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Rolling Stone dishes up some late Valentines love to recently re-signed MSNBC Countdown host Keith Oblermann (because, you know, the guy really never gets much attention).
Calling Olbermann "the most honest man in news", Mark Binelli details his rise from sportscaster to an "unlikely hero of the left", noting how Olbermann's "special comments" have garnered him attention, starting with his six-and-a-half-minute rant last August about Donald Rumsfeld: "The man who sees absolutes where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning is either a prophet or a quack. Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet." (Olbermann's nightly audience numbers have increased sixty-three percent since then).
The flip side: Olbermann's penchant for, er, honesty is fully on display in the piece as he takes down Anderson Cooper ("I gather... he is the only person who has not been informed that he is a marketing experiment"), Nancy Grace ("Anybody who would embellish the story of their own fiancé's murder should spend that hour a day not on television but in a psychiatrist's chair"), and Glenn Beck ("A wolf in sheep's clothing. A very dangerously bigoted guy who's selling himself as a pragmatic philosopher"). He does seem to like Brian Williams though, at least ("The funniest person I have met in television news," a trait, says Olbermann, that makes him well-suited for his own job).
Olbermann's tendency to trash-talk is, by now, well-known, but still, after re-upping with a sweet four-year multimillion-dollar contract, guess he's not too worried about karma.
For those of you not yet familiar with Olbermann's particular brand of journalism, Rolling Stone has thoughtfully collected his top five rants for your viewing enjoyment (unless you're a particular fan of one President Bush, in which case, perhaps not).
