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Posts Tagged ‘Keith Olbermann’

Good Feeling’s Gone

By Denis Campbell • Aug 7th, 2008 • Category: Features

This line was uttered by Marlin the Daddy clownfish searching for his son in the film ‘Finding Nemo’ when he comes to the realisation that the light in the depths of the ocean he has been dreamily following is the lure of an Anglerfish. Barack Obama must feel the same way when a YouTube video of [...]



Thank You Keith Olbermann for Both Inciting Right and Left

By Denis Campbell • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Reflections

Talking ‘With’ Rather Than ‘At’ Each Other on the Campaign Trail
This e-magazine had its busiest day ever last week by mentioning one man’s name – MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. I happen to like the guy and his work even if he periodically goes off the emotional deep end. Keith is mostly honest, open and brutal and [...]



Keith Olbermann The Left’s Rottweiler

By Denis Campbell • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Features, Politics

Keith is my kind of guy. Creative, completely unmanageable, he says what he feels in the moment and wears his outrage like his very large heart on his 6’ 3” tall sleeve. Physically imposing, he has spent much of the last year teaching the left that if you’re in a gunfight, you’d better bring along [...]



McCain’s Straight Talk Express Flipped Then Flopped

By Denis Campbell • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Features, Politics

When will the Dems learn to that bringing a knife to gun fight is not very smart? When will they learn to play the refs better (the media) for the free ride John McCain continues to get whilst Obama supports the FISA bill only to catch the corporate thieves in criminal liability when elected and [...]



Crying with the Saints

By Denis Campbell • Jun 14th, 2008 • Category: Features

“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – you know that only the good die young.” – Billy Joel.
As I sat for hours searching for yet more words to express the magnitude of the deeply personal loss I feel of Tim Russert, the tears just will not stop flowing. Every clip [...]



Mission Accomplished 5 Years Later…

By Denis Campbell • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

On 1 May 2003, President Bush stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier in San Diego in front of 5,000 soldiers and Declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” Mission Accomplished said the banner behind their Commander in Chief. Every night MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann signs off his Countdown show by saying “That’s it [...]