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MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann has apparently reversed his stance on FISA now that Barack Obama voted to support it.
From MediaBistro.
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald writes in great detail about MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann‘s apparent reversal on the FISA law.
In January, Olbermann unleashed a Special Comment aimed at Pres. Bush and the law, saying, “Illegal and unjustified spying on Americans under this flimsy guise of looking for any terrorists who are stupid enough to make a collect call or send a mass email.”
On Wednesday night, as Greenwald writes, Olbermann’s, “blind devotion,” to Obama led him to describe, “Senator Obama also refusing to cower even to the left on the subject of warrantless wiretapping.”
“Are we hoping for a Fox News for Obama, that glorifies everything he says and whitewashes everything he does?” asks Greenwald.
Obama’s support of the FISA bill and subsequent blogosphere backlash is detailed here.
Last night, after Countdown aired, Olbermann issued a response, by way of the Daily Kos, to Greenwald and others.
Olbermann explained it was John Dean last week when he was a guest on Countdown who, “quelled any anger simmering beneath my surface,” when he explained why Obama supporting FISA was okay.
“I don’t know much about Mr. Greenwald and I didn’t read his full piece,” writes Olbermann. “I do think Mr. Greenwald’s suggestion of some kind of betrayal on my part is simplistic and childish.”
That sounds just like a liberal. Scream and yell about something like FISA, but when one of their guys supports it, try to explain it away like it’s not a big deal after all.
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