Here’s what the Media Research Center has had to say about Keith Olbermann this week alone:
— A “drive-by bomb-thrower” from the “ratings purgatory that is his own Countdown on MSNBC” who was “[l]ike a baseball player – rescued from the nether reaches of the minor leagues and brought up to the Yankees – who cuts his hair, shaves the shaggy mustache and minds his grammar in his first TV interview.” — Mark Finkelstein, NewsBusters, Sept. 15
— A purveyor of “odiousness.” — Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters, Sept. 15
— “embarrassing and utterly disgraceful comments … vitriol … atrocious behavior.” — Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters, Sept. 14
— “a ratings plea disguised as a Countdown report … [an] attempt at rational thought.” — P.J. Gladnick, NewsBusters, Sept. 13
— “apparently sober” — MRC front page, Sept. 12
— “the worst performance by a supposed press representative in recent memory … mean-spirited and unacceptable … despicable and disgraceful even for him.” — Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters, Sept. 12
— “one of his most vitriolic attacks on the President.” — Brad Wilmouth, Sept. 11 NewsBusters post and Sept. 12 MRC CyberAlert.
— “Like they say about statistics, there are lies, damn lies . . . and Olbermann.” Mark Finkelstein, NewsBusters, Sept. 11
And this is “media research” … how, exactly?