Over Olbermann

Ahhh Monday, what a day!

-An NFL double header

-Obama on Fox News with O'Reilly

-Obama on MSNBC's Countdown.

Well at least two of the three offered some television drama.

The battle on the grid iron was often interchangeable with the spirited exchanges found on the O'Reilly show....but of course the highly ballyhooed interview with Olbermann, ummmm not so much.

Thanks to my girlfriend's DVR (and subsequently much to her dismay), I was able to go back and forth between the two "interviews" (and I use that word loosely, as no definition for "interview" found anywhere in the world, including wikipedia could cover O on O's puff piece) in order to create my own humorous, journalistic parallel universe in which the contradictory context of the interviews would make for great fodder in the writing of an episode of the twilight zone.

Among Olbermann's tough, hard hitting questions?

(And I'm paraphrasing here...)

1) "McCain and Palin are clearly lying in their commercials, do you plan on calling them out on it?"

2) "McCain and Palin are clearly lying in their stump speeches, do you plan on getting tougher in confronting them?"

3) "The McCain economic plan is clearly a horrible one, how do you plan on getting that message out to voters?"

4) For those of us who have been sick and tired of the last 8 years under Bush, have you thought of using the word "enough" more often to link McCain's campaign with Bush's presidency?"

5) "Seeing as how The Rachel Maddow show (shameless plug for his fellow liberal cohort with whom he forced MSNBC to give a show to while simultaneously firing a notable newsman to provide her with his time slot) is premiering tonight she asked me if I would ask you a question: Do you think you could mobilize your advisers and staff to find racial statements made by any Republican so that you could throw it back in McCain's face in the form of a 527 ad?"

(For the record, as much as I tend to exaggerate in life, sadly no embellishment was needed here, just boiling down all of Olbermann's characteristically long-winded fluff, to the actual questions he posed to Obama)

Is it just me or is his partisanship void of any journalistic integrity?

It is clear that MSNBC as a network is slightly left leaning, but come on! (For those not yet convinced, this O on O love fest is a three part series, so feel free to tune in tomorrow....or just check my blog for the highlights...)