Hey everyone, Keith Olbermann is liberal.
Now, I know this comes as a surprise to you, but apparently that was such an obscure fact that Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center had to do a statistical analysis study to find it out. Days after the report hit the internet and news wires (probably via the internet), Newsbusters.org is all bent out of shape because Olbermann didn’t take the study seriously.
As Olbermann vaguely described the MRC’s “Worst Person” study, he omitted the central finding that Olbermann’s attacks on conservatives outnumbered attacks on liberals by a staggering 174 to 23 margin, or more than 8 to 1. Instead, he argued that “only” 174 out of 600 targets were conservative, refusing to reveal that a mere 23 were liberal, and, employing his own brand of loopy logic, argued that because 71 percent of the nominees were not conservative, that the study proves the segment is “apolitical.” Olbermann: “I’d like to thank the MRC for confirming my point that the segment is apolitical.”
Okay. Number 1: Olbermann’s “loopy logic” is correct. If I attack 20 white people, 50 black people and 500 chinese people, you can’t claim I’m biased against black people because I attacked more black people than white people. Olbermann is absolutely correct. Sorry boys.
Number 2: So f’ing what? If he attacks conservatives every single solitary night. So what? All you have to do is go up the dial two channels to find the polar opposite, Bill O’Reilly, who used to be an independent and has pretty much degenerated into nothing more than an angry talking head who parrots the Bush Administration’s position on any given issue.
I’m not a huge fan of Keither Olbermann’s politics, but frankly the guy is a pisser. I was watching his show the other night from the green room at MSNBC’s studios in Secaucus, and it was funny as hell. He took on the serious issues (the recent “discovery” of WMD), took on some less serious ones, and even laughed his ass off at my story (I guess you could call that a disclaimer).
I’ve come out against Olbermann a million times. His ratings are pretty low and nobody watches his show. The fact is his commentary on Katrina was one of the best monologues ever given on television. The fact that his ratings suck and he’s a liberal seems to be a favorite talking point for the right.
As if there are no rightwingers on television, or they all have great ratings.
And the funniest part is that the MRC in its infinite wisdom seems to expect Keith Olbermann to run with this story and display its findings like they matter. Get back to me when Bill O’Reilly runs a series on FAIR reports and doesn’t pooh pooh them. Or when Sean Hannity responds to some of the stuff Al Franken says.
Stop it folks. You look stupid. For a show no one watches, you guys sure like watching every move he makes!
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