Sexist MSNBC Says 'Hillarys Have Nowhere Else to Go'

Phil Griffin, the guy in charge of MSNBC, actually tried to get misogynist Keith Olbermann to tone down his hating and lying about Hillary Rodham Clinton themed shows. But Keith had one of his famous tantrums and said he would not hear of it. Too bad you didn’t listen Keith, because many of us have since discovered that you are worse than Bill O’Reilly, and MSNBC is nothing more than Fox News, Left.

Phil Griffin thinks MSNBC is a lot like the Democratic Party. Speaking of the fact that former Olbermann fans now see the man as a brutal and misogynistic jerk, Griffin says:

“I do think they’re going to come back. There’s nowhere else to go.”

That sounds a whole lot like what Obama said about Hillary voters. In your dreams, Phil. I now watch MSNBC as seldom and for the same reason as I watch Fox News: What are the lunatics up to today?

Or as a commenter at TalkLeft says: "The funny thing is that I loved Keith and was so so about Hillary. Now, I love Hillary and can't waste my time on Keith. I hope Griffin understands that it is not just Keith, although he was #1, his entire crew, including Abrams and Mathews, allowed sexism to flourish within the MSNBC structure."

New Yorker:

At MSNBC, Phil Griffin was worried, and with good reason. The average “Countdown” viewer is fifty-nine years old, and forty-five per cent of the viewers are women, presumably Democratic—a fair description of a Hillary Clinton supporter. Griffin believed that Olbermann was beginning to alienate his core audience, and asked him to ease up a bit on Clinton, and possibly even make some conciliatory gesture to the Clinton camp. Olbermann was offended by the suggestion. “I can’t do that!” he says, recalling that conversation. “Me doing a commentary against my own opinion is pandering. Black and white. And I’m not going to do it. Would I pull back a little bit, or think long and hard about whether or not I want to knowingly alienate part of the audience? Yeah. And I did. I mean, I held fire on Senator Clinton for quite a while after she began to really scare me, with some of these tactics.”

. . . But, just as Obama must work to win Clinton supporters for the fall campaign, Phil Griffin has to repair a fractured audience base, a portion of which saw sexism in his network’s Clinton coverage and vowed to boycott MSNBC. Griffin knows that some of that anger is aimed at his star anchor. “It was, like, you meet a guy and you fall in love with him, and he’s funny and he’s clever and he’s witty, and he’s all these great things,” Griffin said of the relationship between Olbermann and the Clinton supporters among his viewers. “And then you commit yourself to him, and he turns out to be a jerk and difficult and brutal. And that is how the Hillary viewers see him. It’s true. But I do think they’re going to come back. There’s nowhere else to go.”

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Keith Olbermann Is a Misogynist?

Misogynist Tucker Carlson has a story at his Daily Caller site reporting that Keith Olbermann is a misogynist. (Keith Olbermann is a misogynist?!!?) The two men are currently feuding.

Call it the war of the misogynists.

Tucker Carlson is the right-wing pundit famous for confessing that powerful women like Hillary Clinton make him anxious and fearful of castration. Tucker recently purchased the files of Journolist, a private listserv of liberal journalists. (According to Ezra Klein: "Journolist has taken the Daily Caller from about 50,000 hits a day to more than 200,000.") The pundit with the crossed legs is not finding the kind of scandal that he's clearly looking for, but the liberal criticism of Keith Olbermann excerpted below is interesting. It is an echo of what we've long been saying publicly here at TGW. It's too bad some of these people didn't have the courage to go public with their views. Perhaps Keith would have listened to them:

“He’s become O’Reilly on the left– completely predictable, unfunny, and arrogant,” said Georgetown University Professor Michael Kazin in May 2009. . . The Nation’s Katha Pollitt began the group’s rant. “He and Michael Musto did this whole long riff about beauty contestant Carrie ‘opposite marriage’ Prejean’s breast implants, stupidity, breast implants, tacky clothes, earrings, breast implants. They went on and on about how she was ‘part plastic’ and pathetic. You’d think they were celibate vegans who spent their lives zen meditating. It was just a whole TV humiliation of her, and it made me feel sorry for her, which wasn’t easy,” Pollitt said. . .

Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor and CNN contributor, said Olbermann’s root problem is his misogyny. “I can’t take him anytime. I think to write off his mysogyny (sic) as limited to Musto is just not accurate. That very much defined much of how he talked about Clinton as well as others.”

Update: Journolisters offended by Keith Olbermann’s ‘misogynistic,’ ‘predictable,’ and ‘pompous’ show

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