Olbermann and some of his MSNBC colleagues surprised their left-leaning fans on Tuesday with eviscerating critiques of President Barack Obama's Oval Office address on the oil spill spewing off the Gulf Coast....One commenter on the Daily Kos, where Olbermann has frequently blogged over the years, speculated that the pattern of hosts generally sympathetic to the president bashing the administration was too consistent to be a coincidence.“Can't verify, of course,' the commenter began, “but a friend in the news biz tells me he got a damaging e-mail from one of his pals at NBC. Something to the effect that their anger was pre-planned because ‘beating up on the president has been good for ratings.' I haven't checked, but I'm hearing that Olbermann slammed the speech on Twitter before it even started.'
Olbermann, incensed by the commenter, later fired off a posted titled “Check, Please' explaining that he won't be “back' to the site until it stops delving into “conspiracy theories.'
"Oh, Keith, you mean you only now just noticed that the whole friggin' website is shot through with conspiracy theories?"
“‘Can't verify'... ‘haven't checked'...It can't be verified because it's nonsense, and it wasn't checked because nobody bothered,' Olbermann said before launching into a critique of the blog. “For years, from the Katrina days onward, whenever I stuck my neck out, I usually visited here as the clichéd guy in the desert stopping by the oasis,' he wrote. “I never got universal support, and never expected it, nor wanted it (who wants an automatic ‘Yes' machine?). But I used to read a lot about how people here would 'always have my back,' and trust me this was of palpable value as I fought opponents external and internal who try to knock me and Rachel off the air, all the time, in ways you can imagine and others you can't.'"And I'm not paranoid, either--they really are out to get me."
Olbermann went on to say that he understood if some of his viewers were frustrated to see him criticizing the president but that he would not stand for being accused of doing so just to boost ratings. “To accuse me, after five years of risking what I have to present the truth as I see it, of staging something for effect, is deeply offensive to me and is an indication of what has happened here,' the liberal host wrote. “You want cheerleaders? Hire the Buffalo Jills.
(Give Olby credit, he's got good taste in cheerleaders, at least.)
You want diaries with conspiracy theories,
The Kos Kidz responded with their trademark civility and good sense:
We will have you to thank if the dems lose control of the house. Once again the liberals/progressives shoot themselves in the foot by refusing to face reality. I'm pretty disgusted with you, Ms Maddow and the rest of the MSM. But the thing is, I always expected you two NOT to go along with the MSM contrived memes and yet here you are, like the rest of the sheep, echoing the theme of the day.
Wow at least Obama has not cut and run. Grow the hell up man, this world is not centered around you!!!!!
I graduated from high school In 1968 and I just have to say it! The cheerleaders in my school were much cuter and had better routines than the corporatism cheerleaders of today.
I never would have guessed you graduated high school, based on your comments here.
