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Title: Olbermann death threat powered letter made fun of by Murdoch’s NY Post
Source: http://www.crooksandliars.com/
URL Source: http://www.crooksandliars.com/
Published: Sep 27, 2006
Author: John Amato
Post Date: 2006-09-27 20:22:36 by tom007
Keywords: None
Views: 836
Comments: 65

Olbermann death threat powered letter made fun of by Murdoch’s NY Post By: John Amato @ 11:05 AM - PDT Submit or Digg this Post

What would the conservative media be saying if Limbaugh was sent a letter like this? The NY Post: "POWDER PUFF SPOOKS KEITH"

Keith Olbermann flipped out when he opened his home mail yesterday. The acerbic host of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" was terrified when he opened a suspicious-looking letter with a California postmark and a batch of white powder poured out. A note inside warned Olbermann, who’s a frequent critic of President Bush’s policies, that it was payback for some of his on-air shtick. The caustic commentator panicked and frantically called 911 at about 12:30 a.m., sources told The Post’s Philip Messing. An NYPD HazMat unit rushed to Olbermann’s pad on Central Park South, but preliminary tests indicated the substance was harmless soap powder. However, that wasn’t enough to satisfy Olbermann, who insisted on a checkup. He asked to be taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, where doctors looked him over and sent him home. Whether they gave him a lollipop on the way out isn’t known. Olbermann had no comment.

You can be sure that it would be front page news for The Post with pictures of Limbaugh going to the hospital–including interviews with the police and anyone one else they could find to make a statement. Then there would be a tidal wave on FOX News–you know the drill.

This is a new low for the right wing media of this country. Since Keith didn’t go public with the story, obviously he was doing what the police wanted and made sure not to cause a scene. He took the correct measures to ensure his safety as anyone of us would. It’s an outrage that in these times, a public figure would get a threatening letter and take it seriously, and then the right wing media would make a joke of it.

Paula Froelich only serves to encourage the wackos on so that they’ll continue this behavior. What a total disgrace.

Here’s a public email if you want to send Paula your thoughts paula.froelich@nypost.com (please show more class than Paula)

I wonder if Keith will be speaking out about this tonight?

(update) David Neiwert "Just in case the folks at the Post have forgotten, what they’re describing here — sending threatening letters through the mail — is a federal crime. Not only that, but fake-anthrax letters are widely recognized to be a form of terrorism, since they clearly "piggyback" off of the still-unsolved anthrax attacks of 2001Olbermann and the terrorists"…read on" Oliver has more… Filed Under: Countdown/Keith Olbermann, Right Wing Stupidity, Media Criticism Trackback | Permalink | Comments | Spotlight | EMail This Post September 27th, 2006

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#9. To: tom007, Cynicom (#0)

Everyone working for the mainstream media deserves one of these letters. If there was no MSM, there'd be no lies promulgated in living rooms.

AngelSpawn  posted on  2006-09-28   5:34:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: AngelSpawn, aristeides, tom007, Cynicom, all (#9)

Everyone working for the mainstream media deserves one of these letters.

No. No one in the media or in any other job "deserves" an anthrax letter. You see, in the United States we like to think we are free to say what we like without fear of death threats from neo-Nazi thugs. The butthead who sent this letter deserves to go to jail. But he probably won't because he is a coward who hides behind the anonymity of the US postal service and he probably sent this letter (and the story from Olbermann seems to indicate that other MSM newsmen got similar letters) from an anonymous drop box.

You may not remember, as you were probably a child then, but people actually died from anthrax letters shortly after 9-11. They DIED.

Since you are probably only about sixteen (I mean God help us if you are older than that and still can say something so reckless and irresponsible), you've probably never dealt with the death of a loved one or a father or of a child. You don't know what a miserable tragedy a death caused by murder can be. So perhaps you should be forgiven your ignorance.

But not your hate. Your hate is the product of a choice YOU made to be the way that you are. So you will fling invective at me and insult me and bluster, like a zoo animal flinging shit at the glass; but you will not apologize for saying that death threats are okey-dokey with you. You are as incapable of a sincere apology as you are incapable of introspection.

So good luck with your life. You will probably never be happy in the absence of someone else's misery, but that's their burden, I guess.

bluedogtxn  posted on  2006-09-28   10:31:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: bluedogtxn (#16)

Back in 2001, anthrax letters were sent to various figures in the press, as well as to members of Congress. (Most of the letters sent to the press didn't contain real anthrax, but obviously the one sent to photographer Robert Stevens did, because he died.) I wonder if those earlier letters were meant to intimidate the media.

aristeides  posted on  2006-09-28   10:37:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: aristeides, bluedogtxn (#17)

Back in 2001, anthrax letters were sent to various figures in the press, as well as to members of Congress. (Most of the letters sent to the press didn't contain real anthrax, but obviously the one sent to photographer Robert Stevens did, because he died.) I wonder if those earlier letters were meant to intimidate the media.

Stevens was the photo editor for AMI. AMI owned National Enquirer, the Globe, the Star, etc. They'd been printing naughty photos of the Bush girls.

That stopped when Stevens died.

AngelSpawn  posted on  2006-09-28   21:27:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#50. To: AngelSpawn, diana (#47)

Stevens was the photo editor for AMI. AMI owned National Enquirer, the Globe, the Star, etc. They'd been printing naughty photos of the Bush girls.

That stopped when Stevens died.

AngelSpawn posted on 2006-09-28 21:27:10 ET

Fascinating. I always thought if you could understand what motivated the anthrax event here, you would hold a pass into the deep meaning of 9-11.

tom007  posted on  2006-09-28 21:37:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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