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Keith Olbermann cancels "Worst Persons" because of Jon Stewart
By Lindsay CutlerNovember 2nd, 2010, 1:39 pmComments (5)
This is a big week for Jon Stewart. It's a pretty big deal when you organize a rally with an audience larger than most small cities, when Salman Rushdie makes a public show of disapproval because you booked Cat Stevens who is awesome but also technically has a fatwa on his head, etc.
But Jon should be most proud for pushing Keith Olbermann to finally nix Countdown's "Worst Persons in the World" segment. Even with Fox News employing every sensationalistic tactic in the book, Jon's right; it would be nice if the liberal news tried to be the bigger man (e.g., NOT organ music, CGI flames).
Olbermann is pretty gracious in a most un-Olbermann-like fashion: "The anger was not an original part of it." His explanation is below.
Commentarium (5 Comments)
Bleh -- Olbermann is just encouraging the way Stewart has bought into the whole false-equivalency meme.
Also, he's wrong. The "liberal" talking-head shows SHOULD do more yelling and have more anger. Not all of them, not all of the time, and not, as Olbermann said, "get angry first and find a reason later." Olbermann's ire and (thoughtful) carpet-calling has been an important contribution, in that regard.
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