Kos, HuffPo Bloggers Compare Olbermann to Limbaugh, Cheney, Fox News


Olbermann is posting his lowest ratings of the year, down 26% from last year, and even liberals at the Huffington Post and Daily Kos are starting to disparage him... [snip]

It must be hard for Olbermann now that he doesn’t have George Bush to call a fascist or to compare to the Nazis. Crediting Obama with defeating Hezbollah in Lebanon’s elections just isn’t cutting it…

During last year’s campaign, liberal Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald noted the hypocrisy of Olbermann’s fire-breathing reaction to Bush over the FISA bill--“Now it begins to look like the bureaucrats of the Third Reich.”—versus his rationalization of Obama’s support of the same bill, praising Obama for “refusing to cower even to the left on the subject of warrantless wiretapping.”

KWolfman over at the [get ready for it:] Daily Kos chimed in on July 18 as well. Wolfman points out that Olbermann’s show is now devoid of politics and "consists entirely of Republican bashing".

He even went so far as to commit liberal heresy:

All of a sudden MSNBC fell off the map. Even Fox was better. Even Fox.

Contrasting Olbermann’s struggles, Fox News is dominating more than ever. FNC has ranked fifth or higher for 24 straight weeks among all cable channels in prime time [despite not being available in the majority of 'middle' America], while MSNBC ranks seven spots below the Food Channel...

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