Bad mouthing Maddow and Olbermann? Bring IT on!

I would hope that any criticism would at least be matched by a link

to something that ANYONE from FOX has done for the

PUBLIC good!

From July

Click here: "Operation Iraqi Baseball": Rachel Maddow Spearheads Support For National Team (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/operation-iraqi-baseball_n_235742.html

When Rachel Maddow reported a McClatchy story on Monday night about the Iraqi national baseball team, she didn't expect her brief mention of the team's dire financial straits "to be a huge deal."

However, in the days since the initial report, offers of financial assistance and shipments of much-needed uniforms and equipment came pouring in.

On Wednesday's show, Maddow called the response "overwhelming and honestly heartwarming." Her show, in conjunction with donors and the assistant coach of the team, is currently at work shipping the equipment to the team by Friday.

While the outpouring of support more than provided for the gear the team needed, Maddow urged viewers not to let "the generous impulse [they] had towards these Iraqi baseball players go to waste."

To that end, a link has been posted on the show's website to Operation Give, an organization which provides humanitarian aid to combat zones.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Keith Olbermann

donated 50,000.00 to this cause the night he had his

Special Report about his fathers illness.

National Association of Free Clinics(NAFC)

and the NAFC thru Keith's MSNBC website has already

raised enough money to pay for the first

3 of 5

FREE clinics to be

held

ASAP

The first one will be held in New Orleans in

NOVEMBER

National Association of Free Clinics(NAFC)

http://www.freeclinics.us/index.php

Comments: 18

Elsie C. Oct 23, 2009, 10:48am EDT

These are 2 of the greatest newscasters on TV today. I watch them nightly. To call them "sick puppies", as former president G.H.W. Bush did, is dreadful, but to be expected, I suppose.

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Sheryl O. Oct 23, 2009, 11:58am EDT

I appreciate their wit, intelligence and common sense. Not to mention their high journalistic ethics. Everything they report they back up meticulously. I don't watch TV often, but when I do catch their programs, I am always impressed with them.

I'm sure, like Obama, they will be slammed for their altruism now.

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Nippy Katz (not his real name) Patriotic Troll of Gather Freedom Oct 23, 2009, 12:14pm EDT

I don't care much for Olberman. I enjoy watching Maddow. There's a bonus there for me because she grew up in the town my parents lived in for over 40 years, where my wife, her sister and brother went to school, and where we lived while our daughter was in K-12.

We never knew Maddow or her family though.

Best thing about the town is that it's dominated by fundamentalist Christians. Two of the largest non-denominational fundamentalist churches in the Bay Area are there. One of them has 3 giant crosses, each maybe 100 feet tall, in front of the building that are the first thing people driving on the freeway see when they enter town when going east.

I watch Maddow mostly for entertainment. I get a little bored by the interviews with people from advocacy groups but she also has some guests who do interesting news analysis. I don't understand why she doesn't need to yell and scream though. Her counterparts on F** seem to think that it's required.

APE 131313 Oct 23, 2009, 5:21pm EDT

I will defend both Rachel and Keith to the max and admire their attention to detailed research and I KNOW MSNBC is NOT anywhere near as biased as Fox because I wake up every morning listening to Joe Scar and his merry band of buttboys with their craptastic Reagan fetishes! LOL I haven't watched CNN in a long time. Jon Stewart did an evaluation of what CNN has become that was right on the mark after they had Blitzer do an actual FACT Check.........on the SNL Obama skit! They lost their way after the excellent Katrina coverage.

Nippy Katz (not his real name) Patriotic Troll of Gather Freedom Oct 23, 2009, 5:31pm EDT

I think that Maddow and Olberman are biased. They're not doing straight reporting. They're the video equivalent of columnists. They're paid to express their opinions. I don't watch Olberman much but I think Maddow is more responsible about facts than people like Beck and Limbaugh. The people from the advocacy groups don't do much for me because they generally sound like they're quoting from ad copy.

I've always been cynical. When I was demonstrating against the war in Viet Nam I though that there were a lot of radical leaders who were out for themselves even though I agreed with them politically.

APE 131313 Oct 25, 2009, 11:36pm EDT

Lots to be said for a bit of cynicism in many cases.

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Johnice R. Oct 23, 2009, 12:31pm EDT

No argument from me, no dissention!

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Joanne Vicente Oct 23, 2009, 9:32pm EDT

I think they're both pretty terrific! For some reason, I can't get Fox on any of the tvs in my house. I wonder if they're as selective as I am...

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Nancy Biri Oct 24, 2009, 9:49am EDT

Thanks for sharing

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Marsha S. Oct 24, 2009, 4:43pm EDT

I have no idea who any of these people are--HH

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Love from Darlene! Oct 24, 2009, 4:54pm EDT

I watched the video, I have no clue who they are.
HH

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Elizabeth R. Oct 24, 2009, 11:13pm EDT

I like Rachel and Keith. They are very intense but they aren't afraid to state their opinion. glad I get MSNBC.

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Praj S. Oct 26, 2009, 4:53pm EDT

I don't watch any tv that much
HH

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Shing Wedzi Oct 30, 2009, 12:27pm EDT

Marsha and Darlene, they are news commentators on MSNBC, a cable television station. While they regularly let their opinions be known, they differ from commentators on another cable "news" station because they back up all their points with facts.

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M. Bradley McCauley McCauley Nov 3, 2009, 2:17pm EST

I love Rachel and Keith and glad they get to state their opinions unlike those at FOX who state their's. How dare them over there be so bold as to venture an opinion--only the left should be allowed to do so---the left, like Keith and and Rachel.

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