Ann Coulter curb stomps Olbermann

[Beardo]

Even better than Jon whining about lower thirds on cable news but ultimately not very impressive since curb stomping Keith Olbermann is the equivalent of giving a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow a wedgie.

Fortunately, we have Keith Olbermann to point out that Rush Limbaugh did not accurately quote the preamble to the Constitution in his CPAC speech last weekend. I'm not sure what scam Olbermann imagined Rush was trying to put over on the American people by saying conservatives believed in the "preamble to the Constitution" and then quoting words from the Declaration of Independence -- but Olbermann put an end to that cruel deception!

These small-time opportunities to show off by correcting someone else's teeny-tiny mistakes are the lifeblood of Olbermann's MSNBC show, "Countdown." Olbermann is no more capable of not correcting Rep. Charlie Rangel when he said "inferred," but meant "implied," than an obsessive compulsive could pass a sink without washing his hands. There is utterly no purpose to these lame "gotchas," except that Olbermann is so desperately insecure that he is willing to waste valuable airtime in order to convince other status-conscious idiots that he is, like, scary-smart. Olbermann relentlessly attacked low-level Bush administration employee Monica Goodling for not going to a name-dropping college, saying -- approximately 1 million times -- that she got her law degree "by sending 100 box tops to Religious Lunatic University."

I would venture to say that the students at Goodling's law school at Regent University are far more impressive than those at the Cornell agriculture school -- the land-grant, non-Ivy League school Keith attended. I wouldn't mention it, except that Olbermann savages anyone who didn't go to an impressive college. As it happens, he didn't go to an impressive college, either.

If you've ever watched any three nights of his show, you know that Olbermann went to Cornell. But he always forgets to mention that he went to the school that offers classes in milking and bovine management.

Indeed, Keith is constantly lying about his nonexistent "Ivy League" education, boasting to Playboy magazine, for example: "My Ivy League education taught me how to cut corners, skim books and take an idea and write 15 pages on it, and also how to work all day at the Cornell radio station and never actually go to class."

Except Keith didn't go to the Ivy League Cornell; he went to the Old MacDonald Cornell. The real Cornell, the School of Arts and Sciences (average SAT: 1,325; acceptance rate: 1 in 6 applicants), is the only Ivy League school at Cornell and the only one that grants a Bachelor of Arts degree. Keith went to an affiliated state college at Cornell, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (average SAT: about that of pulling guards at the University of South Carolina; acceptance rate: 1 of every 1.01 applicants).

Olbermann's incessant lying about having an "Ivy League education" when he went to the non-Ivy League ag school at Cornell would be like a graduate of the Yale locksmithing school boasting about being a "Yale man." Among the graduates of the Ivy League Cornell are Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Wolfowitz, E.B. White, Sanford I. Weill, Floyd Abrams, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Ginsburg, Janet Reno, Henry Heimlich and Harold Bloom. Graduates of the ag school include David LeNeveu of the Anaheim Ducks, Mitch Carefoot of the Phoenix RoadRunners, Darren Eliot, former professional hockey player, and Joe Nieuwendyk, multiple Stanley Cup winner.

One begins to understand why Harvard students threw a chicken on the ice during Cornell's famous rout of Harvard at a 1973 hockey game. If you actually want to pursue a career related to agriculture, there is no better school than the Cornell ag school. I have nothing but admiration for the farmers and aspiring veterinarians at the ag school. They didn't go there just to have "Cornell" on their resumes.

In addition to the farmers, there are some smart kids who go to the ag school -- as there are at all state universities. But most people who majored in "communications" at an ag school don't act like Marshall Scholars or go around mocking graduates of Regent University Law School.

The sort of insecurity that would force you to always say "trebled" instead of "tripled" could only come from a communications major with massive status anxiety, like Keith. Without even looking it up, I am confident that Harvard, Yale and Princeton do not offer degrees in "communications." I know there is no "communications" major at the Ivy League Cornell.

"Communications" is a major, along with "recreation science," most commonly associated with linemen at USC. But at least the linemen can throw a football, which Keith cannot because his mother decided he was not physically robust enough to play outdoors as a child.

It may seem cruel to reveal the true college of someone who already wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worried that he's a fraud. But I believe that by pointing out that Olbermann actually is a fraud, I am liberating him.

You may not realize it now, Keith, but you will look back on this day and say, "That was the best thing that ever happened to me!" Finally, you can stop pretending that you went to the hard-to-get-into Cornell.

Now you won't have to quickly change the subject whenever people idly remark that they didn't know it was possible to major in "communications" at an Ivy League school. No longer will you have to aggressively bring up Cornell when it has nothing to do with the conversation. Relax, Keith. Now you can let people like you for you.

[Cheebs]

 

[Human Snorenado]

Some random dude curbstomps Ann Coulter's asshole while reciting the Communist Manifesto.  This really happened.

[Eric P]

yeah, rush slipped up.

there are other things to concern yourself with rather than an OBVIOUS slip here.

[AdmiralViscen]

Beardo

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=28420.0

I eat a shoe if the stimulus doesn't pass and we lose 500K jobs for 6 months straight.

One more month to go!

[TakingBackSunday]

oh wow, a bitch "owns" and blowhard.  Look at me, caring.

[Kestastrophe]

Olbernmann is a self righteous douchebag (and was owned), but Coulter  . Even conservatives disown here due to her attention whoring.

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[Cheebs]

I bet Beardo loves Rush.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

On the off chance that anybody here went to Cornell, they could simply search their Alumni Directory and straighten this whole thing out.

I can't do that, but I can wonder why its a little weird that Cornell let Olbermann give a commencement speech 10 years ago and claimed he was a graduate of their communications program.  Would Cornell be complicit in this scam? 

He then apparently lied to a bunch of graduates with a bunch of phony baloney anecdotes about his time at school there.  What a jerk-a-lerk.

and here he is in an interview with the Cornell newspaper where he goes and openly admits going to the Agriculture and Life Arts school, while sucking at it because he spent too much time at the radio station and student media that was incorporated into the big Cornell school.  What a fraud.

[Cheebs]

He said this:

Poor Annie has completely lost it. Cornell diplomas don't make any reference to individual college or major. They're Cornell diplomas. Mine looks exactly like hers, only if she was an out-of-stater she probably paid 8-10 times what I did for mine. And the premise of the University is that anybody can take almost any course. Nearly half of mine were in "her" Arts College. And this is the first time since I went there in 1975 that I've ever seen a Cornellian rag on all the other colleges. It's a long way to go just to rationalize Limbaugh not knowing the Constitution from the Declaration of Independence.

[ToxicAdam]

Buckley and Vidal were the voices of opposing sides 40 years ago. Now it's Rush and Olbermann. Idiocracy, indeed.

[Eric P]

i'd like to Gore Vidal

if you know what i mean

[Cheebs]

Buckley and Vidal were the voices of opposing sides 40 years ago. Now it's Rush and Olbermann. Idiocracy, indeed.

Olbermann drives me nuts. I don't find the appeal of his show. It's the same thing over and over.

[Tauntaun]

i'd like to Gore Vidal

if you know what i mean

I'm feelin you. 

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[Dickie Dee]

I'm not even that big a fan of Olbermann, but can anyone name a prominent conservative pundit who's actually less-loathsome out of that entire rouges gallery? Anyone?

[Cheebs]

I'm not even that big a fan of Olbermann, but can anyone name a prominent conservative pundit who's actually less-loathsome out of that entire rouges gallery? Anyone?

No because he is actually well informed. He annoys me and acts high and mighty holier than thou but he isn't stupid.

[Human Snorenado]

I'm not even that big a fan of Olbermann, but can anyone name a prominent conservative pundit who's actually less-loathsome out of that entire rouges gallery? Anyone?

No because he is actually well informed. He annoys me and acts high and mighty holier than thou but he isn't stupid.

I disagree.  Plenty of conservative pundits and flapping heads are well informed, they just choose to ignore what's going on in favor of yelling about tax cuts and crippling our grandchildren with debt.

[Phoenix Dark]

obligatory "fuck keith olbermann"

[huckleberry]

Buckley and Vidal were the voices of opposing sides 40 years ago. Now it's Rush and Olbermann. Idiocracy, indeed.

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  Gore Vidal

[Barry Egan]

Some random dude curbstomps Ann Coulter's asshole while reciting the Communist Manifesto.  This really happened.

I would LOVE for this to be true.  What makes you confident?

edit: ok, after reading the whole thing...you're just kidding right? there's no way this happened

[Human Snorenado]

Some random dude curbstomps Ann Coulter's asshole while reciting the Communist Manifesto.  This really happened.

I would LOVE for this to be true.  What makes you confident?

edit: ok, after reading the whole thing...you're just kidding right? there's no way this happened

Of course it happened! 

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It didn't happen. 

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But wouldn't it be awesome if it did?

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[Barry Egan]

 :'(  I wanted to believe

[Cheebs]

I was looking at some recent Gore Vidal stuff. He is a conspiracy theorist who thinks Bush stole the 2004 election with Diebold. 

[Brehvolution]

[AdmiralViscen]

Olbermann

EB's objectivity

Someone change title to Beardo's Ultimate Backfire

[treythemovie]

The frustrating thing about Olbermann is, like Michael Moore, I agree on principal with him quite often.  But, like Moore, it's the presentation and the personality and the one-sidedness of it all that muddies up whatever support I'd like to give them.

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37. Keith Olbermann

Charges: The crazy man’s Howard Beale, Olbermann is an infuriating conundrum—a person who adopts mostly correct positions for mostly erroneous reasons. Olbermann has an uncanny ability to find the obtusest angle on any issue, delivering glancing blows to wide open targets. Perhaps this is why Olbermann only argues with various cameras, reserving interviews for Newsweek sycophants whose main role on “Countdown” is to listen to a series of uncomfortably leading yes or no questions and reply to each, “that’s right, Keith.” He’s been wearing out the impact of his “special comments” like a cheap sex doll for the ratings, rapidly diminishing their credibility by applying the same outraged, spluttering, accusatory tone to his uniquely unbearable all-caps missives, whether directed at White House war criminals or Clinton campaign PR hacks. Largely false accusations of anti-Hillary bias in the media found their mark with Keith, who wildly overreacted to relatively minor Clinton slights, while engaging in freakish logical contortions to justify Obama’s apparent deficiencies, despite sad pretenses to objectivity. Somehow, manages to seem dykier than Rachael Maddow.

Exhibit A: “I don’t vote…it's the only thing I can do that suggests even that I don't have a horse in the race."

Sentence: Obama loses in 2012 by one vote.

http://www.buffalobeast.com.nyud.net/134/50mostloathsome2008-p1.html

Still, even Olbermann is leagues above the dumbass that is Coulter

[Barry Egan]

Somehow, manages to seem dykier than Rachael Maddow.

[ToxicAdam]

Olbermann is shacked up with a chick that he is almost 30 years older than? Not a big surprise there.

[FlameOfCallandor]

 

Olbermann is the kind of guy who shows up at your party, demands to smoke your weed, and then never passes it back to you, because he’s Keith Olbermann.