Keith Olbermann: "Scottie Who Knew Too Much"

Thank you, MSNBC.

I was so completely outraged by the comments of Keith Olbermann and others immediately following the assassination of fellow citizens in Tucson, Arizona that I was compelled to send the passionate e-mails below 'directly' to Mr. Olbermann and to anyone who would listen @ both MSNBC and Fox News.

Mr. Olbermann said goodbye to viewers last night and ended by reading a James Thurber short story as was often his habit on Friday nights. This one was titled "Scottie Who Knew Too Much" and it was published in 1940. The story's final line was this: "It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all of the answers."

Yes, Mr. Olbermann - journalists have a responsibility to live the tenets of the Thurber message you selected for your final moments on MSNBC. Best wishes with your job search. Good luck moving forward.

Sincerely,
TishTrek
Quote of the Day:
"If you see something, say something." NYPD

----- Original Message -----
From: Tish Ferguson
To: mediainquiries@msnbc.com ; keith.olbermann@msnbc.com
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 11:47 AM
Subject: The Assassination of FACTS starts with Keith Obermann!


Dear MSNBC Management,

What a disgrace! Keith Olbermann and every other reporter and anonymous blogger in this country sarcastically & maliciously minimizing the horror of yesterday's assassination attempt on a revered Arizona public official by targeting Palin & others while screaming their 'usual' contrived talking points are what's wrong with this country! People who work to score twisted political points off the backs of dead & wounded public servants and who use the death of Dallas Green's beautiful and innocent 9 year old grandchild for sick personal promotion is what is destroying the tenor & discourse in our country!

What happened to mourning the dead out of respect for a few days so a sense of community & determination can prevail over chaos & horror to bring all thinking people in our country together @ a time of tragedy? Who raised you people? Right after the Oklahoma Bombing, the same losers with microphones were screaming "Right Wing" in crowed theaters! Right after the Times Square Bomber terrified all of us in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg was QUICK (like all of you!!) to succinctly announce to the press & public that the bomber was probably upset about Obama Care! The rhetoric & hypothesis's were wrong and no one ever apologized for the hysteria & damage these false comments inflicted! The Times Square Bomber turned out to be part of a terror network and I'm still waiting for a few apologies!

Get a grip people! When we find out that today's 22 year old assassin has been exhibiting bizarre behaviors for 15 years and that he was actually practicing taking people out with a remote control 19 hours a day on the #1 selling Video Game Call-of-Duty Series, 'Black Ops & 'Modern Warfare 2' before today's killing spree, shall we blame Palin & Beck for that too? Obermann's ignorant comments that had no roots to any investigative journalism were abusive to our stunned nation last night. Thanks for the new low. Now - Out of respect for the dead, can you give your on-line rancor & political rhetoric a rest for a few days and let us bury these people in peace. - Thank you.

I've worked global jobs in New York City and beyond for 25 years, so don't call me some Right Wing-Nut, Desperate New Jersey Housewives clone and/or a Snooki look-a-like who doesn't get it. I'm a professional woman who has been married for 25 years; I'm the mother of two children in this country who witnessed the horrors & devastation of 9/11 with my own eyes. Trust me - Keith Olbermann is the one who doesn't get it!

Respectfully submitted,
Tish Ferguson
2404 Maria Place
Pt. Pleasant, NJ 08742
732-259-2780 - Cell
732-714-8483 - Home

----- Original Message -----
From: Tish Ferguson
To: Countdown@msnbc.com
Cc: Hannity@foxnews.com ; Forbes@foxnews.com ; newsmanager@foxnews.com ; oreilly@foxnews.com ; glennbeck@foxnews.com ; huckmail@foxnews.com ; ontherecord@foxnews.com ; mediainquiries@msnbc.com
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 3:35 PM
Subject: Note to Mr. Olbermann: The Assassination of FACTS in AZ starts with YOU!

Dear Mr. Keith Olbermann,

I was the only one in my house left with the stomach to listen to your rants on Countdown over the past two years, but last night you ended that for me when you created the Worst-of-the-Worst cable moments of all time.

In the late 1990's I turned on The Keith Olbermann Show with great anticipation as you launched your first political analysis show where it was my personal observation that you hated dissecting the details of 'that' dress in the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal, (you told us you hated it!). I know it wasn't the show you had expected to be part of and the nation's obsession with that current event was distasteful for you... and as a viewer I felt that show ended the way it started: painfully.

I believe listening to the other side of legitimate arguments is important in the debate process so I execute my responsibility to seek out knowledge on all sides of issues whenever I can. That approach helps position, reposition or validate my arguments; and/or it can change my point of view if I'm enlightened by something I hadn't researched or known previously; or it helps me prepare a response when someone asks my opinion about an important issue of our time.

Here is my eclectic list of some of my talking-head favorites: Sean Hannity, Anderson Cooper, Bill O'Reilly, the late Tim Russert, Alan Colmes, Ralph Peters, Brit Hume and the mix of guests at the desk of Fox News Sunday, David Gergin who spoke at my daughter's OSU graduation in June, George Stephanopolis, etc. - Why are some of those left-leaning voices in the mix and not yours'? Because unlike you, they never stopped respecting me & others.

What you did last night (Saturday, Jan 8th) on television was one of the most disrespectful & disgraceful acts in political theatre that I've ever witnessed. Moderate, middle-of-the-road people who vote based on issues were actually tearfully praying for the health and welfare of the victims of the Arizona assassination event; we were mourning the death of a revered judge, a beloved social worker known for his community outreach efforts on behalf of the 8th District, and we were shocked by the the death of a 9 year old child who - at that hour - we didn't even know was the grand daughter of a much loved sports legend. We were literally praying for the life of a radiant shining star in our U.S. Congress; and then there was YOU on MSNBC and your distorted face, and your rant, and your hatred..... I sat so sickened & so stunned by your words that I knew instantly that nothing you say could ever influence my opinion again. I e-mailed friends until 3 a.m.

Sir - look at the tape: It was as if you were speaking to only yourself in some mirror as you deeply enjoyed this moment on the back of this horrendous tragedy in Arizona. You looked like you actually thought the importance of your contrived and unresearched diatribe somehow trumped the required respect for the dead and wounded yesterday. Where do you get off doing such a thing??!!

I'm sending the e-mail chain below because I was a follower-of-yours-from-the-early-days. Go ahead and tell me to pound salt.... but when I turned on the television in the 1990's you were a vibrant, handsome, high potential & high caliber talent blazing a trail on cable and ready to set the world on fire. The confluence of your interests & deep knowledge in sports, current events & politics differentiated you from others. At that time, I thought you had an interesting edge over peers in your field. Ten years later, your positive face to the audience is gone. Forget about those of us you could give a damn about... Families have to bury their children in Arizona this week, so please be quiet for five minutes and give 'it' a rest. Thank you.

The e-mail chain under my signature below captures what went wrong in the MSNBC studio last night!

Sincerely,
Tish Ferguson from Pt. Pleasant, NJ
Contact Data Below

----- Original Message -----
From: Tish Ferguson
To: Hannity@foxnews.com ; Forbes@foxnews.com ; newsmanager@foxnews.com ; oreilly@foxnews.com ; glennbeck@foxnews.com ; huckmail@foxnews.com ; ontherecord@foxnews.com
Cc: mediainquiries@msnbc.com ; keith.olbermann@msnbc.com
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 12:55 PM
Subject: Fw: The Assassination of FACTS in AZ starts with Keith Obermann!


EVERYONE @ FOX NEWS:

HELP!!! OMGosh - I'm furious!! I just sent the note below to MSNBC and because I couldn't sleep all last night, I sent a similar note to writer Caroline Howard @ Forbes On-Line @ around midnight because she produced the first article that I read yesterday which maliciously targeted Sarah Palin and 'all of you' as a root cause for the assassinations that played out in Arizona yesterday! I'm writing to you to ask you to FIGHT BACK with the FACTS because I'm confident that you will prevail as the consummate professionals & journalists that you are.

I've never been so proud to be a FOX NEWS viewer! I've never been so turned-off or rendered so sick to my stomach by any journalist before last night! I watched Keith Olbermann climb on the back of dead public servants whose next of kin had barely been notified; and to make those actions worse he essentially jumped on the tragic death of Dallas Green's innocent granddaughter to attack all of you and by extension "me" - your repeat customer and viewer - a patriot, professional woman, wife, working mom, and public servant for 30 years. How dare he do such a thing??!!

Keith Olbermann's attack on all of us was sooo over-the-line, so I'm respectfully requesting that you to publicly defend me and all of your viewers, repeat customers and followers in the days ahead.

The families of beautiful nine year old girls who are murdered and those of revered public servants who are mortally wounded in an open square in our country need to be protected from the vitriolic & contrived rants of people like Keith who put themselves & their agendas before every tragedy everyday. I applaud Sunday Night Football and ESPN for assessing Mr. Olbermann's abysmal behaviors that consistently target large segments of the viewing population and for eliminating him as a FACE & VOICE of America's favorite past-times.

He's no political analyst; he's a washed-up political hack who made a conscious choice last night to run-his-highly-energized-mouth off the back of someone else's dead child at the same time one of America's radiant and shining stars in Congress fights for her life in critical care. The public had come to expect so little from Keith Olbermann, but no one expected this. - It's an unforgivable act.

Please READ my note below. Thank you.

With Great Sadness & Respect,

Tish Ferguson
2404 Maria Place
Pt. Pleasant, NJ 08742
732-259-2780 - Cell
732-714-8483 - Home