Oct. #'s: MSNBC Posts Big Gains

Via TV NEWSER : Fox News and CNN were mostly down in October primetime, compared to the same month a year ago. But MSNBC was mostly up, {snip} Countdown with Keith Olbermann beat CNN's Paula Zahn in the demo again, and came within 2,000 viewers of beating her in total viewers. Olbermann was up 61 percent in the demo versus last year. Here are the hourly numbers: All the bloody numbers Olbermann is lifting all the line up of MSNBC, not just his own . ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

" Here It Comes ...... here comes your 19th Nervous Breakdown "

photo of Tony Greer's Tesal Coil/photo by Tony Greer All right boys and girls, let's get those chin straps out & make sure they're all on tight. ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Joe Galloway

" This unseemly circus and its clowns in Congress can't go away fast enough and with enough dishonor and disgrace to suit the circumstances. Their place in America's history is secure: They will go down as the worst administration and the worst Congress we've ever had. Period. They deserve to lose both the House and the Senate on Nov. 7, and the White House in 2008. They bullied their way into a war that they thought would be a slam-dunk and then so bungled things that the only superpower left in the world has been humbled and hobbled in a world that they've made more dangerous for us. Thanks, guys. You've done a heckuva job. We won't forget it. " Joe Galloway's Column ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Sunday Screen Shot ..... October 29th 2006

Last Sunday this number was 2,791 Two Sundays ago it was 2,760

Friday Night Clips

Keith bids farewell to : " Stay the Course " Keith & Turley on the Orwellian selling of Water Boarding : Give the Republicans a few more weeks, and Water Boarding will be like saying " Slip and Slide " .... Nothing but some clean wet fun . Clips from : NotWithBush ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

GOOGLE BOMBS

The good Professor has a little project a foot. If you can help him out, drop by his place for the details & even if you can't help, it's worth the trip : Professor Smartass ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

That ad we all forgot : 1984 from Apple

Apple's 1984 Commercial Text of "1984": Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail! Quick Time version of the 1984 Ad That wasn't Microsoft on the screen it was Dick Cheney. ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

How do I Stay the Course ? Let me Count the Ways

Clip from : Taylor Marsh On this date, 34 years ago, Henry Kissinger said, " Peace is at hand in Vietnam" . October 26, 1972 ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

TYKO .... 6 WEEKS

The Count Up : 641 ATTA BOYS 173 ATTA BOYS at TYKO.org Hits :10,120 Tell your friends to drop by and add an ATTA BOY ! Join the Friends of TYKO link here, and we'll link right back at ya. ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

The DNC Follows Keith's Lead :

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October .... 25th 2006

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NEWSWEEK POLL: "51% OF BOTH PARTIES IMPEACHMENT A PRIORITY!"

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President Flip / Flop

Clip from : MikeHuntTV " Video tape was invented by the Apex Company in 1956....." ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

ADVERTISING TERROR

Clip from : MikeHuntTV Here's the link for the Transcript Buy a box of Cheerios tomorrow. I have wondered about listing sponsor's of COUNTDOWN. Are you really going out tomorrow and set up an account with T. Rowe Price, because they bought ad time on tonight's show ? No probably not. Will you drive down to the Toyota dealer tomorrow on the way to sign up with Sprint ? That's pretty slim too. But we can all buy a box of Cheerios this week. I noticed their ad tonight, and it seemed that it wasn't there before. Maybe I just missed it. But I sure would love to have the media buyer at General Mills call his counter part at MSNBC and say, " You know .... our sales are up ". That's what corporations understand. ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Monday Screen Shot ..... October 23rd 2006

UPDATE : THIS SHOT READ 2,700 ON SEPT. 24TH, AND IT READ 2,683 0N SEPT. 17TH Special Commentary tonight on the politics of fear..... ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Sunday Screen Shot ..... October 22nd 2006

Last Sunday this number was 2,760.

Coming Monday

Another Special Commentary on using fear as a campaign tool . Don't forget the pop corn. ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Pat Tillman's Birthday

This is from www.truthdig.com Pat's brother write's : Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes. Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground. Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started. Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated. Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated. Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated. Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated. Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe. Somehow torture is tolerated. Somehow lying is tolerated. Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense. Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world. Somehow a narrative is more important than reality. Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is. Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world. Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance. Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country. Somehow this is tolerated. Somehow nobody is accountable for this. In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don’t be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that “somehow” was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites. Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat’s birthday. I'd say Pat's bother Kevin and Keith Olbermann are on the same page. ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Welcome to the 18th Century

When I Googled Thank You Keith Olbermann on Sept. 13th, all I wanted to do was add my Thank You to someone else's list. But nothing came up, so here we are. I didn't want set another table for for internet food fights .... there's plenty of places for that. I didn't want to have a place for my personal stuff ..... I already had that ..... Colorado Bob. I didn't want a fan site where folks discuss Olbermann's ties. I just wanted a public forum where support for what Keith was saying could be seen, and added to. I want everyone to write the network .... that's extremely important. The addresses are in the column on the right. But I also want people to be able to see that support. This Prisoner Detainee Bill that Bush buffaloed through congress is just what Keith said it is. And I'm going to break my rule and write about it here. I believe the Jihadies are a crazy, and extremely dangerous, and we must confront them. But tearing up the Constitution isn't going to win this struggle. What's going to win the struggle is for our country to be smart, something we seem to be running low on these days. The modern Republican Party has adopted : ODERINT DUM MET UANT, "let them hate us, as long as they fear us." as their way forward. You know who said that ? ...... Caligula Now I'm a great admirer of the Romans, but things didn't work out real well for the " Viper of the Roman People " The Democratic Party is working on a position paper, and we hope to see it soon .... all 6,000 pages of it. My first ancestor to come to the New World landed in 1628. I know a little about our history, and why we have the system we have. Our system was designed to protect innocent people from being screwed over by powerful people. Our system was designed by people of the 18th century who knew that being human and the exercise of power are two things we always have to watch .... forever. It's just the way humans are. When Franklin left the Constitutional Convention in 1789, a woman is said to have stopped him and asked . " What kind of government have you given us Mr. Franklin ? " His reply was , " A Republic madam , if you can keep it. " So, when I saw this this morning at Juan Cole's site I was compelled to do a little writing. ' Professor Cole: You barely scratched the surface on the unconstitutionality of the so-called terror legislation. Beyond repealing habeas corpus, another grotesque violation of the Constitution is implicated in that legislation. The Constitution specifically forbids the passage of a “ bill of attainder.” In the old days, when kings and others were not certain they get a judge or jury to convict someone of a crime, they would simply declare them guilty (attainted) and imprison, torture and/or execute them. When Parliaments did this they passed a " bill of attainder ” declaring the person guilty of a crime. What this recent piece of legislation has done is to declare a whole class of persons, “ unlawful enemy combatants, ” to be criminals, subject to punishment -- imprisonment without trial and torture -- at the discretion of the president. By the way, this does not exclude American citizens. That's Ed Fury folks I like I said, " Welcome to the 18th Century" ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Thursday Oct. 19th 2006

TYKO 5 Weeks : The Count Up 554 ATTA BOYS Hits : 8,096 ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Special Commentary ... Oct. 18th 2006

Clip from MikeHuntTV WOW .... I mean WOW ..... Transcript of tonight's Special Commentary Become a friend of TYKO. Give us a link we'll link you back. Last night's ratings .... Olbermann moves into # 2 TV NEWSER > Bill O'Reilly tells the Journal Sentinel: "There's a tremendous hatred in this country toward Fox News. It comes out of the secular progressive community" (via ICN)... Hello Europe ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Time For a Pick Me Up

Spencer Davis Group 1966..... "Keep On Runnin" Clip from : frankiederwent

HABEAS CORPUS 1789-2006

Here's the MSNBC link .....Death of Habeas Corpus ...Video & Transcript I'm in favor of this law ... This law means that President Hillary can declare that fat heads like Rush, Hannity, and O'Reilly are enemies of the state, and throw them in prison..... torture them ... and we'll never hear them scream for help. {Before you go off the deep end ... that was sarcasm} Lettre de cachet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In French history, lettres de cachet were letters signed by the king of France, countersigned by one of his ministers, and closed with the royal seal, or cachet. They contained orders directly from the king, often to enforce arbitrary actions and judgements that could not be appealed. In the case of organized bodies lettres de cachet were issued for the purpose of preventing assembly or to accomplish some other definite act. The provincial estates were convoked in this manner, and it was by a lettre de cachet (in this case, a lettre de jussipri), or by showing in person in a lit de justice, that the king ordered a parlement (a court of justice) to register a law in the teeth of its own refusal to pass it. The best-known lettres de cachet, however, were penal, by which a subject was sentenced without trial and without an opportunity of defense to imprisonment in a state prison or an ordinary jail, confinement in a convent or a hospital, transportation to the colonies, or expulsion to another part of the realm. The wealthy sometimes bought such lettres to dispose of unwanted individuals. In this respect, the lettres de cachet were a prominent symbol of the abuses of the ancien régime monarchy, and as such were suppressed during the French Revolution. George the II our new FRENCH KING Tue Oct 17, 1:08 AM ET BOSTON (Reuters) - Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday. "We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the Internet," Chertoff said on the sidelines of a meeting of International Association of the Chiefs of Police. "They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like bomb-making is a dangerous combination," Chertoff said. "Those are the kind of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and satellites." Here's how they treat the military : Charles Swift doing his duty : Clip from MikeHuntTV ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Recent Clips

Note : The Sunday Screen Shot of 2,760 is now reading .... 2,775 Pual H. Henry's series on : The Story of The 101st Fighting Keyboarders Reporter backs 'Faith's' claims Oct. 13: "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann talks to former Washington Post reporter Thomas Edsall about the new book, "Tempting Faith." O'Whinely cries about Oprah not booking him from cmdrgmh The report on the Cole from Septmember 27th from rogerpitz ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

What are these people watching ?

VIA TV NEWSER : Category: Web Ratings Monday, Oct 16 MSNBC.com Breaks Online Video Record "MSNBC.com delivered 88 million online video streams in the month of September, the most in the history of the news website," the company said today. "This is the first record-breaking month for online video streams that was not driven by one major news event, signifying the increasing popularity of online video, online news and MSNBC.com." In September, MSNBC.com recorded 26.7 monthly unique viewers, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. CNN.com came in second with 24.6 million, followed by ABCNews.com with 10.6 million, CBSNews.com with 8.7 million, and FOXNews.com with 7.9 million... Olbermann's first Special Commentary was Aug. 30 th. ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Yep ... It's spinning faster

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Sunday Screen Shot ..... October 15th 2006

Three weeks ago we were at 2,700. This meter seems to be picking up speed. ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Keith Cleans Dobson's Clock

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TEMPTING FAITH PART II

Here's the MSNBC clip . Let's call this one : " Just get me an "F...ING" faith based thing ." Click on ..... Inside Tempting Faith Countdown Video of Tempting Faith Part II ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

"There are extreme elements that use religion to achieve objectives"

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Tonight"s Report on Habeas Corpus

ATTA BOY to cdrgmh at You Tube for the clip. Benjamin Franklin, in his address on the final day of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, uttered this warning : This [Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. Writ of habeas corpus - court order which requires that individuals who have been arrested or detained be physically brought before the court to determine whether they are being held on legal grounds. This helps protect people from being arbitrary arrested and/or held in custody for excessive periods unnecessarily. "Habeas corpus" means "you must have the body." The MSNBC video on tonight's report on Countdown Home Page ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

Why .... October 10th 2006

I was looking for something else and found this photo it's from : Professor Smartass

PROFESSOR POLLKATZ

If you want to see which poll breaks which way over the long run ...... Visit : PROFESSOR POLLKATZ's POOL OF POLLS I Think, Therefore I Countdown TGos | | 10.09.06 - 1:47 pm | # * ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE :

HERE YA GO ........

Olbermann news commentaries target Bush By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer Sun Oct 8, 5:09 PM ET NEW YORK - Keith Olbermann's tipping point came on a tarmac in Los Angeles six weeks ago. While waiting for his plane to take off he read an account of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's speech before the American Legion equating Iraq War opponents to pre-World War II appeaser The next night, on Aug. 30, Olbermann ended his MSNBC "Countdown" show with a blistering retort, questioning both the interpretation of history and Rumsfeld's very understanding of what it means to be an American. It was the first of now five extraordinarily harsh anti-Bush commentaries that have made Olbermann the latest media point-person in the nation's political divide. "As a critic of the administration, I will be damned if you can get away with calling me the equivalent of a Nazi appeaser," Olbermann told The Associated Press. "No one has the right to say that about any free-speaking American in this country." Since that first commentary, Olbermann's nightly audience has increased 69 percent, according to Nielsen Media Research. This past Monday 834,000 people tuned in, virtually double his season average and more than CNN competitors Paula Zahn and Nancy Grace. Cable kingpin and Olbermann nemesis Bill O'Reilly (two million viewers that night) stands in his way. * ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE ⇓⇓⇓ ⇓⇓⇓

Sunday Screen Shot ..... October 8th 2006

My computer was down last Sunday, so I don't know what this shot looked like then. But two weeks ago, this widget was reading an even 2,700. A word about rules for posting. Some posters lately want to know why I've deleted their comments..... The same reason that Dick Cheney won't let reporters into his fundraisers I guess. If you want to have a food fight about things ........... go some place else, it's a big net. Better yet, start your own site and tell everyone how mean I am. It's my site, it's my rules. Sunday update ..... I threw 5 or 6 trolls off the site today, and had the pleasure of banning their asses. Everyone of them whining about my rules. Not one commenting Cheney's banning the press from his fundraisers, not one commenting on those new counters spinning away the failures of the Bush administration. I certianly hope tomorrow each and everyone of them marches right down to the enlistment office to join up, because thanks to George Bush our army now takes 42 year-old-grandmothers. Get some sugar boys, your cool-aid is getting sour ..... And Olbermann is just pointing that out. * ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE ⇓⇓⇓ ⇓⇓⇓

The October 5th Special Commentry Pt. 1 & 2

AN " ATTA BOY " TO : cmdrgmh AT YOU TUBE FOR THE CLIPS. PT. 1 PT. 2 The Count Up Day # 24 Score : 443 ATTA BOYS Hits : 5,212 * ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE ⇓⇓⇓ ⇓⇓⇓

Why .... October 6th 2006

WOW ........ You guys are posting some great stuff ...... I thank you for taking the trouble to do it. I have a friend at Crawfordslist....Who emailed some to Dan Abrams this morning. Now to the reason for this post. Last night's Special Commentary was the toughest yet. If there isn't a public show of support across the web for Mr. Olbermann, and by watching the show...... Then the people with the saws are surely going to try and saw off that limb that Keith has crawled out on. The #1 site on the web relating to Keith by links {170} is Olbermann Watch. Their whole goal is to shut Keith up. I've been asking people to link this site, and frankly it's been slow...... 16 so far.....so help me pass the word. Suggest that other sites give us a link, when you visit them...... Big or small. I didn't want to get into a pissing contest with those guys. ...But Olbermann is way out on that limb now, and every bit of support is going to help. * ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE ⇓⇓⇓ ⇓⇓⇓

Why .... October 5th 2006

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Another Special Commentary coming tonight. From TV Newser : MSNBC "Must Be Thrilled" By Countdown MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann enjoyed one of its highest-rated nights ever on Monday, averaging 834,000 total viewers from 8 to 9pm. The broadcast topped CNN's Paula Zahn Now in the demo and total viewers last week, and the trend continued on Monday. But more importantly to MSNBC, Countdown averaged 333,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo -- just 65,000 fewer than Bill O'Reilly's 389,000 demo delivery. MSNBC actually beat FNC in the demo between 8:15 and 8:30pm, according to a tipster. It led an e-mailer ask: "Can anyone remember the last time an MSNBC show rated so high in a normal news period? The folks in Secaucus must be thrilled!" But Olbermann couldn't build on the high ratings he earned on Monday; he was booked on the Late Show with David Letterman last night... Posted by brian | 01:26 PM | * ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE ⇓⇓⇓ ⇓⇓⇓

Why .... October 4th 2006

Thank you Keith from the bottom of my heart - you are the only reason I still have my TV. I watch TV only 2 hrs a day and that is Countdown, Daily Show and Colbert Report. Keith, you are the only real jurnalist these days. I have to say I am worried about you and how long will they let you be you, on the other hand I know that you won't compromise your believes and that alone make me so proud of being your fan. I myself came from Poland after fighting the system some 25-30 years ago - I know how it feels and I know the price. Keep doing what you do, there are lots of people out there who wish you the best. Marla | | Email | 10.04.06 - 7:09 am The Count Up Day # 21 Score : 350 ATTA BOYS Hits : 4,092 * ADD YOUR " ATTA BOYS " RIGHT IN HERE--------V