Olbermann Tackles ‘False Equivalency’ Between MSNBC And Fox, Defying Jon Stewart
Keith Olbermann has already made it clear that he took some issue with the message of Jon Stewart‘s Restoring Sanity/Fear rally on Saturday. And while the fact that he has suspended the most dynamic segment of his show, “Worst Persons in the World,” may send a mixed message, in discussing the rally he made it clear that he will not tolerate his network being compared to Fox News.
Olbermann objected to the way MSNBC was portrayed at the rally, “as if both [MSNBC and Fox News] were equidistant from sanity.” He brought on Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter to debate the topic, who agreed that there were significant differences between the two networks. He noted that Olbermann had apologized for one of the clips used at the rally, something that “the other network doesn’t do.” Alter also took on Stewart much more directly than Olbermann, wondering why “he gets to take shots on his show… [but] when we take shots, that’s not okay. Maybe because it’s not funny enough?”
In contrast, Olbermann went for the naive angle against Stewart, asking why he insisted on “the assumption that if the good guys stand down, the bullies will too.” He did note, however, that Stewart wasn’t the first to compare the networks, but merely subscribes to the view, and went back to attacking Fox News, where, Olbermann joked, “something is coming out of someone’s orifice every day of the week there.”
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