NY Mag: Limbaugh for Lefties (Olbermann)

[babylonsister]

http://nymag.com/news/features/30338/

Limbaugh for Lefties
Keith Olbermann fumbled his way through sportscasting and talk-show gigs with varying degrees of success. Now he’s found his niche as a truth-telling, Bush-bashing accidental liberal hero.

* By Stephen Rodrick




It isn’t quite Reagan and Gorbachev in Reykjavik, but on a Tuesday afternoon in the 2 Penn Plaza offices of ABC Radio, two titans of clashing ideologies come face to face. Fresh off his daily one-hour ESPN broadcast with former SportsCenter co-anchor and longtime pal Dan Patrick, Keith Olbermann spies a familiar figure settling into Studio B for his afternoon shift. Olbermann, his anchor-issue trench coat tucked under an arm, opens the door and thrusts a hand toward Sean Hannity.

“Mr. Hannity, good to see you, sir,” says Olbermann.

Off-camera Olbermann, it turns out, is a lot like on-camera Olbermann. The gray pin-striped suit is perfectly crisp. The basso profundo booms. The outsize ego and acid tone ooze from him. It’s unclear whether the mannerisms are real or a bit of an ironic put-on that became Olbermann’s default setting after a time.

“Keith, how you been?” Hannity asks with a grin.

The congeniality is a bit startling. Olbermann is the ornery host of MSNBC’s Countdown and a newly minted, if unintentional, hero of the left. Five nights a week, he gives the president a beat-down so severe that it almost makes you feel sorry for the man (almost). Hannity, meanwhile, is a Fox News icon with a major Rudy Giuliani crush.

Nevertheless, the two men chitchat pleasantly until Hannity realizes a reporter is present and freaks. “This is off the record,” says Hannity, perhaps fearing a red-state backlash. “Well, you can say I think Keith is a great guy.”

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[C_U_L8R]

1. There is a vast difference between the two

and it's called the TRUTH

Olbermann doesn't have to make shit up about the other side... like the coward Limbaugh does.
Keith simply shines a big bright light on their corruption, bigotry and general all-around awfulness.
And that's a brave thing he does for all of us.

[babylonsister]

2. You surely don't have to convince me!

:hi:

[C_U_L8R]

6. oh i was just shouting out loud

in agreement

:grouphug:

[spanone]

3. That is a shitty comparison. Limbaugh is a lying shitbag who cuts off opponents microphones.

[Berry Cool]

4. I really do NOT like the way this article equates Olbermann with Limbaugh.

Very, very slanted. And strangely enough, it appears that the writer actually likes Olbermann's political slant. But then he goes and spoils it all by implying that Olbermann is just a lefty version of the ignorant, stupid, vain, media blowhard. And picking and choosing his "information" about Olbermann to make it look that way. Even all the stuff about him checking his hair in the mirror. What? A person who does TV for a living isn't supposed to check himself in a mirror? Looking at himself in a mirror means he's Rush Limbaugh?

[yourout]

5. BIG difference....I seriously doubt Keith sends his made out for Oxycontin.

[Metta]

7. The writer is a fool. There's no comparison. Keith deals in trugh and reality.

Etc.

[MasonJar]

8. What a terrible insult to Keith!