At MSNBC, it's criticize Olbermann, and lose your job

I have often wondered how Keith Olbermann, who typifies everything negative the Left says about Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, et al- stays on the air, given the sheer, foaming-at-the-mouth hate, invective, smear tactics, and slander which characterize his very tired act. In terms of his rhetoric and tactics, if Joe McCarthy has a modern-day equivalent, it isn't the clowns on the Right the Democrat's love to complain about. It's Olbermann, who epitomizes everything about Limbaugh, Beck and the others they claim to find reprehensible.

But they watch him. Well, I guess somebody has to. His ratings pale before those his opposite numbers at Fox News run up. Still, if the Leftist criticism of the Limbaughs and the Becks were anything but sheer hypocrisy, wouldn't you think the Left would be embarassed by Olbermann?

But in fact, the opposite is the case. In fact, if you're at the liberal equivalent of Fox News (well, yes; I realize that NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN are also the liberal equivalent of Fox News, but it's MSNBC I specifically have in mind) and presume to include Olbermann among those who have turned up the thermostat on our national political discourse farther than civility or rationality can bear, you get fired for it.

Ah, the hypocrisy of the American Left!

HT: Real Clear Politics