Who Can Say When The Shark Jumps?

This blog is not for posting your Blackberry spam.

I always liked Dan Patrick more.

And I meant that jokingly, not, uh, snarkily. (no preview = forgot to add a emoticon)

I used to love Dan Patrick, but then he turned into a bitter prick when everbody else blew up but him.
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I saw this Young Turks clip on youtube today from 2 years ago and Cenk Uygur was very prescient in predicting that KO would blow up primarily because he chose to start taking on Bill O and FoxNews. Check it out
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[...] As somebody who has traditionally eschewed cable news for other information idioms, the first “Special Comment” I saw was when Keith tore Hillary a new one for the RFK reference some time last spring. It was pretty awesome. Anyway, as much as it saddens me to say this, I might have to agree with Mike Scherer here and ask “Who Can Say When the Shark Jumps?“ [...]

Haha he is like the bizzaro Hannity. Both pundits from alternate dimensions.

Didn’t Jump The Shark jump the shark about 5 years ago?

It would appear that now that Scherer can’t fluff John the Candidate anymore he has outlasted his usefulness.

What is it exactly do you get paid for anyway? Because surely this isn’t it.

All I can say is that someone has way too much time on their hands. Every second of that video took 15 minutes of searching to accomplish.

Blackberry spam?…does that go well with spam and eggs?

Not Blackberry spam, TVNewser.

I bet all the McCain insiders that MS has been cultivating relationships with the last year or so have been emailing that one around like crazy.

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I think MS is moving into his “Cheap Seats” phase.

I personally miss the days when “Blackberry” meant usually a specific well known shrub and its fruit and not a device permanently wedged up a journo’s ass.

That made a great deal more sense than a Sarah Palin interview or press conference.

“I think MS is moving into his “Cheap Seats” phase.”
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If only. The Sklars make me laugh intentionally.

That’s easy. Anyone who still thinks the ‘jumped the shark’ formulation is witty has in fact, well, you know. But other than that, well done!

The video is blocked for me (I’m at work) can someone describe what’s on it?

fense,
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It’s Keith Olbermann’s mouth moving with a Sarah Palin voiceover. He keeps saying “also” at the end of every sentence. Also.

fense
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Its a bunch of clips of KO saying the same things over and over again like “Sir” or “Outraged” or “You” and splicing several KO rants together that are very similar. Kind of amusing but you aren’t missing much

Thanks.

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Anyone who still thinks the ‘jumped the shark’ formulation is witty has in fact, well, you know.
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Ask not for whom the shark jumps, Michael…
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Well, I guess, “ask not when the shark jumps,” but that isn’t quite as punchy.

fense,
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Actually, I was kidding. It is a compilation of short cuts of Keith in “full outrage” using clips from probably 30 different “special comments.” Kind of funny, but I think the Palin idea would be funnier given that Keith loves words and words are Palin’s enemies.

palininatowel
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Actually it seems words are Palin’s bffs because she uses SO MANY of them in each sentence. But I did see where somebody figured out that maybe if you cut some of them out you can figure out what she is saying a little better
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http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/11/12/cracking-the-code/

sgw,
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Repeating the same 147 words in her vocabulary in an endless loop does not mean words are her friends. Also.

Who is that guy?

palininatowel
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touche!

Given that his counterparts on the right are much more extreme in their language, much less honest in their content, and have been doing this for a much longer period of time, I would think similar compilations for Hannity and Orally and ilk with similar “shark jumping” post titles would be appropriate. Assuming, of course, that it is possible for RWingers to be so extreme as to jump a shark in the eyes of the msm.

And thats the most I’ll ever watch of THAT guy! Good grief, what a pompous ass..

jump the shark nuked the fridge.

Thanks Michael, that’s a fun piece. For all his rants, he’s infinitely more entertaining than his evil twin, O’Reilly. Interesting their names start with the same letter. Interesting an O is the symbol of an open mouth, which both excel at.

Nice to have an intelligent counterpoint, I must say, to those gasbags Limbaugh and O’Reilly after all these years of aural and visual abuse from the aforementioned hatemongers.

At least Keith does it with considerable intellect and style.

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While I agree “jumped the shark” has indeed jumped the shark, none of my english teachers in high school would ever allow me to get the subject and objects to get mixed up.* And the shark stays still. One jumps the shark. The shark jumps for no man, etc etc etc.

*Nor would they like that sentence.

Well, my last obscenity and ad hominem free comment was mysteriously deleted, but I’ll try again just for the fun of it.

KO goes too far for me from time to time. But he tries to be honest and factual, and he apologizes with no excuses when he blows one. Mostly I don’t see him preaching a lot of personal hate. I see him preaching against what I consider violations of Constitutional and American principles.

All in all, a funny video and a reminder, as so many above have pointed out, that at least there’s now a counterbalance to the zillion-dollar voices at FOX “news” who have been polluting our airwaves with outright lies for years and years.

Olbermann tries very hard not to be a liar, we should give him that.

PALIN: Gah! Nothing specific right now. Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that. We have to balance budgets and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations.
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Explain this to me Michael. Your mavericks. You translate.

after watching that video i feel strangely vindicated of the need to watch KO this evening.

I don’t see this as funny at all. The man cares. He’s wrong sometmie, but I also had a sense that he wasn’t faking it (which is what this video tries to insinuate, I think). While the rest of the media stood around and let O’Reilly and Limbaugh make the world safe for hate and torture, he at least gave a d@mn!

Speaking of KO, Sec of state = Hillary Clinton, according to him.

@codeguy1: Actually, that’s Spam, Spam, Eggs, and Spam. (Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam…)

@sg: Or, we could try *diagramming* Palin’s sentences as Kitty Burns Florey did over at Slate last month… http://www.slate.com/id/2201158/
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This one made her teeth hurt:
“I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people.”
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Ouch. Mine hurt, too, now.
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Mikey and Ana should get together to pool all their press releases, Youtube links and gosh-darn-it funny emails. That way, if Ana gets the invitation to throw herself in front of a TV camera or Mikey gets an opportunity to stalk the WSJ’s Head of HR, then their blog-chores are done in 2 minutes. You know it makes sense.

Try this sentence from earlier today:
“Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that.”

Sarah Palin = Chauncey Gardiner

OT, but I just realized that we haven’t heard from Murph in a while. Did he get a job?

Sara Palin: the Julia Child of word salad.

Friar-
How are YOU doing?

Arrg! Subject, verb, object. Come on Scherer, you’re a journalist! If you’re going to use hackneyed cliches, you should at least know who does what to whom in said cliches. The Fonz jumped the shark. The shark does not do anything to anybody.

*I see meichx beat me to it, yet my fury is too great to bite my tongue.

For the Murphster:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/few-more-hillary-hypotheticals.html

At least he has a friend in Nate Silver.

Joe, I’m staying frosty. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you’ll be the only person left with ears.”
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If a decent job opportunity comes along, I plan to strike like the cobra.
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I believe I have now used up my weekly quota of salty sayings. Many thanks for your concern!

Rachel Maddow just made up for last night
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She totally PWNED LIEberman and Evan Bayh for that weak sauce he brought on her show last night.
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I am feeling MUCH better about her now!

Good luck, Friar! Thanks for the update!

@sgw – Click Here

Maybe the whole shtick has jumped the shark. Shtick meaning Olbermann’s entire show…

Of course Fox News managed to survive being cheerleader for Bush for eight years. Maybe that’s Olbermann’s new role.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

pourme: Dude, that was just mean.

So this is balance for all of those posts about the right wing hacks that spew hate across the airwaves… oops, there weren’t any posts like that, were there?

The editing trick on Olbermann doesn’t really say much. What I am curious about is why Olbermann rubs people like Michael Scherer the wrong way? Maybe it’s because KO showed courage by calling out Bush when other journalists, like MS, were silent.

You know what would *really* be funny? Michael Scherer tied to a chair, ball gag in his mouth, dressed like a mime. Lined up at the door is a great gross of Swampland commenters, each armed with a freshly caught salmon. One by one they file in, wind up, and land a scaley smack on his insolent cheek.
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I picture a shark leaning against the wall, smoking a cigarette, every now and again doing a backflip over the scene of the smacking.

pourme
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You owe me for an eyeball transplant!

Maddow from last night. She’s a keeper!
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Michael:

I am surprised to see that Time’s editors allow you to use this space under their banner to spread negative propaganda about another media personality.

Can anybody tell me what Swampland’s mission is? Why is it here?

I do hope many of you have written to your senator about Lieberman. Maddow last night should have been the final nail in the coffin for anyone who thinks he should keep his HS chair.

@sgw – I’m worried what might happen to you if Lieberman keeps his chair. We’re all worried.

pourme
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Actually nothing will happen. I am fervent in saying he shouldn’t keep the chair and if he does keep it I will cheer for him to stab them in the back over and over again but I will move on. I am pretty much used to dissappointment with the Democratic party so I am going in pretty much believing they are all going line up to kiss Lieberman’s azz and beg him to stay in the caucus even though he hates their guts. But that just makes me want to fight harder to push them away from such cowardice. Its decisions like this one that will define this new congress and there really is no good case for allowing him to keep his chairmanship other than trying to get one vote that he likely won’t give them any damm way. Like I said a couple of threads ago its why I switched from being a Dem to a registered independent because while I am in agreement with the overwhelming amount of the Democratic platform, their real weakness as a party leaves a lot to be desired.

I agree sgw.

Peter Schiff for Treasury Secretary. Seriously you gotta see how right this guy was before ANYBODY else and he was laughed at on FoxNews. From Sully via dailykos
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My poor little doggie has spent the entire night hiding underneath the bed.

Mike Scherer if you want to do a HUGE story you can do a story on how FoxNews had one of the most prescient voices on their Financial Shows and chose to ridicule him and have others like Ben Stein continue to recommend that people buy stocks in Merrill Lynch and other financials. This guy comes out looking like a damm oracle and they treated him like he was a tool. And then you have Bill O’Reilly on the same network shouting down Barney Frank when he should be shouting down Neil Cavuto!

sgw @8:26, you must be kidding. Come on now. That would, in the first instance, apply the principle of “balance” to stories about the right, which is never done. Because, of course, IOKIYAR. It would also interject “accuracy” into MS’ reporting as it applies to Republicans. Again, never done.

wvng
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LOL I throw out stories Scherer could do all the time precisely because I know he WON’T do them. I was pretty surprised about his story on excess spending in the military that eviscerated some Republicans (he did have some obligatory false equivalency with Dems but I could accept that). But then I saw that it was written 4 years ago at Salon. Now that he is free to write republican hackery for TIME I doubt we will see that level of reporting again.
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By the way President Sarkozy PWNED George Bush 2X. This is a MUST read!
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5147422.ece

wvng
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I just give him story ideas for sh1ts and giggles knowing he wont take me up on them.
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This is a must read about President Sarkozy PWNING Bush over the Russia/Georgia conflict.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5147422.ece

wvng
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I have had two posts dissappear and I am not sure why but I am going to try one more time.
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I throw out story ideas to Scherer precisely because I know he wont take me up on them. I predict a post in a few hours or so from Scherer ripping Obama for even suggesting that Hillary Clinton might be Secretary of State. Remember I predicted it here first.
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By the way you have to read how President Sarkozy PWNED George W Bush to Vladimir Putin.
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http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/bush-makes-peac.html

Scherer’s job, apparently, is to throw tomatoes at the Democrats. This edit job is neither clever nor insightful. Man, I wish the media would use it’s voice to bring light to issues we otherwise can’t see. At least the anti-Emanuel post below some information, although the hue of the light shown was still red, red, red.

bethnva
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The funny thing is KO played the clip last night on his show and actually was able to laugh at himself and said “good job”. Can you imagine Bill O or Hannity doing that? HEEEYAAALLL NOES. But KO is the pundit folks like Scherer love to hate. I wonder why….

That’s an interesting question young Michael Scherer. If you were trying to answer it, first look at Rush Limbaugh. He seems to be doing well, still.
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Limbaugh went from an administration critic to an administration cheerleader. Will Olbermann make the same transition or will he be a permanent angry guy a la Lewis Black?
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Michael, why don’t you INTERVIEW Olbermann? You’re a reporter, right?
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I caught Rachel Maddow last night and also thought she was great (also). Truth to power will never jump the shark.

“Truth to power will never jump the shark.”
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Absolutely. I can’t imagine either Maddow or Olberman deferring to the Obama administration. I see them reporting accurately on what they do and how they do it. I envision kudos when they do well. And I envision “special comments” when they do badly. And that is all for the good.
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BTW, did you all notice how much Maddow’s segment last night on Lieberman felt like a Maddowified special comment?

A Palin petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/1113nov8/petition.html

Eh. I’m a KO fan, but I’d rather see fewer “special comments” and more food thrown at wingnuts (his lugubrious reading of Rich Lowry’s infamous “starbursts” blog post was epic). Like Elvis Costello sang, “I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused”; by now the right reaction to Bush and the right isn’t Swiftian outrage, but the sheer amazement characteristic of Pope’s Dunciad.

I’m going to be a conspiracy theorist about the KO/O’Reilly feud. Both individuals worked at the same TV station in Boston in 80s. My guess is that they crossed swords, there, and perhaps O’Reilly played a role in getting KO fired.
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This has rankled KO to this day.

Wow, kth, that’s the first reference to Pope’s Dunciad I’ve ever seen in any conversation, much less a political one. Kudos.

Keith Olbermann has more journalistic integrity in his morning stool that Michael Scherer will ever have. Also, Keith Olbermann’s stool looks like less of a douchebag than MS.

Gosh, sure hope no one compiles your “greatest hits”. That wouldn’t be funny at all.