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  It's Time To Bring Down Rollo Tomasi

  http://puregarlic.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-time-to-bring-dow...
  104 days ago in The Garlic · Authority: 83

  Well, as you know, I was stuck in Computer Hell for a good chunk of the day, and the whole time, this doozy of a story was dancing in my head. Fans of the most-excellent movie, "L.A. Confidential", you know, very well, who Rollo Tomasi is. For
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  Olbermann: Mr. President, the War Isn't About You

  http://theunknowncandidate.blogspot.com/2008/05/olbermann-mr...
  104 days ago in The Unknown Candidate · Authority: 18

  MSNBC: "Olbermann reacts to President Bush's recent interview with Politico.com and online users of Yahoo. Olbermann takes issue with Bush's claim he gave up golf to honor dead GIs ...." As usual, Olbermann shows how well the title "Idiot
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  Olbermann: Mr. President, the war isn't about you - Countdown with Keith Olbermann- msnbc.com

  http://www.thiscenturysucks.com/2008/05/olbermann-mr-preside...
  104 days ago in This Century Sucks - A Look at the Corrupt and Evil Whistle Ass Administration · Authority: 8

  Looks like Olbermann noticed the utter tastelessness of Bush's "Sacrifice" in one of his more passionate "Special Comments" which also notes Bush also continues his fear mongering: Here's the video: The transcript can be found here:
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  Presidential criticism

  http://newsresearch.blogspot.com/2008/05/presidential-critic...
  104 days ago in Infomaniac: Behind the News · Authority: 40

  You'd think, in the last year of an administration, the president would keep a steady hand and try not to rile the waters. But that's not happening here. Two comments by George W. Bush have angered a lot of people. Will Bunch and Keith Olbermann have a
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  Links With Your Coffee - Thursday

  http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2008/05/links_for_5150...
  104 days ago in onegoodmove: I thought these things might be clues. · Authority: 600

  Sheldon: The Daily Comic Strip by Dave Kellett George Who??? » Mad Kane's Political Madness Olbermann: Mr. President, the war isn't about you - Countdown with Keith Olbermann- msnbc.com Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Huge Victory in Student Speech Cas
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  Olbermann Accuses Bush of 'Murderous Deceit,' Should 'Shut the Hell Up'

  http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/05/15/olberm...
  104 days ago in NewsBusters.org | Exposing Liberal Media Bias · Authority: 4,065

  On Wednesday's Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's latest "Special Comment" attack on President Bush accused the President of "panoramic and murderous deceit," and of "creating" an America that "includes 'cold-blooded
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  Special Comment on Shadow Projection

  http://perspicacity.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/special-comment...
  98 days ago in Perspicacity · Authority: 1

  21 May, 2008 'War on Terrorism', George W Bush, Iraq, Keith Olbermann, YouTube, politics   It was no surprise that the right-wing response to Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment criticising Bush’s out of touch statements (lores version at C&L) would be both vociferous and personal. However, much to his credit, Olbermann acknowledged in his response to these personal attacks that a key principle in depth psychology was at play. (Original at MSNBC, lores version at C&L) It is perhaps instructive, that to the right-wing commentators, and the right-wing blogs, those terms should first evoke not the war-mongers of the Pentagon or the gun-men from Blackwater but U.S. troops. “I cannot imagine that kind of evil knee-jerk reflex. I feel very sorry for those who have shown it. It seems to me that these right-wingers have inadvertently shown their true colors, their instinctive hatred of and contempt for, these self-sacrificing Americans, who have been needlessly placed in harm’s way by these very commentators and the politicians they support. They hear criticism of our nation’s collective conduct in Iraq, and immediately assume it’s the fault of the soldiers.” Olbermann recognised that his critics were projecting their own subconscious hatred for US soldiers onto him, and then attacking him for carrying what is essentially their own shadow. In the words of depth psychologist, C. G. Jung: “We still attribute to the other fellow all the evil and inferior qualities that we do not like to recognize in ourselves, and therefore have to criticize and attack him, when all that has happened is that an inferior “soul” has emigrated from one person to another. The world is still full of betes noires and scapegoats, just as it formerly teemed with witches and werewolves” C. G. Jung, Civilization in Transition, p.130; quoted in On Scapegoating: A Collection of Ideas Those who fail to recognise they are subconsciously projecting their shadow on anyone they disagree with are often considered to be, in Jungian terms, not totally enlightened and self-realised: Every person who is not totally enlightened and self-realised has an “ego” (that) is full of lower emotional poison (toward) its own ugliness and imperfection… it cannot acknowledge this ugliness in itself, because to do so would shatter the narcissistic illusion of its own wonderfulness and specialness, and confront it with its true nature. The result would be either madness or a spiritual self-judgement by which the ego is forced to confront its own negativity. Therefore, in order to maintain its own equilibrium, its own sanity in other words, as psychological defence mechanism, the ego has to constantly project its ugliness onto an appropriate scapegoat. This is how they cope with their unacknowledged and repressed psychic contents, which can only be tolerated as hatred for another, for a pereceived enemy who has slighted them or their family or tribe or culture or ethnicity or nation or religion or ideology. This happens everywhere, prejudice, bigotry, intolerance, xenophobia, fear and hatred of the “other” are universal. … Only one who has totally gone beyond the limitation of their finite self, and realised their identity with the Supreme, will no longer project their ego-ideal onto those they identify with, and their shadow onto all those they choose to scapegoat, whether out of prejudice picked up from parents or peers or social condition, or whether these are people who have slighted or insulted the object of ego-identification, or who even if they haven’t are paranoidly misinterpreted as wanting to or actually doing so. Prolonged failure to acknowledge one’s shadow can lead to what Jung termed possession: A term used to describe the identification of consciousness with an unconscious content or complex. The most common forms of possession are by the shadow and the contrasexual complexes, anima/animus. A man who is possessed by his shadow is always standing in his own light and falling into his own traps. Whenever possible, he prefers to make an unfavorable impression on others. What sort of impression does this Olbermann critic prefer to convey? According to Gerhard Wehr, those possessed by their shadow act out in the voice of the shadow without consciously choosing to do so and often without realizing this is happening. He mentions that mob psychology can make one particularly vulnerable to shadow projection. Psychology of the mob may be the best explanation for why those most likely to misinterpret criticism of the Bush administration as an attack on the troops, are the very same people who defend actions that would increase US soldiers’ exposure to danger and who refuse to support improvements in veteran benefits. According to Wehr, an essential step towards the path to what Jung calls individuation, is to acknowledge when one is projecting or being possessed by one’s shadow, and refusing to let our personality be dominated by this. Many cultures have historically provided spiritual support for this journey through shared rituals. Many are starting to believe that modern western civilization fails to provide this much needed support. Perhaps all the scapegoating that pundits carry out night and day over mainstream media are a reflection of a society lacking in meaningful ritual. Through shadow projection visible enemies are conjured up so that the mob can commence a verbal stoning of the devil. It is as if the unindividuated have substituted their own inferior rituals as a release for a spiritual calling for inner reflection that they refuse to acknowledge and yet cannot ignore.   Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website
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  Oblermann, At Length

  http://crushingkrisis.com/?p=3341
  70 days ago in Crushing Krisis › Crushing Krisis is the longest running blog in Philadelphia. · Authority: 6

  I love words. I was notorious as a child for needing something to read at any idle moment. Eating breakfast? Better hope that cereal box has lots of copy on it. Long car ride? Multiple paperbacks required, just to be safe. The internet has taken the edge of my constant need to consume the written word, but I sometimes get intellectual heartburn from all the junk food of message boards and user comments I devour to keep my gears spinning. Even worse than the junk are insubstantial articles - 500 and 1,000 word affairs that get me all spun up and then just stop. I vastly prefer, and eternally adore, longform journalistic writing, especially in the form of media critique. It’s a style of writing I love to consume, and the style I enjoy writing the most. You can trace my appreciation back to being hooked on the reviews at Furia.com in the nineties, and more recently in Jacob Clifton’s poetic, academic, polemic recaps of Battlestar Galactica. Last weekend the piece that caught my extended attention was from the New Yorker - a complete recounting of the personal history and personal psyche of Keith Oblermann. Based on the sheer word count that has been devoted to Oblermann recently, I’m assuming you know who he is. You have to remember, I don’t consume these people on television - just through their print coverage and occasional video clips - so I commensurately don’t understand how famous they are to actual teevee viewers. However, even from my detached vantage point Keith Oblermann’s name and face seem to have reached zeitgeist levels of recognition. I used to enjoy Keith’s critical essays on MSNBC dot com long before I knew he was an on-air personality because he didn’t do the typical journalistic dance of balance when someone was clearly in the moral right or wrong. He just spoke the truth, which sometimes meant speaking out against his topic of discussion. Yet, he wasn’t an op-ed writer - he was just a reporter. He just reported the truth. Given the recent backlash against him, it seems that Keith (or, at least, his public persona) has undergone a translation from truth-speaking broadcaster to liberal figure(talking)head, held in apposition to make-pretend journalists like Bill O’Reilly. The difference, I think, is that Keith has aggressively shifted the focus of his considerably audible and influential voice away from the morally black and white and into the politically gray. He’s still engaged in a mainly journalistic pursuit, rather than an opinionated one. As discussed in the feature-article, Keith recently punctuated a special commentary by commanding our commander-in-chief to “Shut the hell up!” Of course, most of Bush’s words and actions seem more morally black than politically gray to any rational human being, but it is a bit beyond the pale to viciously criticize a sitting president from your anchor chair. However, Keith has also turned his focus into the Democratic fray to slam Hillary Clinton for invoking the assassination of RFK when discussing why the nominating process might (and, per her, should) continue through the summer. Unlike Bush, this is clearly a gray area, or at least gray enough that a nine-minute retort seems a little overboard … possibly the vented hot air of a gasbag. As the hot air continues to vent, and as the dissenters continue to get in line, the picture of the New Oblermann becomes increasingly crisp. He is not just liberal Bill O’Reilly, or liberal anyone else, because he’s not simply espousing liberalism. He’s espousing truth and logic, much in the same way Jon Stewart does, except he does not have the shield of “Fake News” to hide behind. And, sometimes to highlight the illogical he needs to rachet up his own rhetoric to full blast to make sure there is no mistaking his commentary for equivocation. Sometimes Keith Oblermann needs to be illogical to attach the illogic. A commitment to truth and logic in real news is a scary thing - something many Americans haven’t experienced in their lifetime, and certainly not anything they’ll catch on their local six o’clock news. Keith is treading into untested waters with his brand of journalistic critique. And, even if it’s all just hot air, right now you can hear the bones of the rest of the mainstream media establishment creaking in the wind. Or at least that’s what it seems like from my teevee-abstaining, mainstream-media-eschewing vantage point. Copyright © 2008 Crushing Krisis. Please contact us immediately if you are reading this post somewhere other than a feed reader/aggregator so that we may take legal action against the offending website and their ISP. Thank you. Plugin by Taragana
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  Olbermann’s editorial

  http://elliskillian.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/olbermann%e2%80...
  72 days ago in commonplace · Authority: 3

  Mr. President, the war isn’t about you — or golf Well, it’s about time - actually 7 years too late - that the fourth estate finally discovered its raison d’etre http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24632990/
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  Olbermann’s editorial

  http://meletai.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/olbermann-bushs-clai...
  74 days ago in Meletai = meditations · Authority: 1

  Mr. President, the war isn’t about you — or golf Well, it’s about time - actually 7 years too late - that the fourth estate finally discovered its raison d’etre http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24632990/  

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