Supporters of Republican Conservative = “Loony Tunes” — Keith Olbermann « NewsReal Blog

Supporters of Republican Conservative = “Loony Tunes” — Keith Olbermann « NewsReal Blog

It’s not at all surprising that Keith Olbermann detests Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minnesota). She’s precisely the “type” Olbermann hates: a dynamic, attractive, eloquent female who isn’t afraid to publicly embrace conservative principles, and who articulates them extremely well. Olbermann has no use for people like that; they threaten him. For evidence of this, just look at his continuing crusade to discredit Sarah Palin, who remains, to this day, one of the foremost obsessions of the MSNBC hatchet man.

“I think we do not appreciate,” Olbermann said on his most recent Countdown program, “the physiological specimen that is Michelle Bachmann: one of the world’s largest, most vibrant egos, fully functioning despite no evidence of any other brain activity.” For these alleged defects, Olbermann named Bachmann as the day’s “Worst Person in the World.” Not content to smear only the congresswoman, the broadcaster took up his broadest rhetorical brush and painted her supporters as an undifferentiated pack of “loony tunes.”

Olbermann is currently in a major snit over the fact that Bachmann has characterized the AmeriCorps program, which is so dear to President Obama and the Democrats, as a veritable network of “taxpayer-funded liberal reeducation camps.” A careful analysis of the facts, however, reveals that Bachmann’s assessment is quite accurate indeed.