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ETA: And Huffington Post readers and Stumblers! This has been an interesting afternoon!

ETA2: And readers of Gawker and Inside Cable News…

Welcome to our humble fan blog. For those of you too lazy to read the comments on the Playboy post: When I inquired about disclosing my dealings with Mr. Rowe he replied, “You are welcome to mention that you were asked to respond, sure. I enjoyed reading the blog and was interested in your take on the Interview.” I doubt if this was a lynching offense he’d be so cavalier about it.

As for where the aforementioned blogs picked up on this relatively obscure little fan site, I assure you their editors aren’t regular readers of Either Relevant or True. If you compare their pieces to what’s published on OlbermannWatch (no link, look it up yourself) you’ll find amazing similarities. So much for TVN’s emailer being “anonymous.”

My own anonymity is a non-issue. This is not my job, this is my hobby. I don’t need a small handful of anti-Olbermann jihadists making my life hell. (And sorry, no, I am not Katy Tur. I’ve been doing this blog since she was still in ~~diapers~~ college.)

Becky, please don’t let anyone get to you on this. It’s not worth it. Don’t stoop down to their level.

Peace.

Get to me? Honey, I think this is hilarious!

I guess I’ve made HuffPo too, in my own words this time.

Becky, you go girl!

Okay I’m going to spell this out for you in terms simple enough that even you can understand. The reason this got so much coverage is for the simple fact those blogs read one another and the general story is the same-you were solicited by a Playboy editor to provide positive feedback on an article when they recieved apparently overwhelmingly negative feedback on Olbermann’s interview. What else would you have liked them to have written? That you approached him? That would be a lie. And by using a fake name and writing a reaction to that interview that was less than a genuine response to that interview, you were lying too. But hey, keep patting yourself on the back. It’s all the more amusing that way.

ROTFLMMFAO!

Oh my gawd!

I love the Katy Tur story. Absolutely no way to confirm this, yet this blog hot-totty “outs” you as KO’s main squeeze! What a hoot.

Becky (and all loyal ERT-ers) The one interesting thing from all this will be is how really hysterical it all gets.

And I do feel for Ms. Tur. Some things that have been printed about her are terrible — she’s a private person (albeit with a public man who is much older than her) but as I’ve stated before, that’s nothing unusual about such an arrangement (been there, done that, married that). But she’s no Britney and doesn’t deserve to be put through the mud.

And…neither do you, Becky — whom, for now on, I’m referring to as “The Big Leibowitzki”!! KO owes you big time!!

Oh my goodness. Jossip thinks there’s a terrorist organization called “Al Aqaeda”? Now THAT’s funny.

One of their posters stole my nickname? That’s NOT funny.

I wonder if David Hauslaib’s parents ever regret all that money they spent on his college education, don’t you?

I’m not the least bit surprised that the usual anti-Keith forces are having a field day with the knowledge that Playboy seemed to feel the need to beg for positive KO comments–but Becky’s wasn’t the only one. I did see another in there. Does it surprise me that the vast majority of guys who stain the pages of Playboy every month are apparently anti-Keith? I must say, not really.

Oh, and I wanted to clear up one small point of confusion while we’re at it. Becky really and truly is not Katy Tur. I am Katy Tur.

Whew. I finally admitted it. What a relief.

I still don’t get it, huh? Really?

Methinks the anonymous poster doth protest too much. An anonymous poster who has an IP address strikingly similar to one I frequently find in my stats on a regular basis.

Somebody, somewhere, has an agenda and sent word of my post to one or more industry/media/gossip blogs. A a couple of those sites had eerily similar posts, but the rest did not. While indeed the story did go round and round the internets today, barely anyone has made a negative peep about it. Even the anti-MSNBC vipers at ICN barely bit. If you can’t get that lot to pile on a negatively-spun Olbermann piece, you know it’s a non-story. Bringing it to the attention of those who may care has accomplished nothing. Nothing aside from getting me a metric assload of site traffic, good comments from some new visitors, and bringing my obscure little blog to the attention of professional media bloggers.

I think I get it just fine. Now run along. If you come back, try using some facts and logic. And don’t ever mistake me for a naive simpleton again.

Houstonian, KO owes me nothing. Though if he’d like to inscribe a book for me, that’d be nice. ;) Also, I think I’ll change my nom de blog to “The Dude.” I do enjoy a good white russian! (I’m out of Kahlua, damn.)

Miss Katy does take far more abuse online than she deserves. She is a private individual, and that’s one of the reasons I feel so strongly about not speculating about KO’s personal life here at ERT. He may be fair game, but she’s not.

And dammit, Orin! I thought you were Spartacus!

As far as Mr. Hauslaib goes, I generally find his site about a half step above Page Six. That should tell you all you need to know.

Becky, if we follow Monty Python logic and believe that only the true Messiah denies his own divinity: You deny you are Katy Tur, so therefore only the true Katy Tur denies it!

Confess!

(OK, I was inspired by KO’s “Life of Brian” reference in tonight’s show.)

Redtoots, I’ll only confess if lashed to the comfy chair! And poked with… cushions!

Becky, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPAN…Oh, Bugger!

I’m sorry, Becky, but “The Dude” is already taken — that’s my dog’s nom de bone. And he is one mean growling machine police dog — especially when he hears the word “Loofah.”

Once again, I must disagree with the comments here about poor, put-upon “Miss Katy.” She has not been a “private individual” since she chose to couple with Keith and he chose to name her in the media. Nor is her relationship with him a guarded and private thing, when Keith chooses to keep us constantly posted on its “progress” through the media.

As the lyrics to the old “Super Chicken” cartoon said, she knew the job was dangerous when she took it. You can’t have it both ways. If Keith wanted a private relationship with an anonymous female who was never subjected to public criticism, he could have attempted one by not mentioning her name and not providing the media with updates and details on their life together. Then, if she had been outed anyway by the nosy, I could have felt sympathy. But not as things stand.

Otherwise…well, you know you’ve made it when the New York Pestilence leaps on the story:

READERS of Playboy were so disgusted by the idiotic rantings of MSNBC loudmouth Keith Olbermann in the October issue, editor Chip Rowe tried to balance their vitriol by getting the head of an Olbermann fan site to pen a gushing note to run along with all the negative opinions. “He said that they were getting overwhelmingly negative response on the interview - mostly for the [anti-Fox News] remarks . . . that he’d like to balance that,” says BloggingOlbermann.com founder Becky, who goes by her first name for privacy reasons, but was allowed to use the fake name “Becky Leibowitz” on Playboy’s letters page. (Olbermann told Playboy: “Fox News is worse than Al-Qaeda - worse for our society.”) Among the many angry letters in the January issue: “Olbermann deserves his own Worst Person award for not allowing anyone on his show who disagrees with him.” Another slammed him as “frustrated, envious and unfocused.”

Well, well, Posties. Nice to know things haven’t changed. Now shut up and give me a few copies–my catbox needs new liners.

Well put Orin! Putting her own freelance videos (where she pretends to be a reporter) up on Current.com leads me to believe that she definitely wants the world to, “Remember her name…FAME!” Sorry for the 80’s Irene Cara reference - I couldn’t help it.

Yes, Katy’s name is going to turn up from time to time, but I don’t think she deserves all the bile directed at her from Olbermann Watch and their ilk.

She may not, but she surely must realize that merely by virtue (?) of being Keith Olbermann’s girlfriend, she is The Enemy in their eyes. She could be the reincarnation of Mother Teresa and they’d still rip her. As it is, she falls considerably short of nun status…and there are pictures of her on the Internets, courtesy of her ex-boyfriend and his pals, to prove it.

I look at it the same way I would regard the Facebook profile of a potential job applicant. Honey, if you want success, fame and fortune, you just might want to do what you can to ensure there are no drunk party pictures of you–or of you being fondled by guys not your boyfriend at the time–anywhere on the Internets. The same goes for those who want to get “engaged to be engaged” to prominent celebrities twice their age. And that goes for you guys, too.

The problem for Katy is that I don’t see her scorned ex being motivated to take down those pictures anytime soon. Perhaps the pain of being thrown under the bus so she could run away with Keith still stings.

I don’t see how being slimed by KO’s fans is any more fair than being slimed by his critics. In fact, it seems a lot worse (”et tu?”).
And here’s some news for the old-school feminist crowd — young women today aren’t constrained by the precise social mores they were in the early 1960s. Getting felt up at a party isn’t grounds for a public stoning. For better or worse, we’ve come a long way from the three feet on the floor rule, and you’re the ones to credit for it.
I say hurrah for that.
-q

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