{"id":1747,"date":"2010-02-04T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/04\/k-o-about-to-be-kod\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:18:00","slug":"k-o-about-to-be-kod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/04\/k-o-about-to-be-kod\/","title":{"rendered":"K.O. about to be KO&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/olbermann_sinking_ship_UM7ceoBjVvxJx2cDmK0x4O\">Keith Olbermann bloviates to shrinking audience<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Has the countdown begun for the end of &#8220;Countdown with Keith Olbermann?&#8221; With his ratings in free-fall, and his hateful histrionics reaching new highs, even Olbermann&#8217;s former supporters on the left are tuning out. Bloggers at the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio noted the uberdork&#8217;s 44 percent drop in listeners ages 25-54 from January 2009 to last month. &#8220;Olbermann&#8217;s showboat is sinking,&#8221; one LA Times blogger noted. &#8220;Listing in you-know-which direction.&#8221; Jon Stewart ridiculed him on &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; for calling Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown a &#8220;racist.&#8221; &#8220;There are creeping indications that the world may not have quite as much need of &#8212; or patience for &#8212; Olbermann and his shtick as it once did,&#8221; Jeff Bercovici wrote on DailyFinance.com. Olbermann struck back at Bercovici, naming him as one of the &#8220;Worst People in the World&#8221; and mischaracterizing the Web site as &#8220;right-wing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For a deeper understanding of why Olbermann is finally wearing thin with his audience, check out the movie advertised on this site, &#8220;Media Malpractice.&#8221;  Just lick the picture in the upper right of this page.<\/p>\n<p>Olbermann&#8217;s audience seems to be declining in a linear relationship with Obama&#8217;s public ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Fool me once&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 OK, OK, enough already.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had about 20 emails\/facebook messages and counting&#8230;.\u00a0 I meant CLICK the picture in the upper right.\u00a0 CLICK the picture.\u00a0 OK?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that&#8217;s what I get for typing at the spede of light.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=74cd9ce2-8b3b-8244-bb62-5f413a30cfe7\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1747\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/04\/k-o-about-to-be-kod\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1747\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/04\/k-o-about-to-be-kod\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1747\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/04\/k-o-about-to-be-kod\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/04\/k-o-about-to-be-kod\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/04\/k-o-about-to-be-kod\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Olbermann bloviates to shrinking audience Has the countdown begun for the end of &#8220;Countdown with Keith Olbermann?&#8221; With his ratings in free-fall, and his hateful histrionics reaching new highs, even Olbermann&#8217;s former supporters on the left are tuning out. 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