Olbermann's Latest Whoring

Keith Olbermann is really desperate.

It may be an outgrowth of his positively dismal ratings. It could be that he's jealous of all the attention that David Gregory is getting for his loony liberal attacks on the White House.

Who knows?

Whatever his motivation, there is no question that Olbermann is engaged in a pathetic attempt to be noticed.

NewsBusters has an account of Olbermann's latest whoring.

Buddy Dana "Blaze Orange" Milbank was Olbermann's enabler last night.

(Transcript excerpt)

Keith Olbermann: "The war against the media, it's not something from our imagination, and it certainly got a little personal today. There was an e-mail that a producer at ABC News had written in the fall of 2004 during the presidential campaign that was leaked to the infamous, deplorable Matt Drudge. The e-mail read, as a posting today: 'Are you watching this? Bush makes be sick. If he uses the “mixed messages" line one more time, I'm going to puke.' I'm not even going to put the 'if that came from the White House somehow' thing in there because the timing's too good. When you consider that the President won that election and the e-mail was not even about Iraq, does this not smack of desperation on the part of the White House, to let something like that leak out right now?"

Dana Milbank: "Well, I, first of all, am never going to call Matt Drudge deplorable. Every time he links to one of my stories, I get an extra 50,000 hits, they tell me, so-"

Olbermann: "Good. Good for you."

Milbank: "-so let's establish that."

Olbermann: "I said it, not you."

Milbank: "You're toast, Keith."

Olbermann: "I'll go to the Matt Drudge Ombudsman."

Olbermann is shameless.

He floats baseless theories and creates stories, similar to the MO of Newsweek and the New York Times.

He slams powerful, popular people, like Matt Drudge, to throw himself into their spotlight.

Milbank, in a rare moment of fairness, albeit an extremely self-serving one, stands up for the influential Drudge. He points out what a dramatic impact he has. He acknowledges that a simple link from Drudge is guaranteed to bring incredible exposure and a massive increase in traffic to a website.

I have no doubt that Olbermann is trying to draw Drudge into a feud for purely selfish ends.

He wants attention. What better way than to criticize Drudge?

Hopefully, Drudge won't take the bait.

I think the exchange between Olbermann and Milbank is very telling. It's an indication of their envy.

Clearly, Olbermann is unhappy yapping away in the shadowy abyss known as MSNBC.

It must be cold there in the ratings cellar.