timberlandko wrote:Olberman isn't "Legitimately" anything other than an entertainer - same coin different side as, for instance, O'Reilly.
Nah, timber, that's not really a correct correspondence.
On cable tv, Olberman comes as close as anyone else I can think of to duplicating the partisan single-mindedness of an O'Reilly or a Fox channel. In that simple sense, you are probably right. (And if one could imagine an entire network filled with Olbermans, you'd have something of a rough correspondence to Fox).
But the differences are at least as important as the similarity. For one, the differences in interview style. For another, the quality of interviewees. And third, though you might not agree, care for truth and accuracy. On this last, the recent comments from Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough re O'Reilly's claims about them (as MSNBC staff) point up how inattentive O'Reilly is to the facts.