-pick at the non-news stories Olbermann does, it is because they know he is a force to be reckoned with. He tells the truth on real issues, so whoever doesn't agree with him have to attack him in the smallest ways (O'Reilly, his weight). And besides, Fox News hasn't been the beacons of truth when it comes to important issues.
July 8, 2007, 10:28:37 PM EDT – Like – Reply

Mosdog
He didn't get it wrong this wrong "this time" he gets it wrong all the time because liar and a stereotyppical leftist clown with no morals and no honesty he just makes it up and lives in fantasy world.

[Edited for language]
January 15, 2010, 5:51:42 PM EST – Like – Reply