Did Beyoncé steal dance moves for her new, and amazing, "Countdown" video? Is she the Urban Outfitters of choreography? Say it ain't so. According to ABC, she's been called out for being a copycat, and there's some pretty convincing video to go along with the accusations. Here's the side-by-side comparison of B's latest moves, and Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's routine, which she created:
Pretty Convincing Video That Beyoncé Ripped Off "Countdown" Dance Moves
Video: Have You Heard? Beyoncé's New Video Is Really Good
FINE, let's talk about Beyoncé's new video, because even though these hyped up whatevers are usually just a huge letdown, the video for "Countdown," off her album 4, really is as amazing as The Internet says. And it's fun! And there's a lot of fashion! And it's generating adorable headlines like: "Beyonce's 'Countdown' Video A Unanimous Hit With Fans." The song is a tribute to her husband Jay-Z, and within the first 40 seconds she proudly flashes her pregnant belly. Listen, watch, enjoy:
We Are (Over) Half Way Through The Summer!
Good news for those also suffering through reverse seasonal affective disorder: we are over halfway through the sweltering summer months! According to our calculations, this past Saturday was the half-way point through the season, which so far has brought a brutal heatwave and broken subway air conditioners. Sure, we'll soon be complaining about the cold once again, while we ponder new ways to say "snowmageddon," and compile our Top Five Fireplace Bars list... but it's still nice to know that we're half way through this thing.
Video: Keith Olbermann Announces New Show, June 20 Start
Three months after leaving MSNBC, number one libtard Keith Olbermann has announced his return to airwaves today in a video at his website, FOKNewsChannel, FOK being "Friends of Keith." The new show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann (hmm, that's familiar), will start on June 20 on the small cable network Current TV. He explained, "I wanted to go somewhere where i could expand upon and enlarge upon the work I'd already done...a place where journalistic integrity and analytical honesty would never be compromised by corporate synergy... I found that place at Current TV... where they gave me a title, an equity stake, and a PONY."
Keith Olbermann Announces Today Is His Last Day At MSNBC
Keith Olbermann, the bombastic cornerstone of MSNBC's evening talk show block, announced that tonight's Countdown with Keith Olbermann was his last on the cable news network. Olberman, who was suspended last November and said NBC's policy about donation disclosure was probably not legal, over not disclosing political donations to management, said tonight, "There were many occasions, particularly in the last two-and-a-half years, where all that surrounded the show—but never the show itself—was just too much for me. But your support and loyalty and, if I may use the word, insistence, ultimately required me to keep going. My gratitude to you is boundless and if you think I've done any good here, imagine how it looked from this end...this may be the only television program wherein the host was much more in awe of the audience than vice versa." Here's video and a rough transcript is below:
Olbermann Returns, Calls NBC's Policy "Probably Not Legal"
After his two-day unpaid suspension for making political donations without alerting his superiors, Keith Olbermann was back on MSNBC hosting Countdown. It was, as ever, a Keith-fest. He seemed awed (or smug) about the reaction, saying, "You know, when there is a petition supporting and it winds up being signed by 300,000 people, you get 21,000 Tweets in a 72 hour period, and you are invited to be on television because you aren't on television because they want you on 'Good Morning, America,' and 'Larry King' and 'Letterman' and you break records on the Huffington Post and you're on the front page of the New York Times without being dead or in jail or Charlie Sheen or something. For me, it was a surprise. All I can say is I'm stunned and greatful and it still feels like a universal hug."
Olbermann Apologizes To Viewers, Bitches About NBC
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann will be back at his Countdown anchor desk tonight, after being suspended without pay for making political donations without notifying his higher-ups, but he wanted to clear everything up before then. Last night, he released a statement thanking his viewers for their "extraordinary and ground-rattling support" and complained that while he made a mistake (and had no clue about NBC's "inconsistently applied" policy about news employees and political donations), he was "suspended without a hearing, and learned of that suspension through the media."
Video: Olbermann Remembers His Mom, Her Yankee Moment
MSNBC talk show host Keith Olbermann may be incredibly polarizing, but his tribute to his mother, who passed away over the weekend, is rather sweet. He said that Marie Olbermann was the person who made him love sports, "It was Mom who introduced me to the game, and in my teenaged years when we went nearly every day, it was she who trundled me and my sister to the ballpark. It was on her tv that I came to love the sport, and by her side that I began to understand it. And, sitting next to her, that I began to understand that I was not going to be any damn good playing it and if I wanted 'in' - maybe I'd better try talking about it."

