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Posted September 29,
2005
MSNBC's
Olbermann Implies Limbaugh is "Rude, Vile Pig"
 Keith
Olbermann: "And Christmas is our tenuous segue from that story
to our nightly romp through the self-indulgent world of
entertainment and celebrity, that which we call 'Keeping Tabs.'
Not just Christmas but the newest high-priced item available in
the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalogue, Sir Elton John. That's
right. Along with the $20,000 personal photo booth, the $200,000
rideable toy train set, and the Lexus Hybrid for $65,000, your own
personal 90-minute Elton John concert is available. You and 499
friends can be entertained by the rocker for a mere million and a
half, all of which goes to Elton's AIDS foundation. That would be
$3,000 a person, by the way. But, for a limited time, we here at
Countdown can offer you this free no-obligation preview."
Elton John clip
#1, shouting at crowd: "Rude, vile pig! You know what that
means? Rude, vile pig! All of you!"
John clip #2: "Pig! Pig!"
Olbermann, shouting and pumping his fists: "Woohoo! He's
doing 'Rude Vile Pig'! Light some matches! Maybe he'll sing it
again! Rude, vile pig! Rude, vile pig!"
Olbermann, after quickly reassembling his composure: "Which
brings us to the latest on the Rush Limbaugh investigation. The
assistant state's attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida, is
asking the courts there to let him talk to Limbaugh's doctors in
an effort to expedite the investigation, he says, and out of an
abundance of caution. That actually translates as, 'They want to
ask the doctors if the radio host is guilty of doctor shopping,'
getting a lot of prescriptions for a lot of pain killers from a
lot of different physicians. If so, it would be a blockbuster
story."
-- Keith Olbermann, Countdown, MSNBC, Sept. 28, 2005
Posted September 27,
2005
Dan Rather
Defends Bush Guard Story as "Accurate"
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Rather: "One supporting pillar of the story, albeit an
important one, one supporting pillar was brought into question. To
this day no one has proven whether it was what it purported to be
or not. In terms of [unintelligible "myself"?] it was 'he stuck by
the story,' I stuck by the story because I believed in it. 'He
stuck with his people.' Listen I've made nearly every mistake in
the book. But my attitude when we go into stories, we go into them
together, we ride through whatever happened and we come out the
other end together. You know, I didn't give up on my people, our
people, I didn't and I won't." [Applause]
Marvin Kalb:
"Dan, thank you. You said, I believe you just said that you think
the story is accurate."
Rather: "The story is accurate."
-- Exchange between Dan Rather and Marvin Kalb at the National
Press Club, broadcast by C-SPAN, Sept. 26, 2005
Posted September 22,
2005
CNN's Jack
Cafferty Smears Rep. Tom DeLay with "Indictment" Claim
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Blitzer:
"All right. Tom Delay says there’s no pork, everything is
essential. I don’t know if you heard him say that?"
Jack Cafferty:
"Has he been indicted yet?"
Blitzer, chuckling:
"Well, we’ll leave that alone. Jack Cafferty, thank you very
much."
-- Exchange between CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty, The
Situation Room, Sept. 21, 2005.
Posted September 21,
2005
CBS
Sarcastically Criticizes President Bush on New Orleans' Recovery
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CBS reporter Sharyn Alfonsi:
"Speaking inside an air-conditioned tent in Gulfport, Mississippi,
President Bush said he's impressed with the progress along the
Gulf Coast. Later, he toured a Folgers plant [video of Bush
holding can of coffee] in Louisiana. But small business owners say
this kind of progress is the exception. This is the reality [video
of a row of damaged and abandoned store fronts]. After five visits
in three weeks, they want the President to wake up and smell the
coffee [more video of Bush, with a sweat-soaked shirt (see still
shot to right) at the coffee plant]."
Arly Questa, restaurant owner, in front of her bar:
"Hang out, no air-conditioning, eat some MRE's every day, and then
you might really understand what it's been like down here in New
Orleans."
Alfonsi:
"Desperate?"
Questa:
"Yes, very."
-- CBS Evening News, Sept. 20, 2005
Posted September 20,
2005
Ted Turner
Ruminates on Communist North Korea
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 Ted Turner:
"Let’s give 'em a break. Give 'em a break And besides, even
if they do -- even if they do threaten us again, the threat is
non-existent to the United States. They can't threaten us. I mean,
it's like a flea attacking an elephant."
Wolf Blitzer:
"What about those ground-to-ground missiles that they have, and
the CIA -- "
Turner: "They can't reach us."
Blitzer: "Well, they can reach Japan. They can reach South
Korea. They can reach a lot of our allies -- "
Turner: "They can't reach the USA, and we can pound them into,
into oblivion in 24 hours."
Blitzer: "But, you don't want to get, you don’t want to get to
that. There are some estimates, by the way, that they could reach
Alaska."
Turner: "Well, what, the Aleutian Islands? There's nothing up
there but a few sea lions."
-- Exchange between CNN Founder Ted Turner and CNN's Wolf Blitzer,
The Situation Room, CNN, Sept. 19, 2005
Posted September 14,
2005
CNN's Brown
Grills MRC's Bozell on Katrina and Racism
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 Aaron Brown:
"Brent, just dealing with the column you wrote on the 7th, the
other day, to me, a fair reading of the column is that you don't
want us to talk about race at all, probably class at all, but
surely not race at all, as it may or may not relate to people's
perceptions of the relief effort."
Brent Bozell: "Well, I think the problem is that these perceptions
-- which are wholly false -- are being created on the one hand by
demagogues, and on the other hand, by some in the media who are
giving the demagogues a hearing on this. The fact of the matter is
that two-thirds of New Orleans is black. Katrina didn't aim for
that, nor was the federal relief response, as inadequate as it
was, inadequate because they were blacks, you know. In 1992,
Hurricane Andrew decimated the East Coast. The response from the
federal government was terrible. It was mostly whites. Was that
racism?"
Brown: "You've decided, which is absolutely your right,
that there is no, there is no truth to anyone's belief that race
is somehow involved in how people were treated in the week after
the hurricane. Fair enough. I don't disagree with that. But
perception is powerful and perception is important, and what we
know from polls is that black Americans do look at this
differently than white Americans as they look at a lot of things
differently from white America."
Bozell: "And, Aaron, perception is dangerous if it's not
rooted in reality, which is my point. If anyone had come forward
in the last 15 days with any tangible proof to back up the
suggestion that there may have been racism at place, I'd like to
hear it, and then report it. But there's no evidence. It's just
this accusation that's being thrown out. What I see is whites and
blacks helping each other in New Orleans. I don't see any racism."
-- Aaron Brown and Brent Bozell, NewsNight, CNN, Sept. 13, 2005
Posted September 12,
2005
Bush "is a
moron! ... Cheney is evil!"
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"Because that's
typical, it's typical from this moronic administration that I'm
sick of. The President is a moron! I'm saying it. I don't care.
He's an idiot. Cheney is evil. I'm sick of, impeach them, get them
out! I hate them! I hate them. Get them out. They got to go!"
-- Actress Kathy Griffin, Weekends at the DL, Comedy Central,
Sept. 10, 2005
Posted September 8,
2005
Olbermann Draws Parallel Between Pro-Slavery
Voters and Bush Supporters
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In 1864, "... 45
percent of all voters still voted against the Republican, Abraham
Lincoln, and for the Democrat, George McClellan. McClellan, whose
campaign platform consisted entirely of promising to immediately
end the war, let the South secede, and let slavery continue there,
45 percent, 1.8 million out of 4 million voters said yes to that.
"Our third story in
the Countdown: Well, maybe it isn't impossible to re-create the
mindset of the national politics of the year 1864 [graphic of
President Bush emerges on screen]. The latest Gallup poll results
are in. Only 10 percent of Democrats give the President a positive
rating for his response to the hurricane, and only 10 percent of
Republicans give the President a negative rating for his response
to the hurricane. Taken as a whole, 10 percent of the country
thinks Mr. Bush did great, 25 percent good, 21 percent neither
good nor bad, 18 percent bad, 24 percent terrible. Cut out the
middle, that's 35 percent good or great ...."
-- Keith Olbermann, Countdown, MSNBC, Sept. 7, 2005
Posted September 6,
2005
CBS's Giles Hurls Insults at Bush Over Hurricane
Relief
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Nancy Giles:
"The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's
the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost.
An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New
Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40
percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the
highest poverty rate of any state. We've repeatedly given tax
cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American
citizens to basically fend for themselves."
George W. Bush, at the airport in Florida: "This is a
storm that's going to require immediate action now."
Giles: "Once again, a day late and a dollar short, words
of wisdom from our President. And once again, Bush finds the
photo op [matching pictures shown]: Some black folks to hug,
some white men to bond with. He flies over the messy parts of
New Orleans, waves and leaves. The President has put himself at
risk by visiting the troops in Iraq, but didn't venture anywhere
near the Superdome or the convention center, where thousands of
victims, mostly black and poor, needed to see that he gave a
damn."
-- Commentator Nancy Giles, CBS News Sunday Morning,
Sept. 4, 2005
Posted September 6,
2005
NPR's Totenberg Blames Tax Cuts for Severity of
Hurricane Fallout
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Nina Totenberg:
"For years, we have cut our taxes, cut our taxes and let the
infrastructure throughout the country go and this is just the
first of a number of other crumbling things that are going to
happen to us."
Charles Krauthammer: "You must be kidding here."
Totenberg: "I’m not kidding."
-- NPR's Nina Totenberg in exchange with columnist Charles
Krauthammer, Inside Washington, Sept. 4, 2005
Posted September 2,
2005
CNN's Jack Cafferty Slams Govt. Response to
Hurricane Damage
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"The question this
hour is: 'How would you rate the response of the federal
government to Hurricane Katrina?' I got to tell you something. We
got five or six hundred letters before the show even went on the
air. No one, no one says the federal government is doing a good
job in handling one of the most atrocious and embarrassing and far
reaching and calamitous things that has come along in this country
in my lifetime. I'm 62. I remember the riots in Watts, I remember
the earthquake in San Francisco, I remember a lot of things. I
have never, ever seen anything as badly bungled and poorly handled
as this situation in New Orleans. Where the hell is the water for
these people? Why can't sandwiches be dropped to those people that
are in that Superdome down there? I mean, what is, this is
Thursday. This is Thursday. This storm happened five days ago.
It's a disgrace. And don't think the world isn't watching. This is
the government the taxpayers are paying for and it's fallen right
flat on its face, as far as I can see in the way it's handled this
thing."
-- Jack Cafferty, The Situation Room, CNN, Sept. 1, 2005
Posted September 2,
2005
Hurricane Katrina as Destructive as the Great
Depression?
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"Hurricane Katrina
is perhaps the most economically destructive event in American
history since the Great Depression, the last time the country
responded with unprecedented sweeping changes to help the least
fortunate. Today may demand an equal effort."
-- Reporter Chris Cuomo, ABC Special, Aug. 31, 2005
Posted August 22,
2005
MSNBC's Olbermann Smears the MRC, Bozell
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"Time for Countdown's list
of today's nominees to the coveted title of 'Worst Person in the
World.' There's just two tonight. A very close second, Brent
Bozell -- yeah, the wacky guy from that Media Research Center scam
-- accused me of distortion for having said that Rush Limbaugh had
said on air, quote, 'Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story
is nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it
that's real.' The only person distorting as usual is Bozell.
Limbaugh said it on the air on August 15th. We have the
transcript. Nothing in the transcript mitigates what he said. I'll
put it online over the weekend. So, Bozell is close, but the
winner is Limbaugh for saying, 'I never said this,' when, of
course, he sure did, especially considering the line comparing
Sheehan to Burkett was a featured quote on his Web site for his
paying subscribers until it was mysteriously scrubbed off. And
having now added about Sheehan's dead son, quote, 'I'm leery of
even having to express sympathy. We all lose things.' Like your
career, Rush. You're finished, credibility spent. Get lost! Rush
Limbaugh, once again, today's 'Worst Person in the World!'"
-- Keith Olbermann, Countdown, MSNBC, August 19, 2005
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