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Olbermann Blogs About Milbank On Daily Kos
Keith Olbermann is blogging on Daily Kos again. This time he’s making amends to his loony left base about not publicly lynching long-time shill Dana Milbank for having the nerve to be critical of the messiah Barack Obama. When Dana Milbank went off the reservation and wrote a piece calling Obama out for his arrogance, the Daily Kos and other lefty blogs went wild.
Even though Milbank is a long time committed far left shill for the Democratic party, he committed the ultimate sin which one doesn’t simply come back from. Christians aren’t supposed to take the lord’s name in vain, and Democrats aren’t supposed to take his holiness Barack Obama’s name in vain either.
So Olbermann felt he needed to respond directly to his core audience at Daily Kos about Milbank:
Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, who notified us today that after four years appearing with us, he had accepted another television offer.
This saved your crack Countdown staff an increasingly difficult decision.
For nearly a week we’d been waiting for him to offer a correction or an explanation for his column from last week in which he apparently reported an Obama quote without a full context turned the meaning of the quote inside-out.
Then he called criticisms of his column “whines” even though the dispute was over whether Obama said the self-deprecating: “It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign — that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions” — or only the part about “I have just become a symbol…”
We had decided not to have Dana on this news-hour again until this was cleared up, and, sadly after some very happy years, he’s apparently chosen to make that cloud permanent.
Good luck, Dana.
As he usually does, Keith thought he would calm the waters over at Kos by giving the lefties a heads-up about what he would say on his broadcast later in the evening.
I’m pretty sure Keith Olbermann is the first pundit (such as he is) that’s wholly owned and operated by the far left blogosphere.
(hat tip to ICN)
(Image via sconefest)
UPDATE:
Dana Milbank talks to Fishbowl D.C. about his new gig on CNN and not appearing on Keith Olbermann anymore.
“The CNN contract was negotiated long before the Obama column. It’s just that CNN’s a better fit for me and my philosophy of holding all parties to account.”
HA! Maybe it’s just me, but that sure as hell seems like a swipe at Olbermann for being in the tank for Obama.
Obama’s Hubris Problem
According to The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, Barack Obama’s biggest challenger this election season is his own hubris. Milbank details the way Obama has been swaggering around Washington as if he’s already the President.
Barack Obama has long been his party’s presumptive nominee. Now he’s becoming its presumptuous nominee.
Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday. He ordered up a teleconference with the (current president’s) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the Pakistani prime minister and had his staff arrange for the chairman of the Federal Reserve to give him a briefing. Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.
Along the way, he traveled in a bubble more insulating than the actual president’s. Traffic was shut down for him as he zoomed about town in a long, presidential-style motorcade, while the public and most of the press were kept in the dark about his activities, which included a fundraiser at the Mayflower where donors paid $10,000 or more to have photos taken with him. His schedule for the day, announced Monday night, would have made Dick Cheney envious…
In the latest issue of the New Republic, Gabriel Sherman found reporters complaining that Obama’s campaign was “acting like the Prom Queen” and being more secretive than Bush. The magazine quoted the New York Times’ Adam Nagourney’s reaction to the Obama campaign’s memo attacking one of his stories: “I’ve never had an experience like this, with this campaign or others.” Then came Obama’s overseas trip and the campaign’s selection of which news organizations could come aboard. Among those excluded: the New Yorker magazine, which had just published a satirical cover about Obama that offended the campaign.
Even Bush hasn’t tried that. But then again, Obama has been outdoing the president in ruffles and flourishes lately. As Bush held quiet signing ceremonies in the White House yesterday morning, Obama was involved in a more visible display of executive authority a block away, when he met with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani at the Willard. A full block of F Street was shut down for the prime minister and the would-be president, and some 40 security and motorcade vehicles filled the street.
Later, Obama’s aides issued an official-sounding statement, borrowing the language of White House communiques: “I had a productive and wide-ranging discussion. . . . I look forward to working with the democratically elected government of Pakistan.”
It had been a long day of acting presidential, but Obama wasn’t done. After a few hours huddling with advisers over his vice presidential choice, Obama made his way to the pep rally on the Hill. Moments after he entered the meeting with lawmakers, there was an extended cheer, followed by another, and another.
“I think this can be an incredible election,” Obama said later. “I look forward to collaborating with everybody here to win the election.”
Win the election? Didn’t he do that already?
Keep in mind that Dana Milbank is no moderate. He’s one of Keith Olbermann’s left-wing shills, so it’s pretty interesting that he would write a piece like this.
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