The debate is over – Olbermann declares there is no media bias

Under the heading of “does it get more ironic than this”, Keith Olbermann who was removed as the MSNBC co-anchor during the 2008 general election, because of the backlash over his and Chris Matthews partisan reporting, has now declared there is no media bias.  It’s all conservative whining over nothing.

Newsbusters recaps Olbermann’s Monday evening rant:

On MSNBC’s Dec. 14 broadcast of “Countdown,” Olbermann came to the defense of NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” executive producer and noted left-winger Dick Wolf. The Dec. 9 episode of Wolf’s program featured a killer who targeted the children of illegal immigrants and in that episode, one of the characters, played by John Larroquette, blamed conservatives “like Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck” for inciting violence against immigrants. That prompted O’Reilly on Dec. 10, the next broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” to fire back at Wolf.
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“Well, fortunately, the slandering of Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly and Bernard Goldberg is about to come to an end,” Olbermann said. “Mercifully and finally, the liberal media is going to get theirs. Having succeeded in making those on his side of the politics look like the most gullible, paranoid folks on the planet by pimping those high school humor-quality ACORN videos, a man named Breitbart, and again the name seems to be meant ironically, is founding a website with which he will quote, ‘Fight the mainstream media, who have repeatedly and under the guise of objectivity and political neutrality promoted a blatantly left-of-center, pro-Democratic Party agenda.’”

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“Let me give them two windmills to tilt at to start with – there is no liberal media!” Olbermann said. “The media which is, after all, owned by corporations naturally leans to the right. Corporations, by definition, lean to the right, towards the status quo. If an American media outlet presents a progressive point of view, the right will exploit the media’s tendency to desperately seek balance. If the progressive says, ‘No, Obama was elected president last year,’ they will mindlessly put in a clip of somebody from the right saying, ‘No, he wasn’t. It didn’t happen.’”

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“The second thing I already mentioned, in the Tiller, Pittsburgh, and Knoxville cases, Beck, Goldberg and O’Reilly clearly incited murderous violence,” Olbermann said. “And Dick Wolf was being over-the-top by comparing Beck, O’Reilly and Limbaugh to disease, because comparing them to disease gives disease a bad name.”

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