Jon Stewart and Keith Olbermann

Keith Olbermann's attacks on Scott Brown have been disgraceful. He has been relentlessly spewing false accusations and engaging in extremely ugly name-calling.

But he was defiant, refusing to apologize for his totally unfounded, poisonous words. Instead of backing down, Olbermann continued to smear Brown, night after night.

Then, something happened that changed everything. Jon Stewart called out fellow lib Olbermann for being nonsensical in his remarks about Brown.

Here's Stewart's "special comment" about Olbermann:

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Here's Olbermann's response to Stewart:



So Olbermann has seen the light. I suppose he knows if he's lost Stewart, he's lost the meager audience he does manage to attract. It's like Lyndon Johnson's Walter Cronkite Vietnam War moment.

Olbermann admits:

KEITH OLBERMANN: Fetid swamp you say, sir? This from a guy who reached his professional apex when he was the host of Short Attention Span Theater, 1991? Well, you want some baseless name-calling? You are... No, you know what? You're right. I have been a little over-the-top lately. Point taken. Sorry.

Olbermann is sorry.

For what?

Being an utter buffoon and so nuts that even politically like-minded Jon Stewart couldn't remain quiet about Olbermann's hateful comments?

He says he's been "a little over-the-top lately"?

Everything's wrong with that admission. Olbermann has been more than a little over-the-top and it's been a lot longer than lately.

Olbermann never apologizes to Scott Brown, nor does he specify exactly what he regrets and why.

This isn't an apology for his despicable remarks. Olbermann is making an appeal to Stewart to forgive him.

I think Olbermann couldn't stand being the object of ridicule by a fellow lib entertainer like Stewart. Entertainer Olbermann craves validation from Stewart and his followers. He doesn't care about Brown. He didn't suddenly develop a conscience and want to apologize for his lies.

Olbermann's "sorry" was a purely selfish act, intended to save his own sorry ass and regain favor among the Leftists. Stewart alerted Olbermann to the fact that he had pushed it too far.

If not for Stewart's mockery, Olbermann would never have acknowledged that he was "over-the-top."

What's really pathetic is that it took Stewart to get Olbermann to back off rather than someone at MSNBC or the NBC news division.

The network should be policing the crazed Olbermann, not Stewart.