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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.
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