Wash Post scribe Dana Milbank is trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit on why he was dumped from Keith Olbermann's nightly pro-Obama orgasm. And not over the cheeky July 30th "President Obama" piece Olbermann claimed was bad journalism and screwed-up quotes.
Politico (via Johnny Dollar's Place): A source familiar with the situation [READ: MILBANK] told Politico that Milbank had been unhappy on the show for a couple of months and expressed this sentiment to friends. But it wasn't until directly after an incident last month that Milbank made a move. During the first week of July, Milbank spoke to executive producer Katy Karp about why he had not been on the show for a couple of weeks. At that point, Milbank was told that there was an issue among staff with something positive he said the previous month about Charlie Black, a McCain senior adviser.
More from Politico: Here's the exchange from June 23, where Olbermann talked to Milbank on-air about Black’s statement to Fortune magazine, that a terrorist attack would be a “big advantage” for the McCain campaign.
OLBERMANN: But where do we go in terms of this story from here? Does McCain have to, whether he likes it or not, fire Charlie Black or face having this bell along with other bells around his neck all summer and all fall?
MILBANK: Well, he's going to wait and see. I imagine they are certainly going to hope that this becomes a 24-hour thing that blows over. Which it well could be, depending on what events happen in the coming days. But if it keeps being brought back to them, they'll have to take some action here.The irony here is that Charlie Black is a very soft-spoken, well-liked figure, and this does seem rather out of character for him to sound off in this way.
More from me: Here's what I think happened: Olbermann found out CNN-hankering Milbank signed the deal, and the hell-hath-no-fury Olbermann knee-capped him on Daily Kos with this phony BS. I don't particularly care for Milbank's annoying personality. The guy's not well-liked in the DC press corps. He can be funny but he tries too hard. And his smarmy, all-knowing condescending demeanor is hard to take.
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