Apparently Andy McCarthy has ended his birth certificate fetish and conceded that President Obama is, in fact, and American, and is now kvetching because Keith Olbermann was part of the Super Bowl coverage.
Got that straight? After years of Republicans ridiculing Olbermann’s Countdown because he is nothing but a washed up sportscaster, McCarthy is pissy because Olbermann was broadcasting… a sporting event.
Keith
"I’m outraged, therefore I am". If these folks didn’t have something to be upset about, they’d evaporate.
EDIT: I would like to know how he felt about Rush Limbaugh being in the booth for Monday Night Football
JenJen
Ol’ Andy lost me right in the first paragraph, when he "excepted" Al Michaels and John Madden from NBC’s "awful" coverage.
sgwhiteinfla
What an idiotic and contradictory phrase. First he admits that KO was good at ESPN, then he presumes to speak for "a lot of the audience", then he admits he doesn’t even like football. Its too easy to mock these dumbasses nowadays. The Corner is now the Sarah Palin of political commentary. No need to embellish their words, just expose them and enjoy the show
Zifnab25
I’m still waiting to hear the study that links giving a damn about the RW noise machine and having a stroke. This much red faced screaming must have a negative effect on blood pressure or heart condition or something.
amorphous
Sounds like somebody had the Steelers and the under.
Here you go, Andy.
TenguPhule
Another McCarthy, another Red Scare.
How long until Colter begins fellating him?
Laura W
(Obama is, in fact, an American)
I was just about to accuse you of outsourcing your proofreading.
lane
Thank you. The image has put me off my feed. For the next month or so.
Must. Scrub. Brain. with. Brillo.
R-Jud
@TenguPhule:
Maybe it’s already happened?
BDeevDad
I’m calling these guys out as not real sports fans since Olbermann has been doing Sunday Night Football all year. Where were they in September or especially Sunday, November 2.
ricky
How long until Colter begins fellating him?
What, and risk staining the one black cocktail dress she owns?
TheFountainHead
My boss was ranting about this very thing this morning….and when I pointed out to him that that’s what Keith Olbermann has been doing since long before he was pissing of conservatives, he still didn’t understand why Matt Lauer and Obama were allowed to have their little interview right before the Superbowl.
Oh, and incidentally Hugh Hewitt agrees with me about Daschle. So either I need to go put a bullet between my eyes, or the people who think Daschle shouldn’t be confirmed over the tax issue really ARE fucking nuts.
ricky
"I’m calling these guys out as not real sports fans since Olbermann has been doing Sunday Night Football all year. "
To continue on my Rush misquotes "A lot of people in the media are rooting for a liberal commentator to succeed."
Poopyman
My coworkers too were bitching about having Olbermann on the SB coverage. I just don’t have the energy to push back on these morans any more.
I think I strongly relate to that Careerbuilder commercial last night.
Napoleon
I am more then half way through Thomas Frank’s the Wrecking Crew, which I really like, and he does a great cataloging of the long history how the right will flip on a dime on an issue.
ricky
Having been following Cole’s Steeler fixation for a while
I am surprised to see that many readers have not cited as their favorite moment in the game the interview of Steeler owner Dan Rooney whose first comment was "I want to thank President Obama and the rest of Steeler nation."
I wonder if Jerry Jones will reevaluate which black guys he opens up his checkbook for.
comrade rawshark
And he wouldn’t talk politics when Dan Patrick baited him. You can’t win.
Maus
You sound surprised that they live to be in the media sunshine. It’s also exclusively how some of them make a living.
J.
I’ll take Olbermann over any of those clowns over on FOX. Maybe next year Andy should try doing six hours of pre-game coverage — and see what the blogosphere has to say.
GSD
Thish ish a shlap in the fashe.
-Drunken Joe Namath
Bootlegger
@J.: Yes, how will Faux News respond? A Hannity/Wallace/Morris 3-way? Coulter and the Faux News Blondes dancing on a pole at halftime? Maybe they will interview President Obama and ask him a gotcha question about how to attack the zone blitz. Or, they’ll interview Palin and ask her which team has the cuter uniforms. The possibilities are endless!
Josh Hueco
@Bootlegger:
If we’re going to do that, then Commissioner Goodell needs to immediately relocate two of the league’s best franchises to Kenya and Mexico so in 2010 we can have an all-furriner Super Bowl, which will then trigger a Cat Five Wingtard Head Explosion Event.
Charity
Not enough Olbermann and Patrick from what I saw. I wanted my Big Show Redux!
Brian J
Interestingly enough, I felt it was sort of inappropriate to have Olbermann on last night, but my rabidly right-wing friend from work, who claims watching MNSBC makes him sick, didn’t seem to mind. It’s not that I expected him to act inappropriately. Instead, it’s that, as political as I am, there are places when politics should not be. I think sports is usually one of them, and as much as I like Olbermann, he’s easily a partisan figure in journalism.
Of course, I don’t watch football, so I don’t really have much exposure to the announcers. If most people are okay with Olbermann annoucing, then I really can’t complain, particularly since he seems to be behaving himself.
AnneLaurie
You’ve got it backwards. The Wingnut Welfare boyz are like a dog’s anal glands: if the foul secretions aren’t squeezed out on a regular basis, they get inflamed and dangerous. And you can tell things are going badly when the animal starts yowling and dragging its butt.
passerby
A grown man whining. It should be disgraceful but in fact, it’s fast becoming a great american pastime.
He’s probably seeking attention so that he can feel successful. No one wants to be irrelevant. Sad.
Bubblegum Tate
I just posted this link in another thread, but now that I’d gone through the comments, I like it even more. A whole lot of "The refs handed the game to the Steelers, just like the media handed the “presidency” to B. Hussein al-Obama – plain and simple. What a shame." (actual, unmodified quote) and assorted "screw you, Dan Rooney!" asshurtedness over there. Good times.
ricky
Well, if our side isn’t focused on Dan Rooney thanking President Obama and the rest of the Steeler nation for their support, the wingers are. I followed Bubblegum’s link and picked up this comment. (To those familiar with my fingerwork, I did not type anything in the blockquote.)
Yep. We all know real Americans than God almighty for football outcomes. Atheists thank Presidents for being fans.
jrosen
"How long until Colter begins fellating him?
What, and risk staining the one black cocktail dress she owns?"
Is that really a risk? I mean, how good can she be?
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
sHe’s got one, so she knows what to do with it?
Charity
@Brian J: Interestingly enough, I felt it was sort of inappropriate to have Olbermann on last night, but my rabidly right-wing friend from work, who claims watching MNSBC makes him sick, didn’t seem to mind. It’s not that I expected him to act inappropriately. Instead, it’s that, as political as I am, there are places when politics should not be. I think sports is usually one of them, and as much as I like Olbermann, he’s easily a partisan figure in journalism.
But Olbermann really is good about separating his political stuff and the football. All year this year I heard him make ONE political-based joke, and that was a silly "I can see Russia from here" thing.