You would think that The Huffington Post would be reliably in Keith Olbermann's corner. After all, Arianna's blog and Keith's ego both sit well to the left, politically.
And yet for four days now, the HuffPost has prominently displayed James Poniewozik's mocking takedown of KO, using the headline, "Time Critic: Olbermann's Special Comment Shows He's 'Just Another Of The Cable Gasbags He Used To Be A Corrective To'" (see screen grab above, just to immortalize the moment)
So what gives? Why would the Huffpost take after Olbermann like that? Perhaps AH and HP are determined to go mainstream. Or perhaps the Huffpo hipsters simply have an eye for the ridiculous. Which is to say, they are looking out and seeing the increasingly Howard Beale-like spectacle of Olbermann's nightly rants and they want to keep their distance.
But what's also interesting are the comments, posted by Huffposters. As of Saturday night, there were 2932 comments, which is quite a few. And a lot of them are funny, from the one that reads, "Olberman jumped the shark with this 'special comment'" to those that are sympathetic, but still critical: "Huge KO fan here, but he went a bridge too far here."
You're losing it, Keith, and even your friends are noticing it, and they are backing away from you. And so when you finally blow your stack on TV, you will blow it alone.
