Olbermann Watch: Olbermann Finally Cracks; "Personal Demons" on Full Display in Latest Kos Post
Robert Cox
Looks like Keith picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
As the Democratic National Convention approached Keith Olbermann must have been feeling pretty good about himself. Over the past two years Olbermann has systematically gutted MSNBC of anyone that did not meet Keith's "high standards" for journalistic ethics. Rita Cosby - gone, Don Imus - gone, Bernard McGuirk - gone, Tucker Carlson - gone, Larry Johnson - gone, Dana Milbank - gone, Dan Abrams - gone. The plane ride out to Denver must have felt like a victory procession for the conquering hero. Never in his career has Keith Olbermann achieved the type of power and prominence he enjoys now at MSNBC. Over the past two years he has become the number one star of the network, posted the biggest ratings the network has ever seen, and "broken out" in media parlance with appearances on Leno and cameos on Fox Television comedy shows. He even has his own baseball card. Keith is now bigger than Countdown, bigger than MSNBC, bigger than cable news. Keith is now a "playa" on the political scene where he has become the primary conduit into the mainstream media for the far-left and "his" candidate just captured the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States.
Unlike Caesar however no one was whispering "all fame is fleeting" in Keith's ear as his Boing 757 touched down at Denver International Airport. Olbermann, who now gets more coverage from TV critics, political bloggers and gossip columnists than Nightly News Anchor Brian Williams gets in a year, has managed to turn what should have been the greatest week of his life into a train wreck of epic proportions. Not satisfied with single-handedly remaking the entire day of MSNBC programming to comport with this vision of wrong and right, Olbermann has now picked very public fights with the two remaining holdovers from past administrations - Joe Scarborough and Chris Matthews, sicced his attack pup, David Shuster on Morning Joe, all while peripatetically shutting off the microphone of any guest or analyst who dare question Obama's supremacy or say something nice about John McCain. Now, into the mix comes a report from the New York Post's Page Six that Keith has sought to ban Tom Brokaw from appearing on "his" network.
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