Community | May 11, 2011 | 49 comments

Keith Olbermann taps Michael Moore, Ken Burns, Richard Lewis for ‘Countdown’

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Keith Olbermann has enlisted a motley crew for his nightly Current TV show "Countdown with Keith Olbermann": director-slash-agitator Michael Moore, comedian Richard Lewis and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns have all signed on as contributors before the show's launch on June 20.

"I'm delighted and honored that so many of my friends -- who are not coincidentally among the top progressive and entertainment voices in the country today -- will be joining me as contributors to 'Countdown' on Current," Olbermann said in a statement. "I hope these talented individuals, and the others we are to announce in these weeks before the premiere on June 20, will give viewers a sense of the strength and depth of the franchise we're assembling."

Which leads us to wonder: What is Burns doing with this provocateur crowd?

Burns has never hidden his political beliefs -– he once gave a speech called "Why I Am a Yellow Dog Democrat" –- but his PBS series usually make subtler points than Olbermann, a man whose own PR team calls him "one of journalism's most provocative and outspoken voices." Sure, Burns will rally for the national parks, but it's hard to see him calling some national-park-hater "The Worst Person in the World."

Then again, Burns did make that "Baseball" series for PBS, and we all know how Olbermann feels about that subject. If Burns can spare a little rage for Olbermann's favorite teams, we'd love to see these two throw down.
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49 comments // Keith Olbermann taps Michael Moore, Ken Burns, Richard Lewis for ‘Countdown’

  • cherry5000
  • letsliveinpeace
  • DianaCancer
  • letsliveinpeace
  • onemalefla
  • Milieu
  • letsliveinpeace
  • kgMA
  • Milieu
  • letsliveinpeace
  • lazloman
  • Leen61
  • Leen61
    • +7
      Leen61  
    • This is the best news I've heard all day! I commented a while ago right on Keith's web site. I told him what a wonderful line up of people! This is so exciting. All 5 of these people will be a great part of his show here at Current.

    • 1 year ago
  • ROSERITA
  • letsliveinpeace
  • mrtraffic
  • Milieu
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      Milieu  
    • mrtraffic:

      I'll personally go out in the backyard and do primitive naked Spirit dances and chants to make sure we get several days before the Rapture takes place.

      One favor though, when I call to have you Bail me out, please come and help me.

    • 1 year ago
  • maxjunk
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      maxjunk  
    • I might not watch it for the simple fact that Moore is now involved. Although the topics he covers are what need to be shown, he is an arrogant asshole, and ruins all his movies with attempts at humor or harassing people.

    • 1 year ago
  • mrtraffic
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      mrtraffic  
    • maxjunk:

      I do agree with you. Maybe the guy could offer a solution to America's woes for a change. Or do a movie about the Birthers and the After-Birthers, judging by his past movies I would probably laugh so hard I would piss myself

    • 1 year ago
  • ROSERITA
  • JustZ
  • JustZ
  • letsliveinpeace
  • Jahvega
  • tlbuffin
  • letsliveinpeace
  • Ricky84
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      Ricky84  
    • Michael Moore is an ideologue of the worst order. His documentary "Bowling for Columbine" and his framing and treatment of Charlton Heston and the NRA after the school shooting was such a shameless instance of demagoguery especially in light of his stance on the "ground zero mosque fiasco" that the only commentary the American people or world should ask for from Michael Moore should be his apology and retraction from that position. Until then he'll continue to be cowardly polemic too self interested in the promotion of brand Michael Moore instead of an honest opinion oriented commenter.

      Here is The Daily Show (a comedy show) getting it right. Michael Moore's apology and retraction is STILL somehow missing.

      http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-19-2010/extremist-makeover---homela...

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
    • +7
      Milieu  
    • Ricky84:

      Although I watch Daily Show, they still have some apologies to make to Olbermann and especially to Maddow and others.

      The writers there, obviously, haven't been educated enough to understand the concept of "False Equivalency."

      The writers and Stewart himself, are too often busy being "Fair and Balanced."

      You cannot pretend criminals have anything worth paying attention to except their "Reichful Role" as punching bags.

    • 1 year ago
  • Ricky84
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      Ricky84  
    • Milieu:

      “The writers there, obviously, haven't been educated enough to understand the concept of "False Equivalency."”

      “The writers and Stewart himself, are too often busy being "Fair and Balanced."”

      LMAO did I just read that?!

      So your argument is the writers of the Daily show are at fault because they adhere to a journalistic principle which can be loosely affiliated to the slogan of a news agency with questionable practices and YOU want to bitch about “False Equivalency?!”

      Seriously this bears repeating. I can’t believe you just wrote off The Daily Show for their assumed endorsement of a journalistic axiom that happens to be the slogan of Fox News. If that is not a PERFECT example of False Equivalency then none exist.

      On top of that nothing you’ve said so far addresses the obvious contradiction with Michael Moore’s cash cow of a claim that Charlton Heston and the NRA were evil for holding an NRA conference so close and so soon after the school shooting at Columbine while at the same time supporting the right of Muslims to build a religious center so close and so soon after the 9/11 attacks.

      It’s the SAME EXACT situation only the players have changed. If Americans that rejected or condemned the efforts of Muslims to build a religious center “near ground zero” because other Muslims were involved in 9/11 are bigots, and which the are, Michael Moore by his own standard is a bigot for rejecting and condemning Charlton Heston and the NRA for holding a conference even though two psychopaths with guns happened to shoot up a school.

      I realize I’ve used some of the words (like and) phrases ,(so your) and even punctuations (like the obvious terrorist signifying use of the period punctuation) that can be linked to nefarious organizations such as Fox News and Al Qaeda and urge you to suppress that feeling of False Equivalency that is not False Equivalency and evaluate the points I’ve made by their own merit.

    • 1 year ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • Milieu
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      Milieu  
    • Ricky84:

      FAIL

      Anyone who actually mentions the NRA as an organization of any worth is obviously not aware of how Lunatic they are.

      I have always lived in Red States, even was member of NRA until they they went Insane. NRA lost their sanity back in the late 70s- early 80s. When they started to attack Police Organizations for disagreeing with them; they lost any semblance of credibility.

      I work every day around cops, mostly at the local/county/state level, but occasionally even with FBI and ICE and I know how cops feel about NRA and the threat they are and have been to law enforcement.

      as a side note, Muslims and Islam Were Part of Twin Towers’ Life
      http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/nyregion/11religion.html

    • 1 year ago
  • JustZ
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      JustZ  
    • Ricky84:

      ...framing Charlton Heston? Are you fucking kidding me? Heston was a fucking heartless asshole with the intelligence god gave a bag of hammers. Look at the negative responses...you are out to lunch on this one.

      In what field do they grow vegetables like you?

    • 1 year ago
  • JustZ
  • JustZ
  • ROSERITA
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      ROSERITA  
    • Ricky84:

      So your whole hatred of Michael Moore is about Guns and Heston? That was his opinion and many others. You can always argue with Opinions. But facts don't move, and Mr. Moore has uncovered more corrupt Politicians and lies with cold hard FACTS.

    • 1 year ago
  • Ricky84
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      Ricky84  
    • Milieu:

      “Anyone who actually mentions the NRA as an organization of any worth is obviously not aware of how Lunatic they are.”

      You know what’s really insane about this whole thing? I never said ANYTHING about the worth of the NRA. I said this

      “His documentary "Bowling for Columbine" and his framing and treatment of Charlton Heston and the NRA after the school shooting was such a shameless instance of demagoguery”
      A condemnation of demagoguery is hardly a rousing endorsement. Your lack of a logical rebuttal is showing.

      "I work every day around cops, mostly at the local/county/state level, but occasionally even with FBI and ICE and I know how cops feel about NRA and the threat they are and have been to law enforcement."

      Right so this applies to the discussion how? Last time I checked there was a gang of people who did not like Muslims one bit however the fact that people like that exist does not legitimize the persecution of those people.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
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      Milieu  
    • Ricky84:

      NRA is a danger to the laws and the people who enforce the laws and protect the citizens of the US. Thery just brought "Moses" into the fold to give them some CYA and try and hide the fact they are Bat$#!t. Anyone who exposes the threat to the citizenry of US is doing a good thing; not demagoging, but exposing truth.

    • 1 year ago
  • Ricky84
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      Ricky84  
    • Milieu:

      Your argument is still dangerously flawed. You cannot simply excuse bigoted behavior because you do not like the person. By your logic torturing terrorists is A. O.K. because terrorists are dicks.

      "Anyone who exposes the threat to the citizenry of US is doing a good thing; not demagoging, but exposing truth."

      I don't think you understand what the word truth means. Moore took offense to Heston and the NRA because their presence offended his sensibilities. Now that is a truthful statement. However the argument that a duo of suicidal serial killers is comparable to anyone that supports the second amendment is pretty bigoted and certainly an opinion.

    • 1 year ago
  • Ricky84
  • Ricky84
  • Itsbatman_Durr
  • warman1138
  • savroD
  • letsliveinpeace
  • Leen61
  • SFirman
  • Leen61
    • +6
      Leen61  
    • SFirman:

      I went to his web site and late this afternoon I found out. One of the commenters there thought maybe it had something to do with his MSNBC non-compete clause.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
  • Leen61
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