On Friday, Chad Castagana — you know, the guy with “…a disturbing hero-worship of Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin” — was indicted on 14 counts by a federal grand jury for sending those threatening letters to Mr. Olbermann and others. He’s sitting in jail in lieu of bail. Good place for him, don’t you think? [via LAT]
Daphne Eviatar talks Special Comments in The Nation:
Olbermann, who denies any partisan leanings and whose background doesn’t suggest any, insists his job is to report on what’s really going on–even if the public is loath to believe it. “We are still fundamentally raised in this country to be very confident in the preservation of our freedoms,” he said in a recent interview. “It’s very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.”
Radar Online has a Q&A with KO (which opens with that unfortunate Nazi salute picture):
No, really, it’s an awfully tough tightrope to walk here, and you get people who are newscasters who can’t do any of the humor. And then there are people who are humorists who can’t do any of the news. This is a problem. I’ve never had a problem going from one to the other. For me it’s the skill that I’ve always brought to the table.
And finally, from the Los Angeles Daily News, a choice bit from Al Gore from last week’s GQ dinner:
“Leo’s as passionate and knowledgeable about the environment as I am,” Gore told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann as they discussed “An Inconvenient Truth” and the situation in Iraq with Leonardo DiCaprio. “You should have him on your show.”
Somehow I don’t see Leo becoming a pundit at this point in his career.
Leo? As in Leo DiCaprio?
Haha. Hahahahahahahaha.
I met him at a rally in 2004 where he was speaking and I was introducing John Edwards.
He’s not particularly well-spoken in person and frequently had to refer to his crib notes during his stump speech. That’s being charitable- he had his nose in his notes at all times.
He’s quite earnest and pretty nice, but very shy and kept to himself most of the time. Also shorter than you might think.
Don’t get me started on that dick Jon Bon Jovi.
So, while I love Al Gore, I have to encourage Keith (or his producers for that matter) not to book Leo. For the sake of all.
By on Monday, December 4, 2006 3:05 pm | Permalink
Huffington’s Eat the Press and Mediabistro’s TVNewser are all over that “Dan Abrams isn’t the boss of me” section of the Radar Online piece. Can’t help wondering what’s going on there. Any thoughts?
By on Monday, December 4, 2006 8:52 pm | Permalink
Rachel Sklar has a thing for KO, methinks. She wrote a dissy little piece after the LA Times profile.
It didn’t sound like a “diss” to Abrams to me. Having said that, maybe it still makes KO uncomfortable to have a “good relationship” with management.
By on Monday, December 4, 2006 10:17 pm | Permalink
Yeah, I don’t see what the big deal is with what Keith said about Dan, either. I think he was just being factual about it.
The closest I have come to Jon Bon Jovi is attending the same concert with him at a fairly small venue in New York, so I can’t really testify as to his level of dick-iness.
By on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 8:00 am | Permalink
That HuffPo piece has comment after comment calling bullshit on Rachel Sklar for her insinuations. I’m disappointed in her *and* TVN’s Brian for being sensationalistic.
Of course, the more newsworthy he becomes the bigger the target painted on his back.
By on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 11:03 am | Permalink