TERRIBLE NEWS REPORTERS WE HAVE HERE IN HELL. LIKE, MADDOW - 2.27.25

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Feb 27, 2025

Dive into a satirical critique of today's media landscape! From Jeff Bezos' game plan reshaping journalism to a false narrative surrounding personnel changes at MSNBC, the conversation unveils disturbing trends in corporate media. Mixed with humor, they highlight the blunders of public figures and explore the eerie connection between politics and white supremacy. The discussion calls for economic resistance to corporate control while celebrating cultural impact and diversity, all woven with personal anecdotes from the chaotic world of politics.

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INSIGHT

Life is Hell Theory

Keith Olbermann introduces the "rogue theory" that life is actually hell.
He cites recent media events as evidence, including Jeff Bezos' editorial shift at the Washington Post.

ANECDOTE

Maddow's Misrepresentation

Olbermann criticizes Rachel Maddow for downplaying MSNBC's firing of Joy Reid and other non-white hosts.
He argues Maddow is giving a corporate cover story instead of the truth.

ANECDOTE

Maddow's Past Principles

Olbermann recalls Maddow's past willingness to quit over editorial control at MSNBC.
He contrasts this with her current inaction on the firings.

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SEASON 3 EPISODE 103: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: There is an alternate, rogue religious theory about an afterlife. It goes like this: "Hell" is not some place deep in the earth or anywhere else with eternal torture and fire. In fact, what we call "life" - THIS is hell.

There is considerable new evidence this week that this theory is probably correct. The Washington Post had already been proving that its slogan "Democracy Dies In Darkness" was not a warning but Jeff Bezos's game plan. Now he's made it official: Op-eds are out; pro-Trump "liberties" and "free markets" are in. Other opinions need not apply. Bezos is a fascist.

And he's only the third of three media disasters this week. To my surprise, Rachel Maddow DID say something about the Racist Purge at her MSNBC. Unfortunately, it wasn't the truth. She gave out the corporate cover story that Joy Reid "left" and "went out the door" and and and... she was FIRED.

I guess I should've known. Rachel also didn't tell the truth when I left. I had kept her in my confidence as I negotiated my exit in 2010 and 2011 and the night it happened she was on Maher's show and though she knew everything, when he asked her about the breaking news - a few hours after my last email to her suggesting "this is it" she answered "This is the first I’m hearing about any of this. I know nothing about it.”

And Trump's response to MSNBC throwing Reid into the volcano as a human sacrifice? He's threatening to sue them all anyway. And change the laws.

And then there's the White House Correspondents Association. It did nothing about Trump trying to rewrite the Associated Press's stories. So now he's told them they will no longer select the pool reporter. But don't worry, the WHCA's cowardice won't go unpunished. Its president will be one of the new MSNBC hosts who can get sacrificed in the Trump Bottomless Bit later.

B-Block (35:38) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Welcome to political scrutiny, Stephen A. Smith. Musk loves Trump - now. 2020? Called him an effing idiot. And this is how bad it is: Trump put one of my exes on the Kennedy Center board.

C-Block (44:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: She's in the news and we need the laugh, so once again, the saga of my two dates with Laura Ingraham, one of the last times I thought "this might be the night I die."

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