kicking ‘em when they’re down

NBC is reeling in the wake of Tim Russert’s death, and now Keith Olbermann (of MSNBC) is on the ropes—the subject of a backlash set off by his response to a rebuke from Katie Couric.

Plus, Olbermann has got the New Yorker on his case, too.

“I fired him,” Rupert Murdoch said recently. “He’s crazy.”

You really don’t need to know more than that. Others quoted in the piece attest to K.O.’s repulsive insanity, too, including even his producer:

But, just as Obama must work to win Clinton supporters for the fall campaign, Phil Griffin has to repair a fractured audience base, a portion of which saw sexism in his network’s Clinton coverage and vowed to boycott MSNBC. Griffin knows that some of that anger is aimed at his star anchor. “It was, like, you meet a guy and you fall in love with him, and he’s funny and he’s clever and he’s witty, and he’s all these great things,” Griffin said of the relationship between Olbermann and the Clinton supporters among his viewers. “And then you commit yourself to him, and he turns out to be a jerk and difficult and brutal. And that is how the Hillary viewers see him. It’s true.”

Then this asshole from MSNBC offers a revolting conclusion:

But I do think they’re going to come back. There’s nowhere else to go.”

If the NBC-MSNBC brass think that his female viewers will stick with the abusive Keith Olberman like battered wives who have “nowhere else to go,” I believe they are mistaken. He is loathsome—a rude boor, and a hack—and I’ve been saying it for a while.

Rounding out the sad state of affairs at NBC is this train wreck:

I mocked Matthews here.Another day, another media institution crumbles.