Olber-the-Top Rhetoric

Remember when Luke Skywalker, having just sliced off Darth Vader's hand, looks down at his own mechanical hand and realizes he is becoming Darth Vader? Someone needs to tell Keith Olbermann that his hyperbolic attacks on Bill O'Reilly are turning him into another O'Reilly.
The MSNBC anchor is justly catching heat for saying, in a Playboy interview, that Fox News is "worse than Al Qaeda" and "as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was."
Comic exaggeration is part of Olbermann's shtick -- this is, after all, someone who names a new "Worst Person in the World" every night. But equating Fox News and Rupert Murdoch with racists and killers is neither funny nor particularly insightful. It's shrill and unattractive, and reeks of the same blowhardism that Olbermann is usually the first to skewer. I know the O'Reilly feud has been great for Countdown's ratings, but it's time to ease up.
UPDATE: Okay, I guess the feud has been really great for Countdown's ratings: On Friday, it beat The O'Reilly Factor in "the demo" for the first time.
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