Well, the 24 hours are up, and here I come to write once again about what a reckless TV figure Keith Olbermann is — and how irresponsible MSNBC and NBC News management are for giving him a national platform and the network’s credibility to spread his innuendo, invective and smears. Olbermann tries to talk like he’s Edward R. Murrow, but he operates in the dirty tradition of Joe McCarthy…
Here’s video showing what got Deutsch in trouble. Brian Stelter, at the New York Times Media Deocoder blog, reported it first and most thoroughly, and Olbermann is now attacking him, too.
That was one of McCarthy’s favorite tactics — not just to push back, but to push back in a way meant to damage the reputation of anyone who would dare criticize him…
Believe me, there is no joy in saddling up again for this ride. But to the readers and colleagues who insisted it was wrong of me not to weigh in, here I am — signed, sealed, delivered, to quote the title of one of the campaign songs of the man who invited Olbermann to the White House and treated him like a serious journalist last fall even as he and his senior aides were denouncing Fox News as not being a “real news network.”
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