Comments on: Olberman Emerges as Our Generation’s Edward R. Murrow http://watchdogmilwaukee.com/jim/2006/olberman-emerges-as-our-generations-edward-r-murrow/ Your Progressive Source for Local Opinions and Insightful Commentary Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:51:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jim McGuigan http://watchdogmilwaukee.com/jim/2006/olberman-emerges-as-our-generations-edward-r-murrow/#comment-9153 Jim McGuigan Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:07:09 +0000 http://watchdogmilwaukee.com/blog/jim/2006/olberman-emerges-as-our-generations-edward-r-murrow/#comment-9153 Reynolds hoisted himself as being the moral pinnacle that others should aspire to -- much like Palin has presented herself. And like Palin whose problems with Troopergate and her own daughter who got pregnant out of wedlock despite her preaching about abstinence training, Reynolds has his own twisted sense of right and wrong. I cannot speak to Jack's choice of words but I share his belief that the most egregious profanity is the deception that the Republican party has pulled on the American public. Reynolds hoisted himself as being the moral pinnacle that others should aspire to — much like Palin has presented herself. And like Palin whose problems with Troopergate and her own daughter who got pregnant out of wedlock despite her preaching about abstinence training, Reynolds has his own twisted sense of right and wrong.

I cannot speak to Jack’s choice of words but I share his belief that the most egregious profanity is the deception that the Republican party has pulled on the American public.

]]> By: Christopher Thomas http://watchdogmilwaukee.com/jim/2006/olberman-emerges-as-our-generations-edward-r-murrow/#comment-9150 Christopher Thomas Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:08:45 +0000 http://watchdogmilwaukee.com/blog/jim/2006/olberman-emerges-as-our-generations-edward-r-murrow/#comment-9150 I love the way you try to give yourself the pat on the back there: "Here at Watchdog Milwaukee we try to stay true to the hard edge that legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow loved to report on." Yes, here at Watchdog where you post about tom reynolds anal probing his children, where Jack jerks off one profanity after the next, and where Les likes to pretent he's not a socialist. Here at watchdog, where 99% of the issues and candidates you back are on the left. Murrow loved the truth and the power of language; he managed to speak the truth without turning himself into a talking head because he was mostly neutral--one of the last in the once great tradition of journalism. I wonder why you think Obermann is so brave? Is it beacuse he might challenge the beliefs of his lefty audience? How does he push them? What Murrow could do was speak to a broad and diverse audience which trusted him. Does Obermann do this? Murrow never demonstrated the ego or self-posessed nature of Obermann. Like Limbaugh, Hanity, Belling, Sykes and the rest, Obermann's great flaw is that while each has the words to speak to their audience, they are sorely unable to gain the trust of the larger American mind. Murrow is legend and myth, Oberman, like Hanity and the rest, is transient, like dust. And while we're all thinking of the great one--whose voice we sorely need today--I wonder what he might have made of the fairness doctrine? Now there's a point I'm sure Obermann and Mc Carthy would agree on. I love the way you try to give yourself the pat on the back there: “Here at Watchdog Milwaukee we try to stay true to the hard edge that legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow loved to report on.” Yes, here at Watchdog where you post about tom reynolds anal probing his children, where Jack jerks off one profanity after the next, and where Les likes to pretent he’s not a socialist. Here at watchdog, where 99% of the issues and candidates you back are on the left. Murrow loved the truth and the power of language; he managed to speak the truth without turning himself into a talking head because he was mostly neutral–one of the last in the once great tradition of journalism.

I wonder why you think Obermann is so brave? Is it beacuse he might challenge the beliefs of his lefty audience? How does he push them? What Murrow could do was speak to a broad and diverse audience which trusted him. Does Obermann do this? Murrow never demonstrated the ego or self-posessed nature of Obermann. Like Limbaugh, Hanity, Belling, Sykes and the rest, Obermann’s great flaw is that while each has the words to speak to their audience, they are sorely unable to gain the trust of the larger American mind. Murrow is legend and myth, Oberman, like Hanity and the rest, is transient, like dust.

And while we’re all thinking of the great one–whose voice we sorely need today–I wonder what he might have made of the fairness doctrine? Now there’s a point I’m sure Obermann and Mc Carthy would agree on.

]]> By: Uncle Harley http://watchdogmilwaukee.com/jim/2006/olberman-emerges-as-our-generations-edward-r-murrow/#comment-9146 Uncle Harley Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:51:26 +0000 http://watchdogmilwaukee.com/blog/jim/2006/olberman-emerges-as-our-generations-edward-r-murrow/#comment-9146 Keith Olbermann reprises himself in his 09-10-08 "Special Comment" titled, "Republicans have hijacked 9/11". http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=142586513&blogID=432015707 Keith Olbermann reprises himself in his 09-10-08 “Special Comment” titled, “Republicans have hijacked 9/11″.

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