Obama-Clinton '08. This is definitely the ticket, folks. If it is not, Obama has a major tightrope to walk. They look great together, she is a leader, she could easily be president (the only real qualification that matters), and she is a highly effective and complementary surrogate as evidenced today.
I think this event got a lot of the '18 million' Clinton supporters' hopes up that she will be on the ticket. If he doesn't pick her, they will be disappointed unless there is a really good reason [and hint: to most professional women like me, saying that your husband is a 'problem' is not an excuse; it's a red herring; Bill Clinton will or will not be a 'problem' regardless of whether Hillary Clinton is on the ticket.
It will be interesting to watch Keith Olbermann tonight to see how if he now apologizes for his sexist behavior toward Hillary Clinton in the past, or if he will have to disavow his messiah's embrace of her.
But I won't be watching, as I boycott his show. The idea that NBC hasn't yet fired this guy is beyond me.
J.T., what's your beef with Keith Olbermann? Why the vitriol towards him? And do you really think that posting comments on a blog is going to make a difference?
My beef with Keith Olbermann is that he is the worst kind of sexist in the media. People came down on Chris Matthews, but he was constantly putting his foot in his mouth making whopper statements.
Olbermann is much worse. He pretends to be a progressive alternative to O'Reilly, but women are not part of his progressive agenda. I watched too many times over the last few months while Olbermann railed against every perceived slight against Obama from the Clinton camp. Before the race had ended, he suggested a man in Dem. politics should take her into a room and beat her up.
He would do his 'special comments,' a cheap rip off from Jerry Springer, railing against Hillary Clinton's win-at-all-costs strategy. He asked why she cared for herself more than 'her party.' Since when are journalists working for NBC supposed to lecture me sitting at home on when a candidate should drop out for the good of her party.
Why doesn't he report the news, and let me interpret it. Olbermann, if I recall correctly, never brought historical comparisons to bear, where men such as Ted Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Gary Hart, and Jesse Jackson continued their unsuccessful quests for the presidency much longer than Hillary Clinton did. Is it sexist when you pretend you are promoting Democratic party principles but in reality have broken ground as the first journalist in NBC history to actually advocate that a female candidate still winning contests leave before other male candidates were ever told (by the media) to leave?
He rarely has women on his show as guests, instead relying on a boys club of liberal men saying things like "They'll come around" to women supporters. He acts as if he still works for ESPN when the only women who worked there were reporters on the field, not in the booth.
In addition to his near-daily implicit sexism, he is simply not a journalist. His historical knowledge is woeful, and he is regularly blindsided by others on the show who know what they are talking about. Please fire him. Send him back to sports if you can't get rid of.
Again, how is commenting on a blog going to get rid of Keith Olbermann?
I have written NBC already re: Olberman. Posting on the Hotline blog, which Keith O. cites on his program and which is run by people who appear on NBC and are invited to be on his program may make them think twice about going on. Dana Milbank, Chuck Todd? Do you want to put your hat in with Keith O., a sexist and a pseudo-journalist?
Here's another reason K.O. should be fired, a blast from the campaing past. Remember the security breach at the State Department that involved employees snooping on Obama, Clinton, and McCain? Well, when the story broke on Mar. 20, Keith 'not a real journalist' O. devoted his entire show to the subject, but only the Obama breach had been found out. He spent much of his time creating tendentious links between Bill Clinton and the security breach. See this youtube clip for his bad journalism, and his bias against Hillary Clinton:
In the link, he notes a State Dept. career civil servant "has a connection to the Clinton administration." What was that connection? She worked in the department where the security breach occurred. Did she have anything to do with it? No. Was it only a breach of Obama? No, as we learned literally hours after Keith Olbermann's baseless accusations, Clinton, Obama, and McCain had their records violated.
Did Olbermann apologize for this later? No he did not.
Methinks that Mercurio and Walter are letting their dislike of Hillary Clinton cloud their judgement.
I am with you, J.T. Olbermann trashed Hillary! all through the primary, in the most sexist of terms. How very gallant I am ver sure. NOT! I think that is WRONG WRONG WRONG! Gender, transgendership and sexual orientation have NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING to do with the news. I not only say BAD BAD BAD to Olbermann, but I actually feel a bit threatened by Olbermann like you do.
Hey producer, Cut the music after the intro, reuse it on exit if you think you need to, but don't run it over all the candidates audio. It muddles everything.
Well, I kind of agree with Seth on the music over. I liked the fact that you actually used music. In today's politics, after a lull that was too long, campaigns and commentators are starting to include music again on screen. As in movie/TV dialogue, music need not muddy, it can enhance. Nevertheless, music is like salt; it should be used to season, not to overwhelm, even when it is on message.
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Obama-Clinton '08. This is definitely the ticket, folks. If it is not, Obama has a major tightrope to walk. They look great together, she is a leader, she could easily be president (the only real qualification that matters), and she is a highly effective and complementary surrogate as evidenced today.
I think this event got a lot of the '18 million' Clinton supporters' hopes up that she will be on the ticket. If he doesn't pick her, they will be disappointed unless there is a really good reason [and hint: to most professional women like me, saying that your husband is a 'problem' is not an excuse; it's a red herring; Bill Clinton will or will not be a 'problem' regardless of whether Hillary Clinton is on the ticket.
It will be interesting to watch Keith Olbermann tonight to see how if he now apologizes for his sexist behavior toward Hillary Clinton in the past, or if he will have to disavow his messiah's embrace of her.
But I won't be watching, as I boycott his show. The idea that NBC hasn't yet fired this guy is beyond me.
J.T., what's your beef with Keith Olbermann? Why the vitriol towards him? And do you really think that posting comments on a blog is going to make a difference?
My beef with Keith Olbermann is that he is the worst kind of sexist in the media. People came down on Chris Matthews, but he was constantly putting his foot in his mouth making whopper statements.
Olbermann is much worse. He pretends to be a progressive alternative to O'Reilly, but women are not part of his progressive agenda. I watched too many times over the last few months while Olbermann railed against every perceived slight against Obama from the Clinton camp. Before the race had ended, he suggested a man in Dem. politics should take her into a room and beat her up.
He would do his 'special comments,' a cheap rip off from Jerry Springer, railing against Hillary Clinton's win-at-all-costs strategy. He asked why she cared for herself more than 'her party.' Since when are journalists working for NBC supposed to lecture me sitting at home on when a candidate should drop out for the good of her party.
Why doesn't he report the news, and let me interpret it. Olbermann, if I recall correctly, never brought historical comparisons to bear, where men such as Ted Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Gary Hart, and Jesse Jackson continued their unsuccessful quests for the presidency much longer than Hillary Clinton did. Is it sexist when you pretend you are promoting Democratic party principles but in reality have broken ground as the first journalist in NBC history to actually advocate that a female candidate still winning contests leave before other male candidates were ever told (by the media) to leave?
He rarely has women on his show as guests, instead relying on a boys club of liberal men saying things like "They'll come around" to women supporters. He acts as if he still works for ESPN when the only women who worked there were reporters on the field, not in the booth.
In addition to his near-daily implicit sexism, he is simply not a journalist. His historical knowledge is woeful, and he is regularly blindsided by others on the show who know what they are talking about. Please fire him. Send him back to sports if you can't get rid of.
Again, how is commenting on a blog going to get rid of Keith Olbermann?
I have written NBC already re: Olberman. Posting on the Hotline blog, which Keith O. cites on his program and which is run by people who appear on NBC and are invited to be on his program may make them think twice about going on. Dana Milbank, Chuck Todd? Do you want to put your hat in with Keith O., a sexist and a pseudo-journalist?
Here's another reason K.O. should be fired, a blast from the campaing past. Remember the security breach at the State Department that involved employees snooping on Obama, Clinton, and McCain? Well, when the story broke on Mar. 20, Keith 'not a real journalist' O. devoted his entire show to the subject, but only the Obama breach had been found out. He spent much of his time creating tendentious links between Bill Clinton and the security breach. See this youtube clip for his bad journalism, and his bias against Hillary Clinton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_HF10Z9DTI
In the link, he notes a State Dept. career civil servant "has a connection to the Clinton administration." What was that connection? She worked in the department where the security breach occurred. Did she have anything to do with it? No. Was it only a breach of Obama? No, as we learned literally hours after Keith Olbermann's baseless accusations, Clinton, Obama, and McCain had their records violated.
Did Olbermann apologize for this later? No he did not.
Methinks that Mercurio and Walter are letting their dislike of Hillary Clinton cloud their judgement.
I am with you, J.T. Olbermann trashed Hillary! all through the primary, in the most sexist of terms. How very gallant I am ver sure. NOT! I think that is WRONG WRONG WRONG! Gender, transgendership and sexual orientation have NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING to do with the news. I not only say BAD BAD BAD to Olbermann, but I actually feel a bit threatened by Olbermann like you do.
Hey producer, Cut the music after the intro, reuse it on exit if you think you need to, but don't run it over all the candidates audio. It muddles everything.
Well, I kind of agree with Seth on the music over. I liked the fact that you actually used music. In today's politics, after a lull that was too long, campaigns and commentators are starting to include music again on screen. As in movie/TV dialogue, music need not muddy, it can enhance. Nevertheless, music is like salt; it should be used to season, not to overwhelm, even when it is on message.