Keith Olbermann To Jon Stewart On Fox News: “I Told You So”

The latest person to take Fox News honcho Roger Ailes to task for his (to put it mildly) questionable comments on NPR (and less-incendiary remarks on Jon Stewart) is, unsurprisingly, Keith Olbermann. Olbermann dissected Ailes’ remarks on tonight’s (Not Really) World’s Worst, gave Ailes “(Not Really) Worser” status…and boasted ever so slightly to Stewart in the process.

First, Olbermann looked at Ailes calling Stewart “crazy” and saying he “hates conservatives” (while referring to The Daily Beast only as “an Internet gossip site”), saying Ailes’ comments “prov[ed] my point about false equivalence.” And he told Stewart:

“Jon, I told you so. I mean, I might disagree with you, but I’d never think you were crazy or hateful. But Maher is right! One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.”

Then, he took Ailes to task for his “Nazi” comments about NPR, which, frankly, was deserved. Criticize NPR all you want, but Nazi comparisons go beyond criticism, and despite his apology to the Anti-Defamation League, Ailes deserves to be called out on this one. Video of the segment below.

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