The bash-FNC David Brockite-troglodytes over at Media Matters for America are praising Keith Olbermann for having the blogger whose stated purpose in life is to incite crazy people to stalk Bill O'Reilly and God knows what other innocent people as a guest on "Countdown." This is not media watchdoggery. This is better known as "aiding and abetting." And because no Media Matters item or Keith Olbermann broadcast is complete without strategic omissions, check out Media Matters' description of "Mike from Orlando's" call-in to Bill O'Reilly's radio show:
On March 9, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann interviewed "Mike from Orlando," the man who called into the March 2 edition of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's nationally syndicated radio program and was threatened by O'Reilly with "a little visit" from "Fox security" simply for mentioning Olbermann's name on the air.
Ahem. Ole Mike called in as part of his stated campaign of harassment against O'Reilly on his site, CallingAllWingnuts.com. But the beauty part of the whole thing is how Wingnut Mike/Mick, or whatever he's decided to use as his latest alias, appeared on "Countdown" masked in shadows. That's a great propaganda tool--it whispers "I'm testifying against a giant evil" so tastefully--except when it doesn't, as in this case. In this case it screams, "I'm a big coward who talks tough but has the courage and convictions of a cockroach." Nice.
And because KO just wouldn't be KO if he weren't a pompous windbag, he had to start the segment with this pretentious literary reference to the author of the classic World War One novel "All Quiet on the Western Front," Erich Maria Remarque:
OLBERMANN: Erich Maria Remarque will forgive me, I hope, but it is all quiet on the Bill O'Reilly front. Quiet, too quiet.
Erich Maria is dead, I really doubt Olbermann ever even read the book (anyone who did and understood it would never be so casual about references to it) and I'm certain Remarque didn't write "All Quiet," one of the greatest epic novels of the horror of war of all time so some 21st-century journalistic-impersonator could drop a reference to make some dishonest ideological point.
