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Even the notoriously smarty pants "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" (and I say that with affection and admiration) makes a mistake that bedevils many of us. In a caption promoting Friday night's story about Sarah Palin's interview, the "Countdown" crew on MSNBC mixed up whose (possessive) and who's (contraction for "who is").

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We have only one rule to remember: Possessive pronouns never use an apostrophe.

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dertghj kas kasadet

dertghj kas kasadet sancısına ne iyi gelirhadi garierotik film izle - fersbuk - aşk falı - dertyli - cinsel pozisyonlar - henbi sıcak sohbet - gerdsacvbnm
günaydın mesajları demi
- - - ferdsazx isyan sözleri - gertyu -escort bayanlar hertfders - bedava film izle - gertyuliseli kızlar -fersd aşk şiirleri - merty çet -certylş şifalı bitkiler ve faydaları - gbnmöç. dul bayanlarla sohbet gtredsa - islami çet treds-playboy güzelleri bgtyuıop - çet hyuopğ
çetleşme jklşi
çet sohbet - hjklşhikayeler - htres çet sohbet asd
müzik dinle fgtre -sohbet - gbnmöçtürkü dinle jmöç
şarkı dinle ujklş
film izle uıkl - cinsel pozisyonlar grtyu
escort bayanlar -frty
rted- sohbet - gerkapak laflar - ert
sohbet peki

Oh, my......

Ms. Nelson, as much as I admire and value your extraordinary attention to language and grammar.....

.......I find it disheartening that a lady such as yourself could find even a semblance of "affection" for the splenetic and embarrassingly unprofessional Keith Olbermann.

You certainly should feel no obligation to the Far Left N&O readership to mitigate your correction of Olbermann's MAJOR faux pas by hinting that ("YES!---I agree with his tiresome and ultra-tendentious diatribes.")

This poor man is so far to the destructive Left as he foams at the mouth that I'm sure he makes these kinds of mistakes all the time.

Perhaps we should simply ask his staff.

Olbermann should take a few lessons from Rachel Maddow and learn to disagree without constantly pursing his slits-for-lips together and releasing such bile. 

His easy-flowing misogyny is quite erosive from any side of the aisle.

He doesn't look good enough to get by with that.

LOL! 

 

 


 

Re: oh, my ...

I agree with you about Rachel Maddow. She does her job with great skill and intelligence. 

It isn't Olbermann's politics that I admire as much as I have admired the show's writing, but that has been disappointing and tiresome of late.

Pam Nelson

Triangle Grammar Guide 

You know, I find I tend to

You know, I find I tend to agree somewhat with Debrah, though perhaps not for the right reasons.

My politics, such as they are, vary somewhat widely across the spectrum, more than most individuals, I suspect, depending upon what the issue is. Though I sometimes agree with or at least easily tolerate (again, perhaps more than some) views to the right of center, one of the reasons I find myself more often to the left is because I find the less self-serving and far less hateful views there.

I don't watch Olbermann's show, except for an occasional snippet such as this when my specific attention is directed there. And when it is, I cannot take him for long, because people as smarmy as Olbermann are no less unpleasant and devisive than the Rush Limbaughs of the world.

As Olbermann and his guest themselves say, the kind of close scrutiny Palin received during an election campaign is mostly warranted, when it judiciously points out that she might not be well informed enough or in many ways well prepared to assume the office of Vice President, let alone the Presidency, should the need arise. Still the points can be made for more constructively with less derision.

I was about to suggest that somebody tell Keith that the election is over, but then I went to www.howobamagotelected.com. I couldn't be bothered to read much of that, but I think I read enough to understand that there's some lack of appreciation for the obvious answer: He got more votes, you morons.

So in the end, it's largely about entertainment, and to that I roundly applaud, whatever blows your skirt up.

 

Re: You know ...

About news shows as entertainment: I miss Walter Cronkite. 

Pam Nelson

Triangle Grammar Guide 

Yep. Or even Peter Jennings,

Yep. Or even Peter Jennings, who was pretty good with the grammar for someone who didn't graduate from high school.

Peter Jennings

I miss Jennings' way of reading the news, too. What I miss most about those guys is that they were reporters first. Reporters are my heroes.

Pam Nelson

Triangle Grammar Guide 

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Pam Nelson began her career as a writer in 1976 and has worked in various editing jobs at The News & Observer since 1987. She has won awards for her headline writing and has taught college classes in copy editing and seminars in grammar and usage.
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