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Saturday, February 19, 2005
Olbermann Takes Gannon/Guckert to Task
Keith Olbermann, the best voice on cable news this side of Jon Stewart, has a great post on the Gannon/Guckert scandal over at Bloggermann. He begins with this:
There is a guy who sits, during every game, in the press box of a major league baseball stadium. And he is issued a credential each season because it turns out the owner of the team likes the canolis that the guy makes at his bakery.Check out the whole piece. It's well worth reading. Further, you should definitely check out Olbermann's MSNBC show Countdown. It's entertaining, insightful and devoid of the right-wing bias that is evident in the rest of cable news.
The first time he appeared, with a seat in the back row with a nameplate affixed to it, we knew he wasn’t exactly the new man from Sports Illustrated. He had a certain problem with, well, language (he said a player with a strained muscle near where his legs meet was out with a “groan injury”), and with forgetting that the proper response to an error on the field by the home team was not to stand up and start screaming at the player — nor weeping.
As soon as this gentleman arrived, the real baseball reporters questioned the team’s press representative as to who this guy was and what was he doing there. And they got some concessions out of the team— like, this man couldn't go into the clubhouses or on the field and ask questions of the players while the reporters were trying to get answers to include in their reports.
In short, ‘Groan Injury Man’ was better vetted by that ballclub than James Guckert alias Jeff Gannon was vetted by the White House press office.
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