...although, of course, for Keith Olbermann, there will no doubt be many more last straws--because he has so left straws left!
The invaluable Olbermann Watch caught Olbermann uttering epithets that would likely get a mere mortal TV talking head fired, or at least castigated. But Olbermann is immune, because he's been sanctified by the left. That's correct: because Olbermann is so p.c., he can get away with not being p.c. He can be downright nasty, in fact; the opposite of "kumbaya," and be cheered all the more from his lefty cheering section.
So when Olbermann referred to Fox News as "hyenas," it's safe to predict that KO had nothing to fear from the next day's New York Times. And even when he referred specifically to Chris Wallace as "a monkey posing as a newscaster"--well, he knows that nothing bad will happen to him. The usual-suspect self-declared "guardians of civility" will be silent, of course, because they don't object to the "coarsening of the culture" when it's a conservative speaking up or speaking out. If it's Olbermann throwing around nasty personal insults, well, that's just "hardball."
Update: the must-read Inside Cable News makes a similarly valuable point about Olbermann's over-the-line rhetoric.
