Many Happy Returns [CORRECTED]
It wasn’t just Keith Olbermann who couldn’t bring himslef to watch the Tuesday Night Massacre on the news stations:
MSNBC boasted that on election night they would present a “special live edition of Countdown” at 10:00 pm. But with bad news for the Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a funny thing happened on the way to the bonus Hour of Spin. Keith wasn’t there!
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Keith had obviously left the building. But why? Where in the world was Keith Olbermann?
Not too hard to figure out. He was watching something else:
During the 10AM ET hour of America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told viewers what President Obama watched on election night while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and Virginia: “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”
On Tuesday night the White House had worked to downplay the Democratic gubernatorial defeats by claiming the President did not watch the election returns. Apparently Gibbs thought it would look better if the commander in chief was watching a self-indulgent fawning documentary about himself.
But wait, it gets better:
Interestingly, Obama apparently previewed the HBO special a few days earlier, as Gibbs himself explained to the blog Talking Points Memo: “White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama has already seen ‘By the People’…Gibbs told TPMDC Obama’s review: ‘Thumbs up!’”
He preferred to watch a repeat of a documentary about himself rather than watch democracy in action.
Who is this guy, Kim Jong Il?
Does it even occur to him that his swollen narcissism is a blemish on his political visage? Can’t he even fake sincerity?
I have to laugh, because it’s so funny, but it’s a nervous laughter. He’s just so weird.
CORRECTION
Not exactly, BTL. It didn’t happen quite that way. See corrected version of events here, and BTL apology here.