From Paul Bond at The Hollywood Reporter:
Forgive the political right while it gloats over Keith Olbermann’s reign coming to a close at MSNBC. After all, with a few exceptions, they’re being rather civil about Friday’s surprising news.
At Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.com, for example, there’s a straight story and video about Olbermann’s departure, with opinion left to those who take the time to post comments, and they were into the hundreds within a few hours.
“See…. There is a God,” one responder wrote. “Now that’s the kind of Hope and Change I like,” wrote another.
Ditto over at BigJournalism.com, run by conservative rabble-rouser Andrew Breitbart. There was a just-the-facts story with a link to the New York Times, and lots of readers weighing in, some of them rather clever in their disparagement of Olbermann.
“Keith will land on his feet. Maybe Al-Jazeera is hiring,” said one. “Is KO gonna be the new White House Press Secretary?” said another.
Breitbart himself didn’t weigh in via the Internet beyond a few mild tweets, though he told The Hollywood Reporter that he has “long been an open supporter of Keith Olbermann.” MSNBC and its Countdown host, in fact, was one catalyst for creating BigJournalism, which operates under the assumption that the news media is biased and untrustworthy.
“His neurotic and self-righteous rage, and the MSNBC cult audience that enabled it, provided as much motivation for a counter-progressive revolution as did the positive contributions of the Tea Party, which he so detested,” Breitbart said.
Full article here.