I Rarely Post Olbermann "Worst Persons" Vids, But

I have done so occasionally, when they were particularly interesting, to me at least.

The reason I am posting this one, is more on account of his Bronze and Silver winners, than the Gold winner.

Bronze went to Congresscritter Boehner, caught in a staggeringly blatant lie about deregulation. (I want to say the whole Republican Leadership is starting to resemble that pathological liar character that Jon Lovits did on SNL years ago. That might be a wee bit of an overstatement, so I will only call Boehner that, for now.)

Silver went to Brit Hume, of Fox News. Instead of a staggeringly blatant lie, his award was for a staggeringly blatant bit of truth. He admitted, at some hoity toidy dinner, that instead of doing news, objectively, as someone who allegedly was supposed to be doing objective news, that he had been taking and using talking points from Brent Bozell's Media Research Center. Just to properly categorize the depth of the unethical violation of a so called legitimate news operation being so intertwined with such an outside political group, let me first say what the Media Research Center is. From it's own website:

"The leader in Documenting, Exposing, and Neutralizing Liberal Media Bias"

http://www.mediaresearch.org/welcome.asp

In short, they are a conservative advocacy group. That is saying it as objectively as I can. But cutting through the bullshit, they are a conservative propaganda mill. Now again, how unethical was it for Hume to rely on them to any degree, leave alone as much as Hume admitted? Imagine that Dan Rather made some public expression of thanks to . . . well there are so many to choose from, let's use for example the AFL CIO, Moveon.org or the NAACP for . . . . PROVIDING or otherwise helping with CONTENT? If that were to ever happen (not that it would as far as I know they do not play that fast and loose) that would have been the key piece of evidence to prove what the extremist regressive right wingers have been saying for years, about liberal media bias. But will we hear any hue and cry from those sad sick people about how Hume just right there then admitted to being part of Hillary's Vast Right Wing Conspiracy? Don't hold your breath. "Do as I say, not as I do," has been one of the Republican mottos for years. And if you see them accusing others of misconduct, particularly when evidence of that misconduct is thin, if even that? Well I personally would bet that someone would be telegraphing their own mis deeds. That is how Republican hypocrisy plays out, historically.

So that accounts for my posting of the vid. Gold went to Twitter, who apparently is letting people set up phony accounts, and did not take down a phony account in Olbermann's name, when requested to do so. But it appears that some dude connected to Fox News is running this phony account.

Now I get Keith's umbrage at Twitter, but he had as much cause for being mad at Fox News (and it's affiliates and what not.) And to be sure to be clear, I am going to make my last point sarcastically:

Sure those Fox News people are really honest, if you ignore it when they are acting dishonest.