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dtmfs wrote:

He claimed a few white republicans used the words "cocky" and "arrogant" to describe Obama. and that these were code words for "another" word. Wonder what he was geting at.

That was a tongue in cheek shot at Limbaugh who a week before claimed on his radio show that "a lot of people" might take the President's desire to regulate the financial industry as meaning that he's an anti-semite. Because "some people" think "banker" is a code word for "Jews."

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001200032

And the day after the Daily Show piece, he played it in its entirety on his show and then admitted, "Yeah, maybe I have been a little over the top" which are ten words Beck has never said in sequence, ever. So, simply for Olbermann having the ability to laugh at himself once in awhile, I've gotta give the #1 douche edge to Beck.

NickasInSaltLick wrote:[And the day after the Daily Show piece, he played it in its entirety on his show and then admitted, "Yeah, maybe I have been a little over the top" which are ten words Beck has never said in sequence, ever. So, simply for Olbermann having the ability to laugh at himself once in awhile, I've gotta give the #1 douche edge to Beck.

Didn't beck apologize for calling Barack a racist? You'll get no arguments from me on Becks being a douche. Olbermanns always playing the race card and it's fucking old. Other than this incident i've heard the fucker bring up the "racist" tea part BS a few times, the most infamous being when he and fish lipped garafalo appointinted ALL tea partiers racist. It'd be great to see both get the axe.

dtmfs wrote:

NickasInSaltLick wrote:[And the day after the Daily Show piece, he played it in its entirety on his show and then admitted, "Yeah, maybe I have been a little over the top" which are ten words Beck has never said in sequence, ever. So, simply for Olbermann having the ability to laugh at himself once in awhile, I've gotta give the #1 douche edge to Beck.

Didn't beck apologize for calling Barack a racist? You'll get no arguments from me on Becks being a douche. Olbermanns always playing the race card and it's fucking old. Other than this incident i've heard the fucker bring up the "racist" tea part BS a few times, the most infamous being when he and fish lipped garafalo appointinted ALL tea partiers racist. It'd be great to see both get the axe.

Both guys are guilty for using some pretty extreme rhetoric. But they both pull in either close to the top or at the top of the ratings out of all the shows on each of their networks so I don't think either of them are going away any time soon.

It's purely what brand of douche you prefer. Personally, I'm a centrist, but I live in Utah, the reddest of the red states. A state so red it's maroon, so as a centrist here I'm considered a bigger pinko than Brezhnev. So, I kinda view voting for a Utah Republican as about the biggest sellout move you can make here. They spout their small government rhetoric, yet take steps to invade people's private lives probably worse than anywhere save for North Korea. So I tend to favor the MSNBC brand of douche when it comes to my overly dramatic cable commentators. Most people that live here probably prefer the FoxNews brand of douche. If I lived in any other state, I'd probably be a straight up BBC America guy.

Any answer other than Olberman is a wrong answer. I can sit and watch every other show in MSNBC. Olberman loves putting on the schtick that every single Republican is just a bigot who hates everybody. To me, he's just like Henry Rollins, who thinks that if he sneers when he says something, it's supposed to make you believe it more.

Beck is a douche as well, but at least he will slow down at times and speak coherently, and actually make a point. He's less of a mouth piece for the GOP than Olberman is for Obama, because he will say what he feels about the GOP leadership, and will point out when he thinks they are wrong, whereas Olberman will blindly spew anything that makes the GOP look bad, and never once speak of anything negative about the Dems.

VinnieKulick wrote:Any answer other than Olberman is a wrong answer. I can sit and watch every other show in MSNBC. Olberman loves putting on the schtick that every single Republican is just a bigot who hates everybody. To me, he's just like Henry Rollins, who thinks that if he sneers when he says something, it's supposed to make you believe it more.

Beck is a douche as well, but at least he will slow down at times and speak coherently, and actually make a point. He's less of a mouth piece for the GOP than Olberman is for Obama, because he will say what he feels about the GOP leadership, and will point out when he thinks they are wrong, whereas Olberman will blindly spew anything that makes the GOP look bad, and never once speak of anything negative about the Dems.

Olbermann's taken the administration and the D's in congress to task pretty well the last few weeks after the D's passed that piece of shit Health-Care bill in the Senate. Called them out harshly for basically having no balls. But it seemed to mirror the token umbrage Beck and others on the other side of the spectrum took with Bush. That of an overall cheerleader, but with a few small disagreements in order to seem "fair."

Again, it all boils down to the brand of douche you prefer. Guys that identify as more conservative prefer a little more conservative douche. Guys that identify as more liberal prefer a little more liberal douche. Neither of them on TV can compare to the level of douchiness on the radio like douchebags Mark Levin or Randi Rhodes and many other examples.

Yeah i've heard Olbermann give the dems some shit. Another beef I got with him is I don't think i've ever seem him have someone with an opposing view on his show, he may have I've just never seen it. He's also incredibly unfunny and he tries his ass off and it's painful to watch. Most of all I can't stand his hypocrisy and his wierd obsession with bill o' reilly.

I'm surprised we're this far down the page and nobody's mentioned Chris Matthews at all.

And Beck's behavior isn't 100% organic - he's been known to slather Vapo-Rub under his eyes to make himself cry.

Olbermann - This guy just rants and rants and rants. I'm surprised anyone can follow him at all with that delivery. When I was in America the dude was a sportscaster, and now all of a sudden he's a left-wing demagogue. Weird.

Glenn Beck - The master. This guy just effortlessly riles up the left, and I'm not sure how. The whole thing is clearly an act. If he thought he could get the same ratings riling up the right, he'd do it. The crying, the fawning over Sarah Palin - pure entertainment. Albeit somewhat dangerous entertainment, as I gather he is a news source for a lot of people.

Hannity - cunt.

Rush - cunt.

O'Reilly - somewhat less of a cunt.

Matthews - unbearable. This guy has guests on, asks them five-minute-long questions, and when they try to answer shouts them down for five minutes. I'm going to go with cunt here too.


Whether or not Olbermann was serious with the "racist-baiting", I'm getting kind of tired of how every criticism of Obama is seen by some as thinly veiled racism. Isn't it more likely that the right just hates him because he's a Democrat, the way they hated Clinton?

chickenona wrote:I'm surprised we're this far down the page and nobody's mentioned Chris Matthews at all.

"It's interesting. He's post-racial by all appearances. You know, I forgot he was Black tonight for an hour."

Following up a Cusack post with...

chickenona wrote:And Beck's behavior isn't 100% organic

dtmfs wrote:

NickasInSaltLick wrote:[And the day after the Daily Show piece, he played it in its entirety on his show and then admitted, "Yeah, maybe I have been a little over the top" which are ten words Beck has never said in sequence, ever. So, simply for Olbermann having the ability to laugh at himself once in awhile, I've gotta give the #1 douche edge to Beck.

Didn't beck apologize for calling Barack a racist? You'll get no arguments from me on Becks being a douche. Olbermanns always playing the race card and it's fucking old. Other than this incident i've heard the fucker bring up the "racist" tea part BS a few times, the most infamous being when he and fish lipped garafalo appointinted ALL tea partiers racist. It'd be great to see both get the axe.

All the tea partiers are racist.

JakeYonkel wrote:Following up a Cusack post with...

chickenona wrote:And Beck's behavior isn't 100% organic

you beat me to it!

Ugmo wrote:Olbermann - This guy just rants and rants and rants. I'm surprised anyone can follow him at all with that delivery. When I was in America the dude was a sportscaster, and now all of a sudden he's a left-wing demagogue. Weird.

Glenn Beck - The master. This guy just effortlessly riles up the left, and I'm not sure how. The whole thing is clearly an act. If he thought he could get the same ratings riling up the right, he'd do it. The crying, the fawning over Sarah Palin - pure entertainment. Albeit somewhat dangerous entertainment, as I gather he is a news source for a lot of people.

Hannity - cunt.

Rush - cunt.

O'Reilly - somewhat less of a cunt.

Matthews - unbearable. This guy has guests on, asks them five-minute-long questions, and when they try to answer shouts them down for five minutes. I'm going to go with cunt here too.


Whether or not Olbermann was serious with the "racist-baiting", I'm getting kind of tired of how every criticism of Obama is seen by some as thinly veiled racism. Isn't it more likely that the right just hates him because he's a Democrat, the way they hated Clinton?

I agree with everything you said here, I never watch hannity, beck or matthews, I can't make it through any of their shows. O'reilly has the worst rep it seems and i never understood it, sure he can be an ass but not nearly as often as others.

dtmfs wrote:O'reilly has the worst rep it seems and i never understood it, sure he can be an ass but not nearly as often as others.

Bill has mellowed out over the last year or so but he is well deserving of his cunt status. Hannity and Beck have taken Bill's shtick to whole new levels of hate and stupidity so they should share the title #1 Douche.

I'm 100 percent with Ugmo's list also. Watching ANY cable news network is unbearable unless it's a talking head reading the headlines.

Shepherd Smith does rule all, though.

WhiteHouseSubsAC wrote:I'm 100 percent with Ugmo's list also. Watching ANY cable news network is unbearable unless it's a talking head reading the headlines.

Shepherd Smith does rule all, though.

I don't know what it is about Shep that I like. Seems like every time I'm in the lounge at work in the afternoon, he's on. I get this sense of overwhelming contempt from him, as if all the news is beneath him. For some reason that works for me, coming from him.

dtmfs wrote:I already know what's wrong with Beck, he's fucking retarded

Watch what you say of Sarah Palin will come after you with venom.


Can't really watch any of these people, I don't think they pull this out of ideology or principle, but to attract ratings and advertising dollars. It appears to be all shock value in trying to piss people off. If it works and brings in a paycheck, God bless'em but at least admit it for what it is - ratings. I mean if the ratings tanked - ala "McEnroe" on MSNBC - they would get the hook faster than John McEnroe.

tin00can wrote:

WhiteHouseSubsAC wrote:I'm 100 percent with Ugmo's list also. Watching ANY cable news network is unbearable unless it's a talking head reading the headlines.

Shepherd Smith does rule all, though.

I don't know what it is about Shep that I like. Seems like every time I'm in the lounge at work in the afternoon, he's on. I get this sense of overwhelming contempt from him, as if all the news is beneath him. For some reason that works for me, coming from him.

I'll watch Shepard Smith to see what fuck up he will do live on the air.

JakeYonkel wrote:Following up a Cusack post with...

chickenona wrote:And Beck's behavior isn't 100% organic

I just face palmed.

Well, I guess that puts egg on everybody's face and proves Fox doesn't have any douches on the air. Because popularity is good, except when electing presidents and stuff.

tin00can wrote:Well, I guess that puts egg on everybody's face and proves Fox doesn't have any douches on the air. Because popularity is good, except when electing presidents and stuff.

It certainly suggests that the others are so douchey that some viewers had to turn to Fox News for less douchery.

thejuggernaut wrote:

tin00can wrote:Well, I guess that puts egg on everybody's face and proves Fox doesn't have any douches on the air. Because popularity is good, except when electing presidents and stuff.

It certainly suggests that the others are so douchey that some viewers had to turn to Fox News for less douchery.

Or, people just prefer the Fox brand of douchery. But you definitely are correct when it comes to MSNBC; I don't see how anybody could watch Olbermann or Matthews.

Almost anyone on these news networks are just partisan mother fuckers, and they are all douches. There is too much bias in the media. If all the media channels focused on what was right, and making sure things are abiding by the Constitution, we wouldn't have all this useless media. And i don't care what anyone says, Glen Beck is not a Constitutionalist.

I really can't believe you guys think Olbermann and Beck are bigger douchebags than Rush and O'Reilly.

Beck is a fruitcake in a cup on a girl's bicycle basket, but he's spoken true once or twice.
Olbermann can be hot headed, to understate, but he at least seems man enough to admit when he's wrong on occasion.

O'Reilly thinks the terminator was a cartoon and Lady Gaga is the anti-christ, and Rush, well, fuck as far I'm concerned no one is a bigger sack of douche than him.

I don't take Beck the least bit seriously and could actually imagine myself watching his show for entertainment purposes. As far as Olbermann goes, I don't really think he's a douchebag (probably because I agree with him 95 percent of the time), but I couldn't watch his show for more than 2 minutes at a time, because he's completely unwatchable.

Rush is absolutely the biggest douchebag of the lot. O'Reilly's alright, although he can be a douchebag (like when he's lecturing the son of a port authority worker killed on 9/11 about patriotism), but much of the time he's somewhat likeable.

Weird, I just googled Jeremy Glick to find out exactly what his his father worked as, and it turns out there's another guy called Jeremy Glick who supposedly fought the hijackers on Flight 93. Conspiracy? YOU BE THE JUDGE!!!

Ugmo wrote:I don't take Beck the least bit seriously and could actually imagine myself watching his show for entertainment purposes.
I agree 100%. But I'll give credit where credit is due. His piece on the America's Police Force was spot on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPaUsIvzwOc


As far as Olbermann goes, I don't really think he's a douchebag (probably because I agree with him 95 percent of the time), but I couldn't watch his show for more than 2 minutes at a time, because he's completely unwatchable.

Seeing as how he takes about seven minutes to say anything, it almost forces you to watch for more than two minutes, just so you can understand what he's so pissed off about! But I agree with him most of the time as well.


Rush is absolutely the biggest douchebag of the lot. Thank you.O'Reilly's alright, huh?although he can be a douchebag (like when he's lecturing the son of a port authority worker killed on 9/11 about patriotism), but much of the time he's somewhat likeable. I find him likeable in the way I find hard boiled eggs likeable, because there's nothing else to eat.

Weird, I just googled Jeremy Glick to find out exactly what his his father worked as, and it turns out there's another guy called Jeremy Glick who supposedly fought the hijackers on Flight 93. Conspiracy? YOU BE THE JUDGE!!!

Glick saves 93? If I could photoshop like Satan...

Fox News is like the WWE of news. Doesn't surprise me in the least that they get great ratings, because they target the lowest common denominator.

If ratings denoted the quality of programming, something like the PBS News Hour would have the highest ratings, but once you start analyzing things in detail people get bored.