Lloyd Grove, who does a column called "Lowdown" for the NY Daily News apparently got orders to take out Keith Olbermann. Given Olbermann's exposure Bill O'Reilly, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised. Perhaps some folks from O'Reilly's staff or from FOX decided to use the NY Daily News since running this in Murdoch's Post would have been too obvious.
Link to Grove's (the man is truly "Lowdown") hit piece and more below . . .
Here is the link to the hit piece:
http://www.nydailynews.com/...
But, if, like me, you want to avoid giving this creep any more traffic, I will give you the short version and a few excerpts.
It seems a couple of folks (paid staffers?) have been antagonizing Olbermann via email and then forwarding his responses to Grove. Olbermann used some colorful language in his replies. When Grove forwarded the emails to MSNBC execs, Olbermann apologized.
Olbermann wrote: "I apologize to anyone who might take offense at my part of this correspondence. It goes without saying that I should not have replied to these abusive and hateful E-mails, but I wonder how many of us could receive literally hundreds of them questioning our patriotism, religion and ethnic origin, without succumbing to the natural wish to confront such hate?"
Not happy with that outcome, Grove reprinted some examples of what Olbermann said and got in a parting shot.
(Allegedly from Olbermann's email):
"You 'Americans' still watching that evil f- O'Reilly?"
(Grove's little plug for Olbermann):
Apparently, they are. Fox News' Bill O'Reilly draws six times the viewership of his 8 p.m. weekday rival.
I think FOX is worried about O'Reilly's decline and Keith's ascendence. In any event, Keith will be back from vacation Monday and, after this sort of attack, I think we need to send him some love.
And perhaps people need to get some O'Reilly hate emails and send to the press too?