It’s amazing to me that liberals can’t assume responsibility without pointing at Fox as though Fox has anything to do with Olbermann’s insubordination. Howard Kurtz this weekend:
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“Well if you look at Fox News you have some of the most prominent contributors on that network, Karl Rove raised almost 40 – 5o million dollars for an independent group that aided Republicans in this 2010 midterm cycle, dick morris raised money spoke on behalf of Republicans, and even Sean Hannity who is a host obviously of a nighttime show on Fox he has spoken at Republican fundraisers. All those infractions in my view … are worse than what Olbermann did … if you’re going to criticize that sort of thing … you can’t run around and do that same thing yourself.”
And if they had been at MSNBC they would have been violating policy, the policy which dictates that you can be as slanted to the left as you want in your broadcasted content and pretend that it’s objective – and you can pretend impartiality because there exists a policy that prevents identification of such by prohibiting campaign contributions.
Oh, hold up. Rove, Hannity, Palin, et al. aren’t at MSNBC. They’re at Fox. Perhaps Kurtz is mistaken and believes Olbermann to broadcast from Fox instead of MSNBC because I can’t figure out the relevancy of Fox in a conversation about MSNBC employee policy.
The only person who got it right was Paul Begala who discussed the situation with me on AC360 the other evening. He was able to point out that this is a dispute within MSNBC, nothing more.
Now that Bush is back in the public eye promoting his new book, maybe liberals can blame him.
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