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Is Dan Cooper pretending to be Keith Olbermann?

by Bob Carson | March 22, 2009 at 09:18 pm

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Dan Cooper for those of you who don't know, was one of the five key architects who created Fox News. He describes himself as "an all-around media gura" and has the resume to prove it.

Last Friday on his show Countdown, Keith Olbermann claimed that he had received an email in his personel account addressed to Dan Cooper Media that was a local tweet request. Olbermann goes on to ask, "who is Dan Cooper and why would he be getting emails about my fake twitter account?"

The fake account, which already has 13,000 followers, will not be yanked by twitter. Olbermann cautions his audience by saying, "Just remember, whoever you think you're following on twitter might be them."

Could it be the Fox News is using twitter to smear Keith Olbermann?

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Bob Carson

at 23:10 on March 22nd, 2009

I'm actually quoting from his show. I guess that may not be clear from the article. I've had difficulty with the new nowpublic layout. I'll see if I can edit.

Stick (not verified)

at 05:13 on March 23rd, 2009

Although, we may never really know, it is obvious that Keith has exposed a sensitive nerve at the Fix News Channel. Would it surprise anyone that the powers to be at Faux News, would do anything possible to discredit Mr. Olbermann?

With the decreasing viewership at Fox Noise and tremendous losses at News Corp, O'really (O'reilly), Hannity et.al, are losing their grip on all except the far, far right wing. I have anecdotal evidence that many people with college educations have found Ruperts empire offensive and mostly non factual.

I can't wait until Rupert decides to employ Sarah Palin on Fix news and we can all enjoy her intellectual diatribe about geography, geopolitical positioning and her abstinence only political stand, all while she and her 17 y/o daughter are breast feeding their children together.

Is Dan Cooper pretending to be Keith Olbermann? Would you be surprised......?

Bob Carson

at 23:53 on March 24th, 2009

The New York Post basically exists to smear Olbermann. They lose 40 or 50 million dollars a year.

Rich Stark (not verified)

at 01:28 on March 26th, 2009

Stick claimed: "With the decreasing viewership at Fox Noise..."

Hey Fox Hater... do your homework... FNC is doing pretty well in the ratings. And O'Rielly continually kicks Olbermann's ass in the ratings. Honestly, Fox could care less about Olbermann. He's no threat to them whatsoever.

Hevach (not verified)

at 12:54 on March 26th, 2009

He did consistently kick Olbermann in the ratings. Last year he was neck in neck consistently, and eventually lost the key demographic entirely, and has been losing the others - at the current rate, Olbermann will have secure leads in all demographics later this year, and by this time next year will have a bigger lead than O'Reilly ever enjoyed.

The week O'Reilly lost the ratings was the one in which he began accusing the unashamedly conservative ratings board of fraud and conspiracy against him, which he continued to do until he was informed that he endangered his career by doing so.