Olbermann Leads with Choreographed Bush Event, Features Milbank Mockin
October 14th, 2005 12:06 AM
Mirroring the same evening's NBC Nightly News (see earlier NewsBusters item), on Thursday night's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann led with the rehearsed meeting between President Bush and U.S. troops serving in Iraq. Olbermann spent considerable time showing and making fun of clips from this event and from a contentious White House press briefing with Scott McClellan before proceeding to…
Video: Olbermann Offers Proof of Fake Bush Terror Alerts
October 13th, 2005 2:23 AM
Tonight on Countdown was the "Nexus of Politics & Terror" segment that Keith Olbermann has been hyping for several days. Olbermann uses far-out conspiracy theories to attempt to make it look like the Bush administration uses fake terror alerts when bad news is reported about them.
Number 3: Olbermann tries to make the comparison: Anti-war marches = a fake terror alert. There have been…
Kitty Kelley Continues to Heap Scorn on the Bush Family
October 10th, 2005 2:44 PM
The New York Times ran an op-ed this morning by controversial biographer Kitty Kelley. As the subject matter was George W. Bush, it should not be surprising that this article had nothing positive to say about the president:“SECRECY has been perhaps the most consistent trait of the George W. Bush presidency. Whether it involves refusing to provide the names of oil executives who advised Vice…
