I don't even know why I'm posting this, it's so friggin' obvious, but I couldn't really find anything else that caught my eye:

The decision by MSNBC to yank Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor duty during live political events did not exactly send a thrill up the leg of liberal bloggers.

A number of them denounced the cable channel yesterday for making a change that had long been sought by NBC News veterans, saying MSNBC was caving into pressure from John McCain's campaign and the right wing.

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In the liberal blogosphere, Olbermann -- an occasional contributor to the Daily Kos site -- is viewed as a heroic truth-teller who has now been undermined by network suits whose company is owned by General Electric. Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo called the move "pathetic," writing: "It seems pretty obvious that the network got cowed by complaints from the McCain campaign."

Salon's Glenn Greenwald called it "extraordinary for a media company to publicly embarrass, diminish and tarnish its own principal asset. It is plainly doing so for ideological, not ratings-based, reasons: namely, it fears doing anything to anger the White House, the McCain campaign and the right in this country."

Ah, yes, of course "Constitutional Scholar" Gleen Ellison Ryan Wilson Ellers Ellensberg "Socks" Greenwald (who, you jealous wingnuts should note has a New York Times bestseller, has inspired articles in major newspapers, and whose blog posts have been read on the Seante floor—GOOD DAY, SIR!) is right.  I mean, it's not like we have any reason to doubt his word.  It just has to be the fault of that mean old VRWC! It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Giggles and Bathtub Boy were being widely ridiculed (by Bill Maher, even!) for their increasingly embarrassing sycophancy toward Obama.  Nope.  Move along people, nothing to see here.

God, the nutroots are so damned predictable.

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