You see, President Obama is supposed to be the only minority who is allowed to address — and inspire — the American people (not to mention the fact that Jindal’s politics are all wrong, making him the worst possible kind of minority).
Listen to the clip below and you’ll hear Keith Olbermann [Someone on the set; it sounds like KO to me] mutter “Oh, God,” as Jindal walks out to give his response to Obama’s fake State of the Union address.
Olbermann, unsurprisingly, isn’t a big fan of Jindal, nor of the idea of Republicans actually getting a chance to speak in public at all (let alone in response to his beloved Dear Leader’s big national address).
Just don’t question his obvious objectivity — he’s a BIG, OBJECTIVE man in BIG, OBJECTIVE media, after all (don’t look at the ratings; just ask him!)
I don't know if that's Olbermann's voice
bk Wednesday, February 25th at 8:05AM EST (link)It could be anyone on the set.
Not that it distracts from your point that MSNBC is completely in the tank for Obama.
Fair nuff
Jeff Emanuel Wednesday, February 25th at 8:06AM EST (link)Sounds like him to me
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Did MSNBC and other networks have sound problems?
Brian Hibbert Wednesday, February 25th at 8:07AM EST (link)I watched on ABC and the sound on Jindal’s speech kept dropping out. It was rather irritating and I was wondering if it was a problem with one network or a general issue.
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Watched it on FNC, same thing. NT
USNJIMRET Wednesday, February 25th at 8:12AM EST (link)Some audience is better than no audience
EagleWatcher Wednesday, February 25th at 8:41AM EST (link)MSNBC has found that it can get an audience by scooping up all the bottom feeders on the Left and feeding them plenty of rancid red meat.
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I would have selected Coburn for the response
willtenn Wednesday, February 25th at 9:53AM EST (link)Let me preface by stating first the obvious, MSNBC is a joke and nothing more than a network press spokesperson for the administration and arguably does a better job than Robert Gibbs in promoting the party/administration line. Secondly, I am a former constituent of then Rep. Bobby Jindal and have always been a big fan of the now Governor.
Having said that, I think a Governor, any Governor, was a bad choice to give the response to the Obama speech. The perfect candidate would have been Tom Coburn who has the bona fides to deliver the GOP’s message of smaller, smarter government, personal responsibility and social conservatism. Not that Gov. Jindal doesn’t hold the same views, but we needed the message to come for THIS speech from someone like Sen. Coburn who has fought against the BUSH ADMINISTRATION against higher and wasteful spending and that the “Obama Plan” is just more, and more importantly, WORSE of the same. The time for Gov. Jindal to have given the response was after the 2010 State of the Union when inevitably those 4 million guaranteed jobs were neither created nor “saved” and the actual cost of the “stimulus” had sunk in at the state and local level.
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GordonTaylor Wednesday, February 25th at 10:02AM EST (link)that voice muttering “Oh God” was KO…
Agree, though I think it was the tie...
azaeroprof Wednesday, February 25th at 10:08AM EST (link)I agree that it was clearly KO’s voice. It was definitely a voice right at the microphone, you can tell by the tone.
I have a little different take, though, on the reason. While of course KO and MSNBC would have preferred to NOT air Jindal’s response, the timing of the ‘Oh God’ statement led me to believe that it was a response to Jindal’s rather ‘loud’ tie. In fact, when I saw it live (well, on TIVO actually), I said the exact the same thing at almost the exact same time when I saw the tie…and I LOVE Bobby Jindal.
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A lot of my Republican friends were upset about this
George Claghorn Wednesday, February 25th at 9:07PM EST (link)But, I mean, I say the same thing (”Oh God”) every time I hear the Countdown theme song.
(/sarcasm)
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