Keith Olbermann As MSNBC Quisling

MSNBC's bipolar Keith Olbermann picked the wrong Jewish lawyer to call a Nazi.  THE most prominent First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams - father of Olbermann's former boss and colleague Dan Abrams (ex-MSNBC general manager and host "The Verdict.")

The Media Institute based in Arlington, Virginia sent a letter to Olbermann demanding he apologize to Floyd Abrams.  B&C's John Eggerton

Many of the freedoms you enjoy as a journalist exist because of the work of Floyd Abrams throughout his exemplary career. Yet even if Mr. Abrams had not blazed important paths for the rights of the press, he does not deserve to be personally insulted, which for you may have seemed like nothing more than a clever turn of phrase.

Of course, you have the right to say what you did in your “special comment.” None of us questions that, and each of us would be willing to defend against any attempt to suppress your speech. We do not doubt your rights – just your judgment. It does not endanger free expression to counsel self-control and civility.

For your reading pleasure, click on the letter.  I smell a defamation lawsuit against Olbermann if he fails to apologize in a sincere, humble, adult manner.  NBC suit Robert Okun is on the Media Institute's Board of Trustees.  Okun's a VP at NBCUNI Washington.

Olbermann has been MIA so far this month after a pair of professionally suicidal and bizarre "Special Comments" with his daddy's near-corpse as news hook.  Olbermann isn't idle - with beaucoup time to engage with bloggers over baseball and write daily online missives.

I suspect the Media Institute waited nearly two months from Olbermann's January 21 on-air orgasm waiting for the the mercurial host to proffer an apology, which heretofore has not been forthcoming.  The Institute emailed the letter Wednesday to Olbermann's address at Countdown and posted on the Institute's website.

Here's the January 21, 2010 "Special Comment" in question: