Miami Herald TV critic and Cranky-Old-Man-In-Residence, Glenn Garvin, got some well-deserved national recognition last night on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown."
Olbermann blasted Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly for promoting himself last Friday night while many other news outlets aired the Haiti telethon. During the program, O'Reilly bragged about the fact that the Herald's Glenn Garvin praised Fox's Haiti coverage. Olbermann characterized Garvin (at 2:10 in the video below) as the "TV critic the most in Fox's pocket," and as being the "farthest down the "lunatic fringe rabbit hole."
Olbermann also couldn't have been too happy about this little nugget where Garvin says that MSNBC's coverage of last week's Massachusetts senatorial election showed "every conceivable expression of venom against [Scott] Brown and anybody who voted him."
But one of Garvin's readers sets him straight in the comments section: "[Y]ou fault Olbermann and Maddow for expressing opinions and call their views as "venom", yet you refer Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity as "rooting for Brown". How is it different?"
Let's be clear; Olbermann is MSNBC's version of Glenn Beck. But I watch Olbermann religiously for the same reason people show up at NASCAR races. One of these nights Olbermann's head is going to explode and I don't want to miss it!
And that may come any day now.
Garvin ratcheted up the rhetoric today with this blog post in which he calls his readers "misanthropes and misfits." Nice!
Garvin - forgetting that he works for a failing newspaper - takes a cheap shot at Olbermann's employer, NBC - which can buy and sell the Herald out of its petty cash account: "I'm amazed that NBC, having just paid all that money to Conan O'Brien and his staff, still has money to commission polls on which TV critic is is furthest down the lunatic fringe rabbit hole."
Garvin is apparently delighted that a national figure like Olbermann would even give him the time of day - let alone read his blog. "Hey, are we gonna be friends on Facebook, too?" Garvin asks Olbermann.
My advice to Garvin? Drop it pal; you're out of your league!
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