Jon Stewart Rips Keith Olbermann Apart

I’m a fan of Keith Olbermann’s Special Comments. That’s why I always post them. But starting at the beginning of this year, he started doing “Comments”, and it’s been bad for the show. It makes him look crotchety and as hyperbolic as his rivals. He may be more eloquent and intelligent than his right-wing counterparts, but he’s gone too far. Ironically, when he first started doing Speical Comments, he was encouraged by MSNBC brass to do them every night, but Olbermann protested saying it would dilute the message. He was right.

So John Stewart has come to the rescue to mock the crap out of Olbermann with a hilarious and brutal segment from last night’s Daily Show. Stuart, using Olbermann’s rhetorical devices, impersonated the style of the segment, but also encouraged Olbermann that he was better than this inflammatory name-calling he’s fallen into as of late. Olbermann may be right about all the things he said about Massachusettes Senator-elect Scott Brown, but he’s losing the impact his Special Comments provided.

Sadly, when asked about the sketch, Olbermann blithely responded, “It was a little bit of a ripoff of the Affleck thing, but overall, I’d give it a B-,” showing that he was able to take the joke, but may have missed the point.

Here’s the sketch. As with most things, Daily Show, I thought it was fucking hilarious:

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Special Comment – Keith Olbermann’s Name-Calling

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