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After receiving news that majority owner NBC Universal plans to mandate 10% operating budget reductions for 2010, MSNBC has announced their intention to replace “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann with a soulless automaton programmed to recite Democratic Party talking points.

The Wi-Fi-equipped “Obamabot” automaton also contains a voice modulation feature which can mimic a wide range of human voices, from righteous indignation to smug condescension.

MSNBC Associate Vice President of Programming Skip Willoughby remarked,

We don’t think anybody will be able to tell the difference. If anything, Obamabot has more of an independent streak.

In a joint announcement this morning, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) submitted a dramatically simplified 2010 Democratic National Platform: “Whatever Keith Olbermann stands for.”

The new platform replaces a 2008 Democratic National Platform which, at 59 pages, has been described as “verbose” and “too wonkish.”

Remarked Sen. Reid,

It is uncanny how closely Keith Olbermann’s beliefs resemble the official platform of the Democratic Party. I mean, I don’t even know anybody in Congress whose positions so faithfully align with our party. What are the chances that an individual and an organization like ours would achieve such perfect consonance that there is no evidence he has ever disagreed with our party on any issue, ever? It’s a pretty special thing, and that’s why we’ve made it the foundation of our National Platform. Besides, this is a lot easier than writing that thing all over again.

An employee of MSNBC who has worked for “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” and who asked not to be named reported that a harried Olbermann– who is yet to comment publicly on the new platform– was last seen Googling “political philosophy” and browsing the Wikipedia page for liberalism.

UPDATE: It is being reported that the Republican Party may be introducing a similar platform, preliminarily titled “Ask Sean Hannity.”

In this clip from MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” the host and two guests fixate on the “monochromatic” racial composition of a Sarah Palin book signing. However, a closer examination of the commenters themselves reveals:

• Chris Matthews – White
• Norah O’Donnell – White
• Joan Walsh – White

How are we supposed to trust MSNBC or believe that this cable news channel represents anything other than a white supremacy hate group?

UPDATE (11/23): And… Ace and Michelle Malkin have made the same joke, only better and broader (to all of MSNBC’s line-up). Is it better to be first or funniest?

This is pretty funny, and a good example of how Fox News can be just as embarrassing to conservatives as the Republican party. Now if only they’d hold MSNBC to the same standard…

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Via Ed Morrissey at Hot Air.

The Sultan of Smug is giddy to hear that Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod agree with him that Fox News is “not a news organization.” However, about 3 minutes later, he plays a clip from Fox News of Arlen Specter criticizing the GOP.

Hey Keithers, why do you rely on reporting from those non-journalists at that non-news organization to support your condemnation of the Republican party? If Fox News is such a shitty organization, why don’t you go out and get your own scoops?– or better yet, interview a single person who disagrees with you.

On Countdown tonight, the Sultan of Smug could hardly contain his giddiness in playing “gotcha” with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) about the “individual mandate” for health insurance. Here is the statement from Grassley that the Sultan played:

This is the first time in the 225-year history of our country that we have forced you as a constituent, any of our constituents, to buy a product. You know, you’ve been free to buy or not buy. But now for the first time you’re gonna have to buy health insurance… I’m not a lawyer, but let me tell you, I’ve listened to some lawyers speak on this, and you know it’s a relatively new issue, and I don’t think we’ve ever had this issue before of having to buy something. And a lot of constitutional lawyers are saying it is unconstitutional or at least a violation of the tenth amendment. Now maybe states could do this, but can the federal government do it? So I have my doubts.

Keith immediately zings Grassley with, “You heard of insurance on cars, Senator Grassley? Mandatory insurance on cars?”

I am going to guess that not only is Senator Grassley obviously aware of mandatory insurance on cars, but that he is aware that proponents of the mandate may cite such laws as precedent– I think it’s safe to assume that’s why he included the caveat, “maybe the states can do it.”

Guess what, Keith? The states can, and do, require auto insurance. The federal government does not, cannot and should not, for the reasons clearly stated by Senator Grassley.

Maybe if Keith Olbermann didn’t assume everybody he disagrees with is some combination of retarded, evil and dishonest, he’d avoid failling into traps himself.

Then again, I guess it doesn’t really matter– after all, not even Keith Olbermann watches Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

UPDATE: Here’s the video–

It seems to me that the people who interrupt MSNBC’s Brian Moore are trying, in a civil manner, to get him to be quiet or leave so they can listen to Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) speak. (With the possible exception of the white-haired gentleman who walks by late in the clip. It sounds like he may have said “bullshit.” But like Maureen Dowd, I sometimes defer to the voices in my head– so I am going with “Bolshevik.”)

The disdain that Brian Moore and Norah O’Donnell show for these people, and their indignant, self-important horror at the interruptions are pretty comical.

I love how he springs, “Tell us what your thought is,” on the woman after she’s made it pretty clear she just wants him to be quiet or leave. Is that what MSNBC is there to report? How people feel about their disruptive reporting? This meta-reporting is making me dizzy…

Oh yeah– I think the people who call NBA games are “credentialed press” also, but they don’t broadcast from half-court in the middle of the game.

Via Breitbart.TV.