There's a great video clip at Salon.com today (sorry I can't post the whole thing here, but it's worth following the link!). Keith Olbermann of MSNBC is my new partisan-news hero. He shows how Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson have complained about his putting them on his "worst people" feature, and then critiques their objections. O'Reilly's involves saying that his ratings beat Olbermann's--who then points out that O'Reilly didn't bother to address the substance of Olbermann's criticism.
Gibson is upset because Olbermann quoted his radio appearance in which he said that people who follow "the wrong religion" would "have to answer" to you-know-who. Gibson said Olbermann's quote was a lie, so Olbermann played the full, in-context portion of the radio show, and of course Gibson came off looking even worse. And Olbermann doesn't hesitate to call these guys corrosive idiots on the air.
Yes, it is just a perpetuation of hate media, and I would rather see none of that at all. But it is still quite satisfying to see a slap-down of the Fox hatemongers.
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